SYDNEY--9 Feb--AsiaNet/InfoQuest RING OPERA... HAMBURG: Simone Young, Music Director and General Manager ofthe Hamburg State Opera presented Friday her plans for a new"Ring"-production. ACQUISITION COMPLETE... ST. PAUL: Merrill Corporation, a leading global provider oftechnology-enabled services for the legal, financial, realestate and other corporate markets, announced on Friday thatWordWave International Pty Ltd, its wholly-owned subsidiary,has completed the acquisition of ComputerReporters. http://www.merrillcorp.com http://www.computerreporters.com K-SWISS TENNIS... WESTLAKE VILLAGE: K-Swiss has been a leading brand in thetennis category for over forty years, and it was alive and wellat the Australian Open. http://www.kswiss.com TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATION... SAN DIEGO: Qualcomm Incorporated, together with HuaweiTechnologies Co., Ltd., has announced that the world's firstdemonstration of Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS)mobile TV technology will be at 3GSM World Congress 2007 inBarcelona, Spain. http://www.qualcomm.com http://www.huawei.com SUPPLY CHAIN... DALLAS: Supply chain management companies handle one ormore, but not all, of the following components of SCM:strategy, sourcing, manufacturing, logistics, and returns. http://www.winnowinc.com WHITE PAPER... LONDON: "Abuse of State Authority in the RussianFederation," a new White Paper issued yesterday by RobertAmsterdam, Mikhail Khodorkovsky's international defensecounsel, says the United States and Western Europeangovernments have failed to effectively protect and advancetheir own values and foreign policy interests in Russia. http://www.robertamsterdam.com ENERGY JV... ROCHESTER HILLS and TIANJIN: Energy Conversion Devices, Inc.(ECD Ovonics) has announced that United Solar Ovonic, itswholly owned subsidiary, has entered into an agreement to forma joint venture with Tianjin Jinneng Investment Company (TJIC)to establish a 30-megawatt (MW) photovoltaic (PV) moduleassembly facility in Tianjin, the People's Republic of China. http://www.ovonic.com http://www.uni-solar.com VIRGIN PARTNERSHIP... BUFFALO: Synacor, a leader in the development and deliveryof internet tools and portals for the cable and telecomindustries, announced its partnership with Virgin Media,enabling the company to provide a completely new userexperience for its broadband customers. http://www.virginmedia.com http://www.synacor.com EURAND APPOINTS... MILAN and DAYTON: Eurand, a specialty pharmaceuticalcompany, has announced the appointment of Manya S. Deehr asChief Legal Officer and General Counsel. http://www.eurand.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principalamount of eight securities issues amounting to a total ofUS$315 million on February 18 and 20 at a redemption priceequal to 100 per cent of the principal amount redeemed plusaccrued interest. http://www.fanniemae.com PEPSICO APPOINTS... PURCHASE: PepsiCo announced on Thursday that Derek Yach,former Representative of the Director General at the WorldHealth Organization, has been appointed the company's Director- Global Health Policy, a new position to direct the company'sglobal health and wellness policy. http://www.pepsico.com SPIRIT REPORTS... WICHITA: Spirit AeroSystems Holdings, Inc reported fourthquarter revenues of $852 million, up 53 per cent from the sameperiod last year. http://www.spiritaero.com SONUS EXHIBITS... WESTFORD: Sonus Networks, Inc., a leading supplier ofservice provider Voice over IP (VoIP) infrastructure solutions,announced on Thursday that the company will be exhibiting atthe 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, February 11-15,2007. http://3gsmworldcongress.com http://www.sonusnet.com PEPSICO REVENUE... PURCHASE: PepsiCo reported a continued strong performance inthe fourth quarter of 2006, reporting a 3 per cent rise in netrevenue. http://www.pepsico.com MICREL LAUNCHES... SAN JOSE: Micrel Inc., an industry leader in analog, highbandwidth communications and Ethernet IC solutions, haslaunched the MIC2810, a highly efficient, flexible powermanagement IC that provides three output voltages and a poweron reset in a tiny 3mm x 3mm MLF(R)-16 package. http://www.micrel.com WINDOWS SUPPORT... OBERURSEL: Utimaco - The Data Security Company adds supportfor Windows Vista BitLocker Drive Encryption with Utimaco'ssecurity suite SafeGuard Enterprise [US-Version: at the RSAConference in San Francisco] [EU-Version: at CeBIT Fair inHanover, Germany]. http://www.utimaco.com http://www.secureitalliance.org ULTIMACO SAFEGUARD... OBERURSEL: Utimaco will be launching its SafeGuardEnterprise security suite at CeBIT 2007 (March 15th - 21st). http://www.utimaco.com/products VANTRIX CEO... MONTREAL: Vantrix Corporation is pleased to announce thatManish Jha, a veteran mobile media executive, has joined thecompany as Chief Executive Officer. http://www.vantrix.com ARROW PROMOTES... HONG KONG: Arrow Asia Pac Ltd. has announced a franchisedistribution agreement in India where Arrow will promoteLuminary Micro's award-winning 32-bit ARM(R)Cortex(TM)-M3-based Stellaris family of microcontrollerproducts to the rapidly growing India market. http://www.arrowasia.com (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agenciesdistributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.)