SYDNEY--3 Apr--AsiaNet/InfoQuest RESEARCHERS HONOURED... CANBERRA: Australia's influence on international scientific research wasWednesday recognised by Thomson Scientific, a leading provider of informationsolutions to the worldwide research and business communities, as it gaveCitation Awards to ten of the most pre-eminent researchers working in Australia.http://www.scientific.thomson.comhttp://www.thomson.com TOP PROJECT... MIAMI: Masada Resource Group, a Birmingham, AL provider of waste-to-ethanoltechnology, was recognized Wednesday as one of the top five infrastructureprojects for Latin America at the 6th Latin American Leadership Forum in Miami.http://www.masada.com PASSENGER GROWTH... UTRECHT: The Eurail Group, owner of the popular Eurail Pass for Europeanrail travel, has announced a 5% increase in passenger numbers for 2007,notwithstanding forecasts of a lukewarm year for the travel industry. TEJARI JOINS... DUBAI: The marketplace spirit was alive and well at the UAE-China Businessand Economic Cooperation Forum held in the city of Shanghai as Tejari avowed todevelop a new "e-Silk Road" to restore the former glory and success of thehistorical trade route between China and the Middle East.http://www.tejari.comhttp://www.ishanghaimart.com CCES COMMITS... DETROIT, MI.: Carbon Credit Environmental Services (CCES) has committed tooffsetting the greenhouse gas and carbon dioxide (GHG, CO2) emissions producedfrom several upcoming events; The 2008 Olympics in Beijing, The Detroit BelleIsle Grand Prix, and The Woodward Dream Cruise as well working with The DetroitRiver Regatta Association for The APBA Gold Cup Boat Races and Upland HillsEcological Awareness Center for the Earth Day Expo at Oakland University.http://www.getcarboncreditco2.comhttp://www.ccestravel.com MANAGEMENT SYSTEM... NORTHBROOK, Ill.: Underwriters Laboratories (UL), a world leader of productsafety testing services, announced Wednesday that its Management SystemSolutions business will merge with DQS, a leading global registrar inindependent third party management system certification services headquarteredin Frankfurt am Main, Germany.http://www.UL.com CHINESE WEBSITE... DUBAI: Dubai World, one of the world's largest holding companies, announcedWednesday the launch of its Chinese website in connection with the visit of HisHighness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and PrimeMinister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, to China.http://www.dubaiworldchina.cn USB COMPLIANCE... CAMPBELL, Calif.: PulseCore Semiconductor, the EMI Experts, Wednesdayannounced that its USB 2.0 Peak EMI Reduction IC is the first Spread Spectrumtechnology to achieve USB compliance.http://www.pulsecoresemi.com PLATEAU DEPLOYS... PLANO, Texas: Acision, the messaging and charging company of choice for over300 network operators and service providers worldwide, announced Wednesday thatPlateau Wireless has deployed its next-generation messaging, voicemail,management and reporting solutions across its network in New Mexico and Texas.http://www.acision.comhttp://www.plateautel.com MICREL LAUNCHES... SAN JOSE, Calif.: Micrel Inc., an industry leader in analog, high bandwidthcommunications and Ethernet IC solutions, Wednesday launched the MIC47100, an1A High Speed, NMOS LDO designed to take advantage of applications that thatutilize multiple supply rails to generate a low voltage, high current powersupply.http://www.micrel.com CATERPILLAR VISIT... BEIJING: Caterpillar Inc. Chairman and CEO Jim Owens visited Caterpillar'snewest prime product manufacturing facility in China, Caterpillar PavingProducts (Xuzhou) Limited (CPPX), during his most recent visit to Asia.http://www.CAT.com PROGENTECH COMPLETES... EMERYVILLE, Calif.: ProGenTech, a life sciences company based in Shanghai,China and Emeryville, CA developing a contamination free, cassette basedautomated nucleic acid purification system, announced Wednesday that it hasclosed a $21 million Series C financing led by Bay City Capital (San Francisco)and DT Capital (Shanghai).http://www.progentech.comhttp://www.baycitycapital.comhttp://www.dtcap.com NEW WINE... PERTH: West Aussie Wine (WAW) will be launching a new service on 31 March2008, offering exciting and new wines to the UK.www.westaussiewine.co.uk CYPROTEX INTRODUCES... MACCLESFIELD: Cyprotex on Wednesday announced that it is introducing a newproduct line, Cloe Select.http://www.cyprotex.com DBI UNVEILS... AUSTIN,, Texas: Database-Brothers, Inc. (DBI) Wednesday introduced newperformance tuning and space management tools for Oracle environments:Brother-Owl for SQL tuning, Brother-Wolf for space management, andBrother-Eagle Enterprise Edition for real-time performance monitoring.http://www.dbisoftware.comhttp://www.softwarepricedright.com REALPLAYER AVAILABLE... SHANGHAI: Intel Developer Forum 2008 -- From the Intel Developer Forum 2008in Shanghai, digital entertainment services company RealNetworks, Inc. isannouncing the upcoming availability of RealPlayer for MID for IntelArchitecture-based Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs).http://www.realnetworks.com INFRAGISTICS ANNOUNCES... BANGALORE, India & PRINCETON, N.J.: Infragistics, the world leader inpresentation layer development tools, Tuesday announced that NetAdvantage for.NET is a finalist in the Web Development category of the Great IndianDeveloper Awards.http://www.infragistics.com AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited,translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net forfull-text versions