The Schwab-sponsored share portfolio is a key feature of the Excite UK Money & Investing channel. Excite’s deal with Schwab closely follows a number of personal finance firsts from Excite, including announcements with Egg and Interactive Investor.

Almost 100m Europeans are expected to own a mobile phone by then and 30% of all internet users will use them to access the Internet. The survey revealed similar trends throughout Europe with users in all countries citing web search engines, branded sites and email as their main interests. Differences also emerged. Germans are twice … [Read more…]

announced plans to develop standards to facilitate high-speed in-home networks using existing phone lines. The new group, which calls itself the Home Phoneline Networking Alliance, differs from other home-focused networking efforts in that it intends to create products to connect devices already within a home, rather than finding ways to bring high-speed lines from outside. … [Read more…]

Offering a chat forum, news on travel, daily London news, games and a commuter happiness index, Tubehell.com also plans to renovate tube travel by lobbying national government and local government for improvements – currently, there is an online petition urging; “John two jags Prescott” to travel on the underground for a week. Founder Samir Satchua,formerly … [Read more…]

Lisa Curran, partnership manager at myTAXI said “myTAXI is more than simply a shopping directory and Gameplay’s high level of gaming editorial complements it perfectly.”

multiple PCs and devices within homes will reap a $4 billion market reward by the year 2002, according to a new study by a West Coast securities firm. This latest prediction, issued in a recent report by Los Angeles-based Wedbush Morgan Securities, underscores the increased focus from several corners of the industry on making it … [Read more…]

Communications Corp. has selected its Internet messaging platform for the deployment of the service provider’s unified messaging service offering. CTC began the first-phase deployment of its convergent Internet-based e-mail, fax, voice and video services in December ’99.

DAG, whose experience lies in digital entertainment, have recently received further funding from venture capitalists New Media SPARK who specialise in young software and internet companies.

Less than one third of the 15m British internet users have purchased online. Fifty percent of interviewees were unhappy at the prospect of using their credit card for internet shopping and only 18% would trust online vendors with their credit card details. The survey found the British keen to research travel, books, CDs and computer … [Read more…]

Rudy Prince, CEO, says eFax has concentrated on promoting its free-to-receive service, unlike the market’s main provider J-fax.com. The service allows users to receive both faxes and voicemail messages as email, free of charge. Users are given a UK phone number, hosted by eFax.com, which receives the fax or voicemail message before automatically converting it … [Read more…]