SYDNEY--6 Mar--AsiaNet/InfoQuest MICREL LAUNCHES... SAN JOSE: Micrel Inc., an industry leader in analog, highbandwidth communications and Ethernet IC solutions, haslaunched the MIC3289, a 1.2MHz PWM White LED driver featuringInternal Schottky Diode and true single wire digital interfacefor brightness control and enable. http://www.micrel.com CLEVELAND-CLIFFS ACQUIRES... CLEVELAND: Cleveland-Cliffs Inc on Tuesday announced that ithas completed the previously announced transaction to acquire a30 per cent interest in the Amapa Mine, a Brazilian iron oreproject. http://www.cleveland-cliffs.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae announced on Tuesday that itwill issue new 3-Year Benchmark Notes worth US$3 billion. http://www.fanniemae.com REPORT LAUNCHED... SINGAPORE: ICIS, the world's leading information providerfor the chemical and oil industries, has announced the launchof the Asia Propylene to Polypropylene monthly report, theeighth product chain included in ICIS forecasting. http://www.reedbusiness.co.uk http://www.icis.com/forecasting http://www.icis.com GREATEST BARTENDER... LAS VEGAS: Eric Martinez, a 26-year old T.G.I. Friday'srestaurants bartender from Caloocan Manila, Philippines wascrowned "Greatest Bartender in the World" at Club Rain at ThePalms casino resort in Las Vegas last night, following anintense finals competition between eight of the bestmixologists from around the globe. http://www.fridays.com http://www.pickupstix.com FRONT-END MODULES... WARREN, N.J: ANADIGICS, Inc., a leading provider ofsemiconductor solutions in the rapidly growing broadbandwireless and wireline communications markets, introduced at3GSM World Congress a new family of front-end modules that willhelp streamline 3G designs. http://www.anadigics.com DOTMOBI REGISTERS... DUBLIN, and WASHINGTON: dotMobi, the company behind thefirst and only internet address designed specifically formobile phones, has announced more than 400,000 .mobi domainshave been registered in 104 countries since the domain's launchin October 2006. http://www.dotmobi.mobi FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principalamount of three securities issues amounting to a total ofUS$303.13 million on March 15, 2007 at a redemption price equalto 100 per cent of the principal amount redeemed plus accruedinterest. http://www.fanniemae.com Z CORP RELEASES... BURLINGTON: Z Corporation on Monday took another giant stepin its mission to make high-definition color 3D printingavailable to the masses with the release of the ZPrinter(R)450. http://www.zcorp.com LIVE AUCTION... MUNICH: On May 14th and 15th in Hotel Kempinski Airport,Munich, the first live auction will be held of patents,licences and brand rights of European origin. http://www.IP-AUCTION.eu NCIRCLE AVAILABLE... SAN FRANCISCO: nCircle, the leading provider of agentlesssecurity risk and compliance management solutions, hasannounced immediate availability of the nCircle Certified PCIScan Service. http://www.ncircle.com FOSRENOL LAUNCHED... BASINGSTOKE: Shire recently announced the launch of FOSRENOLin the United Kingdom following the product's successfulapproval for the control of hyperphosphataemia in patients withchronic kidney disease on haemodialysis or continuousambulatory peritoneal dialysis. http://www.shire.com UBLOX SHOWCASE... THALWIL: u-blox AG, the leading Swiss provider of GPSreceiver technology, will showcase u-blox 5, a Galileo-readyA-GPS chip featuring an acquisition performance of less thanone second, at the 2007 CeBIT trade show in Hanover, Germany. http://www.u-blox.com http://www.u-blox.com/news/u-blox_5.jpg OMIKRON PRESENTS... PFORZHEIM, Omikron presents internationally uniquecomparison technology at the CeBIT 2007 http://www.omikron.com SURF PARTNERS... YOKNE'AM and SEOUL: Surf Communication Solutions, a leadingdeveloper of high-capacity multimedia processing boards for thetelecommunication infrastructure field, announced on Mondaythat it has partnered with ATR, a Seoul-based provider ofhardware platforms and application development services to CTIcustomers active in areas such as industrial FA, switchingsystems, UMS, VMS, and VoIP. http://www.surf-com.com http://www.atr.co.kr FASHION WEEK... PARIS: The house of Louis Vuitton, with Marc Jacobs asArtistic Director, closed fashion week in Paris with it's FallWinter 2007-2008 collection under an ephemeral marquee in theprestigious surroundings of the Cour Carree du Louvre. http://www.vuitton.com http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070304/CLSU016-a http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070304/CLSU016-b http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070304/CLSU016-c http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070304/CLSU016-d http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070304/CLSU016-e http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070304/CLSU016-f http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070304/CLSU016-g http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070304/CLSU016-h http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070304/CLSU016-i MICREL LAUNCHES... SAN JOSE: Micrel Inc., an industry leader in analog, highbandwidth communications and Ethernet IC solutions, on Mondayannounced the MIC2807, a high performance power management ICthat provides a complete RF solution for UMTS, EDGE, CDMA2000and WCDMA handsets. http://www.micrel.com RADIO RECEIVER... SAN JOSE: Micrel Inc., an industry leader in analog, highbandwidth communications and Ethernet IC solutions, hasannounced the MICRF211, the Company's newest QwikRadio(R) RFreceiver IC solution. http://www.micrel.com LATEST MEMBER... SAN JOSE: Micrel Inc., an industry leader in analog, highbandwidth communications and Ethernet IC solutions, hasintroduced the latest member of the QwikRadio RF family, theMICRF112. http://www.micrel.com LA PERLA DIRECTOR... AMSTERDAM: La Perla International Living, a luxury realestate developer and one of the leading brands in creating andproviding a carefree International Living experience, has takenon Sipke Feenstra (42) as its Global Director Marketing &Sales. http://www.laperlainternationalliving.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principalamount of one securities issues amounting to a total of US$250million on March 13, 2007 at a redemption price equal to 100per cent of the principal amount redeemed plus accruedinterest. http://www.fanniemae.com CMP PUBLISHES... MANHASSET and ANDHERI: Beginning in April CMP Technology, atargeted media and marketing solutions company serving thetechnology industry worldwide, will publish two of its leadingchannel and enterprise properties -- CRN and Network Computing-- in India. http://www.prnewswire.com/comp/181993.html http://www.cmp.com http://www.crn.com http://www.nwc.com http://www.NWCReports.com http://www.unitedbusinessmedia.com AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.