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Lexmark Awarded Managed Print Services Contract by BB+T

BB&T Corporation (NYSE: BBT) has awarded an exclusive, five-year managed print services contract to Lexmark International, Inc. ( LXK).

24 Feb 2010

Cummins Selects Lexmark to Deploy, Manage Laser Printers and MFPs in its Locations

Lexmark International, Inc. (NYSE: LXK) and Cummins Inc. (NYSE: CMI) today announced a multimillion dollar, global managed print services (MPS) agreement for a period of five-and-one-half years. The agreement includes the deployment of approximately 2,500 color and monochrome laser printers and multifunction products (MFPs) and the management and maintenance of those devices throughout 33 locations worldwide. A second phase of the agreement, underway now, includes extending the Lexmark platform to an additional 40 countries worldwide.

24 Feb 2010

Avago Launches Surface Mount LEDs for Automotive, Industrial Applications

Avago Technologies (Nasdaq:AVGO), a leading supplier of analog interface components for communications, industrial and consumer applications, today announced the industry’s brightness miniature PLCC-2 surface mount (SMT) light emitting diodes (LEDs) for use in interior automotive and industrial applications. Avago’s competitively priced ASMT-TxBM LED series, which features viewing angles from 110- to 120-degrees and high reliability, are ideal for backlighting automotive instrument cluster panels, puddle lighting, center consoles, navigation and audio systems. These LEDs can also be used to provide backlighting for buttons, switches and ambient light illumination in industrial applications.

24 Feb 2010

Free Online Tutorial from Leister Covers Plastic Laser Welding Concepts

Leister Technologies announces the launch of a FREE 24/7 Online Tutorial as an Introduction to Thermoplastic Laser Welding. This tutorial is designed to inform a broad range of company personnel about the common problems solved with plastic laser welding as well the fundamental concepts and benefits in the manufacturing of sensors, medical devices, and automotive parts.

24 Feb 2010

Xerox Introduces New DocuMate 3640 Duplex Flatbed Scanner

Updated release of successful DocuMate 632 Scanner continues tradition of excellence in product line

24 Feb 2010

Ricoh and IKON Continues to Sell KODAK's Digital Production Systems

Kodak and Ricoh Americas Corporation recently signed a multi-year renewal of an expanded reseller agreement for KODAK NEXPRESS Digital Production Color Presses and KODAK DIGIMASTER Digital Production Systems. Ricoh and IKON Office Solutions, a Ricoh company, currently sell Kodak Solutions to corporate/government in-plants, data centers, commercial print providers and other production environments as part of a comprehensive production portfolio.

24 Feb 2010

New Saflex Encapsulant Enhances Solar Panel Output

Saflex, a business unit of Solutia Inc. (NYSE: SOA), announces the launch of a new encapsulant designed specifically to improve solar panel throughput and processing costs for solar module manufacturers that use the vacuum encapsulation process. The product, Saflex® PG41, is a new thin gauge encapsulant that utilizes embossing technology and marks the latest addition to a fast growing PV encapsulant portfolio for Saflex.

24 Feb 2010

New Photonic Material Can Facilitate 2000Gbps Speed in All-Optical Processing

All-optical switching could allow dramatic speed increases in telecommunications by eliminating the need to convert photonic signals to electronic signals

24 Feb 2010

D2S's New DFEB Mask Technology Helps Reduce Lithography Cost

D2S™, an emerging design and software company, today announced its new design for e-beam (DFEB) mask technology for the production of advanced optical photomasks with circular and curvilinear shapes. Used in conjunction with currently available e-beam mask writing equipment, D2S DFEB mask technology reduces the write times for masks containing complex or curvilinear features to enable the extension of 193-nm immersion lithography to the 22-nm node and beyond with practical turnaround time.

24 Feb 2010

Adura Announces $12 Million Funding for Ongoing Lighting Technology Development

Adura Technologies™, a leading provider of wireless lighting control and energy management solutions, today announced $12 million in new funding.

23 Feb 2010

J A Woollam T-Solar Ellipsometer Optimised to Measure Widest Range of Photovoltaic Thin Films

LOT-Oriel proudly announces the availability of NEW J A Woollam T-Solar™ Ellipsometer - optimised to measure the widest range of Photovoltaic Thin Films.

From Quantum Design UK and Ireland Ltd 23 Feb 2010

ProHealth Care to Use tw telecom's Fiber Optic Network for Ethernet Services

tw telecom (Nasdaq: TWTC), a leading provider of managed voice, Internet and data networking solutions for businesses in Milwaukee and throughout the U.S., today announced that ProHealth Care has selected the company to provide voice and advanced data services to connect 21 of the health care provider's locations in Wisconsin. ProHealth Care will utilize tw telecom's metro fiber optic network for business Ethernet services and Integrated LAN services.

23 Feb 2010

Researchers Find Similar Post-operative Outcomes in Open and Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy

Of the 200,000 men newly diagnosed with prostate cancer each year in the United States, about one-third will undergo surgical treatment. Although open radical prostatectomy (ORP) is regarded as the standard treatment, laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (LRP) with or without robotic assistance is becoming more common.

23 Feb 2010