SYDNEY--8 Jan--AsiaNet/InfoQuest UTRECHT - Eurail Group announced today that it is offeringan extra day of rail travel on all six-, eight- and ten-dayEurail Select Passes purchased up until the end of March 2008.Customers will then have up to six months in which to starttraveling.www.EurailGroup.comwww.Eurail.com MARVELL QDEO... LAS VEGAS - CES -- Marvell today announced that itsaward-winning Qdeo video processing is a featured technology ofthe Onida 42" Xaria LCD-TV, developed for the emerging marketsof India and the Gulf countries. Part of the Marvell 88DE2710digital video format converter, Qdeo delivers quiet, naturalvideo free of artifacts and noise, enhances the color, andintelligently scales all video inputs into a high-definitionformat.www.marvell.comhttp://photoarchive.ap.orgwww.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070905/AQW167LOGO California Micro Devices Unveils New XtremeESD(TM)Protection Devices MILPITAS, California - California Micro Devices facing thechallenge of providing improved protection for small geometry,high speed semiconductor devices that are increasinglysusceptible to electrostatic discharge damage, California MicroDevices today unveiled XtremeESD, a new family of protectiondevices developed with a radically new architecture designed tomeet today's most challenging ESD requirements.www.cmd.comwww.XtremeESD.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principalamount of MTNR, MTN, FINS, FINP securities issues on January17, 2008 at a redemption price equal to 100 per cent of theprincipal amount redeemed plus accrued interest.Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of MTNRsecurities issues amounting to a total of US$50 million onJanuary 19, 2008 at a redemption price equal to 100 per cent ofthe principal amount redeemed plus accrued interest.http://www.fanniemae.com ESS TECHNOLOGY... FREMONT, California - ESS Technology, a leading provider ofhigh performance audio/video solutions, today unveils the SabreReference Digital to Analog Converter, the world's beststudio-quality audio DAC as the latest member of the Vistafamily of high-definition audiovisual product line.www.esstech.com ATMEL'S RADIO... HEILBRONN - Atmel Corporation announced today theavailability of the highly integrated broadcast radio front endIC ATR4262, which enables outstanding car-radio reception. Thenew IC is designed for high performance applications, inparticular for mobile systems such as car radios.www.atmel.comwww.atmel.com/dyn/productsproduct_card.asp?family_id=637&family_name=B VIETNAMESE PEPPER... KOCHI - India headquartered Vallabhdas Kanji Limited, Asia'slargest spice processor, has commenced processed peppershipments from its Vietnam plant.www.vklspices.com AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agenciesdistributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.ASIA PULSE