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Latest Digital Camera Remarkably Small and Astonishingly Fast

Nikon is pleased to introduce the COOLPIX S600, a stylish new camera that features fast start-up time, advanced functions, outstanding photographic performance and a slim, stylish body.

29 Jan 2008

COOLPIX P60 Offers Reliability and Familiarity to the Camera Enthusiast

Nikon is pleased to introduce a new addition to its COOLPIX Performance Series line of digital cameras: the COOLPIX P60.

29 Jan 2008

Cameras Offer Outstanding Imaging Innovations

Nikon's COOLPIX line is receiving a makeover with the addition of six colorful cameras. These new COOLPIX cameras offer the consumer the opportunity to not only express themselves with their photos but with their cameras as well.

29 Jan 2008

APD Chip Provides Affordable Solution for Fiber-to-the-Home Networks

JDSU today announced that it is now shipping an avalanche photo detector (APD) chip designed for gigabit passive optical networks (GPONs) that enable data transmissions for fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) offerings. The new APD chip provides high functionality at a low cost, making it ideal for FTTH deployments.

29 Jan 2008

Digital Camera Makes Capturing Beautiful Pictures Fun and Easy

Nikon, Inc., today introduced the new D60 digital SLR camera, which provides consumers with stunning picture quality and versatility in an easy-to-use, compact camera design.

29 Jan 2008

LEDs Expected to be Commonly Used By End of 2008

Cree, Inc., a market leader in LED solid-state lighting components, announces the results of an independent survey on the adoption, deployment and benefits of LED lighting.

29 Jan 2008

Fiber Slim Taps Supports Industry's Move to LC Connectors

Net Optics, Inc. announced a new family of Taps that support direct cable connections using LC connectors, for ATM, Gigabit, and 10Gigabit fiber networks. With these new Taps, customers no longer need LC to SC cables to deploy their application and security monitoring tools.

29 Jan 2008

GSE Reaches Solar Cell Efficiency Milestone

Global Solar Energy (GSE), the premier manufacturer of Copper Indium Gallium diSelenide (CIGS) thin-film solar products, today announced it is the first in the CIGS thin-film market to achieve an average of 10-percent solar cell efficiency on a flexible/lightweight substrate over several production runs.

29 Jan 2008

Infrared Light Source Offering Broad Light Spectrum Unachievable with LEDs

Moritex has announced a new standard incandescent Infrared (IR) light source offering a broad light spectrum unachievable with LED's.

29 Jan 2008

AMI Semiconductor Enters Collaboration Program to Develop Smart Power Technologies

AMI Semiconductor, a leading designer and manufacturer of state-of-the-art mixed-signal and digital products for the automotive, medical, industrial, aerospace, and high-voltage communication markets, has entered into a new two-year collaboration program with IMEC - Europe's leading independent research center in the field of nanoelectronics - to develop AMI Semiconductor's future Smart Power Technologies.

28 Jan 2008

Shedding Light on Mysterious Dark Energy

Astronomers have used ESO’s Very Large Telescope to measure the distribution and motions of thousands of galaxies in the distant Universe. This opens fascinating perspectives to better understand what drives the acceleration of the cosmic expansion and sheds new light on the mysterious dark energy that is thought to permeate the Universe.

28 Jan 2008

Chip Simultaneously Captures Still Pictures While Generating HD Videos

Ambarella, Inc., a leader in low-power, high- definition video compression and image processing semiconductors, has introduced the A390, a system-on-a-chip (SoC) that simultaneously captures 8Mpixels still pictures while generating and compressing high-definition (HD) video in either1080p60 or 1080i60 formats.

28 Jan 2008

Photodiodes Capable of Detecting Single Photons in the UV Range

In a significant breakthrough, researchers at Northwestern University's Center for Quantum Devices (CQD) have demonstrated visible-blind avalanche photodiodes (APDs) capable of detecting single photons in the ultraviolet region (360-200 nm).

28 Jan 2008

Innovative LaserStream Solution Enables More Precision Tracking

Avago Technologies, a leading supplier of analog interface components for communications, industrial and consumer applications, today announced two new high-precision small form factor laser navigation sensors for corded and cordless PC mice.

28 Jan 2008

TLC Opens Second Laser Eye Center

TLC Vision Corporation, North America's premier eye care services company, today announced the opening of a new TLC Laser Eye Center located at 50 Burnhamthorpe Road West, Suite 100, Mississauga, Ontario L5B 3C2. The company also has a TLC Laser Eye Center located at 4101 Yonge St., Suite 100, Toronto, Ontario M2P 1N6. Mississauga is also home to TLCVision's Canadian headquarters.

28 Jan 2008