AsiaNet Daily Summary - Press Releases for Wednesday, April 16, 2008

ข่าวต่างประเทศ Wednesday April 16, 2008 17:26 —Asianet Press Release

SYDNEY--16 Apr--AsiaNet/InfoQuest CHINA ROULABETTE... MINEOLA - Kenilworth Systems Corporation (Pink Sheets: KENS)("Kenilworth"), the developer of Roulabette, a systempermitting gamblers to play along from remote locations onlive, in-progress casino table games, reported that the ChinesePatent Offices has now published the Company's patent "SYSTEMFOR WAGERING ON TERMINALS REMOTE FROM A CASINO". Theapplication was originally filed on August 6, 2001, at a timewhen China declined to accept gambling patents. Also, under therecent enacted patent laws in Hong Kong, it is now possible toobtain Patent Protection in Hong Kong based upon a Chinesepatent application. KORN/FERRY SURVEY... LOS ANGELES - Amidst recent calls for fair pay, more thanone-third of executives (34 percent) expressed at least someconcern regarding their CEO's compensation, according to thelatest Executive Quiz from Korn/Ferry International (NYSE:KFY), a premier global provider of talent management solutions.In contrast, a 2007 Korn/Ferry survey of executives revealedthat approximately one-fifth (21 percent) felt their CEO wasovercompensated. http://www.kornferry.com NOLABS AB REPORT... HELSINGBORG - NOLabs AB, the Swedish medtech companyfocusing on developing innovative Nitric Oxide-containingmedical devices, today reported that it has achieved anotherimportant milestone in the development of a new preventivetherapy against urinary tract infection, UTI. RED HERRING 100... ST. JULIANS - Red Herring today announced that Mobiletech ASis a recipient of the Red Herring 100 Europe, an award given tothe top 100 private technology companies based in the EMEA(Europe, Middle East and Africa) region each year. http://www.mobiletech.no http://www.redherring.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principalamount of MTN securities issues amounting to a total of US$385million on April 25, 2008 at a redemption price equal to 100per cent of the principal amount redeemed plus accruedinterest. http://www.fanniemae.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principalamount of FINP securities issues amounting to a total ofUS$24.268 million on April 25, 2008 at a redemption price equalto 100 per cent of the principal amount redeemed plus accruedinterest. http://www.fanniemae.com BULLGUARD CEO... COPENHAGEN - BullGuard announced today that its Board ofDirectors has appointed George Tennet as the Company's newChief Executive Officer. Mr Tennet joins BullGuard fromMobility Electronics where he held the position of ManagingDirector for the EMEA region. Previously, Mr Tennet was Head ofGlobal Sales at Sennheiser Communication and Vice PresidentSales & Marketing EMEA at GN/Jabra where he masterminded therapid growth of the Jabra brand across his region. http://www.bullguard.com LUMINARY MICRO... AUSTIN, Texas - Luminary Micro creators of the award-winningStellaris(R) family of ARM(R) Cortex(TM)-M3-basedmicrocontrollers (MCUs), today announced thirty new Stellarisfamily members, including the first integration of UniversalSerial Bus (USB) On-the-Go (OTG) and Host capability in the ARMCortex-M3 architecture. Each of the 30 new Stellaris familymembers ships with the Stellaris Peripheral Driver Library andBootloader conveniently preprogrammed in read-only memory(ROM), and each new microcontroller integrates the ARMPrimeCell(R) 32-channel configurable uDMA controller, designedand specifically optimized by ARM for use with the Cortex-M3processor and providing features normally only available inhigh-end application processors, such as advanced scattergather transfer modes. Additionally, the announcementstrengthens the position of Stellaris microcontrollers inprecise and safeguarded motor control applications withaugmented IP for superior motion control capability. http://www.luminarymicro.com INTERNATIONAL TRANSPORT FORUM... PARIS - Dr Rajendra Pachauri, Chairman of theIntergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and lastyear's Nobel Peace Prize winner is to address the InternationalTransport Forum on "The Challenge of Climate Change" to be heldin Leipzig, Germany from 28-30 May 2008, announced Jack Short,Secretary-General of the International Transport Forum onTuesday in Paris. "The work of the IPCC provides the scientificbasis for linking human activities to global warming and is keyfor future policy making, including in the field oftransportation," explained Short. The IPCC was jointly awardedthe Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 along with Al Gore, formerVice-President of the USA "in recognition of their efforts tobuild up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-madeclimate change and to lay the foundations for the measures thatare needed to counteract such change." http://www.internationaltransportforum.org/forum2008.html BRANDES PROPOSAL... SAN DIEGO - Brandes Investment Partners, L.P. ("Brandes")announces that, on April 8th, 2008, it submitted to OnoPharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (the "Company"), a pharmaceuticalmanufacturer based in Japan and listed on the Tokyo StockExchange, a resolution (the "Resolution") to be submitted forshareholder approval at the Company's upcoming annual meetingof shareholders. On behalf of its investment advisory clients,Brandes currently holds in excess of 7.0% of the Company'sshares. This represents an ownership position built since1997. http://www.brandes.com ADITYA SELECTION... MUMBAI - Aditya Birla Minacs, a leading provider of businessprocess outsourcing services, has selected Verizon Business toupgrade its global communications network to enhance managementcapabilities and achieve greater cost efficiencies. The companyhas implemented a fully managed Verizon Private IP solution tolink its Indian headquarters with operations in Canada,Germany, Hungary, the Philippines, the United Kingdom and theUnited States. http://www.verizonbusiness.com http://www.minacs.adityabirla.com AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agenciesdistributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions

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