SYDNEY--5 Dec--AsiaNet/InfoQuest SUN INTRODUCES... HONG KONG: Sun Microsystems, Inc. has introduced its NetraDataplane Software Suite for the telecom market - the firststandardized tool to quickly and efficiently deliver dataplaneapplications for the aggregation, transport and routing ofvoice, video, and data for the telecommunications network. http://sun.com SOURCING SOLUTION... AMSTERDAM and SINGAPORE: Quadrem has released a new sourcingsolution, SourceCentre, that simplifies and streamlines spotbuys, which often involve high volumes of sourcing events withhigh volumes of suppliers. http://www.quadrem.com JAPANESE MARKET... BEIJING: Baidu.com, Inc., the leading Chinese languageinternet search provider, announced on Tuesday its intention toenter the Japanese search market in 2007. CORRIDOR STATUS... KUALA LUMPUR: Entellium, a global developer of on-demandCustomer Relationship Management software, has announced thatit has received Multimedia Super Corridor Malaysia status fromthe Malaysian government. http://www.entellium.com CANADIAN BANK... SHANGHAI: Scotiabank has launched the opening of the onlyCanadian bank branch in Shanghai, complementing the largestpresence of any Canadian bank in mainland China http://www.scotiabank.com LEUKEMIA TREATMENT... BUFFALO: Patients treated with lenalidomide for relapsedchronic lymphocytic leukemia or disease that no longer respondsto chemotherapy have experienced a major response to therapy,according to a phase II study conducted by Asher Chanan-Khan,MD, Department of Medicine, Roswell Park Cancer Institute. http://www.roswellpark.org JAPAN SUBSIDIARY... CHATSWORTH, TOKYO: DataDirect Networks Inc., the storageperformance and capacity leader, announced on Tuesday that thecompany has opened a fully-owned subsidiary in Japan,DataDirect Networks Japan. http://www.datadirectnet.com REGISTRATION AVAILABLE... WASHINGTON: General registration is now available for the2007 BIO International Convention, sponsored by theBiotechnology Industry Organization. http://www.bio.org http://www.bio2007.org AIA REPRESENTATIVES... ARLINGTON: About 30 representatives of AIA member companiesarrived in Delhi, India and began six days of meetings andoutreach Monday in the association's first-ever trade missionto the country. http://www.aia-aerospace.org BARIX TREATMENT... ZURICH: Barix AG, a pioneer in IP-based audio, Intercom andmonitoring, announced on Monday The Alfred Wegener Institutefor Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven, Germany is usingBarix Instreamer IP audio encoding and Barionet IP automationdevices to conduct underwater acoustic observation of marinelife near Antarctica. http://www.barix.com http://www.awi.de\acoustics\livestream SUPPLY SUMMIT... SHANGHAI: The first-ever summit for greater cooperation anddevelopment between the Chinese and North American automotivesupply chains will be held on April 23 - 24, 2007, in Shanghai,jointly sponsored by the Automotive Industry Action Group andChina Association of Automobile Manufacturers. http://www.aiag.org http://www.apsis.com.cn http://www.caam.org.cn VERIZON SELECTED... BASKING RIDGE: AMI Semiconductor, a leader in the design andmanufacture of silicon solutions for the automotive, medicaland industrial markets, earlier this year selected VerizonBusiness to design, deploy and manage the company'sconsolidated global wide area network infrastructure. http://www.verizon.com http://www.verizon.com/news INNOVATION AWARD... LONDON: The 2006 Frost & Sullivan European TechnologyInnovation of the Year Award is conferred on Astron ClinicaLtd. of the United Kingdom in recognition of its novel skinimaging technology - Spectrophotometric IntracutaneousAnalysis. http://www.astronclinica.com http://www.frost.com SIDLEY AUSTIN... HONG KONG: International law firm Sidley Austin acted asU.S. counsel to the initial purchasers JPMorgan and UBS inconnection with Greentown China Holdings Limited's issuance ofits US$400 million 9 per cent Senior Notes due 2013, including"high yield" covenants, pursuant to Regulation S and Rule144A. SANYO CUSTOMER... OSAKA, TEL-AVIV: Waves Audio Ltd., a leading provider ofaudio signal processing technologies, announced on Tuesday thatSANYO Electric Co., Ltd. is its first customer for its newMaxxVoice(R) technology in their new mobile phone products. http://www.waves.com http://www.maxx.com http://www.global-sanyo.com RADIAN OFFERS... HONG KONG: Radian Group Inc., a global credit riskmanagement company, has announced that its subsidiary, RadianInsurance Inc., is the first to begin offering mortgageinsurance in Hong Kong on loans that are amortized up to 40years. http://www.radian.biz PHARMA SUMMIT... NEW YORK: Pharmaceutical R&D Global Summit," taking placeFebruary 4- 7, 2007 in New Delhi, India, is a new eventorganized by ALM's Strategic Research Institute designed tobring together pharma and biotech executives from around theworld to gather strategic information and network amongst eachother to facilitate new investment and foster newpartnerships. http://www.srinstitute.com http://www.alm.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principalamount of one securities issue amounting to a total of US$100million on December 14, 2006 at a redemption price equal to 100per cent of the principal amount redeemed plus accruedinterest. http://www.fanniemae.com BIG TIME... EL SEGUNDO: After years of coming close to breaking into thetop-10 global semiconductor rankings, Advanced Micro DevicesInc. and Hynix Semiconductor Inc. finally hit the big time in2006, according to a preliminary ranking from iSuppli Corp. http://www.isuppli.com NETOMAT SELECTED... NEW YORK: netomat, Inc. has been selected by the WorldEconomic Forum as a Technology Pioneer. netomat is one of 47Technology Pioneers selected from over 225 nominees by theworld's leading venture capital and technology companies. http://www.netomathub.com STUDY REVEALS... BANGKOK: Hewitt Associates Study reveals the average overallsalary increase budget in thailand ranged from 6.3 per cent to6.6 per cent in 2006. http://www.hewittasia.com KIT LAUNCHED... SAN JOSE: deCarta, the leading supplier of softwareplatforms and services for the Location-Based Servicesindustry, has announced the launch of the deCarta NavigationSoftware Developer Kit. http://www.decarta.com AMTEL ANNOUNCES... SAN JOSE: Atmel Corporation, announced on Tuesday that itsATF15xxBE family of ROHS-compliant, 1.8V CPLDs with standbypower consumption of just 5 uA -- over 60 per cent less powerdrain than the nearest competing CPLD. Operating powerconsumption is 1 mA at 20 MHz or less. http://www.atmel.com QUELLAN VP... SANTA CLARA: Quellan Incorporated, a leader in RF noisecancellation ICs, announced on Tuesday the addition of FrankEllis as Vice President of World-Wide Sales. http://www.quellan.com DIABETES DATA... CAPE TOWN: The International Diabetes Federation haspublished new data indicating the enormity of the diabetesepidemic. http://www.unitefordiabetes.org http://www.eatlas.idf.org/media HEART ATTACK... LONDON: The risk of heart attack can be reduced by more than50 percent by combining a cholesterol-reducing drug,atorvastatin calcium, with a blood pressure-lowering drug,amlodipine besylate, and the benefits are evident for heartattacks as early as 90 days after the start of treatment. http://www.prnewswire.com/media http://www.ascotstudy.org SINGAPORE SALARIES... SINGAPORE: Hewitt study reveals average overall salaryincrease budget in Singapore ranged from 4.3 per cent to 4.7per cent in 2006. http://www.hewittasia.com PHILIPPINES SALARIES... MANILA: Hewitt study reveals average overall salary increasebudget in the Philippines ranged from 7.6 per cent to 8.8 percent in 2006. http://www.hewittasia.com JAPANESE SALARIES... TOKYO: Hewitt study reveals average overall salary increasebudget in Japan ranged from 2.5 per cent to 2.7 per cent in2006. http://www.hewittasia.com MALAYSIAN SALARIES... KUALA LUMPUR: Hewitt study reveals average overall salaryincrease budget in Malaysia ranged from 6 per cent to 6.4 percent in 2006. http://www.hewittasia.com KOREAN SALARIES... KUALA LUMPUR: Hewitt study reveals average overall salaryincrease budget in Korea Ranged From 6.7 per cent to 7.7 percent in 2006. http://www.hewittasia.com COMMONWEALTH APPOINTS... SYDNEY: The Commonwealth Bank has announced the appointmentof Richard Nunn as the new head of the Commonwealth PrivateBank reporting to Edward Tait, Executive General ManagerPrivate Client Services. AIDS MOU... NEW DELHI, LOS ANGELES: On World AIDS Day 2006, India'sNational AIDS Control Organization and AIDS HealthcareFoundation, the US' largest HIV/AIDS healthcare and preventionand education provider, is pleased to announce they will enterinto a memorandum of understanding. LIGHTING ACQUIRES... SYDNEY: Australia's leading lighting distributor, LightingCorporation Ltd, has enhanced its market share in the NewZealand lighting market with the acquisition of Wellingtonbased Aesthetics Lighting. (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited,translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net forfull-text versions.)