SYDNEY, July 26--AsiaNet/InfoQuest ELECTION PUNTERS... SYDNEY: Centrebet punters are backing National's Don Brashto become New Zealand's prime minister. The election bettingspecialist installed National and Labour as joint favourites toprovide the prime minister following the September 17 vote whenHelen Clark named the date yesterday. http://www.centrebet.com BROOKS ANNOUNCES... CHELMSFORD: Brooks Automation, Inc., which develops andproduces hardware, software and systems to enable manufacturingefficiencies for the semiconductor and other complexmanufacturing industries, has announced the hiring of 2 seniorexecutives to lead its Asia organization. http://www.brooks.com/ 2005 PERSONALITY... PARIS: Reed MIDEM has named Gustavo Cisneros, Chairman andCEO of the Cisneros Group of Companies, MIPCOM 2005 Personalityof the Year. Mr. Cisneros will receive the Award during a galadinner for industry executives on Wednesday 19 October at the21st edition of MIPCOM (17 to 21 October, Palais des Festivals,Cannes). http://www.mipcom.com http://www.reedmidem.com/v3/Press/DownloadZone/en MATHEMATICA 5.2... TOKYO: Wolfram Research announces Mathematica 5.2, the64-bit multicore release and the latest version of theworld-renowned science and technology software systemMathematica. http://www.wolfram.com http://www.wolfram.com/mathematica MASK DESIGN... SAN JOSE: KLA-Tencor, the leading supplier of processcontrol and yield management solutions for the semiconductorindustry, and Aprio Technologies, the technology leader indesign for manufacturing solutions, have announced their intentto collaborate on the development of an integrated advancedmask design inspection and repair tool. http://www.kla-tencor.com http://www.aprio.com LICENSING OFFICE... MUMBAI: Axial Vector Engine Corporation has announced theopening of its first Licensing Office for the civilianapplications of its Axial Vector Engine in India, Asia and theMiddle East. http://www.axialvectorengine.com METABOLIC ENGINEERING... CAMBRIDGE: Microbia, Inc. has announced that its PrecisionEngineering business unit has entered into a researchcollaboration with A*STAR's Bioprocessing Technology Institutein Singapore to improve the efficiency of secondary metaboliteproduction from actinomycete bacteria. http://www.microbia.com DATAMAX INTRODUCES... ORLANDO: Datamax Corporation, a leader and worldwidesupplier of bar code labeling and RFID printing solutions, hasannounced the introduction of its first next-generation E-Classprinter -- the Ex2. http://www.datamaxcorp.com ANADIGICS UNVEILS... WARREN: ANADIGICS, Inc., a leading supplier of wireless andbroadband solutions, has announced a new family of dual-bandInGaP power amplifiers supporting the AMPS/cellular and PCSfrequency bands. http://www.anadigics.com SCANRAIL PASS... LONDON: ACP Rail International is the recognisedprofessional in selling European rail travel around the world.This expertise is recognised in Scandinavia where ACP is thepreferred partner for global selling of the national railpasses of Norway and Sweden, the all-embracing ScanRail Passplus a host of other products which add great value totravellers to this region. www.ScandinavianRail.com BLOOMBERG PHATPIPE... NEW YORK: Bloomberg, the leading global provider of data,news and analytics, has announced that it is opening up thedata feed market by enabling the first group of platformproviders and data feed handlers to receive its new real-time,high-volume market data feed, Bloomberg PhatPipe. http://www.bloomberg.co (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.)