Sydney--15 Nov--Asianet/InfoQuest OEM ALLIANCE... NUREMBERG and SEATTLE, Washington: NCP Engineering GmbH, a German provider of communications solutions and WatchGuardTechnologies, a global provider of network security solutions, have formed a strategic OEM alliance. Under their agreement,NCP will supply WatchGuard with VPN client software to replace the current "Mobile User VPN" client. www.watchguard.com PIZZA INN... THE COLONY, Texas: Pizza Inn, Inc. has announced the signingof a multi-unit development agreement to open 20 new Pizza Innrestaurants in the country of Kuwait. Pizza Inn, famous for its made from scratch crusts, has awarded a master licenseagreement to the Raja Company W.I.I., based in Kuwait City,Kuwait, in a continuation of the brand's expansion throughoutthe Middle East and into Asia. www.pizzainn.com VERIZON BUSINESS... BEIJING: China Telecom has named Verizon Business its Most Valuable Partner 2007 in recognition of the two companies'successful cooperation in the delivery of international data services. The Most Valuable Partner award recognizes the partnership that has had most significant benefit to both companies' customers during the preceding 12 months. www.verizon.com www.verizonbusiness.com NIKSUN ANNOUNCES... TOKYO: NIKSUN, the leading provider of real-time network performance monitoring, security surveillance, forensicanalysis, and compliance solutions, is pleased to announce that its "flagship" products, NetVCR, NetDetector, NetVoice andNetBlackBox have been updated for 64-bit capable software with a variety of new features. www.niksun.com NIKSUN HOSTS... TOKYO: NIKSUN is pleased to announce that it is working with the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo, Japan to host 80 IT executives fromenterprise-level companies in Japan at the Tokyo International Forum on Wednesday, November 14, 2007. www.niksun.com NIKSUN ANNOUNCES... TOKYO: NIKSUN is pleased to announce the release of NetOmni, an IT service delivery management portal that equips customerswith virtual views into all critical service delivery parameters across converged networks. www.niksun.com NIKSUN ANNOUNCES... TOKYO: NIKSUN is pleased to announce that its flagship products, NetVCR, NetDetector, NetVoice and NetBlackBox have been optimized for 10 Gigabit EthernetMonitoring. www.niksun.com GENERAL DYNAMICS... FALLS CHURCH, Virginia: General Dynamics has acquired Mediaware International Pty Ltd., a leading developer of real-time full-motion compressed digital video processing software and systems for defense, intelligence and commercialcustomers. www.generaldynamics.com www.gd-ais.com TEXTTIME REVOLUTIONIZES... BERLIN: Converting text lengths into reading lengths has been a matter of estimation until now. TextTime solves the problem by determining the reading length of any text as it is being composed. Writers and editors can tell in a flash how long their texts will take to be read for broadcast. There are five standard reader settings. TextTime makes it possible foreditors to write texts which can be immediately processed for cross-media platforms. www.code-couture.com www.code-couture.com/presse.php JOINT VENTURE... WICHITA, Kansas: Spirit AeroSystems Holdings, Inc. and Progresstech LTD of Moscow, Russia, announced they have signedan agreement to enter a joint venture. The new company will be known as Spirit-Progresstech LLC. Initial work to be performedis engineering consulting services. The Spirit-Progresstech LLC Branch Office will be located in Moscow. www.spiritaero.com www.progresstech.ru/about_company.html VIRTELA ACHIEVES... DENVER: Virtela, the global network solutions company, announced the company has achieved quadruple revenue growth inthe Asia Pacific region, which has contributed to achieving several significant company milestones ahead of businessplan. www.virtela.net SEARCHBOTH.COM.AU LAUNCHED... SYDNEY, Australia: InternetLabz.com has announced the launch of SearchBoth.com.au; Australia's first website that enablesusers to search both Google.com.au and Yahoo.com.au side by side on one split screen. www.SearchBoth.com.au www.InternetLabz.com www.YELLOWPAGES.travel www.YellowPagesMessenger.com UNI-PIXEL SIGNS... THE WOODLANDS, Texas: Uni-Pixel, Inc., the developer of flat panel color display technology called Time Multiplexed OpticalShutter, announces that it has reached an agreement with the MiPlaza Facility at the High Tech Campus Eindhoven,Netherlands, to develop and assemble TMOS prototype units for demonstration. www.unipixel.com TELEGENT WINS... SUNNYVALE, California: Telegent Systems, the company that makes television mobile with its high-performance single-chipmobile TV solutions, announced that it has won GSMA's Asia Mobile Innovation Award in the category of "Most InnovativeWireless Device-centric Technology." www.telegent.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON: Fannie Mae announces new issue 2-year benchmark notes. www.fanniemae.com REDROLLER ANNOUNCES... STAMFORD, Connecticut: RedRoller Holdings, Inc., formerly Aslahan Enterprises Ltd., announces the closing of a stock-for-stock merger with RedRoller, Inc. The combined company will operate under the name RedRoller Holdings and will assume and execute RedRoller's Internet-based comparison service for shipping packages as its sole business. www.redroller.com ACHIEVO ANNOUNCES... SAN RAMON, California: Achievo Corporation, the leading global software and information technology outsourcing providerwith a local front-end and China back-end service model, announced that Professor Lawrence (Larry) J. Lau has joined thecompany's board of directors. Professor Lau is president and vice-chancellor of The Chinese University of Hong Kong andKwoh-Ting Li professor emeritus in economic development at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. www.achievo.com TUBERCULOSIS TREATMENT... MELBOURNE: Swiss experts have abandoned the over 100 year old tuberculin skin test favouring the use of interferon-arelease assays such as QuantiFERON-TB Gold for screening patients for tuberculosis infection prior to initiating biological treatments (such as anti-TNF- aac? therapy). www.cellestis.com www.smw.ch/docs/pdf200x/2007/43/smw-11939.pdf ONLINE TRADING... MELBOURNE: collectZing.com, the new online social network for collectors, young and old, dabbling and passionate, ispleased to announce its latest feature - the collectZing Marketplace. www.collectZing.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of MTN securities issues amounting to a total of US$264.185million on November 24, 2007 at a redemption price equal to 100 percent of the principal amount redeemed plus accrued interest.Fannie Mae will also redeem the principal amount of MTNR securities issues amounting to a total of US$60 million on thesame date, and US$200 million in MTN securities issues on November 28, 2007. www.fanniemae.com KONE ELEVATORS... CHENNAI: KONE has received a major order from Indiabulls Properties Pvt Ltd for the design, supply and installation of40 elevators for the Jupiter Mills high-end commercial development area in South Mumbai in India. The project involvesthe construction of two signature buildings, which are designed by the renowned architect Hafeez Contractor. www.kone.com ATMEL LAUNCHES... SAN JOSE, California: Atmel Corporation has announced the launch of the AT91CAP9A-STK Starter Kit for its CAPCustomizable Microcontroller product family. www.atmel.com/products/AT91CAP www.atmel.com ENTRUST IDENTITYGUARD... DALLAS: The Hong Kong branch of PT Bank Mandiri, one of Indonesia's largest financial institutions, chose Entrust, Inc.to address their security challenges. The bank will deploy the Entrust IdentityGuard versatile authentication platform and theEntrust Entelligence Group Share network folder encryption solution, which are key components of a layered securitymodel. www.entrust.com www.entrust.com/identityguard PEPSICO REAFFIRMS... PURCHASE, New York: PepsiCo has reaffirmed its confidence in the company's business outlook. The company stated it expects2007 reported earnings per share of at least US$3.39 and core earnings per share of at least US$3.35 - unchanged from thecompany's previous guidance. www.pepsico.com SEARCHBOTH.COM ENABLES... LOS ANGELES, California: SearchBoth.com has announced the launch of several new services. The site no longer searchesjust Google and Yahoo side by side on one split screen. It has added 9 other search engines including Ask.com and the abilityto search any two travel sites as well starting off with the top 12 travel sites including Expedia.com and Travelocity.com.Also, AT&T's YellowPages.com and Verizon's SuperPages.com can viewed as well. http://SearchBoth.com www.YELLOWPAGES.travel www.YellowPagesMessenger.com 'MYDICTIONARY' LAUNCHES... LOS ANGELES: Internet Labz, Corp. launches the first everdictionary over AOL and MSN instant messenger with screen name"MyDictionary". www.InternetLabz.com www.InternetLabz.com www.YELLOWPAGES.travel www.SearchBoth.com TUBERCULOSIS BREAKTHROUGH... GOERLITZ: At this year's 39th World Forum for Medicine in Dusseldorf (MEDICA, November 14-17), Partec, a globally leadingdeveloper, manufacturer and provider of dedicated diagnostic solutions in the response to HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malariais presenting a breakthrough innovation for high sensitivity TB and Malaria diagnostics in low and middle-income countries. www.partec.com www.presseportal.de/pm/44047/partec_gmbh/ GSM ASSOCIATION... MACAO: The GSM Association, the global trade association for mobile operators, has announced the winners of the Asia MobileAwards 2007, as well as the category winners and the overall winner of the Asia Mobile Innovation Awards, which werecontested at the Mobile Asia Congress in Macao. www.mobileinnovation.org www.asiamobileawards.com HEALTH VIDEO... MENLO PARK, California: The Kaiser Family Foundation announced that GlobalHealthReporting.org - its websiteproviding the latest information and reporting resources on HIV AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria - has launched a new videolibrary providing television reporters and filmmakers with AIDS-related, rights-free, cover footage of Africa, Asia, theCaribbean, India and Latin America. http://globalhealthreporting.org/videolibrary.asp . www.GlobalHealthReporting.org/email www.globalhealthreporting.org IPO PRICING... NEW YORK: Och-Ziff Capital Management Group LLC announced that its initial public offering of 36,000,000 Class A sharesrepresenting Class A limited liability company interests priced at US$32.00 per share. AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.