SYDNEY, May 5 -- AsiaNet 5-YEAR CONTRACT... SYDNEY: Sabre Airline Solutions Wednesday announced a five-year contract with Jet Airways - the Indian domestic market leader - that will take Jet Airways to new heights in the competitive sub-continent. http://www.sabreairlinesolutions.com MULTISERVICE GATEWAY... SEOUL: RAD Data Communications has unveiled at Broadband World Forum Seoul 2004 its new IPmux-11, an Ethernet multiservice gateway for the customer premises. http://www.rad.com ELECTRICITY PURCHASE... RIO DE JANEIRO: Companhia Vale do Rio Doce Wednesday announced that its subsidiary Aluminio do Brasil S.A. -- Albras (ALBRAS), a primary aluminum producer located in the city of Barcarena, in the state of Para, Brazil, has succesfully bid to purchase electricity for a period of 20 years. http://www.cvrd.com.br NEWS CONTENT... TORONTO: Naked News Tuesday announnced that it has just signed a contract with Icemobile BV in the Netherlands, to provide the Naked News content to wireless cell phones and handheld devices. http://www.nakednews.com www.nakednewsdailymale.com LUXE EXPANDS... LOS ANGELES, Calif.: Luxe Worldwide Hotels' President and CEO, Efrem Harkham, Tuesday announced that three distinct properties have joined the organization's portfolio. http://www.luxehotels.com EUROPEAN LAUNCH... MILAN, Italy: Drago Cerchiari, CEO of Sorin Group, announced that ELA Medical, a Sorin Group company, Tuesday launched in Europe the ALTO 2 MSP 627 cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) defibrillator. http://www.sorin.com NVIDIA SHOWCASE... SEATTLE, (WINHEC 2004): NVIDIA Corporation, the worldwide leader in visual processing solutions, Tuesday announced it will demonstrate a variety of technologies and products at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) which will highlight the company's focus on the "Networked Digital Media" experience. http://www.nvidia.com GRAPHICS PROCESSING... SEATTLE, (WINHEC 2004): NVIDIA Corporation, the worldwide leader in visual processing solutions, Tuesday announced that its recently-released GeForce 6 Series of graphics processing units (GPUs) is the first and only graphics hardware platform to take full advantage of Shader Model 3.0, an integral part of Microsoft DirectX 9.0, the advanced programming interface (API) widely used by developers to create cutting-edge gaming experiences. http://www.nvidia.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of two securities issues of US$3,000,000,000 on May 14, 2004 at a redemption price equal to 100 percent of the principal amount redeemed plus accrued interest. http://www.fanniemae.com RAD-HARD FPGA NANTES: Atmel Corporation Tuesday announced the availability of the AT40KEL040, its first rad-hard in-system re-programmable 3.3-Volt FPGA, with built-in Single Event Upset (SEU) protection. http://www.atmel.com PEROT RESULTS... PLANO, Texas: Perot Systems Corporation Tuesday announced financial results for the first quarter of 2004. http://www.sec.gov http://www.perotsystems.com PACNET APPOINTMENTS... SINGAPORE: Asia's largest telco-independent Internet Communications Service Provider by geographic reach, Pacific Internet or PacNet, named three new senior management appointments - Stephen Do, Kevin Lim and Johnny Quah - to further strengthen its corporate and consumer businesses, as well as reinforce existing business systems to create a seamless regional operation. www.pacnet.com GEAC'S SUCCESS... MARKHAM, SINGAPORE & STUDLEY: Geac, a global enterprise software company for Business Performance Management, Tuesday announced that Neil Pryde Ltd., a Hong-Kong based sports equipment manufacturer and marketer, has purchased Geac RunTime SellIT as its Web-enabled ordering system. http://www.geac.com (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.)