French software product information specialist CXP International SA has expanded its service offering on the Minitel viewdata system (CI No 2,305), adding its Software Product Comparison reports to the French public service. CXP has included on the Minitel a summary of the conditions under which CXP tested the software (systems used, version of software tested), the CXP consultant’s opinion of the software, functional, technical and commercial characteristics of the software and a graphic representation of the software according to half a dozen axes of evaluation. CXP said it has also enhanced the user interface to its Minitel service by improving the interrogation function by adding a phonetic search function to its 30,000-keyword base; and enabling the user to capture and send the information immediately by facsimile. The company has also published six months worth of research in a new report Telecommunications and Enterprise Networks (Realities and Tendancies). The 400-page report, which is available on demand, covers TCP/IP, SNA and Open Systems Interconnection; client-server; network interconnection; developments in local net equipment; wireless communication; high-speed services; video communications; virtual private networks; and Electronic Data Interchange, among other topics.