SYDNEY, Oct. 12 -- AsiaNet GIZMONDO GAMES... LONDON: Gizmondo Europe Ltd, subsidiary of Jacksonville,Florida-based Tiger Telematics Inc, announced the signing of acontract with SCi Entertainment Group Plc (SCi), a gamespublisher, under which Gizmondo has licensed the rights todevelop and publish twelve SCi products for the new Gizmondoplatform. http://www.gizmondo.com http://www.tigertelematics.com MICREL INC... SAN JOSE, Calif: Micrel Inc. has launched the MIC5319, a new500mA low dropout regulator (LDO) for higher-current loads inportable electronic devices including cellular phones, PDAs,PCs and consumer electronics. http://www.micrel.com PIRACY AHOY... NEW DELHI: Corel Corporation, a provider of graphics, officeand personal productivity software, announced that it hadappointed law firm Saikrishna and Associates to support itsrenewed campaign against piracy. http://www.corel.com SARS BREAKTHROUGH... SAN DIEGO, Calif. & HONG KONG: ChemBridge Corporation andthe University of Hong Kong (HKU) recently announced abreakthrough in the early stages of research in the fightagainst Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), thecoronavirus infection that affected over 8,000 people, killingover 800, mainly in Hong Kong and China, during the periodApril-June 2003. http://www.chembridge.com VIRTELA COMMUNICATIONS... DENVER, Colo: Virtela Communications Inc., a networksolutions company, announced that it has launched theindustry's first MPLS service with automatic failover tomultiple carrier networks, the MPLS Service Fabric(MPSF-SF(SM)). http://www.virtela.net SOLUTIA INC... ST. LOUIS, Mo: Solutia Inc., a global supplier of films forlaminated glass, confirmed that the continued growth in demandfor polyvinyl butyral (PVB) interlayer has accelerated the needto invest in new capacity in order to meet its customers'future needs and assure supply reliability. http://www.solutia.com CALIFORNIA MICRO... MILPITAS, Calif: California Micro Devices today announcedthe CM1218 and CM1219, the industry's lowest capacitancefamilies of Zener diode arrays for electrostatic discharge(ESD) protection. www.calmicro.com (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agenciesdistributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.)--InfoQuest (PP)--