SYDNEY, Oct. 21 --AsiaNet/InfoQuest
RACING TEAM...
TAIPEI: Building on the third-place finish of its driver in Class B of the Porsche Infineon Carrera Cup Asia (PICCA) race in Shanghai, Scott Miau, the
driver Mio Technology sponsored won the 3rd place again in the PICCA event
which took place on October 16 and 17 at Korea's Taebaek Circuit.
http://www.mio-tech.com
STRATEGIC FORUM...
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.: Following the success of its Strategic Forums in
Asia, the world's leading business news and information network CNBC, together
with Asia's leading telecom player SingTel, takes an in-depth look at how IT
professionals can expand their businesses into China and India at a business
event held Wednesday in San Francisco.
http://www.cnbcasia.com
http://www.singtel.com
http://www.optus.com.au
NEW FOOTAGE...
TOKYO: Warner Bros. Pictures International Wednesday announced that it will
offer new footage from the highly anticipated upcoming release, Ocean's 12.
MANAGEMENT SYSTEM...
TOKYO: IBM Japan, Ltd. Wednesday announced that Suruga Bank Ltd has adopted
its Next Evolution in Financial Services Systems (NEFSS) for the bank's new
management systems.
http://www.surugabank.co.jp
http://www.ibm.com/solutions/financialservices
ADVISOR RETAINED...
JOHANNESBURG: Harmony Gold Mining Company Limited Wednesday announced that
it has retained Merrill Lynch as co-financial advisor in its campaign to win
shareholder support for its bid to create the world's largest gold producer.
FUTURESTEP SERVICE...
LOS ANGELES, Calif.: New York-listed Korn/Ferry International, the premier
provider of executive search and leadership development solutions, Wednesday
announced the introduction of Futurestep into Shanghai, China.
http://www.futurestep.com
http://www.kornferry.com
MMI SOLUTIONS...
ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill. and JERUSALEM: PrairieComm, Inc., a leading developer and supplier of 3G-baseband processors and communications software, and e-SIM, a leading provider of MMI (Man Machine Interface) solutions for mobile platform suppliers and device manufacturers, Tuesday announced that they have signed an agreement to bundle e-SIM's MMI Solution with PrairieComm's FronTier 3G platforms.
http://www.prairiecomm.com
http://www.e-sim.com
FANNIE MAE...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of four
securities issues amounting to a total of US$175 million on Oct 29, 2004 at a
redemption price equal to 100 percent of the principal amount redeemed plus
accrued interest.
http://www.fanniemae.com
NEW MEMBER...
STOCKHOLM: Intentia International AB announced that Tuesda's extraordinary
general shareholders' meeting (EGM) elected Paul Wahl, an independent industry
expert, as a new member of the board and resolved to adjust annual remuneration
for board members from SEK 800,000 to SEK 1.1 million.
http://www.intentia.com
DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENT...
BOCA RATON, Fla.: AdSouth Partners Tuesday announced that it has entered
into an exclusive agreement with Simon Solutions of Paris to exclusively market
their products in the United States featuring Pamela Anderson as the
spokesperson.
http://www.thelipsolution.com
http://www.dermafresh.com
MEDIA FIREWALL...
BOSTON, Mass.: Brooktrout Technology, Inc., a leading supplier of media
processing and call control products, Tuesday announced that NEC, one of the
world's leading providers of Internet, broadband network and enterprise
business solutions, selected Brooktrout's SnowShore Media Firewall to enhance
its capabilities for IP-to-IP network connectivity.
http://www.brooktrout.com
http://www.nec.com
MEDIA PROCESSOR...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.: NVIDIA Corporation, a worldwide leader in graphics and
digital media processors, Tuesday introduced the NVIDIA nForce4 media and
communication processors (MCPs), the company's new family of high-performance
PCI Express-based MCPs for AMD64 computing environments.
http://www.nvidia.com
MOBILE HANDSETS...
SAN JOSE, Calif.: Atmel Corporation, a global leader in the development and
fabrication of advanced semiconductor solutions, and IPWireless Tuesday
announced that they have collaborated, along with an Original Equipment
Manufactures (OEM), to develop a UMTS TDD mobile handset.
http://www.ipwireless.com
http://www.atmel.com
FLASH MICROCONTROLLER...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.: Nasdaq-listed Atmel Corporation has launched the
world's first family of ARM7-based flash microcontrollers with prices starting
at less then $3, targeted at 8-bit applications.
http://www.atmel.com
CHINA CONTRACTS...
HONG KONG: Lucent Technologies Tuesday announced a series of contracts
totaling $107 million with China Unicom's provincial subsidiaries in Zhejiang,
Shaanxi and Liaoning for their CDMA network expansion projects.
http://www.lucent.com
http://www.lucent.com.cn
IP-VPN SERVICE...
READING: Axiom Systems Ltd, a leading provider of service fulfilment
solutions, Tuesday announced that Telecom New Zealand has selected the
company's pre-packaged solution, Faststream for IP-VPN, for the automated
delivery of MPLS-based IP-VPN services over its nationwide multi-vendor IP
network.
http://www.axiomsystems.com
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