SYDNEY, Nov.15 -- AsiaNet QUINTILES TRANSNATIONAL... RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.: Quintiles Transnational Corp.today announced financial results for the quarter ended Sept.30, 2004. Net revenue for third quarter 2004 was $440.1million, an increase of 9 per cent from net revenue of $403.5million for the same period in 2003. http://www.quintiles.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principalamount of three securities issues amounting to a total ofUS$150 million on various dates at a redemption price equal to100 per cent of the principal amount redeemed plus accruedinterest. http://www.fanniemae.com NO ISSUE... WASHINGTON: Fannie Mae has elected not to issue BenchmarkNotes in November. The company currently intends to issueBenchmark securities in accordance with its previouslyannounced calendar for the remainder of the year. http://www.fanniemae.com MOZAMBIQUE BID... RIO DE JANEIRO: Companhia Vale do Rio Doce was declared thewinner of an international bidding process to explore coaldeposits in the Moatize region, north of Mozambique. http://www.cvrd.com.br QUALCOMM ANNOUNCEMENT... HONG KONG: QUALCOMM Incorporated announced the MobileStation Modem chipset and system software to enablecost-effective WCDMA (UMTS) and GSM/GPRS/EDGE solutions. http://www.qualcomm.com TECHNOLOGY MILESTONES... HONG KONG: QUALCOMM Incorporated has announced two industrymilestones. http://www.qualcomm.com MODEM CLIENTS... HONG KONG: QUALCOMM Incorporated today announced that majorinfrastructure vendors, including Airvana, Ericsson, Hitachi,Ltd., Lucent Technologies, Motorola, Nortel Networks andSamsung, have selected QUALCOMM's Cell Site Modem digitalbaseband modem for infrastructure and test equipment to leadglobal efforts to drive adoption of CDMA2000 1xEV-DO Revision A. http://www.qualcomm.com (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agenciesdistributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.)