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QuickLogic and Data Display Join to Bring VEE and DPO to Digital Signage Market

QuickLogic Corporation, the lowest power Customer Specific Standard Products (CSSPs) leader, today announced the signing of an agreement with the Munich, Germany-based Data Display GmbH to bring the company’s unique Visual Enhancement Engine (VEE) and Display Power Optimizer (DPO) technologies to the Industrial and Digital Signage markets.

6 May 2010

SunPower Builds New 1.3 MW Solar Plant in Italy

SunPower Corp., a manufacturer of high-efficiency solar cells, solar panels and solar systems, announced today that it is building a 1.3-megawatt solar power plant in the Lazio region of Italy for Solar Green Energy-SGE, a joint venture between EDF-EN Italia, a subsidiary of EDF Energies Nouvelles, and Emmecidue, an Italian project developer.

6 May 2010

New 215W Solar Panel Launched by Evergreen Solar

Evergreen Solar, Inc. (Nasdaq: ESLR), a manufacturer of String Ribbon™ solar power products with its proprietary silicon wafer technology, today introduced its newest ES-A series solar panel, a 215-watt panel that is the company’s most powerful to date, at the Solar Expo in Verona, Italy, May 5-7, 2010.

6 May 2010

Datacryptor Optical Network Encryptors from Thales Receive FIPS 140-2 Level 3 Certification

Thales, leader in information systems and communications security, announces that its Datacryptor high speed SONET/SDH and Ethernet Layer 2 hardware-based network encryptors have received FIPS 140-2 Level 3 certification.

From Thales Angenieux SA 6 May 2010

ADVA FSP 3000 Delivers 80% Lower Latency Than Traditional Optical Transport Solutions

ADVA Optical Networking today confirmed that its low-latency optical transport solutions offer 80% lower latency than traditional Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) options.

6 May 2010

Leica Partners with Sensofar to Offer New Solution for Advanced Optical Profiling

Sensofar-Tech, Terrassa, Spain and Leica Microsystems (Schweiz AG) have agreed to expand their cooperation whereby Sensofar is to supply technology and components for an optical system that complements Leica’s line of products for industrial applications.

6 May 2010

PTL Purchases Morphologi G3 Image Analysis System for Material Analysis

Particle Technology Labs (Chicago, USA) has added the Morphologi G3 from Malvern Instruments to the extensive range of technologies it has available for analyzing its clients’ materials.

6 May 2010

Scientists Analyze Data on Utilization Rates of Virtual and Optical Colonoscopies

Rates of colorectal cancer screening vary by race and ethnicity as well as method, according to data being presented at Digestive Disease Week® (DDW®) 2010.

6 May 2010

New Wide-Field Image Reveals Massive Galaxy Cluster

A new wide-field image released today by ESO displays many thousands of distant galaxies, and more particularly a large group belonging to the massive galaxy cluster known as Abell 315.

6 May 2010

U.S. Department of Energy Grants Approval for SLAC’s Second X-Ray Laser

The U.S. Department of Energy has granted approval for SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory—home of the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), the world's first hard X-ray laser—to begin planning a second X-ray laser at the laboratory.

6 May 2010

NEC Launches New 27-Inch MultiSync PA241W Display

NEC Display Solutions of America, a leading provider of commercial LCD display and projector solutions, announced today several updates to its professional display portfolio, including the addition of the new 27-inch MultiSync PA271W display to the MultiSync PA Series.

6 May 2010

ARC Selects Sol to Bring Solar LED Lightings to Aviation Marketplace

Sol, Inc. is pleased to announce that ARC Aviation Renewables Corp. and Sol, Inc. have reached a global agreement to bring solar lighting to the aviation marketplace.

6 May 2010

New Energy Monitoring and Intelligent Wireless Control Solution for Lighting Applications

Next week at LIGHTFAIR International 2010, Teridian Semiconductor, Synapse Wireless and California Eastern Laboratories (CEL) will demonstrate a new design solution for the intelligent wireless control and energy monitoring of LED light fixtures and advanced solid state lighting products in Booth #2428 in the Building Integration Pavilion.

6 May 2010

NNCrystal to Launch New Lighting Technology at LIGHTFAIR International

NNCrystal US Corporation will be unveiling new lighting technology at the LIGHTFAIR International tradeshow in Las Vegas, May 12 – 14th 2010.

6 May 2010

New White Paper from Philips Lumileds Describes Ways to Evaluate Lifetime Behavior of LEDs

Philips Lumileds has published a new white paper titled Evaluating the Lifetime Behavior of LED Systems that provides the lighting industry with a methodology for evaluating how arrays of LEDs behave over time and how LED luminaire manufacturers can confidently make business decisions such as warranty commitments.

From Lumileds 6 May 2010