SYDNEY--18 Jan--AsiaNet/InfoQuest UNIVERSITY NETWORK... BANGKOK, Thailand: Datacraft, the region's leadingindependent IT solutions and services company, has been awardeda US$1.4 million multi-phase contract by Assumption University,one of Thailand's leading independent institutions of higherlearning. www.datacraft-asia.com www.eLearning.au.edu www.scBuilding.info www.au.edu ONLINE PAYMENTS... TOKYO: For the fifth consecutive year, Japanese credit cardprocessing firm ZERO has chosen Datacraft's Security HealthCheck service to help manage and limit the risks associatedwith online payments. www.datacraft-asia.com CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES... SYDNEY: New research has revealed that high blood pressurecauses up to 66 per cent of cardiovascular diseases, such asheart disease and stroke, in the Asia-Pacific Region. www.thegeorgeinstitute.org PANACEA PHARMACEUTICALS... GAITHERSBURG, Maryland: Panacea Pharmaceuticals, Inc. hasannounced the initiation of the pivotal, prospectivemulti-centre clinical study to evaluate the diagnosticperformance of PC Detect, the Company's prostate cancerscreening test. www.panaceapharma.com www.panacea-labs.com CHINA CALLS... VIENNA, Virginia: SunRocket, one of the nation'sfastest-growing Internet phone service providers, has announcedan unprecedented new calling plan for U.S. residents that dropsthe rate on all calls to China to one cent per minute. www.SunRocket.com www.SunRocketChina.com NAVINI SELECTED... RICHARDSON, Texas and SOFIA: Max Telecom, Bulgaria'stelecommunications operator with licenses for a nationwideWiMAX network, will be using mobile WiMAX 802.16e equipmentfrom Navini Networks, the global leader in providingplug-n-play personal broadband wireless access solutions withthe most experience in commercial deployments. www.navini.com www.maxtelecom.bg NAVINI DEMONSTRATES... RICHARDSON, California: In a global first, Navini Networks,the leader in commercially deployed personal broadband wirelessnetworks, demonstrated Smart beamforming on the Ripwave MXmobile WiMAX platform live at the Wireless CommunicationsAssociation exhibition and conference at the Fairmont hotel inSan Jose. www.navini.com MARKETING PARTNERSHIP... SYDNEY and SHANGHAI: Expedia, Inc., the world's leadingonline travel company, has announced a partnership with JinJiang International Hotel Management Company, the largest hotelowner and operator in China. www.expedia.com www.expediainc.com/ ICIS REPORT... SINGAPORE: ICIS, the world's leading information provider tothe chemical and oil industry, has announced the launch of aprice forecast report for the Benzene-Styrene-Polystyrene-EPSproduct chain covering the Asia market. This is the secondAsian product chain included in ICIS forecasting. www.icis.com/forecasting www.icis.com www.reedbusiness.co.uk DIGI LAUNCHES... MINNETONKA, Minnesota: Digi International has introduced aUMTS/HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) version of itsConnectPort WAN VPN - an upgradeable, commercial grade WirelessWAN (WWAN) router. www.digi.com www.digi.com/products/wireless/connectportwanvpn.jsp ON2 TECHNOLOGIES... TARRYTOWN, New York: On2 Technologies, Inc., a leader invideo compression software and solutions, announced that itwill showcase TrueMobile, its VP7 based mobile video system for2.5G, 3G and 4G networks, at the GSM-3G India Conference beingheld in Mumbai, India on January 22-23, 2007. www.on2.com KUDELSKI ACQUISITION... CHESEAUX and SAN FRANCISCO: Kudelski Group, a global leaderin content protection and related digital televisiontechnologies, announced that it has closed its previouslyannounced stock purchase transaction with Liberty MediaCorporation and has acquired voting control of OpenTV Corp., aleading provider of solutions for the delivery of digital andinteractive television. www.opentv.com www.nagra.com CHECKPOINT PARTNERS... HONG KONG: Checkpoint Systems, a leading manufacturer andmarketer of RF and RFID-based solutions for identification,tracking, security and merchandising applications, hasannounced its involvement in a series of UHF RFID technologytrials supervised by the European Telecommunications StandardsInstitute (ETSI) task group 34 (TG34). www.checkpointasiapac.com www.checkpointasiapacific.com www.metrogroup.de www.etsi.org (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited,translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net forfull-text versions.)