What's new at CeBIT?

Hannover...When it opens, CeBIT 2001 will set another new record with more than 8,015 exhibitors (up from 7802) registering for some 422,109 m² of net display space. The 16-year-old exhibition fills up Hannover Fairgrounds' one-square-kilometer footprint. With more and more visitors attending CeBIT every year, Deutsche Messe AG has opted to once again make CeBIT an eight-day, Wednesday-to-Wednesday event in 2002. Here's a preview of some of the interesting products & technologies you can see this year! Yamaha will show the CRW2100 with world's first 16X Write Speed and the fastest Rewrite and Read speeds. Hall 12, Stand C50. www.yamaha-yste.com See the Waitec CLIPP, the first CD Recorder capable of playing back MP3 audio. Hall 12, Stand C16. www.waitec.com To add to their DVD-RAM 5.2GB, Fujifilm introduces DVD-RAM 4.7GB and 9.4GB with a storage capacity of 4.7GB on a single-sided and 9.4GB on the double sided version. Hall 12, Booth D21. www.fuji-magnetics.de Eurobridge will be having a Brazilian- and a Cuban standparties. Guided by Brazilian music, samba dancers will provide exotic dances. On Monday the mood will be in the Cuban style. You can enjoy yourself by having a cocktail, an original Havana cigar and by listening to relaxing music. Eurobridge, a pan European ‘Distributor in Action’ supplies its clients with CPU’s, memory modules, storage-, and retrieval products. Hall 13, Stand A21. www.eurobridgeinfo.co German Formula One racing driver Heinz-Harald Frentzen discusses both IT trends and Formula 1 at the Imation stand on the 23rd of March. He will explain to the public the significance of modern data storage products for Formula One racing, as well as take time to sign autographs for his many fans. Imation will be announcing their new developments for the Networking Environments (Imation Black Watch Ultrium cartridges with up to 200 gigabytes/ Imation S-DLT 110 gigabyte magnetic tape cartridges/ Travan FireWire – Fast, Reliable Tape Backup for Digital Video, Graphics Applications SLR7 – which offers the best in class price/performance tape drive in the 20/40 GB segment / TapeStor – 20 GB backup system right on the desktop/ ImationSAN lab offers independent testing facilities for storage networks. Hall 12, Stand C29. www.imation.com Flamingo International is a new regional distribution model for the Balkans and the EE emerging markets. The Company is headquartered in Bucharest and operates directly in six EE countries: Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Macedonia and Moldova (with new subsidiaries this year in Yugoslavia and Bosnia&Herzegovina). The first time as a CeBIT exhibitor, Flamingo wants to meet with its EE dealer chain and establish new business contacts with resellers in the region. The company will have a booth in Hall 10 and a hospitality suite on roof of Hall 1 for accommodating the East European partners, vendors and the IT press. Hall 10, Floor 4, Booth 403. www.flamingo.ro/company