Miami High Tech, by Miami Today reporter Candice Ventra, condenses the latest news in the Miami Internet and technical worlds.

SUPPLY & DEMAND: SupplySpot.com bills itself as the newly launched Boca Raton-based web portal for the plumbing industry. The site, promoters say, offers a one-stop shop for plumbing materials. Executives say the site is more efficient than the traditional catalog. The company is reaching out to a large market — plumbing and mechanical industries represent $100 billion in sales, only 2% of which is done on the Internet, a company report says.  

MORTGAGE EXPANSION: Mortgage.com, a business-to-business on-line home-financing site in Sunrise, announced the launch of planmax.com. The site allows financial advisors to offer their customers mortgages via the Internet, promoters say. So far, Capital Choice Financial Services, Corporate Benefits Solutions, The Brokerage Resource and Accent Services have started using the service, company executives say.

GOING PLATINUM: Miami-based UnoDosTres.com — a television network site for English-, Spanish- and Portuguese-speakers — will offer a platinum MasterCard in conjunction with Citibank USA. Promoters say the card offers consumers a 0% introductory APR on purchases. Details: (305) 377-1936.

HOME FREE: Yupi.com, a Miami Beach-based Spanish-language search portal, announced a strategic alliance with HomePage.com — a supplier of personalized web page applications for e-business companies. Yupi selected the site to be its exclusive provider of customized home pages services, promoters says.

BANK HELP: Wachovia Corp., parent of Wachovia Bank, plans to offer two-way wireless retail and commercial financial services, promoters say. The company will help customers access real-time account information, transfer funds, pay bills and track stocks via Internet-enabled devices such as digital phones and pagers. Details: www.Wachovia.com.

GLOBAL EXPANSION: New Global Telecom Inc. — a global communications provider from Colorado — expanded operations at 200 SE First Building here. In the building, the company has now leased 32,132 square feet, which translates into three full floors. John Peters of Technology Real Estate and Donna Abood of Abood & Associates represented New Global in the transaction. Details: (305) 538-8558.

MEXICAN PARTNERSHIP: Fiera.com, a Miami-based e-commerce site for Latin America, was selected by Telmex-Microsoft as its preferred e-commerce channel. Mexico-based Telmex-Microsoft is a professional services Spanish-language Internet site. Details: Telmex/Microsoft, www.t1msn.com

MEXICAN ELECTION: Locally based 3Com Corp., a provider of connectivity solutions, supported the Electoral Federal Institute and its efforts to record votes for the recent national federal elections in Mexico, promoters say. The institute used 3Com's Total Control 1000 system to help the institute to connect some 300 electoral districts throughout Mexico via telephone and transmit final voting results to election headquarters. Details: (305) 461-8419

BIGGER BIZNESS: Ft. Lauderdale-based BizProLink.com, an aggregator of application service-provider services for 124 industry sectors, announced the expansion of its business to business network with construction and real estate communities, promoters says. The new community will deliver interactive solutions to small and mid-sized firms. Details: (954) 535-1043.