SYDNEY--17 Nov--AsiaNet/InfoQuest
CORENET GLOBAL...
SINGAPORE - Corporate real estate association, CoreNet Global, today
announced that registration is now open for its 2010 Asia Summit scheduled to
take place at The Shangri-La Hotel, Singapore on March 23-25.
www.corenetglobal.org
ATRADIUS COLLECTION...
AMSTERDAM - Atradius Collections, a worldwide leader in business-to-business
debt collection services, has entered into a partnership agreement with
FinancePro.
www.atradiuscollections.com
JAPAN-GERMANY INDUSTRY...
TOKYO - Japanese companies can achieve enormous economic benefits through
energy efficiency. Germany Trade & Invest will be presenting the potential
business opportunities available through energy efficiency at this year's
Japan-Germany Industry Forum on November 18.
NCP ENGINEERING...
NUREMBERG - NCP engineering GmbH in Nuremberg announces the release of the
first universal IPsec VPN Client Suite for Windows 7.
www.ncp-e.com/en/downloads/software.html
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JETBRAINS RUBYMINE...
PRAGUE - JetBrains, the creators of intelligent, productivity-enhancing
tools for software developers, have announced the general availability of
RubyMine 2.0, a powerful IDE for Ruby and Rails development.
http://youtrack.jetbrains.net/issues/RUBY
www.jetbrains.com
BARCELONA FC...
OUAGADOUGOU - The president of Barcelona FC, Joan Laporta, together with a
wide representation of the club's board of directors, has inaugurated a new
support centre today in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, that will
provide vitally important help for the area's poor children.
SANOFI-AVENTIS REGISTRY...
PARIS - Sanofi-aventis announced today the launch of the RealiseAF registry,
an international, cross-sectional, observational registry that will be
conducted in patients with atrial fibrillation.
www.sanofi-aventis.com
www.realiseaf.org
www.recordaf.org
ACISION MTN...
CAPE TOWN - Acision, the world's leading messaging company, today announces
that MTN Nigeria, the largest mobile operator in Nigeria with nearly 50 per
cent market share and serving over 27 million subscribers as of June 30 2009,
has successfully been using the Acision SMSC to significantly boost SMS traffic
in the region.
www.acision.com
www.mtnonline.com
RENEWDATA PRESENTATION...
AUSTIN, Texas - RenewData, a leading provider of services for the discovery,
archiving, and governance of electronically stored information, today announced
its Vice President of Professional Services, Vance McMurry, will speak at Legal
IT Asia taking place on November 18 - 19, 2009 at the Yuyang Hotel in Beijing,
China.
www.renewdata.com
SISVEL PATENT...
STUTTGART - Sisvel today announced that it will hold a two-day meeting of
LTE/SAE essential patent owners beginning on February 2, 2010, to discuss the
formation of an LTE/SAE patent pool.
www.sisvel.com
TELNIC AWARDED...
LONDON - Telnic Limited, the Registry Operator for the
communications-focused .tel top level domain which launched earlier this year,
today announced that it had been awarded an inaugural UK IT Industry Award.
http://telnic.tel
SUPERMICRO TWINBLADE...
PORTLAND, Oregon - Super Micro Computer, Inc., a leader in
application-optimized, high-performance server solutions, is unveiling its new
TwinBlade the latest addition to its SuperBlade family of blade servers at SC
'09, Oregon Convention Center in Portland.
www.Supermicro.com
HABITAT HUMANITY...
CHIANG MAI - Hidetoshi Nakata, one of the most famous soccer stars of his
generation, joined Habitat for Humanity's annual Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Work
Project in Chiang Mai.
www.habitat.org
IPC SYSTEMS...
JERSEY CITY, New Jersey - IPC Systems, the leading provider of indispensable
trading communications solutions to the world's leading financial services
firms, today announced the completion of the first phase of its North American
network expansion.
www.ipc.com
FANNIE MAE...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of MTN and
MTNR securities issues on November 26 and 27 2009 at a redemption price equal
to 100 per cent of the principal amount redeemed plus accrued interest.
http://www.fanniemae.com
HABITAT HUMANITY...
CHIANG MAI - Lee Seo-jin worked alongside volunteers to help build and
repair homes in partnership with low-income families in need of decent housing.
Habitat's Carter Work Project is an intensive week-long build that takes place
in a different city around the world each year.
www.habitat.org
FLIBANSERIN TRIAL...
INGELHEIM - Data from pooled, pivotal Phase III clinical trials demonstrate
that flibanserin 100mg taken once daily at bedtime significantly increased the
number of Satisfying Sexual Events and sexual desire while significantly
decreasing the distress associated with Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder.
www.boehringer-ingelheim.com/corporate/news/press_releases
detail.asp?ID=7095
HABITAT HUMANITY...
CHIANG MAI - Former U.S. President and Nobel Peace Prize
laureate Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, welcomed volunteers to Thailand
as they kicked off the 26th annual Habitat for Humanity Jimmy and Rosalynn
Carter Work Project in Chiang Mai.
www.habitat.org
ENERGY CONGRESS...
MONTREAL - The Montraacal 2010 World Energy Congress today unveiled the
complete program of what is, every three years, the largest international
gathering on all energy sources. The theme of WEC Montraacal 2010,
Responding now to global challenges - Energy in transition for a living planet,
provides a framework within which the energy industry's four main challenges
will be addressed.
www.wecmontreal2010.ca
FNB UNIONPAY...
JOHANNESBURG - First National Bank's partnership with China's only bankcard
association, China UnionPay, was launched in December 2008, a first for the
South African banking industry.
BIOTRADE AWARDS...
FRANKFURT - To celebrate the United Nations 2010 International Year of
Biodiversity, the Union for Ethical BioTrade and Food Ingredients Europe are
proud to announce the first Ethical BioTrade Awards for Biodiversity at the Fi
Europe fair 2009.
www.ethicalbiotrade.org
MALAYSIAN CONTACTS...
SINGAPORE - Retail sales of contact lenses within the West Coast of Malaysia
grew steadily in the first half of 2009 with total consumption peaking in June,
driven by improving consumer sentiment and aggressive promotions from major
Contact Lens manufacturers.
www.gfkrt.com
www.gfk.com
BANGKOK MANHEIM...
DUBAI - Bangkok Manheim Asia Pacific has been awarded "Service Provider of
the Year" at the prestigious Asia Insurance Industry Awards 2009.
www.manheimthailand.com
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