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Fujifilm Transfers R+D Base to Omiya to Reinforce Digital Camera Business

FUJIFILM reported that the R&D, quality assurance, and procurement operations of its digital camera division will be shifted to Saitama-shi, Saitama Prefecture, also known as Omiya, in July.

16 Jun 2010

NEC Reveals New Single Board Computer Options for Digital Signage Applications

NEC Display Solutions of America has collaborated with Technovare Systems and unveiled three new single board computer options that can be integrated into few of NEC’s large-format displays.

16 Jun 2010

Bright Light Therapy Betters Sleep Disturbances in Soldiers

New research study indicates that bright light therapy is effective for treating sleep disturbances in combat soldiers with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The abstract of this study will be presented at the SLEEP 2010 meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies in Texas.

16 Jun 2010

Konica Minolta’s Exhibits OLED Products at InfoComm 2010

Konica Minolta Sensing Americas (KMSA), a global leader in industrial measurement of light, shape and color, has announced that it will participate as an exhibitor at the InfoComm 2010 being held at Las Vegas.

From Konica Minolta Sensing Americas 15 Jun 2010

Glimmerglass Displays Optical Layer Management Capability at Interop Tokyo ShowNet 2010

Glimmerglass Networks, a supplier of intelligent optical layer management solutions, participated in the 2010 ShowNet interoperability demonstration at Interop Tokyo 2010. The 2010 ShowNet interoperability demonstration was held at Makuhari Messe, Tokyo.

15 Jun 2010

Caltron Launches New Family of LED Backlight Open-Frame Monitors

Caltron Industries released its latest LBT-1042O LED backlight open-frame monitors. The LBT-1042O LED monitors are available in touchscreen and regular versions in small factor LED technology.

15 Jun 2010

US Signal Expands Carrier Ethernet Services With CENX Connection

US Signal, a major player in providing Ethernet Services and data bandwidth capacity, has announced that it has tied up with CENX Inc., for providing Carrier Ethernet Exchange Services. The first connection is CENX’s Chicago exchange and will be providing carriers with unlimited access to Virtual Ethernet Services provided by US Signal.

15 Jun 2010

KVH Bags Defense Contract Worth $7.1 Million for Fiber Optic Gyros

KVH Industries, Inc. has revealed that it has been granted a $7.1 million order by a major defense contractor to manufacture fiber optic gyros (FOGs).

15 Jun 2010

Infonetics Research Releases Report on Optical Network Hardware in EMEA

Infonetics Research, a Market Research firm had released the 2010 report Optical Network Hardware in EMEA: Europe, Middle East, and Africa. The hardware market is headed by incumbent telco investment. Infonetics Research had forecasted a revenue gain of 12% for the optical network hardware market of EMEA in 2010 over 2009.

15 Jun 2010

Gentex Launches Rear Camera Display Mirror System for Toyota Avalon Sedan

Gentex Corporation, GNTX shipped a three-mirror auto-dimming system with Rear Camera Display (RCD) and other features for the 2011 Toyota Avalon. The sedan is available in North America and other Middle Eastern Gulf Coast countries.

From Gentex Corporation 15 Jun 2010

Cypress Introduces High Sensitivity Machine Vision Image Sensor

Cypress Semiconductor Corp. has introduced its high speed and high sensitivity CMOS image sensor. This new VITA 25K sensor with an image resolution of 25 megapixels goes on to offer the industry’s highest throughput gadget with a triggered and pipelined global shutter.

15 Jun 2010

Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Proposes New Surface Nanostructuring Technique

Bulgarian Academy of Sciences has furnished the experimental results of metal ultrashort laser ablation in vacuum, and plasmonics and surface nanostructuring. Molecular dynamics (MD) based numerical model is developed. The numerical model explains the interaction of laser pulse with metal target.

15 Jun 2010

Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells with Higher Energy Conversion Rate

A Melbourne based research team has devised a new method that would increase the energy conversion rate of dye-sensitized solar cells than previously reported. Under the guidance of Dr. Udo Bach, scientists of Monash University, along with scientists from the University of Wollongong and Ulm, developed a more efficient type of dye. This dye ensures higher efficiency of inverse dye-sensitized solar cells.

15 Jun 2010

American Greetings Corporation Launches Greetings Cards with Digital Content

American Greetings Corporation has introduced a completely new range of greeting cards that possess digital content.

15 Jun 2010

ADTEK Launches Waterproof Fiber Optic Pigtail

ADTEK has developed a new type of waterproof fiber optic pigtail that has been manufactured according to IEC standards. Fiber optic pigtails are typically used to connect fiber optic cable with fiber optic equipment. The product possesses low insertion loss, repeat push-pull performance and high return loss and these qualities make the pigtail user-friendly.

15 Jun 2010