SYDNEY, Sept. 28--AsiaNet/InfoQuest TOSHIBA OFFICE... HANOI - Toshiba Corporation today reinforced its commitmentto the fast growing Vietnamese market with the formal openingof Toshiba Asia Pacific Pte., Ltd. Hanoi RepresentativeOffice. http://www.toshiba.co.jp/contact/media.htm JAPAN TICKETING... LOS ANGELES and TOKYO - Ticketmaster, the world's leadingticketing company, has joined forces with Japan Travel Bureauto provide consumers throughout Japan with access to eventtickets and information for select events held in the UnitedStates. http://www.ticketmaster.com IBM AUSTRALIA... MELBOURNE - IBM Australia announced today that automotivecompany DaimlerChrysler Australia/Pacific will use IBMservices, software and hardware to transform its supply chainprocesses and spare-parts sales in Australia and to develop andhost a national Web-based 'portal' system to manage spare-partsordering. http://www.ibm.com/au BUSINESS BOOK... BANGKOK - Leading business publisher Palgrave Macmillanlaunches the new business book "Asian Brand Strategy" in morethan 60 countries. http:// www.asianbrandstrategy.com ING DIRECTOR... TAIPEI - ING Wholesale Banking, Asia today announced that ithad hired Michael Yang as Managing Director, Head of WholesaleRelationship Management, Taiwan. http://xprnnews.xfn.info/ING/20050928/MichaelYang.htm http://www.ing.com GSM AGREEMENT... SINGAPORE - The GSM Association and NeuStar have signed anagreement to offer Root Domain Name System services to morethan 680 global GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications)mobile operators. http://www.neustar.biz ULTRA-WIDEBAND... TOKYO - The USB Implementers Forum and the WiMedia Alliancehave made significant strides toward securing Ultra-Wideband asthe preferred technology for personal area networks. http://www.usb.org http://www.wimedia.org SECURE CONNECTIONS... TOKYO - The USB Implementers Forum, Inc. announced Tuesday anew specification to help developers ensure secure connectionsusing the Certified Wireless USB technology. http://www.usb.org TAX SOLUTIONS... SINGAPORE - Avnet Electronics Marketing Asia, a leadingdistributor of electronic components and a division of Avnet,Inc., and independent design house, GodSend Inc, arecollaborating to provide a range of point-of-sale tax-controlsolutions for Chinese retailers. http://www.em.avnet.com BODY ARMOUR... TEL AVIV - Rabintex Industries Ltd., a leading manufacturerof ballistic helmets & bulletproof vests, announced Tuesdaythat all its NIJ-compliant body armor models remains compliantwith new NIJ standards. http://www.rabintex.com http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov AMEBA PEERME... TOKYO and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif - CyberAgent, Ltd.,Shibuya-ku, Tokyo and PeerMe, Inc., Mountain View, California,U.S.A. have completed capital and business partnerships withCyberAgent launching "Ameba PeerMe" as its communicationsservice on its Internet properties. http://www.peerme.com/ameba http://www.ameba.jp http://www.PeerMe.com FINANCIAL FORUM... VANCOUVER - ChineseWorldNet.com Inc. is proud to present thethird annual Global Chinese Financial Forum - TorontoConference 2005 on October 21-22, the largest bilingualfinancial event in North America since 2000. http://www.chineseworldnet.com http://www.cwnfn.com SEARCH PLATFORM... OSLO - Fast Search & Transfer, the leading developer ofenterprise search and real-time alerting technologies, hasannounced that the FAST Enterprise Search Platform was selectedto power the search functionality for the content managementsystem of FirstGov.gov. http://www.fastsearch.com http://hugin.info/134564/R/1013425/158109.pdf http://www.FirstGov.gov DELIVERY SYSTEMS... AVEZZANNO - In a total project duration of only 10 weeksKinetics designed, manufactured, installed and commissioned twoTMAH delivery systems for Micron Avezzano, Italy. http://www.kineticsgroup.com TRX IPO... ATLANTA - TRX, Inc. announced that its initial publicoffering of 6,800,000 shares of common stock has been priced at$9.00 per share. http://www.trx.com INVESTOR WORKSHOP... MONTREAL - Alcan Inc. announced Tuesday that it will holdits annual investor workshop on Thursday, September 29th at LeRoyal Meridien King Edward hotel in Toronto, Canada. http://www.alcan.com FAST SEARCH... OSLO, and PARIS - Fast Search & Transfer, the leadingdeveloper of enterprise search and real-time alertingtechnologies, has been selected by Babelstore SA to deploy theFAST Enterprise Search Platform forhttp://www.priceminster.com, one of the top French onlinemarketplaces. http://www.fastsearch.com http://www.priceminster.com ATMEL PRODUCT... HEILBRONN - Atmel Corporation, a global leader in thedevelopment and fabrication of advanced semiconductorsolutions, announced the availability of its new LF RFID ICATA5558 with integrated anti-collision functionality. http://www.atmel.com MUPPET TOUR... BURBANK, Calif. - To honor the 50th anniversary of hismeteoric rise from the swamp to international icon, The MuppetsHolding Company today announced that Kermit the Frog is takinghis celebration on the road with a whirlwind tour of 50destinations around the globe starting October 14 in the aptlynamed town of Kermit, Texas. http://www.muppets.com IP SERVICES... MOUNTAIN VIEW - Bytemobile has announced its entry into theIP services market with Unison, a new open architecture, whichunifies, simplifies and accelerates operator networks whileexpanding their ability to deploy new fully integrated contentdynamic services such as content filtering, dynamic portaloptimization and content-based flexible billing. http://www.bytemobile.com/ VIRTELA NEWTWORK... DENVER - Virtela announced Tuesday that the National Centerfor Missing & Exploited Children has selected Virtela's managedVirtual Private Network services to speed communicationsbetween its employees and law-enforcement. http://www.virtela.net http://www.missingkids.com TRANSEND VENTURE... LONDON and LOS ANGELES - TWI and Endeavor today announce thelaunch of a new joint venture - Transend - an innovativepartnership which will capitalise on the companies' individualstrengths for mutual worldwide gain. PUSH EMAIL... MOSCOW and REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - SEVEN and VimpelCom, aleading provider of telecommunications services in Russia, hasannounced they have launched the first push email solutionavailable in Russia. http://www.beeline.ru/ http://www.seven.com/ COMMERCIAL PARTNERSHIPS... REDWOOD CITY, Calif. and SINGAPORE - Today, SEVEN announcedcommercial partnerships and product availability with threeleading Asia-Pacific mobile operators - DTAC in Thailand, FarEasTone in Taiwan and ePLDT in the Philippines. http://www.seven.com/ http://www.epldt.com/news.asp http://www.fetnet.net/g http://www.dtac.co.th/ MOTOROLA DEAL... SINGAPORE - Motorola, Inc. has announced that it has beenselected by the GSM Association to serve for a second phase asthe sole supplier of handsets for the Emerging Market Handsetprogram. http://www.motorola.com MOTOROLA PORTFOLIO... SINGAPORE - Motorola has unveiled a new portfolio ofproducts demonstrating its continuing commitment to meet theneeds of mass market consumers around the world. http://www.motorola.com 3-PORT SWITCH... SAN JOSE, Calif. - Micrel, Inc., an industry leader in ICanalog, high bandwidth and Ethernet solutions, announcedTuesday that its new generation 3-Port switch IC solution forthe Ethernet market has been endorsed by both Bernecker &Rainer Ges.m.b.H and the Ethernet Powerlink StandardizationGroup. http://www.micrel.com OUTDOOR SCREEN... SYDNEY - Newcastle Stadium, the home of legendary Aussierugby league team, the Newcastle Knights, has upgraded viewingcapabilities for its fans through the installation of a giant,state-of-the-art, outdoor video screen, manufactured anddesigned by Lighthouse Technologies. http://www.lighthouse-tech.com (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agenciesdistributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. 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