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First-of-its-kind experiment: The San Andreas Fault Gravity Gradiometer Project

Using classified technology developed by the military during the Cold War, a team of geoscientists led by Rice University's Manik Talwani is conducting a first-of-its-kind experiment on California's famed San ...

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iriver and Texas Instruments Unveil New Portable Media Players

Redefining the portable media player (PMP) market with the industry’s first CD portable media player, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) and iriver introduce the availability of two new portable media devices. Powered by TI’s Digital Medi ...

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HP's New High-end Storage System Scales to Twice the Capacity of the Competition Without Disruption

HP today introduced the industry's most powerful, high-end disk storage system, which scales to more than twice the capacity of competitors' offerings and delivers "zero downtime" for mission-critical customer environments. ...

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NASA Gravity Probe B mission enters science phase, ready to test Einstein's theory

Gravity Probe B, a NASA spacecraft to test two predictions of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, achieved a major milestone last week with the completion of the first phase of its mission and the transition in ...

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Sun Microsystems and ARM To Deliver High-Performance, Pre-Integrated Java Solutions For Mobile Devices

Sun Microsystems and ARM, today announced a long-term collaboration to integrate and distribute optimized Java™ solutions for mobile devices. The integration of software and hardware optimizations will enhance the end-user m ...

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Glass Semiconductor Softens With Low-Power Laser, Then Re-Hardens

Scientists at Ohio State University have found that a special type of glass that is finding use in the electronics industry softens when exposed to very low-level laser light, and hardens back into its original condition ...

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Leading Software Vendors Endorse AMD64 Multi-Core Technology

AMD today announced software support from Novell, Red Hat and Sun for AMD64 multi-core technology and recommended ISVs license software applications by socket. This follows a recent demonstration of the industry’s first x86 d ...

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Purdue and Olympus Corp. creating technology for sensor networks

Olympus Corp. and Purdue University are collaborating on a three-year project to develop technologies that will use omnipresent cameras and sensors to monitor and enhance the well-being of people in the living environments ...

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Computer scientists developing 'nurturing' computers

Imagine a day when your computer will be able to let you know if you need a break, alert you to take medication or even go to the doctor. In some computer science labs at the University of Houston, such human-computer interac ...

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Wireless Industry Leaders Publish Open Specifications for Cellular/WLAN Convergence

Kineto Wireless, a key innovator and leading supplier of solutions for seamless mobility and Cellular/WLAN convergence, today announced the company, along with thirteen other leading service providers, infrastructure suppliers ...

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CIDETEC and IBM to Develop Nanomaterials for Microelectronic

The CIDETEC Technological Centre in Donostia-San Sebastián and the IBM Almaden Research Center of California have signed a joint working agreement in order to develop different kinds of nanomaterials applicable to the microelectronics industry. The agreement has an initial d ...

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Scientists detect tooth decay in the 3rd dimension

A team of scientists from Glasgow today revealed a new technique that will allow dentists to detect and study the tell-tale signs of tooth decay before too much damage is done. Speaking at one of the opening sessions at ...

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Toshiba, NEC Electronics, and Fujitsu Agree on Common Specifications for PSRAM

Toshiba Corporation, NEC Electronics Corporation, and Fujitsu Limited today announced that they have agreed on standard interface specifications for Pseudo Static Random Access Memory (PSRAM)(1) with burst mode. Based on the specifications, known as COSMO ...

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Acoustic issue in the Siemens 65 mobile phone series solved

As of today, the mobile communication group of Siemens AG – Siemens mobile for short – is offering new software versions for its 65 product series (C65, CX65, M65, S65, SL65 and the operator variants) that sol ...

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262K Color OLED Drivers for Mobile Main Display

As Solomon Systech Limited continues its growth in IC development, we are proud to present two new OLED driver ICs with integrated controller, SSD1335 and SSD1338. They have a built-in DC-DC voltage converter, ...

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