Rolf Boone

From Australia.internet.com Telstra Big Pond Home, the consumer Internet service provider arm of Telstra, Australia’s largest telecommunications carrier, launched an online travel booking and information service for its Big Pond customers. The Big Pond Travel service is made to give users direct access to 472 airlines, 45,300 hotels, 54 car rental companies, the latest travel […]

Internet storage management firm ANDATACO continues to figure in the highly competitive storage management and RAID storage industry, expecting continued growth in the Japanese Open Systems marketplace. Operating in Asia from Australia to Korea, ANDATACO is a growing RAID storage manufacturer, reportedly registering annual sales of around $100 million–with 10% coming from Asia–and is one […]

Eicon Technology signed a distribution agreement with Canadian-based RYCOM Inc. to provide its DIVA T/A ISDN modem to Bell Canada. The modem is designed to offer Bell’s corporate customers fast, reliable remote access connections to LANs and the Internet. Introduced earlier this year, the modem is made to allow users to access the Internet, place […]

The number of Australians on the Internet soared by 14 per cent in the months from February to May this year, according to the latest survey figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). This brings the number of households with Internet access to 970,000, which accounts for 34 per cent of households with […]

Microland Ltd., a leading Indian networking and communications solutions provider, announced a new service that will give Indian Internet users broader access to their accounts. Working with iPass, Microland customers will be able to take advantage of Internet roaming, providing access to the Internet and corporate networks from more than 2,700 access points in iPass’s […]

Reuters Group and Thomson Global Markets (TGM) announced an agreement that will give Reuters customers access to TGM’s services via the Reuters network. Formerly Tech Data, TGM said it provides 29 services aimed at sales and trading professionals in fixed-income, foreign exchange, capital and emerging markets. “This is a great opportunity for us,” said Christine […]

Canada is poised to take delivery of a powerful new network resource–CA(x)net 3, the world’s first national optical Internet. John Manley, the Industry Canada Minister, announced a collaborative partnership between CANARIE (Canadian Network for the Advancement of Research, Industry and Education) and a Bell Canada-led private sector consortium to develop the resource. Based on new […]

VocalTec Communications Ltd. today announced that Deutsche Telekom AG will use its Ensemble Architecture (VEA) products in the launch of Deutsche Telekom’s T-Online Internet telephony pilot program. Israel-based VocalTec and Deutsche Telekom currently have a strategic partnership, with the German communications company owning approximately 20% of VocalTec’s outstanding ordinary shares. Financial details for today’s agreement […]

Global Media Corp. began trading on the NASD OTC:BB under the symbol GLMC as a fully reporting issuer, and is also developing an entertainment Web site. The multimedia entertainment, marketing and distribution company, specializes in the distribution of various entertainment products and services. A subsidiary, Global Media Entertainment, said it is currently developing an entertainment […]

Argus Systems Group of Savoy, Illinois, is teaming with German firms Netlife GmbH and TUViT GmbH to provide e-commerce solutions to the global market. Security and performance are at the top of their list of priorities, said the vendors. “Real-time, Internet-based transaction services demand absolute security, both for the consumer and for the organization providing […]

Internet experts from around the world gathered today in New Delhi to launch India’s first edition of U.S.-based Mecklermedia Corp’s Internet World series of conferences and trade shows. “This national gathering of Indian and international experts is well-timed to address the needs of Internet professionals hoping to develop and harness the Internet market in India,” […]

Telepartner A/S announced that its newly acquired ITcom, a leading Danish-language search engine, will be introduced in Norway and Sweden this fall. The ITcom search engine and its related Webguiden will be available in Norwegian, Swedish and English, so that Scandinavian businesses can promote themselves internationally, the firm said. Aldo Petersen, Telepartner’s CEO, said the […]