SYDNEY--24 May--AsiaNet/InfoQuestRELATIVITY TECHNOLOGIES... RALEIGH, N.C. and CHENNAI: Relativity Technologies hasexpanded its strategic commitment to India. The company has nowestablished an India subsidiary and made key hires that willfurther propel the adoption of the Modernization Workbench. www.relativity.com ALLIANCE FORMED... ATLANTA, REDMOND, Washington and BEIJING: CDC Software, awholly owned subsidiary of CDC Corp. and provider of enterpriseresource planning, customer relationship management and supplychain management software applications, have announced astrategic alliance with Microsoft Corp. to develop, market anddeliver CRM enterprise applications to customers in China. www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20000822/MSFTLOGO www.microsoft.com www.cdccorporation.net www.cdcsoftware.com GWAVA ANNOUNCES... MONTREAL: GWAVA has announced the registration fee forattendees will be waived for GWAVACon Asia Pacific. www.gwavacon.com/ap/attendee_registration.php/ www.gwavacon.com www.gwava.com CVRD SETTLES... RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil: Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (CVRD),the world's largest iron ore producer, concluded the iron oreprice negotiations for 2006 with China Steel Corporation, oneof the largest steel maker in Asia. As an outcome of thesenegotiations, iron ore prices for Carajas and Southern Systemfines increased by 19 per cent relatively to 2005. www.cvrd.com.br LSTA HOSTS... NEW YORK: The Loan Syndications and Trading Association, thetrade association for the corporate loan market, is sponsoringtwo conferences in Asia that will bring together bankers,investors and other market participants to discuss trends andissues affecting the U.S. leveraged loan market. The eventswill be held on Tuesday, June 20 and Thursday, June 22 in Tokyoand Hong Kong, respectively. www.lsta.org www.lsta.org/story.asp?id=1420 TRADING TECHNOLOGIES... CHICAGO and SYDNEY: Trading Technologies International, Inc.(TT) and Sydney Futures Exchange (SFE) announced TT haslaunched a high-speed connection to SFE. This new exchangegateway allows TT customers to trade SFE's Australian and NewZealand markets through TT's X_TRADER order-entry software. www.tradingtechnologies.com www.sfe.com.au BALTIA AIR... NEW YORK: A new U.S. airline, Baltia Air Lines, based at theJFK Airport in New York at Terminal 4, is getting ready tostart nonstop service to St. Petersburg, Russia with a Boeing747. www.baltia.com BIPOLAR DISORDER... TORONTO: The results of a pivotal study confirm thepotential of quetiapine fumarate (SEROQUEL) as a monotherapy(treatment with a single antipsychotic medicine) for acutebipolar depression. Quetiapine is an atypical anti-psychoticand it is already established as an effective treatment forschizophrenia, and the manic phases of bipolar disorder, but itis not approved for bipolar depression. www.astrazeneca.com www.astrazenecapressoffice.com www.psychiatry-in-practice.com BASEBAND IC... HEILBRONN and THALWIL: Atmel Corporation, a global leader inthe development and fabrication of advanced semiconductorsolutions, and u-blox AG, a leading provider of innovative GPSreceiver technology, have announced the availability of theATR0625, a baseband IC with SuperSense GPS weak-signal trackingsoftware included in its ROM. www.u-blox.com CONSTIPATION DATA... INGELHEIM: New omnibus data from the largest global surveydue to be published, conducted on the epidemiology ofconstipation, was presented at the Digestive Disease Weekcongress in Los Angeles. The survey, sponsored by BoehringerIngelheim, offers new insights into the incidence ofconstipation and shows that sufferers are not using the mosteffective treatments. www.boehringer-ingelheim.com www.boehringer-ingelheim.com/corporate/home/home.asp www.ddw.org PRESS CONFERENCE... NEW YORK: John Grayken, Managing Partner of Lone Star Fundshas held a press conference in New York City to discuss thefirm's pending sale of Korea Exchange Bank and the controversysurrounding Lone Star's investments in Korea. TECHNOLOGY PATENTS... MILPITAS, California: Linear Technology Corporation, aleading manufacturer and supplier of patented high-performanceanalog integrated circuits, announced that the United StatesInternational Trade Commission has set the date for completionof the investigation into whether Advanced AnalogicTechnologies (AnalogicTech)is violating Section 337 of the U.S.Tariff Act. www.linear.com ENGLISH EDITION... BUENOS AIRES: A simple but effective book is turning into aself-help classic. Perhaps because of the simplicity of itswords, or the message inspired by a child, "Boris and HisWonderful Message" is the book being read to an unusual degreein South America, its first two editions selling out withinfour months of its release. Trafford Publishers has justreleased the English edition, which, small in content and bigin message, invites us to discover a new way of appreciatinglife. www.fundacionbritvin.org www.boris-thebook.com www.trafford.com PHOTONIC POWER... MILPITAS, California: JDSU, the leading enabler of broadbandand optical innovation, has announced that its 16-bit OpticallyPowered Data Link (OPDL-16) subsystem has successfully passedgovernment testing in China. www.jdsu.com MITSUE-LINKS RELEASES... TOKYO: Mitsue-Links Co., Ltd. has released Flash VideoCommercials, a video content for business applications, whichattracts attention of users by overwhelming expressivenessinherent in audio and video. www.mitsue.co.jp/english/service/produce/flash_video_cm.html www.mitsue.co.jp www.mitsue.co.jp/english NAVINI NETWORKS... RICHARDSON, Texas: Navini Networks, Inc., the leadingprovider of non-line-of-sight, zero-install portable wirelessbroadband network equipment in the world, announced that is hasstarted commercial delivery of its greatly anticipateddual-mode Base Station. www.navini.com (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agenciesdistributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.)