AsiaNet Daily Summary - Press Releases for Thursday, November 16, 2006
SYDNEY--16 Nov--AsiaNet/InfoQuest
HONEYWELL GRANTS...
PHOENIX: Honeywell announced that it has granted a license
to Sony Corporation authorizing it to use a patented Honeywell
technology that increases the brightness of images and reduces
the appearance of certain interference effects on liquid
crystal display products.
www.honeywell.com
www.honeywell.com/licensing
COLLABORATION ANNOUNCED...
SANTA CLARA and SUNNYVALE, California: VeriSilicon Holdings
Co., Ltd. (VeriSilicon), a leading world class ASIC design
foundry and semiconductor IP provider, and MoSys, Inc., the
industry's leading provider of high density system-on-chip
embedded memory solutions, have announced the companies are
partnering to further expand the adoption of MoSys' popular
1T-SRAM technology by providing VeriSilicon customers seamless
access to the patented technology.
www.mosys.com
www.verisilicon.com
WINZIP 11.0...
MANSFIELD, Connecticut and OTTAWA: WinZip Computing, a Corel
Company, has announced the official release of WinZip 11.0.
WinZip 11.0 reinforces the company's commitment to helping its
wide range of users work smarter, safer and faster by
introducing features that streamline work processes that occur
before and after the actual task of zipping and unzipping
files.
www.winzip.com
KOSCOM SELECTS...
BEDFORD, Massachusetts: Progress Software Corporation, a
global supplier of application infrastructure software used to
develop, deploy, integrate and manage business applications,
announced that leading Korean financial IT vendor, Koscom, has
selected the Progress Apama Algorithmic Trading Platform to
enable algorithmic trading on the Korea Exchange.
FANNIE MAE...
WASHINGTON: Fannie Mae has priced new issue 10-year
benchmark notes.
www.fanniemae.com
MICREL LAUNCHES...
SAN JOSE, California: Micrel Inc., an industry leader in
analog, high bandwidth communications and Ethernet IC
solutions, announced that it would be previewing the MIC3385,
the industry's smallest and thinnest 8 MHz inductorless buck
regulator at Electronica 2006 in Munich, Germany.
www.micrel.com
FANNIE MAE...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal
amount of MTN securities issues amounting to a total of US$50
million on November 25, 2006 at a redemption price equal to 100
per cent of the principal amount redeemed plus accrued
interest. Fannie Mae will also redeem US$7.427 million FINS
securities issues on November 27, 2006.
www.fanniemae.com
CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY...
NEW YORK: A substantial majority of global business
executives (79 per cent) surveyed believe that companies with
strong corporate responsibility track records recover their
reputations faster post-crisis than those with weaker records.
This finding did not differ by region. The survey, Safeguarding
Reputation, was conducted in 11 markets by global public
relations firm Weber Shandwick with KRC Research.
www.webershandwick.com
www.krcresearch.com
www.webershandwick.com/reputationrx
WESTERN WIND...
COQUITLAM, Canada: Western Wind Energy has announced that it
will launch a series of countersuits against Pacific Hydro
Limited of Australia seeking compensation and damages in excess
of $1 billion.
www.westernwindenergy.com
LUNG CANCER...
LONDON: A selection of journalists have been officially
recognised, during Lung Cancer Awareness Month, for their role
in helping to elevate the often neglected profile of lung
cancer, the leading cause of cancer related deaths worldwide,
affecting more than 1.2 million people annually.
www.lungcancerjournalism.com
STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP...
MADRID: WISeKey ELA, the WISeKey Affiliate for Spain and
Latin America has announced in Madrid a Strategic Partnership
with Microsoft and IT Deusto for the deployment of the
CertifyID BlackBox line of security solutions.
VALEO SIGNS...
PARIS: Valeo has announced the signature of a contract for
the sale of its Electric Motors & Actuators activity to the
Japanese group Nidec for an enterprise value of 165 million
euros (US$211.6 million).
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ข่าวSony Corporation+o:asnวันนี้
สมิติเวชจับมือโซนี่ ยกระดับมาตรฐานบริการทางการแพทย์ในประเทศไทย พร้อมเดินหน้าพัฒนาสู่ระดับอาเซียนในงาน “The Future of Healthcare Solutions”
นายแพทย์ชัยรัตน์ ปัณฑุรอัมพร กรรมการผู้จัดการ และประธานเจ้าหน้าที่บริหาร บริษัท สมิติเวช จำกัด (มหาชน) และ Mr. Yoichi Tsusue, Senior General Manager, Medical Solutions Business Division, Sony Corporation ได้ร่วมลงนามในสัญญาเป็นพันธมิตรโครงการนำร่องติดตั้งระบบอุปกรณ์ทางการแพทย์ของโซนี่ โดยได้รับเกียรติจาก ฯพณฯ ชิเกะคะสุ ซะโต เอกอัคราชฑูตญี่ปุ่นประจำประเทศไทย เป็นประธานในพิธี ฯ ภายในงานมีการจัดแสดงอุปกรณ์ทางแพทย์ อาทิ จอมอนิเตอร์ความละเอียดสูงสำหรับการผ่าตัดขนาด 27 นิ้ว (27” Full HD LCD Surgical