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Level 3 Offers New Ultra-Low-Latency Fiber-Optic Services to Financial Sector

Level 3 Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: LVLT) today announced that the company has enhanced the performance and service options offered on its low-latency, fiber-optic network between New York and Chicago. With this enhancement, Level 3 is offering two new ultra-low-latency: options backed by service level guarantees.

15 Apr 2010

New Rimage Evidence Disc System to Automate Analysis of Optical Media Evidence

Rimage® Corporation, the industry-leading provider of on-demand CD/DVD/Blu-ray Disc™ publishing systems, has introduced the Rimage Evidence Disc System™, a series of solutions specifically designed to automate the ingestion and analysis of optical media evidence.

15 Apr 2010

Covidien to Demonstrate New Endoscopic Surgery Tools at SAGES 2010

Covidien, a leading global provider of healthcare products, will preview a variety of new devices and showcase some of the Company’s most innovative tools for endoscopic surgery and soft tissue repair at the 2010 Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) annual meeting held here.

15 Apr 2010

Crospon Unveils EndoFLIP Product at 12th World Congress of Endoscopic Surgery

Crospon, a medical device developer based in Galway, Ireland, has today launched its EndoFLIP® product in the U.S. market at the 12th World Congress of Endoscopic Surgery in National Harbor, Washington DC.

15 Apr 2010

ASTRON to Use LOFAR Telescope to Study Evolution of the Universe

The Low Frequency Array (LOFAR), a new pan-European radio astronomy facility, has started mapping the Universe at very low energy wavelengths, a part of the electromagnetic spectrum that is relatively unexplored.

15 Apr 2010

Telescopic Images Help to Study How Solar Eruptions Develop and Affect the Earth

An international group of solar and space scientists have built the most complete picture yet of the full impact of a large solar eruption, using instruments on the ground and in space to trace its journey from the Sun to the Earth.

15 Apr 2010

Astronomers Discover Dusty Discs Around Ageing Stars Using Very Large Telescope

Astronomers from the University of Manchester's Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics and the Observatoire de la Cote d’Azur in France have used the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile to discover discs of dust around ageing stars.

15 Apr 2010

Researchers Use Quantum-Dot Lasers to Generate Tunable Wavelengths

Researchers at the Technische Universität Darmstadt have found a new method for generating tunable wavelengths, as well as more easily switching back and forth between two wavelengths, employing quantum-dot lasers. Prospective application fields are biomedicine and nanosurgery.

15 Apr 2010

mPhase Begins Shipments of Emergency Illuminator Featuring 180 Lumens LED

mPhase Technologies, Inc., the developer of Power on Command™ battery technologies, has commenced shipments of its mPower Emergency Illuminator.

15 Apr 2010

Two New Surveillance Cameras Built on Panoptes Imaging Technology

Researchers are expanding new miniature camera technology for military and security uses so soldiers can track combatants in dark caves or urban alleys, and security officials can unobtrusively identify a subject from an iris scan.

15 Apr 2010

New Ballasts for High Performance LEDs Launched by Luminus Devices

Luminus Devices, Inc., developer and manufacturer of high light output PhlatLight® LEDs, today launched its new ballast line, which includes four new ballasts specifically designed to interface with its SST-50, SST-90 and CSM-360 high performance LEDs.

15 Apr 2010

FDP Systems from Applied Materials Enable Cost-Effective Touch Panel Designs

Applied Materials, Inc. reports that its flat panel display (FPD) and roll-to-roll coating systems are providing the advanced technology to enable more cost-efficient and scalable touch panel designs.

15 Apr 2010

Xerox’s New Wide Format Printer Delivers Sharp Printing at High Speeds

When printing engineering and architectural renderings or schematics, accurate printing can’t come at the cost of extra time.

15 Apr 2010

Avago Launches Energy Efficient 3W LEDs for Solid-State Lightings

Avago Technologies, a leading supplier of analog interface components for communications, industrial and consumer applications, today announced one of the industry’s most compact and energy efficient 3-Watt (3W) miniature high power LEDs for use in a wide range of solid-state lighting applications.

15 Apr 2010