SYDNEY, Feb. 15--AsiaNet/InfoQuest NEWEST RELEASE... WALTHAM, Mass.: NetCracker Technology, a leading provider of OSS and IT Infrastructure Management solutions, Tuesday announced that its newest and most comprehensive OSS solution to date, NetCracker 6.0, will be available for general release in March. http://www.netcracker.com KVM SWITCH... TOKYO: Raritan Computer Inc., a leading provider of solutions for managing IT infrastructure equipment and the mission-critical applications and services that run on it, Tuesday expanded its enterprise-class Dominion KX product line by adding the industry's first IP-based KVM (keyboard, video, mouse) switch that supports five concurrent users and up to 32 servers. PEPSICO PRESENTATION... PURCHASE, N.Y.: PepsiCo, Inc. Tuesday announced that Irene Rosenfeld, chairman and chief executive officer of Frito-Lay North America, will present at the Consumer Analyst Group of New York (CAGNY) Conference in Scottsdale, Arizona, at 10:45 am Mountain Time/12:45 pm Eastern Time on Thursday, February 24. http://www.pepsico.com CONSOLE MANAGER... WEST JORDAN, Utah & BRISBANE: Opengear Inc., a new, quality supplier of console server manager and KVM over IP solutions, Tuesday introduced its CM4000 console server suite for small and mid-sized enterprises. http://okvm.sourceforge.net http://www.opengear.com CUSTODY ASSETS... MELBOURNE, SYDNEY & BURLINGTON, Mass.: Charles River Development Tuesday announced it has completed a two-month implementation of Charles River Compliance at RBC Global Services Australia (RBC) for monitoring its A$17 billion assets held in custody. http://www.crd.com SOLID RESULTS... MILAN, Italy: The Board of Directors of Sorin SpA has approved the report on operations in the fourth quarter of 2004, showing 3.8 per cent on-year rise in group revenues to 188 million euros and 12 per cent on-year increase in EBITDA to 18.6 million euros. http://www.sorin.com HEALTH RECORD... OTTAWA: DINMAR, a leading North American healthcare information technology company, Monday announced that in a large-scale effort to consolidate, streamline, and improve the electronic flow of patient information across numerous systems, the Montreal-based McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) and CHUM have collaborated with each other and have signed an agreement to implement DINMAR's Oacis EHR as their electronic health record system. http://www.dinmar.com BENCHMARK NOTES... WASHINGTON: Fannie Mae Monday announced that it would begin repurchasing six outstanding Noncallable Benchmark Securities issues on Tuesday, February 15, 2005. http://www.fanniemae.com MOBILE HANDSET... CANNES, France: In response to demand from emerging markets, the GSM Association (GSMA) is forging the way toward a new 'Ultra-Low Cost' mobile handset market segment aimed initially at a sub US$40 cost price. http://www.gsmworld.com/emh/industry.html http://www.gsmworld.com/news/boilerplate.html GENETIC RESOURCES... BANGKOK: The Australian APEC Study Centre has released a report showing how proposals for a patent-based regime to regulate access to genetic resources could inhibit efforts to protect biodiversity and undermine health in developing countries. FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of one securities issue of US$100 million on Feb 24, 2005 at a redemption price equal to 100 percent of the principal amount redeemed plus accrued interest. http://www.fanniemae.com PORT PROTECTION... MILPITAS, Calif.: California Micro Devices Monday announced the MediaGuard family of port protection solutions for high speed HDMI (High Definition Multimedia Interface) and DVI (Digital Visual Interface) interfaces in digital consumer devices such as digital TVs, DVD and recordable DVD players, flat panel monitors and set top boxes. http://www.calmicro.com LICENSE AGREEMENT... SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.: OpenTV Corp., one of the world's leading interactive television companies, Tuesday announced that it signed a first of its kind license agreement with Australia's prominent free-to-air broadcaster Channel Nine to initially install two OpenTV headend solutions consisting of OpenTV Streamer and OpenTV H20. http://www.opentv.com CYPHER MILESTONE... MIAMI: The CYPHER Sirolimus-eluting Coronary Stent has reached a significant milestone within the cardiovascular arena and patients like Byron Curtner, M.D. and Max Roberti are living proof of the medical device's impact in the treatment of coronary artery disease. http://www.cordis.com NEW LDO... SAN JOSE, Calif.: Micrel Inc., an industry leader in Power, Connect and Protect IC solutions, Tuesday launched two new ultra low standby power, high performance Low Dropout Regulators (LDOs). http://www.micrel.com CAPITAL RAISING... WALLINGFORD, Conn.: Mangrove Systems, developer of the industry's first metro and access solution to enable end-to-end MPLS, Tuesday announced it has successfully closed its $21 million Series B financing, bringing the total capital raised to $42 million. http://www.mangrovesystems.com FINGERCHIP SENSOR... GRENOBLE: Atmel Corporation, a global leader in the development and fabrication of advanced semiconductor solutions, Monday announced the introduction of a new member in its FingerChip family of sensors. http://www.atmel.com OIL BENCHMARKS... LONDON: Platts, the global energy information company and major provider of energy benchmark pricing, Monday began publishing euro-equivalent price values as a supplement to its existing U.S.-denominated prices for a selection of key crude oil and European and U.S. products. http://www.platts.com http://www.mcgraw-hill.com ELEMENT MANAGER... CANNES: At the 3GSM World Congress, Harris Corporation, a leading global supplier of wireless equipment and services, Monday introduced NetBoss EM, a new element manager providing full fault, configuration, performance and security management for specific network elements. http://www.harris.com SYSTEM INTEGRATION... CANNES: At the 3GSM World Congress, Teleca Monday announced it has become a preferred system integrator of Apple media creation and delivery solutions in the European telecommunications market. http://www.teleca.com MOBILE BROWSING... MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. & CANNES: Bytemobile, the global leader in optimizing internet protocols for large-scale wireless networks, Monday announced the release of its new Optimization Services Node (OSN) Monaco Edition software, which enables operators to accelerate data delivery over wireless handsets. http://www.bytemobile.com MASCOT MODULE... TOKYO: HI CORPORATION (HI) in collaboration with Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) has successfully loaded HI's 3D rendering engine Mascot Capsule V4 on TI's OMAP2420 processor. http://www.hicorp.co.jp http://www.ti.com/omap (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.)