Petr Koubsky

Czech market of the free Internet access has gained new life with the introduction of pan-European ISP World Online. Ther service’s proposed conditions are a bit of an improvement compared to first-to-market Video On Line, which began offering free access in September 1999. When Video On Line started its free access under the name VOLny.cz, […]

Demand for newly released domain names with the country level domain .cz has smashed through the Czech Republic’s regulatory dams, in a fury of domain name speculation which indicates the regional viability of cybersquatting. More than 70,000 registration applications were received in the Czech Republic following the release of previously cancelled domain names — approximately […]

Contactel Ltd, a joint venture between Danish telco Tele Danmark and Czech telecom company Ceske Radiokomunikace, won a bid to acquire a majority stake in Czech ISP Cesnet. Cesnet serves about 8,000 dial-up customers as well as about 600 leased lines. It ranks with Internet On Line and VOL as the top ISPs in the […]

The founder and owner of Czech Server Seznam, 26-year-old Ivo Lukacovic, recently confirmed that a Swedish holding company had acquired 30 percent stake in the company. Seznam, a portal and search service, is the most visited Czech Web site with a reported 750,000 hits per day. Although Lukacovic refused to disclose both identity of the […]

A recently published IDC report has led to an argument over the true figure representing the online population in the Czech Republic. The IDC says there are about 292,000 Czech Internet users, and the number grows by 30.7 percent every year. The companies operating the most important Czech Web servers strongly disagree with the IDC […]

International Data Corp. (IDC) estimated that the number of Czech Internet users would grow 30.7 percent annually over the next five years, with some one million Czechs online by 2003. According to IDC’s latest report, there are currently more than 292,000 Internet users in the country. With total population of 10.3 million, it means the […]

Hungarian company Euroweb International Corp. says it plans to continue its aggressive expansion policy by acquiring several more ISPs in Central and Eastern Europe. Euroweb took to the acquisition trail at the beginning of the year, and it has forged itself into one of the leading ISPs in the region. Local analysts expect the expansion […]

Sun Microsystems, Inc. has acquired Czech open source software company NetBeans, a developer of integrated development environments for Java programming language. NetBeans’ flagship product, NetBeans Developer, is offered for the Solaris, Linux and Windows 98/NT platforms. The Linux community in particular recognizes the Developer as the indisputable leader in its category. NetBeans is known among […]

While the IT and communications trade show sponsored by Invex Computer last week didn’t bring many novelties, one notable exception was the large number of e-commerce solutions presented at the event. The solutions ranged from pure packaged software to customized e-shop building services. Simple database-generated e-commerce products were the cheapest of the solutions displayed, and […]

Czech police are investigating the case of a hacker who is offering Internet access to the complete database of client transactions data of the largest Czech savings bank Ceska sporitelna. Although the manhunt began September 13, the police have yet to locate the offender. Certain Czech companies from various industries obtained the anonymous offer. Its […]

Joining other European companies, Czech telecommunication operator Contactel this week began offering a free Internet access package, Red Box, included in the price of a PC. It was touted in recent ads as the country’s first free Internet access offer, but other companies got in the game before Contactel. The Czech subsidiary of well-known European […]

Czech users of Microsoft Outlook can now look up the geographical locations of contacts directly in the map, thanks to an effort by Atlas.cz, a. s., which runs the portal site Atlas. Czech Republic is one of the first countries outside the U. S. where such an interconnection is enabled. Since August 19, Atlas.cz has […]