SYDNEY, July 20 -- AsiaNet
LEADERS QUADRANT...
TAIPEI: BEA Systems, Inc. Tuesday announced that it has been listed in the
Leaders Quadrant of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Platform Suites.
http://www.bea.com
http://www.gartner.com
ING APPOINTMENT...
BANGKOK: ING Tuesday announced the appointment of Stephen Briones as Country
Head of Thailand. He reports to John Howland-Jackson, Head of Wholesale
Relationship Management, Asia and David Hudson, CEO of ING Bank, Asia.
FIRST PRODUCTION...
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla.: Kerr-McGee China Petroleum, Ltd., a wholly owned
affiliate of Kerr-McGee Corp., Tuesday announced that it achieved first
production from four wells at its development of the CFD 11-1 and CFD 11-2
fields on block 04/36 in Bohai Bay, China, on July 18.
http://www.kerr-mcgee.com
OIL FIELDS...
HONG KONG: CNOOC Limited Tuesday announced that Caofeidian 11-1/11-2 have
come on stream successfully ahead of schedule.
Q2 RESULTS...
SINGAPORE: Asia's largest telco- independent Internet communications service
provider by geographic reach, Pacific Internet Limited or PacNet, plans to
issue its second quarter 2004 earnings release on 11 August 2004 (US Eastern
Time).
http://www.pacnet.com
MONEY MARKET...
SYDNEY: Charles River Development, a leading provider of financial software
and consulting services to the global investment management, banking, pension
and insurance industries, Tuesday announced that BT Financial Group (BT), has
expanded its use of the Charles River Investment Management System (Charles
River IMS) to include fixed interest and money market trading and compliance.
http://www.crd.com
STAFFING MANAGEMENT...
MELBOURNE: Taleo Corporation, a leading provider of enterprise staffing
management solutions, announced recently that Alexander Mann Solutions (AMS)
selected Taleo on behalf of its major new partner, ANZ.
http://www.taleo.com
FANNIE MAE...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of two
securities issues amounting to a total of US$300 million on July 29, 2004 at a
redemption price equal to 100 percent of the principal amount redeemed plus
accrued interest.
http://www.fanniemae.com
SUPPORT OFFICE...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.: Catapult Communications Corporation Monday announced
the opening of a sales and support office in Shanghai, China.
http://www.catapult.com
MEDIA ADVISORY...
REDMOND, Washington: AT&T Wireless chairman and CEO John Zeglis will host a
news teleconference beginning at 12:00 p.m. EDT (9:00 PDT) on Tuesday, July 20
to announce and discuss an innovative new wireless service offer.
EURAND AWARD...
MILAN, Italy: Eurand, a specialty pharmaceutical company, and the Controlled
Release Society (CRS) Monday announced the winners of the 2004 Eurand Award
Program, which honors innovation in oral drug delivery.
http://www.eurand.com
ASSET ACQUISITION...
LAWRENCEVILLE, N.J.: Datacolor Tuesday announced the acquisition of all
assets of privately held Milori, Inc. which develops and sells color
calibration systems for the projection and presentation markets.
http://www.datacolor.com
REGIONAL DISTRIBUTOR...
FREMONT, Calif. and HONG KONG: Lexar Media, Inc., a leading marketer and
manufacturer of high-performance digital media and accessories, Monday
announced the opening of a sales and marketing office in Hong Kong, the
company's first regional office dedicated to expanding its business in Greater
China.
http://www.lexarmedia.com
NETWORKING INFRASTRUCTURE...
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.: CNT, the global expert in storage networking solutions,
Monday announced the UltraNet Multi-service Director (UMD), a new generation
storage networking infrastructure platform that delivers unmatched performance
capabilities and provides the industry's highest levels of scalability,
flexibility, and serviceability to support SAN consolidation, tiered storage/
ILM and utility computing.
http://www.cnt.com
CONFIGURATION STORAGE...
SAN JOSE, Calif.: Atmel Corporation Monday introduced the only commercially
available FPGA configuration ICs to provide single-chip configuration storage
for FPGAs with as many as 8-million gates.
http://www.atmel.com
REALE PARTNERSHIP...
WALLINGFORD, Conn.: Mangrove Systems, developer of the industry's first
metro and access solution to enable end-to-end MPLS, Monday announced a
technology integration and resale partnership with Ahead Communications
Systems, Inc., a leading provider of multi-service switching solutions.
http://www.mangrovesystems.com
DATA ACCESS...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.: Bytemobile, the company dedicated to delivering pure,
optimized access to network operators, service providers and enterprises,
Monday announced that it has joined the Symbian Platinum Program to support the
growing market for smartphones based on Symbian OS.
http://www.bytemobile.com
http://www.symbian.com
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