SYDNEY--29 Jan--AsiaNet/InfoQuest INSIGHT PUBLISHER... PHILADELPHIA and LONDON: Thomson Scientific, part of TheThomson Corporation and leading provider of informationsolutions to the worldwide research and business communities,has announced the availability of InSight Publisher 3.6. Thelatest version of InSight Publisher adds intuitive hyperlinkingand cross-reference management to its enhanced functionalityset.www.thomson.comwww.scientific.thomson.comwww.liquent.com QTRAX V.2... NEW YORK: QTRAX - the world's first free and legalpeer-to-peer music service announces that at the V.2 Betalaunch, its ground-breaking service had approximately 61,000unique users per hour (between 7am and 1pm EST). Thistranslates to approximately 1,464,000 unique users per day.QTRAX believes that a significant percentage of users wereunable to access the site due to this massive demand and hasnow dramatically increased its download capacity.www.QTRAX.com FUNKYSEXYCOOL SIGNS... NEW YORK: MTV Networks Germany (MTVN) and FunkySexyCool, theglobal mobile social community for 18-34 year olds, have signeda cooperation agreement to promote FunkySexyCool acrossGermany, Switzerland and Austria on MTVN's German, Swiss andAustrian TV, web and mobile networks.www.fsccorporate.comwww.mtvnetworks.de 10TH ANNIVERSARY... PARIS: The Stade de France celebrates its 10th anniversaryin an amazing way with images that will be seen all over theworld. It will be a symbol and a thank you to all the fans,players, athletes, artists that helped give the Stade de Franceits legendary status.www.stadefrance.com PREMIER FARNELL... LONDON: Premier Farnell plc, the leading multi-channel, highservice distributor supporting millions of engineers andpurchasing professionals globally, announces open registrationto the technical conference and awards ceremony for Live EDGE -Electronic Design for the Global Environment. The awardsceremony will announce the US$100,000 prize package winner andthe five highly commended designs receiving US$5,000 each.www.premierfarnell.comwww.live-edge.comwww.pinnacle-marketing.com SPACE ADVENTURES... VIENNA, Virginia: Space Adventures, Ltd., the world'sleading space experiences company, announces that Nik Halik ofAustralia has been chosen to train as the back-up crew memberalongside our orbital spaceflight candidate, famed gamedeveloper and son of former NASA astronaut, Richard Garriott,who is currently planning a mission to the International SpaceStation in October.www.spaceadventures.com DEBT RETIREMENT... TULSA, Oklahoma: St. Joseph, Inc. announces that the companyhas reduced the company's debts by effected conversion of itsSeries B Preferred Stock and three promissory notes into sharesof the company's common stock, at a conversion price of US$0.30per share of common stock.www.stjosephinc.com CALIFORNIA MICRO... MILPITAS, California: California Micro Devices introducesPicoGuard XS, an innovative new ESD (electrostatic discharge)protection architecture in the XtremeESD family, the industry'sfirst product to provide both outstanding signal integrity androbust ESD protection for high speed differential signals suchas DisplayPort and HDMI.www.cmd.comwww.XtremeESD.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principalamount of FINS, MTN and MTNR securities issues on February 7,2008 at a redemption price equal to 100 per cent of theprincipal amount redeemed plus accrued interest. Fannie Maewill also redeem MTN securities issues on January 28, 2008.www.fanniemae.com BANCO BRADESCO... SAO PAULO: We present below the main figures obtained byBradesco in 2007. Our Report on Economic and Financial Analysiswith the complete Financial Statements is available onBradesco's website (www.bradesco.com.br/ir).www.bradesco.com.brwww.bradesco.com.br/ir RFID PILOT... SOLIHULL and MOUNTAIN VIEW, California: Ford Motor Company'sLand Rover division and Savi announce they have launched apilot program that deploys an active Radio FrequencyIdentification (RFID) solutions that better synchronizes thedelivery of auto parts from multiple suppliers to Land Rover'skey assembly plant in the West Midlands (U.K.). The pilot ismade possible through a U.K. central government grantadministered by the University of Warwick.www.savi.com CIRCOS LAUNCHES... PALM DESERT, California and SAN MATEO, California: ThisWednesday at the DEMO 08 conference in Palm Desert, CA, Circoswill officially launch semantic search designed to change theway we share and discover knowledge on the Web. Circos willtake the stage at 3:46 PST and will be on hand at the DEMOPavilion, #6. To learn more, visit www.circos.com.www.circos.comwww.demo.com DEATH MOURNED... AUCKLAND: Over 290,000 members of The Church of Jesus Christof Latter-day Saints in the New Zealand and Pacific Islandsareas are mourning the death of President Gordon B. Hinckley.www.media.lds.org ABBOTT ANNOUNCES... ABBOTT PARK, Illinois: Abbott announces that the EuropeanCommittee for Medicinal Products for Human Use, the scientificcommittee of the European Medicines Agency, has issued apositive opinion recommending approval of a new, lower-strengthtablet formulation of the company's leading HIV proteaseinhibitor, Kaletra (lopinavir/ritonavir).www.abbott.comwww.abbott.com/HIVAIDSwww.abbottglobalcare.org.www.KALETRA.comwww.abbott.com/hiv CLEXANE/LOVENOX APPROVED... PARIS: Sanofi-aventis announces that the anticoagulantClexane (enoxaparin sodium injection) has been approved formarketing in Japan by the Ministry of Health, Labour andWelfare for the prevention of venous thromboembolism inpatients undergoing orthopaedic surgery of the lower limbs suchas total hip replacement, total knee replacement and hipfracture surgery.http://epp.eurostat.cec.eu.intwww.preventdvt.org ROCHE ANNOUNCES... BASEL: Roche announces that the European Commission hasgiven its approval for the significantly wider use of itsanti-angiogenic agent Avastin (bevacizumab) in patientssuffering from metastatic colorectal cancer.www.avastin-info.comwww.health-kiosk.ch/start_krebswww.thenewsmarket.com ECO-FRIENDLY DIVING... SINGAPORE: Reflecting the dive industry's trend towards moreenvironmentally aware practices, Asia Dive Expo 2008 (ADEX)will this year turn its focus towards eco-friendly diving.www.asiadiveexpo.com AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.