SYDNEY--1 Aug--AsiaNet/InfoQuestARROW FIRST... HONG KONG: For the fifth consecutive year, Arrow China wasranked top in the following categories by Electronics Supply &Manufacturing, China Distributor Customer Preference Study:Most Preferred International Distributor, Most Preferred SupplyCapability Distributor, Most Preferred Technical SupportCapability Distributor, Most Preferred Logistics ServicesDistributor, and Most Preferred E-trading CapabilityDistributor. www.arrowasia.com GENSCAPE LAUNCHES... AMSTERDAM: Genscape, the company that pioneered real-timeEuropean power plant and transmission monitoring, announces theaddition of 2 more countries to their network: Italy and theCzech Republic. www.genscape.com TECK REVISES... VANCOUVER: Teck Cominco Limited announced that it hasrevised its cash and share offer to acquire all the outstandingshares of Inco Limited. Under the revised offer, Incoshareholders will receive, subject to proration, C$82.50(US$73) per Inco share in cash, or 1.1293 Teck Cominco Class Bsubordinate voting shares plus C$0.05 per Inco share. Therevised offer represents C$40.00 in cash and 0.5821 of a TeckCominco Class B subordinate voting share per Inco share at fullproration. The expiry time for the revised Teck Cominco offeris Wednesday August 16, 2006 at midnight (Toronto time). www.teckcominco.com www.Q1234.com www.newswire.ca www.sec.gov HEMLOCK SEARCHES... HEMLOCK: Growth in solar industry powering demand forultra-pure material Hemlock Semiconductor Corporation, based inHemlock, Mich. (USA), is launching a worldwide search for apotential second manufacturing site to produce polycrystallinesilicon to support the growing demand from the solar industryand electronics markets. www.dowcorning.com www.hscpoly.com DUPONT INCREASES... WILMINGTON: DuPont Titanium Technologies announced a priceincrease in the Middle East and Africa for all DuPont titaniumdioxide grades. www.titanium.dupont.com LIFETRADE RECEIVES... CURACAO: The Lifetrade Fund B.V., has received a Standard &Poor's Credit Quality rating as a life settlement investmentfund. Lifetrade is the first open-ended fund to receive such arating from Standard & Poor's in the secondary life insurancemarket. www.lifetrade.com NETALTER OFFERS... MUMBAI: NetAlter Patent claims to offer an AlternativeInternet Operating System. The US Patent and Trademarks Officehas published the NetAlter Operating System Patent on the 27thof July 2006. www.wipo.int/pctdb/en www.netalter.com PHARMACEUTICAL ALLIANCE... BILLERICA: Bruker Daltonics, a subsidiary of BrukerBioSciences, and Isis Pharmaceuticals have announced astrategic alliance for manufacturing and distribution of Isis'Ibis T5000 biosensor system. The Ibis T5000, developed by Isis'Ibis Biosciences division, is a universal biosensor system thatcan simultaneously identify thousands of types of infectiousorganisms in a sample, without needing to know beforehand whatmight be present in the sample. www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20060731/NYM038 www.isispharm.com www.bruker-biosciences.com www.isispharm.com TOPPAN AGREEMENT... TOKYO: Toppan Printing Greece has been established andstarted operations in July Toppan Printing Co., Ltd. hasconcluded an agreement with the Greek government to supply the"Greek Secure Document Issuance System" for an initial periodspanning ten years (April 2006 - April 2015). www.toppan.co.jp/english BULLGUARD APPOINTS... COPENHAGEN: BullGuard Ltd., specialists in user-friendly PC& Mobile security solutions, has appointed Mr. Mark Davenportas its Sales Director for Mobile products. www.bullguard.com ROCHE ANNOUNCES... BASEL: Roche announced that a large, international Phase IIIstudy enrolling 2, 035 previously untreated metastaticcolorectal patients met both primary endpoints. www.roche.com www.health-kiosk.ch/start_krebs (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited,translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net forfull-text versions.)