SYDNEY--18 Mar--AsiaNet/InfoQuest
WALKERS SINGAPORE...
SINGAPORE - Walkers, the global offshore law firm of choice
for leading financial market participants and international law
firms announced today it has expanded its new Singapore
office.
www.walkersglobal.com
HANSOFT LAUNCH...
UPPSALA - Hansoft, the leading vendor of tools for project
management and QA in the game development industry, will
officially launch Hansoft 5.3 during GDC in San Francisco next
week.
www.hansoft.se
OWENS CORNING...
TOLEDO, Ohio - Owens Corning, a world leader in building
materials and glass fiber reinforcements, today announced the
appointment of Daniel Zhang as vice president and managing
director of the Asia-Pacific Building Materials group,
effective immediately.
www.owenscorning.com
AFRICA SMS...
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts - Basic SMS text messaging will be
a key revenue driver for mobile network operators in Africa and
the Middle East over the next five years, helping to offset
continuing declines in average revenue per subscriber for
mobile voice services in the regions, according to a new report
from Pyramid Research, the telecom research arm of the Light
Reading Communications Network.
www.pyr.com
www.lightreading.com
http://techweb.com/aboutus
www.unitedbusinessmedia.com
DEXTON SOFTWARE...
CAPELLE AAN DEN IJSSEL - Dexton Software Corporation today
introduces the Dexton 'Active Data' solution, based on IBM
InfoSphere technology, to help companies integrate their
trusted BI data into operational processes enabling a rapid
response to ongoing changes in today's market environment.
www.dextonsoftware.com
WATERBORNE COMMERCE...
NEWARK, New Jersey - The global recession began to hammer
waterborne commerce during the second half of 2008, according
to the latest containerized import-export statistics from PIERS
Trade Horizons.
www.piers.com
www.ubmglobaltrade.com
www.unitedbusinessmedia.com
WOOD CHIPS...
BOSTON - RISI analyzed the economic health of North American
timber markets this weekend at the Forest Resources
Association's annual meeting in Hilton Head, SC.
www.risiinfo.com
IOC ACCREDITATION...
CHICAGO - Media applying for accreditation to cover the
International Olympic Committee Evaluation Commission Visit in
Chicago, April 2-8 have one week to submit their accreditation
application.
http://tinyurl.com/dmhfqd
http://tinyurl.com/dlqpf6
GAMES CONFERENCE...
BERLIN and SAN FRANCISCO - Think Services, a Division of
United Business Media, announced today an open call for speaker
submissions for its 2009 Game Developers Conference Europe,
taking place August 17-19, 2009 at the Cologne Congress East
Center in Cologne, Germany.
www.GDCEurope.com
www.tsgamegroup.com
www.unitedbusinessmedia.com
www.think-services.com
FANNIE MAE...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal
amount of MTN and MTNR securities issues on March 27, 2009 at a
redemption price equal to 100 per cent of the principal amount
redeemed plus accrued interest.
http://www.fanniemae.com
CEVA WEBINAR...
SAN JOSE, California - CEVA, Inc. announces the following
TechOnline Webinar...
http://seminar2.techonline.com/registration
distrib.cgi?s=1356&d=2889
AsiaPay Partners with ChinaPay to Provide Added Payment
Acceptance Convenience to Online Merchants in Asia Accepting
Payments from Customers in China
HONG KONG - AsiaPay Limited, a leading provider of advanced
electronic payment service, solution and technology in Asia,
today announced that it has entered cooperation agreement with
ChinaPay to enable AsiaPay's merchants in Asia to readily
collect online real-time payment from Chinese consumers.
www.chinaunionpay.com
www.asiapay.com
www.paydollar.com
NY MELLON...
HONG KONG and DUBAI - The Bank of New York Mellon, a global
leader in asset management and securities servicing, has
announced the creation of a new Sovereign Advisory Board in
order to best serve sovereign organizations, which include
sovereign wealth funds, sovereign pension plans, central banks
monetary authorities and sovereign owned entities.
www.bnymellon.com
KIRAN KAREN...
NEW YORK - "Unusual and groundbreaking, 'When Kiran Met
Karen is a refreshing change from all those American movies
where saner and more rational societies are portrayed as weird
and abnormal and the plethora of lazily confused Arab/Indian
Hindu/Moslem stereotyping that infests all post 9-11 U.S.
culture. And you get a Sapphic love story thrown in for free."
- Philadelphia Weekly
www.imdb.com/title/tt0841048/
www.verzaubertfilmfest.com
http://indienimkino.blogspot.com/2008/09
when-kiran-met-karen-2008.html
http://site.themotelfilm.com/
www.themotelfilm.com
SUN CELLULAR...
MANILA - Acision, the world's leading messaging company, and
Sun Cellular, the fastest-growing mobile network provider in
the Philippines, have partnered to come up with the world's
most advanced SMS services using Acision Message Plus.
www.acision.com/moreinfo
AZERCELL CELLTICK...
LONDON - Azercell Telekom, the largest mobile operator in
Azerbaijan announced today its decision to expand its
Celltick-operated idle screen broadcast channel to its entire
customer base.
www.celltick.com
www.azercell.com
NTT COMMUNICATIONS...
TOKYO -NTT Communications Corporation announced on March 16
that on April 1 it will launch a global hosting service that
creates office PC environments which are securely accessible
from anywhere using a USB key.
www.ntt.com/index-e.html
NTT COMMUNICATIONS...
TOKYO - NTT Communications Corporation announced on March 16
that on April 1 it will launch Global Messaging, a service pack
that allows multinational enterprise customers to outsource
management and operation of their e-mail and groupware systems
to a software-as-a-service platform hosted by NTT Com's secure
data center in Hong Kong.
www.ntt.com/index-e.html
THOMSON REUTERS...
PHILADELPHIA and LONDON - The Healthcare and Science
business of Thomson Reuters today announced the results of its
annual roundup of the "hottest" researchers and research
papers.
www.thomsonreuters.com
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