SYDNEY--26 Apr--AsiaNet/InfoQuest STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP... LONDON - Atos Origin, a leading IT services company, andAxiom Systems, a market leader in service fulfillment softwarehave announced a strategic partnership to providetelecommunications providers with a solution to manage theend-to-end service fulfillment processes for services such asbroadband (DSL/LLU), Triple Play, IPTV, VOIP and IPVPNs. http://www.atosorigin.com SPIN OFF... LAS VEGAS - New enterprise created out of SGIs EuropeanBroadcast Division Top executives from SGIs Broadcast BusinessUnit in Europe are to spin off from Silicon Graphics, Inc. toform an independent company, Silex Media. This follows anearlier announcement of April 25 from SGI. http://www.silexmedia.com AIRLINE SOLUTIONS... SOUTHLAKE, Texas - Success in Russia highlights alliancecapabilities of SabreSonic solutions Sabre Airline Solutions,the global leader of software and services for the airlineindustry from planning to execution, is showcasing its airlinealliance services and technology following the announcementlast week by SkyTeam that Aeroflot has become a member of thatgroup. TRAVEL BLOG... LONDON - My Life of Travel announces the wide-scale launchof their growing travel blogging platform, allowing members toutilise their Google AdSense(TM) accounts to generate revenueby creating travel blogs about personal travel experiences. http://www.Mylifeoftravel.com NEW APPOINTMENT... NOVI, Mich. - Tower Automotive announced E. Renee Franklinhas joined the company as senior vice president, global humanresources. http://www.towerautomotive.com QUADREM RESULTS... PERTH - Quadrem's first quarter 2006 revenues grew 41%year-over-year, a continuation of the company's explosiveyear-over-year revenue increases which exceeded 60% in both2004 and 2005. http://www.quadrem.com AUTO MOU... SHANGHAI - Key Safety Systems, Inc. - a leader in globalautomotive safety systems and components - has signed aMemorandum of Understanding with Chery Automobile Company,located in Wuhu city of the Anhui Province in P.R. China. http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20060425/DETU028 ANVIL MINING... PERTH - Anvil Mining Limited, advises that on April 24,2006, a group of illegal artisanal miners engaged in unlawfulactivity in the town of Kolwezi located approximately 6kilometres to the west of the Company's Kulu Mine, in theDemocratic Republic of Congo (DRC). http://www.anvilmining.com ALCAN MEETING... MONTREAL - Alcan Inc. will be holding its 104th AnnualMeeting of Shareholders on Thursday, April 27, 2006 in theAuditorium of Centre Mont-Royal, in Montreal. FIRECOMMS PRODUCT... CORK - Firecomms announces the release of a fully integratedtransceiver RCLED-based 650 nm FOT (fiber optic transceiver)and highly-sensitive receiver FOT that operates with IEEE802.3u Fast Ethernet data communications networks. http://www.firecomms.com IPTV PROTOCOL... TAIPEI CITY - D-Link Corporation, a leading designer,developer, and manufacturer of networking, wireless, broadband,digital electronics, and voice and data communicationsproducts, announced it has designed a new HomePlug product toaddress the emerging market of Internet Protocol Television forChunghwa Telecom using Intellon's HomePlug with Turbo IC's. http://www.dlink.com http://www.intellon.com AIDS INITIATIVE... MOSCOW - Russian Fashion Week has teamed up withTransatlantic Partners Against AIDS to call attention toRussia's frightening AIDS explosion. http://www.rfw.ru http://www.firstview.com http://www.gettyimages.com DOCUMENT GENERATION... LONDON -- Thunderhead, the leading provider of documentgeneration technology, announced that Morgan Stanley, one ofthe world's largest diversified financial services companies,has selected the Thunderhead Document Generation Framework tohelp automate the creation of its OTC derivative tradeconfirmations. http://www.thunderhead.com CHECKPOINT SYSTEMS... HONG KONG - Checkpoint Systems, Inc., one of the largestmanufacturers and marketers of RF and RFID based solutions forsecurity, identification, tracking and merchandisingapplications in the world, announced they were chosen by LemmiFashion, a Fritzlar, Germany-based producer of children'sapparel, to supply the company and its strategic partners withRFID (radio frequency identification) hangtags. http://www.lemmi-fashion.com http://www.checkpointsystems.com NY PARFUM... NEW YORK - Bond No. 9, a specialist in defining the scentsof New York's neighborhoods and bottling them into eaux deparfum, has now taken on the greatest neighborhood of themall. http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20060425/NYTUD001 AUDITING STANDARDS... CHENNAI - Perot Systems Corporation announced that it hasreceived the internationally recognized Statement on AuditingStandards (SAS) 70 Type II assessment for its business processsolutions centers in Chennai, India. http://www.perotsystems.com (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agenciesdistributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.)