Optics & Photonics News

RSS

Epoch Management Uses Yardi CHECKscan for Efficient Rent Processing

Yardi Systems announced today that multifamily real estate management company Epoch Management, Inc., has purchased Yardi CHECKscan™, which integrates with Epoch’s Yardi Voyager™ property management and accounting system to sharply reduce the time and labor Epoch spends processing rent payments.

29 Dec 2009

Pure Technologies to Supply its Fibre-Optic Monitoring System for GMRA Pipeline Program

Pure Technologies Ltd., TSX-V:PUR, announced today that it has received a Letter of Intent from the Great Man-Made River Authority (GMRA) for a contract valued at over $30-million to expand the Authority's current pipeline monitoring program. The contract is subject to completion of the normal review process and final documentation.

29 Dec 2009

Taiwan EPA Deploys Infrared Remote Sensing Technology to Monitor Air Pollution

Due to land scarcity and dense population, coupled with the sustained economic growth, industrial zones in Taiwan are generally close to residential areas

29 Dec 2009

AIS Launches New High Brightness LCD Monitors Featuring Transflective Technology

American Industrial Systems Inc. (AIS) has introduced a line of high brightness and Transflective LCD Monitors, featuring passive transflective technology, which reflects and transmits light (transflective = transmissive + reflective). Under bright illumination such as direct sunlight exposure, the display acts as a reflective LCD with the contrast being constant with illuminance.

28 Dec 2009

High-Speed Video Cameras Help Discover New Behaviour of Locusts

Scientists have shown for the first time that insects, like mammals, use vision rather than touch to find footholds. They made the discovery thanks to high-speed video cameras – technology the BBC uses to capture its stunning wildlife footage – that they used to film desert locusts stepping along the rungs of a miniature ladder.

28 Dec 2009

Frbiz.com Provides Discussion on 60-Mega Pixel Hasselblad H4D-60 Camera

Frbiz.com, one of China's leading B2B search platforms with more than 30 B2B industry websites to its name, discusses the Hasselblad H4D-60

28 Dec 2009

Himfr.com Offers Evaluation on TCL L46X10FDE LCD TV

Himfr.com, one of China's leading B2B search platforms with more than 30 B2B industry websites to its name, evaluates the TCL L46X10FDE

28 Dec 2009

Worldwide Market Research Report on HDTV

Today, consumers, both household and enterprise, delve for larger screens, multimedia capabilities and higher reliability. Convergence of entertainment, computer and telecommunication service is also on the horizon. With the change of format and transmission characteristics of video signal, entertainment TV is going digital. HDTV is a revolutionary technology in the television industry that produces pictures far sharper and clearer than the television most of us use today. High-definition televisions are available in four different display technologies - Projection, Directview Cathode Ray Tube (CRT), Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) and Plasma.

28 Dec 2009

Researchers Used High-Resolution Microscope to Find How Brain Encodes Memories

Scientists at UC Santa Barbara have made a major discovery in how the brain encodes memories

24 Dec 2009

Himfr.com Adds Evaluation on Top Selling Projectors

Himfr.com, one of China's leading B2B search platforms with more than 30 B2B industry websites to its name, evaluates best-selling projectors.

24 Dec 2009

Fun Electronics Secures License to Manufacture E-Book Readers Under Emerson Brand

Fun Electronics, Inc., the exclusive licensee in North America for Emerson Radio Corp, for MP players, personal computers, portable TVs, and digital cameras/camcorders, announces the launch of two new product categories to their license agreement.

24 Dec 2009

BIO-key Biometric Identity Solutions Now Support Windows Terminal Services RDP, Citrix ICA and Wyse CE

BIO-key International, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: BKYI), a leader in finger-based biometric identification solutions, today announced the expansion of its biometric identity solutions to include support for Windows Terminal Services Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), Citrix ICA Client platforms and for Wyse CE terminals.

24 Dec 2009

Astronomers Find Distinct Rejuvenated Stars Using Hubble Space Telescope

Using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have uncovered two distinct kinds of "rejuvenated" stars in the globular cluster Messier 30

24 Dec 2009

ION HoldCo Receives Federal Grant to Expand its Fiber-Optic Broadband Network

ION HoldCo, LLC, a partnership majority owned by Sovernet Communications (a subsidiary of Atlantic Tele-Network, Inc. (NASDAQ:ATNI)) along with twelve independent rural telephone companies in New York, announced it has received a federal broadband stimulus grant of $39.7 million to augment its existing 2200 mile fiber network with 1,300 miles of additional fiber-optic middle-mile broadband network.

24 Dec 2009

Once Innovations to Challenge New ENERGY STAR Criteria for Integral LED Lamps

Once Innovations, a Minnesota based research, development and manufacturing company with a firm focus on LED technologies announced today its intent to formally challenge newly finalized ENERGY STAR Eligibility Criteria for Integral LED Lamps.

24 Dec 2009