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Congress Approves to Equip USAF with Latest in Tactical Lighting Technology

Cyberlux Corporation, a leading provider of LED lighting solutions, reported today that the Fiscal Year 2008 Department of Defense Appropriations legislation contains $8 million to equip the States Air Force with the Company's BrightEye Visible and Covert Portable Illumination Systems.

19 Nov 2007

Radlink Announces New Family of Digital Imaging Products

Radlink, Inc., a supplier of affordable medical imaging systems to healthcare providers, today announced the new family of hardware and software products they will be introducing to the marketplace at RSNA 2007, the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).

19 Nov 2007

Verizon Successfully Completes Field Trial of Optical Network Transmission

Verizon has successfully concluded the industry's first field test of 100 gigabits per second (Gbps) optical transmission, on a live, in-service 312-mile (504 kilometer) network route between Tampa, Fla., and Miami.

19 Nov 2007

QinetiQ Launched New Buried Cable Fibre-Optic Sensor Solution

Protecting borders, pipelines, underground cables and critical infrastructure against accidental damage or malicious attack is particularly demanding due to the distances involved and the scale of the challenge. Protection of essential services is also high on the political agenda.

19 Nov 2007

Quantum Optics: From Photons and Atoms to Molecules and Solid State Systems

In the past years the field of quantum optics has begun to expand from its original domain covering basic photon(ic) and atom(ic) systems into the realm of molecular and solid state physics. Theory and experiment have progressed to the point where the traditional boundaries between the different areas have become less pronounced.

19 Nov 2007

Raytheon Wins U.S. Air Force Paveway Contract

With the award of $36.1 million, Raytheon Company has won the majority share of U.S. Air Force competitive contracts for Paveway(TM) II laser guided bomb components for fiscal year 2007. This is the third consecutive Air Force majority share award for Raytheon, setting a benchmark for affordability and performance in the precision-guided weapons market.

19 Nov 2007

Konica Minolta Announce Strategic Relationship with Imaging Solution Supplier

Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc., a leading provider of advanced imaging and networking technologies from the desktop to the print shop, and Danka Business Systems PLC, one of the largest independent suppliers of office imaging solutions in the United States, today announced the companies have signed a strategic relationship agreement enabling Danka to distribute Konica Minolta products in the United States.

From Konica Minolta Sensing Americas 19 Nov 2007

Raydiance Laser Platform to Separate Skin Layers Without Collateral Damage

Raydiance, Inc. today announced that is has entered into an innovative collaboration with Rutgers University and the Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation (MTF), the nation's largest tissue bank, to improve the science of dermal tissue processing.

19 Nov 2007

4Connections and Partner Installed Fiber Optic Infrastructure for Financial Firm

4Connections, a New Jersey and New York metro lit and dark fiber provider, working with AboveNet, a leading provider of fiber optic connectivity solutions, announced today that it has successfully installed fiber optic infrastructure for an AboveNet enterprise client within one week's time.

19 Nov 2007

Doctored Photos Can Change History

Doctored photos of past public events can influence what people think they remember of the incident, as well as altering their attitudes and any subsequent responses, according to research published today in the journal 'Applied Cognitive Psychology'.

19 Nov 2007

World's Most Powerful Telescope Installed by a Swedish University

Chalmers University of Technology in Goteborg, Sweden is the first institute in that country to have installed an FEI Titan scanning/transmission election microscope (S/TEM), the world's most powerful commercially-available microscope.

19 Nov 2007

Cedip Infrared Releases Powerful Software for Acquisition of IR Images

The latest revision of the ALTAIR software suite from Cedip Infrared Systems, further extends the utility of this popular product to meet the most demanding thermal analysis requirements in scientific, target signature and non-destructive testing applications.

19 Nov 2007

New Way to Manipulate Light a Million Times More Efficiently Than Before

Using a special hollow-core photonic crystal fibre, a team at the University of Bath, UK, has opened the door to what could prove to be a new sub-branch of photonics, the science of light guidance and trapping.

17 Nov 2007

Oosight Imaging Enables Breakthrough in Transfer of Genetic Material

Cambridge Research & Instrumentation, Inc. (CRi) announced today that their Oosight(TM) Imaging System has been used by Dr. Shoukhrat Mitalipov to successfully transfer nuclear genetic material from somatic cells from a 10-year-old male macaque to enucleated eggs to generate cloned macaque embryos.

17 Nov 2007

Scientists to Shed Light on Osteoporosis

Ten million people in the United States are estimated to already have bone diseases, and almost 34 million more are estimated to have low bone mass, putting them at increased risk for osteoporosis, according to the National Osteoporosis Foundation.

17 Nov 2007