SYDNEY, Aug. 12--AsiaNet/InfoQuest RAIN AID... SYDNEY: Following the torrential monsoon rains two weeks agothat left more than 1000 people dead in India's Maharashtrastate and the region's infrastructure in chaos, SAI GlobalLimited has donated $5000 to Red Cross in India to assistrelief work in the flood-stricken city of Mumbai. www.sai-global.com FRANKFURT AIRPORT... FRANKFURT AM MAIN: Germany's largest airport continued toboom in July; for the first time in the history of the airportmore than 5 million passengers were welcomed at FrankfurtAirport. 5,002,618 passengers passed through this hub ofinternational air traffic - a 5.2 per cent increase compared tothe previous year. CINEMA INFORMATION... SYDNEY: Australian cinema chains launch an SMS informationservice that understands plain English requests sent viatext. www.village.com.au www.greaterunion.com.au www.startcorp.com QUALCOMM INCORPORATED... SAN DIEGO, Calif: QUALCOMM Incorporated, a developer andinnovator of Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) and otheradvanced wireless technologies, announced that it will acquireFlarion Technologies, a developer of Orthogonal FrequencyDivision Multiplex Access (OFDMA) technology and the inventorof FLASH-OFDM technology for mobile broadband Internet protocol(IP) services. www.qualcomm.com IRISH BROADBAND... RICHARDSON, Texas: Irish Broadband has announced theexpansion of its wireless broadband service in Ireland usingpre-WiMAX technology from Navini Networks, Inc. www.irishbroadband.ie ALCAN RESTRUCTURES... MONTREAL: Alcan Inc. has announced changes in two of itspackaging business sectors aimed at improving their positionsin their respective market segments. PATENT LITIGATION... NEW YORK: Network-1 Security Solutions, Inc. announced thatit has initiated patent litigation against D-Link Corporationand D-Link Systems, Incorporated in the United States DistrictCourt for the Eastern District of Texas, Tyler Division, forinfringement of United States Patent No. 6,218,930. www.network-1.com POOLWERX NZ... AUCKLAND: Australia's PoolWerx has identified New Zealand asthe platform for offshore expansions plans and will be inAuckland today (12 August) to test the waters with interestedlocal investors. (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.)