SYDNEY--18 Sep--AsiaNet/InfoQuest INDONESIAN MOUNTAINEERING... JAKARTA - Indonesian Culture and Tourism Minister Jero Wacik launched a maiden activity of the Indonesian Supervolcano Mountaineering Challenge of 2008 in Jakarta on Thursday. To be held in the mountainous areas of Tambora and Rinjani volcanoes in West Nusatenggara province on October 14-28, 2008, the ISVMC event poses an alternative of mountaineering activity-based eco-tourism for foreign and domestic mount climbers in a bid to make the Visit Indonesia Year program to a success. SABRE AVIATION... SOUTHLAKE, Texas - Sabre Airline Solutions announced today the launch of its newly acquired Flight Explorer solution to the Australian commercial and business aviation market. This is a major development for the Australian aviation community because real-time flight tracking has not been available to the majority of Australian operators until now. www.sabreairlinesolutions.com www.flightexplorer.com/au/ www.airservicesaustralia.com www.raaa.com.au/Convention/Convention.html INNO-TECH SEOUL... SEOUL - Taking place from October the 23rd thru the 26th, Inno-Tech 2008 will be sponsored by the Small and Medium Business Administration and organized by the Innobiz Association. It will be held at the COEX Pacific Hall in Samseong-dong, Seoul. www.innotech.or.kr/english/ BYTEMOBILE AUSTRALIA... MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - Bytemobile, Inc., the global leader in mobile internet solutions for network operators, today announced the appointments of Renato Trentin as regional sales director and Luke Anderson as sales engineering manager of the company's new team in Australia. Trentin and Anderson are responsible for all new customer sales and management of existing Bytemobile accounts throughout Australia, New Zealand and Oceania. www.bytemobile.com ASPENTECH LICENSING... BURLINGTON, Mass. - Aspen Technology, Inc., a leading provider of software and services to the process industries, today announced the launch of the Aspen Licensing Center. The secure, web-based licensing center provides customers with insight that enables them to replicate best practices across the enterprise. It also makes it easy to evaluate new aspenONE applications with just three clicks. www.aspentech.com ASPENONE SOFTWARE... BURLINGTON, Mass. - Aspen Technology, Inc., a leading provider of software and services to the process industries, today outlined how its new aspenONE V7 software addresses key issues facing traditional and alternative energy companies. www.aspentech.com ASPENTECH'S ASPENONE... BURLINGTON, Mass. - Aspen Technology, Inc., a leading provider of software and services to the process industries, today introduced aspenONE V7 for Process Engineering. The new release of aspenONE software enables process industry companies to achieve the seven best practices of engineering excellence. www.aspentech.com WALKERS ASIA... HONG KONG - Walkers, the global offshore law firm of choice for investment banks, international law firms, collateral managers, and other financial institutions, has added four new members to its Asian market team to service the increase in work that the firm has seen from the region. Everton Robertson has joined the firm's Hong Kong office as a partner with experience in private equity, IPOs, capital markets, and acquisition finance matters. www.walkersglobal.com FTSE CLASSIFICATION... SEOUL, HONG KONG, LONDON and NEW YORK - Global index provider, FTSE Group has completed its annual review of country classification for the FTSE Global Equity Index Series and releases its results today. Global equity markets are continually changing shape and structure in terms of breadth and complexity, so benchmarks must undergo regular review and restructuring to ensure that they reflect the investment opportunity available to global investors. www.ftse.com/country MAURICE LACROIX... ZURICH - From 1 November 2008, Martin Bachmann takes over as CEO of the Swiss luxury watch manufacturer Maurice Lacroix. For the last seven years Martin Bachmann has already been involved significantly in the positive development of Maurice Lacroix as executive board member responsible for the divisions Marketing Country Operations. COMMUNOLOG EXPANSION... COLOGNE - With an investment of several million Euros, German software and solution provider Communology will drive the development of new types of mobile multimedia services and will expand its business into new regions. The main focus will be on the rapidly growing market segments of mobile social communities, mobile marketing and mobile instant messaging. Besides the new lead investor Munich Venture Partners, the existing investors S-VC, Kreditanstalt fadiur Wiederaufbau, and both founders, Thomas K adiahler and Frank Bell, participated in this second round of financing. www.communology.com www.unicat-communications.de WESTLAKE CHEMICAL... HOUSTON - Westlake Chemical Corporation, the Houston-based petrochemical and fabricated products company, announced today the establishment of an office in Shanghai, China. The official opening ceremony for the office was attended by Westlake's President and CEO, Albert Chao, and other company executives. www.westlake.com WORKING BUILDINGS... LONDON - Working Buildings 2008 announce today the launch of a major new feature for 2008, 'The Office of the Future', where visitors can get a glimpse of tomorrow's office, today. A major design project that's attracting huge attention, The Office of the Future is organised in partnership with BIM Products and Smartcomm and is sponsored by Dyson Airblade. www.working-buildings.com XCELOHOOD HOOD... CAMBRIDGE - Capsugel, the world's leading provider of oral dosage form solutions to the pharmaceutical and related healthcare industries, is pleased to announce the release of its new Xcelohood Containment System. Designed for fully integrated use with the Xcelodose Precision Micro-dosing System, it enables safer containment, particularly when filling capsules with potentially toxic and potent compounds. HTC PURENERGY... REGINA - HTC Purenergy Inc. is pleased to announce it has signed a Global Licensing Agreement for carbon capture and storage technology with world leading power plant equipment supplier and power plant E.P.C. constructors - Doosan Babcock Energy of the UK, and with Doosan Heavy Industries and Construction of South Korea. PARAMOUNT WORKPLACE... WALLED LAKE, Mich. - Paramount Technologies, the leading provider of middle-market Employee Workforce Automation solutions, today announced the introduction and immediate availability of WorkPlace Project. WorkPlace Project is a comprehensive project accounting solution fully integrated with Paramount's eProcurement and Time & Expense solutions. Professional Services Billing is facilitated, with employees and contractors now able to track costs in requisition line items, and have specific purchases charged to specific projects and even phases or activities. Employee and contractor time can similarly be tracked and applied at the project, phase or activity level. www.paramounttechnologies.com PARAMOUNT EPROCUREMENT... WALLED LAKE, Mich. - Paramount Technologies, the leading provider of middle-market Employee Workforce Automation solutions, today announced the immediate availability of a major release of their popular WorkPlace eProcurement solution. Release 10.5 of WorkPlace eProcurement for Microsoft Dynamics GP adds comprehensive Multi-Lingual support, reducing supplier communication errors and facilitating cross-border requisitioning. Microsoft platform compatibility is deepened with support for Microsoft Vista, Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008. www.paramounttechnologies.com TS2 SATELLITE... WARSAW - TS2 Satellite Technologies has completed the tender documentation for JCC-I/A and a satellite network project for the Marines bases in Afghanistan. The government contract concerns establishing and maintaining full communications in new locations for all soldiers stationed there during next two years. The USA is going to transfer 4.5 thousand Marines from Iraq to Afghanistan as early as at the beginning of 2009. www.ts2.pl HONEYWELLS BALLISTIC... MORRIS TOWNSHIP, N.J. - Honeywell announced today its Spectra Shield II ballistic material will be a key component in a new body armor system for the Australian Defence Force. www.honeywell.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C. - Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of MTN securities issues amounting to a total of US$150 million on September 27, 2008 at a redemption price equal to 100 per cent of the principal amount redeemed plus accrued interest. www.fanniemae.com SOLDER SUPPLY... LONDON - Concerns that the new EU REACH Regulation will disrupt metal and chemical supply to the EU could begin to be realised by the end of this year if importers don't take action. REACH will affect every company within the EU, especially those depending on non-EU suppliers. However with little or no understanding of how REACH will affect their businesses, and with the first REACH deadline looming at the end of November, there are concerns that compliance within the electronics supply chains will not be achieved within the required timescales. www.ipc.org/3.0_Industry/3.4_EHS/2008 REACH-readiness-survey-report-July-2008.pdf WHITE OUTSOURCING... VIENNA - Today at Sibos 2008, Microsoft Corp. announced that White Outsourcing Pty. Ltd., a provider of outsourced financial and accounting services to Australian fund managers, has chosen a hosted solution based on the Microsoft Application Platform. The new solution will provide White Outsourcing with straight-through processing of financial transactions to and from the SWIFT Alliance Gateway, enabling it to achieve operational excellence and drive cost effectiveness in its processing of SWIFT-related messages. www.microsoft.com POLISH SECURITIES... VIENNA - Microsoft Corp. today announced at Sibos 2008 that the Polish National Depository for Securities (KDPW) is implementing Microsoft BizTalk Accelerator for SWIFT for the transport, management and exchange of more than 4 million SWIFT transactions per year. As the central institution responsible for the management and supervision of clearing and settlement in Poland, KDPW will use Microsoft's leading solution for financial messaging integration, leveraging BizTalk Accelerator for SWIFT to help about 10 domestic and global customers efficiently and effectively connect to SWIFT. www.microsoft.com THREE RIVERS... CRANBERRY TOWNSHIP, Pa. - Three Rivers Pharmaceuticals, LLC announced today that it has signed a definitive license agreement with Amgen Inc. to expand its commercial rights to the hepatitis C drug Infergen. Three Rivers Pharmaceuticals will obtain commercial rights to Infergen in all markets except Japan. In addition, Three Rivers Pharmaceuticals will obtain commercial rights to China effective March 31, 2009. Three Rivers Pharmaceuticals currently has commercial rights to Infergen in the United States and Canada. www.3riverspharma.com www.infergen.com SOURCE: AsiaNet AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.