SYDNEY, Sept. 10 -- AsiaNet NEW CEO... NEW YORK: Investment Technology Group, Inc. has appointedRaymond L. Killian, Jr. as its new president and chiefexecutive officer, effective immediately, according to a pressrelease. www.itginc.com DIGITAL APPLIANCES... TAIPEI: Nextest Systems Corporation, a leader in themanufacture of automatic test equipment for cost-sensitivesemiconductors, will showcase its recently introduced Magnumtest system at Semicon/Taiwan from September 13-15, a mediastatement said. www.nextest.com DISK STORAGE... INTEL DEVELOPER FORUM, SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.: Marvell, atechnology leader in the development of extreme broadbandcommunications and storage solutions, has unveiled the firstSystem On Chip device supporting the new CE-ATA specification,a new storage interface tailored to the needs of the handheldand consumer electronics market, according to a pressrelease. www.marvell.com SEMICONDUCTOR GROWTH... EL SEGUNDO, Calif.: Worldwide semiconductor revenue growthis starting to slow in the second half of 2004, promptingiSuppli Corp. to trim its chip forecast for 2005, a mediastatement said. www.isuppli.com VOIP KOREA... PARIS: NetCentrex, the leading enabler of convergedvoice-video-data and next-generation services, and Belco, theleading Korean designer and manufacturer of VoIP customerpremise equipment solutions, have signed a partnershipagreement enabling Belco to distribute NetCentrex solutionssuch as IP Centrex, Multiservice VPN, Business Trunking andResidential Broadband Communications, according to a pressrelease. www.netcentrex.net www.belco.co.kr ECONOMIC PROMOTION... SHANGHAI: The Canton of Geneva's Economic Promotion trip ledby Minister Carlo Lamprecht and organized by the Swiss CentreShanghai and the Geneva Chamber of Commerce has helped Genevaheadquartered company WISeKey establish business relations andcontracts with China, a media statement said. www.wisekey.ch OUTSOURCING SOLUTIONS... BUFFALO, N.Y. & ISELIN, N.J.: CTG, a US-based, internationalinformation technology services company, and Polaris SoftwareLab, a leading global provider of banking, insurance andfinancial technology solutions and strategic offshore ITservices, have entered into a strategic alliance to supportbanking, financial services, and insurance clients in theUnited States and Europe, according to a press release. www.polaris.co.in www.ctg.com HILTON XIAMEN... SHANGHAI & SINGAPORE: Xiamen's top city officials joinedforces with Hilton International and property developer XiamenVast Art Industries Co Ltd. to officially mark the start ofwork on the 30-storey, 410-room Hilton Xiamen, a mediastatement said. (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agenciesdistributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.)--InfoQuest (PP)--