ARROW TOP...
HONG KONG - Arrow Asia Pac Ltd., a business unit of Arrow Electronics, Inc.,
announced that it received top rankings for the third consecutive year in China
and Asia in EDN Magazine's 2007 Worldwide Branding Study.
www.arrowasia.com
RHINOS 2007...
SYDNEY - The official 2007 rhinos Urban Music Awards will take place tonight
at Luna Park in Sydney with red carpet arrivals from 5.15pm.
WORLD-CLASS UNIVERSITY...
MELBOURNE - As the University of Melbourne launches Australias first
comprehensive graduate schools as part of its innovative Melbourne Model
education reforms, New Zealanders considering postgraduate study will have a
chance to explore their options at a graduate expo to be held at the Auckland
Convention Centre, tomorrow, 15 August.
www.futurestudents.unimelb.edu.au
GTL, NAVINI...
BANGALORE and RICHARDSON, Texas - Navini Networks, a leading provider of
Mobile WiMAX solutions, announced it has signed a Value Added Services (VAS)
agreement with GTL Limited, India's largest Network Services provider to the
world, to provide services and solutions to Telecom operators deploying
Navini's Mobile WiMAX solutions.
http://www.navini.com
http://www.gtllimited.com
OMNIVISION INTRODUCES...
SUNNYVALE, Calif. - OmniVision Technologies, Inc., a leading independent
supplier of CMOS CameraChip(TM) image sensors for high-volume applications,
unveiled near infrared (NIR) capability, an important proprietary enhancement,
to its portfolio of single-chip automotive CMOS image sensors.
http://www.ovt.com
FANNIE MAE...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of five
securities issues amounting to a total of US$420 million on August 24, 2007 at
a redemption price equal to 100 percent of the principal amount redeemed plus
accrued interest.
http://www.fanniemae.com
MATTEL ANNOUNCES...
SYDNEY - Mattel voluntarily extended the recall in relation to the lead
issue announced on 2 August, adding one new item to the current list of 8
recalled products.
www.service.mattel.com
www.mattel.com
www.fisher-price.com
HARVARD LAW...
SINGAPORE - Harvard Law School professor Charles Nesson will announce an
international effort to organize "poker strategic thinking societies" at
universities and secondary schools around the world that will use poker as an
educational tool to teach everything from basic life skills to war games at
military colleges.
http://www.gpsts.com
http://www.nyls.edu/pages/2396.asp
WEATHER CHANNEL...
DUBLIN, WASHINGTON and ATLANTA, GA. - dotMobi, the consortium behind the
first and only Internet address created for mobile phones, announced that The
Weather Channel Interactive has become the first company to secure rights to a
premium .mobi domain through participation in a unique Request for Proposal
(RFP) premium name process.
http://mtld.mobi
http://blog.mobi
SUPERDERIVATIVES ACCELERATES...
LONDON and NEW YORK - SuperDerivatives, the benchmark for options and the
leading multi-asset derivatives solutions provider for real-time option
pricing, independent revaluation, derivatives data, online trading and risk
management systems, announced the opening of new sales and support offices in
Sydney, Australia and Hong Kong.
http://www.superderivatives.com
URBAN SCIENCE...
DETROIT - Urban Science, a global retail channel consulting firm in
automotive, financial services and retailing industries, today announced it has
opened a second office in China.
http://www.urbanscience.com
ACTIVIDENTITY TO...
CANBERRA - ActivIdentity Corporation, a global leader in digital identity
assurance, will be exhibiting its Smart Employee ID, the all in one smart card
for building, workstation, and network access, and Smart Citizen ID at the
Technology in Government & the Public Sector Canberra Summit 2007.
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20051108/SFTU161LOGO
http://photoarchive.ap.org
http://www.actividentity.com
http://www.acevents.com.au/ausgovtech2007/
ASIAN AUTISM...
HONG KONG - Autism Parents Network Foundation (APNF), a Hong Kong-based
parents support group, is hosting the Second Asian Autism Conference 2007
following the success of last summer's inaugural conference.
http://www.conference.autismpnhk.org
http://www.autismpnhk.org
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