Rolf Boone

The largest Japanese e-commerce consultancy business is not to be found in Japan but in the United States–Portland, Oregon to be exact. TKAI, Inc. has experienced strong demand for its services and undergone fantastic growth in its seven year existence. “Our revenues will be up 250% this year and our net earnings will increase more […]

From Australia.internet.com Telstra, the partly-privatised government telecommunications carrier, has bowed to public pressure from the Internet service provider (ISP) industry and delayed its plans for a year to discontinue a popular copper-based connectivity product. Permitted Attached Private Lines (PAPLs) are circuits of copper lines, typically between office buildings, that were being used by ISPs to […]

Four leading Scandinavian Internet agencies have formed an alliance to create a new company with 300 employees in four countries. The companies involved in the deal are: Netsolutions, from Sweden (70 employees), New Media Science, from Norway (60 employees), Networkers, from Denmark (45 employees) and Satama Interactive, from Finland (95 employees). The new company will […]

Singapore introduced major e-commerce initiatives to generate business of about US$2.4 billion by year 2003. The Monetary Authority of Singapore commissioned a study on how the financial sector can leverage IT. Over the next five years, the Economic Development Board has set itself the target of anchoring at least 25 of the leading logistics, manufacturing […]

Although the potential for strong e-commerce growth in Japan is not in doubt, only a few firms have so far stepped up to reap the Internet’s rewards. A prime example is J-List, an online company based just outside Tokyo, that sells Japanese music, magazines, comic books, hardcover photobooks and adult-oriented products. In business only two […]

CIBC Wood Gundy announced the addition of Canadian ABS/MBS information to its CIBC World Markets Web site. The move was in response to increasing investor demand for timely accurate information and increased disclosure, the company said. The securitization market in Canada is growing rapidly leading to an increase in investor’s demands for access to information, […]

Critical Path, of San Francisco, California, one of the leading providers of outsourced e-mail for ISPs and other companies, commenced European operations by hiring Netscape’s Karl Klarmann to run them. His brief is to persuade top European Web sites, ISPs, and telephone service companies to provide Critical Path’s comprehensive e-mail services, the firm said. Founded […]

From australia.internet.com Australian Internet service providers (ISPs) are being offered a temporary reprieve from the threat of legal action to recover royalties for music files downloaded by Web users–but at a price. The Internet Industry Association (IIA), the representative body for Australian ISPs, is urging that providers each pay a fee to stop the Australian […]

A recent study of Latin American Internet access providers found that telephone charges are the biggest obstacle on the road to increased Internet usage in that part of the world. The study from International Data Corp. (IDC) was based on interviews with Internet Service Providers (ISPs), telecommunication service providers, and cable operators in Argentina, Brazil, […]

PSINet, Inc. confirmed it has acquired Hong Kong Internet and Gateway Services (HKIGS), the territory’s oldest commercial ISP. This latest deal comes just a few weeks after PSINet picked up 100% of Hong Kong’s second largest ISP, Linkage Online, for US$20 million. No financial details were disclosed about the Hong Kong Internet deal which was […]

The Association of Internet Professionals (AIP) formally endorsed the Web Standards Project (WSP), the coalition of Web builders calling for greater industry standardisation–especially between the leading Web browsers from Microsoft and Netscape. AIP is the largest global association of Internet professionals, and its endorsement is expected to lend greater strength to the campaign. The WSP […]

AT&T-Unisource Communications Services, the joint venture company formed by AT&T and Unisource, announced that it the launch of the Satellite Newsfeed Service to deliver Usenet News to ISPs in Europe. There are now 43,000 different newsgroups in the Usenet service, covering nearly every topic imaginable, the company said. AT&T-Unisource Communications Services, which is based in […]