SYDNEY--19 Mar--AsiaNet/InfoQuest PEROT PURSUIT... PLANO, Texas: Perot Systems Corporation (NYSE: PER) andChinaSoft International (HK8216) today announced that they haveagreed to cooperatively develop mutually beneficialopportunities in the Chinese Healthcare market.www.perotsystems.comwww.icss.com.cn HOPELAB'S WINNERS... REDWOOD CITY, California: HopeLab today announced thewinners of Ruckus Nation, a global idea competition to get kidsmoving. The $50,000 grand prize, awarded at an event held atthe de Young Museum in San Francisco, went to "Dancing Craze,"submitted by Stacy Cho, 30, from Seattle, Wash. People of allages were invited to submit ideas for new products that willincrease physical activity in kids. Ruckus Nation, co-sponsoredby the Pioneer Portfolio of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation,attracted 429 entries from teams in 37 countries and 41 U.S.states.www.hopelab.org www.rwjf.org VERITAINER AWARD... SAN FRANCISCO: VeriTainer Corporation, the world leader incrane mounted nuclear and radiological maritime securitysolutions, announced today that it has been awardedinternational patent protections in Singapore, Taiwan and NewZealand. Singapore is the largest container port in the world,Taiwan is a very large trading partner with the United States,and New Zealand is an active trading nation on the PacificRim. GFK ASIA... SINGAPORE: GfK Asia releases its 2007 Year End Pan AsianConsumer Electronics Data Summary, highlighting the trends inthe region's consumer electronics sector. The report includesdata from 13 countries overall, covering the followingproducts: television; DVD player, recorder, and portable; audiohome system and home theatre system; camcorder; MP3 digitalportable audio player and MP4 portable digital video player. www.gfk.com ASIA MEDIA SYSTEMS... SINGAPORE: Asia Media Systems ("AMS")is pleased to announce the incorporation of its new subsidiary,Cold Storage Software Pte Ltd. ("Cold Storage"). Specializedin Network Attached Storage ("NAS") technology, Cold Storageengages in developing and marketing NAS products and solutionsin the region. www.asia-ams.com THE REGISTRY COLLECTION... PARSIPPANY, N.J. and QUEENSTOWN, New Zealand: The RegistryCollection, the world's largest luxury exchange program, todayannounced the addition of The Cashmere Villas to its network ofmore than 100 exclusive high-end leisure properties. ThePacific Registry -- the club managing The Cashmere Villas, isthe first affiliate for the Pacific region -- a key milestoneand reaffirmation of The Registry Collection program's growthand commitment to securing a truly worldwide network ofhigh-end, leisure properties.www.grouprci.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principalamount of MTN securities issues amounting to a total of US$90million on March 28, 2008 at a redemption price equal to 100per cent of the principal amount redeemed plus accruedinterest. www.fanniemae.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principalamount of FINP securities issues amounting to a total ofUS$$8.361 million on March 28, 2008 at a redemption price equalto 100 per cent of the principal amount redeemed plus accruedinterest.www.fanniemae.com PROGNOSIS EXTENSION... ORLANDO, Florida:Integrated Research (ASX:IRI), developersof PROGNOSIS performance monitoring and management solutions,today announced the official launch of support for Nortel IPcommunications technology through version 9.5 of itsmarket-leading PROGNOSIS IP Telephony Manager software.www.prognosis.com PROGNOSIS IP... ORLANDO: VoiceConIntegrated Research (ASX:IRI), developersof PROGNOSIS performance monitoring and management software,today announced the release of PROGNOSIS IP TelephonyManagement Reporter version 9.5. This new release adds supportfor Avaya communications technology and extends the productsfunctionality, allowing for a single, unified view acrossheterogeneous IP telephony environments.www.prognosis.com AIR CHINA MOVE... BEIJING: Air China is set to move all of its Beijing CapitalInternational Airport operations to New Terminal 3 at midnighton March 26, 2008. Better services and better facilities meanthat all passengers will benefit. TeleContinuity, Inc. ReceivesTelecommunications Carrier License from Japanese Government TELECONTINUITY ANNOUNCEMENT... TOKYO: TeleContinuity announced today that it has beengranted a Type II Carrier License from the Japanese Ministry ofInternal Affairs and Communications. Effective as of February28, 2008, the license will enable TeleContinuity to providecarrier services to the Japanese marketplace including VoIP,voice and data access as well as its flagship survivabletelecommunications network to commercial, residential andgovernment organizations throughout Japan.www.telecontinuity.comwww.bcpvoice.jp CALIFORNIA MICRO... SCOTTSDALE, Arizona: California Micro Devices announced itwould deliver a technical paper on a new CSP repassivationtechnology designed to minimize parasitic elements in ASIP(TM)(Application Specific Integrated Passive(TM)) products at theIMAPS 4th Annual International Conference and Exhibition onDevice Packaging, March 17th through March 20th, 2008, at theRadisson Fort McDowell Resort and Casino in Scottsdale,Arizona. The presentation will be part of a technical track ofpapers sponsored by the Wafer Level Chip Scale (WLCSP) Forum onwafer level chip scale package board reliability.www.cmd.com BULLGUARD RELEASES... COPENHAGEN: Today BullGuard releases BullGuard Backup 8.0,the second version of its stand-alone backup offering. Newfeatures include improved encryption and compression options, alarger Online Backup Drive and a unique Support experience.BullGuard has been developing backup technologies since 2003.www.bullguard.com DEXTON FIRST... CAPELLE A/D IJSSEL, Netherlands: Dexton, a Dutch softwarecompany with more than 20 years of experience in complexintegration processes, is the first to enable corporateperformance management for all leading BI solutions, includingCognos, SAP, BO, SAS and Microsoft. In a recent presentationGartner analyst Andreas Bitterer stated that "the majority ofcompanies are actively involved with BI, but are onlysuccessful in specific areas." He is convinced that"Integration of business intelligence with business processesin the way of corporate performance management (CPM) isessential in getting further."www.dexton.nl VISA INC.IPO... SAN FRANCISCO: Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) announced today that ithas priced the initial public offering of 406,000,000 shares ofClass A common stock at $44 per share. Visa's shares will begintrading on March 19, 2008, on the New York Stock Exchange underthe ticker symbol "V". The closing of the offering is scheduledto take place on March 25, 2008. Visa expects net proceeds fromthe offering, after deducting underwriting discounts andcommissions and estimated offering expenses, to beapproximately $17.3 billion. The underwriters have a 30-dayoption to purchase up to 40,600,000 additional shares of ClassA common stock to cover over-allotments, if any.www.sec.gov AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited,translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net forfull-text versions.