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Visionworks Expands Optical Retail Locations in Pittsburgh

One of the nation’s leading providers of eye care services has aggressively entered the Pittsburgh market with eight locations across Western PA.

3 Mar 2010

ABBYY to Integrate Optical Character Recognition Technology in bizhub MFPs

ABBYY®, a leading provider of document recognition, data capture and linguistic software has been selected by Konica Minolta Business Solutions USA, Inc., a leading provider of advanced imaging and networking technologies for the desktop to the print shop, to equip the bizhub series of multifunction printers with optical character recognition (OCR) technology.

3 Mar 2010

Novel Compounds Can be Uncaged Using Longer Wavelengths of Light

Tocris Bioscience and Columbia University today announced that they have expanded their license agreement to include RuBi-Glutamate and RuBi-4AP, two additional novel caged compounds with significant applications for basic science research.

3 Mar 2010

Neurotechnology Unveils New Version of Biometric Software and Hardware Solution

Neurotechnology, a provider of high-precision biometric identification technologies, has released MegaMatcher Accelerator 2.0, a packaged hardware and software solution for high-volume, high-speed fingerprint identification.

3 Mar 2010

Healthy Growth Seen in APAC Biometrics Industry

The beginning of 2009 had many worried about how the biometrics industry was going to perform in the wake of the economic recession.

3 Mar 2010

Novel Hybrid Sensor System for Detection of Explosive Materials

Using a novel hybrid sensor system, which relies on Shamrock spectrometers and high performance intensified CCD detectors supplied by Andor Technology (Andor), Spanish scientists have been able to use both Raman and Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) simultaneously for the instant, remote standoff analysis of explosive materials.

3 Mar 2010

Session on Benefits of Automated FTIR Spectroscopy at PITTCON 2010

Airgas, Inc. (NYSE:ARG) will host a session on the benefits of automated FTIR (Fourier Transform Infrared) spectroscopy and process analysis systems for testing calibration gases at the Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy (PITTCON) in Orlando today at 2:40 p.m.

From Pittcon 3 Mar 2010