SYDNEY--15 Oct--AsiaNet/InfoQuest
BENJAMIN WEST...
BOULDER, Colo. - Officials of Benjamin West, one of the
hotel industry's largest purchasing firms for furniture,
fixtures and equipment and operating services and equipment,
today announced that it has opened an office in Hong Kong. It
is the third new office the company has opened outside the
Continental United States in the past 24 months, bringing the
total of Benjamin West offices to six.
www.benjaminwest.com
ACONEX SELECTED...
MANILA - Aconex has been selected by the Net Group, one of
the Philippines' leading property developers, to provide its
online information management service to the company's Net Lima
Project, the first phase of the Expanded Big Delta area in Fort
Bonifacio Global City.
www.aconex.com
ABBYY PARTNERSHIP..
FREMONT - ABBYY, a leading provider of recognition, data
capture and linguistic technologies, today announced that it
has partnered with Formosoft, one of the largest resellers in
Taiwan whose major offerings include network security, document
and image recognition, and 3D virtual reality solutions.
Formosoft is the first channel partner for the recently
established ABBYY USA Software House, Inc. Taiwan Branch, and
together they will work to develop value-added solutions with
ABBYY FineReader Engine Software Development Kit and ABBYY
FlexiCapture for the burgeoning Taiwan technology market.
www.ABBYY.com
ONLINE GAMING...
TOKYO - comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital
world, today released a study of online gaming in the
Asia-Pacific region based on data from the comScore World
Metrix Service. The report found that 51 percent of the
Asia-Pacific Internet population visited gaming sites in August
2008, spending an average of 87 minutes on the sites, and
averaging 11.5 visits per visitor during the month.
www.comscore.com
UNIVERSAL MUSIC...
NEW YORK - Universal Music Group International, a division
of Universal Music Group, the world's leading music company and
Qtrax, today announced a licensing deal covering Europe, Asia
Pacific, South America & Africa. This deal follows a similar
recent agreement with Universal Music Group for North
America.
www.qtrax.com
MOLYCORP MINERALS...
DENVER, CO. - Molycorp Minerals LLC, previously known as
Rare Earth Acquisitions LLC, today announced that it has closed
on the previously-announced purchase of the Mountain Pass rare
earth mining operations from Chevron Mining Inc. The
transaction closed on September 30, 2008.
www.resourcecapitalfunds.com
www.pcalp.com
www.gs.com
www.Traxys.com
CPFilms Launch...
ST. LOUIS - Solutia Inc.'s CPFilm subsidiary, the world
leader in glass treatment film, today announced the launch of
AIR Blue automobile windscreen film under its global LLuma
brand. AIR Blue dramatically reduces irreversible damage to
human skin and vehicle interiors due to harmful ultraviolet,
visible, and infrared rays that penetrate ordinary window
glass, while keeping the vehicle significantly cooler.
www.solutia.com
www.llumar.com
CLEAN COAL...
SYDNEY - Clean coal technology supported by retired US
Government and Industry leaders offer solutions in the fight
against global warming. EESTECH Inc is pleased to inform
shareholders that US Senator Steve Symms and US Commissioner
James Ziglar have both accepted positions as members of
EESTECH's Advisory Board. EESTECH owns or holds rights to three
environmentally sustainable technologies that have direct
application in the world's coal mining and energy industries.
www.eestechinc.com
www.drpr.com.au
ATMAIL RELEASE...
BRISBANE, Australia and COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho - AtMail, a
leading provider of easy-to-use, Linux-based email management
appliances and software, today announced the latest release to
its commercial Webmail platform, AtMail 5.5. The new AtMail 5.5
version includes support for Canonical's Ubuntu Server Edition
Linux-based operating system.
www.atmail.com
PEPSICO RESULTS...
PURCHASE, N.Y. - PepsiCo, Inc. today reported third-quarter
operating results of 11 percent net revenue growth and 6
percent core EPS growth, excluding mark-to-market losses on
commodity positions and prior-year tax benefits.
www.pepsico.com
DECARTA NAVIGATION...
HALF MOON BAY, Calif. - Canalys Navigation Forum -- deCarta,
the leading supplier of software and services for the
Location-Based Services industry, today announced the
commercial availability and shipments of its real-time, two-way
connected navigation service for next-generation personal
navigation devices and smartphones. Unveiled in March, the
service is offered to existing and new-entrant PND suppliers,
carriers, handset manufacturers, consumer brands, automotive
OEMs and in-vehicle service providers. The Company's first
major customer will be deploying personal navigation devices
utilizing deCarta's CNAV technology in late October in time to
meet the 2008 holiday season.
www.decarta.com
IEEE INDIA...
NEW DELHI - IEEE, the world's largest technical professional
society, today discussed India's energy scenario and India's
way to self-sufficiency using IEEE's Power and Energy Society's
PowerCon 2008 as the backdrop. Experts attending PowerCon 2008
discussed and debated various topics under the theme
"Technological advancements for the development of the power
sector".
NOVEL LASER...
ASCOT - Researchers at the Institute of Photonics,
University of Strathclyde, have started work on a 3.5 year
project to develop a novel solid-state laser design
incorporating CVD diamond manufactured by Element Six Ltd.
Element Six leads the world in the field of CVD diamond
synthesis and its application.
www.e6.com
www.photonics.ac.uk
DENHAM CAPITAL...
PERTH, and BOSTON - Plantation Energy, Australias only
manufacturer and exporter of Densified Biomass Fuel pellets,
and Denham Capital announced today that Denham will make up to
a US$80 million equity investment in Plantation. Initial
proceeds will go towards funding the construction of a new
manufacturing plant in Albany, Western Australia. The
investment will give Denham majority ownership of the company.
The existing Plantation Energy management team will continue to
manage the operations of the company.
www.denhamcapital.com
SPREADSHEETGEAR EXCEL...
LENEXA, Kan. - Today, SpreadsheetGear LLC announced the
immediate availability of SpreadsheetGear 2008. With one safe
managed assembly, SpreadsheetGear 2008 enables developers to
easily add scalable ASP.NET Excel Reporting, dynamic Dashboards
from Excel Charts and Ranges, powerful Windows Forms
Spreadsheet Controls, comprehensive Excel Compatible Charting,
the fastest and most complete Excel Compatible Calculations and
much more.
www.spreadsheetgear.com
ARROW ALTERA...
HONG KONG - Arrow Asia Pac Ltd., a business unit of Arrow
Electronics, Inc., announced that it will join Altera
Corporation to host SOPC World in four cities, including
Bangalore and Dehli in India, and Shenzhen, Hangzhou, and
Beijing in mainland China.
www.arrowasia.com
AUSTRALIA PROSPERITY...
AUCKLAND, and SYDNEY - Australia holds the top spot in the
2008 Legatum Prosperity Index, published today, with Singapore,
Hong Kong and New Zealand ranking 4th, 8th and 9th
respectively. The Index defines prosperity as a holistic
combination of material wealth and life satisfaction, measuring
how well nations are promoting both economic growth and quality
of life. Yemen ranks last, following several African nations
including Zambia and Zimbabwe.
www.prosperity.com
www.myprosperity.com
www.li.com
www.legatum.com
www.cantos.com
DATASQUIRT NZ
WELLINGTON - Datasquirt, supplier of CONTACT
, its acclaimed
multi-channel communication solution, is pleased to announce
that the Electoral Enrolment Centre has once again used
Datasquirts solution to facilitate enrolments for the upcoming
general election.
www.datasquirt.com
www.elections.org.nz
VERIZON INDIA...
BASKING RIDGE, N.J. and MUMBAI - Verizon Business is
significantly expanding its presence in India to support the
direct delivery of advanced telecommunications services to
multinational companies with operations in India, as well as to
India-based multinationals.
www.verizonbusiness.com
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