Oct 19--PRNewswire/AsiaNetMUSIC VIDEO... TOKYO: Roxio, the Digital Media Company and Virgin Records today announced that consumers will be able to download and burn from MTV.com and VHI.com the soon-to-be-released Lenny Kravitz music video "Dig In."FEATURE FILM... CALIFORNIA: Debuting her new company, writer/director Britt Allcroft has inked a deal with author Sam Kashner optioning his acclaimed novel,"Sinatraland" to be made into a feature film, according to a media statement released on her behalf today.ASIAN PRESENCE... HONG KONG: The Boeing Company said today it has opened a new office in Hong Kong "in an effort to expand its operations in the Asia-Pacific region and to get closer to customers in Asian business centres."CABLE AGREEMENT... GEORGIA: Scientific Atlanta said today it had signed an agreement with Japanese cable operator Tomen Mediacom, branded as Mediatti, to purchase set-tops, digital headed and interactive applications for the launch of Japan's first interactive TV cable system.COMMUNICATIONS SUPPORT... CALIFORNIA: TCSI, provider of software products and services for the global telecom industry, said today it was "at the heart of supporting Shanghai Telecom to manage its data communications network" at this week's forum of Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) nations.CLIENT CONFERENCE... SYDNEY: IT and business process sourcing advisory services provider, TPI Inc, said today it was sponsoring on October 23 and 24 at the Sheraton Hotel, Melbourne, "a conference focused on helping its clients create and maintain a high performance environment for managing their outsourcing relationships." DEALERSHIP SYSTEM... SYDNEY: Automotive industry IT developer Infomedia Ltd said today it has released AutoLedgers, its online Dealership Management System (DMS) "designed to provide automotive dealerships with a break-through value-for-money method of managing their business."PATENT GRANTED... MICHIGAN: Genomic Solutions announced today that the US Patent and Trademark Office has awarded the company a patent entitled "Apparatus and method of carrying out flow through chemistry of multiple mixtures." The patent described a device and techniques to facilitate processing of solid-liquid mixtures in high throughput proteomic research.JOINT VENTURE... AUCKLAND: Fonterra Co-operative Group Ltd and Arla Foods AmbA, Europe's largest dairy co-operative group, have announced plans for a new joint venture in the United Kingdom's "highly-competitive yellow fats market" -subject to approval by the UK's Office of Fair Trading. In a separate release, Fonterra said it has "made an external appointment to its top strategy job. Alexander Toldte, a German citizen who has extensive international business experience with McKinsey & Company and New Zealand experience as a leader of Fletcher companies, will be Chief Development Officer and Managing Director of Fonterra Enterprises."EARNINGS RESULTS... CALIFORNIA: Komag, producer of media for disk drives, today announced an operating loss for the third quarter of $USM19.8. The company said this was "a marked improvement compared to the proforma operating loss of $M24.6 in the second quarter of 2001. CALIFORNIA: Callaway Golf Company today reported third quarter and nine months operating results and announced record sales of $USM.710.9 for the year. The company said excluding an after-tax, non-cash ccounting charge, operating results exceeded consensus estimates for the quarter. (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).