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ASIANET DAILY SUMMARY - MARCH 4, 2009Mar 03, 2009 (AsiaPulse via COMTEX) -- AsiaNet Daily Summary - Press Releases for Wednesday March 4, 2009 SYDNEY, March 4 /AsiaNet/ -- CUSHMAN & WAKEFIELD... SEOUL - Following the high profile launch of its retail leasing campaign for Marina Bay Sands Shoppes(R) in Singapore, Sands Retail Asia has announced the appointment of Cushman & Wakefield as exclusive leasing agent for the development in the key North Asian markets of Korea and Japan. www.sandsretailasia.com INDEX VENTURES... LONDON - Index Ventures today announced the closing of a euro 350 million early stage fund, Index Ventures V. The fund is dedicated to early stage and seed investments in the technology, biotechnology and clean technology sectors across Europe, the United States and Israel. www.indexventures.com SUPERMICRO SHOWS... SAN JOSE, Calif. - Super Micro Computer, Inc. (Nasdaq: SMCI), a leader in application-optimized, high-performance server solutions, today showcased the latest additions to its Twin Server family of products at HPC Asia 2009 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. These solutions are optimized for high-performance computing (HPC) with industry-leading performance-per-watt (375 GFLOPS/kW*) and performance-per-dollar. Supermicro is displaying its award-winning 1U Twin(TM) SuperServer that has been optimized for next-generation Intel Xeon processors, a 2U Twin(2) SuperServer with four hot-pluggable dual-processor (DP) Xeon computing nodes in a 2U chassis, and a high-density SuperBlade(R) system with 14 DP Xeon computing blades in a 7U chassis. www.Supermicro.com CMPMEDICA AGREEMENT... LONDON - CMPMedica, the global healthcare information provider which is a division of United Business Media Limited, has signed an agreement with MAIDIS, the international healthcare software vendor, to provide an integrated medicine management system for two hospitals in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). www.cmpmedica.com SUPERMICRO UNVEILS... HANNOVER - Super Micro Computer, Inc. (Nasdaq: SMCI), a leader in application-optimized, high-performance server solutions, today unveiled its comprehensive new line of server and workstation solutions optimized for upcoming Intel(R) Xeon(R) processors along with its new 2U Twin2 (Twin Squared) family of servers at CeBIT 2009 in Hannover, Germany, March 3-8, Hall 21, Stand C72. www.Supermicro.com LUMINARY MICRO... AUSTIN, Texas - Luminary Micro, creators of the award-winning Stellaris(R) family of ARM(R) Cortex(TM)-M3-based microcontrollers (MCUs), today announced nine new Stellaris family members, featuring new combinations of connectivity, memory configurations, and advanced motion control. http://www.luminarymicro.com/products/whats_new.html. NEUSOFT RANKED NO. 1... SHENYANG - The list of 2009 Global Services 100 by the US-based Global Services and neoIT was released recently in New York. Neusoft Corporation (600718.SH), a leading IT solutions & services provider as well as the largest offshore software & service outsourcing provider in China, was listed among the Global Services 100 for the fifth time and continued ranking No. 1 in the category of "Leaders: Emerging Asian Markets" for three successive years since 2007. http://www.neusoft.com/en ONLINE SHOPPERS... COPENHAGEN - inpay, a leading provider of alternative payment options for webshops, today announced that it has expanded its online banking network to cover a total of 25 countries. With this expansion inpay has cemented its position as the leading provider of worldwide instant online bank payments for the e-commerce industry. PROLOGIS ASIA... SHANGHAI - The company formerly known as ProLogis Asian Operations has been re-branded as "Global Logistic Properties". This is a key step for the industrial and logistics infrastructure provider to continue its leading market presence in China and Japan, Global Logistic Properties announced today. QUINTESSENCELABS UNVEILS... CANBERRA - QuintessenceLabs, the leader in quantum communications technology for networking, communications, national security and defence, announces the worlds most advanced commercial quantum communications technology incorporating telecom bright lasers. www.quintessencelabs.com REAL SOFTWARE... AUSTIN, Texas - REAL Software, creator of REALbasic, a cross-platform development tool for creating software for Mac, Windows and Linux, is now shipping REALbasic 2009 Release 1. The first release of 2009 continues to focus on product quality and reliability, while introducing 27 new features and 100 improvements. This release includes a new Quickstart window that helps new users get started developing software in REALbasic. www.realsoftware.com SWISS BANKING SECRECY... BERN - Switzerland is synonymous with discreet banking but 75 years after Swiss banking secrecy was enshrined in law, the practice is under massive international pressure. Banking secrecy obliges banks to keep information about their clients confidential, except in cases of criminal investigation. http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/index.html AVON COMMITS... WASHINGTON - One in three women worldwide experience violence in their lifetime(1), and in the U.S., a woman is assaulted every nine seconds(2). Around the world, services for victims are often vastly underfunded or unavailable, and in many countries, laws to protect women do not exist or are not enforced. In response, the Avon Foundation for Women today announced meaningful new efforts to eradicate violence against women and help ensure justice for all women worldwide. www.avoncompany.com. GERMAN PHOTOVOLTAIC... MUNICH - Germany's photovoltaic (PV) industry is emerging as a success story despite the economically trying times. Start-ups and established solar companies alike will be showcasing their successes at this year's Photovoltaic Technology Show 2009 Europe in Munich, Germany from March 4 - 6. Germany is an appropriate setting, as the country remains the global leader in PV and has seen an increase in investments across the entire industry. http://www.gtai.com ZIGBEE AND RF4CE... SAN RAMON, Calif.- The ZigBee Alliance and the RF4CE Consortium, founded by Panasonic Corporation, Royal Philips Electronics, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. and Sony Corporation, have reached an agreement to deliver a standardized specification for radio frequency-based (RF) remote controls. RF remotes are faster, more reliable and provide more freedom to operate devices from greater distances removing the line-of-sight barrier of today's infrared (IR) remotes. With this agreement, effective today, the ZigBee Alliance will move into the broad consumer products arena as part of its long-term integration and growth plans. www.zigbee.org TANDBERG MOVI... HANOI, JAKARTA, BANGKOK, KULA LUMPUR - TANDBERG (OSLO: TAA.OL) today launched Movi, an unprecedented business-quality mobile video solution for the PC. Movi brings a new level of quality, scalability and interoperability to PC video by enabling high-definition communication from a PC to any other standards-based telepresence and video solution, making video truly accessible to anyone from anywhere. http://www.tandberg.com AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions. |