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Mobile WiMAX comes sooner rather than later

Conventional wisdom says that until the advent of 802.16e mobile WiMAX systems - still some time in the future - the wireless broadband standard will be more or less confined to the great outdoors. Some "near-outdoor" systems ...

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ATI Defines The Next-Generation of Enthusiast Gaming With CrossFire Multi-Graphics Processor Platform

ATI Technologies Inc.,, a leader in graphics and media processors, is revolutionizing gaming with the introduction of CrossFire, the ultimate gaming platform. The CrossFire platform has been designed to give gamers the best ...

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Astronomers hot on the trail of nature's exotic flashers

Astronomers have uncovered tantalizing insights into the origin of short gamma-ray bursts – mysterious, split-second high-energy flashes that have eluded detailed study until now. Unlike their long-duration ...

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Samsung, TI Deliver Mobile Digital TV to Korea

From Texas to Korea, mobile phones are becoming pocket-size mobile entertainment centers on-the-go. Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) announced today that Samsung Electronics has selected TI's OMAP-DM multimedia processor ...

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Too much homework can be counterproductive

Instead of improving educational achievement in countries around the world, increases in homework may actually undercut teaching effectiveness and worsen disparities in student learning, according to two Penn State researchers. Most tea ...

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Panasonic Develops VCSEL Laser with World's Highest Data Transmission Rate

Panasonic, the leading brand by which Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. is generally known, today announced the development of the 850 nm AlGaAs/GaAs VCSEL (Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser) capable ...

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Fujitsu Successfully Demonstrates Interoperability of 10GbE-LANPHY Interface for Next-Generation Photonic Networks

Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. and Fujitsu Limited today announced their successful demonstration of the interoperability of 10GbE-LANPHY(1) interface for the next-generation photonic network known as the Optical Transport Network ...

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NEC Succeeds in World's Fastest Continuous Quantum Cryptography Key Generation over Fortnight Period

Realized on network employing commercial optical fiber NEC Corporation, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, POWEREDCOM, Inc., and Japan Science and Technology Agency have jointly s ...

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First frozen egg baby born in Canada

The McGill University Health Center (MUHC) in Montreal has announced the first successful birth in Canada resulting from frozen eggs. A team led by Professor Seang Lin Tan, Chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology ...

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Spitzer Captures Fruits of Massive Stars' Labors

The saga of how a few monstrous stars spawned a diverse community of additional stars is told in a new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The striking picture reveals an eclectic mix of embryonic stars ...

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Infineon Announces Trusted Platform Module to Enhance PC Security

In an effort to ensure safer computing, Infineon Technologies AG announced availability of its latest Trusted Platform Module (TPM) security microcontroller supporting the main specification 1.2 of the Trusted Computing Group ...

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Messenger peeks at Earth

NASA's Mercury-bound MESSENGER spacecraft -- less than three months from an Earth flyby that will slingshot it toward the inner solar system -- successfully tested its main camera by snapping distant approach ...

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Leading theories of cosmic explosions contradicted in a flash

Satellite that could help solve mystery to be deactivated in September Observations of a cosmic explosion detected on Feb. 15 by two NASA satellites have thrown into doubt one popular explanation for such explosions and h ...

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Measuring the shape of distant stars using gravitational microlensing

Fifty years after his death, Albert Einstein's work still provides new tools for understanding our universe. An international team of astronomers has now used a phenomenon first predicted by Einstein in 1936, ...

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NVIDIA, ARM Announce Licensing Agreement Targeted At Next-Generation Consumer Devices

NVIDIA Corporation, a worldwide leader in graphics and digital media processors, and ARM, today announced that NVIDIA has licensed the ARM11 MPCore processor. The licensing of this ARM technology will enable NVIDIA to add ...

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