SYDNEY--3 Nov--AsiaNet/InfoQuestELVIS PRESLEY.... BEVERLY HILLS, California: Elvis Presley's wedding band fromhis marriage to Priscilla will be among over US$2 million worthof exclusive TV and movie memorabilia to be auctioned onThursday, December 14 and Friday, December 15 byinternationally-renowned Profiles in History, the number onecompany in the world for live and simultaneous Internetmemorabilia auctions. www.profilesinhistory.com BROAD COLLABORATION... REDMOND, Washington, and WALTHAM, Massachusetts: MicrosoftCorp. and Novell Inc. announced a set of broad business andtechnical collaboration agreements to build, market and supporta series of new solutions to make Novell and Microsoft productswork better together. www.microsoft.com www.microsoft.com/presspass www.novell.com www.novell.com/linux QUALCOMM ANNOUNCES... SAN DIEGO: QUALCOMM Incorporated has announced results forthe fourth fiscal quarter and fiscal 2006 year ended September24, 2006. www.qualcomm.com http://investor.qualcomm.com/results.cfm PERADIGM SYSTEM... PLANO, Texas: Perot Systems Corporation and MBF, Australia'slargest privately owned and managed private health insurer,announced the successful conversion of MBF's 1.72 millioncustomers to Payer PERADIGM, Perot Systems' leading coreadministrative system. www.perotsystems.com OSS CEO... WASHINGTON: Robert David Steele (Vivas), CEO of OSS.Net,Inc., has posted eight pages of notes on the 20-21 October 2006conference on "Intelligence in Viet-Nam" co-hosted by TheVietnam Center and Archive of Texas Tech University, and theCenter for Studies in Intelligence of the Central IntelligenceAgency. www.oss.net http://tinyurl.com/ydp6mt www.oss.net/IOP http://meta2.com/PDB BEVERAGE PARTNERS... VEVEY and ATLANTA, Georgia: The Coca-Cola Company and Nestleannounced that both companies have agreed to refocus theactivities of their Beverage Partners Worldwide joint ventureon black tea beverages. The transaction, which is subject tocertain regulatory approvals, is expected to close early2007. www.coca-cola.com ACCTON LICENSES... SAN JOSE, California: HelloSoft, Inc. a leading provider ofVoIP Technologies for mobile devices announced that Accton, aglobal outsourcing partner for networking and communicationssolutions has licensed and deployed HelloSoft's VoIP softwaresolution for use on Accton's VoWi-Fi and multi-mode handsets. www.accton.com www.hellosoft.com DUTCH LAWSUIT... CAYMAN ISLANDS: Garmin Ltd. announced that it has received adecision of the District Court in The Hague, Netherlandsdenying the preliminary injunction sought by TomTomInternational B.V. in preliminary relief proceedings alleginginfringement by Garmin of a European registered design owned byTomTom. www.garmin.com EVOGENIX COLLABORATES... SYDNEY: Antibody therapeutics company EvoGenix Ltd announcedthat the US National Institutes of Health has selected thecompany to collaborate in the development of antibody therapiesagainst a new cancer target. www.evogenix.com STARTECH ENVIRONMENTAL... WILTON, Connecticut: Startech Environmental Corporationannounced that it has received the 15 per cent downpayment fromGlobalTech Environmental Corporation, the company's exclusivedistributor for China, to start the production of the 20,000pound-per-day Plasma Converter System to be located inheavily-industrialized Northeast China. www.startech.net AUSSIEBUM UNDERWEAR... SYDNEY: Australian underwear company aussieBum makes allmen's desires become reality. 'Bigger Is Better' says designerSean Ashby. Proof is in the numbers sold worldwide - Over50,000 in 7 days and counting. www.aussiebum.com HD RADIO... COLUMBIA, Maryland: iBiquity Digital Corporation, thedeveloper and licenser of digital HD Radio technology,announced that Brazilian broadcasters have formed the"Brazilian Alliance for Digital Radio" to support thedeployment of HD Radio technology. www.ibiquity.com (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited,translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net forfull-text versions.)