Archive: 05/10/2005
Toshiba Unveils Triple-layer 45GB HD DVD-ROM Disc
Toshiba Corporation today announced development of a triple-layer HD DVD-ROM (read-only) disc with a data capacity of 45 gigabytes, 50% more than the 30-gigabyte dual-layer HD DVD-ROM disc already announced ...
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Researcher journeys to the center of the cell
The discovery of a fundamental new route into cells may lead to new methods of drug delivery and to a better understanding of viral infection. Researchers from The University of Queensland’s Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IM ...
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Shared computing grid cuts data mountains down to size
Although University of Wisconsin-Madison professors Wesley Smith and David Schwartz operate in completely different scientific spheres - one seeking to explore the fundamental properties of matter and the other trying to ...
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Chemical Engineer to Investigate Ways to Help Plastic Conduct Electricity
Dr. Yueh-Lin (Lynn) Loo at The University of Texas at Austin has received a 2005 Young Investigator Award from the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation to find ways to improve the ability of polyanaline to conduct electricity. Loo, an ...
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Renesas Releases Single-Chip TFT Controller/Driver for Mobile Phone QVGA-Size TFT Color Liquid Crystal Displays
Renesas Technology Corp. today announced the R61505 controller/driver, providing QVGA (240 x 320-pixel) resolution screen drive and 260k-color display capability plus nonvolatile memory in a single chip, as a driver for amorphous ...
May 10, 2005 |
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Bacterial genome sheds light on synthesizing cancer-fighting compounds
Sea squirts around the world are breathing a sigh of relief, as they no longer run the risk of being harvested for their natural disease-fighting substances. Scientists recently discovered that the bacterium ...
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China's Wall Less Great in View from Space
It has become a space-based myth. The Great Wall of China, frequently billed as the only man-made object visible from space, generally isn't, at least to the unaided eye in low Earth orbit. It certainly isn't ...
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Freescale announces industry’s first 90nm multi-core programmable DSPs in volume production
Freescale Semiconductor is leveraging its multi-core processor design expertise and advanced process technology to address customer needs for higher signal processing performance at lower power consumption. Freescale, the ...
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IBM Acquires Gluecode Software
IBM today announced it has acquired Gluecode Software, a privately held company based in El Segundo, Calif., and provider of software and support services for open source application infrastructure software. Financial details ...
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Despite hurdles, human missions to Mars are in the works
Rovers setting the stage While all the excitement on Mars focuses on the amazing durability and discoveries of two robotic rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, two Mars Exploration Rover (MER) scientists remi ...
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HP to Offer Handheld Customers Upgrade Program to Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0
HP today announced an upgrade program to Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 for customers with select HP iPAQ handhelds as well as plans to support the new version of the software platform in its future mobile offerings.
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iTunes Music Store Launches in Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland
Apple today launched four new iTunes Music Stores in Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland featuring songs from all four major music companies and over 1,000 independent record labels. The four new iTunes Music Stores offer ...
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Silicon solution could lead to a truly long-life battery
New devices may provide power for decades Using some of the same manufacturing techniques that produce microchips, researchers have created a porous-silicon diode that may lead to improved betavoltaics. Such de ...
May 10, 2005 |
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Chemists adapt casting technique to make ordered nanocarbons
Technique could revolutionize nanoelectronics manufacturing Carnegie Mellon University scientists have harnessed an experimental technology to produce polymer films with long-range-ordered nanostructure and easily convert th ...
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Chandra X-ray observatory catches x-ray super-flares
Planetary protection: X-ray super-flares aid formation of 'solar systems' New results from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory about the Orion Nebula imply super-flares torched our young solar system. Such X- ...
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