Archive: 02/09/2005
Nanomechanical device bridges classic and quantum physics
Nanotechnology leapt into the realm of quantum mechanics this past winter when an antenna-like sliver of silicon one-tenth the width of a human hair oscillated in a lab in a Boston University basement. With two sets of protrusions, ...
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Cassini Spacecraft Witnesses Saturn's Blues
Colorful new images from the Cassini spacecraft show that Saturn's northern hemisphere has a case of the blues. In the first image, the icy moon Mimas is set against a dazzling and dramatic portrait of Saturn's ...
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Best-in-Class Single-Chip VGA Camera in Tiny Module for High-Volume Mobile Applications
STMicroelectronics, a world leader in CMOS imaging technology, has introduced its latest single-chip VGA camera module for entry-level mobile phones and other portable devices. The tiny VS6524 leverages three ...
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Sun's UltraSPARC IV Processor-based Servers Set 14 World Records
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) today announced new industry-leading results with its Sun Fire UltraSPARC IV-based servers running SPECweb99_SSL for secure web-based applications and Linpack for high performance computing. ...
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World's Smallest 2.0µm-Pixel MOS Image Sensor
Panasonic, the leading brand by which Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. is known, today announced the development of the world's smallest image sensor. The revolutionary MOS image sensor has only 2.0 × 2.0 μm ...
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Fujitsu Develops Technology Enabling Prolonged Viewing of Digital Terrestrial Broadcasts on Mobile Phones
Fujitsu Limited today announced the development of a low-power analog to-digital (AD) converter that employs a delta-sigma modulator for mobile phones that are capable of receiving digital terrestrial television and radio ...
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Infineon Presents New Low-Power Circuit Techniques for 120-nm and 90-nm CMOS Technologies with Reduced Leakage
At the IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference 2005 in San Francisco (February 6 - 10, 2005), Infineon Technologies AG (FSE/NYSE: IFX) presents novel circuit techniques for leakage current reduction in 120nm and ...
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National Introduces TFT-LCD Timing Controller with RSDS Outputs For VGA, XGA and Wide XGA Resolutions
National Semiconductor Corporation introduced the FPD87370, a timing controller that combines an LVDS single-pixel input interface with National's RSDS™ (Reduced Swing Differential Signaling) output driver interface for VGA, ...
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Key Details of the Cell Chip
Innovative Design Delivers More Than 10 Times the Performance of the Latest PC Processors At the International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), IBM, Sony and Toshiba for the first time disclosed in detail the breakt ...
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First measurement of Titan’s winds from Huygens
Using a global network of radio telescopes, scientists have measured the speed of the winds faced by Huygens during its descent through the atmosphere of Titan. This measurement could not be done from space because of a configuration problem with one ...
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Tiny Brown Dwarf's Disk May Form Miniature Solar System
Using the Spitzer Space Telescope, a team of astronomers led by Kevin Luhman (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) has discovered a protoplanetary disk around a surprisingly low-mass brown dwarf. This remarkable finding ...
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First Stellar Outcast Speeding at Over 1.5 Million Miles Per Hour
Using the MMT Observatory in Tucson, AZ, astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) are the first to report the discovery of a star leaving our galaxy, speeding along at over 1.5 million miles per ...
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World's first NFC enabled mobile product for contactless payment
Nokia today introduced a new product for secure mobile contactless payments and ticketing. The world's first Near Field Communications (NFC) product for payment and ticketing will be an enhanced version of the already announced ...
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Nokia Teams Up with RealNetworks to Bring Audio and Video to The Mobile Masses Worldwide
Nokia and RealNetworks®, Inc announced that the companies are expanding their longstanding deal , under which Nokia will build support for RealNetworks' media formats into many of its advanced mobile devices. The agreement ...
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University of Chicago scientists still hopeful about Rare Isotope Accelerator
University of Chicago scientists say they still hope that the U.S. Department of Energy will decide to build the $1 billion Rare Isotope Accelerator in Illinois, despite a $2.7 million cut in preliminary funding for the accelerator ...
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