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World's First 10Gbps Quantum Dot Laser

Fujitsu Limited and a research group at the University of Tokyo led by Professor Yasuhiko Arakawa, today announced the joint development of a quantum dot laser that succeeds in minimizing temperature-sensitive output fluctu ...

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IBM scientists demonstrate single-atom magnetic measurements

IBM scientists have measured a fundamental magnetic property of a single atom -- the energy required to flip its magnetic orientation. This is the first result by a promising new technique they developed to stu ...

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DARPA Selects Lucent Technologies to Provide Nanotechnology For Advanced Military Systems

Lucent to provide Ultra Dense Large Micro Electro Mechanical Systems Spatial Light Modulators for Maskless Lithography to DARPA Lucent Technologies has been selected by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARP ...

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Dying star creates fantasy-like sculpture of gas and dust

A new study of a large number of planetary nebulae has revealed that rings, such as those seen here around the Cat's Eye Nebula, are much more common that thought so far and have been found in at least one third ...

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Major milestone for detecting life on Mars

Washington, D.C. "To detect life on Mars, we have to devise instruments to recognize it and design them in such a way to get them to the Red Planet most efficiently," said Dr. Andrew Steele of the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical L ...

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Nanotechnology leads to discovery of super superconductors

University of California scientists working at Los Alamos National Laboratory with a researcher from the University of Cambridge have demonstrated a simple and industrially scaleable method for improving the current densities ...

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Seagate, AMCC and Marvell Preview First End-to-End 3-Gigabit-Per-Second Serial ATA Technology

Seagate Technology, the world's leading Serial ATA (SATA) hard drive maker, Marvell, the leading innovator of SATA silicon technology, and AMCC, the performance leader in SATA RAID controllers, came together this week at the Intel Developer Forum to demo ...

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The Feature-Rich Hard Disk Drive SOC Designed for Use in Consumer Electronics is First to Support the New CE-ATA Specs

Marvell®, a technology leader in the development of extreme broadband communications and storage solutions, today announced the first System On Chip (SOC) device supporting the new CE-ATA specification, a new storage int ...

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Nokia Launches New Fashion Collection

Inspired by the glamour and elegance of the lavish 1920s, Nokia introduces a new fashion collection of three mobile phones, launched today at the Totally Fashion event in Shanghai. Pushing the boundaries of ...

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Toshiba Announces 1GB SD Card And 512MB High Speed SD Card Using 90 Nanometer NAND Flash Technology

To meet continually increasing demand for greater capacity and performance in data storage cards for digital cameras, digital camcorders, MP3 players and PDAs, Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. announced the availability of ...

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Dolby And Intel to develop tools for high-end audio for Intel-based PC platforms

Dolby Laboratories and Intel Corporation today announced the two companies are collaborating to provide developers with tools to enable high-end audio for Intel-based PC platforms. As a result, consumers can enjoy a premium surround ...

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Noisy nature of atoms

University of California scientists working at Los Alamos National Laboratory have demonstrated a way to use the random fluctuations that exist naturally in all magnetic systems to perform magnetic resonance studies without ...

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Carl Zeiss lens enables highest quality in camera phones

The lens is supplied by Carl Zeiss, the camera module and electronics by Dialog Semiconductor: with this collaboration, the two companies aim to take part right from the beginning in shaping the growing market for high quality ...

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Industry's first mass production of DRAM in 90nm technology

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world leader in advanced semiconductor memory technology, announced today the industry's first mass production of 90nanometer (nm) 512Mb DDR SDRAM on 300mm base wafers. Samsung pion ...

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Molecular Biologists Uproot the Tree of Life

One of science's most popular metaphors — the "tree of life," with its evolutionary branches and roots, showing groups of bacteria on the bottom and multicellular animals on the higher branches — turns out to be a misnomer, ...

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