Feb., 19 -- PRNewswire / AsiaNetING APPOINTMENT... HONG KONG: ING has appointed Gopal Menon as head of the Financial Institutions Group, effective immediately. He reports to Malcolm Brown, Head of Investment Banking, Asia.BERMUDA BANK... HONG KONG: At a Special General Meeting of The Bank of Bermuda Limited held today, the resolution to approve the amalgamation of Bank of Bermuda with a wholly-owned subsidiary of HSBC Holdings plc was duly passed on a poll.SKUNKWORKS AUSTRALIA... HONOLULU: SkunkWorks Australia today announced the implementation of Telco Perl in its renowned Whirlwind telephony toolkit at the Aculab communications exchange (ACE) in Hawaii.YOURAMIGO PRODUCT... NEW YORK: Search engine innovator YourAmigo today announced a new online marketing product considered the Holy Grail of search engine marketing for any website using e-commerce product databases. www.youramigo.comITALIAN COWS... ZURICH: Prionics AG has made an announcement regarding the discovery of a new form of mad cow disease in Italy. www.prionics.chKOMAG INCORPORATED... SAN JOSE, Calif: Komag, Incorporated announced today that it has successfully completed the development of a proof-of-principle discrete track recording (DTR) patterned magnetic disk. www.komag.comVIDEO TELEPHONY... NEW YORK & OSLO: TANDBERG announced today that as a result of a two year strategic partnership and cross licensing of technologies with Cisco Systems, Inc., it now delivers a solution that integrates with Cisco Systems' recently announced video telephony solution. www.tandberg.netCHINESE TELECOMS... CAMBRIDGE: China Telecom Research Institute (CTRI) has recently licensed the STEM network investment model as a tool for modelling the economics of new service offerings in the fast-growing Chinese telecoms market. www.analysys.comFRAPORT AG... FRANKFURT: Fraport AG (FRA) regrets that the members of the SFK Accident Commission did not take the time to reviewthoroughly the opinion of the Airport Working Group. www.fraport.de (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.)