Sydney--10 Aug--AsiaNet/InfoQuestRARITAN RELEASES... SOMERSET: Raritan, a leading provider of solutions tosimplify IT operations on Thursday released a multi-languageversion of its award-winning CommandCenter managementappliance. The new version, which supports Chinese, English,French, German and Japanese simultaneously enables Raritan toenter new global markets, as well as address the needs ofU.S.-based global IT organizations. http://www.Raritan.com http://www.IntegratedControlandManagement.com INSTRA REGISTERS... MELBOURNE: Instra Corporation, a world leading Domain Nameand ENUM registrar is proud to announce the launch of AsiaRegistry, a specialized domain name registration servicecovering Asia Pacific ccTLD's. http://www.asiaregistry.com http://www.instra.com BELZBERG STRATEGY... TORONTO: Belzberg Technologies Inc. announced Thursday thatits Board of Directors has formed a special committee of itsindependent directors with a mandate of pursuing strategicalternatives to maximize the value of the Company's commonshares, including seeking proposals involving the purchase orother acquisition of all of the Company's outstanding commonshares. http://www.belzberg.com http://www.PutnamLovellNBF.com HUGHES SIGNS... GERMANTOWN: Hughes Network Systems, LLC, the world's leadingprovider of broadband satellite solutions and services, hasannounced it has signed multiple contracts with ThurayaSatellite Telecommunications, a leading mobile satellite voiceand data service provider with coverage reaching nearlyone-third of the world's population. http://www.hughes.com http://www.thuraya.com TORQUE UNVEILS... REDDITCH: GKN Driveline's Torque Technology Group isintroducing a new power transfer unit for all-wheel-drivevehicles in North America and Japan that is lighter andstronger than previous designs, while providing customers withreductions in noise, vibration and harshness. www.gkndriveline.com AVNET DISTRIBUTES... OTTAWA: Tundra Semiconductor Corporation, the leader inSystem Interconnect, announced Thursday that it has signedAvnet Electronics Marketing Americas as a value-addeddistributor in North America, expanding Tundra's product andsupport delivery to customers in the region. www.tundra.com FUND CLOSED... GREENWICH: With Focus on Global Energy, Fund XI Is LargestEnergy Industry-Specific Fund First Reserve Corporation, aleading US-based private-equity firm that specializes in theenergy industry, on Thursday announced the successful close ofits latest global private-equity fund, First Reserve Fund XI,L.P. WOODWING SPELLS... ZAANDAM: WoodWing Software has introduced Smart Speller, apowerful new tool that adds the enhanced spelling functionalityof the renowned language institute *TALO to Adobe InDesign andInCopy CS2. http://www.woodwing.com BMW AWARDS... MUNICH: The BMW Group is inviting young academics from allover the world to submit their entries for the prize forup-and-coming scientists, the Scientific Award 2007. The mottoof the award is "Passion for Innovation," and prizes arepresented to the authors of outstanding Bachelor's, Master'sand doctoral theses, regardless of their subject. http://www.press.bmwgroup.com http://www.bmwgroup.com/scientific-award (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agenciesdistributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.)