Daimler Chrysler pulls the plug on Mitsubishi
Tokyo: DaimlerChrysler has said that it would pull out of Mitsubishi Motors, leaving the Japanese firm's future in doubt. The decision has come at an extraordinary meeting of DaimlerChrysler's supervisory and management boards on Thursday.

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SMART deploys MDP to support SMS explosion
Singapore: Empower Interactive, a supplier of mobile data services infrastructure products for mobile operators, has been selected by SMART to provide infrastructure support for the operator's exceptionally high levels of messaging traffic.

SMART is deploying Empower Interactive's carrier-grade Message Delivery Platform (MDP), offering industry-leading performance to process an additional 2,000 messages per second with the initial deployment.

SMART's 12.9 million subscribers are the world's most active users of SMS with an average of around 10 SMS sent per day per subscriber.

Implementation of Empower Interactive's MDP enables SMART to support continuously high levels of messaging throughput in a consistent and reliable manner. The MDP is designed to dramatically reduce the operator's cost per message and increase network efficiency, by enabling both application and peer-to-peer messaging traffic to be routed intelligently through the network.
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Green Hills RTOS to support IBM's PowerPC 970FX
Santa Barbara, USA: Green Hills Software Inc., a market leader in embedded software development tools and royalty-free real-time operating systems (RTOS), has announced INTEGRITY RTOS support for the award-winning PowerPC 970FX microprocessor from IBM Microelectronics.

INTEGRITY is the only RTOS that guarantees hardware resources and real-time performance to developers creating applications on the IBM PowerPC 970FX for network storage, networking, high-end graphics, mission-critical military systems and other compute-intensive markets.
Based on IBM's award-winning POWER4 architecture, the new PowerPC 970FX processor achieves high system performance with a dual-channel front-side 1 GHz processor bus and very fast hyper-transport interconnections. The device gives developers 64-bit computing power while assuring legacy support by running 32-bit applications natively.
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VBrick Systems wins NAB Award for EtherneTV
Wallingford, USA: VBrick Systems, Inc. has announced that it has received a National Association of Broadcaster's (NAB) Award for Innovation in Media (AIM) at the NAB2004 Conference & Exhibition.

VBrick Systems has received the AIM recognition for its EtherneTV Media Distribution System in the Content Delivery category. The EtherneTV Media Distribution System is the world's first complete system for the delivery of live and stored television over IP networks to both desktops and TVs. Based on open MPEG standards and comprised of integrated VBrick video components controlled by an intuitive user interface, EtherneTV makes it easy to manage and distribute live or recorded video to and from any classroom, boardroom or office.

The NAB spring convention is the world's largest electronic media show covering the development, delivery and management of professional video and audio content across all mediums.
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