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Samsung Touchscreen Model S5233T Features Analog Mobile TV

Telegent Systems, the company that makes television mobile, today announced that Telegent's analog mobile TV receiver is shipping in Samsung's Star TV S5233T handset, recently launched in Southeast Asia.

18 Mar 2010

Report Shows Global Solar PV Installations Rise 6% in 2009

Worldwide solar photovoltaic (PV) installations reached a record high of 6.43 gigawatt (GW) in 2009 — a 6% Y/Y growth, according to the latest Marketbuzz® 2010 Report from Solarbuzz®, an international solar energy market research and consulting company, and a division of The NPD Group.

18 Mar 2010

Cree Offers XLamp LEDs in Warm- and Neutral-White Color Temperatures

Cree, Inc., a market leader in LED lighting, announces the commercial availability of the award-winning XLamp® XP-G LED in warm- and neutral-white color temperatures (2600 K to 5000 K CCT).

18 Mar 2010

Successful 100 GbE Optical Transmission with Opnext and Ixia Technologies

Opnext, Inc. (NASDAQ:OPXT) and Ixia (NASDAQ:XXIA) announced the successful demonstration of 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) traffic using the Ixia K2 traffic generator and analyzer and Opnext’s 100GBASE-LR4 CFP Multi-Source Agreement (CFP MSA)-compliant optical module.

18 Mar 2010

Guzzo to Convert 43 Cinema Screens with MasterImage 3D Theatre Systems in Montreal

MasterImage 3D, LLC, a provider of pioneering stereoscopic 3D systems for theaters, auto-stereoscopic television and handheld displays, announced today that Montreal-based Guzzo Cinemas has chosen to convert 43 of its screens to stereoscopic 3D projection with MasterImage 3D digital theatre systems.

18 Mar 2010

New Laser-Combiners from AOFR

AOFR, an Aegis Lightwave company and a leading supplier of fused fiber-couplers and laser-combiners for the communications, test equipment, industrial, sensing, military and aerospace markets,

18 Mar 2010

Diamond Vision LED Display Installed at Kleenex Stadium Miyagi in Japan

Rakuten Baseball Incorporated announced today it has completed installation of a Mitsubishi Electric Corporation Diamond Vision large-scale display system at Kleenex Stadium Miyagi above the stands between right and center fields.

18 Mar 2010

Discovery of First Solar System-Like Exoplanet Using ESO Telescope

“This is a normal, temperate exoplanet just like dozens we already know, but this is the first whose properties we can study in depth,” says Claire Moutou, who is part of the international team of 60 astronomers that made the discovery. “It is bound to become a Rosetta stone in exoplanet research.”

18 Mar 2010

Planck's New Image Shows Cold Dust Structures in Galaxy

Giant filaments of cold dust stretching through our Galaxy are revealed in a new image from ESA's Planck satellite. Analysing these structures could help to determine the forces that shape our Galaxy and trigger star formation.

18 Mar 2010

Spitzer Telescope Observes Black Holes

Astronomers have discovered what appear to be two of the earliest and most primitive supermassive black holes known. The discovery, based on observations with the NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and other space observatories, will be published in the March 18 edition of the scientific journal Nature.

18 Mar 2010

Exposure to Light Twists Nanoparticle Ribbons

In findings that took the experimenters three years to believe, University of Michigan engineers and their collaborators have demonstrated that light itself can twist ribbons of nanoparticles.

18 Mar 2010

Silicon Photonics Highlighted at APS March Meeting

The following press conferences will take place during the March Meeting of the American Physical Society (APS), to be held March 15-19, 2010 in the Portland Convention Center. Journalists are invited to attend the meeting free of charge. Registration information can be found at the end of this release.

18 Mar 2010

New ImagenGlass from Jockimo Offers Unlimited Design Capabilities for Photographers

Jockimo Incorporated – a leading innovator and developer of advanced architectural products and specialty art glass – today announced the introduction of ImagenGlass™, offering extremely high quality images for Specialty Laminated Glass (SLG) designs.

18 Mar 2010

New iCVR Dome Cameras for Indoor and Outdoor Use

VideoIQ, the leader in video surveillance innovation, announced the availability of a family of iCVR dome cameras.

18 Mar 2010

Axis to Launch New Thermal and Dome Network Cameras at ISC West 2010

Axis Communications today announced that it is launching a handful of new products and will be participating in presentations throughout the upcoming ISC West 2010 Exposition in Las Vegas from March 24 – 26.

18 Mar 2010