SYDNEY--12 Jun--AsiaNet/InfoQuest YAMAHA DEVELOPS... TOKYO - Yamaha Corporation has announced the development ofits YMU809 audio codec IC that brings high-quality audioprocessing and hands-free functions to personal navigationdevices, mobile phones, and other devices. www.global.yamaha.com BAYAN NETWORKS... MOUNTAIN VIEW - Customers of Bayan Telecommunications, oneof the leading telecommunications companies in the Philippines,now have the ability to send and receive person to person textmessages, across 500 operators globally and 2.2 billionsubscribers, thanks to the Open Connectivity SMS Serviceoffered by the Messaging and Mobile Media Division of VeriSign,the leading provider of Internet infrastructure services forthe networked world. http://www.bayan.com.ph http://www.verisign.com BOOK LAUNCHES... CORNWALL - "In the end the truth must win because only thetruth is real; all else is illusion, fiction and lies." Sothinks Paul Gauthier, the author of The Book of The TrueGenesis. www.goti-a.com PLATTS SURVEY... LONDON - The 13 members of the Organization of PetroleumExporting Countries pumped an average 32.24 million barrels perday of crude oil in May, an increase of 370,000 b/d fromApril's 31.87 million b/d, according to a Platts survey of OPECand oil industry officials just released. http://www.platts.com http://www.opec.platts.com http://www.mcgraw-hill.com CONCERNS EXPRESSED... WASHINGTON - Two Arizona members of Congress Wednesday senta letter to United States Attorney General Michael Mukaseyexpressing concerns about the environmental track record of theIndia company Vedanta/Sterlite. http://216.250.243.12/Gifffords-Grijalva.pdf ASTRATA ANNOUNCES... COSTA MESA - Astrata Group Thursday announced record revenueof US$13.4 million for the fiscal year ended February 29, 2008,up US$9.9 million, or 280 per cent over the prior yearperiod. http://www.astratagroup.com AIG CAPTURES... EAST WINDSOR - Aviation Industry Press, the multimediapublishing arm of Aviation Industry Group (AIG), has receivednominations in four categories for this year's AerospaceJournalist of the Year Awards. http://www.cbizmedia.com http://www.aviationindustrygroup.com http://www.ajoya.com CEO JOINS... SAO PAULO - RISI Wednesday announced that ReinoldoPoernbacher, CEO of Klabin, will join the program of speakersat RISI's 3rd Latin American Pulp and Paper Outlook Conferencethis year. http://www.risiinfo.com EAGLE RELEASES... BOSTON - Eagle Investment Systems LLC, a leading provider offinancial services technology and a subsidiary of The Bank ofNew York Mellon, Wednesday announced the availability of EagleVersion 9.0, a major technical and functional upgrade of itsintegrated suite of data management, investment accounting, andperformance measurement solutions. http://www.eagleinvsys.com http://www.bnymellon.com HOWCO ADDS... HOUSTON - HOWCO Group, a global supplier of hi-techmaterials to the oilfield services industry, has added a newcorrosion-resistant alloy to its family of CRAs. http://www.howcogroup.com http://www.specialmetals.com COMPONENTONE WINS... PITTSBURGH - ComponentOne Wednesday announced that itsStudio for WinForms was named as a winner of the "Best ofTech-Ed 2008 Developer Awards" in the Database Development byPenton Media's Windows IT Pro(R) and SQL Server Magazine. http://www.componentone.com http://www.penton.com http://www.windowsitpro.com MICREL FLEXES... SAN JOSE - Micrel Inc., an industry leader in analog, highbandwidth communications and Ethernet IC solutions, todaylaunched the MIC2811/21, a highly efficient flexible powermanagement IC (PMIC) that provides four output voltages in atiny 3mm x 3mm MLF(R)-16 lead package. http://www.micrel.com LIFEVIBES DELIVERS... EINDHOVEN - LifeVibes MxMedia solution for TD-SCDMA featurephones offers a complete, pre-integrated multimedia middlewaresolution including video telephony and TV playing. http://www.software.nxp.com ENERPULSE APPOINTS... ALBUQUERQUE - Enerpulse has signed an exclusive distributionagreement with AutoHitech to import and market Pulstar pulseplugs throughout Scandinavia where gasoline prices have soaredpast US$9 per gallon. http://www.pulstar.com http://www.autohitech.no BIOWA LICENSES... PRINCETON - BioWa, Inc. announced Wednesday that it haslicensed its POTELLIGENT Technology to Novartis for thedevelopment of antibody therapeutics with enhancedantibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC). http://www.biowa.com RANBAXY ENTERS... TOKYO - Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited, one of the largestpharmaceutical companies in Japan, and Ranbaxy LaboratoriesLimited, among the top 10 generic companies in the world andIndia's largest pharmaceutical company, announced on June 11that a binding Share Purchase and Share Subscription Agreementwas entered into between Daiichi Sankyo, Ranbaxy and the Singhfamily, the largest and controlling shareholders of Ranbaxy. http://www.daiichisankyo.com/ AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agenciesdistributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.