SYDNEY--1 Apr--AsiaNet/InfoQuest
PODIATRY NEW ZEALAND...
MELBOURNE: Podiatry New Zealand, the peak body for podiatrists in New
Zealand today warned that consumers would be foolish to believe a recent
University of Newcastle study suggesting sports shoes provided no protection
against injury.
ETELECARE GLOBAL...
SCOTTSDALE: eTelecare Global Solutions (PSE: ETEL), a leading provider of
complex business process outsourcing (BPO) solutions, announced Tuesday that it
provided Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas (the "Depositary") notice of
termination of the Deposit Agreement dated April 2, 2007, as amended (the
"Deposit Agreement").
www.etelecare.com
WOMEN USE...
WELLINGTON: Women across the world are using social networking sites to
collaborate and build their businesses.
http://www.skouttradefair.com
http://www.kidsproductdirectory.com
http://www.babybites.co.nz
http://www.stylecollective.com.au
http://www.tottrendsweekly.com
WORLD HEART...
ORLANDO: The World Heart Federation, Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited (TSE:
4568) and Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) announced Tuesday that they have
partnered to improve cardiovascular health internationally.
www.world-heart-federation.org
BB SAT...
TOKYO: BB SAT Co., Ltd. (Japan) Tuesday announced the commencement of its
satellite broadband service in Japan. The service, aimed primarily at consumers
and SME/SOHO customers, will provide service to Japan's Digital Divide areas
and to ADSL users who, because of distance from ADSL provisioning facilities,
receive poor quality service.
TELNIC LAUNCHES...
SINGAPORE: Telnic Limited (http://www.telnic.org), the registry operator for
the new .tel top level domain, today announced the launch of its multilingual
website, providing .tel related information in 11 languages including: English,
French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic
and Russian.
http://www.telnic.org
AMBERFIN LAUNCHES...
LONDON: AmberFin Tuesday announced the launch of its global OEM partner
program that makes a variety of individual components of its multi-award
winning iCR software available to third party vendors.
http://www.amberfin.com
A COMPETITION...
HELSINKI: Sitra, the Finnish Innovation Fund, and the city of Helsinki are
launching an international competition for building a sustainable and
innovative block in the Western Harbor of Helsinki.
http://www.sitra.fi/energy
http://www.low2no.org/competition
SAXO BANK...
COPENHAGEN: Tuesday, the online trading and investment specialist, Saxo
Bank, announced an increase in operating income of 61 percent, and a net profit
increase of 23 percent for 2008.
D'GIPRO LAUNCHES...
BANGALORE: Engineers accelerating image, signal and data processing C code
just gained another method. D'Gipro added Impulse C to their line. Begun in
1993, D'Gipro is India's leading EDA solutions vendor, having provided tools
and training to over 2000 engineers.
www.ImpulseC.com
IGLOO SOFTWARE...
KITCHENER: IGLOO Software, a leading provider of on-demand community and
social software solutions Wednesday announced the release of its BlackBerry
Client application.
(www.igloosoftware.com)
FANNIE MAE...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of MTN
securities issues amounting to a total of US$660.924 million on April 10, 2009
at a redemption price equal to 100 per cent of the principal amount redeemed
plus accrued interest.
http://www.fanniemae.com
FANNIE MAE...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of MTNR
securities issues amounting to a total of US$50 million on April 10, 2009 at a
redemption price equal to 100 per cent of the principal amount redeemed plus
accrued interest.
http://www.fanniemae.com
NOVARRA'S PARTNERSHIP...
CHICAGO: Yahoo! oneSearch is widely recognized as a global leader in mobile
search with owned and operated services in over 40 countries as well as
partnerships with more than 70 leading mobile operators around the world.
NOVARRA DEBUTS...
CHICAGO: Novarra, the Internet Mobility Company, introduces their Vision
Browser Version 8.0 for operators and device manufacturers, which works
seamlessly with a broad range of mobile gateways including Novarra's own highly
scalable and standards-based Vision mobile internet and multimedia server.
WYETH SUBMITS...
COLLEGEVILLE: Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, a division of Wyeth (NYSE: WYE),
announced Wednesday that it has submitted a Biologic License Application (BLA)
to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Prevnar 13(TM), Pneumococcal
13-valent Conjugate Vaccine (Diphtheria CRM(197) Protein).
BLUEKIWI 2009...
SAN FRANCISCO: blueKiwi Software, the leading European provider of
Enterprise Social Software, announces Wednesday the release of new features
which will enhance the use and adoption of social networks and at the same time
reinforce the business-oriented foundation of blueKiwi 2009.
www.bluekiwi-software.com
C&D TECHNOLOGIES...
BLUE BELL: C&D Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: CHP), a leading North American
producer and marketer of batteries, battery systems and integrated standby
power systems, Wednesday announced the investment in an expanded manufacturing
facility, product portfolio and management team in Shanghai, China.
http://www.cdtechno.com
WDC STARTING...
TOKYO: The new generic Top-Level Domain (*gTLD) program currently being
discussed within the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers
(*ICANN) community will pave the way for people to apply for a new gTLD
(current examples of gTLD include ".com", ".org" and ".net" among others).
http://www.worlddomaincup/english/
AVASTIN LABEL...
BASEL: The European Medicines Agency (EMEA) has removed a restriction in the
product label which prevented the use of Avastin (bevacizumab) in some patients
whose primary cancer has spread to their brain (brain metastases).
http://www.roche.com
http://www.thenewsmarket.com
FIBER WILL...
CAMBRIDGE: The migration from narrowband and DSL to fiber will increase the
size of Taiwan's Internet market from $1.6 billion in 2008 to $2.3 billion in
2013, according to a new report from Pyramid Research, the telecom research arm
of the Light Reading Communications Network.
www.lightreading.com
www.pyr.com
UNDERWRITERS LABORATORIES...
NORTHBROOK: Underwriters Laboratories Inc. (UL), a world leader in product
safety testing and certification services, announced Wednesday that it has
entered into a strategic partnership with Luminaire Testing Laboratory, Inc.
(LTL), an independent source of photometric test reports for the lighting
industry.
http://www.ul.com/newsroom
http://www.luminairetesting.com
AKQA HIRES...
SHANGHAI: AKQA has hired Johan Vakidis as Executive Creative Director at
AKQA Shanghai. Vakidis is charged with raising AKQA's creative capabilities and
profile in China and globally.
www.akqa.com
UBICOM ANNOUNCES...
SAN JOSE: Ubicom, Inc., a leading provider of networking and multimedia
processors, Wednesday announced the release of a networked audio player
reference design.
www.ubicom.com
CHANGING FACE...
SINGAPORE: As the first quarter of 2009 ends, Adecco, Singapore's leading
human resource and staffing solutions company, takes a look at the Singapore
job seeker and how their expectations and approach to finding a job have
changed since the beginning of the year.
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