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 (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.)