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Libraries eye stimulus money for their Web access

Technology / Telecom

created May 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- The libraries in Delaware County, Pa., are trying to shift into warp speed. The county is hooking eight branches to a fiber-optic network to help meet library patrons' ever-rising demand for high-bandwidth tasks like ...





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New light source may up inspection quality

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 19, 2007 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

U.S. engineers have created fiber-optic light technology designed to improve the inspection accuracy of "line-scan" cameras.


Researchers Can Detect Tunnel Excavation With Fiber Optic Cables

Researchers Can Detect Tunnel Excavation With Fiber Optic Cables

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 12, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- With the same type of fiber optic cables used in telecommunications systems, researchers from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have developed a way to detect and pinpoint the excavation ...


FCC clears deep-sea fiber-optic cable linking Asia, California

Technology / Telecom

created Oct 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has given the green light for a trans-Pacific fiber-optic cable funded by an international consortium that includes Google. The new cable, expected to be carrying data traffic by ...


Charge4All Portable Charging Mat

Tech review: Charging mat, iPhone cases are smart, useful accessories

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Sep 04, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (5) | comments 1

The Charge4All Portable Charging Mat is a darn handy solution to a growing problem.


Diffusion tensor imaging increases ability to remove benign tumors in children

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new study published this week in the Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics finds that operative plans for removing Juvenile Pilocytic Astrocytoma, or JPA, tumors in the thalamus of the brain can be augmented with Diffusion Tensor ...


Atomic clock signals may be best shared by fiber-optics

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 02, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Time and frequency information can be transferred between laboratories or to other users in several ways, often using the Global Positioning System (GPS). But today's best atomic clocks are so accurate—neither gaining nor ...


Low-tech tools take out phones in Silicon Valley (AP)

Low-tech tools take out phones in Silicon Valley

Technology / Telecom

created Apr 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(AP) -- Forget, for a moment, computer viruses and sophisticated cybercrimes. A hacksaw and a few other tools were probably all it took for someone to sever eight fiber-optic cables in Silicon Valley this ...


Spreading high-speed Internet to rural areas

Technology / Telecom

created Mar 16, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

To cut the cost of bringing high-speed Internet to rural areas, Dr. Ka Lun Lee and colleagues at the University of Melbourne and NEC Australia in the state of Victoria are experimenting with a way to boost the reach of existing ...


Intel & Hitachi Team Up

Intel & Hitachi Team up for Enterprise Grade SSDs

Technology / Business

created Dec 02, 2008 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (9) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Intel and Hitachi announced that they are joining forces to produce Enterprise-grade SSDs that will incorporate Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and Fiber Channel (FC) interfaces. Both firms plan ...


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Carbon fiber cars could put US on highway to efficiency

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created Mar 06, 2006 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (26) | comments 0

Highways of tomorrow might be filled with lighter, cleaner and more fuel-efficient automobiles made in part from recycled plastics, lignin from wood pulp and cellulose.



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