SYDNEY, June 1--AsiaNet/InfoQuest ETRALI LAUNCHES... SINGAPORE: Etrali will unveil TDM/IP Mach 3D, the mostsophisticated trading turret on the market today, Vision, aturret on your PC with IP connectivity and integration offinancial applications, and JADE, a state of the art systemmanager to run both Mach 3D and Vision. http://www.etrali.com NETWORKING PRODUCTS... HSINCHU: Accton Technology Corporation of Taiwan, globaloutsourcing partner for networking and communicationssolutions, today announced that it has successfully developedand demonstrated a new line of highly-advanced wireless LAN(WLAN) mesh networking products with the company's WirelessIntelligent Transport Network, WITnet, architecture. www.accton.com WORLDWIDE AVAILABILITY... TOKYO: The XML Technology Certification Committee announcedworldwide availability of the "XML Master Professional" examtoday. The "XML Master Professional" exam is a prerequisite forthe "XML Master Professional" certification, a higher-levelcertification in the XML Master program. http://www.xmlmaster.org/en/ http://www.prometric.com AUSTRALIAN OPERATIONS... SYDNEY: Quadrem, the global eMarketplace, is expanding itsAustralian operations to better serve customers in Queensland.New Quadrem staff in Brisbane will focus on supporting theelectronic procurement programs of the Queensland-basedoperations of Anglo American and Rio Tinto. Quadrem also hasoffices in Perth, Sydney and Singapore as well as in NorthAmerica, South America, Europe, Africa and the Middle East. http://www.quadrem.com PEPSICO PRESENTS... PURCHASE, N.Y.: PepsiCo, Inc. today announced that Presidentand Chief Financial Officer Indra Nooyi will present at theDeutsche Bank Global Retail and Consumer Conference in Paris atapproximately 11 a.m. local time (5 a.m. ET) on Monday, June 6.A live audio webcast of the presentation will be accessiblethrough PepsiCo's website. The webcast will be available forreplay at the same site for a period of 90 days. http://www.pepsico.com INNOVATIVE IDEAS... NEW YORK: Innovation -- the inspirational act that changesthe world for people in life-enhancing ways. This is the focusof a prize worth $100,000 to be awarded by the global ideascompany Saatchi & Saatchi. Held every two years, the Saatchi &Saatchi Award for World Changing Ideas for 2005 is currentlyopen for entries and calls upon innovators from all over tosubmit their most communication-focused innovative project thatcould help change the world. http://www.saatchi.com/inno COMPUTEX TAIPEI... TAIPEI: IWILL Corporation and PathScale, have announced thatIWILL's AMD Opteron processor-based system boards with standardHTX slots are being offered with the PathScale InfiniPathInfiniBand HTX Interconnect to deliver unprecedentedlow-latency performance for HPC users. This announcement wasmade at the 25th annual Computex Taipei Conference, Asia'slargest IT show. http://www.iwill.net http://www.iwillusa.com http://www.pathscale.com SINGAPORE OFFICE... CHICAGO: The Northern Trust Company Singapore Branch hasmoved into a new office to support its continued businessgrowth in the Asia Pacific region. The new office is located onthe 12th Floor of One George Street, a brand-new buildinglocated in the financial district of Singapore that iscustom-designed for financial institutions with state-ofthe-art technology features and life-style facilities. http://www.northerntrust.com FUJITSU CONSULTING... EDINBURGH: Fujitsu Consulting integrates the core expertiseof Fujitsu companies and government in the areas of EnterpriseValue Management, Enterprise Mobility, Legacy Migration andManaged Services. The scope of these offerings extends fromstrategic management consulting to the tiniest detail ofinfrastructure operations. http://www.axiossystems.com SALES AGREEMENT... ADELAIDE: Santos Limited announced the signing of along-term contract for the sale of gas from its 75% owned Maleofield in Indonesia to PT Perusahaan Gas Negara. ACCELERATED DELIVERY... STOCKHOLM: Intentia International AB, the global ERPsolutions provider, has aligned itself to accelerate themarketing and delivery of its Java-based Intentia ApplicationSuite. The company is taking advantage of the inherent benefitsof Java, including improved integration and developmentcombined with delivery resources, to build market share in keytarget industries. SECURITY NEEDS... GENEVA: Early in the week, Brussels was receiving the firstpost-election visit of the US Secretary of Homeland Security,Michael Chertoff, who encouraged Europeans to tune theirsecurity controls to US methods, to improve the effectivenessof the fight against terrorism. On Friday, at the HewlettPackard (HP) Innovation Center in Geneva, the internationalpress was invited to a conference that announced the creationof a new National Identification System developed jointly byHP, Microsoft and most importantly, Geneva start-up Wisekey. http://www.wisekey.ch http://www.agefi.com IHG CELEBRATES... ATLANTA: Celebrating Its 10-Year Anniversary as the FirstHotel Company to Take Online Reservations, InterContinentalHotels Group (IHG) is Offering 20 Percent Or More Off RoomRates for Summer Travel Around the World. www.ichotelsgroup.com www.priorityclub.com. www.ihgplc.com/media VIETNAM OFFICE... TAIPEI: Under the initiatives of both Vietnam's Ministry ofFinance (MOF) and Taiwan Financial Supervisory Commission,Nanshan Life, a Taiwan based life insurance company, officiallyopens a representative office in Hanoi, Vietnam. On May 31,Nanshan Life will host an opening which will be attended bydignitaries from Vietnamese MOF. http://www.nanshanlife.com.tw ORGANISATION STRUCTURE... BANGKOK: ING Wholesale Banking's ING Advisory has announcedthat it has been mandated by Krung Thai Bank (KTB), Thailand'ssecond largest commercial bank by assets and the country'slargest lender, to assist in the reorganisation of KTB'smanagement and the organisation structure. www.ingadvisory.com TV SHOWS... NEW YORK: Sir Ivan the 'Peaceman' to be Featured in TV Showsin Europe and USA in June Europe: Sir Ivan To Star in thefinale of 'Bart In the States' on VTM in Belgium. UnitedStates: Sir Ivan's Castle featured on Travel Channel's Grand Castles of America. http://www.sirivanmusic.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.)