SYDNEY--24 Mar--AsiaNet/InfoQuest
ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE...
LONDON and SINGAPORE: The 24th Conference of Alzheimer's Disease
International is being held March 25-28, 2009, at the Suntec Singapore
International Convention & Exhibition Centre, Suntec City, Singapore.
Scientists at the conference report a worldwide societal cost estimate for
dementia of US$315.4 billion, based on a worldwide prevalence estimate of 29.4
million people with dementia.
http://www.adi2009.org
HOTEL PRICES...
LONDON: The average price of a hotel room around the world fell by 12% last
year, according to the latest Hotels.com Hotel Price Index.
http://www.hotels.co.uk/press/hotel-price-index.html
http://www.hotels.co.uk
ARRIVAL TRACKER...
AUSTIN, Texas: ArrivedOK, the personal flight arrival tracker, is now open
for public beta testing. The service lets air passengers automatically notify
others about their arrival to airports worldwide by SMS, email, via weblogs or
Twitter, and enables users to save on international roaming charges.
http://www.arrivedok.mobi/hello
http://www.eyeline.mobi
IDRAC NOTES...
PHILADELPHIA and LONDON: The Healthcare and Science business of Thomson
Reuters has launched IDRAC Notes, an add-on commenting feature to IDRAC. This
will allow colleagues within the same organization to create, update and share
comments attached to IDRAC PDF documents.
http://www.thomsonreuters.com/products_services/scientific/IDRAC
ATMAIL ANNOUNCES...
BRISBANE and COEUR D'ALENE, ID: AtMail, a leading provider of easy-to-use,
Linux-based email management appliances and software, Tuesday announced the
availability of ArchiveVault, a new "plug-n-play," email archival system
available in a compact network appliance.
http://www.atmail.com
FANNIE MAE...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of 102
securities issues on April 2, 2009 at a redemption price equal to 100 per cent
of the principal amount redeemed plus accrued interest.
http://www.fanniemae.com
MAJOR ORDER...
HELSINKI: Wartsila has received another major order from Pakistan. The order
was placed by Liberty Power Tech Ltd. which is an independent power producer
(IPP).
http://www.wartsila.com
BOT COLONY...
MONTREAL: North Side Inc., of Montreal, will unveil a prototype of its Bot
Colony title (www.botcolony.com ) at GDC in San Francisco on March 25 - 27
(booth 5016 NH).
ANNUAL RESULTS...
HONG KONG: China Yurun Food Group Limited and its subsidiaries, a leading
vertically-integrated meat-product processor and supplier in China, Monday
announced its annual results for the year ended 31 December 2008, which showed
a 50.8 per cent on-year jump in turnover to HK$13,024 million.
http://www.yurun.com.hk
ELI LILLY...
ATHENS: Eli Lilly and Company has presented new data showing arzoxifene, an
investigational selective estrogen receptor modulator (SERM), was superior to
raloxifene at increasing bone mineral density (BMD) in the lumbar spine, total
hip and femoral neck, and at suppressing bone turnover as assessed by serum
markers of bone metabolism.
AVEVA ANNOUNCES...
CAMBRIDGE; AVEVA Monday announced the immediate availability of the latest
release of AVEVA NET Portal.
http://www.aveva.com
http://www.aveva.com/ednotes
ACADEMIC HONOUR...
TOKYO: On March 21, 2009, at a graduation ceremony at Soka University in
Hachioji, Tokyo, University College South of Denmark conferred an honorary
doctorate upon Daisaku Ikeda, founder of Soka University and president of the
Soka Gakkai International (SGI), bringing to 250 the number of academic honors
he has received.
www.sgi.org
IVD MARKET...
KUALA LUMPUR: While the in-vitro diagnostic (IVD) market is still very much
focused among the Big Three: US, Europe and Japan, which constitute 90 percent
of the 2007 global revenue, emerging countries such as India, Brazil and China
are expected to become important stakeholders within the next few years, Frost
& Sullivan Senior Consultant, Purna Dhara said.
http://www.frost.com
IPHONE APPLICATION...
SINGAPORE: Telnic Limited, the registry operator for the new
communications-focused .tel top level domain (TLD), Monday announced that it
had submitted its free and open source My .tel iPhone application to the Apple
App Store.
http://telnic.org
INTERLINE AGREEMENT...
SYDNEY: Virgin Blue's international airline V Australia and Delta Air Lines
have negotiated and signed an Australia-U.S. interline agreement offering
seamless travel on the networks of each carrier and across the trans-Pacific
route.
www.virginblue.com.au
www.pacificblue.co.nz
www.vaustralia.com.au
STIMULUS PACKAGE...
SINGAPORE: The Malaysian government's second stimulus package on March 10,
2009 will spark development of Eastern Malaysian States, especially through the
Kota Kinabalu transmission system project, according to Frost & Sullivan Asia
Pacific Associate Director of Energy & Power Systems Practice Subramanya
Bettadapura.
http://www.frost.com
MERIDIIST WEBSITE...
PARIS: The MERIDIIST, the first luxury phone created by watchmaker TAG
Heuer, enters a completely new dimension with the worldwide launch of its
official website: www.tagheuer.com/meridiist. The global launch of the website
precedes BASELWORLD, the World Watch and Jewellery Show that starts March 26th
2009 and during which the most recent MERIDIIST collections are to be presented
as a preview.
http://www.tagheuer.com
HEALTHCARE AWARDS...
SINGAPORE: Twenty prestigious titles will be bestowed at the 2009 Frost &
Sullivan Asia Pacific Excellence in Healthcare Awards be held on April 21, 2009
at the InterContinental Singapore.
www.healthcare-awards.com
http://www.frost.com
NZ OFFICE...
AUCKLAND: The growth partnership company, Frost & Sullivan, has announced
the launch of an office in New Zealand to service a growing client base among
both local and multi-national organisations as well as in the NZ public sector.
http://www.frost.com
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