DIGI 'JUMP-STARTS'...
MINNETONKA, Minn. - Digi International introduced its new cost-effective,
fully featured Digi JumpStart Kits that make it easy for design engineers to
develop embedded products with Digi NET+ARM modules.
http://www.digi.com
APPOINTMENT IN...
BOMBAY - Reuters has appointed Saurjyesh SN Bhaduri General Manager for the
direct-to-consumer media business in India.
www.reuters.com
BANYUS SURPLUS...
TOKYO - DoveBid Japan is pleased to announce that Banyu Pharmaceutical Co.,
Ltd., a subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc., Whitehouse Station, N.J., U.S.A. is
hosting an online auction for their surplus pharmaceutical equipment and
machinery located at their facility in Okazaki, Japan.
www.dovebid.com
NAVINI SURFS...
MALAGA - Navini Networks' Ripwave MX system is surfing to the WiMAX Forum's
second public Mobile WiMAX PlugFest, held this week in Malaga, Spain.
http://www.wimaxforum.org
http://www.navini.com
OPENKODE CORE...
TOKYO - OpenKODE is an open standard, defined by the Khronos Group that
combines a set of native APIs into a comprehensive media stack specification
for accelerating rich media and graphics applications.
http://www.acrodea.co.jp
SONUS NETWORKS...
WESTFORD, Mass., and BARCELONA - Sonus Networks, Inc., a leading supplier of
service provider Voice over IP (VoIP) infrastructure solutions, and ip.access,
the creator of cellular picocell and femtocell technologies, announced at the
3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, Spain that the two companies have entered
into a partnership.
http://www.sonusnet.com
http://www.ipaccess.com
http://3gsmworldcongress.com
SONUS PARTNERS...
WESTFORD, Mass., and BARCELONA - Sonus Networks, Inc., a leading supplier of
service provider Voice over IP (VoIP) infrastructure solutions, announced at
the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, Spain that it has partnered with 3Way
Networks to develop solutions to deliver voice services and multimedia
applications to mobile handsets over an end-to-end low powered GSM network.
http://3gsmworldcongress.com
http://www.sonusnet.com /
ATRION INTERNATIONAL...
MONTREAL - Atrion International, the leading developer of solutions
combining regulatory expertise and industry-leading technology announced a
further step toward this years accelerated strategy of offering customers a
single source solution enabling compliance of regulated and hazardous materials.
http://www.atrionintl.com and
http://www.reachlegislation.com
ANADIGICS EXPANDS...
BARCELONA - ANADIGICS, Inc., a leading supplier of wireless and broadband
solutions, announced at 3GSM World Congress that it has expanded its portfolio
of industry-leading WiMAX power amplifiers (PAs) with the introduction of the
AWM6423.
http://www.anadigics.com
DIGICEL GROUP...
KINGSTON, Jamaica - Digicel Group Limited, announced its intent to launch a
private placement of $1.4 billion of senior notes due 2015.
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070214/NYW066LOGO
http://photoarchive.ap.org
CHRYSLER GROUP...
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. - DaimlerChrysler AG's Chrysler Group announced a
three-year Recovery and Transformation Plan that seeks a return to
profitability by 2008 while also taking steps to change its business model for
the long run.
http://www.media.daimlerchrysler.com
http://www.daimlerchrysler.com
ATERAS ANNOUNCES...
DALLAS - ATERAS announces the successful conversion of the University of
Miami's 42 IDMS applications to a DB2 CICS COBOL environment.
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20060511/DATH001LOGO
http://photoarchive.ap.org
http://www.ateras.com
http://www.miami.edu /
NOVARTIS INDIA...
MUMBAI - Ranjit Shahani, Head of Novartis India, receives a banner, signed
by several patients who receive the Novartis oncology drug Glivec/Gleevec for
free through a Novartis patient assistance program, pictured in Mumbai, India,
Tuesday, 13 February 2007.
MISSILE DEFENSE...
WASHINGTON - With the announcement that North Korea would suspend its
nuclear programs in exchange for economic and energy aid, Riki Ellison, Founder
& President of the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance, voiced his organization's
support for what appears to be the first major step forward in diplomatic
relations with North Korea in the last several years.
http://www.missiledefenseadvocacy.org
SOLERA HOLDINGS...
SAN RAMON, Calif. - Solera Holdings, LLC, a leading provider of software and
services to the automobile insurance claims processing industry, announced that
it has filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the Securities and
Exchange Commission relating to a proposed initial public offering of its
common stock.
ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING...
SYDNEY - Norkom Technologies, a leading provider of financial crime and
compliance software, announced that The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation
(DTCC), the world's largest post-trade infrastructure organisation, has
successfully deployed its software as part of DTCC's program against financial
crimes and money laundering.
http://www.norkom.com
http://www.dtcc.com
MAHLE TEST...
NOVI, Mich. - MAHLE Test Systems, a division of MAHLE Powertrain, LLC, Novi,
Mich., has introduced its new Vehicle Powering Portable (VPP) tester for use in
conducting in-line testing in automotive assembly plants.
www.mahlepowertrain.com
PREMIER CARPENTER...
PERTH - On Thursday 15 February, The Hon. Alan Carpenter MLA, Premier (Chief
Minister) of Western Australia, led a high level roundtable discussion on
education linkages between India and Western Australia (WA) in Mumbai.
DALTON INITIATES...
TOKYO and LOS ANGELES - Dalton Investments LLC Tuesday announced that it
will exercise an option to buy 10 per cent of SunTelephone Co. (TSE:8083) as
part of a $325 million management buyout (MBO) and said that tomorrow's
successful completion of the tender offer for the company's shares could signal
an imminent increase in MBOs and merger and acquisition activity in Japan.
KUB PARTNERS...
MALAYSIA - Cybertrust, the global information security specialist, today
announced that it will partner with mainboard-listed Malaysian conglomerate KUB
Malaysia Berhad (KLSE:KUB6784) to deliver Malaysias first round-the-clock,
end-to-end managed security services (MSS) to business and government in
Malaysia.
http://www.cybertrust.com/solutions/managed_security_services
EXPEDIA REACHES...
BELLEVUE, Wash. - All Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts Now Available to Expedia
and hotels.com Customers Expedia, Inc., the world's leading online travel
company, today announced it has signed a strategic partnership with Shangri-La
Hotels and Resorts.
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