SYDNEY--11 Jul--AsiaNet/InfoQuest CARD PARTNERSHIP... UTRECHT - Dutch credit card organization PaySquare receivedChairman Tinghuan Liu of China UnionPay in Utrecht to seal theexclusive partnership between the largest Chinese credit cardorganization and one of the largest players in the Benelux inthe field of card acquiring. http://www.paysquare.nl/en/press http://www.chinaUnionPay.com/englishversion ITALIAN VICTORY... ROME - Italians savoured their team's World Cup victorytoday as the champions returned home from a triumph thattemporarily took minds off the imminent outcome of amatch-fixing trial. ZINEDINE ZIDANE... LONDON - Zinedine Zidane's World Cup final assault on MarcoMaterazzi was provoked by a "very serious" comment made by theItalian defender, according to the French playmaker's agent. WORLD CUP... PARIS - For many French fans, the hardest part of France'sWorld Cup final loss to Italy wasn't the defeat itself. It wasthe moment when national hero Zinedine Zidane ended his careerwith a brutal act of fury. INAMORI PROFESSOR... CLEVELAND, OH. - Case Western Reserve University InterimPresident Gregory Eastwood, M.D., and Dr. Kazuo Inamori,founder of the Inamori Foundation and of Kyocera Corp. and thetelecommunications giant KDDI, announce the appointment ofWilliam Deal, Case's Severance Associate Professor of theHistory of Religion, as the first Inamori Professor andDirector of the Inamori International Center for Ethics andExcellence. http://www.inamori-f.or.jp http://www.cwru.edu SUPERMICRO COMPUTER... SAN JOSE, Calif. - Supermicro Computer, Inc., known for itsengineering leadership in server design, has announced asignificant innovation that enables its 1U 6015X SeriesSuperServers to support up to four PCI-Express or PCI-X add-oncards plus one IPMI 2.0 management card with a 3rd LANoption. http://www.Supermicro.com DATA MINING... NEW YORK - Inductis, a Management Consulting and AnalyticalServices firm, has been ranked first in one of the two subtasks, jointly with two other teams, in the DiscoveryChallenge, a data mining competition organized along with the17th European Conference on Machine Learning and the 10thEuropean Conference on Principles and Practice of KnowledgeDiscovery in Databases. http://www.inductis.com EMBRAER E-JETS... SAO JOSE DOS CAMPOS - Embraer announced that MandarinAirlines has chosen the EMBRAER 190 and EMBRAER 195 E-Jets asthe core aircraft for their future fleet requirements. http://www.embraer.com MOTOROLA DISTRIBUTION... DUBAI - Minerva FZ LLC announced today that it has signed anagreement with Motorola, Inc. to distribute Motorola's Canopywireless broadband solutions throughout the Middle East, NorthAfrica, Greece, Cyprus, Pakistan and Afghanistan. http://www.motorola.com http://www.minerva-me.com AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agenciesdistributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.