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100GE LR4 CFP Optical Modules Successfully Demonstrated

Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. and JDSU today announced the successful transmission of IEEE-compliant 100GE optics, an important milestone for the feasibility of pluggable optics for 100GE.

4 Mar 2010

Bella and Conergy Partnership Powers Kent Denver School with 205kW Solar System

The future is looking bright for students at Kent Denver School, thanks to one of the largest prep school solar energy arrays in the nation.

4 Mar 2010

Agilent Technologies Lends Support to USA Science and Engineering Festival

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) today announced its support of the USA Science & Engineering Festival, the country's first national science festival. The event will take place in Washington, D.C., in October 2010.

3 Mar 2010

Integrated Optical Biosensor Delivery for Tuberculosis and Cholera Detection

Biomagnetics Diagnostics Corp., (PINK SHEETS:BMGP) a developer of revolutionary diagnostic systems and technology for HIV, hepatitis, tuberculosis and malaria detection, today announced its accelerated timetable for delivery of the world's first handheld, integrated optical biosensor.

3 Mar 2010

Visionworks Expands Optical Retail Locations in Pittsburgh

One of the nation’s leading providers of eye care services has aggressively entered the Pittsburgh market with eight locations across Western PA.

3 Mar 2010

ABBYY to Integrate Optical Character Recognition Technology in bizhub MFPs

ABBYY®, a leading provider of document recognition, data capture and linguistic software has been selected by Konica Minolta Business Solutions USA, Inc., a leading provider of advanced imaging and networking technologies for the desktop to the print shop, to equip the bizhub series of multifunction printers with optical character recognition (OCR) technology.

3 Mar 2010

Novel Compounds Can be Uncaged Using Longer Wavelengths of Light

Tocris Bioscience and Columbia University today announced that they have expanded their license agreement to include RuBi-Glutamate and RuBi-4AP, two additional novel caged compounds with significant applications for basic science research.

3 Mar 2010

Neurotechnology Unveils New Version of Biometric Software and Hardware Solution

Neurotechnology, a provider of high-precision biometric identification technologies, has released MegaMatcher Accelerator 2.0, a packaged hardware and software solution for high-volume, high-speed fingerprint identification.

3 Mar 2010

Healthy Growth Seen in APAC Biometrics Industry

The beginning of 2009 had many worried about how the biometrics industry was going to perform in the wake of the economic recession.

3 Mar 2010

Novel Hybrid Sensor System for Detection of Explosive Materials

Using a novel hybrid sensor system, which relies on Shamrock spectrometers and high performance intensified CCD detectors supplied by Andor Technology (Andor), Spanish scientists have been able to use both Raman and Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) simultaneously for the instant, remote standoff analysis of explosive materials.

3 Mar 2010