22:16 01-FEB-2000
Pac Cent Cyber invests in U.S.scent firm HONG KONG, Feb 1 (Reuters) - Hong Kong technology firm Pacific Century CyberWorks Ltd (PCCW) had acquired a 12.5 percent stake in DigiScents Inc of the United States for US$10 million in cash, DigiScents said in a statement.
DigiScents, a private corporation founded in February 1999 and located in Oakland, California, offers a solution for digitizing and broadcasting scents over the Internet.
With the latest strategic cooperation, PCCW unit Pacific Century Convergence would bring DigiScents' digital scent technology to the Asia-Pacific market via its fully converged broadband digital video and Internet service to be launched in mid-2000, the U.S. firm said. With the digital scent technology, users of digital media can smell an image with a computer
speaker-sized device.
DigiScents said it would unveil its ScentStream software and iSmell computer peripheral device in the coming months, bringing scent to web sites, DVDs, games and other digital media. ((Hong Kong Newsroom +852 2843-6590, Fax +852 2845-0636 hongkong.newsroom@reuters.com)) .
Pac Cent Cyber invests in U.S.scent firm HONG KONG, Feb 1 (Reuters) - Hong Kong technology firm Pacific Century CyberWorks Ltd (PCCW) had acquired a 12.5 percent stake in DigiScents Inc of the United States for US$10 million in cash, DigiScents said in a statement.
DigiScents, a private corporation founded in February 1999 and located in Oakland, California, offers a solution for digitizing and broadcasting scents over the Internet.
With the latest strategic cooperation, PCCW unit Pacific Century Convergence would bring DigiScents' digital scent technology to the Asia-Pacific market via its fully converged broadband digital video and Internet service to be launched in mid-2000, the U.S. firm said. With the digital scent technology, users of digital media can smell an image with a computer
speaker-sized device.
DigiScents said it would unveil its ScentStream software and iSmell computer peripheral device in the coming months, bringing scent to web sites, DVDs, games and other digital media. ((Hong Kong Newsroom +852 2843-6590, Fax +852 2845-0636 hongkong.newsroom@reuters.com)) .
