SYDNEY--14 Nov--AsiaNet/InfoQuestSHARE SALE... RIO DE JANEIRO: Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (NYSE: RIO) (CVRD) informs thatthe company has concluded the sale of 5,362,928 common shares of UsinasSiderurgicas de Minas Gerais S/A - USIMINAS (Usiminas) at the price of R$70.59per common share, which amounted to R$ 378.6 million. http://www.cvrd LIBRARY MANAGEMENT... DES PLAINES, Ill.: Endeavor Information Systems ( www.endinfosys.com ), one ofthe leading worldwide providers of library management software, Tuesdayannounced that Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University hasselected Voyager, the company's flagship integrated library systems (ILS), toimprove efficiency in library automation, resource sharing and patron access. http://www.endinfosys.com MUSIC WEBSITE... SACRAMENTO, Calif.: Net Music Makers.com Tuesday announced plans to launchits online collaborative website in March 2007. http://www.netmusicmakers.com CVRD NOTES... RIO DE JANEIRO: Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (CVRD) announces that it plans tooffer ten-year and thirty-year notes in the global capital markets through itswholly-owned subsidiary Vale Overseas Limited. http://www.cvrd.com.br ISUPPLI MERGES... EL SEGUNDO, Calif.: Market-intelligence firms iSuppli Corp. of the UnitedStates and Data Garage Inc. of Japan Monday announced they have combined forcesto create the leading analysis firm covering the electronics industry in Japanand around the world. http://www.isuppli.com BOWMANSPOKER EXPANDS... LONDON: BowmansPoker.com ( www.bowmanspoker.com ) is poised to take the Eastby storm, as it launches its sexy online poker brand in both Russian andChinese. BENCHMARK NOTES... WASHINGTON: Fannie Mae is issuing US$3 billion 10-year benchmarket notes tobe priced on November 15, 2006. http://www.fanniemae.com NEW CAPACITOR... REENVILLE, S.C.: Always looking toward the future for capacitance solutions,KEMET Corporation Monday announced a new MLCC capacitor that utilizes a softtermination to help decrease the chances of board flex cracking. http://www.kemet.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of threesecurities issues amounting to a total of US$285 million on Nov 23 and 24, 2006at a redemption price equal to 100 percent of the principal amount redeemedplus accrued interest. http://www.fanniemae.com CLEARCUBE APPOINTS... AUSTIN, Texas: ClearCube Technology, the market leader in centralizedcomputing solutions, Monday announced the appointment of Amir Husain as chieftechnology officer. http://www.clearcube.com AWARD WINNERS... HOLTSVILLE, N.Y.: Symbol Technologies, Inc., The Enterprise MobilityCompany, Monday announced the winners of its third annual Enterprise MobilitySolutions Awards. http://www.symbol.com MICREL INTRODUCES... SAN JOSE, Calif.: Micrel Inc., an industry leader in analog, high bandwidthcommunications and Ethernet IC solutions, Monday launched the MIC5232, a new10mA LDO, offering power saving features for extending battery life. http://www.micrel.com WLAN CHIPSET... STOCKHOLM: Nanoradio and DELTA will be partners to bring the world leadingNRX700 low power WLAN chipset and the NRG720 family of WLAN modules to highvolume production. http://www.delta.dk http://www.nanoradio.com ACTIVE CABLE... TAMPA, Fla.: Quellan, a leader in analog signal integrity devices and GoreIndustries, a leader in advanced interconnects, Monday announced theavailability of the industry's first Active Cable that will transform datacenter cable interconnects from passive, non-active devices to intelligentroadways for use in today's mega data centers. http://www.quellan.com www.gore.com PROSTRATE CANCER... MACCLESFIELD: New research presented Monday at the 28th Congress of theSociete Internationale d'Urologie (SIU), Cape Town, South Africa demonstratesthat adjuvant androgen-deprivation therapy with ZOLADEX (goserelin) canconsistently control prostate cancer, allowing men to out-live their disease(1). http://www.astrazeneca.com http://www.astrazenecapressoffice.com http://www.zoladex.com http://www.prostateline.com DANCING CAMPAIGN... BENNEKOM: On Thursday 16 November at 11:15 a.m. more than 200,000 Dutchpeople will be dancing simultaneously for five minutes as part of the 'Get theNetherlands Dancing' campaign, an initiative by the Dutch Institute for Sportand Exercise (NISB). http://www.heelnederlanddanst.nl VOIP SUPPORT... DENVER, Co.: Integrated Research, developers of PROGNOSIS system performancemonitoring and management solutions, Monday announced a new strategicinitiative to expand its IP telephony and Voice over IP(VoIP) managementsoftware to support three additional IP communication platforms. www.prognosis.com RADIANCY LAUNCHES... ORANGEBURG, N.Y.: Radiancy Inc. Monday announced the international launch ofMistral, a light-based, multi-applications platform device for hair removal,skin photo rejuvenation, acne clearance and psoriasis care at Medica Dusseldorfand CosmoProf Asia, 2006. http://www.radiancy.com (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited,translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net forfull-text versions.)