March 15/PRNewswire-AsiaNet DIALPAD TARGETS TOKYO….. SANTA CLARA: Dialpad Communications Inc, the IP telephony solutions developer, today announced the opening an independently-operated entity located in Tokyo, Dialpad Japan, under incumbent president & ceo, Toshimitsu Tanaka. MULTI-LINGUAL DOMAINS….. PLEASANT HILL: Alldomains.com, Hostcentric's Domain Services Group, today said that they would offer pre-registrations for .com, .net, and .org domain names for Middle Eastern and Southeast Asian languages, such as Arabic, Hebrew, Hindi, Vietnamese, Thai, and Indonesian. FINANCIAL INFO SOFTWARE…. NEW YORK: Bridge Information Systems Inc, the financial information services provider, today globally launched its updated product, BridgeActivel - financial markets workstation software providing market data. XINHUA & CHINADOTCOM….. HONG KONG: Xinhua News Agency subsidiary, Golden Tripod Technology Limited, will negotiate with chinadotcom corporation to deepen business relations between the two entities, a press release stated today. FINANCIAL RESULTS….. BEIJING: Huaneng Power International Inc, China's no.1 independent power producer, today recorded net profits of RMB 2.516 billion ($US304 million), when the company posted its annual operating results earlier today. HONG KONG: chinadotcom corporation today recorded annual revenues of $121.2M, a 499% increase over revenues of $20.2M for 1999, for the 2000 fiscal year, attributing its healthy balance sheet to strengthened management, media assets, the success of its Hong Kong listing as well as diversifying its operations throughout 12 markets. VOICE-GEARED SOFTWARE………. MUNICH: Mediatrix Telecom Inc will license its voice-over software product, Session Initiation Protocol, to Siemens AG, according to a press release distributed today. TOKYO BRANCH…. BURLINGTON: NTRU, developer of digital key security, said today that it would open a Tokyo office, under the leadership of Mr Yoshihito Yusa. SUNGARD SNARES BANK…. NEW YORK: Sungard, IT solutions provider for the financial services market, will harness its Infinity product, to help Mizuho Corporate Bank manage cross-asset risk in its overseas branches, the company said today. PROFESSIONAL SERVICES ACQUISITION……. VANCOUVER: CTI Diversified Holdings Inc today announced that its acquisition of professional services firm, IT Transit Limited has been finalised. PUBLIC CONFERENCE CALL….. DETROIT: Covisint today said it would make public its conference call with an unnamed technology provider, arranged to discuss supply chain execution. CEBIT…. SAN JOSE: SANavigator Inc, management software developers, will display its latest storage resource application at this year's CeBIT in Hanover, Germany at the end of the March. CITIBANK KINDLES KIWI…. SYDNEY: Global financial services company, Citibank Worldwide Securities Services, will become custodian to New Zealand Funds Management, the company said today. HONG KONG CENTER OPENS…. HONG KONG: Global One, the e-business solutions provider, today announced the opening of its Hong Kong Global Hosting Center, expressly geared at servicing the e-business needs of its multinational clients. MSN CHOOSES ARESCOM…… FREMONT: ARESCOM Inc, the global broadband infrastructure provider, said today that MSN has selected the company to deploy speedy consumer broadband services. DISTRIBUTION DEAL EXPANDS…. LOS ALTOS: ScImage Inc and Goodman Co. Ltd, Japan, will expand their current distribution deal to include the full range of ScImage's products, the two companies said today. BRIGHTER, BOLDER LCD…… TOKYO: Toshiba Corporation today announced the third quarter launch of its industrially geared, high-resolution LCD, in Europe and the U.S, according to a press release distributed today. (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited, translated press releases for worldwide clients. Contact: www.asianet.com.au for full-text versions).ASIANET