SYDNEY, June 14--AsiaNet/InfoQuest OTHELLO GAME... TOKYO: Bandai Networks Co., Ltd. and Bandai Co., Ltd.'s hubfor European operations, Bandai S.A. have announced alimited-function version of the "Othello" game for the i-modeservice provided by French mobile communication providerBouygues Telecom S.A. STRATOS GLOBAL... BETHESDA, MD: Stratos Global Corp., a provider of Inmarsatmobile satellite services, today announced it will launch thefirst BGAN (Broadband Global Area Network) mobile satelliteservice using Inmarsat's recently launched I-4 satellite whenRegional BGAN service is transitioned to the I-4 satellite. www.stratosglobal.com FRANKFURT AIRPORT... FRANKFURT AM MAIN: The Fraport Group greeted 4.5 millionpassengers at its Frankfurt Airport (FRA) home base during thereporting month -- a 2.6 per cent increase over May 2004 and afurther improvement over the previous months. www.fraport.de AIRCRAFT WHEELS... PARIS AIR SHOW: Goodrich Corporation has been selected tosupply wheels and brakes to SpiceJet's fleet of Boeing NextGeneration 737 aircraft. www.goodrich.com SK CORPORATION... SEOUL: SK Corporation have issued a statement on thedecision by the Seoul Court of Appeals to grant probation onChairman Chey Tae-Won's sentence on his appeal of the June 2003lower court decision against him. The company said in the statement that they respect the Court's ruling. FORTE DESIGN... SAN JOSE, Calif: Forte Design Systems has announced thatSeiko Epson Corporation has chosen Forte's Cynthesizerbehavioral synthesis product to design its next generationimage processing applications. www.ForteDS.com MARCOS LAUNCH... LONDON: Marcos Engineering Limited has confirmed the newMarcos TSO GT2 coupe is making its world debut at London'sCanary Wharf Motorexpo. www.marcos-eng.com GOING UP... FARMINGTON, Conn: Otis, which has been installing andmaintaining elevators in Paris' La Defense business districtfor 30 years, has been awarded US$27 million worth of contractsto supply two new office towers -- Granite Tower and T1 Tower-- with Otis equipment. www.otis.com CELLULAR ADVANCEMENT... SAN DIEGO, Calif: The Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) announcesthe availability of the OMA Push To Talk Over Cellular 1.0Candidate Enabler (OMA PoC 1.0) that provides the mobileindustry with increased opportunity to deliver new servicesacross multiple carriers, geographic locations and devicesaround the globe. www.openmobilealliance.org VOLTAGE SUPERVISOR... SAN JOSE, Calif: Micrel Inc. has launched the MIC2772, anew, two-in-one voltage supervisor that provides under-voltagemonitoring and power-on reset generation in tiny 2mm x 2mmMLF packaging. www.micrel.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principalamount of three securities issues amounting to a total ofUS$100 million on various dates at a redemption price equal to100 per cent of the principal amount redeemed plus accruedinterest. http://www.fanniemae.com BALANCED SCORECARD... KUALA LUMPUR, and LINCOLN, Mass: Balanced ScorecardCollaborative, Inc. announced it has named KOTRA to theBalanced Scorecard Hall of Fame for Executing Strategy forachieving breakthrough performance results using the BalancedScorecard (BSC). www.bscol.com TRENT AWARD... KUALA LUMPUR, and LINCOLN, Mass: Balanced ScorecardCollaborative, Inc. announced it has named Trent Ltd. to theBalanced Scorecard Hall of Fame for Executing Strategy forachieving breakthrough performance results using the BalancedScorecard (BSC). www.bscol.com GROB JET... PARIS: GROB Aerospace has announced the launch of the GROBSPn Utility Jet at the Paris Air Show. www.grobspn.com NETECONOMY KL... THE HAGUE: NetEconomy has announced that it has opened anoffice in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to further expand its salesoperations in the Asia Pacific region, and to support its newcustomers including ING Vysya of India. www.neteconomy.com VIETNAMESE TELCO... SINGAPORE: Lucent Technologies announced that Vietnam PowerTelecom has selected Lucent for its phase IICDMA450 network expansion project. www.lucent.com LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES... SINGAPORE: Lucent Technologies announced a teaming agreementwith Aqsacom for Lucent to serve as Aqsacom's prime networkintegrator for new customers in the Asia Pacific region. www.lucent.com JAPANESE PROPERTY... TOKYO: AMB Property Corporation, a global developer andowner of industrial real estate, announced that Japanese realestate veteran Katsuyuki "Victor" Mineta (45) has joined AMB'sJapan office as regional manager, responsible for managingAMB's rapidly growing Japanese portfolio of industrialproperty. www.amb.com VOIP KOREA... SINGAPORE: Lucent Technologies will supply its Voice overInternet Protocol (VoIP) Solution for Enterprises to enableDacom, a Korean service providers, to build enhanced,cost-effective IP networks for Korea's Military Mutual AidAssociation (MMAA). www.dacom.co.kr www.lucent.com NETWORK TRIAL... SINGAPORE: Lucent Technologies and eAccess Ltd. announcedthat the two companies have completed successful High-SpeedDownlink Packet Access data calls as part of a third-generation(3G) Wideband-CDMA (W-CDMA) network trial announced earlierthis year. www.lucent.com EUROPEAN RAIL... LONDON: Europe's extensive rail networks can be accessed viaone travel ticket - the Eurail Pass. www.Eurail-ACPRail.com HEISEI DENDEN... SINGAPORE: Lucent Technologies announced that Heisei DenDenhas selected Lucent Technologies to upgrade its metro-areanetwork with 10G-based optical systems. www.lucent.com TELECOM NZ... Singapore: Telecom New Zealand (Telecom) and LucentTechnologies announced an agreement to expand Telecom'sCDMA2000(R) 1xEV-DO (Evolution Data Optimized) network. www.telecom.co.nz www.lucent.com SOMA NETWORKS... SINGAPORE and SAN FRANCISCO: SOMA Networks, Inc. and SANYOElectric Co., Ltd have announced a strategic relationship tojointly develop and manufacture next generation consumerelectronics and infrastructure products for the broadbandwireless access (BWA) market using SOMA Networks' highlyscalable, open-standard architecture. www.somanetworks.com www.global-sanyo.com PANAMSAT AGREEMENT... SINGAPORE: PanAmSat announced that it signed a long-termagreement with Office des Postes et Telecommunications NewCaledonia (OPT New Caledonia), the telecom operator of NewCaledonia, to provide satellite-based Internet connectivityacross its PAS-2 Pacific Ocean Region satellite. www.panamsat.com www.opt.nc LECENT AGREEMENTS... Singapore: Lucent Technologies announced several newcontracts and alliances that help service providers in Asiacreate and deliver simple, seamless, secure, portable, personalmultimedia services to their subscribers over a variety ofnetwork types, including third-generation (3G) mobile, WiFi,and wireline networks. www.lucent.com CHINESE TELCOS... SINGAPORE: Lucent Technologies announced that it was awardedtwo wireless network optimization contracts by Tibet Mobile andInner Mongolia Unicom, provincial subsidiaries of China Mobileand China Unicom, respectively. www.lucent.com BEYOND SECURITY... SINGAPORE: Lucent Technologies announced an exclusiveteaming agreement with Beyond Security Ltd. to provide a newautomated vulnerability detection service (AVDS) to serviceproviders worldwide using Beyond Security's automated scanningserver products. www.lucent.com www.securiteam.com TWO SPACE... TOKYO: Two Space Co., Ltd announced that it has developedOffice XML Office Storage Hub 1.02, a new version of softwarethat enables users to link Microsoft Office business data onnetworks in XML format. The product is going to be released inthe US on June 15, 2005. www.twospace.co.jp (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agenciesdistributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.)