SYDNEY, Nov.18 -- AsiaNet AUTO-DIMMING MIRRORS... ZEELAND: Gentex Corporation, the leading supplier ofautomatic-dimming mirrors to the worldwide automotive industry,has begun shipping interior automatic-dimming mirrors for the2005 Mark X, Toyota's mid-size luxury sedan. The vehicle is thesuccessor to the Mark II, one of the most popular andbest-selling vehicles in Japan. http://www.gentex.com TELECOM SECTOR... DENVER: Integrated Research, the world's largest supplier ofsystems and application management solutions for HP NonStopservers, has announced that Boston Communications Group, Incwas its beta customer for the development of PROGNOSIS SmartPlug In for HP OpenView. www.bcgi.net www.ir.com. SANTA PARADE... SYDNEY: Popular Disney Channel presenters Scott Cain andAsha Kuerten from Studio Disney will make their Santa Paradedebut in Auckland on Sunday 28 November. The Disney Channel/SKYTelevision float will feature a giant TV screen and some ofDisney Channels best-loved characters, and of course favouritekids TV personalities Scott and Asha will be there too! www.disneychannel.co.nz CONTRACT SIGNED... RIO DE JANIERO: Companhia Vale do Rio Doce, the world'slargest producer of iron ore and POSCO, one of the majorsteelmakers in the world, signed a ten-year contract for thesupply of up to 103 million tons of iron ore fines from April2005 to March 2015. http://www.cvrd.com.br GLOBAL AGING... LONDON: According to a new AARP international opinion leadersurvey released today, most opinion leaders from the leadingindustrialized nations are aware of the coming impact thataging will have on their respective economies. However, theybelieve their countries are not well prepared to deal withpotential implications that may result. This feeling wasespecially prevalent in Italy, Germany and Japan. http://www.aarp.org BAUXITE DEPOSIT... RIO DE JANIERO: Companhia Vale do Rio Doce informs that itwon the international competition promoted by Paranapanema S.A.for the research, evaluation and exploration of the bauxitedeposit in the Pitinga region, Municipality of PresidenteFigueiredo, Amazon State, Brazil. http://www.cvrd.com.br MOBILE SECURITY... COLUMBUS: FB-4, a leading provider of security applicationsfor Symbian based smartphones, today announced it willdistribute its Mobile Guard Security Suite to mobile networksubscribers worldwide using the new Preminet Solution fromNokia. http://www.fb-4.com http://www.nokia.com/preminet CLEARVIEW PROJECTS... PRINCETON: Clearview Projects, Inc. announced today that JanWolpert has joined the company as President & CEO. Mostrecently, Jan was the president, founder and principal owner ofWolpert Associates, Inc., a strategic management consultingfirm specializing in corporate development matters. http://www.clearviewprojects.com PORTABLE ELECTRONICS: SAN JOSE: Atmel Corporation, a global leader in thedevelopment and fabrication of advanced semiconductorsolutions, announced today a complete family ofhigh-performance stacked Flash and Pseudo Static Random AccessMemory module products suitable for applications requiring lowpower and small footprint memories. http://www.atmel.com PHYSICAL EXERCISE: LONDON: Sony Computer Entertainment Europe today announcedthe upcoming release of EyeToy: Kinetic, an innovative newphysical exercise title produced in association with NikeMotionworks. http://www.scee.com http://www.playstation.com http://www.scee.presscentre.com LICENSE AGREEMENT... BEIJING: Motorola, Inc. today announced the signing of aMediaCipher license agreement with DVN Technology Limited, anaffiliate of DVN (Holdings) Limited, China's leading technologyservices provider of state-of-the-art digital TV broadcastplatforms. http://www.dvnholdings.com http://www.motorola.com WIRELESS APPLICATIONS... HONG KONG: Qualcomm Incorporated, pioneer and world leaderof Code Division Multiple Access digital wireless technology,today announced that a number of compelling BREW-based wirelessapplications currently available via operators with CDMA2000 1Xservices, can now be downloaded live and run on the BenQ S80WCDMA/GSM/GPRS dual mode handset. http://www.qualcomm.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.)