SYDNEY--2 Jun--AsiaNet/InfoQuest UTSTARCOM APPOINTMENT... GURGAON - UTStarcom, Inc., a global leader in IP-based,end-to-end networking solutions and services, today announcedthe appointment of Jagdish Devgan as senior director of salesfor India. www.utstar.com AZOCLEANTECH.COM LAUNCH... SYDNEY - AZoCleanTech.com is the latest AZoNetwork onlineknowledge base that is intended to provide the global cleantechnology, science, design and engineering community with acontinuously updating resource for all the information theyneed to make an informed decision on selecting a "CleanTechnology" solution. www.AZoNetwork.com SUPERMICRO CHIPSETS... TAIPEI - Super Micro Computer, Inc., a leader inapplication-optimized, high performance server and workstationsolutions, today launched two desktop platforms based on thenew Intel G45 and G43 Express chipsets. www.Supermicro.com KOSCOM ROUTING... JERSEY CITY, New Jersey - Tradeweb, a leadingover-the-counter, multiasset class, online marketplace, ownedby Thomson Reuters and ten leading global dealers, todayannounced that Koscom is a new concentrator on the TradewebRouting Network, enabling its equity trading clients in Koreadirect access to the liquidity of 42 local sell-sidedestinations. http://english.koscom.co.kr AMAZON.COM BUSINESSWEEK... NEW YORK - For the second consecutive year, Amazon.com topsBusinessWeek's annual InfoTech 100 ranking of tech's topperforming companies. In 2007, Amazon.com vaulted from No.23 toNo.1, and the company retains the top spot this year, beatingout Apple (No.2), Nintendo (No.4), and Google (No.11). www.businessweek.com/it100 Avastin STUDY... BASEL - Avastin, significantly improves the time patientswith metastatic breast cancer live without their diseasegetting worse when combined with a commonly used chemotherapycalled docetaxel, compared with docetaxel alone. These findingswere presented for the first time today at the American Societyof Clinical Oncology meeting in Chicago. www.thenewsmarket.com AVASTIN TARCEVA... BASEL - Adding Avastin to a combination of Tarceva andchemotherapy significantly improves the time patients withmetastatic pancreatic cancer live without their disease gettingworse. These data, presented for the first time today at the44th annual meeting of the American Society of ClinicalOncology in Chicago, also showed a trend towards extending lifeexpectancy. www.thenewsmarket.com www.avastin-info.com www.health-kiosk.ch/start_krebs AVASTIN DATA... BASEL - A wealth of new Avastin data will be presented atthe 44th annual meeting of the American Society of ClinicalOncology in Chicago confirming that Avastin-based therapy isessential for patients with metastatic colorectal cancer. www.thenewsmarket.com www.avastin-info.com www.health-kiosk.ch/start_krebs LAW ELECTIONS... WASHINGTON - Over 100 legal educators from more than 40countries attended the first General Assembly of theInternational Association of Law Schools to vote for theAssociations first elected President, President-Elect, andGoverning Board. www.ialsnet.org ONLINE GAMBLING... SYDNEY - When Klaus E. from Finland made a 50 cent bet atpopular online casino BlackjackBallroom.com, little did he knowthat his life was about to change forever! One click and 3seconds later, the reels aligned, the screen lit up, the bellsrang out... and Klaus E was $5.5 million richer! www.blackjackballroom.com/promo/bigjackpot.asp TARCEVA BENEFITS... CHICAGO - New data presented at ASCO 2008 from TRUST, thelargest non-small cell lung cancer Phase IV trial everconducted, show that a broad range of NSCLC patients treatedwith Tarceva experience clinical benefits including longersurvival, better quality of life, control of disease symptomsand control of cancer progression. www.tarcevapressoffice.com www.roche.com NEUFTEC STATEMENT... ROSEAU - Neuftec Limited, the proprietor of the originalnano-particulate cerium Oxide fuel catalyst technology, todayissues the following statement in response to the press releasedated 12 July 2007 issued by Oxonica Plc last year: KOTAK SECURITIES... DALLAS and MUMBAI - Kotak Securities Limited, the stockbroking arm of the Kotak Mahindra group today announced theimplementation of Entrust Identity Guard from Entrust, Inc.,for its customers. www.kotaksecurities.com www.entrust.com SUNITINIB EFFECTS... BASEL - Data presented at the largest oncology meeting inthe world, the American Society of Clinical Oncology, showsthat the costs of managing side effects in patients withmetastatic renal cell cancer treated with sunitinib are two tothree times greater than if they were treated with thecombination of Avastin and interferon, a combination whichprovides comparable patient efficacy to sunitinib. www.thenewsmarket.com www.avastin-info.com www.health-kiosk.ch/start_krebs FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principalamount of MTN and FINP securities issues on June 9 and June 11,2008 at a redemption price equal to 100 per cent of theprincipal amount redeemed plus accrued interest. http://www.fanniemae.com MICREL ETHERNET... SAN JOSE, California - Micrel Inc., an industry leader inanalog, high bandwidth communications and Ethernet ICsolutions, today launched the KSZ8995FQ, Micrel's latest memberof the 5-port switch family. The new solution enables users tosuccessfully build loop applications by using two fiber ports 3and 4 to cascade together a ring, while still utilizing the MIIinterface on port 5 to the CPU/Host. www.micrel.com FRONTIERS ENCODER... TOKYO - FRONTIERS Co., Ltd., a pioneer in HD video-over-IPtransport technology, has announced that it has developed andreleased an ultra-compact MPEG2 encoder HD c3000e, which can beintegrated with a commercial HD camera. www.big-frontiers.co.jp AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited,translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net forfull-text versions.