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Philips LEDs to Light Times Square New Year’s Eve Ball

Philips continues to bring innovative LED technology into the lives of millions by lighting the world-famous Times Square New Year’s Eve Ball. New Year’s 2013 marks the 13th consecutive year Philips has served as the official Lighting Partner to the iconic Times Square Ball. The LED lighting on the Times Square Ball demonstrates the latest in innovative LED technology and ushers in a new era of lighting that delivers energy savings, greater light quality, longer bulb life, and dimmability to existing lighting fixtures.

28 Dec 2012

BLU Introduces VIVO 4.65 HD Super AMOLED Display Smartphone Devices

BLU Products, one of the fastest growing mobile phone manufacturers in the world, announced the new VIVO 4.65 HD, as a big brother to the already popular and bestselling VIVO 4.3 which launched earlier this year. Improvements on the VIVO 4.65 HD, include an increased screen size to 4.65", as opposed to 4.3" from the previous model, as well as improved display resolution with an HD Super AMOLED display, and increase to 1GB of RAM.

28 Dec 2012

LG Introduces 100-inch HECTO Laser-Based Illumination TV

LG Electronics (LG) announced the launch of its 100-Inch class (100 inch diagonal) Laser TV featuring both Smart TV and Digital TV capabilities.

27 Dec 2012

Optical Metrology Solutions Provider Nova Receives Orders for $15 Million

Nova Measuring Instruments Ltd. a leading provider of optical metrology solutions to the semiconductor process control market, announced today that several leading foundries recently placed over 15 million dollars of orders in aggregate as part of their production ramp up and development efforts for future technology nodes.

27 Dec 2012

Researchers Analyze Microscopic Tooth Wear Patterns in Saber-Toothed Cats Using Confocal Microscopes

In the period just before they went extinct, the American lions and saber-toothed cats that roamed North America in the late Pleistocene were living well off the fat of the land.

27 Dec 2012

New Market Research Report on Metal Oxide TFT Backplanes for Displays

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue:Metal Oxide TFT Backplanes for Displays 2013-2018: Analysis, Trends, Markets

26 Dec 2012

Tektronix, Convergent Enter New Distribution Partner Agreement

Tektronix, a world leading manufacturer of oscilloscopes, today announced a new agreement with Convergent Technologies that will enable them to offer customers the full portfolio of Tektronix products including high performance oscilloscopes, signal generators, real-time spectrum analyzers, logic analyzers, Keithley precision test instruments and the MDO4000 Series - the world's first and only mixed domain oscilloscope.

26 Dec 2012

Laser Technology for Treatment of Acne

Acne is a skin condition that affects millions of people around the world and is associated in particular with adolescence. Treatments for severe cases of acne vary widely, from preventative to acute and from topical to oral, but The Laser Treatment Clinic in London is one therapy provider offering a different route amid concern about acne drugs.

26 Dec 2012

EC Funded Research Project to Advance High-Power Direct Diode Laser Systems

A consortium of companies and research institutes from five European countries has joined forces in a common EC funded research project to achieve dramatic improvements in the brilliance of high-power direct diode laser systems.

24 Dec 2012

New Report on Global Market for Commercial Aviation Aircraft Cabin Lighting

According to a new market research report,"Global Commercial Aviation Aircraft Cabin Lighting Market, Forecast & Analysis (2012 - 2017)", the total global commercial aviation aircraft lighting market is expected to reach $1.25 billion by 2017 with a CAGR of 5.43%.

24 Dec 2012

Intel Presents Thunderbolt Certification to Sumitomo Electric for Optical Thunderbolt Cable

Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. has become the first company to receive Thunderbolt certification from Intel Corporation for the optical Thunderbolt cable and has started the mass production.

24 Dec 2012

II-VI Incorporated Acquires LightWorks Optics

II-VI Incorporated announced today that it has acquired all of the outstanding shares of LightWorks Optics, Inc. (LightWorks). The initial consideration consisted of cash of approximately $31 million. In addition, the agreement provides for approximately $4 million of cash earn-out opportunities based upon LightWorks achieving certain future financial targets and is subject to customary closing adjustments including a working capital adjustment.

24 Dec 2012

Brazilian Air Force Selects Carmanah and ADB to Supply Portable Lighting Systems

Airfield lighting partners Carmanah Technologies, ADB Airfield Solutions and Brazilian distributor AVIEX Importacao have been selected to supply five emergency-deployable, solar-powered airfield and helipad lighting systems to the Brazilian Air Force at a value of over $400,000.

24 Dec 2012

Smart Home Labs Introduces RoboSmart Wireless LED Lighting System

Smart Home Labs introduces the RoboSmart wireless LED lighting system that enables smart lighting control via your smartphone, tablet or computer over Bluetooth Smart wireless. The wireless LED light bulb is available for pre-orders on the world’s largest open-funding platform IndieGoGo.

24 Dec 2012

New NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Study Reveals Secrets Behind Aging of Stars

The aging of star clusters is linked more with their lifestyle than with how old they actually are, according to a new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope study coauthored by Steinn Sigurdsson, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State.

24 Dec 2012