SYDNEY--27 Apr--AsiaNet/InfoQuestSTRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP... TOKYO - Ricoh Company, Ltd. President and CEO M Sakuraiannounced today a new partnership with EFI, as part of anoverall strategy to penetrate further into the high-endPrint-On-Demand market. http://www.ricoh.com http://www.efi.com CHINA LAUNCH... MELBOURNE - Aconex, one of Asia's fastest growing technologycompanies, has launched in China. http://www.aconex.com RARITAN TECHNOLOGY... SOMERSET, N.J. - Raritan, a leading provider of solutions tosimplify IT operations,today announced Paragon II V4.1 and anew enhanced user station that provide new management featuresand the industry's highest video screen resolutions over thegreatest distance. http://www.raritan.co.jp HONEYWELL TECHNOLOGY... MORRIS TOWNSHIP, New Jersey - Honeywell announced that ithas granted a license authorizing AU Optronics Corporation touse a patented Honeywell technology relating to specific liquidcrystal display products. http://www.honeywell.com Web site: http://www.honeywell.com/licensing ACQUISITION AGREEMENT... MILWAUKEE - Brady Corporation, a world leader inidentification solutions and specialty materials, announcedthat it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire DaewonIndustry Corporation, Seoul, South Korea. http://www.bradycorp.com KOMAG RESULTS... SAN JOSE, Calif. - Komag, Incorporated, a leadingindependent supplier of thin-film media for disk drives,announced record revenue and diluted earnings per share of$208.5 million and $1.09, respectively, for the first quarterof 2006. http://www.komag.com BOOK DONATIONS... PHUKET - The Asia Foundation's longest running program,Books for Asia, will donate over 80,000 English-languagevolumes to hundreds of Thai schools in communities affected bythe tsunami. http://www.asiafoundation.org PRESIDENT SWITCH... NOVI, Mich. - Tower Automotive announced that Dr. GyulaMeleghy, president of Europe and South America for TowerAutomotive, and Vincent Pairet, president of Asian Operationsfor Tower Automotive, will switch positions effective July 1,2006. http://www.towerautomotive.com EU FINDINGS... BRUSSELS - The EU has confirmed that two of the mostwidely-used plasticisers are not classified as hazardous andpose no risks to either human health or the environment fromtheir current use. http://www.dinp-facts.com/RA http://www.didp-facts.com/RA ANTENNA TECHNOLOGY... BARCELONA - Fractus has developed an antenna technologywhich lowers PCB resonance, enabling easier provision ofmulti-band performance, greater flexibility in antenna designand, in some cases, improved SAR value management. http://www.axicom.com http://www.fractus.com PEPSICO RESULTS... PURCHASE, N.Y. - PepsiCo reported a 13 per cent increase infirst-quarter earnings per share to $0.60, fueled by a 9 percent increase in net revenue, with each of the Company'soperating Divisions contributing to both top- and bottom-linegrowth. http://www.pepsico.com (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agenciesdistributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.)