SYDNEY, June 30--AsiaNet/InfoQuest INDIAN OFFICE... TEL AVIV: RADWIN, provider of carrier class broadbandwireless connectivity of TDM and Ethernet services, hasannounced the opening of a regional sales office in Delhi,India. The Indian office will enhance RADWIN's current salesactivities in the emerging Indian wireless market along withproviding technical support capabilities, in line with RADWIN'sstandards of excellent and prompt Customer Service. http://www.radwin.com GSM HANDSET... IRVINE: Hop-on, Inc. and Hop-on Mobile India PrivateLimited, a company incorporated under the laws of India,announced that Hop-on is offering a dual band (900/1800 MHz)GSM cell phone targeted for the India market that will beavailable for as low as 1500 Rupees (approximately US$34.50) inquantities of at least 100,000 units. http://www.Hop-on.com RIVER ECOSYSTEMS... BURNABY: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 will mark the announcementof World Rivers Day, the first initiative to mobilize a globalresponse addressing the urgent need for improved management andconservation of river ecosystems worldwide while at the sametime celebrating the value of our international waterways. CHANGED NAME... TOKYO: Pascal Trading Co., Ltd. announced that the companywill change its name to Ahresty Techno Service Corporationeffective July 1, 2005. The company will also unveil a newcorporate Web site to go online at 6:00 a.m. on the date of thename change. http://www.pascalnet.co.jp http://www.ahresty-tec.jp NETWORK SECURITY... MOSCOW: ElcomSoft, a global leader in password recoverysolutions, has released Proactive Password Auditor 1.5, apassword audit and security test tool that makes it easy forNT4/2000/XP/2003 systems administrators to identify and closesecurity holes in their networks. By running Proactive PasswordAuditor regularly, managers can have peace of mind that thebasic lock on their networks is secure. http://www.password-auditor.com EQUITY INDEX... TOKYO: FTSE Group (FTSE), the global index provider,announced a revision of the FTSE Kaigai Index, an internationalequity index designed by FTSE for Japanese investors, toexclude Advanced Emerging Markets. http://www.ftseall-world.com http://www.ftse.com/kaigai HEPATITIS B... BASEL: Results published in the prestigious New EnglandJournal of Medicine have led the study authors to recommendPEGASYS as a first-line treatment for chronic hepatitis B. Theresults show that patients with the most common form of chronichepatitis B are more likely to achieve lasting remission ifthey are treated with PEGASYS (peginterferon alfa-2a (40KD))compared with lamivudine, a current standard of care. www.roche.com www.thenewsmarket.com HOTEL OPENS... MADRID: The product of an unprecedented collaboration, theHotel Puerta America brings together nineteen of the world'sfinest architects and designers for the first time in historyto create a space that will fire the imagination and stir thesenses. The dream will come true on June 30, 2005, when thehotel opens to the public in Madrid. www.hotelpuertamerica.com PAYMENT SYSTEM... VICTORIA: Jason Mugford, Vice President, Global BusinessDevelopment is delighted to announce that Custom House has wonthe 2005 Vancouver Island Technology Center product of the yearaward for VISTA, the company's online foreign exchange paymentsystem. www.customhouse.com NEW PARTNERS... NEW YORK: Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP and its affiliatedpartnerships have named 28 new partners in five U.S. officesand London, effective as of July 1, 2005 and bringing to 601the number of partners at the firm. One of the world's largestfull-service law firms, Sidley has more than 1,550 lawyerspracticing in 14 domestic and international cities. NEW CEO... OTTAWA: Corel Corporation, a top ten global packagedsoftware brand, announced the appointment of David Dobson toChief Executive Officer. Dobson succeeds Amish Mehta, who willbe elevated to the role of Chairman. http://www.corel.com IDENTITY MANAGEMENT... EDINBURGH: Axios Systems , a leading provider of BestPractice-based consolidated IT Service Management softwaresolutions, announced a global agreement with M-Tech InformationTechnology, Inc., adding its market-leading Identity ManagementSuite to Axios' best-of-breed integrated solutions offering. http://www.axiossystems.com http://www.mtechit.com FAITH, FAMILY... ATLANTA: After setting an attendance record of 140,000 frommore than 55 countries at the Georgia Dome, and reaching 314million homes in 235 countries worldwide in 2004, MegaFest isback and bigger than before. On August 3 - 6, Men, women andchildren from around the globe will converge on Atlanta's topvenues, including the Georgia Dome and Philips Arena. http://www.Mega-Fest.com http://www.DeMossNewsPond.com/MegaFest INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY... BUDAPEST: Microsoft Corp. has released the predictions ofits Office Information Worker Board of the Future, a group of12 university students representing 10 countries who gatheredhere last week to debate technology trends, interpret researchdata and share their perspectives on the imperatives forinformation technology in the next decade. http://www.microsoft.com VISTO EXPANDS... REDWOOD CITY: Visto Corporation, a leading global providerof secure push mobile email, has announced a significantexpansion of its Asia Pacific operations to support new marketgrowth in Asia with the opening of a world-class developmentcenter and sales offices in China and Japan, and theappointment of Antoine Blondeau as senior vice president andgeneral manager of the Asia-Pacific region. http://www.visto.com PSORIASIS PATIENTS... MADISON: Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, a division of Wyeth, hasannounced that phase III data published in the June 2005 issueof the British Journal of Dermatology demonstrate that ENBREL(etanercept) provided psoriasis patients with more rapidimprovement and a better response at 12 weeks when the highestdose (50 mg twice weekly) was used, compared to a continuous25-mg twice-weekly dose. http://www.wyeth.com CONTRACTS SIGNED... WILTON: Startech Environmental Corporation, a fullyreporting company, announced that it has signed two contractsfor multiple Plasma Converter Systems with Ercole MarelliHiTech srl of Milan, Italy, for more than $40 million withpayments from Ercole Marelli to begin by July 29, 2005. http://www.startech.net http://www.ercolemarelli.com COMMERCIAL LAUNCH... RICHARDSON: Ultranet2go, a newly formed division of ZOMATelecom of Mexico and Navini Networks, Inc., the leadingprovider of non-line-of-sight, zero-install personal wirelessbroadband network equipment, have announced the commerciallaunch of service in Puebla, Mexico. 2-PORT SWITCH... SAN JOSE: Micrel Inc., an industry leader in Ethernet,analog, and high bandwidth communications IC solutions, hasannounced the KS8842M, the industry's first 2-port Ethernetdevice, with a third port that can be directly connected tomicroprocessors through a generic 8-or 16-bit (Micrel'sKS8842-16MQL) or 32-bit (Micrel's KS8842-32MQL) businterface. http://www.micrel.com BITUMEN SUBSTITUTE... MELBOURNE: An Australian research and development companyhas developed what it claims is a world first, commerciallyviable, non-petroleum-based, asphalt bitumen substitute forroads. It is made from the waste material derived in refiningsugar cane, molasses. http://www.ecopave.com.au (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.)