SYDNEY--1 Nov--AsiaNet/InfoQuest INDIA SUBSIDIARY... WEST CHESTER, Pennsylvania: VWR International, Inc., aleader in the global research laboratory industry, has announcedthe establishment of a full-service, wholly owned subsidiary inBangalore, India to better serve the needs of the rapidlyexpanding pharmaceutical and biotech industry in thesubcontinent. www.vwr.com AUTONOMY PRESENTS... SINGAPORE: Autonomy Corporation plc, a global leader ininfrastructure software for the enterprise, announced that itschief operating officer, Andrew Kanter, will serve as chairmanand a presenter at the upcoming Knowledge Management (KM) Asia2006 Conference, which will take place from November 7 to 9 atthe Suntec Singapore International Convention and ExhibitionCenter in Singapore. RELIANCE PROJECT... HOUSTON: Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. announced thatit has executed a letter of intent with Allseas MarineContractors S.A. for the installation of the subseainfrastructure in connection with Allseas' engineering,procurement, installation and construction of RelianceIndustries Ltd.'s Dhirubhai gas field development project inthe Krishna Godavari Basin in the Bay of Bengal. www.HelixESG.com HUDSON HIGHLAND... NEW YORK: Hudson Highland Group, Inc., a leading provider ofpermanent recruitment, contract professionals and talentmanagement services worldwide, has announced financial resultsfor the third quarter and nine months ended September 30,2006. www.hhgroup.com MOTOR MUSIC... LAS VEGAS, Nevada: Motorola, Inc. adds mobile music to thein-vehicle experience with the introduction of the new MotorolaAutomotive Music & Hands-free System T605. With this new carkit, drivers have one seamless solution that offers access todigital music and phone calls directly through a compatible carsound system. www.motorola.com www.motorola.com/motoinfo www.hellomoto.com www.hellomoto.com/bluetooth BEIJING OFFICE... BEIJING: BMO Capital Markets, the investment and corporatebanking arm of BMO Financial Group, has officially opened itsInvestment Banking Representative Office in Beijing. www.bmocm.com DOTMOBI MILESTONES... DUBLIN: dotMobi, the official worldwide registry for the.mobi domain, announced it has reached two new significantmilestones since its successful September public launch. www.dotmobi.mobi http://dotmobi.mobi http://blog.mobi http://dotmobi.mobi/registrar SECURITY LEADERSHIP... WASHINGTON: The Indian American Security Leadership Council,a bi-partisan organization created to encourage closer tiesbetween India and America, announced that they are expandingtheir grassroots efforts to educate five key U.S. states on theU.S. & India Nuclear Cooperation Promotion Act. www.indianamericansecurityleadershipcouncil.org TELE ATLAS... LAS VEGAS, Nevada: Tele Atlas, a leading global provider ofdigital maps and dynamic content for navigation and locationbased solutions, announced at the SEMA Show that it has beenselected by Malata to provide the digital map data and dynamiccontent for the company's PG series of personal navigationdevices (PNDs) and PDG series of portable DVD PNDs. www.teleatlas.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principalamount of MTNR securities issues amounting to a total of US$25million on November 10, 2006 at a redemption price equal to 100per cent of the principal amount redeemed plus accruedinterest. Fannie Mae will also redeem US$25 million MTNsecurities issues on the same date. www.fanniemae.com SANTANDER SPONSORS... MADRID: Ron Dennis, Chairman and CEO of the McLaren Groupand Team Principal of the Team McLaren Mercedes Formula Oneteam, and Juan Manuel Cendoya, Executive Vice-President ofSantander and head of Communications, Corporate Marketing andResearch, signed a sponsorship agreement for the bank to becomean official team sponsor (Corporate Partner category) startingJanuary 1st, 2007. www.santandernet.com CERBERUS CAPITAL... NEW YORK: John W. Snow, who served as 73rd Secretary of theTreasury of the United States of America, has issued astatement about his previously announced appointment asChairman of Cerberus Capital Management, L.P. www.cerberuscapital.com ADDITIONAL FUNDING... SARATOGA, California: Ekahau Inc., announced that it hasattracted a total of US$16 million in financing in 2006,including US$12 million in Series B equity funding and US$4million of venture loans and government funding. www.ekahau.com OPENCLOVIS LAUNCHES... PETALUMA, California: OpenClovis, Inc. announced it willlaunch several new open source projects that aim to providehigh availability and carrier grade capabilities, which arerequired by the telecommunications industry, to popular opensource telephony and enterprise applications. www.openclovis.com www.openclovis.org FESPIC GAMES... KUALA LUMPUR: The 9th FESPIC Games KL06, scheduled from Nov25 to Dec 1, is set to receive huge media turnout and globalcoverage as some 200 media personnel from more than 40countries are expected to turn up for the Games in KualaLumpur. COUNTERFEIT SOFTWARE... REDMOND, Washington: Less than one week after IDC released astudy sponsored by Microsoft Corp., detailing the risks ofusing counterfeit software, and six weeks after Microsoftreleased its own forensic analysis of counterfeit discs,Microsoft has announced a series of criminal and civil actionstaken against alleged dealers of counterfeit software aroundthe world. www.microsoft.com www.microsoft.com/genuine www.microsoft.com/athome/security/update/wga/default.mspx LUNG CANCER... BASEL: Seventy per cent of European patients battling lungcancer had never regarded the disease as a threat prior tolearning of their condition, according to results from a newpan-European public and patient survey announced on the eve ofLung Cancer Awareness Month. This ignorance about lung canceris also indicative of a chronic lack of awareness about thedisease. www.roche.com www.roche.com/med_mbackgrlungcancer.pdf www.roche.com/mboncology-e.pdf www.health-kiosk.ch/start_krebs www.avastin-info.com www.tarceva.net CLINICAL TRIAL... BASINGSTOKE: Shire has announced the start of a new PhaseIIIb clinical trial to evaluate two new dosing schedules ofDYNEPO (epoetin delta), the first commercialerythropoiesis-stimulating agent produced in a human cell line.DYNEPO is used in the treatment of anaemia in patients withchronic kidney disease. www.shire.com LOWES WEALTH... BEIJING: China-based Lowes Wealth Management announced thatits international equities portfolio has delivered animpressive performance figure of 44.8 per cent over its firstyear of trading. FIBRE REPORT... SINGAPORE: ICIS pricing, the global market pricing andintelligence service for the oil and chemical industries, islaunching a new Chinese-language Fibre Intermediates (China)report. www.icispricing.com www.icis.com www.icisnews.com www.reedbusiness.co.uk SELF-SERVICE AIRTRANSPORT... SINGAPORE: SITA's 8th Annual Airline IT Trends Surveycarried out in conjunction with Airline Business magazine,indicates that Asia Pacific's airlines are embracingself-service air transportation, shifting to a traveler-centricmodel to facilitate passenger movement. www.flightglobal.com www.sita.aero (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited,translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net forfull-text versions.)