SYDNEY--25 Sep--AsiaNet/InfoQuest FRIENDSTER MALAYSIA... SAN FRANCISCO and KUALA LUMPUR - Friendster, Inc., a top-10global website based on traffic and the #1 social network inAsia,* today announced that its millions of users in Malaysiacan now subscribe to Friendster Text Alerts, a full suite ofalerts covering activity in their Friendster network that aresent directly to their mobile phones via SMS text messages. www.friendster.com ACS MANILA... MANILA - Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. will officiallyopen a new state-of-the-art facility in Pasay City tomorrow,Friday, expanding its global network of internationalcapabilities. www.acs-inc.com SERENA SOFTWARE... SINGAPORE - Serena Software has acquired Projity forOpenProj, its free, open source desktop project managementsoftware, and Project-ON-Demand, its Software as aService-based project management software. www.serena.com NETSUITE HK... HONG KONG and SAN MATEO, CalifORNIA - NetSuite Inc., aleading vendor of on-demand, integrated business managementsoftware suites for mid-market enterprises and divisions oflarge companies, today announced that the company has opened anew office in Hong Kong in order to respond to the fast-growingdemand for Software as a Service applications in the AsiaPacific region and specifically in Hong Kong and China. www.netsuite.com www.sec.gov www.ecotech-intl.com www.vitagreen.com GLOBAL PAYMENTS... TAIWAN - Global Payments Asia-Pacific Limited, a jointventure between The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking CorporationLimited and U.S.-based Global Payments Inc., has introduced asecure GPRS-powered mobile payment service called GlobalMobilePay that provides mobile card acceptance capabilities formerchants in the Asia-Pacific region. www.globalpayments-asia.com www.globalpaymentsinc.com DIABETES FEDERATION... BRUSSELS - The International Diabetes Federation announcedtoday that it is calling on groups and individuals worldwide toget involved in activities to raise awareness of diabetes inthe 50 days leading up to World Diabetes Day on November 14. www.idf.org www.worlddiabetesday.org www.lifeforachild.org SUZLON GREEN... NEW YORK - Suzlon Green Power Ltd. announced today acommitment to bring 3,500 megawatts of electricity to nearly 10million people with the development of $5 billion in greenenergy assets over five years, primarily in India and China. ZAYED FUTURE... ABU DHABI- Submission deadline for the $2.2M Zayed FutureEnergy Prize is only 7 days away. www.zayedfutureenergyprize.com ENGLISH TEST... LONDON - Pearson today announced that it has successfullycompleted the final stage of the worldwide pilot program forits new computer-based international academic English languagetest, Pearson Test of English. www.pearsoned.com www.pearsonplt.com SPIRIVA STUDY... LEUVEN - Prof. dr. Marc Decramer, Head of Pneumology of theUniversity Hospitals Leuven, is Lead Investigator of theInternational UPLIFT Study Investigating Treatment of COPDPatients With tiotropium. Today he Elaborates on the Results. www.uzleuven.be OMNOVA SOLUTIONS... SHANGHAI - OMNOVA Solutions today announced its support fora grant of US$5,000 to Shanghai Jiao Tong University EducationDevelopment Foundation. www.omnova.com POOR FARMERS... NEW YORK - The United Nations World Food Programme, the Bill& Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Howard G. BuffettFoundation today unveiled a groundbreaking initiative to helppoor farmers across the developing world significantly increasetheir incomes. www.thenewsmarket.com/gatesfoundation/UN NUCLEAR DEAL... WASHINGTON - As a follow-up to its September 11th briefing,which was the first open briefing from the U.S. Administrationto Members of Congress, staffers, professionals in the field,and the community since India was given a waiver by the45-nation Nuclear Suppliers' Group, USIBA continues to shore upsupport in Congress for the US-India nuclear deal. www.usiba.org RGGI AUCTION... WORCESTER, Massachusetts - Tomorrow, the statesparticipating in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative willlead the United States in taking a historic step forward in cutting greenhouse gas emissions andreducing their impact on the environment. www.rggi.org DIABETES FEDERATION... BRUSSELS - The International Diabetes Federation announcedtoday that it is calling on groups and individuals worldwide toget involved in activities to raise awareness of diabetes inthe 50 days leading up to World Diabetes Day on November 14.The theme for this year's campaign is "Diabetes in Children andAdolescents." www.idf.org www.worlddiabetesday.org www.lifeforachild.org MOBILE BANKING... NEW YORK - The global microfinance resource center CGAPtoday is making a new four year commitment to identify, fund,research and champion technology enabled banking services for25 million people in 20 countries. www.cgap.org Konftel Launches Innovative IP Conference Phone UMEA - Konftel, Europe's leading supplier of conferencephones, is now launching the Konftel 300IP, a SIP-basedconference phone with a number of innovative functions. www.konftel.com AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agenciesdistributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwideclients. 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