SYDNEY, July 14 -- AsiaNet/InfoQuest
DAKA RECALL...
HONG KONG: Daka Development Ltd. wishes to inform the public
that the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has announced
a voluntary recall of "Aqua Water Scooters" imported by CSK
Auto Inc. of Phoenix Arizona, US. These water scooters appear
to be a direct copy of DAKA's Sea-Doo Seascooter.
www.daka-designs.com
FRANKFURT AIRPORT...
FRANKFURT AM MAIN: Germany's largest airport registered
continuing strong growth in passenger and freight traffic in
the reporting month. Frankfurt Airport welcomed well over 4.6
million passengers in June 2005, up 3.9 percent on-year.
www.fraport.de
EXINDA NETWORKS...
MELBOURNE: Exinda Networks has expanded into the North
American market, with the Melbourne-based global Application
Traffic Management firm appointing four major partnerships to
deliver their QOS hardware in the world's largest market.
www.exinda.com
BOONTY COMPANY...
NEW YORK and PARIS and SINGAPORE: The Boonty Company, a
digital video game distributor, has just concluded an
institutional financial package worth US$10 Million with
Rothschild Gestion, Spef Venture and the company's historical
investors: OTC Asset Management and Entrepreneur Venture.
www.boonty.com
TWOSPACE NYC...
TOKYO: TwoSpace Co., Ltd., the Japanese developers of Office
Storage Hub and other XML-based tools, announced that it will
open its New York office on July 19, 2005. The office is the
first overseas branch for the company.
www.twospace.co.jp/eng
ASTHMA TREATMENT...
PRINCETON, N.J. and ST. PAUL, Minn: BioWa, Inc. and AppTec
Laboratory Services, Inc. announced that the two companies have
entered into an agreement whereby AppTec will provide
development services for BioWa's anti IL-5 receptor monoclonal
antibody, a potential new treatment for non-allergic asthma.
www.biowa.com
FANTASTIC ANNOUNCEMENT...
BELLEVUE, Wash: MFORMA Group, Inc., a publisher and
distributor of mobile entertainment, has launched a suite of
mobile products based on FANTASTIC 4, a new Twentieth Century
Fox motion picture.
www.mforma.com
MICREL INC...
SAN JOSE, Calif: Micrel Inc has launched the MIC2206 a new
2MHz PWM synchronous buck regulator with LOWQ mode and voltage
scaling.
www.micrel.com
THAI COINS...
OTTAWA: The Royal Canadian Mint has announced that it has
been awarded a contract valued at over $10 million to produce
400 million 2 Baht Thailand coins.
www.mint.ca
CIO SURVEY...
LOS ANGELES: Nearly half (46 per cent) of more than 2,000
global executives surveyed believe that the Chief Information
Officer "absolutely" has a role to play on a company's board of
directors, according to the latest Executive Quiz from
Korn/Ferry International.
www.ekornferry.com
www.futurestep.com
www.kornferry.com
CANCER DRUG...
BASEL: Treatment with the cancer drug Tarceva in patients
with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) resulted in
significantly longer survival compared to placebo (42.5%
improvement) according to a landmark study published in the New
England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).
www.roche.com
www.gene.com
GENE THERAPY...
PALO ALTO, Calif: New analysis from Frost & Sullivan, World
Gene Therapy Markets, reveals that revenue in this industry is
expected to total US$150.0 million in 2005 and could reach
US$5,743.6 million in 2011.
www.healthcare.frost.com
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