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Dow Chemical and Caltech Sign Deal to Collaborate on Solar Energy Research

The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE: DOW) and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) announced today that they had recently signed a multi-year research collaboration that is strategic to both organizations' interests in solar energy.

13 Nov 2009

Vision-Ease Lens Reports Major Fire in its Indonesia Manufacturing Facility

Vision-Ease Lens (VEL), a manufacturer of ophthalmic lenses, learned yesterday that its manufacturing facility in Jakarta, Indonesia, sustained damage from a major fire. All employees evacuated safely and damage is currently being assessed. The Jakarta facility is one of two manufacturing facilities owned by VEL.

13 Nov 2009

Zayo Bandwidth to Deploy TDM and Ethernet Services to More Sites in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Zayo Bandwidth, a provider of bandwidth infrastructure solutions for carrier, enterprise and government customers, announced today that it will deploy TDM and Ethernet services to an additional 300 wireless tower sites in the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas of Pennsylvania in support of the current mobile platform and the upcoming transition to 4th generation technologies.

13 Nov 2009

VisEn Medical Unveils Commercial Cat B 750 FAST Imaging Agent for Cathepsin B Activity Diagnosis

VisEn Medical Inc., a leader in fluorescence in vivo imaging from research through medicine, announced today the commercial launch of its new Cat B 750 FAST(TM) imaging agent for measuring and monitoring cathepsin B activity associated with disease progression and therapeutic response in vivo. Cathepsin B expression is well known as a key biomarker and therapeutic target in a range of diseases, including atherosclerosis, oncology, and arthritis. The new agent is expected to have a significant impact in cardiovascular disease research, and is being launched at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions 2009 in Orlando.

13 Nov 2009

New Technique in Laser Hair Removal Developed to Eliminate Ethnic Skin Type Burns

Dr. Jay Kulkin, MD, internationally recognized laser expert and Fellow of the American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery (highest designation), has successfully developed a laser technique making laser hair removal burns in ethnic skin types a thing of the past. For years, individuals with ethnic skin types have suffered needlessly with embarrassing, unwanted hair, as reports of burns (as seen on Oprah) have caused them to avoid laser procedures. Dr. Kulkin, Founder and Medical Director of WIFH, has developed a unique technique using the Cynosure Elite Yag Laser and has utilized it exclusively for over 30,000 procedures on all body types without one burn.

13 Nov 2009

US Navy Increases Funding to EF Johnson's 3eTI for Extension of VPMS Solution

EF Johnson Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: EFJI) today announced that its 3e Technologies International (3eTI) subsidiary has received a funding increment of $5 million from the U.S. Navy to extend the virtual perimeter monitoring system (VPMS) solution it is currently providing to the Navy.

13 Nov 2009

Researchers Develop Nano-Colorsorter Device That Sorts Light in Tiny Spaces

Looking sharp and looking for light - Berkeley Lab researchers have engineered a new class of bowtie-shaped devices that capture, filter and steer light at the nanoscale

13 Nov 2009

Scientists Find Light Inside Optical Fibers Can Be Squeezed Into Tighter Space

Scientists at the University of Adelaide have made a breakthrough that could change the world's thinking on what light is capable of

13 Nov 2009

Findings Show Bausch & Lomb's Lo-Torque Lens Design Delivers Significant Rotational Recovery

Bausch & Lomb today announced that the company's Lo-Torque lens design demonstrates significantly better rotational recovery, which can lead to more consistent vision, compared with Acuvue's accelerated stabilization design. These findings from two clinical studies were presented at Academy 2009, the American Academy of Optometry annual meeting in Orlando, Fla.

13 Nov 2009

Konica Minolta Sensing Americas Forms New Division for 3D Scanning and Engineering Services

Konica Minolta Sensing Americas, Inc. (KMSA), the worldwide leader in the industrial measurement of color, light and shape, announces the addition of its new 3D scanning and engineering services division to its existing 3D non-contact scanner business unit.

From Konica Minolta Sensing Americas 13 Nov 2009

Lightwave Logic Introduces New Prototype Phase Modulator at Gilder/Forbes Telecosm Conference, NY

Lightwave Logic, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: LWLG) a technology company focused on the development of the 'Next Generation Electro-Optic Polymer Material Platform' for applications in high speed fiber-optic telecommunications and optical computing, today announced that Terry Turpin, Lightwave's Optical Computing Guru, introduced Lightwave's new prototype phase modulator to the Gilder/Forbes Telecosm Conference in Tarrytown, New York earlier this week. The Gilder/Forbes Telecosm Conference is an annual event that offers investors, executives, engineers and entrepreneurs an elite analysis of ascending and disruptive technologies affecting management and investment decisions.

13 Nov 2009

Verizon Launches FiOS TV in Gaithersburg Through its All-Fiber-Optic Network

The future of television has arrived for more than 2,100 homes and businesses in Gaithersburg as Verizon introduces FiOS TV via the company's revolutionary all-fiber-optic network.

FiOS TV and Internet services are available this week in parts of the following communities: Brighton Highlands, Candlewood Park, Deer Park, Derwood Station, Medland Station, Needwood Estates, Oakmont Manor, Parkside Estates, Walnut Grove, Walnut Hill and West Deer Park.

13 Nov 2009

eMagin Begins $6 Million Program to Develop Ultra-High Resolution OLED Microdisplay

eMagin Corporation (OTCBB: EMAN) announced today that it has commenced a 2-year, $6 million program to develop an ultra-high resolution OLED microdisplay with 1920 x 1200 triad color pixels. The program, managed by the Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC) of the US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC), comprises the third phase of a multiple year effort to provide an ultra-high resolution, 3D-capable display system for advanced medical training systems.

13 Nov 2009

Xerox Scientists Create Chemical Armor to Protect Xerographic Machine Components

New “super coating” hints at how smart materials, nanotechnology will influence future design of office and production products

13 Nov 2009

QD Vision Demonstrated Quantum Light Optic Technology to President Obama

QD Vision's green-tech Quantum Light™ technology platform lit up President Obama’s recent tour of laboratories at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where low-power, long-life Array™ Lighting LED lamps from Nexxus Lighting, Inc. (NASDAQ Capital Market: NEXS) are utilizing breakthroughs in quantum dot technology from QD Vision, Inc. to emit high-quality warm LED light.

13 Nov 2009