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Nanopatterned Medium Recording Holds Promise for Multibillion Dollar Data Storage Industry

Storing the entire Library of Congress on a Palm Pilot or putting 1,000 movies on a two-inch disk may sound like incredibly futuristic goals, but University of Houston engineers are working swiftly toward making them a reality. ...

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Nano-Mechanical Measurement Instrument Based on Atomic Force Microscopy

Veeco Instruments Inc. and The Dow Chemical Company announced that the U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Advanced Technology Program (ATP) has awarded them $6.6 million in funding ...

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First-Ever Mobile Music Store from AT&T

Service Turns the Mobile Phone Into a 'Remote Control' for PC Downloads Of Digital Music Tracks Building on the success of the company's Music ID service, AT&T Wireless today announced the premier of the mM ...

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Handset Manufacturers Choose Texas Instruments and Symbian OS-Based Technologies for 2.5G and 3G Mobile Phones

TI Wireless Technology Powers 28 of 31 Symbian OS-based 2.5G and 3G Handsets Symbian Ltd and Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) today announced that TI wireless technology, including OMAPTM processors, powers 28 of 31 Symbian OS-based 2.5G and 3G handse ...

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iRobot: New Way of Cleaning with Roomba Red Robotic Floorvacs

"Look Ma, no hands!" vacuum detects dirt, self-navigates and recharges quickly iRobot, creator of Roomba(R), the first affordable robotic vacuum, announced today that its new Roomba Red robotic floorvac is n ...

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Sun Drives Multithreaded Processor Innovation with New UltraSPARC IV+

Sun Microsystems, Inc. today unveiled its next generation UltraSPARC IV+ processor at In-Stat MDR's Fall Processor Forum. UltraSPARC IV+, powered by Chip Multithreading technology, continues Sun's momentum in delivering on its Throug ...

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STMicroelectronics Presents its Latest Advances in Architectures and Compilers for Embedded Systems

STMicroelectronics, a world leader in creating platforms for embedded solutions, has published a new issue of the ST Journal of Research, which focuses on processor architecture and compilation for embedded systems. Today's ...

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SAP, Infineon Ease Integration of RFID Hardware and Software

SAP AG and Infineon Technologies AG today announced a new radio frequency identification (RFID) offering to meet companies’ needs to connect and manage RFID hardware and software from multiple vendors. Based on the SAP Net ...

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Plug 'n play in home networks

Today, music, images and videos are usually stored in digital form. But each medium needs its own playback device. In a networked home, different types of media can be smoothly interchanged and played back thanks to the UP ...

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Organizations work together to make seamless mobility a reality

Freescale joins IMEC to enhance reconfigurable technology Imagine seamless continuity of your favorite video between your home theater DVR and your car’s backseat entertainment system. Imagine pausing a song as your car ar ...

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National Semiconductor Introduces First Single-Chip, High-Performance Power over Ethernet Solution

National Semiconductor Corporation today announced the LM5070, the first single-chip Power Device (PD) solution to feature the high performance and tiny package footprint needed to dramatically simplify the ...

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New Stanford center probes nanoscale material

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $7.5 million over five years to establish the Center for Probing the Nanoscale (CPN) at Stanford. Kathryn Moler, associate professor of applied physics and of physics, and Da ...

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From the Laboratory to the Road: Clean Driving with Fuel Cells

This nippy little four-wheel vehicle has an interesting inner life: and that is meant quite literally! Scientists from Research Centre Jülich have equipped a commercial electric vehicle with a fuel cell th ...

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65V-inches World's Largest LCD Color TV

A Quantum Leap in LCD TV Screen Size Sharp Corporation has successfully developed a 65V-inch AQUOS LCD color TV, the industry’s first and world's largest. The TV's full-spec, high-definition, 6.22-million-d ...

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The 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2004 "for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction" jointly to David J. Gross Kavli Institute for Theo ...

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