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MERIS Captures New Image of Ash Cloud from Eyjafjallajoekull Volcano

In this image taken just under two hours ago (14:45 CET) by ESA’s Envisat satellite, a heavy plume of ash from the Eyjafjallajoekull Volcano is seen travelling in a roughly southeasterly direction.

20 Apr 2010

CEL Ships Two New Series of Isolated Gate Drive Optocouplers

California Eastern Laboratories (CEL) is now shipping its new PS9505 and PS9305 series isolated gate drive optocouplers.

20 Apr 2010

High School in Alaska Selects AoTuroaLED Retrofit Kits to Save Power

AoTuroaLED USA announced today that a high school in Alaska has begun transitioning from fluorescent lighting to the company's LED retrofit kits that are brighter, as much as 70% less power, and longer lifetime.

20 Apr 2010

Xerox WorkCentre 7120 Color Multifunction Printer Facilitates Easier Workflow for SMBs

Xerox Canada's new colour and black-and-white multifunction printers (MFPs) offer advanced scanning, document workflow features and security enhancements at an affordable price.

20 Apr 2010

Nemotek Unveils First Wafer-Level, One-Element Lens

Nemotek Technologie, a manufacturer of customized Wafer-Level Cameras for portable applications, today introduced the first wafer-level, one-element lens with a wider field of view.

20 Apr 2010

PMC-Sierra's New HyPHY-Based Reference Design Supports GE Transport Over OTN

PMC-Sierra, Inc. (Nasdaq:PMCS), the premier Internet infrastructure semiconductor solution provider, today introduced a complete reference design for its HyPHY chipset that supports standards-based transport of Ethernet-based services over the Optical Transport Network (OTN).

20 Apr 2010

LCD TV Association Member Companies Continue to Focus on Greener TVs

On the eve of Earth Day 2010, member companies of the LCD TV Association—a global, not-for-profit, marketing trade association formed to help the entire LCD TV supply chain, retail channel and consumers—today re-enforced their ongoing pledge to usher in an era of greener TVs.

20 Apr 2010

IriTech Announces Advancements in Iris Recognition Technology

IriTech, Inc., a leading provider of iris-based biometric identification technology, products and services announced today significant advancements in both operational speed and accuracy, vastly improving on what was already the #1 iris recognition technology in the NIST IREX report.

20 Apr 2010

Densitron to Integrate Immersion’s Haptics Technology into its Touchpanels

Densitron Corporation, Inc., a leading designer and manufacturer of information display systems, and Immersion Corporation, the leading developer and licensor of touch feedback technology, today announced that Densitron has licensed Immersion’s TouchSense technology for integration into touchscreen solutions for medical products, scientific instruments and industrial controls.

20 Apr 2010

Stratasys Ships HP-Branded 3D Printer Systems

Additive fabrication system maker, Stratasys, Inc., today announced it has delivered its first shipments of HP-branded 3D printers.

20 Apr 2010

EPS to Begin Rooftop Solar Installation on Phoenix-Based Warehouse

Empire Power Systems (EPS) today announced that it will install Arizona's largest commercial rooftop solar power system to date on an 850,000-square-foot building near 27th Avenue and Buckeye Road in Phoenix.

20 Apr 2010

Sarnoff’s IOM Biometric Identification System Receives Best New Product Award

Sarnoff Corporation announced today that its Iris on the Move® (IOM) biometric identification system has won the Best New Product Award and Best Biometrics and Identity Solution at the Security Industry Association New Product Showcase.

20 Apr 2010

Ningguo City Municipal Government and Apollo Solar Energy Sign Non-Binding LOI

Apollo Solar Energy, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: ASOE) ("Apollo Solar" or "the Company"), a leading vertically integrated miner, refiner and producer of high purity tellurium (Te) and tellurium-based metals for the solar photovoltaic (PV) industry and specific segments of the electronic materials market worldwide in the People's Republic of China, today announced the Company has signed a non- binding Letter of Intent with the Ningguo City Municipal Government to enter into a future joint venture that would build and operate the Ningguo-Apollo Solar Energy Community, to be located in Anhui Province, China.

20 Apr 2010

New Research on Photons Leads to More Efficient Quantum Computing

A team from Cardiff University's School of Physics and Astronomy fired light particles, or photons, into a tiny tower of semi-conducting material.

20 Apr 2010

NanoImaging Secures SBIR Fund to Develop New Methods Using Electron Microscopy

NanoImaging Services, Inc., announced today that it has received a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Institutes of Health through the National Center for Research Resources to develop new methods for quantitative characterization of nanoparticle morphology and aggregation state using transmission electron microscopy.

20 Apr 2010