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Agilent Technologies to Dedicate Santa Clara's Largest Solar Power System

Agilent Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: A) will today dedicate a 1-megawatt solar power system at its Santa Clara, Calif., headquarters. The system, the largest in the city of Santa Clara, will deliver approximately 7 percent of the site's power needs each year and up to 30 percent during peak sunny hours.

20 Nov 2009

Clarks Installs BTI Systems' 7000 Series Solution for its FTTH Triple Play Network Backhaul

BTI Systems, a global supplier of Intelligent Service Edge solutions for the delivery of high bandwidth, multi-protocol services, today announced that Clarks Telecommunications Company (Clarks), based in Nebraska, has deployed a BTI 7000 Series solution to support Fiber to the Home (FTTH) triple play network backhaul.

20 Nov 2009

Gentex Ships SmartBeam High-Beam Assist for 2010 Lexus Luxury Sedan

Gentex Corporation (NASDAQ: GNTX), the Zeeland, Michigan-based manufacturer of automatic-dimming rearview mirrors and commercial fire protection products, announced that it is shipping interior and exterior auto-dimming mirrors and its SmartBeam® High-Beam Assist (called Intelligent High Beams by the automaker) for the 2010 Lexus LS. This is the first Lexus vehicle to offer SmartBeam in Europe and Japan and the first SmartBeam program offered in Japan.

20 Nov 2009

Supertex to Take Part in Lazard Capital Markets LED Day Conference, NY

Supertex, Inc. (Nasdaq GS: SUPX), a recognized leader in high voltage analog and mixed signal integrated circuits (ICs), today announced that it will be presenting at the Lazard Capital Markets 2nd Annual LED Day Conference, taking place on Thursday, December 3, 2009, at Le Parker Meridien in New York, NY.

20 Nov 2009

French DGA Selects Thales Angénieux's HELIE Night Vision Goggles for Army Helicopter Pilots

The French Defence Procurement Agency (DGA) has awarded Thales Angénieux a contract to equip French Army helicopter pilots with HELIE night vision goggles

20 Nov 2009

Dimension Technologies Announces Demonstration of its 2D/3D Displays at Global Gaming Expo

Dimension Technologies Inc. announced that several of its 2D/3D multiview displays are being demonstrated at the Global Gaming Expo (G2E) casino gaming tradeshow being held from November 17th to 19th at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Wells-Gardner Electronics Corporation (AMEX:WGA - News ) will have several DTI displays in booth 2810 in the central hall of the convention center, and game developers will be displaying 2D and 3D content on DTI displays during invitation only demonstrations. Wells-Gardner is marketing DTI’s 3D products for the gaming, lottery, amusement and casino signage markets and several game developers are authoring casino related content for the displays.
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20 Nov 2009

VisEn Medical Announces New OsteoSense 800 Imaging Agent

VisEn Medical Inc., a leader in fluorescence in vivo imaging from research through medicine, announced today the commercial launch of its new OsteoSense 800 imaging agent for targeting areas of bone turnover and microcalcification in vivo. The new 800 nm OsteoSense agent complements VisEn's OsteoSense 680 and 750 products, and is expected to further expand the utilization of this agent family in enabling in vivo detection, measurement and monitoring of skeletal changes in a wide range of disease states, including arthritis, osteoporosis, and cancer metastasis.

20 Nov 2009

The Society of Breast Imaging and American College of Surgeons Endorse BSGI

Breast-Specific Gamma Imaging/Molecular Breast Imaging (BSGI/MBI) has been recognized and endorsed by two highly esteemed organizations for the fight against breast cancer: The Society of Breast Imaging (SBI) and the American College of Surgeons. Both societies published articles supporting the further application of this breakthrough imaging technology for the early detection of breast cancer.

20 Nov 2009

View Systems Receives Initial Order for ViewScan from its UAE-Based Dealer

View Systems, Inc., a security and teledata solutions provider, announced today that an initial order for 40 ViewScan units has been received from Belcom

20 Nov 2009

China's Frbiz.com Provides Comments on Fashionable Touch-Screen Camera Phones

Frbiz.com, one of China's leading B2B search platforms with more than 30 B2B industry websites to its name, comments on fashionable full touch-screen camera phones.

20 Nov 2009

Panasonic HD Equipment to be Used to Broadcast Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games

Panasonic Corporation, the Official Worldwide Olympic Partner in the Audio and Visual Equipment category for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games, announced it is providing a full lineup of High-Definition (HD) equipment to support the broadcast of the Olympic Games; delivering the largest supply of AV equipment for any Winter Games in the company's history.

20 Nov 2009

LSG and NASA Enter Deal to Develop High Illumination LED Light for Space Exploration

Lighting Science Group Corporation (LSG) (Pink Sheets: LSCG) a global leader in LED (light emitting diodes) lighting products and the NASA John F. Kennedy Space Center have signed a two year agreement today to jointly develop a high illumination and good color rendering LED light fixture for space exploration.

20 Nov 2009

Advanced Photonix Subsidiary Achieves US Patent for Photodiodes

Picometrix, LLC, an Advanced Photonix company (NYSE Amex: API), announced that it has been awarded patent 7,078,741 for enhanced responsivity photodiodes and 7,468,503 for planar photodiodes by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

20 Nov 2009

Sigma Systems Participated in Demonstrations on Interactive Telescoping

Sigma Systems, an industry leader in Advanced IP Service Fulfillment solutions, announced today that it participated in five live demonstrations for Advanced Advertising last week at the CableLabs Advanced Advertising Interop, including interactive Request for Information (RFI), addressable linear, interactive telescoping, dynamic Video On Demand (VOD), and VOD overlays.

20 Nov 2009