SYDNEY--13 Feb--AsiaNet/InfoQuest CAT ACQUIRES... SINGAPORE: China Agro-Technology Ltd. has acquired the planting and land userights for 494,200 acres of land in Indonesia for the purpose of generatingrevenues from a plantation for Jatropha plants. MEDTECH ACQUIRES... MELBOURNE: MedTech Global Ltd has acquired exclusive rights to distributethe award winning clinical data analysis tool MD Analyze throughoutAsia-Pacific.www.mdanalyze.comwww.medtechglobal.com EDUCATION EXPO... HOBART: Indian students interested in studying in Australia will have theopportunity to talk to a representative from TAFE Tasmania at an education expoin Vadodara on 15 February 2008. MERGER TRANSACTION... RALEIGH, N.C. and WELLESLEY HILLS, Mass.: DARA BioSciences, Inc. and PointTherapeutics, Inc. Tuesday announced the consummation of their mergertransaction, effective as of the close of business on February 12, 2008.http://www.darabiosciences.com USIBC LAUNCHES... WASHINGTON: The U.S.-India Business Council (USIBC), in partnership with theFederation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), will launch theInvesting in America: The Indian Story initiative in Chicago, Illinois onFebruary 19th at the InterContinental Hotel.http://www.usibc.com WLAN MODULES... BARCELONA: Nanoradio Wednesday announced that it is teaming up with SamsungElectro-Mechanics, one of the world's leading electronic componentsmanufacturers, in order to provide state of the art WLAN modules to thewireless mobile industry.http://www.nanoradio.comhttp://www.sem.samsung.com MARKETING ALLIANCE... BARCELONA: Acision, the messaging and charging company of choice for over300 network operators and service providers worldwide, and OgilvyOne Worldwide,a WPP company and the global leader in interactive marketing, Tuesday announcedthat they have forged an alliance for mobile marketing.http://www.acision.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of eightsecurities issues amounting to a total of US$1508.201 million on Feb 22 and 27,2008 at a redemption price equal to 100 percent of the principal amountredeemed plus accrued interest.http://www.fanniemae.com FLASH MICROCONTROLLERS... SAN JOSE, Calif.: Atmel Corporation announced Tuesday the sampling of theAT91SAM9XE-series, the first generation of monolithic ARM9-based Flashmicrocontrollers that combines a 200-MIPS ARM926EJ-S processor core with up to512K bytes of high-performance on-chip Flash.http://www.atmel.com MOBILEDATA DELIVERS... BARCELONA: MobileData Now has released MobileData Now v1.2 an affordablemobile data access solution for businesses with a mobile workforce or a need togive the general public access to information.www.mobiledatanow.com MERSANA APPOINTS... CAMBRIDGE, Mass.: Mersana, a cancer therapeutics company, announced Tuesdaythat Timothy B. Lowinger, Ph.D., has joined the company as Chief ScientificOfficer. TURKCELL LAUNCHES... CHICAGO: Novarra, the internet mobility company, Tuesday announced thatTurkcell has integrated a new 'open internet' offering to their portal serviceusing Novarra's Vision platform for next-generation mobile internet andmulti-media services.http://www.novarra.com GSMA SELECTS... BARCELONA: The GSM Association (GSMA), the global trade association for themobile industry, Tuesday announced that a panel comprising of nine operatorshas selected two mobile phones developed by LG Electronics as the winningproducts to spearhead its GSMA's Horizon Phone initiative.http://www.gsmworld.com NXP DEMONSTRATING... BARCELONA: NXP Software is demonstrating one of the industry's firsthigh-quality media players on Texas Instruments' OMAPV1035 ARM9-based,single-chip EDGE solution at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2008.http://www.software.nxp.comhttp://www.ti.com/omap ALLIANCE LAUNCHES... BARCELONA: An alliance of leading hardware and software vendors have joinedtogether to develop the world's lowest cost smart entry phone that enablesemail and web-based messaging functions.www.infineon.comhttp://www.tjat.comhttp://www.jurtech.comhttp://www.brightstarcorp.com SONUS UNVEILS... BARCELONA, and WESTFORD, Mass.: On Tuesday at Mobile World Congress (Booth#2E58 & 2E66) in Barcelona, Spain, Sonus Networks, Inc., a leading supplier ofservice provider IP-voice infrastructure solutions, showcased its CentralizedCall Routing Database.http://www.sonusnet.com POWER AMPLIFIER... BARCELONA, and WARREN, N.J.: ANADIGICS, Inc., a leading provider ofsemiconductor solutions in the broadband wireless and wireline communicationsmarkets, Tuesday announced its new AWT6155 quad-band polar EDGE power amplifier(PA) module for 3G wireless handsets and equipment.http://www.anadigics.comhttp://www.anadigics.com/worldwide_saleshttp://www.mobileworldcongress.com/homepage.htm VERIZON EXTENDS... BASKING RIDGE, N.J.: Verizon Business' managed local area network (LAN)service is now available in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and theAsia-Pacific region, in addition to the United States.http://www.verizon.com ACRODEA ANNOUNCES... TOKYO: Acrodea Tuesday announced the availability of its OpenKODEimplementations for immediate use and licensing on February 11th 2008, atMobile World Congress, Barcelona, Spain.http://www.acrodea.co.jp ACTIVIDENTITY REPORTS... FREMONT, Calif.: ActivIdentity Corporation, a global leader in digitalidentity assurance, Tuesday announced its financial results for its fiscalfirst quarter ended December 31, 2007.http://www.actividentity.com USIBC REMEMBERS... WASHINGTON: U.S.-India Business Council (USIBC) Monday expressed its deepsorrow over the death of the august Congressman Tom Lantos, who died onWednesday last week after a precipitous battle with cancer.http://www.usibc.com AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited,translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net forfull-text versions.