Rolf Boone

The average Australian Web user is 34 years old, male, works in IT, spends less time watching TV and more time shopping at Web malls, according to the latest results of the fifth Australian Online User Report. More than 19,000 Internet users were surveyed by Australian Internet and e-commerce research group www.consult during June, in […]

British Telecom announced it will use Multipath Movies from Brilliant Digital Entertainment to test market its VIEW (Video Information and Entertainment on the Web) technology in west London. The BT Interactive Network will provide selected customers with high-speed audio and video Internet access, fifty times faster than the existing service, so that they can view […]

A study of Internet users in seven European countries shows there’s a significant reluctance on the part of users to shop on the Web, with just 12.1% saying they log on to purchase products or services. The “European Internet Household Survey,” conducted in May by International Data Corp.(IDC), examined the volume of Europeans shopping online, […]

The Association of Independent Internet Providers (AIIP) filed an antitrust suit against Telecom Italia stating that evidence indicates the state-run telecommunications company is selling Internet services below cost in order to monopolize the Italian market. According to a report in the weekly news magazine, PANORAMA, Telecom Italia’s Internet division, TIN, lost 145 million lira ($8.5 […]

Despite the fact that e-commerce is still in its infancy, the promise of business conducted via the Internet in Japan is looking up, according to Neil Van Wouw, Chief Technology Director for Global Online, a 4-year-old, first-tier Internet provider with around 15,000 dial-up customers. “Japan is number two in the world in total users online, […]

The Australian subsidiary of Lucent Technologies has announced it will make an offer to acquire Australian telecommunications company JNA for AUS$114 million. The move follows an agreement by the major shareholders of JNA to enter into options to allow Lucent to purchase 19.9 per cent of JNA. This option, which is subject to approval by […]

Advanced Datacom Systems of Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire, has signed a reseller agreement with PacketWare of New York to distribute PacketVision network message analysis software in the UK and Europe. Customers in the UK and Europe will now get support “a bit closer to home,” the vendors said. The PacketWare products are designed to improve the […]

CIBC is introducing a national Internet Cafe program to train employees and clients to take advantage of the Net through a new Internet banking service for small business customers. More than 1,000 CIBC employees from the Greater Toronto Area as well as small business customers will participate in the two-hour Internet Caf sessions being held […]