AUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITIES...
PHILADELPHIA and LONDON: Thomson Scientific, part of The Thomson Corporation
and leading provider of information solutions to the worldwide research and
business communities, Monday announced that Australia's Group of Eight have
purchased its National Citation Report. The Group of Eight (Go8) represents
Australia's leading research universities.
http://scientific.thomson.com
http://www.thomson.com
MAJOR PROJECT...
SYDNEY: Citect, a division of Schneider Electric, was present at their
signing of a Statement of Intent with Delfin Lend Lease for a major development
project at Yarrabilba in SE Queensland. The event held in London, UK on Friday
10 November was attended by Queensland Premier and Minister for Trade, Peter
Beattie, and saw the two companies cement a relationship, which would see both
Schneider Electric and Citect take leading roles in the development of this
environmental initiative.
http://www.citect.com
REPEAT TREATMENT...
WASHINGTON: Data presented at this year's American College of Rheumatology
Congress (ACR) show that patients receiving repeat treatment with
MabThera/Rituxan (rituximab) achieved continued improvement in both physical
and mental aspects of quality of life measures.
http://www.roche.com
MERGER COMPLETED...
REYKJAVIK: CCP, the largest European virtual world company, Saturday
announced the completion of its merger with White Wolf, the world's second
largest role-playing publisher.
http://www.white-wolf.com
http://www.ccpgames.com
DIABETES DAY...
BRUSSELS: World Diabetes Day is celebrated every year on 14 November. The
date commemorates the birthday of Frederick Banting, who, along with Charles
Best, is credited with the discovery of insulin in 1921.
http://www.unitefordiabetes.org
http://www.worlddiabetesday.org
BEAZLEY EXPANDS...
LONDON: Beazley Group plc is pleased to announce the expansion of its
engineering and construction team into Singapore, with the opening of a new
office and the appointment of Byran Lee Guan Leong and Wong Jyh Lih.
http://www.beazley.com
POLAR BEAR...
CHURCHILL, MB: The Polar Bear Cam broadcasts the annual polar bear
aggregation near Churchill, enabling web-surfers worldwide to watch the bears
via live streaming video. For 2006 Frontiers North's Tundra Buggy Adventure
( www.tundrabuggy.com ) has teamed up with National Geographic Magazine
( www.ngm.com ), Polar Bears International ( www.polarbearsinternational.org ) and
with WildlifeHD ( www.wildlifehd.com ) to broadcast the bears' activity.
ENGINEERING EDUCATION...
HANOVER and FRANKFURT: Engineering education that instills global competence
is not keeping pace with the complex and highly dynamic development process of
globalization, according to the "Global Engineering Excellence" study, which
was initiated by Continental AG.
http://www.conti-online.com
http://www.global-engineering-excellence.org
FANNIE MAE...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of five
securities issues amounting to a total of US$210 million on Nov 20, 21 and 22
at a redemption price equal to 100 per cent of the principal amount redeemed
plus accrued interest.
http://www.fanniemae.com
INTRANET AWARDS...
MELBOURNE/DALLAS: Intranet DASHBOARD congratulates Shell for winning Best
Intranet Design, and Lloyds TSB for winning Best Intranet Content, at the 2006
International Benchmarking Forum Intranet of the Year Awards in London.
http://www.intranetdashboard.com
MICREL LAUNCHES...
SAN JOSE, Calif.: Micrel Inc., an industry leader in analog, high bandwidth
communications and Ethernet IC solutions, on Friday launched a family of eight
new CML, LVPECL, and LVDS buffers and multiplexers that feature unique,
patent-pending Fail Safe Input (FSI) circuitry and patented 3-pin internal
termination.
http://www.micrel.com
VOIP SUPPORT...
DENVER, Co.: Integrated Research (ASX:IRI), developers of PROGNOSIS system
performance monitoring and management solutions, Friday announced a new
strategic initiative to expand its IP telephony and Voice over IP (VoIP)
management software to support three additional IP communication platforms.
www.prognosis.com
DIGITAL BROADCASTING...
TOKYO: ULDAGE Inc. announced Friday that 10 essential patent holders, France
Telecom, Hitachi, Ltd., Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Mitsubishi
Electric Corporation, Nippon Hoso Kyokai (NHK), Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Sharp
Corporation, Sony Corporation, Toshiba Corporation, Victor Company of Japan,
Limited, have started discussions on a patent pool license program for Japanese
Digital Broadcasting Standards (ARIB Standards).
http://www.uldage.com
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