Aug 22--PRNewswire/AsiaNetINTERNET SECURITY... SINGAPORE: Asian Internet hosting provider, Webvisions, today introduced its Security Powerpack product, an Internet protection system for small and medium-sized enterprises. "A reliable IT infrastructure is a prerequisite for E-business, with network security being most essential", company ceo, Mr Roger Lim, said.AIRPORT JOINT-VENTURE... FRANKFURT: International airport managers, Fraport AG Frankfurt, and European shopping centre managers, ECE, will team in a joint-venture to optimise the shopping, gastronomy and services capacity at Frankfurt Airport, a media release revealed today.FUEL CELL PLANES... IRVINE: Quantum Technologies Worldwide today announced a major contract with NASA and AeroVironment to design and manufacture hydrogen and oxygen tanks for upcoming prototypes of fuel cell aircraft. WIRELESS ENTERTAINMENT... LONDON: BlueFactory, the wireless entertainment company, has secured $US 7 million in second-round funding from a group including T-Mobile Venture Fund, InfoComm Investments and a "leading Scandinavian venture capital firm", according to a press statement delivered today.INSURANCE ACQUISITION... SPRINGFIELD: The MassMutual Financial Group has fully acquired Tokyo-based Aetna Heiwa Life Insurance Co., buying 25.7 million shares for circa US$ 20 million, the company has announced.SCIENCE GROWS IN CHINA... PHILADELPHIA: The productivity of scientific research in China has grown extraordinarily, the ISI Research Group declared today. Using journal citations as its yardstick, the company said "in 1981, the worldwide impact of papers authored in China was .2 percent. By 2000, China's impact had increased to nearly .5 percent."OPTICAL STORAGE BENCHMARK... TOKYO: Toshiba Corporation has begun mass production of a new DVD-ROM drive that will "set a new benchmark for high performance optical storage", according to a company news release. WORLD CERAMICS EXPO... TOKYO: 370, 000 people have visited the World Ceramic Exposition in Korea in its first three days, the organisers said today. The expo - the largest of its kind - would continue over 80 days and involve 84 countries.FINANCIAL RESULTS: HONG KONG: Gas and oil exploration company, First Ecom Inc, today announced its second quarter 2001 financial results, reporting increased operational revenue of US$24, 152. (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).