Archive: 12/08/2004
Identifying Top Quality CD and DVD Media for Archiving
Will your medical or bank records stored on CD or DVD still be retrievable 10 or 20 years from now? The answer depends on how well this type of media are cared for and on specific manufacturing processes used, according to ...
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Microchip Industry Strives to Perfect Its Timing
Time is money, especially to the semiconductor industry. Electronics manufacturers use extremely sophisticated equipment to churn out the latest microchips, but they have a timing problem. It's very difficult to get all the ...
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Software Tool Finds 'Needles' in Data 'Haystacks'
When looking for a needle in a haystack, it's helpful to know what a needle looks like. A new software tool developed by researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) makes it possible ...
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JVC Develops Eco-friendly DVD Disk
According to JCN Network, Victor Company of Japan (JVC) has developed an eco-friendly DVD disk made from corn starch-based polylactide. The disk incorporates polyactide-based transparent plastic for optical disk use, wh ...
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Scientists Find Atomic Clues to Tougher Ceramics
Advanced ceramics are wonderful materials – they withstand temperatures that would melt steel and resist most corrosive chemicals. If only they weren’t so brittle. Poor resistance to fracture damage has been the major drawback ...
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Thunderbird 1.0 vs. Outlook Express
Thunderbird 1.0 is Mozilla’s next generation e-mail client. Thunderbird makes emailing safer, faster, and easier than ever before with the industry’s best implementations of features such as intelligent spam filters, saved ...
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Researchers invent energy-saving computer chip
New microchip is 10 times smaller and 100 times more energy efficient than currently used chips University of Alberta researchers have designed a computer chip that uses about 100 times less energy than current state-of ...
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Vest-pocket beamer
The vest-pocket projector could soon become reality. It is based on a tilting micromirror that builds up the picture line by line. The designers of a laboratory prototype have managed to raise its operating ...
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Women Online Have New Tech Attitude, According To Survey
Survey Reveals New Woman Emerging -"Tif" the Technology Involved Female It's sometimes fashionable, always functional, and a growing number of women consider it an absolute must-have. It's not the latest designer outfi ...
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Los Alamos quantum cryptography team is co-winner of prestigious European research prize
Los Alamos researchers and other members of a multi-nation collaboration that is developing a revolutionary technology for information security have captured half of the European Union's Descartes Prize for Research. Los Ala ...
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Philips highlights leading consumer-oriented semiconductor R&D at IEDM 2004
Record-breaking performance of 90-nm RF CMOS process takes advanced development to new levels At this year's IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM, San Francisco, USA, 13 - 15 December 2004), Philips' R&D scientis ...
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New IP Phones from Siemens for Communication over IP
With optiPoint 420, the Siemens Communications Group has launched a new telephone family for the business customer segment. The optiPoint 420 series comprises IP phones that offer users major new advantages ...
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Fastest glacier in Greenland doubles speed
The world's fastest glacier, Greenland's Jakobshavn Isbrae, doubled its speed between 1997 and 2003. The rapid movement of ice from land into the sea provides key evidence of newly discovered relationships between ice sheets, se ...
Dec 08, 2004 |
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National Offers Complete White LED Driver System for Portable Devices With Displays and Keypads
National Semiconductor Corporation today introduced a complete, low noise white LED driver system for wireless handsets and other portable devices that use a display and keypad.
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Cardiff experts set world standards in micro-engineering
Component so small, it was believed impossible to create Micro-machining experts in Cardiff University's award-winning Manufacturing Engineering Centre (MEC) have created a vital component so small, it was previously bel ...
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