SYDNEY, Feb. 1--AsiaNet/InfoQuest
NEW SURVEY...
SINGAPORE: According to Shunra, a Growing Number of IT
Professionals are Optimising Distributed Application
Performance by Bringing the Application and Network Together
During All Phases of the Development Lifecycle.
http://www.shunra.com
CUSTOM HOUSE...
VICTORIA, B.C.:In an effort to show their continued support
and tell Canada's hard working IRB 7s how proud they really are
to sponsor them, Custom House had the whole team over for
dessert this weekend at the Taylor's home (Ian Taylor and
family) in Victoria. The IRB 7s have wrapped up practice
sessions at the Shawnigan Lake training site on their way to
the next leg of the tour to Wellington, NZ, followed by Los
Angeles.
www.customhouse.com
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT...
VICTORIA, B.C.: Peter Gustavson, President, CEO & Founder of
Custom House Global Foreign Exchange www.customhouse.com has
won the 'Lifetime Achievement Award' in the fifth annual
Vancouver Island Business Excellence Awards.
www.customhouse.com
NEW OFFICE...
DALLAS: Affiliated Computer Services, Inc., a FORTUNE 500
company and premier provider of business process and
information technology outsourcing solutions, announced today
the opening of a new global services center in Tianjin, P.R.
China, supporting business process outsourcing and information
technology services.
http://www.acs-inc.com
PROPOSAL ANNOUNCED...
RIO DE JANEIRO: Companhia Vale do Rio Doce announces that
its Executive Officers will submit to the Board of Directors a
proposal for payment of a minimum dividend of US$ 1 billion to
shareholders for the year 2005. This corresponds to US$ 0.87
per outstanding share -- common or preferred. The payment would
be made in two equal installments, on April 29 and October 31,
2005.
http://www.cvrd.com.br
RESIDENTIAL VOIP...
GAITHERSBURG: BroadSoft, the world's premier provider of
VoIP application software, today announced that iiNet Limited
has selected BroadSoft's BroadWorks VoIP application software
to support its residential VoIP offering. Mixing the latest in
advanced features with competitive pricing, iiNet's VoIP
service will launch in Australia by mid year.
http://www.broadsoft.com
http://www.iinet.net.au
ENERGY SYSTEM...
VICTORIA: Located two-hours northwest of Manila, Subic Bay
in the Philippines is a unique location undergoing some big
changes. As part of an extensive upgrade of the Subic Bay
Freeport Zone's electrical distribution system, Subic Enerzone
Corporation has installed an enterprise energy management
system from Power Measurement.
www.pwrm.com
WIRELESS DEVICES...
SAN JOSE: Micrel Inc., an industry leader in Power, Connect
and Protect IC solutions, today launched the MIC2555, a USB
On-The-Go transceiver chip that enables point-to-point
communications, without the use of a PC, between USB devices
such as cell phones, digital cameras, printers and PDAs.
http://www.micrel.com
MARKETING, SALES...
TOKYO: IPFlex Inc. announced the company has started
marketing and sales activities for its DAPDNA-2* dynamically
reconfigurable processor**, DAPDNA-FW II Integrated Development
Environment Software, and DAPDNA-EB5 Evaluation Kit, in
overseas markets from January 2005, based on a strong sales
performance in Japan.
http://www.ipflex.com
TERASEN PIPELINES...
CALGARY: Terasen Pipelines is pleased to announce that it
has received strong support from 17 different parties including
existing and new customers to proceed to the next phase of the
Trans Mountain system expansion project. The TMX Project will
provide additional pipeline capacity to the west coast and
offshore markets for growing oil sands production.
http://pipelines.terasen.com/tmx
SMART BATTERY...
SAN JOSE: Atmel Corporation, a global leader in the
development and fabrication of advanced semiconductor
solutions, announced today the ATmega406, the first
high-voltage technology AVR microcontroller implementing full
2-4 cell Lithium Ion smart battery monitoring and protection on
a single chip.
http://www.atmel.com
MBA SCHOLARSHIPS...
SINGAPORE: INSEAD, the global business school, announced on
January 25 that the MBA scholarships awarded to its class
graduating in December 2005. Scholarships for this class
exceeded one million Euros -- meaning the school has awarded
over two million Euros in scholarships for the 2004/2005
academic year. This is double the amount awarded in previous
academic years.
PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT...
SAN JOSE: Intransa, the global leader in enterprise IP SAN
storage systems, announced a partnership agreement with
NorthStar InfoSys, one of Southeast Asia's leading IT services
firms.
http://www.northstar-infosys.com/
http://www.intransa.com/
HARD DRIVES...
LAKE FOREST: Serving a rapidly expanding base of customers
for mass storage, Western Digital Corp. announced that the
company will enter the market for miniature hard drives with a
family of 1-inch drives that enable a variety of handheld
consumer devices, which are experiencing explosive demand.
http://www.westerndigital.com
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