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Almo Signs Distribution Agreement with Canvys for Customized Displays

Almo Professional A/V, the nation’s fastest growing audiovisual distributor, and Canvys – Visual Technology Solutions, global manufacturer and integrator of visual technology solutions, are working together to provide channel partners with customized displays for digital signage applications in the retail, hospitality and education markets.

18 Feb 2010

Ahura Scientific Updates FTIR Chemical Identification System

Ahura Scientific, Inc., the leader in field-deployed analytical instruments for human health and public safety, today announced the availability of TruDefender™ FT version 1.2, which now features more than 7,500 pure substances in the instrument’s onboard library. The TruDefender FT library has more than quadrupled in size in just one year, enabling more pure chemicals and millions of potential mixture combinations to be identified.

18 Feb 2010

New DTU-2231 Pen Display from Wacom for GIS Professionals

Wacom®, the leading manufacturer of digital pen input devices, today announced the introduction of its first full HD interactive pen display, the DTU-2231. With direct pen-on-screen input, the DTU-2231 is designed to optimize efficiency and productivity by allowing geophysicists, oil & gas experts, planners, engineers, cartographers and emergency responders to quickly and easily create original content, edit maps as well as manage, analyze and share geographic information.

18 Feb 2010

Sony Unveils Two New Cyber-shot Digital Still Cameras

Leading the industry in innovation and design, Sony today unveiled two new Cyber-shot® digital still cameras (models DSC-TX5 and DSC-H55).

18 Feb 2010

Kyocera Introduces New Thermal Printhead for Desktop Card Printers

Kyocera Corporation (NYSE:KYO)(TOKYO:6971) today announced that it has successfully developed the new KLE Series thermal printhead for desktop card printers used to print onto rigid materials such as ID cards and credit cards. The new printhead is capable of 300-dpi, full-color, high-resolution printing at 50mm per second — the industry's highest speed for this type of printhead. The company will begin mass production March 1, 2010.

18 Feb 2010

New Thermal Printer from Epson Ideal for Retail and Food Service Applications

TM-T88V Boasts Energy Efficiency, Top Reliability, Industry-Leading Four-Year Warranty

18 Feb 2010

Cities of UTOPIA Bid to Bring Google Fiber to Utah

West Valley City Mayor Mike Winder, backed by mayors and city representatives from other UTOPIA cities, today announced that the cities of UTOPIA are officially bidding to participate in the RFI for Google’s Fiber Communities program.

18 Feb 2010

New Advertising Campaign for Array LED Replacement Lamps

Nexxus Lighting, Inc. (NASDAQ: NEXS) today announced that it has launched a national advertising campaign around its new Array™ Lighting LED replacement light bulb product line.

18 Feb 2010

SEMATECH to Demonstrate Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography Advancement at SPIE

Critical issues and potential solutions in preparing extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUVL) for high-volume manufacturing will be explored by SEMATECH technologists at the SPIE Advanced Lithography 2010 conferences Feb. 21-25 in San Jose, CA.

18 Feb 2010

New docomo PRIME Series F-01B Mobile Phone to Implement TrueTouch Touchscreen Solution

Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NASDAQ: CY) today announced that Fujitsu Limited has selected the TrueTouch™ solution from Cypress to implement the water-resistant touchscreen in NTT DOCOMO’s new handset, the docomo PRIME series F-01B mobile phone. The flexible TrueTouch solution, based on the PSoC® programmable system-on-chip architecture, offered proven performance, durability and programmability from the docomo PRIME series F-01A phone.

18 Feb 2010

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

LED Illumination Launches New Green Lighting Store in Waco, Texas

LED Illumination Direct opens its one-of-a-kind, green showroom in the Waco area. This 2,500-square-foot showroom hosts LED Illumination Direct’s 200 different varieties of LED products. LED Illumination Direct’s showroom demonstrates LED lighting capabilities by comparing its LED lights to incandescent, CFLs, and Fluorescent lighting and showing various light spectrums and colors available in the LED light.

18 Feb 2010

Cooper Lighting's LED Luminaires Awarded in Solid-State Lighting Design Competition

Four innovative products awarded for superior performance show diversity of vast company offering

18 Feb 2010

Tanner Creek Energy Completes Solar Array Installation at Northwoods Nursery

Tanner Creek Energy, a renewable energy project development and consulting firm, announced the completion of a 12.6 kW solar system at Northwoods Nursery's 66-acre operation in Molalla, OR. Northwoods Nursery is a grower of unique fruiting edibles and unusual ornamentals for wholesale and retail, via its One Green World retail operation.

18 Feb 2010

Schools in Lebanon Powered by Suntech Solar Panels

Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd. (NYSE: STP), the world's largest producer of crystalline silicon photovoltaic modules, recently supplied solar panels for 19 remote schools in Lebanon working with local partner and Lebanese integrator Asaco General Trade & Contracting. Sponsored and facilitated by the Country Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Demonstration Project for the Recovery of Lebanon (CEDRO), established through the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the combined systems represent the largest solar initiative in Lebanon.

18 Feb 2010