Dec. 19--/PRNewswireAsiaNetWEB CONTRACT... BOSTON: Internet services provider Presence Online and business partner, Edgesoft, Inc, have been given the contract to provide the web content management solution for the City of Beverly Hills., it was announced today. They will initially re-build the city's public site, which provides information services to local business, residents and visitors, and will also develop city's intranet site, a media release said.I.T. PRODUCTS... BROOMFIELD: The McDATA Corporation today announced it has formed a Switch Product Group to strengthen the company's presence in the fabric switch market. Fabric switches are part of the range of software and hardware tools on offer from McDATA for use in I.T. infrastructure management.COSMETIC SURGERY... CHICAGO: The American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery (AACS) will be holding its 18th Annual Scientific Meeting at the Wyndham Bonaventure Resort & Spa in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, it was announced today. The meeting, "Tomorrow's Cosmetic Surgery Today ... Monitoring the World of Cosmetic Surgery" will take place on January 31 - February 3, 2002.ENERGY MARKETS... SOUTHHAMPTON: Bowman Power Limited today announced it has entered into a major investment and collaboration agreement with the Singapore Power Group for the Asia Pacific region. The agreement includes marketing collaboration, equity investment and product distribution across the Asia-Pacific region, including Australia and New Zealand, but excluding the Japanese market, according to a company press release. BUSINESS TRAINING... LONGMONT: The Breakthrough Management Group (BMG) will begin offering its "Six Sigma"training, consulting, and software services in Thailand, beginning in early 2002, the company announced today. BMG will work in partnership with BMG Thailand to provide training in statistics and quality improvement in software and other business applications, according to a press statement. DATA STORAGE... MILIPITAS: LSI Logic Storage Systems, Inc. today announced the general availability of a new disk drive for its MetaStor(R) E-Series family of storage systems. The new 36 gigabyte disk drives "enable up to 40 percent more input/output operations per second ... than comparable 10000 RPM drives of the same capacity, depending on application and configuration" according to a company press release. TELEPHONE NETWORKS... MAHWAH: Telecommunications company Shanghai Bell Co, Ltd, today announced it has selected various RADVISION software toolkits for its public switched telephone networks. Shanghai Bell is incorporating RADVISION's protocol toolkits into its networks "which will be available to the Chinese market in March 2002, to provide its customers with the latest standards and technology for voice over IP (VoIP) communications" a media release said.EXECUTIVE APPOINTMENTS... NEW YORK: PricewaterhouseCoopers today announced the selection of Samuel A. DiPiazza, Jr. as Global Chief Executive Officer. Mr DiPiazza will assume the position on 2 January 2002. (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).