Corizon Ltd. last week brought out a new version of its User Process Management software, which lets developers build a single user interface to link applications. The upgrade adds monitoring capabilities and includes support for Windows applications in addition to Web-based software. London-based Corizon's technology is aimed at businesses that use many applications simultaneously, such as call centers.

AMD last week announced the opening of a research and development facility in Seoul and said it hopes the center will boost its business with electronics makers in South Korea. The company said it expects to have 15 engineers working at the center by the end of 2006.

The University of Sydney in Australia has begun construction on a $42 million Australian ($31.6 million U.S.) facility to house its School of Information Technologies. Due for completion next March, the facility will be used for research activities involving information visualization, multimedia, language and knowledge management, and networks and systems.

Access Providers Ltd., a wireless broadband carrier in Croydon, Australia, said it will build a WiMax network focused exclusively on business customers in Sydney. Access Providers expects to start deploying the network in February and hopes to begin connecting customers to it by mid-2006.

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