SYDNEY--31 Oct--AsiaNet/InfoQuest 3 MOBILE... SAN FRANCISCO: Novarra, the leading provider ofnext-generation mobile internet platforms and services, todayannounces that 3 Austria has launched its innovative high speedmobile internet service, 'MoreWWW' powered by Novarra's Visionplatform.www.novarra.com NOVARRA ITALIA... CHICAGO: Novarra, the leading provider of next-generationmobile internet platforms and services, today announces that 3Italia has launched two new services using Novarra's Visionmobile web gateway platform.www.novarra.com IMLIVE.COM CELEBRATES... NEW YORK and LONDON: This weekend ImLive.com will becelebrating its 10 millionth member. Just to contemplate afigure as large as this is mind boggling and one must keep inmind that there are 140 independent countries in the World thatdo not have as many citizens, the population of New York Cityis not even close, and in fact only 6 states in the USA have alarger population than 10,000,000.www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070919/NYW098LOGOhttp://imlive.com/hostlist.asp?cat=232&GenderID=1&Iam=3http://photoarchive.ap.orgwww.ImLive.com BIOHIT LAUNCH... HELSINKI: In the new Proline Plus pipettor, Biohit hascombined the basic functionalities of the traditional Prolinemechanical with new, state-of-the-art pipettor design andtechnology. Particular emphasis has been put on safety,ergonomics, and efficiency in pipetting, as well as on the highquality of the device.http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20071030/279781www.biohit.com GERALD GENTA... PARIS: On Friday night, the Gerald Genta team hosted theirguests to present the world's very first Gerald Genta boutiquelocated on the famous Rue de la Paix, in Paris.www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20071030/279777-awww.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20071030/279777-bwww.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20071030/279777-cwww.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20071030/279777-dwww.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20071030/279777-ehttp://photoarchive.ap.org QUINTILES ACQUISITION... RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, North Carolina: QuintilesTransnational Corp. today announced that its Latin Americansubsidiary has purchased Bio-Trials, a leading Central AmericanClinical Research Organization with headquarters in Panama andoffices in Costa Rica, Guatemala, Ecuador and Peru.www.qtrn.com AMERICAN AXLE... DETROIT: American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings, Inc., whichis traded as AXL on the NYSE, today announced that it hasformed a joint venture with Sona Koyo Steering Systems Limitedof India. The new company, AAM Sona Axle Private Limited, willmanufacture and sell light truck, passenger car and SUV axleassemblies for the India market.www.aam.comwww.prnewswire.com/comp/033813.htmlwww.sonagroup.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principalamount of FINP securities issues amounting to a total ofUS$92,316,000 on November 9, 2007 at a redemption price equalto 100 percent of the principal amount redeemed plus accruedinterest. Fannie Mae will also redeem the principal amount ofMTN securities issues amounting to a total of US$433,135,000 onNovember 9, US$200 million on November 11 and US$100 million onNovember 13, 2007 at a redemption price equal to 100 percent ofthe principal amount redeemed plus accrued interest.http://www.fanniemae.com KIRTAS TECHNOLOGIES... ROCHESTER, New York: Kirtas Technologies, a leadinginnovator and provider of digital scanning solutions, todayannounced it will provide high-quality digitization services toYale University Library, in conjunction with the company'sagreement with Microsoft Corp. to digitize books for LiveSearch Books.www.kirtastech.comwww.library.yale.eduhttp://books.live.com GRIFOLS INVESTMENT... BARCELONA: Grifols' Board of Directors, which met on October23, 2007 in Los Angeles, California, has approved a euro 400million investment plan that will be carried out between nowand the year 2012. Among other things, the new investments willbe to increase capacity for plasma fractionation andpurification, as well as to increase plasma supply.www.grifols.com MDS PHARMA... KING OF PRUSSIA, Philadelphia: MDS Pharma Services, aleading provider of innovative drug discovery and developmentsolutions, announced today a significant expansion of itscentral lab operations in China. The contract researchorganization has moved to a new, larger facility in Beijing tomeet the growing demands from pharmaceutical and biotechcompanies conducting clinical trials in China.www.mdsps.comwww.mdsinc.com MAGINET ACQUISITION... SINGAPORE and COLUMBUS, Ohio: Singapore-based MagiNet PteLtd. announced that it has completed the acquisition ofPercipia, Inc., based in Columbus, Ohio. This strategicaddition to its portfolio of integrated technology solutionsfor the hospitality industry equips the company to meet thegrowing demand from hotels, resorts, casinos and condotels forsingle-source, comprehensive solutions featuring video,high-speed internet, voice and more, all in a converged networkenvironment.www.maginet.netwww.percipia.com OTIS EMIRATES... FARMINGTON, Connecticut: Otis Elevator Company, a unit ofUnited Technologies Corp., has won a 59-unit contract thatfeatures the first Compass destination entry system sold in theUnited Arab Emirates.www.otis.com MICREL LAUNCH... SAN JOSE, California: Micrel Inc., an industry leader inanalog, high bandwidth communications and Ethernet ICsolutions, today introduced the MIC2130/1, a new series of highvoltage synchronous buck controller ICs offering a frequencydithering feature that minimizes EMI and adheres to global EMCstandards.www.micrel.com DIGI MIGRATION... MINNETONKA, Minnesota: Digi International today introducedthe Digi DialServ, a phone line simulator that integrates withDigis cellular gateways to allow legacy devices with built-inmodems to easily drop-in to cellular IP networks.www.digi.com RISING STARS... WELLINGTON: StarNow.com, the popular site for casting callsand auditions in the entertainment industry has launched theRising Star competition, a global talent search aimed athighlighting undiscovered talent.www.starnow.com/risingstarwww.starnow.com AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agenciesdistributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. 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