SYDNEY, June. 8--AsiaNet/InfoQuest
AMAZON INDIA...
HYDERABAD - Amazon.com today announced that it is planning
to open a customer service center in Hyderabad, India, which is
set to be operational in the second half of 2005.
http://www.amazon.com
SOFTWARE AGREEMENT...
SAN FRANCISCO - OpenTV Corp. and Alticast Corporation
announced today that they have signed a multi-year agreement to
integrate Alticast's AltiCaptor DVB-MHP compliant receiver
software 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 Microsoft
Connected Services Framework as the core component for the
.NET-based version of its Service Delivery Platform, a solution
to enable the rapid launch of wireline and wireless multimedia
services.
http://www.microsoft.com
TRUST ACQUISITION...
AMSTERDAM and BOCA RATON - Gables Residential Trust and a
private equity partnership sponsored by ING Clarion Partners
announced Tuesday that a partnership managed by ING Clarion has
entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the Company.
http://www.gables.com
ENTRUST DEPLOYMENT...
DALLAS - Entrust, Inc., a world-leader in securing digital
identities and information, announced Tuesday that the Ministry
of Economic Development of New Zealand has decided to deploy
Entrust IdentityGuard to all users across the department to
secure remote access to sensitive applications via Citrix
Metaframe.
http://www.entrust.com
http://www.med.govt.nz
COMPUTER EDUCATION...
LAIE, Hawaii - Certiport today announced its sponsorship of
the Ninth Annual Global Chinese Conference on Computers in
Education, hosted for the first time outside of Asia at Brigham
Young University - Hawaii campus June 6-9.
http://www.certiport.com
MOBILE EMAIL...
CAMBRIDGE - Seven announced Tuesday commercial partnerships
with five leading 2.5G and 3G mobile operators who have chosen
its software to provide push-based mobile email to their
enterprise and consumer customers.
http://www.seven.com
OSTEOPOROSIS SURVEY...
VIENNA - A new pan-European survey, launched by the
International Osteoporosis Foundation, reveals that while women
with osteoporosis do recognise the seriousness of their
condition, a large number stop taking their bone-saving
medication.
http://www.osteofound.org
OUTSOURCING RESEARCH...
CHICAGO - Buyers of outsourcing services in growing numbers
are dissatisfied with offshore service providers, prematurely
terminating contracts and struggling to harvest the full value
of their outsourcing relationships, according to new research
by DiamondCluster International.
http://www.diamondcluster.com
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