SYDNEY--4 Mar--AsiaNet/InfoQuest
CUSHMAN & WAKEFIELD...
SEOUL - Following the high profile launch of its retail leasing campaign for
Marina Bay Sands Shoppes(R) in Singapore, Sands Retail Asia has announced the
appointment of Cushman & Wakefield as exclusive leasing agent for the
development in the key North Asian markets of Korea and Japan.
www.sandsretailasia.com
INDEX VENTURES...
LONDON - Index Ventures today announced the closing of a euro 350 million
early stage fund, Index Ventures V. The fund is dedicated to early stage and
seed investments in the technology, biotechnology and clean technology sectors
across Europe, the United States and Israel.
www.indexventures.com
SUPERMICRO SHOWS...
SAN JOSE, Calif. - Super Micro Computer, Inc. (Nasdaq: SMCI), a leader in
application-optimized, high-performance server solutions, today showcased the
latest additions to its Twin Server family of products at HPC Asia 2009 in
Kaohsiung, Taiwan. These solutions are optimized for high-performance computing
(HPC) with industry-leading performance-per-watt (375 GFLOPS/kW*) and
performance-per-dollar. Supermicro is displaying its award-winning 1U Twin(TM)
SuperServer that has been optimized for next-generation Intel Xeon processors,
a 2U Twin(2) SuperServer with four hot-pluggable dual-processor (DP) Xeon
computing nodes in a 2U chassis, and a high-density SuperBlade(R) system with
14 DP Xeon computing blades in a 7U chassis.
www.Supermicro.com
CMPMEDICA AGREEMENT...
LONDON - CMPMedica, the global healthcare information provider which is a
division of United Business Media Limited, has signed an agreement with MAIDIS,
the international healthcare software vendor, to provide an integrated medicine
management system for two hospitals in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
www.cmpmedica.com
SUPERMICRO UNVEILS...
HANNOVER - Super Micro Computer, Inc. (Nasdaq: SMCI), a leader in
application-optimized, high-performance server solutions, today unveiled its
comprehensive new line of server and workstation solutions optimized for
upcoming Intel(R) Xeon(R) processors along with its new 2U Twin2 (Twin Squared)
family of servers at CeBIT 2009 in Hannover, Germany, March 3-8, Hall 21, Stand
C72.
www.Supermicro.com
LUMINARY MICRO...
AUSTIN, Texas - Luminary Micro, creators of the award-winning Stellaris(R)
family of ARM(R) Cortex(TM)-M3-based microcontrollers (MCUs), today announced
nine new Stellaris family members, featuring new combinations of connectivity,
memory configurations, and advanced motion control.
http://www.luminarymicro.com/products/whats_new.html.
NEUSOFT RANKED NO. 1...
SHENYANG - The list of 2009 Global Services 100 by the US-based Global
Services and neoIT was released recently in New York. Neusoft Corporation
(600718.SH), a leading IT solutions & services provider as well as the largest
offshore software & service outsourcing provider in China, was listed among the
Global Services 100 for the fifth time and continued ranking No. 1 in the
category of "Leaders: Emerging Asian Markets" for three successive years since
2007.
http://www.neusoft.com/en
ONLINE SHOPPERS...
COPENHAGEN - inpay, a leading provider of alternative payment options for
webshops, today announced that it has expanded its online banking network to
cover a total of 25 countries. With this expansion inpay has cemented its
position as the leading provider of worldwide instant online bank payments for
the e-commerce industry.
PROLOGIS ASIA...
SHANGHAI - The company formerly known as ProLogis Asian Operations has been
re-branded as "Global Logistic Properties". This is a key step for the
industrial and logistics infrastructure provider to continue its leading market
presence in China and Japan, Global Logistic Properties announced
today.
QUINTESSENCELABS UNVEILS...
CANBERRA - QuintessenceLabs, the leader in quantum communications technology
for networking, communications, national security and defence, announces the
worlds most advanced commercial quantum communications technology
incorporating telecom bright lasers.
www.quintessencelabs.com
REAL SOFTWARE...
AUSTIN, Texas - REAL Software, creator of REALbasic, a cross-platform
development tool for creating software for Mac, Windows and Linux, is now
shipping REALbasic 2009 Release 1. The first release of 2009 continues to
focus on product quality and reliability, while introducing 27 new features and
100 improvements. This release includes a new Quickstart window that helps new
users get started developing software in REALbasic.
www.realsoftware.com
SWISS BANKING SECRECY...
BERN - Switzerland is synonymous with discreet banking but 75 years after
Swiss banking secrecy was enshrined in law, the practice is under massive
international pressure. Banking secrecy obliges banks to keep information about
their clients confidential, except in cases of criminal investigation.
http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/index.html
AVON COMMITS...
WASHINGTON - One in three women worldwide experience violence in their
lifetime(1), and in the U.S., a woman is assaulted every nine seconds(2).
Around the world, services for victims are often vastly underfunded or
unavailable, and in many countries, laws to protect women do not exist or are
not enforced. In response, the Avon Foundation for Women today announced
meaningful new efforts to eradicate violence against women and help ensure
justice for all women worldwide.
www.avoncompany.com.
GERMAN PHOTOVOLTAIC...
MUNICH - Germany's photovoltaic (PV) industry is emerging as a success story
despite the economically trying times. Start-ups and established solar
companies alike will be showcasing their successes at this year's Photovoltaic
Technology Show 2009 Europe in Munich, Germany from March 4 - 6. Germany is an
appropriate setting, as the country remains the global leader in PV and has
seen an increase in investments across the entire industry.
http://www.gtai.com
ZIGBEE AND RF4CE...
SAN RAMON, Calif.- The ZigBee Alliance and the RF4CE Consortium, founded by
Panasonic Corporation, Royal Philips Electronics, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
and Sony Corporation, have reached an agreement to deliver a standardized
specification for radio frequency-based (RF) remote controls. RF remotes are
faster, more reliable and provide more freedom to operate devices from greater
distances removing the line-of-sight barrier of today's infrared (IR) remotes.
With this agreement, effective today, the ZigBee Alliance will move into the
broad consumer products arena as part of its long-term integration and growth
plans.
www.zigbee.org
TANDBERG MOVI...
HANOI, JAKARTA, BANGKOK, KULA LUMPUR - TANDBERG (OSLO: TAA.OL) today
launched Movi, an unprecedented business-quality mobile video solution for the
PC. Movi brings a new level of quality, scalability and interoperability to PC
video by enabling high-definition communication from a PC to any other
standards-based telepresence and video solution, making video truly accessible
to anyone from anywhere.
http://www.tandberg.com
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