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
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