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RDM Announces EC Series Digital Imaging Check Scanners Are Compatible with Windows 7 OS

RDM Corporation (TSX: RC), a leading developer of specialized software and hardware products for electronic payment processing, announced today that the EC6000i(R), EC7000i(R) and EC7500i(TM) series of Digital Imaging check scanners are now certified with the new Windows(R) 7 operating system.

8 Dec 2009

K-micro and Anritsu to Jointly Develop Test Tool to Analyze EPON Chips

K-micro (Kawasaki Microelectronics America), a leader in advanced ASICs, and Anritsu announced the development of the first test tool and methodology to analyze 10Gbps Ethernet Passive Optical Network (EPON) chips. The successful test of K-micro's CTXL1 10G EPON SerDes chip using Anritsu's Signal Quality Analyzer, MP1800A, paves the way for 10G EPON systems to be shipped.

8 Dec 2009

CompuCyte Introduces Four-Laser Versions of iCyte, iCys and iColor Systems

CompuCyte Corporation, the pioneer in the field of imaging cytometry instrumentation and the leading supplier of laser scanning cytometers, announced that it has expanded its state-of-the art iGeneration line of imaging cytometers to include four-laser versions of the iCyte®, iCys® and iColor® systems. With the option of four excitation lasers chosen from a palette of 405, 488, 532, 561, 594 and 633 nanometers, these newly released analyzers dramatically increase system flexibility when using multiple fluorescent and chromatic dyes and take the definition of high-content cellular and tissue analysis to a new level.

8 Dec 2009

CEIVA Logic Expands Holiday Corporate Gifting Program

CEIVA Logic, the inventor and supplier of the leading connected digital photo frame, announced the expansion of its Holiday Corporate Gifting Program -- making the tech-friendly gadget one of the most memorable corporate and promotional gifts for businesses this season. Whether you're planning company gifts for the holidays or honoring guests at a gala, CEIVA (see-va) Digital Photo Frames keep you connected to your clients and employees in a whole new way -- all year long. CEIVA's popular line of Digital Photo Frames use the revolutionary PicturePlan(R) Photo Delivery Service to deliver photos and receive company updates and promotions.

8 Dec 2009

BFi OPTiLAS to Market ATI’s Discrete Amplification Devices in Europe

PowerSafe Technology Corporation (Pink Sheets: PSFT) subsidiary Amplification Technologies Inc. (ATI), and BFi OPTiLAS today announced a mutually exclusive distribution agreement. BFi OPTiLAS will market and distribute the full line of ATI’s innovative Discrete Amplification (DA) devices for low-level light detection throughout Europe.

8 Dec 2009

TomTec Launches Next Generation Image-Arena Multimodality Platform for Image Analysis

TomTec the leading innovator for cardiac imaging presents its next generation Image-Arena™ multimodality platform for Image Analysis, Review and Data Management at the EuroEcho in Madrid.

8 Dec 2009

Avago Technologies Unveils Ultra-Thin LGF Technology for Backlighting Mobile Applications

Avago Technologies (Nasdaq:AVGO), a leading supplier of analog interface components for communications, industrial and consumer applications, today announced an innovative ultra-thin, high brightness, light guide film (LGF) technology for backlighting mobile applications such as cell phones, handheld games and GPS applications. The new light guide technology from Avago helps designers reduce the number of LEDs needed to illuminate backlit keypad applications without compromising brightness and light uniformity.

8 Dec 2009

Additional Funding for Support of High Resolution Stereo Camera on ESA Mars Express Mission

The research division Planetary Sciences and Remote Sensing under Prof. Dr. Gerhard Neukum at the Institute of Geological Sciences at Freie Universität Berlin will receive additional funding amounting to 2.64 million euros over the next three years. The new funding will be used to support the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on the Mars Express mission of the European Space Agency (ESA).

8 Dec 2009

Yingli Green Energy Signs Sales Deal with Payom Solar for PV Modules

Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited (NYSE: YGE) ("Yingli Green Energy" or the "Company"), one of the world's leading vertically integrated photovoltaic ("PV") product manufacturers, today announced it has signed a sales agreement ("the Agreement") with Payom Solar AG, a leading PV rooftop system specialist based in Germany. Under the terms of the Agreement, Yingli Green Energy is expected to supply 51 MW of PV modules to Payom from the first quarter through the fourth quarter of 2010.

8 Dec 2009

Researchers Find Practical Way for Tuning Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers

For more than 30 years, scientists have been trying to harness the power of terahertz radiation. Tucked between microwaves and infrared rays on the electromagnetic spectrum, terahertz rays can penetrate clothing, plastic, and human tissue, but they're thought to be safer than x-rays. Since they're absorbed to different degrees by different molecules, they can also tell chemicals apart: a terahertz scanner at an airport checkpoint, for example, could determine whether a vial in a closed suitcase contained aspirin, methamphetamines or an explosive.

8 Dec 2009

Scientists Use FLAMES/GIRAFFE Spectrograph on ESO's Very Large Telescope to Get Properties of Stars

Astronomers facing Socratic 'ignorance'

8 Dec 2009

HiCIAO Camera on Subaru Telescope Captures Image of Faint Celestial Body That Orbits Star GJ 758

A bull's-eye in the hunt for planets: astronomers at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy have discovered and directly imaged a faint celestial body that orbits the star GJ 758

8 Dec 2009

Rice University Researchers Find Plasmonic Material That Let Pass Terahertz Beam Completely

Very often in science, the unexpected discovery turns out to be the most significant. Rice University Professor Junichiro Kono and his team weren't looking for a breakthrough in the transmission of terahertz signals, but there it was: a plasmonic material that would, with adjustments to its temperature and/or magnetic field, either stop a terahertz beam cold or let it pass completely.

8 Dec 2009

Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes Help Solve Puzzle of Cosmic Rays

Washington University physicists are closing in on the origin of cosmic rays

8 Dec 2009

Scientist Demonstrates World's Smallest Semiconductor Laser

Air Force Office of Scientific Research and National Science Foundation-funded professor, Dr. Xiang Zhang has demonstrated at the University of California, Berkeley the world's smallest semiconductor laser

8 Dec 2009