SYDNEY--4 Oct--AsiaNet/InfoQuest DUFF & PHELPS... NEW YORK: Duff & Phelps, one of the world's leadingindependent financial advisory firms, is pleased to announcethe opening of a new office in Munich, Germany as part of itscontinued global expansion. www.duffandphelps.com ASIA-PACIFIC MARKETING... TOKYO: The CMO (Chief Marketing Officer) Council, a globalnetwork of senior marketing executives, will host its inauguralAsia-Pacific CMO gathering, The CMO Council Asia PacificVirtual Tokyo Symposium, on October 24, 2006 in Tokyo, Japan,at the prestigious Tokyo America Club. www.cmocouncil.org www.cmosummit.org www.cmosummit.org/register_tokyo.asp WEBEX CONNECT... SANTA CLARA, California: WebEx, the leading provider ofsoftware-as-a-service (SaaS) applications for collaborativebusiness on the web, has announced WebEx Connect, the firstplatform that allows existing software to be integrated withon-demand collaboration and business applications. www.webex.com http://webex.com/go/connectpartners WEBEX CONNECT... SANTA CLARA, California: The WebEx Connect platform breaksdown the barriers between on-demand and on-premise software byallowing customers, ISVs and partners to create two-wayintegration between any application. www.webex.com http://webex.com/go/connectpartners CALYON FINANCIAL... SINGAPORE: Calyon Financial and Trading TechnologiesInternational, Inc. has announced that Calyon Financial willoffer trading access to futures on seven key Asian exchangesvia the Trading Technologies X_TRADER platform. www.tradingtechnologies.com www.calyonfinancial.com www.calyon.com LP GAS... PARIS: With the International Energy Agency Predicting Thatthe World's Energy Requirements Will Increase by 60 per cent in2030, the Annual WLPGA Forum Will Focus on how LP Gas hasBecome, Thanks to Innovative Leading-Edge Technologies, a RealEnergy Alternative, one That is Clean, Affordable and AvailableAnywhere. www.wlpgasforum2006.com BANKER JOINS... BRISBANE: Alexander J. Krem, Managing Director of AdmiraltyInvestment Group, an international investment bank and AlamedaCapital, a venture capital firm has joined the newly formedAdvisory Board of EESTech Inc. www.admiralty.net www.alamedavc.com www.eestechinc.com www.drpr.com.au FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principalamount of MTN securities issues amounting to a total of US$150million on October 13, 2006 at a redemption price equal to 100per cent of the principal amount redeemed plus accruedinterest. www.fanniemae.com SYMBOL TECHNOLOGIES... HOLTSVILLE, New York: Symbol Technologies, Inc., TheEnterprise Mobility Company, has introduced a new in-countermini-slot scanner for increased productivity in high-trafficretail environments. www.symbol.com CSC INDIA... EL SEGUNDO, California: Computer Sciences Corporation hasannounced that Bala Mahadevan has been named president of CSC'sIndia operations. www.csc.com SUCAMPO PHARMACEUTICALS... BETHESDA, Maryland: Sucampo Pharmaceuticals, Inc. hasannounced that it has completed the acquisition of all of thecapital stock of its affiliated European and Asian operatingcompanies, Sucampo Pharma Europe Ltd. and Sucampo Pharma,Ltd. CARBON EXPO... SINGAPORE: Riding on the success of CARBON EXPO in Cologne,Germany, the International Emissions Trading Association, theWorld Bank, Koelnmesse and its partners are pleased to presentthe first CARBON EXPO ASIA. www.carbonexpoasia.com www.koelnmesse.com I-FLEX SOLUTIONS... MUMBAI, India: i-flex solutions, a leading IT solutionsprovider to the global financial services industry, announcedthe closing of its previously announced acquisition of MantasInc., a provider of regulatory compliance, loss prevention andrevenue generation solutions headquartered in Herndon,Virginia, USA. www.iflexsolutions.com www.mantas.com INFINERA APPOINTS... SINGAPORE: Infinera has appointed Simon Naylor as VicePresident for Asia Pacific to lead its next wave of growth andexpansion in the region. www.infinera.com NEC-SPIKESOURCE AGREEMENT... REDWOOD CITY, California: SpikeSource, a provider of opensource solutions, and NEC, have announced a strategic agreementto deliver SpikeSource certified open source infrastructure andsolutions software on the NEC server hardware. www.nec.com www.nec.co.jp/press/en/ www.spikesource.com (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited,translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net forfull-text versions.)