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Atomic Public Relations to Provide Marketing Assistance for Polaroid Brand

Atomic Public Relations has been appointed to assist in the re-introduction of the iconic Polaroid brand. Atomic’s Los Angeles and New York teams are working with PLR IP Holdings, the owner of the Polaroid brand, on the brand's overall media strategy including social media, video and search activities.

18 Feb 2010

EDAPS' Holographic Security Elements Secure Cigarette Tax Stamps from Counterfeiting

As the world continues to grapple with global economic challenges, a new method of securing cigarette tax stamps from counterfeiting and falsification could save nations from revenue losses totaling more than $50 billion (US) annually. New specialized holograms used as a foundation of the comprehensive enforcement solution from the EDAPS Consortium, may cut off funds supporting organized crime and terrorism, two consistent beneficiaries of the world’s near trillion dollar counterfeit and piracy plague.

17 Feb 2010

Waters Offers New Analytical and Preparative SFC Columns for Compound Purification

Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT) introduces today Viridis™ SFC columns, a new family of analytical and preparative supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) columns. Waters new Viridis SFC columns were developed to give laboratories using SFC a reliable source of high-quality columns for compound purification. Paired with Waters® TharSFC™ instrumentation laboratories now have a single source for both instrumentation and columns for their all-important purification work.

17 Feb 2010

Physicists Use Polarized Light to Design Model for Quantum Physical Random Walk

An experiment with a Galton board - a board containing vertical pins arranged in a triangular pattern

17 Feb 2010

Nemotek Launches Wafer-Level Camera Lens for Laptop and Mobile Phone Applications

Nemotek Technologie, a manufacturer of customized Wafer-Level Cameras for portable applications, today launches its first two-element VGA wafer-level lens. Providing an advanced camera lens design with lower distortion, better resolution and higher image quality, the two-element lens utilizes glass wafers instead of traditional plastic. Marking the first steps in the next-generation of wafer-level lenses, Nemotek brings to market a compact, reflowable lens that provides high-end features at lower costs.

17 Feb 2010

Zone-Plate Array Optical Detection System Can Efficiently Detect Biological Reactions in Lab

Scalable and reusable optical detection system boasts the sensitivity of a large microscope in a much smaller, cheaper package

17 Feb 2010

Impact Components Chosen as Sole Distributor of Innodisplay’s LCD Solutions

Impact Components has reached an agreement with Innodisplay, to be the sole distributor of Innodisplay’s full line of industrial & commercial application LCD A/D controller cards & open frame LCD kits in North America.

17 Feb 2010

Rudolph Receives Multiple Orders for S3000A and MetaPULSE Thin Film Metrology Systems

Rudolph Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: RTEC), a leading provider of process characterization equipment and software for wafer fabs and advanced packaging facilities, announced today that it has received multiple orders from a long-standing customer valued at $5 million for its S3000A™and MetaPULSE® III thin film metrology systems.

17 Feb 2010

White Paper on Convergence of Biometric Identity Resolution and Identity Management Solutions

A new class of vendors has developed unique technologies and solutions that integrate biometric and biographic data for identity resolution within robust and flexible system architectures that connect and enable business processes for identity management purposes.

17 Feb 2010

New HDXRF Technology Measures Toxic Substances in Toys and Other Consumer Products

XOS, a global manufacturer of analysis systems is featuring their High Definition XRF (HDXRF) technology at both the 2010 American International Toy Fair in New York City (February 14-17) and the International Consumer Product Health and Safety Organization (ICPSHO) Annual Meeting and Symposium in Washington, D.C. (February 15-18). The HDXRF technology provides the most precise measurement of lead and cadmium in the industry.

16 Feb 2010