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Increasing Demand for Larger Size LCD Glass Substrates

Research and Markets has announced the addition of "LCD Glass Substrates Industry: Growth and Opportunities" to their offering.

28 Feb 2008

Rockwell Automation Acquires Leading Supplier of Light Curtains and Optoelectronics

Rockwell Automation, Inc. announced today that it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire the Safety and Automation business of CEDES AG.

28 Feb 2008

PureGain Protects Optical Networks From Hazards Associated With Power Transients

Avanex Corporation, a pioneering provider of intelligent photonic solutions enabling next-generation optical networks, today supplemented its OASIS EDFA portfolio by unveiling its compact power transient-suppressed EDFA at OFC/NFOEC 2008 Expo.

28 Feb 2008

Paint with Light

Philips Electronics (PHG) today unveiled their “Imagination Light Canvas,” the first of its kind, during a media tour of the new Mercy Medical Center in Rogers, Ark. The hospital will open its doors on March 16.

28 Feb 2008

Avanex Corporation Announces Shipments of Next-Generation TDC Products

Avanex Corporation, a pioneering provider of intelligent photonic solutions enabling next-generation optical networks, today announced commercial shipments of next-generation tunable dispersion compensation (TDC) products into major OEM customers for 40Gb/s applications.

28 Feb 2008

Designed to Affordably Perform Building Diagnostics

Newark announces that it is among the first distributors to carry Fluke’s new line of thermal imagers with patent-pending IR Fusion technology, designed to affordably perform troubleshooting and maintenance of industrial and electrical equipment or building diagnostics.

28 Feb 2008

The PowerPort XFP Provide Cost-Effective Solutions for Transmission Networks

Avanex Corporation, a pioneering provider of intelligent photonic solutions that enable next-generation optical networks, today announced at OFC/NFOEC 2008 Expo the release of new 10G XFP transceivers suitable for 40km and 80km transmission applications in access and metropolitan networks.

28 Feb 2008

The First EA-DFB Lasers for Single-Mode Fiber Application

Hitachi, Ltd. and Opnext, Inc. today announced the first wide temperature range operation of 1310-nm 25Gbit/s EA-DFB lasers for 100Gbit Ethernet 10km single-mode fiber (SMF) application at OFC/NFOEC 2008.

28 Feb 2008

TSQ Quantum Enables Quick and Efficient Analysis of Complex Samples

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced that it has completed a custom installation of its TSQ Quantum"! triple quadrupole mass spectrometer in a mobile laboratory operating on a bus.

28 Feb 2008

Partnership Allowing NEC Displays to Show 3D Video Content

NEC Display Solutions of America and Magnetic Media Holdings Inc. (Magnetic) today announced a partnership that will allow NEC displays to show 3D video content using Magnetic’s Enabl3D™ technology.

28 Feb 2008

Using Quantum Technology to Produce World's First Commercial Source of Photons

The world's first commercial source of individual photons (particles of light) using diamond based quantum technology has been developed by Quantum Communications Victoria (QCV) within the School of Physics at The University of Melbourne, Australia.

28 Feb 2008

Preventing Cloudiness After Laser Vision-Correction Surgery

The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) of Laurel, Md., has licensed a nationally and internationally patented formula for eye drops that could speed healing and prevent cloudiness after laser vision-correction surgery.

28 Feb 2008

Thin Film Solar Technology Company Receives Funding to Advance Solar Technology

Bloo Solar announced today that is has been awarded a $100,000 grant from the National Science Foundation.

28 Feb 2008

Landmark Research Partnership on Emerging Areas of All-Optical Networking

The Centre for Telecommunications Value-Chain Research (CTVR), headquartered in Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, has announced that it has entered into a landmark research partnership with NEC Communication Systems, Ltd. (NCOS), part of Japanese technology giant NEC Group, focused on the emerging area of all-optical networking.

28 Feb 2008

New 82-Inch Large Format Display Now Shipping and Available

Samsung Electronics America, a subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Corporation, a world-leading manufacturer of professional LCD and PDP display products, today announced the availability of its largest and most powerful large format display.

28 Feb 2008