Corel Corporation has launched its new all-in-one graphics and desktop publishing suite for the corporate professionals. CorelDraw Professional Publisher combines the vector illustration and photo-editing capabilities of Coreldraw, the photo-editing capacity of Corel Photo-Paint with the document layout capabilities of Corel Ventura and the word-processing power of Corel WordPerfect. The suggested retail price of CorelDraw Professional Publisher is Rs 32,870 for the full version and Rs 15,980 for the upgrade. "While each application in the CorelDraw Professional Publisher package is outstanding, we have recognised the need to provide corporate users with all the publishing, editing and illustration tools they want in one convenient and affordable package," said Don Sylvester, executive vice-president of sales at Corel Corporation.

Seagate achieves record areal density in disc drive tech

Seagate Technology has achieved a world record in disc drivetechnology, demonstrating areal density of more than 16 billion bits per square-inch. This areal density is nearly three times the storage capacity per square inch of any hard disc drive shipping today, the company claims. This was achieved using merged read-write giant magneto-resistive (GMR) heads and ultra-smooth alloy media, both of which are designed and manufactured by Seagate. Recording information at an areal density of greater than 16 Gbit/in2 would allow a user to store mammoth information in the space of a thumb print. Seagate now plans to further accelerate the pace of developing next-generation storage technologies. It plans to ship disc drives utilising advanced GMR heads later this year. The GMR reader technology makes possible the sensing of smaller and more tightly packed bits of data on a disc drive platter.

Mobilink launches Clublink

Mobilink has introduced Clublink - yet another value added unusual service to its subscribers. Clublink is a scheme that offers continuous discountsthrough out the year to its subscribers on a variety of diverse products and services- ranging from grocery stores, household goods and appliances, automobile show rooms to professional training institutes. Clublink also gives free passes to its subscribers for events and movie premiers. This scheme has been launched in 10 cities namely, Delhi, Mumbai, Calcutta, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Kanpur, Lucknow, Ahmedabad and Pune. With a nominal yearly membership fee of Rs 300/- to Clublink, the subscriber receives a Pocket Guide which helps to identify the name of the shop and the amount of percentage discount that the subscriber can avail.

Alcatel, Motorola pact on CDMA infrastructure solutions

Alcatel and Motorola have announced a global agreement to work together to develop, market and deliver total, integrated CDMA digital network infrastructure to customers worldwide. The companies also have agreed to jointly develop a third generation mobile switching centre (MSC) based UMTS mobilecommunications network offering. This agreement considerably reinforces and enlarges the scope of the cooperation initiated two years ago. It allows both companies to leverage their complementary resources, including research and development expertise. it will help to ensure customers have rapid access to the latest technologies with closely integrated systems and benefit from faster product availability to both CDMA solutions and new future MSC-based UMTS applications.

Western Digital subscriber base touches 1 million

Western Digital Corporation has announced that its WDDIAG hard drive diagnostic tool has assisted over 1 million users to determine failure analysis on their computers. WDDIAG has helped users by minimising system downtime and reducing unnecessary hard drive returns by a simple utility download from Western Digital web, FTP and BBS sites WDDIAG is a diagnostic utility designed by Western Digital to test Western Digital hard drives for errors. If WDDIAG reports an error, theprogramme, at the user's request, will attempt to restore the hard drive to a defect-free status. The utility supports Western Digital desktop hard drives installed on both primary and secondary IDE ports either on the motherboard or controller card.

Nortel to strengthen pact with Entrust

Nortel Networks will further its relationship with Entrust Technologies through the integration of the Entrust IPSec Negotiator Toolkit into the software platform of its Contivity Extranet Switch product line, making the product Entrust-ready. The contivity Extranet Switch product line, including the 1000, 2000 and 4000 will also support the Entrust/PKI through the Entrust/VPN Connector or Entrust/Web Connector product. Now customers of the Contivity product line can take advantage of certificate-based authentication for remote access and LAN-to-LAN connections over the internet. This integration provides seamless access to the Entrust key and digital certificate management capabilities for Internet, intranet andextranet applications and makes the Contivity Extranet Switch one of the most secure virtual private network offerings available in the market.

Adobe fine-tunes dynamic media solutions

With the announcement of `Adobe After Effects' 4.0 software, Adobe Systems Inc has given finishing touches to its comprehensive dynamic media solution for creative professionals. After Effects 4.0 software enables customers to cross-purpose content and incorporate motion graphics into their designs as it works seamlessly with Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Premiere. With these tightly integrated applications, users can perform dynamic media production tasks faster and more efficiently. New to After Effects 4.0 is the ability to import Adobe Photoshop adjustment layers, layer effects and all transfer modes.