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EMC to Offer QLogic's 8Gb Fibre Channel Stackable Switches

In the latest move to expand its global market share in Fibre Channel switches in enterprise-class data centers worldwide, QLogic Corp. today announced that on April 12 its 5800V Series 8Gb Fibre Channel stackable switches will be available through the EMC® Select program as scalable SAN solutions for a broad range of EMC storage platforms.

18 Mar 2010

Ondine Files PMA Application to FDA for its Periowave Photodisinfection System

Ondine Biopharma Corporation, a medical technology company developing photodisinfection-based products, announces that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has formally accepted for filing the Company's Pre-Market Approval (PMA) application for the Periowave™ Photodisinfection System for the treatment of chronic periodontitis in adults as an adjunct to standard methods of care.

18 Mar 2010

Iosil Secures $13.5 Million Fund to Construct Pilot PV Plant

Iosil Energy Corporation ("Iosil"), an innovator in the production of high-purity solar grade polysilicon for the photovoltaic industry, announced today that it has secured $13.5 million in equity financing in an oversubscribed round.

18 Mar 2010

Yolo County to be Powered by SunPower Solar Panels

Yolo County, SunPower Corp. ( SPWRA, SPWRB) and Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) today announced that SunPower will design and construct a 1-megawatt solar power system at the Yolo County Justice Center in Woodland, Calif.

18 Mar 2010

Samsung Touchscreen Model S5233T Features Analog Mobile TV

Telegent Systems, the company that makes television mobile, today announced that Telegent's analog mobile TV receiver is shipping in Samsung's Star TV S5233T handset, recently launched in Southeast Asia.

18 Mar 2010

Report Shows Global Solar PV Installations Rise 6% in 2009

Worldwide solar photovoltaic (PV) installations reached a record high of 6.43 gigawatt (GW) in 2009 — a 6% Y/Y growth, according to the latest Marketbuzz® 2010 Report from Solarbuzz®, an international solar energy market research and consulting company, and a division of The NPD Group.

18 Mar 2010

Cree Offers XLamp LEDs in Warm- and Neutral-White Color Temperatures

Cree, Inc., a market leader in LED lighting, announces the commercial availability of the award-winning XLamp® XP-G LED in warm- and neutral-white color temperatures (2600 K to 5000 K CCT).

18 Mar 2010

Successful 100 GbE Optical Transmission with Opnext and Ixia Technologies

Opnext, Inc. (NASDAQ:OPXT) and Ixia (NASDAQ:XXIA) announced the successful demonstration of 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) traffic using the Ixia K2 traffic generator and analyzer and Opnext’s 100GBASE-LR4 CFP Multi-Source Agreement (CFP MSA)-compliant optical module.

18 Mar 2010

Guzzo to Convert 43 Cinema Screens with MasterImage 3D Theatre Systems in Montreal

MasterImage 3D, LLC, a provider of pioneering stereoscopic 3D systems for theaters, auto-stereoscopic television and handheld displays, announced today that Montreal-based Guzzo Cinemas has chosen to convert 43 of its screens to stereoscopic 3D projection with MasterImage 3D digital theatre systems.

18 Mar 2010

New Laser-Combiners from AOFR

AOFR, an Aegis Lightwave company and a leading supplier of fused fiber-couplers and laser-combiners for the communications, test equipment, industrial, sensing, military and aerospace markets,

18 Mar 2010

Diamond Vision LED Display Installed at Kleenex Stadium Miyagi in Japan

Rakuten Baseball Incorporated announced today it has completed installation of a Mitsubishi Electric Corporation Diamond Vision large-scale display system at Kleenex Stadium Miyagi above the stands between right and center fields.

18 Mar 2010

Discovery of First Solar System-Like Exoplanet Using ESO Telescope

“This is a normal, temperate exoplanet just like dozens we already know, but this is the first whose properties we can study in depth,” says Claire Moutou, who is part of the international team of 60 astronomers that made the discovery. “It is bound to become a Rosetta stone in exoplanet research.”

18 Mar 2010

Planck's New Image Shows Cold Dust Structures in Galaxy

Giant filaments of cold dust stretching through our Galaxy are revealed in a new image from ESA's Planck satellite. Analysing these structures could help to determine the forces that shape our Galaxy and trigger star formation.

18 Mar 2010

Spitzer Telescope Observes Black Holes

Astronomers have discovered what appear to be two of the earliest and most primitive supermassive black holes known. The discovery, based on observations with the NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and other space observatories, will be published in the March 18 edition of the scientific journal Nature.

18 Mar 2010

Exposure to Light Twists Nanoparticle Ribbons

In findings that took the experimenters three years to believe, University of Michigan engineers and their collaborators have demonstrated that light itself can twist ribbons of nanoparticles.

18 Mar 2010