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Universal Orlando Resort Signs MPS contract with Xerox

Universal Orlando Resort is famous for creating innovative theme park experiences for its guests. That spirit of innovation also extends to helping its team members do their jobs. Universal Orlando is working to create a more productive and greener workplace – with the potential for significant printing efficiencies – through a new Managed Print Services (MPS) contract with Xerox Corporation (NYSE: XRX).

28 Oct 2009

Look3D and RealD Enter Licensing Deal for RealD 3D Premium Eyewear

Look3D, a leading 3D vision company, and RealD, the world's leading 3D cinema technology company, announced today that they have reached a licensing agreement for Look3D to design, manufacture and distribute RealD 3D certified premium eyewear. Look3D eyewear will offer the same crisp, clear RealD 3D experience as eyewear currently distributed at RealD equipped theatres and will be compatible with all RealD theatres worldwide.

28 Oct 2009

Hitachi Communication Introduces New Line of ONUs for DePON Fiber Access Systems

Hitachi Communication Technologies America, Inc. (HCTA) the only vendor offering a comprehensive line of EPON, GPON, DePON™, MW-PON™, and RFoG equipment today announced a new line of Optical Network Units (ONU) for their DePON fiber access systems. The new ONUs leverage the low cost, high bandwidth available with PON while enabling cable service providers to keep their existing DOCSIS provisioning and management systems. The new products support voice, video, data and wireless services for creation of double play, triple play, and quad play subscriber bundles. Advanced software features in the new ONU family enable cable operators to offer high bandwidth data services along with voice and RF Video while preserving investments in CPE and existing management procedures.

28 Oct 2009

CAO Group Launches Pilot Diode Laser

The CAO Group, Inc., the world’s top diode laser company, today unveiled the Pilot™ Diode Laser, an innovative surgical and therapeutic instrument that represents a breakthrough for veterinary surgical and therapeutic treatments.

28 Oct 2009

Applied Materials Announces Expansion of AKT- PiVot 55KV PVD System

Applied Materials, Inc. today announced that it has expanded its breakthrough AKT- PiVot™ 55KV PVD* system to include advanced copper deposition processing for manufacturing TFT-LCD* flat panel displays

28 Oct 2009

Clear-Lite Holdings Selected as Official Supplier of Nationwide Marketing Group in US

Clear-Lite Holdings, Inc. (“ClearLite”) (OTCBB:CLRH), a leading innovator of eco-friendly lighting and the appreciably safer ArmorLite™ A Safer CFL™, today announced that ClearLite has become an official lighting supplier of the Nationwide Marketing Group, the largest buying group of independent appliance, electronics and furniture dealers in the United States.

28 Oct 2009

Satcon Solstice Utility Grade Solar PV Solution Now Available in North America

Satcon Technology Corporation (NASDAQ CM: SATC), a leading provider of utility scale power solutions for the renewable energy market, today announced the general availability of Satcon Solstice, the industry’s first complete utility grade solar PV solution for large scale solar power plants.

28 Oct 2009

SOLON Launches SOLON Velocity MW Grid Connected Solar System

SOLON Corporation, the largest crystalline silicon solar manufacturer in the U.S. and a fully owned subsidiary of SOLON SE, today unveiled the SOLON Velocity MWTM Solar System to provide electric utilities a faster, more cost effective way to integrate reliable solar power into clean energy programs. The SOLON Velocity MW Solar System is a first of its kind, providing preconfigured, one-megawatt modular solar fields, which can quickly scale to capacity in as fast as four months.

28 Oct 2009

CVD Equipment Wins Contract to Build Magnetron Sputtering System for Brookhaven National Lab

CVD Equipment Corporation (CVD, NASDAQ: CVV), announced today that Brookhaven National Laboratory has contracted with the Company to design and build a custom Magnetron Sputtering System that will support the new National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II) project being built at Brookhaven Lab in Upton, Long Island, New York. The system will deposit critical layers to produce the multilayer lens needed for x-ray focusing at NSLS-II.

28 Oct 2009

Sopogy Launches New Concentrating Solar Power Product

Sopogy, Inc. has just introduced SopoFlare the newest MicroCSP™ product in the world of Concentrating Solar Power solutions at Solar Power International 2009 in Anaheim

28 Oct 2009

Tagline for Eastman Kodak's Marketing Campaign is 'It’s Time to Smile'

Eastman Kodak Company (NYSE: EK) believes “It’s Time to Smile.” This tagline for Kodak’s new year-long, fully integrated marketing initiative is at the heart of the brand’s dedication to strengthening and deepening relationships through sharing images. The campaign began with social media activities supported by public relations in summer 2009 and will be capped off with a dedicated advertising push that starts October 31.

28 Oct 2009

Air Force Research Lab Scientists Are Investigating on Mobile Optical Links

Researcher Dr. David H. Hughes of the Air Force Research Laboratory in Rome, N.Y. is leading a team investigating long-distance, mobile optical links imperative for secure quantum communications capabilities in theater.

28 Oct 2009

Bioptigen of Research Triangle Park Secures IP Licensing Deal for FDOCT Imaging Technology

CLEVELAND and RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. – Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals Case Medical Center have granted to Bioptigen, of Research Triangle Park, N.C ., an exclusive intellectual property licensing agreement for Fourier domain optical coherence tomography (FDOCT), an imaging technology developed from research at the university's Department of Biomedical Engineering.

28 Oct 2009

Gumstix Launches New Expansion Board That Support 3.5

Gumstix, Inc. today introduced a new expansion board for its tiny Overo(TM) computer-on-module (COM) series - the Palo35. The Palo35, which supports a 3.5" LCD touch screen, complements the existing Gumstix Palo43 expansion board. Design engineers who are building small form factor, portable products including hand-held PDAs, portable location tracking devices, transportation applications or e-books can incorporate a Palo35 expansion board with any Overo COM into their product design.

28 Oct 2009

Luxottica Announces Expansion of Sunglass Hut in Asia-Pacific Region

Luxottica Group S.p.A. (NYSE: LUX; MTA: LUX), a global leader in the design, manufacturing and distribution of fashion, luxury and sports eyewear, today announced a further expansion in the Asia-Pacific region of Sunglass Hut, the leading sunglass specialty retailer in the world.

28 Oct 2009