SYDNEY--28 Apr--AsiaNet/InfoQuest
ENGINEERING AGREEMENT
HYDERABAD: Westinghouse Electric Company today announced it has finalized a
master agreement with the global engineering services provider Infotech
Enterprises Ltd., headquartered here and its U.S. affiliate, Infotech
Enterprises America, Inc., (collectively, "Infotech") for the provision of
engineering services in India and the United States by creating the
Westinghouse India Engineering Center ("WIEC").
MEDIA PURCHASE...
LAKE FOREST: Western Digital Corporation (NYSE: WDC) announced today that
it has agreed to purchase the magnetic media sputtering operations of Hoya
Corporation and Hoya Magnetics Singapore Pte. Ltd. for 22 billion yen
(approximately US$235 million) in an all-cash transaction.
www.westerndigital.com
TRADER SOLUTION...
CHICAGO and SINGAPORE: RTS Realtime Systems Group (RTS), a leading global
trading solutions provider, announced today that the firm has successfully
rolled out its low latency, event-based algorithmic trading solution to the
first group of advanced traders at UOBF Schneider in Singapore.
www.rtsgroup.net
WIRELESS INSTALLER...
PARIS: Parrot, a global leader in wireless devices for mobile phones, is
launching its certified installer program in Australia, Greece, Portugal and
Russia.
http://www.parrot.com
IP SOLUTION...
SINGAPORE: Adder is one of the unique thought leaders in KVM technology that
you can guarantee will deliver something extraordinary. The latest and possibly
most disruptive KVM-over-IP technology that Adder has developed is the new
CATxIP5000.
http://www.adder.com
PSYCHIATRY CONGRESS...
AUCKLAND: From children and adolescents to old age, mental health across
the lifespan will be discussed at The Royal Australian and New Zealand College
of Psychiatrists Congress in Auckland, 2 to 6 May 2010.
www.ranzcp.org
SOLAR MODULE...
LUXEMBOURG, DONGYING, China and FRANKFURT, Germany: CNPV Solar Power SA, a
leading integrated manufacturer of solar photovoltaic products from the
production of ingots, wafers and cells to the assembly of PV modules that
designs, manufactures and supplies highly efficient and cost effective
crystalline solar photovoltaic modules, today announced that it has entered
into a long-term performance warranty insurance for PV Modules and installation
with Willis.
http://www.cnpv-power.com
http://www.willis.com/
TAX SOFTWARE...
SYDNEY: Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting has agreed to acquire the Tax
Compliance Software (TCS) products Tax Integrator, Fringe Benefits Tax
Organiser and Global Integrator from Ernst & Young Australia.
http://www.wolterskluwer.com
NETWORK SOLUTION...
LAS VEGAS: Titan IC Systems today announced its new Hyperion product
family, offering high performance regular expression (regex) offload solutions
for the network, cloud security and server markets.
www.titanicsystems.com
WEB SOLUTION...
CANBERRA, Australia and ANDOVER, US: ContentKeeper Technologies, a leading
provider of scalable and fault tolerant Web filtering and security solutions,
has teamed up with Exinda, a global provider of WAN optimization solutions, to
deliver a unique and comprehensive, Internet filtering, protocol and bandwidth
management solution that makes it easy for organizations to tune their network
and Internet usage based firmly on the business classification of traffic
rather than just the traditional network based protocols management
offered by most vendors.
www.contentkeeper.com
http://www.exinda.com
ARMANI HOTEL:
DUBAI, UAE: The world's first Armani Hotel was opened today by fashion
maestro Giorgio Armani and Mohamed Alabbar, Chairman of Emaar Properties PJSC.
http://www.armanihotels.com
HBA WEBINAR...
NEW YORK: HBA Global Presents a Webinar on Package Design &
Brand Equity.
www.hbaexpo.com
ELECTION SURVEY...
LONDON: With all polls coming in with close results, the latest study by
global reputation auditors Echo Research, combining likelihood to vote,
attitudes toward the issues and overall media influence, shows Labour losing
the hearts and minds of the British electorate.
http://www.echoresearch.com
FANNIE MAE...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of FINP, FINS
and MTN securities issues amounting to a totals of US$126 million, $13 million
and $1.2 billion respectively, on May 7, 2010 at a redemption price equal to
100 per cent of the principal amount redeemed plus accrued interest.
http://www.fanniemae.com
UNIVERSITY WI-FI...
THOUSAND OAKS: Xirrus(R), the Wi-Fi "Power Play" that delivers the most
coverage, bandwidth, and user density in the industry, announced today the
deployment of Wi-Fi Arrays at Monash University campuses in Victoria, Australia.
http://www.xirrus.com
www.monash.edu
CLOTHESLINE DIET...
MELBOURNE: Australia's "favourite diet mum," Karen Gatt, is the toast of
New York after launching her best-selling book THE CLOTHESLINE DIET (Harlequin,
2010) in the United States, the worlds most obese nation.
DIAGNOSTIC KIT...
MELBOUNRE: Scientists at Australias Burnet Institute have developed a rapid
point-of-care diagnostic test for the easurement of CD4 T-cells, a marker of
the immune system for people living with HIV and AIDS.
www.burnet.edu.au
EU INDICATION...
LONDON: CRESTOR(TM) (rosuvastatin) has been approved in nineteen countries
within the EU for the prevention of major cardiovascular events in patients who
are at high risk* of having a first cardiovascular event.
http://www.astrazeneca.com
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