SYDNEY--29 Nov--AsiaNet/InfoQuest VERIZON BUSINESS... SINGAPORE: Verizon Business has enhanced the reach andcapabilities of its network across South Asia as part of itscontinued investment in, and long-term commitment to, theAsia-Pacific region. www.verizonbusiness.com www.prnewswire.com/comp/094251.html INDIVIDUAL LENDING... NEW YORK: Women's World Banking, one of the leading globalmicrofinance networks, will host a training course onindividual lending in Lucknow, India, December 6-8. The coursewill be given in collaboration with Indias NABARD, a leader inpromoting sustainable and equitable agriculture and ruraldevelopment through credit support and institution building. K2 BLACKMARKET... REDMOND, Washington: K2 blackmarket, a code- andsolution-sharing community space, is live on K2Underground.com.K2 blackmarket contains a wide variety of K2 user-submittedcontent, such as process samples, forms, Web parts, codesnippets and other items. Any registered user can access thiscontent and submit new items. www.k2.com CLEVELAND UROLOGISTS... CLEVELAND, OHIO: Cleveland Clinic urologists recentlyperformed a series of ground-breaking single-port surgeries:laparoscopic nephrectomy, bilateral pyeloplasty, ileal ureterreplacement, and psoas hitch uretero-neocystostomy. Urologicsurgeon Mihir Desai, MD, head of endourology, performed thesesurgeries, each a world first, trans-umbilically by insertingall necessary instruments through a single access port insertedinto the patients' bellybuttons. www.advancedsurgical.ie FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principalamount of FINP securities issues amounting to a total ofUS$90.87 million on December 10, 2007 at a redemption priceequal to 100 percent of the principal amount redeemed plusaccrued interest. Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of FINSsecurities issues amounting to a total of US$11.815 million onDecember 10, 2007 at a redemption price equal to 100 percent ofthe principal amount redeemed plus accrued interest. Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of MTNRsecurities issues amounting to a total of US$50 million onDecember 8, 2007 and December 10, 2007 at a redemption priceequal to 100 percent of the principal amount redeemed plusaccrued interest. Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of MTNsecurities issues amounting to a total of US$1202.838 millionon December 8, 2007 and December 10, 2007 at a redemption priceequal to 100 percent of the principal amount redeemed plusaccrued interest. http://www.fanniemae.com AMERICAN STANDARD... PISCATAWAY, New Jersey: Trane makes its debut today as thenew name for the company previously known as American StandardCompanies. Shares of Trane will trade under the symbol "TT" onthe New York Stock Exchange -- the same shares that tradedunder the symbol "ASD" when the company was known as AmericanStandard Companies. www.trane.com www.americanstandardair.com SKUNKWORKS PERL... ADELAIDE: Telco Perl empowers IVR telephony developers toeliminate the typical technical restrictions of proprietarysystems to create new services in a shorter time and lowercost. www.skunkworks.net.au SEARCHBOTH.COM CHARITY... LOS ANGELES: SearchBoth.com; atool that enables users to search both Google and Yahoo side byside on one split screen along with any two travel sites andany two Yellow Pages sites, will be donating 15% of its netprofits to charity www.SearchBoth.com/Charity www.YELLOWPAGES.travel www.YellowPagesMessenger.com THOMSON SCIENTIFIC... PHILADELPHIA and LONDON: ThomsonScientific, part of The Thomson Corporation and leadingprovider of information solutions to the worldwide research andbusiness communities, today announced the results of a studyassessing trends in multiauthor papers. www.scientific.thomson.com COMSCORE RANKINGS... TOKYO: comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digitalworld, today released its October rankings of the most visitedand fastest growing Internet properties in Japan based on datafrom its comScore World Metrix service. www.comscore.com WIZZL PHONE... VOORSCHOTEN: Wizzl has officially launched the beta versionof the first all-in-one virtual telephone during Gameplay 07,the biggest game event in the Benelux. CEO Jaap Korevaar gavean insight into the functionality of the application andrevealed future plans of the company. www.wizzl.com www.wizzl.com/press AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agenciesdistributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.