SYDNEY--13 Dec--AsiaNet/InfoQuest APPLICATION PARTNER.... PLEASANTON: YourAmigo Tuesday announced it has met the requirements toachieve Omniture Accredited Application Partner status. www.omniture.com FUNDS LAUNCHED... TORONTO: Sextant Capital Management has launched and is open for initialsubscriptions for two funds:. Hybrid2Hedge Resource Fund and Global Water Fund. www.sextantcapital.com PHONE SERVICE... MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.: In an effort to unite friends and families who areapart during the holiday season, JAJAH Tuesday announced that it will providefree global phone service between consumers in 80 countries on Christmas Day. http://www.jajah.com ENERGY PRICES... WASHINGTON: A top Bush administration official warned Tuesday that theincoming Democratic-controlled Congress would raise energy prices if it makesgood on its promise to pass legislation curbing industrial greenhouse gasemissions that are blamed for global warming. http://www.platts.com ATO SELECTS... CANBERRA: Titus Labs, a provider of email and document classificationsoftware that enables organisations to classify, manage and control electronicinformation, Tuesday announced that the Australian Tax Office (ATO) hasselected Titus Labs' Message Classification software for all its email-markingrequirements. www.titus-labs.com THALIDOMIDE EFFECT... ORLANDO, Fla.: Pharmion Corporation Tuesday announced new data presentedfrom two studies of thalidomide in combination therapy, including updatedresults from the pivotal MM-003 study in first-line multiple myeloma, andresults from a study examining the effect of the addition of thalidomide to apost-transplant regimen. http://www.pharmion.com SUPPLY CHAIN... DALLAS, TX.: Winnow Companies Inc. is proud to be the first worldwideComplete Supply Chain Management Services and Solutions Company for businesses. http://www.winnowinc.com PATENT CLAIMS... LAKE MARY, Fla.: FARO Technologies, Inc. Tuesday today announced that keyclaims in Hexagon's '148 patent have been rejected by the Patent & TrademarkOffice (PTO) in a Reexamination Proceeding that had originally been initiatedby FARO. http://www.faro.com NEW STUDY... ORLANDO, Fla.: Sanofi-aventis announced Tuesday that the results of thePREVAIL (Prevention of VTE after Acute Ischemic Stroke with LMWH Enoxaparin)study presented at the 48th American Society of Hematology (ASH) annual meetingin Orlando demonstrated a significant 43% reduction in venous thromboembolism(VTE) events with enoxaparin vs. unfractionated heparin (UFH) in medically-illpatients who suffered an acute ischemic stroke. HK OFFICE... NEW YORK: Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP Tuesday announced thelaunch of its office in Hong Kong, in association with local Hong Kong law firmHuen Wong & Co. http://www.friedfrank.com TRIAL RESULTS... CROSSWICKS, N.J.: At this year's American Society of Hematology (ASH)meeting, final results from two Phase II trials evaluating Revlimid in patientswith myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) were presented. http://www.mds-foundation.org POWER AMPLIFIERS... WARREN, N.J.: ANADIGICS, Inc., a leading supplier of wireless and broadbandsolutions, has announced that the company's WCDMA and GPRS/EDGE poweramplifiers (PAs) have been specified by QUALCOMM for the Mobile Station ModemMSM7200 and MSM6280 chipset reference designs. http://www.anadigics.com LINEAR REGULATOR... MILPITAS, Calif.: California Micro Devices Tuesday announced the CM3212 dualoutput linear regulator for powering DDR (Double Data Rate) memory in digitalconsumer and PC peripheral applications such as digital TVs, set top boxes, DVDplayers and game consoles. http://www.calmicro.com CMD LAUNCHES... MILPITAS, Calif.: California Micro Devices Tuesday unveiled a new family ofPhotonIC white LED drivers capable of supporting a wide range of high currentflash LEDs in today's most advanced handsets. http://www.calmicro.com PAYMENTS SOLUTION... NEW YORK: Computershare, one of the world's leading financial services andtechnology providers for the global securities industry, has partnered withGlobal Transaction Services - a business of Citigroup Corporate and InvestmentBanking - in the provision of international payments services to its corporateclients and their shareholders. http://www.computershare.com http://www.citigroup.com http://www.worldlink.com CERVICAL CANCER... LONDON: A landmark conference of civil society leaders and globalpolicymakers Tuesday called for immediate action to ensure rapid global accessto new cervical cancer vaccines that have the potential to save a quartermillion lives a year. http://www.ghstrat.com SONUS SELECTED... CHELMSFORD, Mass.: Sonus Networks, Inc., a leading supplier of serviceprovider Voice over IP (VoIP) infrastructure solutions, announced Tuesday thateTel, an Internet Service Provider (ISP) and fixed telephony service providerin Central Europe, has selected Sonus' Voice over Broadband (VoBB) networkinfrastructure as the foundation for its next generation voice network. http://www.sonusnet.com (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited,translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net forfull-text versions.)