Aug 7--PRNewswire/AsiaNetHUMANITY HOMES... ATLANTA: AFC Enterprises and the AFC Enterprises Foundation announced today the company's commitment to build 100 additional Habitat for Humanity homes, beginning with Habitat's annual Jimmy Carter Work Project in South Korea. To date, AFC and its operating companies had built 315 Habitat homes in 12 countries.DEADLINE EXTENDED... VIRGINIA: NeuLevel, registry operator for the .BIZ top-level domain, today announced an extension of the deadline for filing Intellectual Property Claims until August 8, 2001, at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (US). CABLE REPAIR... SYDNEY: Southern Cross Cable Network today confirmed that the repair to its broken cable off the coast of Sydney was ahead of schedule and close to completion. President and CEO, Fiona Black, said: "A return to our normal state as a protected loop network, can't come soon enough." TECHNOLOGY VENTURE... MELBOURNE: A press release said today the pioneer or dendrimer technology, Dr Donald Tomalia, and listed Australian company, Starpharma Pooled Development had agreed to establish a new venture to develop products. Starpharma would invest up to $US2.18 billion.NEGATIVE FILM... KIEL: Lasersoft Imaging said today "the new release of SilverFast Ai 5.5 has the most powerful negative film optimisation yet." NegaFix(R) could handle many types of negative film, grey scale and colour.IMAGING PATENT... CALIFORNIA: TeraLogic today announced that the PicSurf team " has earned its eleventh patent in technologies that facilitate advanced imaging applications." The technology enabled data efficient, low complexity, interactive images across a wide range of data bandwidths, display sizes, and devices. LICENCE AGREEMENT... CALIFORNIA: GTRAN Wireless, Inc., a designer and developer of wireless data products, announced today it had expanded the terms of its existing Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) licence agreement with QUALCOMM to include CDMA2000 1X Evolution (1xEV) development to enable high-speed wireless packet data solutions.FINANCIAL RESULTS... HEIDELBERG: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg) said today it remained firmly on course for continued growthin the first quarter (April 1 to June 30) of the 2001/2002 fiscal year. During this period, sales of the Group had increased by about 8% to 1.1 billion euros compared to 997 million euros in the first quarter of the previous year.SITE MANAGER... MONTREAL: MDS Pharma Services announced today the addition of Dr. Qing-An Jiao to the staff at its China facility in Beijing. Dr. Jiao would serve as site manager, overseeing daily operations of the facility.EXCELLENCE AWARD... HONG KONG: A press statement said today The "Motorola e-LearningVideo", produced by Deansee for Motorola had been awarded the APEX 2001 Grand Award of Excellence in the Video and Electronic Publications category. The international competition, based in the USA, "recognises outstanding publications from newsletters and magazines to annual reports, brochures and web sites."GOLF VICTORY... CALIFORNIA: Callaway Golf said today Staff Professional Colin Montgomerie had earned his third international victory of the 2001 season - the Volvo Scandinavian Masters. "It virtually assures him of a spot on this year's European Ryder Cup team," the company said. (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited, translated press releases for worldwide clients. Contact: www.asianet.com.au for full-text versions).