Rick Mitchell

France's top-selling online merchant, the discount travel agency Dégriftour said that its total online business volume in June equaled the Minitel

France Telecom has finally launched its complicated monthly flat rate for ISP connections, but Internet advocates here are already looking ahead to the

Powered mainly by business-to-business sales, French Internet commerce surged by 1,280 percent in 1998 and should expand even more dramatically in the

The Banque Nationale de Paris (BNP) has linked up with the free ISP LibertySurf to promote its year-old online banking service BNPNet. "We've signed a

The Dutch broadband network company United Pan-Europe Communication (UPC), has launched a high-speed cable Internet access service in France that could

The French telecommunications regulation authority announced this week that it had advised the government to ratify a France Telecom proposal that would

Customers of French ISP Cybercable, whose service has been plagued by numerous technical glitches and bad press since its much-anticipated launch last

The free-ISP phenomenon that ignited in the UK last year has spread to France. Five ISPs offering unlimited access at no charge have appeared since April,

Olitec, France's leading manufacturer of modems and communications software, plans to guarantee the compatibility of its products with the Linux operating

A recent French court ruling in an intrusion-of-privacy suit that led to the shutdown of a popular Web-host company demonstrates that the laws regulating

France Telecom plans to begin testing in April on a screen phone that uses an IBM-developed software platform to give Minitel users quick, easy access to

French companies spent twice as much on Internet advertising in 1998 than they did the year before, though these sales still account for just a fraction