Petr Koubsky

Steven White, president and CEO of International Barter Corp. (IBC), predicted that barter companies will soon be linking worldwide over the Internet to enable international barter operations. He delivered a seminar entitled “Trading Beyond The Year 2000” at the National Association of Trade Exchanges (NATE) in New Orleans on Friday. “There are two significant trends […]

Chapters will launch its new e-commerce site, ChaptersGlobe.com, in October. The site was rapidly developed in alliance with The Globe and Mail newspaper, over the past six months. Chapters is reportedly the largest Canadian book retailer, formed by the 1995 merger of Coles and SmithBooks. It operates bookstores in all provinces under the names Chapters, […]

Exclusive to australia.internet.com by Paul Montgomery Connect.com.au, one of the big four Internet service providers in Australia, agreed to an interconnect deal with Optus Communications, one of Australia’s telecommunications companies and one of the four major ISPs. Connect also changed its pricing structure for its wholesale ISP customers, including making traffic within its regional exchanges […]

The Hong Kong Government is aggressively pushing the usage of Chinese language character sets over the Internet and on locally generated Web sites. Kwong Ki-chi, Secretary for Information Technology and Broadcasting, said while Internet content is largely in the English language there is a growing demand for Chinese content by Asian net users. Kwong said […]

SunCommerce Corp. is promoting the launch of their SecureMerchant 2.0 service by offering a free online store (for 30-days) to every small business in North America. According to SunCommerce, SecureMerchant 2.0 is designed to allow anyone with an Internet connection and a browser to create a store in five easy clicks, and begin selling immediately. […]

Hitachi Europe, in conjunction with the UK’s Electronic Commerce Association, is sponsoring an award for innovation in e-business in the finance sector at this year’s BT Awards. The winner will be announced at Electronic Commerce 98, held at London’s Olympia from October 13th to 15th. Competing for the prize are: online brokerage Charles Schwab, the […]

World-Tel In Venture for Internet Community-Access Centres in India Sam Pitroda, chairman and CEO of London-based World-Tel and former chairman of India’s Telecom Commission, recently visited India to discuss the development of Internet community centres in the states of West Bengal, Kerala and Tamil Nadu. “Our goal really is to transform Internet use by creating […]

Thomson Business Information (TBI), one of the major parts of The Thomson Corp., is combining three of its subsidiaries–Gale Research, Information Access Company (IAC), and Primary SourceMedia–into a new company named The Gale Group. David Lucas, CEO of the Reading, UK-based Primary Source Media will manage all Gale Group operations in Europe. “We are merging […]

Royal Bank of Canada established the first Canadian implementation of a SET (Secure Electronic Transaction) end-to-end payment solution over the Internet. SET is a unique payment protocol designed to allow cardholders, merchants and banks to authenticate each other’s identity over open networks like the Internet, while providing the security and privacy of the transaction. Royal […]

SPT Telecom, the Czech Republic’s monopoly telecommunications provider, recently announced a 40% rate cut for its ISDN services, offering customers a starting price of US$40 per month. According the newest price list, installation of euroISDN2 (64 kbps) digital lines costs 9,950 Czech crowns (Kc), or about $320–40 percent less than the original price of Kc […]

Publishers are adding one-and-a-half million pages to the World Wide Web every day, according to analysts at Alexa Internet, of San Francisco, California. Alexa said it archived 12 terabytes of data, an amount equivalent to half the contents of the Library of Congress, to find this and other facts about the growth and scope of […]

Small businesses and home users often need to connect more than one computer to their dial-up line. Czech company Software602 now offers a solution that is not only simple and reliable, but also free for the end users. The trick? Internet service providers are expected to foot the bill. The new product–602Pro Internet Server Lite–is […]