ASIANET SUMMARY FOR FRIDAY, FEB.25, 2000.

Press releases distributed by AsiaNet to Asia Pulse today:

GLOBAL REACH.......

HONG KONG: Asia Online said today it had expanded its global reach - providing reliable e-commerce and web hosting services - to include more than 450 points of presence across the United States and Canada. The company said it opened up "vast new marketing and information distribution opportunities throughout the Asia-Pacific region."

EXCLUSIVE AGREEMENT.......

HONG KONG: Net-Revenue, a Hong Kong-based enterprise that enables global companies to establish and operate an online business in Asia, said today it had signed an exclusive agreement with C/Base Inc., one of the world's leading e-commerce companies, to market and develop its ecount web technology in Asia.

FULL SUPPORT.......

HONG KONG: Adaptec said today Microsoft had certified all of its SCSI cards for Windows 2000. The company said drivers for its new Ultra160 SCSI controllers were the only ones to be embedded in Windows 2000, and its Fibre Channel, RAID and networking controllers also offered support.

JAPANESE MARKET.......

TOKYO: Internet pioneer, Spyglass, and Mitsui & Co. announced today that they had signed a reseller agreement for Mitsui to sell the Spyglass Prism content delivery and transformation platform in the Japanese market. In a separate statement, Spyglass said it had set up a wholly-owned subsidiary in Tokyo.

SINGAPORE PROGRAMME.......

CALIFORNIA: Advanced Manufacturing Online said today its ECNET 2000 event on March 8 would coincide with the opening of the Singapore Technology Ventures 2000 programme - featuring some of that country's "best entrepreneurial companies going global."

CONTRACT AWARDED.......

MASSACHUSETTS: Ionics said today it had received a contract valued in excess of $USM9 from STMicroelectronics to design, construct and commission an advanced ultrapure water plant for its new semiconductor facility in Singapore.

PHONE PORTFOLIO.......

HANNOVER: A Motorola press statement said the company was "putting the WOW into WAP" (Wireless Application Protocol) by announcing the extension of its WAP-enabled phone portfolio to six models, including a world first. It was part of the company's strategy "to deliver a world without wires, putting the internet in your pocket."

WIRELESS SERVICES.......

DALLAS: InterVoice Brite announced today it would demonstrate speech-enabled wireless internet services at CTIA Wireless 2000 in New Orleans from February 28 to March 1. The demonstration would include WAP-based unified messaging, conferencing, location-based service, and stock transaction service.

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY.......

HANNOVER: MATERNA Information & Communications said today at the CeBIT trade show in Germany it would be "focusing on the information technology-related subjects of e-commerce, customer relationship management and systems management." (A series of MATERNA CeBIT announcements are published in full on Asia Pulse and www.asianet.com.au).

EXPANDED RELATIONSHIP.......

VANCOUVER: Internet company, Global Media Corp,. said today it had expanded its relationship with RealNetworks "designed to drive significant traffic to the Global Media Network and to its leading content partners." Under the new agreement, the company would launch a video channel and audio radio stations.

DISTRIBUTION RIGHTS.......

VIRGINIA: VIDAR Systems Corporation and Vivid Image Technologies announced today the establishment of an OEM agreement for VIDAR's sales channels to have the exclusive distribution rights to Vivid Image's scan-to-print controllers in North and South America. The companies' combined technology would generate quick and economical high-quality, large format colour prints.

DIVIDEND DECLARED.......

TORONTO: A press statement from Toronto Dominion Bank announced today that a dividend at the rate of 21 cents a fully paid common share in capital stock had been declared for the quarter ending April 30.

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