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NagraID Releases NIDS 306 Series Touchpad Display Card for Onboard Applications

NagraID Security (NIDS), a subsidiary of the Kudelski Group, is pleased to announce the latest in its family of Powered Display Card innovations, the 306 Series.

4 Mar 2010

Teledyne Megapixel Imaging Sensors Used in NASA’s WISE Infrared Camera

Teledyne Technologies Incorporated (NYSE:TDY) announced today that its subsidiary, Teledyne Scientific & Imaging, LLC (TS&I), has a key role in NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), with two of Teledyne’s megapixel imaging sensors at the heart of the WISE infrared camera.

4 Mar 2010

Xsens and Image Metrics Offer Body and Facial Performance Capture Solution for Film Industries

Xsens Technologies, a leading supplier of 3D motion tracking products based on miniature MEMS inertial sensor technology, and Image Metrics, a leading provider of facial animation technology and services, today announced the integration of the Companies’ motion capture and facial animation technologies to provide a comprehensive solution for facial and body performance capture for the video game and film industries.

4 Mar 2010

Array Pathfinder Telescope Receives First Radio Signals

A historic milestone was reached recently in Australia's bid to host the Square Kilometre Array telescope – a future international radio telescope that will be the world's largest and most sensitive.

4 Mar 2010

Fluorescent Lighting in Supermarkets Can Boost Nutritional Value of Spinach

Far from being a food spoiler, the fluorescent lighting in supermarkets actually can boost the nutritional value of fresh spinach, scientists are reporting.

4 Mar 2010

Optelecom-NKF's Siqura Fiber Components to Support SCDOT's ITS Expansion

Optelecom-NKF, Inc. (Nasdaq: OPTC), a leading global supplier of advanced video surveillance equipment and the manufacturer of Siqura® surveillance solutions, today announced the award of a $503,000 traffic management equipment contract from Temple, Inc., a regional systems distributor based in Decatur, Alabama, USA.

4 Mar 2010

Detroit Edison Receives MPSC Approval for First Solar Project

The Michigan Public Service Commission today approved Detroit Edison's first Engineer, Procure and Construct contract for the utility's SolarCurrents renewable energy program.

4 Mar 2010

FME and Vectron to Demonstrate CHAIS ADC Technology Used for Optical Data Transport

FME and Vectron International today announced they will be demonstrating Fujitsu's CHArge-Interleaved Sampler (CHAIS) ADC technology with the Batboard evaluation platform at the annual OFC/NFOEC in San Diego, March 23-25, 2010. The ADC reference clock will be driven by Vectron's VS-401 VCSO.

4 Mar 2010

100GE LR4 CFP Optical Modules Successfully Demonstrated

Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. and JDSU today announced the successful transmission of IEEE-compliant 100GE optics, an important milestone for the feasibility of pluggable optics for 100GE.

4 Mar 2010

Bella and Conergy Partnership Powers Kent Denver School with 205kW Solar System

The future is looking bright for students at Kent Denver School, thanks to one of the largest prep school solar energy arrays in the nation.

4 Mar 2010

California-Based Solar Company Focuses on International Sales Expansion

Tigo Energy, the solar company whose unique technology brings new levels of power output efficiency, management and control to photovoltaic solar installations, announced today the expansion of international sales efforts for the Tigo Energy Maximizer System in North Asia and across Europe.

4 Mar 2010

Kyocera to Begin Solar Cell Production in San Diego, California

Kyocera Solar, Inc. today announced plans to begin manufacturing solar modules in San Diego, Calif., to serve the U.S. market’s growing demand for clean energy.

4 Mar 2010

Agilent Technologies Lends Support to USA Science and Engineering Festival

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) today announced its support of the USA Science & Engineering Festival, the country's first national science festival. The event will take place in Washington, D.C., in October 2010.

3 Mar 2010

Hybridyne Imaging Technologies Competet for Top Award at WBT2010

Hybridyne Imaging Technologies, Inc., and the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory are among over 100 companies and technology innovators from across the nation and around the world that will compete for top honors at the WBT2010, March 16-17, in Arlington-DFW, Texas.

3 Mar 2010

New 2.4 MW Solar Installations on ProLogis Buildings in Portland

ProLogis (NYSE: PLD), a leading global provider of distribution facilities, announced today a second solar project in Portland, totaling 2.4 megawatts (MW).

3 Mar 2010