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INSIGHT PUBLISHER… PHILADELPHIA and LONDON: Thomson Scientific, part of The Thomson Corporation and leading provider of information solutions to the worldwide research and business communities, has announced the availability of InSight Publisher 3.6.

The latest version of InSight Publisher adds intuitive hyperlinking and cross-reference management to its enhanced functionality set. www.thomson.com www.scientific.thomson.com www.liquent.com QTRAX V.2… NEW YORK: QTRAX - the world’s first free and legal peer-to-peer music service announces that at the V.2 Beta launch, its ground-breaking service had approximately 61,000 unique users per hour (between 7am and 1pm EST). This translates to approximately 1,464,000 unique users per day. QTRAX believes that a significant percentage of users were unable to access the site due to this massive demand and has now dramatically increased its download capacity. www.QTRAX.com FUNKYSEXYCOOL SIGNS… NEW YORK: MTV Networks Germany (MTVN) and FunkySexyCool, the global mobile social community for 18-34 year olds, have signed a cooperation agreement to promote FunkySexyCool across Germany, Switzerland and Austria on MTVN’s German, Swiss and Austrian TV, web and mobile networks. www.fsccorporate.com www.mtvnetworks.de 10TH ANNIVERSARY… PARIS: The Stade de France celebrates its 10th anniversary in an amazing way with images that will be seen all over the world. It will be a symbol and a thank you to all the fans, players, athletes, artists that helped give the Stade de France its legendary status. www.stadefrance.com PREMIER FARNELL… LONDON: Premier Farnell plc, the leading multi-channel, high service distributor supporting millions of engineers and purchasing professionals globally, announces open registration to the technical conference and awards ceremony for Live EDGE - Electronic Design for the Global Environment. The awards ceremony will announce the US$100,000 prize package winner and the five highly commended designs receiving US$5,000 each. www.premierfarnell.com www.live-edge.com www.pinnacle-marketing.com SPACE ADVENTURES… VIENNA, Virginia: Space Adventures, Ltd., the world’s leading space experiences company, announces that Nik Halik of Australia has been chosen to train as the back-up crew member alongside our orbital spaceflight candidate, famed game developer and son of former NASA astronaut, Richard Garriott, who is currently planning a mission to the International Space Station in October. www.spaceadventures.com DEBT RETIREMENT… TULSA, Oklahoma: St. Joseph, Inc. announces that the company has reduced the company’s debts by effected conversion of its Series B Preferred Stock and three promissory notes into shares of the company’s common stock, at a conversion price of US$0.30 per share of common stock. www.stjosephinc.com CALIFORNIA MICRO… MILPITAS, California: California Micro Devices introduces PicoGuard XS, an innovative new ESD (electrostatic discharge) protection architecture in the XtremeESD family, the industry’s first product to provide both outstanding signal integrity and robust ESD protection for high speed differential signals such as DisplayPort and HDMI. www.cmd.com www.XtremeESD.com FANNIE MAE… WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of FINS, MTN and MTNR securities issues on February 7, 2008 at a redemption price equal to 100 per cent of the principal amount redeemed plus accrued interest. Fannie Mae will also redeem MTN securities issues on January 28, 2008. www.fanniemae.com BANCO BRADESCO… SAO PAULO: We present below the main figures obtained by Bradesco in 2007. Our Report on Economic and Financial Analysis with the complete Financial Statements is available on Bradesco’s website (www.bradesco.com.br/ir). www.bradesco.com.br www.bradesco.com.br/ir RFID PILOT… SOLIHULL and MOUNTAIN VIEW, California: Ford Motor Company’s Land Rover division and Savi announce they have launched a pilot program that deploys an active Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) solutions that better synchronizes the delivery of auto parts from multiple suppliers to Land Rover’s key assembly plant in the West Midlands (U.K.). The pilot is made possible through a U.K. central government grant administered by the University of Warwick. www.savi.com CIRCOS LAUNCHES… PALM DESERT, California and SAN MATEO, California: This Wednesday at the DEMO 08 conference in Palm Desert, CA, Circos will officially launch semantic search designed to change the way we share and discover knowledge on the Web. Circos will take the stage at 3:46 PST and will be on hand at the DEMO Pavilion, #6. To learn more, visit www.circos.com. www.circos.com www.demo.com DEATH MOURNED… AUCKLAND: Over 290,000 members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the New Zealand and Pacific Islands areas are mourning the death of President Gordon B. Hinckley. www.media.lds.org ABBOTT ANNOUNCES… ABBOTT PARK, Illinois: Abbott announces that the European Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use, the scientific committee of the European Medicines Agency, has issued a positive opinion recommending approval of a new, lower-strength tablet formulation of the company’s leading HIV protease inhibitor, Kaletra (lopinavir/ritonavir). www.abbott.com www.abbott.com/HIVAIDS www.abbottglobalcare.org. www.KALETRA.com www.abbott.com/hiv CLEXANE/LOVENOX APPROVED… PARIS: Sanofi-aventis announces that the anticoagulant Clexane (enoxaparin sodium injection) has been approved for marketing in Japan by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare for the prevention of venous thromboembolism in patients undergoing orthopaedic surgery of the lower limbs such as total hip replacement, total knee replacement and hip fracture surgery. http://epp.eurostat.cec.eu.int www.preventdvt.org ROCHE ANNOUNCES… BASEL: Roche announces that the European Commission has given its approval for the significantly wider use of its anti-angiogenic agent Avastin (bevacizumab) in patients suffering from metastatic colorectal cancer. www.avastin-info.com www.health-kiosk.ch/start_krebs www.thenewsmarket.com ECO-FRIENDLY DIVING… SINGAPORE: Reflecting the dive industry’s trend towards more environmentally aware practices, Asia Dive Expo 2008 (ADEX) will this year turn its focus towards eco-friendly diving. www.asiadiveexpo.com AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwide clients. 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