SYDNEY, Sept. 30--AsiaNet/InfoQuest ELECTRONIC VIEWFINDER... LONGMONT, Colo. - Displaytech Inc., the world leader inliquid-crystal-on-silicon microdisplays, today announced thatits LightView 201k-EV2 Microdisplay Engine is featured as theelectronic viewfinder in the Olympus SP-500UZ digital camera. http://www.displaytech.com GALE EXPANSION... SEOUL - On behalf of the Board of Directors of New SongdoDevelopment, LLC, Stanley C. Gale, Chairman of the Board,announced the expansion of the development team of GaleInternational Korea, LLC. http://www.NewSongdoCity.com COMMUNICATIONS PROJECT... OTTAWA - General Dynamics Canada, along with its Australianpartners ADI Limited and Tenix Defence, has been selected bythe Commonwealth of Australia as the Preferred Prime SystemIntegrator for the first phase of the BattlespaceCommunications System (Land) project, referred to as JP 2072valued at AUS$97 (US$74) million. http://www.generaldynamics.com VIACOM AGREEMENT... NEW YORK and BEIJING - Viacom Outdoor announced today thatit has entered into an agreement to acquire 70 per cent controlof Magic Media - the Beijing-based company that has the primaryrights for advertising on the city's bus system. www.viacomoutdoor.ca/mc_home.html ALCAN TARGETS... TORONTO - Alcan Inc. today announced updated long-termtargets for the corporation as a whole and for each of its fourBusiness Groups. http://www.alcan.com PEPSICO RESULTS... PURCHASE, N.Y. - PepsiCo reported 13% net sales growth and a14% increase in third quarter Division operating profit. http://www.pepsico.com OEM PARTNERSHIP... OSLO, Norway - Fast Search & Transfer, the leading developerof enterprise search and real-time alerting technologies, andSisis Informationssysteme GmbH, a well-known and respectedprovider of library management and information portalsolutions, today announced an OEM partnership to enhance thesearch capabilities of three SISIS products. http://www.fastsearch.com http://www.sisis.de ZORAN CORP... SUNNYVALE, Calif. - In a significant victory for ZoranCorporation, today the United States International TradeCommission issued orders finding that Zoran's United StatesPatent No. 6,584,527 is valid and infringed by optical diskcontroller chips and chipsets sold by MediaTek and by a numberof MediaTek customers using the infringing chips andchipsets. http://www.zoran.com AIDS FINDING... LONDON - A recent AIDS journal article published byLippincott Williams & Wilkins reports 75% of samples taken from2002-2003 were found to be weaker than those from 1986-1989,both in terms of spread within individuals and transmission toothers. http://www.AIDSonline.com http://www.LWW.com (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agenciesdistributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.)