SYDNEY--8 May--AsiaNet/InfoQuest GEOTHERMAL ENERGY... SYDNEY: Allegiance Mining NL, through its wholly-ownedsubsidiary Geothermal Energy Tasmania Pty Ltd, plansinvestigating the potential of deeply buried granites inwestern Tasmania to generate geothermal energy. www.allegiance-mining.com.au SHANGHAI'S BIRTH... SHANGHAI: Shanghai's ubiquitous image today? Steel and glassneedles declaring the city's modernity, asserting importance inthe international economy. http://www.odysseypublications.com FIRST TITLE... SANTA ANA, BEIJING: First American Title Insurance Company'sInternational Division has announced the establishment of FirstTitle (Beijing) Real Estate Guaranty Co., Ltd., the firstwholly foreign-owned enterprise dealing with real estateguaranty in China. http://www.firstam.com PLAYSTATION CALLING... MOUNTAIN VIEW: JAJAH, the innovative web-based callingcompany, have brought their solution to the Sony PlayStationplatform, allowing gamers to initiate free or ultra-low costglobal phone calls directly from their game console. http://www.jajah.com PROTELOS TREATMENT... COPENHAGEN: New, long term data presented at the 34thEuropean Symposium on Calcified Tissues this week underscorethe unmatchable, long-term efficacy and quality of lifeimprovement offered by the anti-osteoporotic treatment,Protelos (strontium ranelate). BIOMETRIC PROCEDURES... WASHINGTON: The U.S. Department of Homeland Securityannounced on Friday that it intends to integrate biometric exitprocedures into the existing international visitor departureprocess. http://www.dhs.gov/us-visit ACQUSITION COMPLETE... SOUTH MILWAUKEE: Bucyrus International, Inc., one of theworld's leading manufacturers of large-scale excavationequipment used in surface mining, says that it has completedits previously announced acquisition of DBT GmbH, a subsidiaryof RAG Coal International AG, and a leading designer,manufacturer and marketer of high technology system solutionsfor underground coal mining. http://www.bucyrus.com MARKET RESEARCH... ROCKVILLE: MarketResearch.com, the leading source for marketresearch information and services, further broadened itsproduct and service offerings on Friday by acquiring theThomson Business Intelligence Market Research (Profound)service. http://www.marketresearch.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principalamount of one securities issue amounting to a total of US$50million on May 15, 2007 at a redemption price equal to 100 percent of the principal amount redeemed plus accrued interest. http://www.fanniemae.com OUTSOURCING DEAL... AMSTERDAM and TEANECKL: Cognizant, a leading provider ofglobal IT and business process outsourcing services, andOrdina, one of the fastest-growing and largest servicesproviders in consulting, ICT and outsourcing in the Netherlandsand Belgium, have announced that they have entered into a majoroutsourcing arrangement with Rabobank, the largest bankinggroup in the Netherlands. http://www.cognizant.com COGNIZANT AGREEMENT... AMSTERDAM and TEANECK: Cognizant, a leading provider ofglobal IT and business process outsourcing services and Ordina,a leading Dutch IT services provider have announced a strategicalliance focused on combining Cognizant's proven globaldelivery model with Ordina's strong track record in deliveringconsulting, ICT and outsourcing solutions to the Dutch andBelgian market. http://www.cognizant.com AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.