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Enhanced Lighting Compression Brings New Level of Appeal to Property Photos

Arizona-based VisitMyLuxuryHome.com today introduced a new real estate photographic service that dramatically improves both printed and digital presentations of properties for sale.

26 Mar 2008

Smallest Vimicro Processor for PC and Laptop Camera

Vimicro International Corporation, a leading fabless semiconductor company that designs advanced mixed-signal multimedia products and solutions, today announced the launch of its latest Web camera processor, VC0343, targeting laptop embedded applications.

26 Mar 2008

Licensing Agreement Provides Company with Access to Philips Lighting Solutions

Philips Solid-State Lighting Solutions, the new entity formed by Philips' acquisition of Color Kinetics, and Renaissance Lighting have completed a licensing agreement that provides Renaissance Lighting with access to Philips Solid-State Lighting Solutions' worldwide patent portfolio.

26 Mar 2008

Using The Power of The Sun to Cook Up a Successful Event

Pacific Gas and Electric Company is providing the key ingredient for this year's California Ag Day -- the power of the sun -- to cook up a successful event recognizing the state's agricultural industry.

26 Mar 2008

The Opening of the 75th LasikPlus Vision Center

LCA-Vision Inc., a leading provider of laser vision correction services under the LasikPlus(R) brand, announced the opening of its 75th LasikPlus(R) vision center in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

26 Mar 2008

Improved Overall Color Performance with New BrilliantColor

Mitsubishi Digital Electronics America's Presentation Products Division, known for its award-winning, high-quality presentation and display products, has announced its 500 family of projectors that boast Texas Instruments' new DDP 2230 DMD chip with DLP® technology and the latest version of BrilliantColor(TM).

26 Mar 2008

People Who Wear Glasses Are Not Geeks or Nerds

Latest Australian research into myopia or shortsightedness reveals that people who wear glasses are not stereotypical geeks or nerds.

25 Mar 2008

How Color Vision is Processed

New York University biologists have mapped the medulla circuitry in fruit flies, setting the stage for subsequent research on how color vision is processed.

25 Mar 2008

Company Anticipates Market Leadership for IDT PanelPort Devic

IDT (Integrated Device Technology, Inc.), a leading provider of essential mixed signal semiconductor solutions that enrich the digital media experience, today announced the availability of a DisplayPort receiver and timing controller (TCON) device for inclusion in flat panel displays for monitors, notebooks, and LCD TV displays.

25 Mar 2008

A Global Platform Of Utility-Scale Solar Photovoltaic Projects

The AES Corporation and Riverstone Holdings LLC today announced that they have committed up to $1 billion as part of a new joint venture to develop a global platform of utility-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) projects.

25 Mar 2008

Planar LX1201PTI Selected for Marine Computing System

Planar Systems, Inc., a worldwide leader in specialty display solutions, today announced the new Planar LX Mariner series.

25 Mar 2008

Highly Efficient Light Sources with Photo Detectors on a Single CMOS Chip

For the first time ever, OLEDs and OLED-on-CMOS integration offer the possibility to integrate highly efficient light sources with photo detectors on a single CMOS chip. This enables monolithically integrated optoelectronic applications based on standard silicon.

25 Mar 2008

Mini DomiLED Designed to Provide High-Power Solutions for the Automotive Industry

DOMINANT is now offering a new series of miniature SMD LED. These Mini DomiLED devices are designed to provide compact, high-power solutions for automotive and industrial applications.

25 Mar 2008

Dense Coding with Linear Optics

The record for the most amount of information sent by a single photon has been broken by researchers at the University of Illinois. Using the direction of "wiggling" and "twisting" of a pair of hyper-entangled photons, they have beaten a fundamental limit on the channel capacity for dense coding with linear optics.

25 Mar 2008

High-Energy Charged Particles Potentially More Harmful Than X-Rays

A new technique for assessing the damage radiation causes to DNA indicates that the spatial arrangement of damaged sites, or lesions, is more important than the number of lesions in determining the severity of the damage.

24 Mar 2008