SYDNEY--27 Mar--AsiaNet/InfoQuest NICKEL ZONE... SYDNEY: Emerging Australian nickel miner Allegiance MiningNL has expanded the North Avebury Extended nickel ore zone atthe Avebury Nickel Mine located near Zeehan, West CoastTasmania. www.allegiance-mining.com.au www.allegiance-mining.com.au/default.asp?id=21 ARKADIN LAUNCHES... NEW YORK: Arkadin SA, a global provider of audio and webconferencing services, has announced its expansion intomainland China and the launch of Arkadin GCT, through apartnership with GCT, a local conferencing service provider.Arkadin GCT is headquartered in Beijing and has local sales andsupport offices in Chongqing and Shanghai. www.arkadin.com AUSTRALIAN JUNK... SYDNEY: After cleaning up North America, 1800-GOT-JUNK?, theworld's largest junk-removal service, has announced its plan tosweep Australia with shiny blue trucks and friendly, uniformeddrivers. PROOFPOINT EXPANDS... CUPERTINO, California: Proofpoint, Inc., the leader inlarge-enterprise messaging security solutions, has announced astrategic channel partnership with Techplus Distribution Ltd.,a leading Australian information technology distributor, tohelp meet the growing demand in the Asia-Pacific region formessaging security solutions. www.techplus.com.au www.proofpoint.com COGNIZANT CITED... TEANECK, New Jersey: Cognizant, a leading provider of IT andbusiness process outsourcing services, has announced that itwas among the select companies that Forrester invited toparticipate in The Forrester Wave: North American ApplicationsOutsourcing Q1 2007. In this evaluation, Cognizant wasrecognized as a leader in the report and cited as the topoffshore provider for North American applicationsoutsourcing. www.cognizant.com www.cognizant.com/html/insights/forresterwave.asp www.cognizant.com/go/AOWave ENZASTAURIN GRANTED... INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana: Eli Lilly and Company announced thatthe European Medicines Agency has granted enzastaurin, aninvestigational, multi-targeted, oral, cancer agent, orphandrug designation for the treatment of diffuse large B-celllymphoma. www.lillytrials.com www.clinicaltrials.gov ANALYSTS APPOINTED... LONDON: First State Investments confirmed it has furtherstrengthened its Property Securities team with two newappointments in New York. Barry Oxford has joined as SeniorPortfolio Manager, and Marc Lederman as Portfolio Manager. www.firststateinvestments.com MARVELL SOLUTIONS... SANTA CLARA, California: Marvell, the leader in storage,communications, and consumer silicon solutions, announced thatthe Company's TopDog WLAN solutions support the new IEEE802.11n Draft 2.0 specification as approved during the latestround of balloting by the IEEE 802.11 Working Group. Thisratification is proof of the increasing maturity of 802.11ntechnology and its growing momentum toward internationalstandardization. www.marvell.com EMBEDDED COMPONENT... ROUSSET and WESTON, Florida: Atmel Corporation, a globalleader in the development and fabrication of advancedsemiconductor solutions, and Micrium, a leading provider ofhigh-quality embedded software components, have announced thatMicrium now supports Atmel's full line of AT91SAM7 and AT91SAM9ARM-based microcontrollers. www.micrium.com www.micrium.com/atmel www.atmel.com www.atmel.com/products/AT91 SAVI NETWORKS... BANGKOK and MOUNTAIN VIEW, California: Savi Networks andWestern Digital have dramatically cut time and costs fromcustoms clearances while boosting security measures byautomating shipment information from active Radio FrequencyIdentification seals on freight transportation trucks inThailand. www.savi.com www.savinetworks.com www.tiffaedi.com ATMEL INTRODUCES... SAN JOSE, California: Atmel Corporation, has introduced alow-cost AVR(R)32 Network Gateway design kit based on its32-bit AT32AP7000 application processor. The AVR32 32-bitarchitecture, introduced in 2006, is optimized to achieve moreprocessing per MHz and is especially suited for computeintensive algorithms. www.atmel.com www.atmel.com/AVR32 MINING OPERATIONS... HILLSBORO, Oregon: FEI Company and Australian-based JKTechhave teamed to combine their innovative software and scanningelectron microscope technologies, delivering innovativeapplications that greatly enhance minerals processing andimprove evaluation of exploration targets for miningoperations. www.fei.com www.jktech.com.au STARPHARMA JOINS... MELBOURNE: Starpharma, a leader in the development ofdendrimer nanotechnology for pharmaceutical and otherapplications, announced that it will upgrade its Level 1American Depository Receipts program to International OTCQX, anew premium market tier in the U.S. for internationalexchange-listed companies, operated by Pink Sheets, LLC. www.starpharma.com www.pinksheets.com JV AGREEMENT... SHANGHAI, and CHICAGO: CITIC East China (Group) Corp., Ltd.and Calyon Financial Hong Kong Ltd. have announced the signingof a joint venture agreement, forming a new futures brokerageentity established under the Closer Economic PartnershipArrangement. www.calyonfinancial.com www.calyon.com ELEMENT SIX... ASCOT: Element Six Ltd. is taking part in a major EuropeanCommission funded project aimed at developing new technologiesfor quantum computing. Researchers world-wide are interested indeveloping practical ways of making quantum computers sincethey have the potential to bring dramatic improvements incomputer performance and information processing. www.e6.com HK OFFICE... SYDNEY: Two Way Limited has established an office in HongKong to ensure it is better positioned to service existingcustomers in the region, while also continuing to investigatebusiness growth opportunities. www.way2play.com www.twowaytv.com.au EVOGENIX MILESTONE... SYDNEY: EvoGenix Limited has announced confirmation bycollaboration partner GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) of successfulcompletion of the first project between the two companies.Achievement of the target set for the project triggers amilestone payment to EvoGenix by GSK. AIDS MARCH... NEW DELHI and LOS ANGELES: AHF/IndiaCares, together withIndia Network of Positive People, Delhi Network of PositivePeople, the Lovelife Foundation, Positive Women Network,ActionAID, Human Rights Law Network and numerous other AIDSservice organizations, hosted a lively AIDS treatment march inNew Delhi Saturday calling for universal access to lifesavingAIDS treatment in that country. JETSTAR LAUNCHES... SYDNEY: Qantas Group value based international airlineJetstar has launched in Japan, offering a daily service betweenJapan and Australia, flying direct from Osaka to Brisbane andonto Sydney. AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.