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
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