Alcatel-Lucent’s Board of Directors (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) announced on September 1 that it approved the appointment of Philippe Camus as the company’s non-executive Chairman as of October 1st, 2008. Ben Verwaayen is appointed as the company’s chief executive officer. Ben will also join the company’s Board of Directors.

The New SanDisk Extreme III 30MB/s Edition SDHC Line Easily Supports Continuous Shooting Performance in Nikon’s New D90 Digital SLR Camera

SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK) today set a new speed record of 30 megabytes per second (1) for SD™ flash memory cards with the introduction of the SanDisk Extreme® III 30MB/s Edition line of SDHC™ Cards. The new cards, expected to be available worldwide in September in 4-gigabyte (GB) (2), 8GB and 16GB capacities, are designed to deliver peak performance when used with the new digital single-lens reflex (DSLR) camera, Nikon D90.

Highlights:
- Record profit before tax of AUD1,408 million
- Net profit after tax of AUD970 million
- Revenue of AUD16.2 billion
- Earnings per share of AUD50.2 cents
- Operating cashflow of AUD2.1 billion
- Final fully franked ordinary dividend of AUD17 cents per share

Qantas today announced a record profit before tax of AUD1,408 million for the full year ended 30 June 2008, a 46 per cent increase on the prior year results.

Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced its support for the world’s first commercial trial of the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA)’s new BCAST Smartcard Profile, an key emerging standard for Mobile TV content protection. This trial is being led by Alcatel-Lucent for MobileOne (M1), a mobile telecommunications service provider in Singapore, and MediaCorp, the country’s leading media company, along with key mobile telecommunications providers SingTel and StarHub.

In an initiative targeted to nurture the technology leaders of tomorrow, Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTP) is introducing from its member companies more than 130 career and student internship opportunities.