SYDNEY, June. 8--AsiaNet/InfoQuest AMAZON INDIA... HYDERABAD - Amazon.com today announced that it is planningto open a customer service center in Hyderabad, India, which isset to be operational in the second half of 2005. http://www.amazon.com SOFTWARE AGREEMENT... SAN FRANCISCO - OpenTV Corp. and Alticast Corporationannounced today that they have signed a multi-year agreement tointegrate Alticast's AltiCaptor DVB-MHP compliant receiversoftware stack into OpenTV's Core middleware. http://www.alticast.com http://www.opentv.com MULTIMEDIA DELIVERY... NEW YORK and REDMOND - Accenture and Microsoft Corp.announced Tuesday that Accenture will utilize MicrosoftConnected Services Framework as the core component for the.NET-based version of its Service Delivery Platform, a solutionto enable the rapid launch of wireline and wireless multimediaservices. http://www.microsoft.com TRUST ACQUISITION... AMSTERDAM and BOCA RATON - Gables Residential Trust and aprivate equity partnership sponsored by ING Clarion Partnersannounced Tuesday that a partnership managed by ING Clarion hasentered into a definitive agreement to acquire the Company. http://www.gables.com ENTRUST DEPLOYMENT... DALLAS - Entrust, Inc., a world-leader in securing digitalidentities and information, announced Tuesday that the Ministryof Economic Development of New Zealand has decided to deployEntrust IdentityGuard to all users across the department tosecure remote access to sensitive applications via CitrixMetaframe. http://www.entrust.com http://www.med.govt.nz COMPUTER EDUCATION... LAIE, Hawaii - Certiport today announced its sponsorship ofthe Ninth Annual Global Chinese Conference on Computers inEducation, hosted for the first time outside of Asia at BrighamYoung University - Hawaii campus June 6-9. http://www.certiport.com MOBILE EMAIL... CAMBRIDGE - Seven announced Tuesday commercial partnershipswith five leading 2.5G and 3G mobile operators who have chosenits software to provide push-based mobile email to theirenterprise and consumer customers. http://www.seven.com OSTEOPOROSIS SURVEY... VIENNA - A new pan-European survey, launched by theInternational Osteoporosis Foundation, reveals that while womenwith osteoporosis do recognise the seriousness of theircondition, a large number stop taking their bone-savingmedication. http://www.osteofound.org OUTSOURCING RESEARCH... CHICAGO - Buyers of outsourcing services in growing numbersare dissatisfied with offshore service providers, prematurelyterminating contracts and struggling to harvest the full valueof their outsourcing relationships, according to new researchby DiamondCluster International. http://www.diamondcluster.com (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agenciesdistributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.)