SYDNEY--17 Oct--AsiaNet/InfoQuest CELLTICK APPOINTED... LONDON: Celltick, pioneer of active mobile marketingsolutions has been appointed by Vodafone Essar to manage itsFLASH! service in India.www.celltick.com OCCLUTECH APPROVAL... JENA: Occlutech GmbH, the leading European developer andmanufacturer of cardiac occlusion devices such as ASD, PFO andLAA occluders announced that it has received CE mark approvalfor its range of ASD and PFO occluder under the OcclutechFigulla N brand. FIX8 FINANCING... HONG KONG: Fix8, a division of Mobinex, Inc., a leader invirtual communications technology, announced that the companyhas completed Series 1A financing of $3 million from VickersFinancial Group, a Singapore-based private equity firmtargeting entrepreneurial cutting-edge investment opportunitieson a global scale.www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20071016/LATU082LOGOwww.fix8.comhttp://photoarchive.ap.org PRINTSOFT SOLUTIONS... MELBOURNE: PrintSoft will be showcasing its line-up ofscalable solutions for creating, managing, and printingpersonalised direct mail and other document-basedcommunications. PrintSoft will be at IPEX South Asia 2007running 24 27 October at the India Expo Centre, Nioda, NewDelhi. Solution demonstrations on the PrintSoft stand 03-G30will feature two new products.www.printsoft.com PHOSPHATE BINDERS... PHILADELPHIA: At the U.S. Food and Drug Administration'sCardiovascular and Renal Drugs Advisory Committee meeting, themajority of members voted to recommend the use of phosphatebinders, including Shire Pharmaceuticals' non-calcium FOSRENOL(lanthanum carbonate), to treat hyperphosphatemia (elevatedlevels of phosphorus in the blood) in chronic kidney diseaseStage 4 patients.www.fosrenol.com.www.shire.com. MADONNA PARTNERSHIP... LOS ANGELES: Live Nation's President and Chief ExecutiveOfficer, Michael Rapino officially confirmed that Madonna hasentered into an unprecedented global partnership with LiveNation and will become the founding artist in its Artist Nationdivision.www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070220/LATU096LOGOwww.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20071016/LATU068http://photoarchive.ap.orghttp://www.livenation.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON: Fannie Mae prices new issue 5-year benchmarknotes.www.fanniemae.com NOBEL LAUREATES... PHILADELPHIA: Thomson Scientific, part of The ThomsonCorporation and leading provider of information solutions tothe worldwide research and business communities, accuratelypredicted two out of four Nobel Prize category winners thisyear - in Physiology or Medicine, and in Physics.www.scientific.thomson.comwww.isihighlycited.comhttp://scientific.thomson.com/nobelwww.thomson.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principalamount of MTN securities issues amounting to a total of US$675million on October 26, 2007 at a redemption price equal to 100per cent of the principal amount redeemed plus accruedinterest. Fannie Mae will also redeem US$50 million in MTNsecurities issues on October 30, 2007.www.fanniemae.com PARTYPOKER TV... GIBRALTAR: PartyPoker Late Night Poker makes its annualreturn to screens on Channel 4 in the UK and Ireland early nextyear, but filming gets underway in Cardiff on the 23rd October,with the final on the 27th. After a number of different formatsover recent years the tournament goes back to the format of1999-2002, with an emphasis on player personalities that havemade the tournament so compelling over the years. OTIS MILESTONE... FARMINGTON, Connecticut: Otis Elevator Company, a unit ofUnited Technologies Corp., recently sold its 100,000th Gen2elevator, making the environmentally friendly system thefastest selling product in company history.www.otis.comwww.otisgen2.com GEL-COATED CONDOMS... SYDNEY: Starpharma Holdings Ltd announced the signing of anagreement with SSL International plc, owner of Durex, theworld's leading condom brand.www.starpharma.com RICS QUALIFICATION... HONG KONG: Qualified members of the Royal Institution ofChartered Surveyors earn between 8 per cent-35 per cent morethan non chartered property-professionals, according to theRICS and Macdonald & Company European Salary & Benefits Survey,published on 8 October 2007.www.framework.web.com/surveys/040062/http://212.49.216.49/surveys/dba/asiapacific/ THOMSON SCIENTIFIC... PHILADELPHIA and LONDON: Thomson Scientific, part of TheThomson Corporation and leading provider of informationsolutions to the worldwide research and business communities,announced the availability of its most recent quarterly reviewof scientific literature on drugs and therapies.www.scientific.thomson.comwww.thomson.com MAX TELECOM... RICHARDSON, Texas: For the first time in Bulgaria, MaxTelecom will offer nationwide commercial solutions for personalbroadband mobile communications using Mobile WiMAX technologyfrom Navini Networks. The service will be marketed under thename 'MaxDSL' and 'MaxCard' for pure data services and 'MaxVox'for voice.www.navini.comwww.maxtelecom.bg AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.