SYDNEY, April 19--AsiaNet/InfoQuest
ACQUISITION COMPLETED...
ATLANTA: Infor, the largest global software provider to
exclusively focus on delivering integrated enterprise
applications to select verticals in the manufacturing and
distribution industries, today announced it has acquired MAPICS
after receiving regulatory approvals and satisfying the closing
conditions of the transaction, originally announced in
January.
http://www.infor.com
ADVERTISING SOLUTION...
SYDNEY: OpenTV Corp., one of the world's leading interactive
television companies, announced today that FOXTEL, Australia's
leading subscription television provider, will launch an
end-to-end two-way interactive advertising solution based on
OpenTV software that will provide FOXTEL Digital subscribers
with a true digital interactive advertising experience that
subscribers can control.
http://www.opentv.com
COMPLIANCE PROFESSION...
NEW ORLEANS: Sunday night, the International Corporate
Compliance Professionals Awards Dinner, held at Sheraton New
Orleans, recognized individuals and organizations that have
made considerable contributions to the compliance profession.
http://www.hcca-info.org
TOBACCO PACKAGING...
MONTREAL: Alcan Inc. announced that it has acquired the
tobacco packaging interests of CM Printing Sdn Bhd in Malaysia.
This acquisition is a further step in Alcan Packaging's
strategy of developing its footprint in emerging economic
regions. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
ONLINE BOOKING...
PHOENIX: Best Western International announced the addition
of translated content to its web site at www.bestwestern.com.
One-hundred percent of the company's online hotel and booking
information is now available in French, German, Italian and
International Spanish. Additionally, all Asian hotel property
listings and reservations web pages are available in simplified
Chinese, Japanese and Korean.
http://www.bestwestern.com
GENETIC ANALYSIS....
SAN DIEGO: Clinical researchers and genetic scientists
attending the Human Genome Organization's 10th Human Genome
Meeting in Kyoto, Japan, are among the first to learn about the
benefits of iPLEX, a new multiplexing application for the
MassARRAY System, a leading technology for genetic analysis
developed by SEQUENOM, Inc.
http://www.sequenom.com
VIDEO DELIVERY...
LAS VEGAS: SecureMedia, Inc., a leading provider of
conditional access and digital rights management software
solutions, and the Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology
Research Institute Company Limited, an applied R&D institution
conducting world-class customer-focused research and delivering
superior quality technologies, jointly announced that they will
be demonstrating at NAB 2005 the world's first video delivery
platform based on Advanced Video Coding technology with
integrated digital rights management security.
http://www.astri.org
http://www.securemedia.com
VIDEO NETWORKING...
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK: Harris Corporation, a leading global
provider of wireless equipment and services, introduced the
Harris Video Networking and Microwave solution.
http://www.harris.com
POWER AMPLIFIER...
HEILBRONN: Atmel Corporation, a global leader in the
development and fabrication of advanced semiconductor
solutions, announced the availability of its new WLAN Power
Amplifier for the fast-growing high-volume WLAN market.
http://www.atmel.com
COMPUTE ALLIANCE...
MOUNTAIN VIEW: Azul Systems Inc. introduced the Azul Compute
Appliance, the world's greatest capacity single system targeted
at virtual-machine based applications such as those using the
Java platform or the Microsoft.Net framework.
http://www.azulsystems.com
ELECTRIPHY ANNOUNCES...
SANTA CLARA: ElectriPHY Corporation, a leading provider of
advanced IC devices that accelerate broadband access, announced
the Phybrwire Series of Very high-speed Digital Subscriber Line
chipset products.
http://www.electriphy.com
LICENSE AGREEMENT...
HONG KONG: Hong Kong based Artificial Life, Inc. a leading
provider of intelligent agent based mobile and Internet
technology and applications announced that it has signed a
license agreement with Sanrio Taiwan Co, Ltd, a local
representative of Sanrio Co, Ltd, of Japan to develop and
distribute games and e-learning applications for mobile phones
based on the famous Sanrio branded characters: Hello Kitty, My
Melody, Pochacco, Bad Batz Maru, Chococat, Cinamoroll and
Little 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 first
technology for optimizing wireless networks that will be
released at the end of April. The technology offers: Physical
segmentation of the wireless network (The Optimizer can be
setup for multiple LAN ports), subnet definition allows
wireless networks to be separately defined, monitored and
optimized. Also - New Reporting capabilities allows individual
(wireless) subnet alarms & reports to be auto-generated and
emailed.
www.udata.com
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