SYDNEY--14 Jun--AsiaNet/InfoQuestSECURITY WORKERS... GENEVA: On International Justice Day (15 June), security workers and theirunions in the United States, Germany, Australia, United Kingdom, Poland,Denmark and around Latin America will visit Indian embassies and consulates todemand the Indian government enforce laws designed to protect security workersand improve their living standards. WINBOND INTRODUCES... TAIPEI: Winbond Electronics Corporation Thursday introduced a range of newSideShow-enabled concept devices, created using Winbond controllers andprototyped by Ricavision for Microsoft, wirelessly connected to a PC. QUICKCOMM EXPANDS... SYDNEY: Quickcomm Software Solutions, a leading global provider oftelecommunications expense management (TEM) software and services, Wednesdayannounced the addition of two senior sales staff to its office in Sydney,Australia and further expansion into the Asia Pacific region. VODAFONE PARTNERS... CHICAGO, Ill.: Novarra, the leading provider of next-generation mobileInternet platforms and services, Wednesday announced that its Vision serverversion 6.5 is the content transformation platform used by Vodafone UK'sVodafone Mobile Internet service. PROTEIN SUPPLEMENT... COLUMBIA, Md.: DHA omega-3 innovator Martek Biosciences announced Wednesdaythat its flagship product, life'sDHA, is now featured in Pro-PL proteinsupplement, a product of British Biologicals, a Bangalore based nutraceuticalcompany. SRS PRESENTS... SANTA ANA, Calif.: SRS Labs, Inc., a leading provider of surround sound,audio and voice technologies, announced Wednesday that Alan Kraemer, the ChiefTechnology Officer at SRS Labs, will make a presentation during DisplaySearch'sTV Supply Chain Conference which starts tomorrow at the Sheraton San DiegoHotel and Marina in San Diego, CA. POWER AMPLIFIERS... WARREN, N.J.: ANADIGICS, Inc. Wednesday announced that its new ZeroIC poweramplifiers (PAs) are compatible with 3G reference designs based on the RTR6500and second-generation QSC family of single-chip solution products from QUALCOMM. E-BUSINESS PARTNER... BRISBANE, Australia: Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) has signed apartnership agreement with Quadrem, a leading Oil and Gas e-Marketplaceprovider, for the first phase development of e-tendering and e-procurement. INSIGHT AWARD... SANTA CLARA: Marvell, the leader in storage, communications, and consumersilicon solutions, announced that the Marvell 88W8686 ultra-low-power 90nanometer (nm) WLAN System-on-a-Chip (SoC) solution has received the 2007INSIGHT award for most innovative RF IC transceiver. ANADIGICS AMPLIFIERS... WARREN, N.J.: ANADIGICS, Inc. Wednesday announced that the company's WiMAXpower amplifiers (PAs) have been specified by Beceem Communications for theirBCS200 chipset reference designs. NAVINI SIGNS... RICHARDSON: Navini Networks and ASUS Wednesday announced the signing of anMOU that will bring together the world's leading provider of personal broadband(pre-Mobile WiMAX 802.16e) network equipment and the leading Original DesignManufacturer (ODM) for personal broadband subscriber modems. AVIATION TRAINING... SEATTLE: "The aviation training industry needs to lower the cost ofsimulators, increase training quality and efficiency and reduce the timerequired to train pilots," Alteon Training President Sherry Carbary said in herkeynote speech at the 10th Annual World Aviation Training Symposium andTradeshow (WATS) in Orlando, Florida yesterday. XALLES EXPANDS... WASHINGTON: Xalles Limited, a global management consulting firm specializingin financial supply chain and business strategy services, Wednesday announcedits presence in Asia to support the expansion of its international business. KPO CONFERENCE... SINGAPORE: At the Knowledge Process Outsourcing and Offshoring Asia 2007Conference held in Singapore Wednesday, Balasubramanium Venkitachalam, MeritusCEO, encouraged leading Asian companies to consider Knowledge ProcessOutsourcing (KPO) as the key to increasing their competitiveness. FRONTIERS DEVELOPS... TOKYO: Frontiers Co., Ltd., a pioneer in IP transport technology forhigh-definition (HD) video, has newly developed "HD x3000," a QoS Video-over-IPGateway with integrated HD CODEC, which is capable of real-time transport ofMPEG-2 video with ultra-low delay (28msec minimum + circuit delay), withtechnical assistance from IBEX Technology Corporation. RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS... BARCELONA:New data presented at the EULAR meeting (European League AgainstRheumatism) demonstrate that MabThera's (rituximab) effectiveness in relievingpatients of the distressing symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is sustainedor further improved with subsequent courses of treatment, as is the number ofpatients achieving remission. COLLABORATION DEAL... SEOUL: Dong-A Pharmaceutical (CEO Won-Bae Kim), the leading Pharmaceuticalcompany, and Genexine (CEO, Young Chul Sung), a drug development biotech,entered into an collaboration agreement by signing a contract of the productco-development. DIGI PIONEERS... MINNETONKA: Digi International Wednesday introduced the ConnectPort Xproduct family, a line of IP gateways that provide seamless connectivity ofZigBee, Wi-Fi, cellular and Ethernet traffic to centralized applications anddatabases. MICREL BREAKTHROUGH... SAN JOSE, Calif.: Micrel Inc., an industry leader in analog, high bandwidthcommunications and Ethernet IC solutions, Wednesday previewed a new family of'SuperLNRs' (Low Noise Regulators) that feature the advantages and ease of useof LDOs with low noise, high PSRR, ultra-fast transient performance, whileproviding the efficiency of a switching regulator. MICREL LAUNCHES... SAN JOSE, Calif.: Micrel Inc., an industry leader in analog, high bandwidthcommunications and Ethernet IC solutions, Wednesday launched the MIC23050/1,two ultra-fast transient performance and high efficiency 4 MHz, 500mAsynchronous buck (step-down) regulators assembled in a tiny 2mm x 2mm MLF(R)package. AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited,translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit forfull-text versions.