SYDNEY--4 Jun--AsiaNet/InfoQuest BRIDGE WEDDING... SYDNEY - At 8.30am on Tuesday 3rd June 2008 Stephen Tierneyand Claire Tullan, from the UK, became the first officialcouple to hold their wedding ceremony with BridgeClimb on thesummit of the Sydney Harbour Bridge! SILVERLIGHT DEVELOPING... PITTSBURGH, PA.- ComponentOne announces the Pre-release ofComponentOne Studio for Silverlight. Developers and designersalike can create compelling Web-based solutions withComponentOne's state-of-the-art controls for MicrosoftSilverlight that include unparalleled features and benefits. http://www.componentone.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principalamount of MTN securities issues amounting to a total ofUS$315 million on 13 June, 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 of US$7.6million on 13 June, 2008 at a redemption price equal to 100 percent of the principal amount redeemed plus accrued interest. http://www.fanniemae.com EESTECH RECRUITS... SYDNEY - EESTECH has appointed Graeme Lynch as operationsmanager and John Hanson as marketing and public relationsmanager. Both have spent the past four and half years workingfor carbon capture and storage specialists HTC Purenergy (aCanadian based, publicly listed company on the Toronto StockExchange - Venture under the code HTC), where they have beeninvolved in pioneering, branding and commercialising thetechnology on a worldwide basis. www.eestechinc.com U.S. ENVIRONMENT GROUPS... WASHINGTON - Five leading U.S. environmental organizations --Sierra Club, Environmental Integrity Project, Public Citizen-Texas Office, Galveston Houston Association for Smog Prevention(GHASP) and Sustainable Energy and Economic Development (SEED)Coalition -- today urged U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasyto ensure that(t)he U.S. Department of Justice ... proceedwith caution before turning over the American Smelting andRefining Company (ASARCO) -- which GreenLabor.org has termedone of the worst polluters ... in the country -- to a newcorporate parent with a track record of environmental and otherabuses. SUSTAINABILITY PRIZE... MONTREAL - Rio Tinto Alcan and the International BusinessLeaders Forum (IBLF) are pleased to announce the US$1 millionRio Tinto Alcan Prize for Sustainability(x) 2008 is now openfor entries. www.alcanprizeforsustainability.com ; www.riotinto.com/riotintoalcan DUPONT TITANIUM... WILMINGTON, Del., - DuPont (NYSE: DD) has announced thatprices for its Ti-Pure(R) titanium dioxide (TiO2) products willincrease by July 1 due to rapid and substantial increases inthe costs of energy, raw materials and transportation. Whilespecifics will vary by region, customers can expect the rapidimplementation of previously announced price increases,additional increases and, in some geographies, energy-relatedsurcharges. http://www.titanium.dupont.com RISI ANNOUNCEMENT... BOSTON, MA.,- RISI, the leading information provider for theglobal forest products industry, today announced the purchaseof Log Lines, the industry's premier delivered log pricingservice for the Pacific Northwest. SPIRIT PRESENTATIONS... WICHITA, Kan., June 4 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ -- The Spirit AeroSystems Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: SPR) annualInvestor Conference, June 4, 2008, 8 a.m. to noon CentralDaylight Time, will be broadcast via the Internet as previouslyannounced in a press release dated May 28. http://www.spiritaero.com PROMETRIC'S AWARD... SINGAPORE - Prometric, the global leader intechnology-enabled testing and assessment services, todayannounced that Singaporean Ramesh Nava, Vice President andGeneral Manager for the Asia Pacific and Africa region, hasbeen chosen by his peers in the Learning and Developmentindustry as the winner of the inaugural Learning Leader Awardat the LearnX Asia Pacific 2008 E-Learning & Training Awards inMelbourne, Australia. www.prometric.com PROGRESS APPOINTMENT... SINGAPORE and MALAYSIA - Progress Software Corporation(Nasdaq: PRGS), a leading provider of applicationinfrastructure software to develop, deploy, integrate andmanage business applications, has appointed Eric Lim asManaging Director for Asia. http://www.progress.com . SYNAPTICS CLEARPAD(TM)... SANTA CLARA, Calif., - ClearPad(TM) Enables Dynamic UserInterface with Character Recognition Synaptics Inc. (Nasdaq:SYNA), a leading developer of human interface solutions formobile computing, communications, and entertainment devices,announced today that its ClearPad(TM) solution is driving theinteractive touchscreen in NTT DOCOMO's new SH906i clamshellhandset. http://www.synaptics.com SILICON IMAGE ANNOUNCMENT... TAIPEI - COMPUTEX -- Silicon Image, Inc. (Nasdaq: SIMG), aleader in semiconductors and intellectual property for thesecure storage, distribution and presentation ofhigh-definition content, today announced SteelVine(TM) supportfor the latest generation of Intel(R) PC chipsets with therelease of its Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI)version 1.2 Serial ATA (SATA) driver. http://www.siliconimage.com SUPERMICRO UNLEASHES... TAIPEI - COMPUTEX -- Super Micro Computer, Inc. (Nasdaq:SMCI), a leader in application-optimized, high performanceserver and workstation solutions, has announced full supportfor the latest Quad-Core AMD Opteron(TM) 1300 Series processorson its latest single-processor A+ Servers on display atComputex Taipei 2008 (booths M619-M726). In addition to thecost-effective 1011M-UR and 1011S-MR2 A+ Servers, Supermicro isalso showcasing its high-density, energy-efficient, 4-way/2-waySuperBlade(TM), 1U Twin(TM), 4-way 1U, and Universal I/O (UIO)solutions. All five solutions are optimized for Quad-Core AMDOpteron processors. http://www.supermicro.com AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agenciesdistributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.