SYDNEY, April 19--AsiaNet/InfoQuest ACQUISITION COMPLETED... ATLANTA: Infor, the largest global software provider toexclusively focus on delivering integrated enterpriseapplications to select verticals in the manufacturing anddistribution industries, today announced it has acquired MAPICSafter receiving regulatory approvals and satisfying the closingconditions of the transaction, originally announced inJanuary. http://www.infor.com ADVERTISING SOLUTION... SYDNEY: OpenTV Corp., one of the world's leading interactivetelevision companies, announced today that FOXTEL, Australia'sleading subscription television provider, will launch anend-to-end two-way interactive advertising solution based onOpenTV software that will provide FOXTEL Digital subscriberswith a true digital interactive advertising experience thatsubscribers can control. http://www.opentv.com COMPLIANCE PROFESSION... NEW ORLEANS: Sunday night, the International CorporateCompliance Professionals Awards Dinner, held at Sheraton NewOrleans, recognized individuals and organizations that havemade considerable contributions to the compliance profession. http://www.hcca-info.org TOBACCO PACKAGING... MONTREAL: Alcan Inc. announced that it has acquired thetobacco packaging interests of CM Printing Sdn Bhd in Malaysia.This acquisition is a further step in Alcan Packaging'sstrategy of developing its footprint in emerging economicregions. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. ONLINE BOOKING... PHOENIX: Best Western International announced the additionof translated content to its web site at www.bestwestern.com.One-hundred percent of the company's online hotel and bookinginformation is now available in French, German, Italian andInternational Spanish. Additionally, all Asian hotel propertylistings and reservations web pages are available in simplifiedChinese, Japanese and Korean. http://www.bestwestern.com GENETIC ANALYSIS.... SAN DIEGO: Clinical researchers and genetic scientistsattending the Human Genome Organization's 10th Human GenomeMeeting in Kyoto, Japan, are among the first to learn about thebenefits of iPLEX, a new multiplexing application for theMassARRAY System, a leading technology for genetic analysisdeveloped by SEQUENOM, Inc. http://www.sequenom.com VIDEO DELIVERY... LAS VEGAS: SecureMedia, Inc., a leading provider ofconditional access and digital rights management softwaresolutions, and the Hong Kong Applied Science and TechnologyResearch Institute Company Limited, an applied R&D institutionconducting world-class customer-focused research and deliveringsuperior quality technologies, jointly announced that they willbe demonstrating at NAB 2005 the world's first video deliveryplatform based on Advanced Video Coding technology withintegrated digital rights management security. http://www.astri.org http://www.securemedia.com VIDEO NETWORKING... RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK: Harris Corporation, a leading globalprovider of wireless equipment and services, introduced theHarris Video Networking and Microwave solution. http://www.harris.com POWER AMPLIFIER... HEILBRONN: Atmel Corporation, a global leader in thedevelopment and fabrication of advanced semiconductorsolutions, announced the availability of its new WLAN PowerAmplifier for the fast-growing high-volume WLAN market. http://www.atmel.com COMPUTE ALLIANCE... MOUNTAIN VIEW: Azul Systems Inc. introduced the Azul ComputeAppliance, the world's greatest capacity single system targetedat virtual-machine based applications such as those using theJava platform or the Microsoft.Net framework. http://www.azulsystems.com ELECTRIPHY ANNOUNCES... SANTA CLARA: ElectriPHY Corporation, a leading provider ofadvanced IC devices that accelerate broadband access, announcedthe Phybrwire Series of Very high-speed Digital Subscriber Linechipset products. http://www.electriphy.com LICENSE AGREEMENT... HONG KONG: Hong Kong based Artificial Life, Inc. a leadingprovider of intelligent agent based mobile and Internettechnology and applications announced that it has signed alicense agreement with Sanrio Taiwan Co, Ltd, a localrepresentative of Sanrio Co, Ltd, of Japan to develop anddistribute games and e-learning applications for mobile phonesbased on the famous Sanrio branded characters: Hello Kitty, MyMelody, Pochacco, Bad Batz Maru, Chococat, Cinamoroll andLittle Twin Stars and to launch them in the Taiwan market. http://www.artificial-life.com http://www.sanrio.co.jp OPTIMIZER TECHNOLOGY... MELBOURNE: Exinda Networks is finalising a world firsttechnology for optimizing wireless networks that will bereleased at the end of April. The technology offers: Physicalsegmentation of the wireless network (The Optimizer can besetup for multiple LAN ports), subnet definition allowswireless networks to be separately defined, monitored andoptimized. Also - New Reporting capabilities allows individual(wireless) subnet alarms & reports to be auto-generated andemailed. www.udata.com (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.)