SYDNEY--16 Nov--AsiaNet/InfoQuestHONEYWELL GRANTS... PHOENIX: Honeywell announced that it has granted a licenseto Sony Corporation authorizing it to use a patented Honeywelltechnology that increases the brightness of images and reducesthe appearance of certain interference effects on liquidcrystal display products. www.honeywell.com www.honeywell.com/licensing COLLABORATION ANNOUNCED... SANTA CLARA and SUNNYVALE, California: VeriSilicon HoldingsCo., Ltd. (VeriSilicon), a leading world class ASIC designfoundry and semiconductor IP provider, and MoSys, Inc., theindustry's leading provider of high density system-on-chipembedded memory solutions, have announced the companies arepartnering to further expand the adoption of MoSys' popular1T-SRAM technology by providing VeriSilicon customers seamlessaccess to the patented technology. www.mosys.com www.verisilicon.com WINZIP 11.0... MANSFIELD, Connecticut and OTTAWA: WinZip Computing, a CorelCompany, has announced the official release of WinZip 11.0.WinZip 11.0 reinforces the company's commitment to helping itswide range of users work smarter, safer and faster byintroducing features that streamline work processes that occurbefore and after the actual task of zipping and unzippingfiles. www.winzip.com KOSCOM SELECTS... BEDFORD, Massachusetts: Progress Software Corporation, aglobal supplier of application infrastructure software used todevelop, deploy, integrate and manage business applications,announced that leading Korean financial IT vendor, Koscom, hasselected the Progress Apama Algorithmic Trading Platform toenable algorithmic trading on the Korea Exchange. FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON: Fannie Mae has priced new issue 10-yearbenchmark notes. www.fanniemae.com MICREL LAUNCHES... SAN JOSE, California: Micrel Inc., an industry leader inanalog, high bandwidth communications and Ethernet ICsolutions, announced that it would be previewing the MIC3385,the industry's smallest and thinnest 8 MHz inductorless buckregulator at Electronica 2006 in Munich, Germany. www.micrel.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principalamount of MTN securities issues amounting to a total of US$50million on November 25, 2006 at a redemption price equal to 100per cent of the principal amount redeemed plus accruedinterest. Fannie Mae will also redeem US$7.427 million FINSsecurities issues on November 27, 2006. www.fanniemae.com CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY... NEW YORK: A substantial majority of global businessexecutives (79 per cent) surveyed believe that companies withstrong corporate responsibility track records recover theirreputations faster post-crisis than those with weaker records.This finding did not differ by region. The survey, SafeguardingReputation, was conducted in 11 markets by global publicrelations firm Weber Shandwick with KRC Research. www.webershandwick.com www.krcresearch.com www.webershandwick.com/reputationrx WESTERN WIND... COQUITLAM, Canada: Western Wind Energy has announced that itwill launch a series of countersuits against Pacific HydroLimited of Australia seeking compensation and damages in excessof $1 billion. www.westernwindenergy.com LUNG CANCER... LONDON: A selection of journalists have been officiallyrecognised, during Lung Cancer Awareness Month, for their rolein helping to elevate the often neglected profile of lungcancer, the leading cause of cancer related deaths worldwide,affecting more than 1.2 million people annually. www.lungcancerjournalism.com STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP... MADRID: WISeKey ELA, the WISeKey Affiliate for Spain andLatin America has announced in Madrid a Strategic Partnershipwith Microsoft and IT Deusto for the deployment of theCertifyID BlackBox line of security solutions. VALEO SIGNS... PARIS: Valeo has announced the signature of a contract forthe sale of its Electric Motors & Actuators activity to theJapanese group Nidec for an enterprise value of 165 millioneuros (US$211.6 million). (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited,translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net forfull-text versions.)