SYDNEY, March 1--AsiaNet/InfoQuest
SERVICE AWARD...
SINGAPORE: Frost & Sullivan's recently published study, Asia
Pacific International Data Services Pricing and Analysis, has
selected MCI as the recipient for the Most Comprehensive
Service Award. This award recognizes MCI's uncompromising
dedication in offering a wide array of IP and data services in
the Asia Pacific region.
http://www.mci.com
http://www.frost.com
2005 AWARDS...
WASHINGTON, D.C., The American Society of Landscape
Architects has released its 2005 Awards Call for Entries. The
program features five categories of professional and student
awards.
http://www.asla.org/awards/2005/rules_entries/index.html
AGREEMENT SIGNED...
ANDERSON: Remy International, Inc., today announced that it
has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the assets of Unit
Parts Company, based in Oklahoma City. The transaction is
expected to close in March, 2005.
http://www.remyinc.com
SERVICE ESTABLISHED...
VIENTIANE: MoneyGram Payment Systems, Inc. today inaugurates
its service in Laos with Banque pour le Commerce Exterieur Lao
(BCEL) and Thai Military Bank (TMB), Laos branch. MoneyGram,
together with BCEL and TMB will continue to expand more
locations in Laos and to provide MoneyGram services for the
Laotian people worldwide.
http://www.moneygram.com
CONFERENCE CALL...
SAO PAULO: Banco Itau Holding Financeira S.A. is pleased to
invite you to participate in its conference call about the
association announced to the markets on February 28, 2005.
http://www.itau.com
http://www.itau.com.br
http://www.itauir.com
INTERNATIONAL DISTRIBUTOR...
HOUSTON: Spectral Genomics, Inc. the leading supplier of BAC
clone microarrays for Comparative Genomic Hybridization
announced today the appointment of GE Healthcare as its
exclusive international distributor to the research market for
Spectral Genomics products outside the US and Canada. Spectral
will continue to sell its products to certain clinical
diagnostic customers outside North America.
http://www.spectralgenomics.com
NEW COMPANY...
SAO PAULO: Lojas Americanas S.A. and Banco Itau Holding
Financeira S.A. announce an association for the purpose of
creating a new financial institution. ITAU, through companies
controlled by it, and LASA will constitute a new company , a
financial institution with operations to be duly authorized by
the Brazilian Central Bank, which will engage in the
structuring and sale of financial products and services and the
like for customers of Lojas Americanas, Americanas Express and
Americanas.com on an exclusive basis.
http://www.itau.com
http://www.itau.com.br
RESULTS ANNOUNCED...
HONG KONG: Telecom Communications, Inc. the Total Solutions
Provider, is offering Integrated Communications Network
Solutions and Internet Content Service in universal voice,
video, data web and mobile communication for interactive media
applications. The Company announced results and detailed
strategies for growth at its annual shareholders' meeting on
Feb 28th 2005 in TsimShaTsui, Hong Kong.
http://www.ICStarMMS.com
PRICE NEGOGIATIONS...
RIO DE JANEIRO: Companhia Vale do Rio Doce, the world's
largest iron ore producer, concluded iron ore price
negotiations for 2005 with Shanghai Baosteel Group Corporation,
the largest Chinese steel maker. As an outcome of these
negotiations, iron ore prices for Carajas and Southern System
fines, FOB Ponta da Madeira and Tubarao, respectively,
increased by 71.5% relative to 2004.
http://www.cvrd.com.br
ACQUISITION COMPLETED...
PURCHASE, N.Y.: PepsiCo announced that it has completed the
redemption and acquisition of General Mills' 40.5 percent
ownership interest in Snack Ventures Europe for $750 million.
This ends the Snack Ventures Europe joint venture, and its
operations are now wholly owned by PepsiCo. This transaction,
originally announced December 13, 2004, was funded with
available cash.
http://www.pepsico.com
MESH NETWORK...
LOS GATOS: Firetide, Inc., a leader in wireless mesh
networking, announced the HotPort high performance mesh
network. The HotPort system allows standard voice, video and
data applications to operate both indoors and outdoors over a
high capacity wireless mesh backbone.
http://www.nomadix.com
http://www.firetide.com
ENERGY TECHNOLOGY...
MOUNTAIN VIEW: Synopsys, Inc., a world leader in
semiconductor design software, and ARM, announced the jointly
developed low-power reference methodology for implementing ARM
Intelligent Energy Manager (IEM) technology in silicon. The two
companies have proven that IEM technology, when used with the
ARM Artisan low-power library, can reduce the ARM processor
energy consumption by up to 60 percent.
http://www.arm.com
www.sec.gov
http://www.synopsys.com
FANOUT BUFFERS...
SAN JOSE: Micrel Inc., an industry leader in Power, Connect
and Protect IC solutions, rolled out two new high-performance,
low jitter LVPECL and LVDS fanout buffers. The ultra-low jitter
and low skew Precision Edge SY89112 LVPECL is available
immediately with the SY89113 LVDS available later in the
quarter.
http://www.micrel.com
DROP-OFF STORE...
CARSON CITY: QuikDrop International announced that Huatian
Cao will open the first QuikDrop eBay drop-off store on 26 Jing
6th Road in ZhengZhou, China on March 7. Mr. Cao has owned and
operated a successful retail pharmaceutical company in
ZhengZhou for over 12 years.
http://www.quikdrop.com
PEPPERCORN AG...
ZWICKAU: Peppercon AG a leading provider of embedded
KVM-over-IP modules and subsystems for remote server management
has announced the first advanced embedded KVM-over-IP solution
that adopts AMDs Open Platform Management Architecture
specification.
www.peppercon.com
http://www.raritan.com
SUPPORT ANNOUNCED...
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 has
announced its support for the Open Platform Management
Architecture specification.
http://www.raritan.com
http://www.amd.com
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