SYDNEY--20 Dec--AsiaNet/InfoQuest MIDOMI.COM EXPANDS... SUNNYVALE, California: Melodis Corp., a leader in search andsound recognition technologies, today announced theavailability of Midomi.com in German, Korean, Portuguese andPolish. This latest advancement allows people to find, share,and record versions of music in these languages just in timefor the holidays.www.midomi.com IDENTITY PROTECTION... GENEVA and SAN JOSE, California: WISeKey, a global providerof digital identity authentication and access managementsolutions, and SPYRUS, Inc., an innovator in highly-advancedsecurity products and digital rights management technologies,today announced a partnership to supply best of breed securitysolutions to the global Electronic Commerce marketplace.www1.wisekey.com/company/default.aspxwww.itu.int/ITU-D/e-strategies/ecdc/ra/introduction.htmlwww.spyrus.com/company/overview.aspPULMONARY DRUG...JEFFERSON, North Carolina: Next Safety, Inc., a leader indeveloping pulmonary drug delivery devices, today announcedverification of a significant breakthrough in pulmonary sciencethat provides high efficacy delivery of drugs to the lungs.www.nextsafety.comhttp://photoarchive.ap.orgwww.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070615/CLF038LOGO CONCRETE TECHNOLOGY.... NEW YORK: One of the biggest breakthroughs in constructiontechnology --- the innovative iCRETE system, offering recordstrength concrete and dramatic environmental benefits is beingused to build the Freedom Tower at Ground Zero in New YorkCity. Both the 1,776 foot-tower, as well as the 186-foot innersafety core supporting the superstructure, will be built withiCRETE. THOMSON INDIA... PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, and LONDON: Thomson Scientific,part of The Thomson Corporation and leading provider ofinformation solutions to the worldwide research and businesscommunities, today announced the winners of the 2007 InnovationAward, recognizing leadership in technology as it relates toall aspects of scientific literature and patent publications inIndia.www.scientific.thomson.comhttp://scientific.thomson.com/news/newsletter/2007-118418387www.thomson.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principalamount of MTN securities issues amounting to a total of US$100million on January 2, 2008 at a redemption price equal to 100percent of the principal amount redeemed plus accruedinterest.Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of MTNsecurities issues amounting to a total of US$406 million onDecember 29, 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$150 million onDecember 29, 2008 at a redemption price equal to 100 percent ofthe principal amount redeemed plus accrued interesthttp://www.fanniemae.com SAMSUNG PDA... SANTA CLARA, California: Marvell, a leader in storage,communications, and consumer silicon solutions, and Samsung,announced the availability of the Samsung SPH-M4650 PDA phonewith the Marvell PXA 300 application processor running onKorea's LG Telecom network. The Marvell PXA 300 applicationprocessor enables high-end graphics, gaming, and multimediacapabilities for the Samsung SPH-M4650 as well as deliveringoptimal business applications while consuming ultra-low levelsof power.www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070411/SFW034LOGOwww.marvell.comhttp://photoarchive.ap.org CAE CONTRACT... SYDNEY: As the prime contractor, CAE will have overallresponsibility for providing two MRH90 full-flight and missionsimulators, training facilities, and comprehensive engineeringand support services to Australian Defence Forces.www.cae.com MICREL CONVERTER... SAN JOSE, California: Micrel Inc., an industry leader inanalog, high bandwidth communications and Ethernet ICsolutions, today launched the MIC23250, the industry's smallesthigh efficient, dual 400mA 4 MHz PWM synchronous buck step-downconverter housed in a tiny 2mm x 2mm, 10 lead MLF package.www.micrel.com ROO GROUP... NEW YORK: ROO Group announced today that the company hasentered into an Executive Management Agreement with KIT Capitalpursuant to which it has agreed to appoint Kaleil Isaza Tuzmanas Chairman and Chief Executive Officer commencing on January9th, 2008.www.roo.comwww.roo.com/about/investors.aspx CANCER DRUGS... MELBOURNE: Cancer Therapeutics CRC Pty Ltd and theQueensland Institute of Medical Research today announced acollaboration to discover and develop new drugs for thetreatment of many forms of cancer, based on exciting newfindings in the field of DNA repair. EURAIL GROUP... UTRECHT: Eurail Group has announced the expansion of its PRactivities with the Netherlands Board of Tourism andConventions as official PR representatives in North America,starting January 2008.www.eurailgroup.com AVASTIN APPROVED... BASEL: Avastin, Roche's innovative anti-cancer drug, wasapproved today in Europe for the first-line treatment ofpatients with advanced renal cell cancer in combination withinterferon, the current standard of care*. GALOC APPRAISAL... PERTH: Nido Petroleum is pleased to announce that theappraisal programme for Galoc, the first offshore oildevelopment in the Philippines for almost seven years, has beencompleted and the interim results look very positive. ICICI BANK... DALLAS: ICICI Bank, one of India's largest private sectorbanks with assets of more than US$92 billion, has selectedEntrust, Inc. to provide standard SSL certificates -- a keycomponent of a layered security approach -- to protect theirvaluable customer data when conducting transactions on theinstitution's Web site.www.entrust.comhttp://photoarchive.ap.orgwww.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20060720/NYTH074LOGO AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. 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