SYDNEY, Sept. 7--AsiaNet/InfoQuest CAD DISCOVERY... STOCKHOLM: Servier announced at the European Society ofCardiology (ESC) two major advances that will potentially helpmillions of patients with coronary artery disease (CAD). DATA CLEARING... FRANKFURT & SHENZHEN: Billing Services Group ClearingSolutions GmbH (BSG Clearing Solutions) and China Mobile'ssubsidiary, Advanced Roaming Clearing House (ARCH), announcedthe formation of a strategic alliance for the delivery of dataclearing services to the telecommunications market. www.billingconcepts.com OTIS ELEVATOR... FARMINGTON, Conn: Otis Elevator Company has won nearly US$8million in contracts to supply 70 elevators and escalators forone of India's tallest buildings and for a combined shoppingmall and amusement park that will feature the first inclinedTrav-O-Lator moving walkway in the country. www.otis.com FAST SEARCH... OSLO: Fast Search & Transfer, a developer of enterprisesearch and real-time alerting technologies, announced that itsEnterprise Search Platform, was selected by KMWorld magazine asa "2005 Trend-Setter." www.fastsearch.com NOMINUM APPOINTMENT... REDWOOD CITY, Calif: Nominum, a provider of IP addressinfrastructure solutions, announced the appointment of DavidKam as regional sales director, Greater China Region. www.nominum.com UN CAMPAIGN... BARCELONA: White banners bearing the slogan "2015: Noexcuse! The world must be a better place," are being unveiledon city halls and other local government buildings around theworld. The banners form part of the United Cities and LocalGovernments Millennium Towns and Cities Campaign, which aims tomobilise all levels of society from citizens to nationalGovernments in the fight to achieve the United Nations'Millennium Development Goals. www.cities-localgovernments.org BRITRAIL DEAL... LONDON: BritRail has launched an Off-Peak promotion forpeople visiting Britain until February 2006. Any BritRailFlexiPass, Consecutive Pass or London Plus Pass purchasedbetween now and the end of February 2006 for travel betweenNovember 1, 2005 and February 28, 2006 will cost 25 per centless than brochure prices. www.britrail.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principalamount of one securities issue amounting to a total of US$500million on September 16 at a redemption price equal to 100 percent of the principal amount redeemed plus accrued interest. www.fanniemae.com OPENTV DEAL... SAN FRANCISCO: OpenTV Corp has announced the signing of amulti-year license agreement with Jupiter Entertainment Co.Ltd., a cable and satellite programming company in Japan forOpenTV Participate, OpenTV's new participation televisionsolution based on its proprietary UltimateOne system. www.opentv.com BENCHMARK NOTES... WASHINGTON: Fannie Mae announced its calendar for issuingBenchmark Notes in 2006. The calendar is designed to assistinvestors and other market participants in incorporating FannieMae Benchmark Notes into their ongoing investing, trading,hedging, and financing strategies. www.fanniemae.com JUPITER TRIAL... MILAN, and STOCKHOLM: Sorin Group, Europe's largest medicaltechnology player specialized in the treatment ofcardiovascular disease, has released the complete six-monthclinical analysis results from its JUPITER II clinical trial. www.sorin.com NOTES ISSUE... WASHINGTON: Fannie Mae announces US$3.0 billion, 10-YearBenchmark Notes issue. www.fanniemae.com UPS TALKS... LOUISVILLE, Ky: After more than two months in "indefiniterecess" the National Mediation Board has called UPS and theIndependent Pilots Association back to Washington, D.C. for twodays of intensive negotiations. AECOM MERGER... LOS ANGELES: AECOM, a global design and management company,has merged with ENSR International, a worldwide provider ofenvironmental health and safety management services. www.aecom.com HURRICANE RELIEF... WHEATON, Ill: Eolas Technologies Incorporated, aChicago-area Internet technology research firm, announced therelease of Muze v. 1.0 Hurricane Relief Edition, a multimediasoftware application. www.mymuze.com HOOTERS GROWS... ATLANTA, Ga: Hooters of America, Inc. has entered into anexclusive franchise agreement to open up in major citiesthroughout New Zealand beginning next year. www.hooters.com WARRANTY EXTENSION... LAKE FOREST, Calif: Western Digital Corp. announced that itis increasing the warranty period of some of its hard drives bystandardizing all WD enterprise drives to five years and WDdesktop and notebook drives to three years. www.westerndigital.com WESTERN DIGITAL... LAKE FOREST, Calif: Western Digital Corp. announced theavailability of its new high capacity 400 GB Serial ATA (SATA)WD Caviar SE16 desktop-class hard drives. www.westerndigital.com MOVIE DEAL... LONDON: Universal Pictures and Paramount Pictures willestablish direct motion picture distribution operations in 15key international countries beginning in January 2007, as partof a new long-term agreement that extends and restructurestheir United International Pictures' (UIP) internationaldistribution joint venture. (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agenciesdistributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.)