SYDNEY, Jan 18--AsiaNet/InfoQuest ENSR WINS... WESTFORD: ENSR, an AECOM company and leading globalenvironmental health and safety firm, has been awarded theEnvironmental Business Journal 2005 Gold Medal. http://www.ensr.com OPTICAL NETWORKING... TOKYO: TriAccess Technologies, Inc. announced today theintroduction and availability of the first Fiber-to-the-HomeRadio Frequency Integrated Circuit family to meet the high gaindemands of GPON and GEPON (Gigabit Passive Optical Network)ONU/ONT video deployments here at FOE (Fiber Optic Expo)2006. http://www.triaccesstech.com DRUG COLLABORATION... CAMBRIDGE: De Novo Pharmaceuticals Ltd., acomputationally-based drug discovery company focused on smallmolecule therapeutics, announced Tuesday that it has enteredinto a drug discovery collaboration agreement with Genzymewhereby De Novo will apply its novel molecular structuregenerating technology to focus on a disease target of interestto Genzyme. ALCAN PRIZE... MONTREAL: Alcan Inc. (NYSE, TSX: AL) and the InternationalBusiness Leaders Forum (IBLF) are pleased to callfor entries for the 2006 US$1 million Alcan Prize forSustainability, closing date for entries is midnight March 31,2006 (GMT). www.alcanprizeforsustainability.com DATA FILTER... MILPITAS: California Micro Devices (Nasdaq: CAMD) Tuesdayintroduced a new member of its Praetorian ASIP (ApplicationSpecific Integrated Passive EMI (electromagnetic interference)inductor-based filter arrays family, offering outstandingfilter performance combined with robust ESD (electrostaticdischarge) protection that targets high speed data lines forhigh resolution imager interfaces in wireless handsets. http://www.calmicro.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON: Fannie Mae (NYSE: FNM) will redeem the principalamount of $125,000,000 for MTN securities issues on theredemption date of January 28, 2006 at a redemption price equalto 100 per cent of the principal amount redeemed, plus accruedinterest thereon to the date of redemption http://www.fanniemae.com BROADBAND EXPANSION... RICHARDSON: Due to unprecedented demand Irish Broadband hasagain expanded its broadband wireless network using equipmentfrom Navini Networks. http://www.navini.com http://www.irishbroadband.ie ENERGY EXCHANGE... DUBAI: The Dubai Mercantile Exchange Tuesday announcedrecent developments in the creation of a new commodity exchangethat will initially develop and trade a Middle East Sour CrudeOil Futures contract in the heart of the world's largesthydrocarbon province. PATENT COUNTERCLAIM... IRVINE: u-Nav Microelectronics Corporation has filed acounterclaim for patent infringement against SiRF Technology,Inc., in the United States District Court for the CentralDistrict of California, alleging that certain SiRF products,including its SiRFstarIII product line, infringe u-Nav's U.S.Patent No. 6, 909, 739. http://www.unav-micro.com DATACOM APPLICATIONS... SAN JOSE: Micrel Inc., (Nasdaq: MCRL), an industry leader inanalog, high bandwidth communications and Ethernet ICsolutions, Tuesday launched a new 4.25Gbps chipset thatincludes the SY88992L, a VCSEL laser driver, and the SY88403L,a post amplifier, to support fast growing 4X fiber channelapplications. http://www.micrel.com LAWSUIT SETTLEMENT... BALTIMORE: A multi-national notification program beganTuesday, as ordered by the United States District Court for theDistrict of Maryland, to alert investors, brokers, financialinstitutions and other nominees who bought or received as adividend Royal Ahold N.V. common stock and/or AmericanDepository Receipts (ADRs) from July 30, 1999 through February23, 2003 about a USD $1.1 billion settlement of a class actionlawsuit against Royal Ahold and numerous co-defendants. http://www.AholdSettlement.com SOFTWARE PARTNERSHIP... MOUNTAIN VIEW and OSLO: Bytemobile, Inc., the global leaderin content-dynamic networking solutions for mobile datanetworks, and Opera Software ASA (OBX: OPERA), the world leaderin Web browser technologies, Tuesday announced a jointdevelopment, marketing and sales agreement for handset browseroptimization. http://www.opera.com http://www.bytemobile.com SERENA SURVEY... SINGAPORE Serena Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: SRNA), the leaderin Change Governance, Tuesday said its Asia-Pacific (APAC) CIOsurvey conducted in October-November 2005, interviewing 148CIOs from medium-large companies across Australia, China, HongKong, India, Japan, Korea, and Singapore, showed thatregulatory compliance will become an important issue for APACcompanies in the near future. www.serena.com (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agenciesdistributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.)