SYDNEY--18 Jun--AsiaNet/InfoQuest TELCOS JOIN... SINGAPORE - During a media briefing in Singapore, Pacnet andBharti Airtel Wednesday signed an NNI (network-to-networkinterface) agreement to interconnect their respective networks,expanding connections to and from India. http://www.pacnet.com http://www.bhartiairtel.in TELCOS LAUNCH... SINGAPORE - Following the signing of an NNI(network-to-network interface) agreement to interconnect theirrespective networks, expanding connections to and from India,Pacnet and Bharti Airtel Wednesday also announced a special"Gateway to India" offering for STM-1 and larger InternationalPrivate Line circuits between the United States and India. http://www.bhartiairtel.in http://www.pc1.com http://www.pacnet.com VERIZON EXPANDS... LAS VEGAS - Verizon Business is expanding and strengtheningits unified communications services to help multinationalcompanies, faced with dramatically rising travel costs,collaborate better and improve their business processes. http://www.verizon.com http://www.verizonbusiness.com PRESS EVENT... BEVERLY HILLS - Silvia Damiani, of famed Italian JewelryHouse Damiani, and Sharon Stone invite news media to join themfor a special press event. http://www.thereelrossgroup.com (ISC)2 SEEKS... HONG KONG - (ISC)2, the non-profit global leader ineducating and certifying information security professionalsthroughout their careers, today announced it has openednominations for its second annual Asia-Pacific InformationSecurity Leadership Achievements Program. http://www.isc2.org OFFICIALS GATHER... SINGAPORE - Mayors and senior officials around the worldwill join an expanding line-up of prominent speakers anddelegates from governments, international organisations,private sector companies and non-governmental organisations atthe first-ever World Cities Summit this month. http://www.worldcities.com.sg NEUSTAR DELIVERS... SINGAPORE - NeuStar, Inc. Wednesday announced that it wasselected by StarHub, Singapore's fully-integratedinfo-communications company, to launch a new multi-communitymobile Instant Messaging service to StarHub's customers inSingapore. http://www.neustar.biz http://www.neustar.biz/ngm APPLE OPENS... SYDNEY - Apple's first retail store in Australia will openon George Street in Sydney on Thursday, 19 June at 5:00 p.m.Located in the heart of the city's shopping district, the AppleStore Sydney features two floors dedicated to Macs and iPodsand a third floor entirely dedicated to service, including theworld's largest Genius Bar for free advice and personaltraining through Apple's popular One to One membership. http://www.apple.com WEATHERTRENDS RELEASES... BETHLEHEM - Weather Trends International Inc. is proud toannounce the release of www.myskeye.com version 2.0, a globalbusiness-weather planning and forecasting platform with a bitof fun for consumers too! http://myskeye.com BUSINESSWEEK COLLABORATES... NEW YORK - BusinessWeek will publish a special Augustdouble-issue focused on workplace challenges - "Business@Work,"will engage BusinessWeek's audience, bringing together readersand editors in an interactive, collaborative exchange. http://www.businessweek.com/business@work PLATTS REPORTS... LONDON - Platts, one of the world's foremost providers ofenergy and metals information, Wednesday announced it hasexpanded its suite of daily spot price assessments to includeseaborne iron ore delivered to China, iron ore's largestconsuming market. http://www.platts.com http://www.mcgraw-hill.com http://tinyurl.com/4hffur SYMPOSIUM CALLS... NEW YORK - Industry professionals and academic specialistsare invited to submit abstracts outlining potentialpresentations to be given during the 2009 conference program ofPPI Transport Symposium 18, 7-9 October 2009, Liverpool,England, UK. http://www.transportsymposium.com http://www.risiinfo.com http://www.ifpta.org PHONETAG OFFERS.... NEW YORK - PhoneTag, the provider of voicemail-to-textservices and visual voicemail applications in the UnitedStates, announced Wednesday the launch of its award winningvoicemail-to-text service in Australia. http://www.phonetag.com THOMSONREUTERS LAUNCHES... PHILADELPHIA - Thomson Reuters, the world's leading sourceof intelligent information for businesses and professionals,announced Wednesday the launch of BIOMARKERcenter, a uniquecomprehensive resource for biomarker intelligence. http://www.thomsonreuters.com http://scientific.thomsonreuters.com/products biomarkercenter ORGANIZATION HIGHLIGHTS... MILWAUKEE - The World Allergy Organization will publish itsfirst Report on the extent of allergy and chronic respiratorydiseases worldwide on the 18 June 2008 and has called forimmediate collaboration to tackle the current escalation inallergy cases. http://www.waojournal.org CAREER FAIR... LONDON - A 'virtual' careers fair being held June 18-19 canlead to real jobs for those working in the constructionindustry. http://www.building.co.uk/virtualcareers MOMENTUM GROWS... LONDON - The number of mobile broadband connections in the850MHz frequency band worldwide has leapt to more than 13million from 1.3 million one year ago thanks to rapid growth inthe Americas and Australia, according to Wireless Intelligence,a unit of the GSMA, the global body for the mobile industry. WINWAP AVAILABLE... HELSINKI - Winwap Technologies Oy, specialist in providingmobile Internet browsers and multimedia messaging software,announced Tuesday that it is cooperating with SiRF TechnologyHoldings Inc, a world leader in location technology, to makeWinwap's software applications available to SiRF's customers. http://www.winwap.com GLOBAL FORMS... ATLANTA - Global Payments Inc., a leading provider ofelectronic transaction processing solutions, announced Tuesdayit has agreed to form a joint venture with HSBC Bank plc toprovide payment processing services to merchants in the UnitedKingdom and Internet merchants globally. http://www.globalpaymentsinc.com http://www.apacs.org.uk/index.html http://www.vrlknowledgebank.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principalamount of MTN securities issues amounting to a total ofUS$141.772 million on June 27, 2008 at a redemption price equalto 100 per cent of the principal amount redeemed plus accruedinterest. http://www.fanniemae.co ANADIGICS EXPANDS... WARREN - ANADIGICS, Inc. Tueday announced that they haveselected MTI Engineering, Ltd., as their manufacturer'srepresentative for Israel. MTI will represent ANADIGICS'complete line of wireless and broadband RF semiconductorproducts effective immediately. http://www.anadigics.com NYENRODE STARTS... BREUKELEN - Nyenrode plans to start a Europe India Instituteto stimulate the academic and practical development ofknowledge on business in India, trade relationships between thetwo regions and themes such as business spirituality, foodprocessing logistics, outsourcing and offshoring. http://www.nyenrode.nl ATMEL WINS... SAN JOSE - Atmel Corporation announced Tueday that itsmicrocontrollers have been voted by readers of Electronics forYou, one of India's most widely read electronics industrymagazines, as winners in the Microcontrollers category of theirReaders' Choice Awards for the second consecutive year. http://www.atmel.com ONLINE EXTINCTION... SYDNEY - It has become evident in recent times that therehas been a shift away from the last minute model with sitessuch as Wotif.com to go 365 days. Moreover, according to arecent study by HotelsCombined.com these last minutedistribution sites including Wotif.com, NeedItNow.com andLastMinute.com.au are no longer offering the best availablerates. http://www.HotelsCombined.com MONTREAL DEVELOPS... MONTREAL - Montreal is well on its way to becoming the firstcity in North America to develop a bicycle network that helpsaddress some of the problems related to the ever-growing use ofcars in urban areas. www.publicbikesystem.com DATA SHOWS... JAKARTA - Data presented Monday at the 6th International Symposium on Pneumococci & Pneumococcal Diseases in Reykjavik, Iceland shows the use of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine to prevent infection is a more effective approach to reducing the burden of disease than any successful treatment option. NEUSOFT INAUGERATES... DALIAN - Neusoft Corporation, the largest offshore software and service outsourcing provider in China, inaugurated another software park at the Dalian High-tech Industrial ZoneTuesday. 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