SYDNEY--15 Oct--AsiaNet/InfoQuest ACCESS POINTS... SHENZHEN and HELSINKI: Fullriver Ltd., a Chinese provider ofboth outdoor and indoor access points for Wi-Fi networks andMeshcom Technologies, a leading provider of high-performancewireless mesh-enabling software, have announced partnershipcooperation.www.meshcom.comwww.wealnet.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON: Fannie Mae announces new issue 5-year benchmarknotes.www.fanniemae.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount ofMTN securities issues amounting to a total of US$300 million onOctober 23, 2007 at a redemption price equal to 100 per cent ofthe principal amount redeemed plus accrued interest.www.fanniemae.com INTEROPERABILITY DEMONSTRATION... RICHARDSON, Texas and SUNNYVALE, California: Navini Networksand Fujitsu Microelectronics America, Inc. announced the firstdemonstration of multi-vendor interoperability using SmartWiMAX technology - the conjunction of smart beamforming withMultiple Input/Multiple Output on a Mobile WiMAX (802.16e)network.www.navini.comhttp://us.fujitsu.com/micro/WiMAX AIRBORNE SYSTEMS... PENNSAUKEN, New Jersey: Airborne Systems, which has combinedthe world's leading parachute brands specializing in aerialdelivery, rescue and survival equipment, and engineeringservices, announced that the DragonFly system has been selectedas the 10,000 lb Joint Precision Aerial Delivery Systemplatform for the U.S. Army.www.airborne-sys.com CELLESTIS RECEIVES... MELBOURNE and LOS ANGELES, California: Physicians & TBcontrollers around the country can now quickly and accuratelydetect M. tuberculosis infection with U.S. Food and DrugAdministration approval of QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube bybiotechnology company Cellestis.www.cellestis.com RESEARCH AGREEMENT... BANGALORE: Microsoft Research has announced a sponsoredresearch and collaboration agreement with the Indian Instituteof Science in Bangalore, India, to accelerate the scientificdiscovery process by increasing computational power inscientific and engineering research.www.microsoft.comwww.microsoft.com/presspasswww.microsoft.com/presspass/contactpr.mspx INDIA SEMINARS... HONG KONG: Arrow Asia Pac Ltd., a business unit of ArrowElectronics, Inc., announced that it will co-host threeseminars in India with Luminary Micro, a rapidly growingstart-up technology supplier of microcontrollers.www.arrowasia.com.hk/event_registrationwww.arrowasia.comwww.luminarymicro.com AUDITION WEBSITE... WELLINGTON: Fairytale now a reality for upcoming modelthanks to audition website.www.starnow.com CVRD INVESTMENTS... RIO DE JANEIRO: Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (CVRD) statesthat its Board of Directors has approved an investment budgetof US$11.0 billion for 2008, the largest annual investmentprogram ever undertaken by CVRD or by any mining company in theworld.www.cvrd.com.br CONSPIRACY REVEALED... WASHINGTON: The Justice Department announced that eightindividuals have been charged in connection with an US$80million conspiracy to commit fraud against the Export-ImportBank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank). The scheme, alsorevealed in court papers, involved the fraudulent sale andshipment of U.S. exports to the Philippines.www.exim.gov AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agenciesdistributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.