SYDNEY--26 Sep--AsiaNet/InfoQuest RAIL CONTRACT... BRISBANE: Union Switch & Signal (US&S) India has been awarded an US$5million contract to upgrade 6 rail stations for Bangladesh Railway (BR) on theEastern zone Joydebpur-Dhaka section. www.ansaldo-signal.co.in http://www.railway.gov.bd NORKOM OUTCLASSES... SYDNEY: A new report by Celent, an international research firm serving thefinancial services industry, finds that Norkom's anti-money laundering solutionoutclasses its competitors' offerings in the global market place. http://www.norkom.com NEW SOFTWARE... SANTA CLARA, Calif. and SHANGHAI: VeriSilicon Holdings Co., Ltd., a leadingworld class ASIC design foundry and semiconductor IP provider, Monday announcedthe immediate availability of ZView, a new software development environment forits popular ZSP architecture. http://www.verisilicon.com GERRESHEIMER ACQUIRES... DUSSELDORF: The Gerresheimer Group is continuing its expansion course inAsia. Following the acquisition of a majority interest in two Chinese companiesfor pharma packaging earlier this year, Gerresheimer has now proceeded with its strategically oriented purchase programme in thegrowth market of China. http://www.gerresheimer.com CVRD COMMENTS... RIO DE JANEIRO: Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (CVRD) has reviewed the pressrelease issued by Inco Limited (Inco) on Sept 24, 2006. CVRD is pleased thatthe Inco board of directors has recommended that Inco shareholders tender theircommon shares to CVRD's offer to purchase all of the outstanding common sharesof Inco at a price of C$86.00 in cash per share (the Offer). http://www.cvrd.com.br COMBAT SHIP... WASHINGTON: FREEDOM, the first ship of the United States Navy's new LittoralCombat Ship (LCS) ship class was launched on September 23 at ceremonies inMarinette, WI. http://www.gibbscox.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of sixsecurities issues amounting to a total of US$465 million on Oct 5, 2006 at aredemption price equal to 100 percent of the principal amount redeemed plusaccrued interest. http://www.fanniemae.com EVALUATION KIT... AUSTIN, Texas: Luminary Micro, a fabless semiconductor company that designs,markets, and sells ARM Cortex-M3 processor-based microcontrollers and was thefirst to bring ARM for $1.00 to embedded developers, Monday announced theimmediate availability of its Stellaris LM3S811 Evaluation Kit with ARMRealView Microcontroller Development Kit (MDK-ARM) evaluation software. http://www.luminarymicro.com SECURITY CERTIFICATES... ROUSSET: Atmel Corporation is proud to announce that its contactAT90SC6404RT and AT90SC12872RCFT dual-interface secure microcontrollers havebeen granted Common Criteria certification to EAL5+ augmented to AVA-VLA.4. http://www.atmel.com LOAD SWITCHES... SAN JOSE, Calif.: Micrel Inc., an industry leader in analog, high bandwidthcommunications and Ethernet IC solutions, Monday launched new additions totheir family of miniature high current load switches. http://www.micrel.com MULTIMEDIA SLIDESHOWS... COLOGNE, Germany: muvee, the pioneer and leader in Instant Personal Video,has collaborated with NuCORE Technology, a developer of leading edge digitalimage processors, to deliver the first proof-of-concept of its automaticmultimedia slideshow creation technology embedded in a CE device. www.nucoretech.com www.muvee.com BEAUTIFUL TEETH... SYDNEY: Inge de Bruijn, the most successful Dutch swimming athlete of alltimes, is making her name as a model in the fashion industry as she now has abeautiful smile after beautifying six upper teeth with individualisedall-ceramic Procera porcelain facades. http://www.nobelsmile.com GALILEO CHIP... THALWIL, Switzerland: u-blox AG, the leading Swiss provider of innovativeGPS receiver technology, Monday announced the u-blox 5 family of GPS andGalileo-ready single chips and chipsets featuring an acquisition performance ofunder 1 second. http://www.u-blox.com COMMUNICATION PRODUCTS... COLUMBIA, Md.: Essex Corporation Monday announced that its CommercialCommunication Products Division (CCPD) has production versions of its twodigital communication product families. http://www.essexcorp.com http://www.essexcorp.com/CCPD/index.html AGREEMENT FINALISED... LOS ALTOS, Calif.: FreeHand Systems, Inc., wholly owned subsidiary ofFreeHand Systems International, Inc., Monday announced that it had entered intoan agreement with the People's Music Publishing House, Beijing, China, todistribute its digital sheet music in China. http://www.freehandsystems.com INDIA OFFICE... CHENNAI: GMT Corporation, a leader in contact centre workforce management,Monday announced that it has opened its first office in Chennai to marketenterprise-wide workforce and performance management solutions to Indiancontact centres. http://www.gmt.com POSITIVE RESULTS... BOULDER, Colo., MARTINSRIED/MUNICH, WALTHAM, Mass.: Pharmion Corporation andGPC Biotech AG Monday announced positive topline results for thedouble-blinded, randomized satraplatin Phase 3 registrational trial, the SPARCtrial (Satraplatin and Prednisone Against Refractory Cancer). http://www.pharmion.com http://www.gpc-biotech.com (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited,translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net forfull-text versions.)