SYDNEY--28 Nov--AsiaNet/InfoQuestDATA CLEARING... TAMPA, Florida: Syniverse Technologies, a leading providerof mission critical technology services to wirelesstelecommunications companies worldwide, announced that it hassigned a multi-year contract to provide True Move, a GSMoperator in Thailand, with data clearing services that willhelp the company manage its roaming business moreeffectively. www.truecorp.co.th www.syniverse.com www.syniverse.com/content.cfm?section_id=2&service_id=2 & AUTHORIT SOFTWARE... AUCKLAND: AuthorIT Software Corporation, a world leader insoftware for authoring, content management, publishing, andlocalization, has been recognized as one of the fastest growingcompanies on the annual Deloitte / Unlimited Fast 50 list. www.author-it.com ETRADE CENTER... HEIDELBERG and BERLIN: Germany based Empanada Group haslaunched an international and multilingual cooperation platformat www.etradecenter.com . Sellers and buyers, manufacturers anddealers, service providers and freelancers from all over theworld can find national and international business partners,offer their products and services, and check up on those ofothers quickly and precisely. www.etradecenter.com RUGBY AWARD... VICTORIA: Dave Moonlight has won the Custom House Rugby 7sPlayer of the Year award. Ian Taylor, SVP, Global Sales &Marketing for Custom House, presented the award in Victoria,British Columbia, Canada. www.customhouse.com NEUSTAR ACQUIRES... STERLING, Virginia.: NeuStar, Inc., a provider of essentialcommunications services to the global communications andInternet industry, announced that it has acquired Followap,Inc., a UK-based leading provider of mobile instant messagingproducts in Europe and Asia, for approximately US$139 millionin cash. www.neustar.biz www.Followap.com ADVANCED ENERGY... HACHIOJI: Advanced Energy K.K. announced that it willfeature its Aera EPV-100AW exhaust pressure controller duringSEMICON Japan 2006. www.advanced-energy.com STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP... KUALA LUMPUR: EcoSecurities, one of the world's leadingcompanies in the business of originating, creating, and tradingcarbon credits, announces the latest in a series of strategicpartnerships with leading financial institutions. The mostrecent agreement signed with UOB Kay Hian, the largestbrokerage group in Singapore will allow both organizations towork together in order to identify and develop carbon creditprojects, as well as broker and buy carbon credits. www.ecosecurities.com DILON TECHNOLOGIES... NEWPORT NEWS, Virginia: Dilon Technologies LLC (Dilon) hasreached an exclusive sales and distribution rights agreementwith Hongwoo Medico Co., Ltd. of South Korea. Hongwoo MedicoCo., Ltd., a distributor of radiology products since 1989, willnow be the exclusive distributor of the Dilon 6800 Gamma Camerain South Korea. www.dilon.com PROPOSED IPO... GREENWICH, Connecticut: Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. hasannounced that it has filed a registration statement on FormS-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission relatingto the proposed initial public offering of shares of its ClassA common stock. www.wrhambrecht.com www.interactivebrokers.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principalamount of MTN securities issues amounting to a total of US$235million on December 7, 2006 at a redemption price equal to 100per cent of the principal amount redeemed plus accruedinterest. www.fanniemae.com THINK3 INITIATIVE... CINCINNATI: think3 Inc., a leading supplier of productdevelopment solutions and industrial design, reported therehave been more than 10,000 downloads of its free 2D software inonly one month at www.free2Design.org in response to its newfree2Design initiative. www.free2Design.org www.think3.com ACQUISITION ANNOUNCED... READING, England: Atex Group Limited, backed by theNorwegian investment company Kistefos AS, a leading provider ofsoftware solutions and services to the global media industry,has agreed to acquire the business assets of Unisys Media, apart of Unisys Corporation. www.atex.com www.unisys.com NINGBO PLANT... RICHMOND, Virginia: Filtrona Fibertec, a division ofFiltrona plc, has announced that its plant in Ningbo China hasbeen awarded the ISO 9001:2000 certification for qualitymanagement systems by BSI Management Systems, the world'sleading international standards testing, registration andcertification organization. www.filtronafibertec.com CONTRACT AWARDED.... SYDNEY: Renewable energy and water purification specialistEESTech Inc. has been awarded a purchase agreement contractworth US$100 million by Liaoning Fuxin Coal Group of NorthernChina for a 10 megawatt power plant. www.eestechinc.com www.drpr.com.au U-BLOX RELEASES... THALWIL: u-blox AG, the leading Swiss provider of GPS chips,modules and services, has released the TIM-4R GPS module withdead reckoning technology that ensures 100 per cent roadcoverage in even the most challenging GPS signalenvironments. www.u-blox.com www.u-blox.com/news/tim_4r.jpg ATMEL MICROCONTROLLER... NANTES: Atmel Corporation has announced the AT89C51RE2, anew 8O51-based microcontroller with 128 Kbytes of Flash programmemory. www.atmel.com www.atmel.com/dyn/products/product_card.asp?PN=AT89C51RE2 ARROW THERAPEUTICS... LONDON: Arrow Therapeutics, the London based antiviral drugdiscovery and development company, has announced that it hasinitiated a Phase I study of A-831, a small molecule antiviralinhibitor of Hepatitis C infection. www.arrowt.co.uk ASIA NETCOM... SINGAPORE: Asia Netcom announced that it has established asecond Singapore point of presence at the Equinix SingaporeInternet Business Exchange centre. www.asianetcom.com (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited,translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net forfull-text versions.)