SYDNEY--3 Feb--AsiaNet/InfoQuest
TRANSTEL INTERMEDIA...
CALIFORNIA: Transtel Intermedia S.A. (the "Company") today announced that it
has extended the expiration of its (i) private offer to exchange, for each
$100,000 of principal amount (excluding accrued but unpaid interest) of its
outstanding 12% Senior Notes due 2016 (the "Existing Notes"), one of its units
(the "New Units"), each New Unit consisting of $100,000 principal amount of its
unissued Senior Secured Amortizing Step-up Notes due 2016 (the "New Notes") and
100 warrants to purchase shares of its common stock (the "New Warrants", and
such private offer to exchange being, the "Exchange Offer"), and (ii)
solicitation of consents to (a) delist the Existing Notes from the Euro MTF,
the alternative market of the Luxembourg Stock Exchange, and (b) make certain
amendments to the indenture governing the Existing Notes, the security
documents related to the Existing Notes, certain other documentation related to
the Existing Notes and the warrant agreement governing the Company's warrants
issued on May 17, 2006 (the "Consent Solicitation").
ACISION HELPS...
LONDON: Acision today announces that MTS, Russia's largest mobile operator,
is using Acision's Instant Messaging solution to offer an enhanced messaging
experience to its subscribers.
http://www.acision.com/moreinfo
BIGGEST INNOVATION...
SINGAPORE: Telnic Limited, the Registry Operator for the new .tel top level
domain (TLD) today announced that Landrush - the period where anyone can
purchase any available .tel domain name with no auctions and no extensive
reserve list - opens at 3.00 p.m. GMT, enabling people to invest in the
quickest way to monetize the internet ever.
http://www.telnic.org
WEBLESS WEB...
SINGAPORE: Telnic Limited, the registry operator for the new .tel top level
domain (TLD), today announced that small businesses and owner-managers around
the world can now get their own domain name which can be used to be found
online without the need to build, maintain and host a full website.
http://www.telnic.org
SYNAPTICS CLEARPAD...
SANTA CLARA: Synaptics Inc. (Nasdaq: SYNA) a leading developer of human
interface solutions for mobile computing, communications, and entertainment
devices, today announced that its ClearPad solution brings high-performance
touch capabilities to the NTT DOCOMO's docomo PRIME series N-01A mobile phones.
www.synaptics.com
TURNITIN DEBUTS...
OAKLAND: Turnitin, the world leader in originality checking and plagiarism
prevention services, today introduced The WriteCycle Academy, a series of free
interactive webinar workshops geared toward taking high school and college
instructors of writing-intensive classes beyond plagiarism prevention and
toward a writing pedagogy.
http://www.turnitin.com/academy
MYSPACE.COM ANNOUNCES...
AUCKLAND: Do the names Ricky Danger, Caleb Smith, Ike Hamon, James Jeffery
or Michael Freeman ring a bell? You may have never heard of these people, but
for over almost a quarter of a million New Zealand MySpace users, they are
veritable cyber celebrities.
www.myspace.com
BANCO BRADESCO'S...
SAO PAULO: We present below Bradesco's (Bovespa: BBDC3, BBDC4; Latibex:
XBBDC; NYSE: BBD) main figures for 2008. Our Report on Economic and Financial
Analysis containing the complete Financial Statements is available on the
investor relations website.
http://www.bradesco.com.br/ir .
FANNIE MAE...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of MTN
securities issues amounting to a total of US$1.065 billion on February 12, 2009
at a redemption price equal to 100 per cent of the principal amount redeemed
plus accrued interest.
http://www.fanniemae.com
FANNIE MAE...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of MTNR
securities issues amounting to a total of US$30 million on February 12, 2009 at
a redemption price equal to 100 per cent of the principal amount redeemed plus
accrued interest.
http://www.fanniemae.com
ATMAIL ANNOUNCES...
BRISBANE and COEUR D'ALENE: AtMail, a leading provider of easy-to-use,
Linux-based email management appliances and software, today announced the
availability of AtMail Open 1.03, a new version of its open source webmail
product available at www.atmail.org .
www.atmail.org
TREASURE QUEST...
LONDON and SILVER SPRING: Odyssey Marine Exploration (OME) announced today
that it has found the HMS Victory, believed to be one of Britain's greatest
historic shipwrecks and potentially an estimated value of one billion dollars
for four tons of gold.
www.discovery.com
IMERA ANNOUNCES...
DUBLIN: Imera has announced today that it will build North Sea and Atlantic
electricity grids, connecting key markets and offshore wind farms as the
foundation for a pan-European offshore electricity network.
http://www.imerapower.com
ALTAIR'S NEW...
TROY: Altair today unveiled Personal PBS, a free turnkey application that
leverages multi-core CPU technology to easily transform any desktop computer
into a miniature compute farm or cluster system.
www.altair.com
FANNIE MAE...
WASHINGTON: Fannie Mae (NYSE: FNM) is issuing a new 5-year Benchmark Note,
with the pricing date for February 3, 2009, settlement date for February 3,
3009, and a maturity date on February 5, 2014. The issue size is TBD.
http://www.fanniemae.com
EGENCIA ADDS...
SYDNEY and GURGAON: Egencia, an Expedia, Inc. company, announced today the
addition of Gaurav Sundaram and Ken Pfaffmann as dedicated country managers in
India and Australia, respectively.
www.egencia.com
FORMER USPTO...
WASHINGTON: Foley & Lardner LLP announced today that former Under Secretary
of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent
and Trademark Office (USPTO) Jon W. Dudas has joined the firm as a partner in
the Washington, D.C. office, working with the Intellectual Property and Public
Affairs Practices.
www.foley.com
SECOND REGUS...
HANGZHOU: Regus has opened a second center in Hangzhou, offering
revolutionary property solutions that enable smart companies to enter the
provinces growing market with zero up-front capital expenditure and on flexible
terms.
www.regus.cn
PCI CHAIRPERSON ...
WAKEFIELD: The PCI Security Standards Council, a global, open industry
standards body providing management of the Payment Card Industry Data Security
Standard (PCI DSS), PCI PIN Entry Device (PED) Security Requirements and the
Payment Application Data Security Standard (PA-DSS), today announced that Lib
de Veyra, vice president, emerging technologies at JCB International, and
member of the Council's Executive Committee, has taken over as chairperson of
the Council, effective January 1, 2009.
SEDO WITNESSES...
COLOGNE: Sedo, the leading online marketplace for buying and selling domain
names, today announced the findings of its annual Secondary Domain Market
Study, which revealed continued growth in demand for premium domains in 2008.
http://www.sedo.com
ANNIVERSARY OF HISTORIC...
PHILADELPHIA: This January and February not only marked the 30th anniversary
of vice premier Deng Xiaoping's historic visit to Washington, D.C., as part of
the normalization of diplomatic relations between China and the United States.
http://www.sedo.com
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