-Briefly Noted

Telecomworldwire, Sept 6, 1999

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Castillo Bueno Systems has released the CCMPlayer, a compact MP3 player for Windows 95/98/NT, it is available now for US$10.95.

Nature's Sunshines Products Inc has completed the design and implementation of their e-commerce site, created by using Unisys Corporation's ActiveLINC software.

An Interactive 3D data visualisation, called Optic and designed by Superscape, is being used by IBM to provide product placement and competitive information from retail stores in the UK, Europe, Middle East and Africa.

Internet Technology Group has launched freenetname, a new service designed to encourage users to register their personalised domain name by scrapping the e100 fee normally required.

Avnet Inc and Sonepar are to sign a share exchange agreement which will see Avnet and SEI, a subsidiary of Sonepar, entering into a merger.

Charles Schwab & Company Limited has announced it is using Marimba's Castanet technology for its trading and portfolio management tool, Vector.

Microsoft's MSN Gaming Zone has launched the Microsoft Bridge Club at http://www.zone.com, and is offering a 30-day free trial for new members who subscribe before 30 September.

Hewlett-Packard has launched the 'eliptica' range of toner products designed for use with Xerox copier/printer models.

Hewlett-Packard is offering 'junk-free' e-mail access to students at no cost via its engineering students' Web site at http://www.FutureEngineers.com.

Lucent Technologies is to provide switching and optical networking systems and communications software for MediaOne under a new five-year contract valued at approx. US$250m.

Sterling Software Inc has completed its acquisition of Information Advantage Inc in a deal valued at US$168m.

NETOPIA has released a firewall with VPN and Traffic Shaping called Netopia S9500 Security Appliance which is aimed at the SME market and allows the user to use broadband high speed Internet connections, price is set at GBP2990.

NetConnect Ltd, a provider of training courses for integration tools and technologies, has joined forces with Check Point Software Technologies to add Check Point FireWall-1 as an optional study component in their post-graduate IT security programme in the UK.

Nokia has agreed to acquire Rooftop Communications Corporation, a company specialising in multipoint-to- multipoint radio systems that enable wireless broadband access to the Internet, for US$57m.

On 1 September the US Postal Service joined with Fairchild Semiconductor in Silicon Valley, to unveil a new Integrated Circuit commemorative US postage stamp, depicting an integrated circuit developed by Fairchild in 1964.

The Prudential Insurance Company of America has implemented PeopleSoft's Human Resource Management solutions.

Green Mountain Coffee Roasters has implemented PeopleSoft's eStore product to power its web site for eCommerce.

Toyota Motor Manufacturing North America has successfully implemented PeopleSoft's manufacturing and supply chain management solution in its non-vehicle operations at four facilities.

3Com has signed an agreement with ASI Corporation for the latter to sell 3Com's networking solutions to small business value-added resellers, including 3Com EtherLink network interface cards and the OfficeConnect family of NICs, modems, hubs, routers and switches.

A new Email Management System (EMS) has been launched by eGain Communications, a provider of customer service infrastructure for e-commerce, along with the eGain Collaboration System and will be demonstrated at E-business '99.

Saratoga Systems has won a GBP150,000 contract from Plantronics, to supply the latter with its CRM product, Avenue 4.0.

PeopleSoft has extended its manufacturing solution to include PeopleSoft Flow Production System, a new set of planning and execution applications designed to support flow manufacturing principles.

The shareholders of both AlliedSignal inc and Honeywell inc have apparently approved the companies' proposed merger, which should be complete in fall.

Rockwell Electronic Commerce, a provider of open systems customer contact management technology, has implemented its customer contact technology platform for CompUSA's new 1,000- agent customer support centre.

Kingston TLI and INTELSAT have implemented the Kingston TLI Standard A earth station at Chalfont Grove, UK, which will carry traffic between the UK and the Indian Ocean Region and is operating on the INTELSAT 602 satellite at 62degE.

WebRadio.com has signed a deal with Liquid Audio inc, a provider of software and services for the delivery of music over the Internet, that will allow WebRadio.com to provide its users with music downloads from the Liquid Music Network.

Powernet Telecom is to make a multi-million pound investment with Marconi for a second System X switch, which is built on an intelligent network platform and coupled with Hewlett- Packard's Servers and Cisco routers.

BT has licensed Infobank InTrade as its worldwide business-to- business e-Commerce solution for its BT SupplyCentre global managed network service for international, cross border trading.