SYDNEY, June 14--AsiaNet/InfoQuest
OTHELLO GAME...
TOKYO: Bandai Networks Co., Ltd. and Bandai Co., Ltd.'s hub
for European operations, Bandai S.A. have announced a
limited-function version of the "Othello" game for the i-mode
service provided by French mobile communication provider
Bouygues Telecom S.A.
STRATOS GLOBAL...
BETHESDA, MD: Stratos Global Corp., a provider of Inmarsat
mobile satellite services, today announced it will launch the
first BGAN (Broadband Global Area Network) mobile satellite
service using Inmarsat's recently launched I-4 satellite when
Regional BGAN service is transitioned to the I-4 satellite.
www.stratosglobal.com
FRANKFURT AIRPORT...
FRANKFURT AM MAIN: The Fraport Group greeted 4.5 million
passengers at its Frankfurt Airport (FRA) home base during the
reporting month -- a 2.6 per cent increase over May 2004 and a
further improvement over the previous months.
www.fraport.de
AIRCRAFT WHEELS...
PARIS AIR SHOW: Goodrich Corporation has been selected to
supply wheels and brakes to SpiceJet's fleet of Boeing Next
Generation 737 aircraft.
www.goodrich.com
SK CORPORATION...
SEOUL: SK Corporation have issued a statement on the
decision by the Seoul Court of Appeals to grant probation on
Chairman Chey Tae-Won's sentence on his appeal of the June 2003
lower 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 that
Seiko Epson Corporation has chosen Forte's Cynthesizer
behavioral synthesis product to design its next generation
image processing applications.
www.ForteDS.com
MARCOS LAUNCH...
LONDON: Marcos Engineering Limited has confirmed the new
Marcos TSO GT2 coupe is making its world debut at London's
Canary Wharf Motorexpo.
www.marcos-eng.com
GOING UP...
FARMINGTON, Conn: Otis, which has been installing and
maintaining elevators in Paris' La Defense business district
for 30 years, has been awarded US$27 million worth of contracts
to 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) announces
the availability of the OMA Push To Talk Over Cellular 1.0
Candidate Enabler (OMA PoC 1.0) that provides the mobile
industry with increased opportunity to deliver new services
across multiple carriers, geographic locations and devices
around the globe.
www.openmobilealliance.org
VOLTAGE SUPERVISOR...
SAN JOSE, Calif: Micrel Inc. has launched the MIC2772, a
new, two-in-one voltage supervisor that provides under-voltage
monitoring and power-on reset generation in tiny 2mm x 2mm
MLF packaging.
www.micrel.com
FANNIE MAE...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal
amount of three securities issues amounting to a total of
US$100 million on various dates at a redemption price equal to
100 per cent of the principal amount redeemed plus accrued
interest.
http://www.fanniemae.com
BALANCED SCORECARD...
KUALA LUMPUR, and LINCOLN, Mass: Balanced Scorecard
Collaborative, Inc. announced it has named KOTRA to the
Balanced Scorecard Hall of Fame for Executing Strategy for
achieving breakthrough performance results using the Balanced
Scorecard (BSC).
www.bscol.com
TRENT AWARD...
KUALA LUMPUR, and LINCOLN, Mass: Balanced Scorecard
Collaborative, Inc. announced it has named Trent Ltd. to the
Balanced Scorecard Hall of Fame for Executing Strategy for
achieving breakthrough performance results using the Balanced
Scorecard (BSC).
www.bscol.com
GROB JET...
PARIS: GROB Aerospace has announced the launch of the GROB
SPn Utility Jet at the Paris Air Show.
www.grobspn.com
NETECONOMY KL...
THE HAGUE: NetEconomy has announced that it has opened an
office in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to further expand its sales
operations in the Asia Pacific region, and to support its new
customers including ING Vysya of India.
www.neteconomy.com
VIETNAMESE TELCO...
SINGAPORE: Lucent Technologies announced that Vietnam Power
Telecom has selected Lucent for its phase II
CDMA450 network expansion project.
www.lucent.com
LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES...
SINGAPORE: Lucent Technologies announced a teaming agreement
with Aqsacom for Lucent to serve as Aqsacom's prime network
integrator for new customers in the Asia Pacific region.
www.lucent.com
JAPANESE PROPERTY...
TOKYO: AMB Property Corporation, a global developer and
owner of industrial real estate, announced that Japanese real
estate veteran Katsuyuki "Victor" Mineta (45) has joined AMB's
Japan office as regional manager, responsible for managing
AMB's rapidly growing Japanese portfolio of industrial
property.
www.amb.com
VOIP KOREA...
SINGAPORE: Lucent Technologies will supply its Voice over
Internet Protocol (VoIP) Solution for Enterprises to enable
Dacom, a Korean service providers, to build enhanced,
cost-effective IP networks for Korea's Military Mutual Aid
Association (MMAA).
www.dacom.co.kr
www.lucent.com
NETWORK TRIAL...
SINGAPORE: Lucent Technologies and eAccess Ltd. announced
that the two companies have completed successful High-Speed
Downlink Packet Access data calls as part of a third-generation
(3G) Wideband-CDMA (W-CDMA) network trial announced earlier
this year.
www.lucent.com
EUROPEAN RAIL...
LONDON: Europe's extensive rail networks can be accessed via
one travel ticket - the Eurail Pass.
www.Eurail-ACPRail.com
HEISEI DENDEN...
SINGAPORE: Lucent Technologies announced that Heisei DenDen
has selected Lucent Technologies to upgrade its metro-area
network with 10G-based optical systems.
www.lucent.com
TELECOM NZ...
Singapore: Telecom New Zealand (Telecom) and Lucent
Technologies announced an agreement to expand Telecom's
CDMA2000(R) 1xEV-DO (Evolution Data Optimized) network.
www.telecom.co.nz
www.lucent.com
SOMA NETWORKS...
SINGAPORE and SAN FRANCISCO: SOMA Networks, Inc. and SANYO
Electric Co., Ltd have announced a strategic relationship to
jointly develop and manufacture next generation consumer
electronics and infrastructure products for the broadband
wireless access (BWA) market using SOMA Networks' highly
scalable, open-standard architecture.
www.somanetworks.com
www.global-sanyo.com
PANAMSAT AGREEMENT...
SINGAPORE: PanAmSat announced that it signed a long-term
agreement with Office des Postes et Telecommunications New
Caledonia (OPT New Caledonia), the telecom operator of New
Caledonia, to provide satellite-based Internet connectivity
across its PAS-2 Pacific Ocean Region satellite.
www.panamsat.com
www.opt.nc
LECENT AGREEMENTS...
Singapore: Lucent Technologies announced several new
contracts and alliances that help service providers in Asia
create and deliver simple, seamless, secure, portable, personal
multimedia services to their subscribers over a variety of
network types, including third-generation (3G) mobile, WiFi,
and wireline networks.
www.lucent.com
CHINESE TELCOS...
SINGAPORE: Lucent Technologies announced that it was awarded
two wireless network optimization contracts by Tibet Mobile and
Inner Mongolia Unicom, provincial subsidiaries of China Mobile
and China Unicom, respectively.
www.lucent.com
BEYOND SECURITY...
SINGAPORE: Lucent Technologies announced an exclusive
teaming agreement with Beyond Security Ltd. to provide a new
automated vulnerability detection service (AVDS) to service
providers worldwide using Beyond Security's automated scanning
server products.
www.lucent.com
www.securiteam.com
TWO SPACE...
TOKYO: Two Space Co., Ltd announced that it has developed
Office XML Office Storage Hub 1.02, a new version of software
that enables users to link Microsoft Office business data on
networks in XML format. The product is going to be released in
the US on June 15, 2005.
www.twospace.co.jp
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