Feb., 26 -- PRNewswire / AsiaNet
STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP...
MUMBAI & BOSTON, Mass.: India-based Tata Interactive Systems (TIS), one of the world's largest custom e-learning companies and Acadient, a leading developer and distributor of online education, Thursday announced a strategic partnership.
http://www.acadient.com
http://www.tata.com
http://www.tatainteractive.com
INTERMOST CORPORATION...
SHENZHEN: Intermost Corporation is pleased to announce that it was a featured company interviewed by the Wall Street Reporter Magazine. Mr. Andy Lin, its CEO, talked about the business direction, current events, growth strategies and other developments of the company.
http://www.intermost.com
http://www.wallstreetreporter.com/profiles/IntermostCorporation.html
KID CASTLE...
TAIPEI: Kid Castle Educational Corporation celebrates the opening of its 100th Kid Castle franchise school in China's ChanChung city, Jilin province.
PLASMA CONVERTER...
WILTON, Conn.: Startech Environmental Corporation, a fully reporting company, Thursday announced that it has successfully completed the upgrades and modifications of the 5 ton-per-day Plasma Converter for Mihama Inc. in Japan.
http://www.startech.net
CASA ACCREDITATION...
QUEENSLAND: Queensland company, GeoSim Technologies Pty Ltd (GeoSim), has today secured accreditation from CASA (Australian Civil Aviation Safety Authority) for the GeoSim Rotor Wing Synthetic Trainer.
www.sd.qld.gov.au/aviation2004
AUSTRALIAN AIRLINES...
QUEENSLAND: Australian Airlines has created 400 jobs for Cairns in three years, surging past its original target of 300 jobs for the Far North of the State, Minister for State Development and Innovation, Tony McGrady, announced Thursday.
www.sd.qld.gov.au/aviation2004
BOARD APPOINTMENT...
HAMILTON: W.P. Stewart & Co., Ltd. Thursday announced that Angus S. King, Jr. has been appointed to the Board of Directors of the Company, effective immediately.
http://www.wpstewart.com
NEW ALLIANCE...
CANNES: A new alliance was launched Thursday at the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes to accelerate the growing success of UMTS TDD as the leading standard for delivering wide-area wireless broadband and other high-speed packet based services.
http://www.umtstdd.org
3D CORE...
CANNES: NVIDIA Corporation, the worldwide leader in visual processing solutions, Thursday announced the immediate availability of the AR10 3D core for use in cellular handsets.
http://www.nvidia.com
MEDIA PROCESSORS...
CANNES: NVIDIA Corporation, the worldwide leader in visual processing solutions, Wednesday raised the bar for multimedia functionality and power consumption in the cell phone market with the introduction of the NVIDIA GoForce 4000 and GoForce 3000 series of media processors.
http://www.nvidia.com
EMAIL SOLUTIONS...
CANNES: Visto Corporation, the leading provider of personal and corporate mobile messaging solutions to wireless operators for the broadest set of mobile device platforms, Wednesday announced that it has signed a preferred partnership agreement with Microsoft to promote and market its Visto Mobile Personal Edition mobile email/PIM solution jointly to mobile operators.
http://www.visto.com
MESSAGING GATEWAY...
HONG KONG: Redknee Inc., the market leader in open architecture wireless solutions, Wednesday announced that SmarTone Mobile Communications Limited, Hong Kong's leading mobile network operator in data services, has deployed Redknee's Synaxis(TM) Enhanced Messaging Gateway (EMG) solution.
http://www.redknee.com
ROBOT DECLARATION...
FUKUOKA: Confident of the future development of robot technology and of the numerous contributions that robots will make to mankind, the International Robot Fair 2004 in Fukuoka Japan has issued the World Robot Declaration.
http://www.robotfair2004.com/english/outline.htm
PEERING SINGAPORE...
SINGAPORE: Asia's largest telco-independent Internet Communications Service Provider, Pacific Internet or PacNet, Wednesday announced that it is leading a group of seven international leading GRX (GPRS Roaming Exchange) providers to commercially launch Asia's first neutral Peering Point for GPRS roaming, Peering Singapore.
www.pacnet.com
www.idanews.gov.sg
www.gsmworld.com
GAMETRAC DEVICE...
LONDON: Collaboration with Microsoft Corp.'s Embedded Devices Group will showcase the much-anticipated gaming device in crucial markets to demonstrate the types of cutting-edge devices that partners are building on the Windows CE.NET operating system. Asian markets are scheduled next in Tiger Telematics' on-going, pre-launch promotion of Gametrac, the multi-functional mobile gaming device.
http://www.gametrac.com
http://www.tigertelematics.com
PEACE PRIZE...
TOKYO: The Niwano Peace Foundation has decided to award the 21st Niwano Peace Price to the Acholi Religious Leaders' Peace Initiative (ARLPI), which works to promote an end to conflict, the defense of social justice and human rights and the peaceful coexistence of different peoples in the East African country of Uganda.
http://www.npf.or.jp/npf/index_e.html
SHAREHOLDER VOTE...
HONG KONG & VANCOUVER: CDC Software Corporation, a software unit of chinadotcom corporation, and Pivotal Corporation Wednesday announced that Pivotal's shareholders and optionholders have passed resolutions in support of the proposed arrangement under Section 252 of the Company Act (British Columbia) involving Pivotal, Pivotal shareholders, Pivotal optionholders and CDC Software.
http://www.corp.china.com
http://www.pivotal.com
CHINADOTCOM APPOINTMENT...
HONG KONG: chinadotcom corporation, a leading integrated enterprise software and mobile applications company in China and internationally, Wednesday announced that its mobile and portal unit appointed Mr. Paul Jin Baoqi as General Manager of its portal unit.
http://www.corp.china.com
IC SHOWCASE...
HONG KONG: Global Sources Ltd. will host the 9th Annual International IC-China Conference & Exhibition (IIC-China) co-located with the 4th Annual Embedded Systems Conferences-China in Shanghai on March 1 and 2, Beijing on March 4 and 5, and Shenzhen on March 8 and 9.
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