SYDNEY, July 12--AsiaNet/InfoQuest
ATTACK CONDEMNED...
MELBOURNE: The Islamic Council of Victoria has condemned in
the strongest possible terms the apparent terrorist bombings in
London overnight.
BOMBING VIGIL...
MELBOURNE: In the wake of the London bombings,
representatives of the Islamic Council of Victoria, Young
Muslims of Australia, the Australasian Union of Jewish Students
and Young Christian Workers have organised an interfaith vigil
in Federation Square, Melbourne.
3 ITALY...
OSLO: Fast Search & Transfer, a developer of enterprise
search and real-time alerting technologies, announced today
that 3 Italy, the Mobile Video Company of Hutchison Whampoa
Group Ltd (HWL) in Italy, has fully deployed FAST mSearch to
power the search functionality across all the mobile multimedia
content on its 3 mobile Portal.
www.fastsearch.com
MICREL INC...
SAN JOSE, Calif: Micrel Inc., involved in analog,
high-bandwidth communications and Ethernet IC solutions, has
launched a new family of backplane management solutions.
www.micrel.com
MICROFINANCE SPREADS...
REDMOND, Wash: Unitus, a nonprofit organization that helps
alleviate poverty by accelerating the growth of microfinance
institutions (MFIs) worldwide, announced the launch of the
Unitus India Microfinance Center, in Bangalore.
www.unitus.com
KOMAG INCORPORATED...
SAN JOSE, Calif: Komag, Incorporated, an independent
supplier of thin-film media for disk drives, is updating its
business outlook for the second quarter of 2005 and its media
capacity expansion plan to support its growing business.
www.komag.com
ASTEA INTERNATIONAL...
HORSHAM, Pa: Astea International Inc., a global provider of
service management solutions, has added Corporate Express
Australia Limited, a supplier of business essentials to large,
medium and small customers in Australia and New Zealand to its
growing list of customers.
www.astea.com
PHARMA DEAL...
PARSIPPANY, N.J: Wolters Kluwer Health, a global provider of
drug and medical information services and content to the
pharmaceutical industry, announced a partnership with
Allscripts, the provider of clinical software, connectivity and
information solutions that physicians use to improve
healthcare.
www.allscripts.com
www.adis.com
www.wkhealth.com
FANNIE MAE...
WASHINGTON, D.C: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal
amount of one securities issue amounting to a total of US$50
million on July 21, 2005 at a redemption price equal to 100
percent of the principal amount redeemed plus accrued
interest.
http://www.fanniemae.com
ARCHITECT AWARDS...
WASHINGTON, D.C: The American Society of Landscape
Architects (ASLA) has announced the recipients of its 2005
Professional Awards.
www.asla.org
RED BOOK...
HONG KONG: Red Book - the people who have been researching
Australia's automotive market for over fifty years - will
launch their new Hong Kong service at the Park Lane Hotel, Hong
Kong, on Monday, July 25.
TRADITIONAL TELCOS...
KUALA LUMPUR: To make headway in developing countries,
enterprise telephony companies need to alter the mindset of
select end-user groups that still prefer traditional, low-cost
time division multiplexing (TDM) systems over Internet protocol
(IP) technology. New analysis from Frost & Sullivan, Strategic
Analysis of the Asia Pacific Enterprise Telephony Market,
reveals that revenue in this industry totaled $2.27 billion in
2004 and can reach $3.86 billion in 2011.
www.frost.com
KOREA SHOWCASE...
LONDON & SEOUL: Asian brokerage house CLSA is hosting a
5-city international event starting today which showcases its
new report CLSA's Korea Wave, a look at the explosion of Korean
cultural exports in the past five years across Asia.
www.clsa.com
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