ASML shares hit record high after'boring'quarter 18 Jul 2012 Steady sales and recent investment by Intel propel the lithography company to its highest-ever value. ASML share price graph:1996-2012 Shares in the market-leading ...
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German start-up focuses on'kilowatt'direct diodes 18 Jul 2012 Direct Photonics aims to use Fraunhofer know-how to boost output,challenge fiber and disk lasers. Direct Photonics'DirectPump 900 is a wavelength-stabilized laser ...
Optical communications and laser component,module and subsystem makers Oclaro Inc of San Jose,CA,USA and Opnext Inc of Fremont,CA,USA have provided an update regarding their proposed merger. At their respective stockholder ...
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Hittite launches 4.5mm2 MMIC LNA covering 0.3-3GHz Hittite Microwave Corp of Chelmsford,MA,USA(which designs and supplies analog,digital and mixed-signal RF,microwave and millimeter-wave ICs,modules and subsystems as well as ...
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PayPal today confirmed its latest acquisition,buying mobile payment start-up Card.io. The San Francisco company's technology enables users to make payments by capturing the details from the front of their credit card with a smartphone ...
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Communications supplier Virgin Media has revolutionised the way it trains staff through cloud-based learning supplier Cornerstone. Virgin Media was the result of the coming together of cable suppliers NTL and Telewest,which were ...
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Businesses are turning away from traditional fixed phone lines in favour of mobile or internet-based telephony,according to research findings released today. Ofcom's annual communications market report showed the number of business lines ...
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Samsung is to pay$310m for CSR's wireless mobile unit which delivers 36%of CSR's revenues. The deal covers Cambridge-based CSR's products for handsets. It will leave the company focused on audio,imaging,automotive,indoor location and ...
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LG has been accused of stealing OLED technology from Samsung.Eleven employees from both companies are facing charges for the theft. "Samsung Mobile Display,which takes up about 97%share in the world's OLED market,is worried about losing ...
At Japan's Cable Tech Show 2012 in Tokyo(18-19 July),Emcore Corp of Albuquerque,NM,USA,which makes components,subsystems and systems for the fiber-optic and solar power markets,is announcing the addition of the J-Type Medallion 6000 to its ...
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University of Massachusetts Lowell, Universidad de Salamanca, and North Carolina State University have integrated aluminium oxide dielectric into III-V ballistic deflection transistors (BDTs) for the first time [Vikas Kaushal et al, IEEE ...
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Less than a year after announcing it had impacted one million people worldwide,Barefoot Power achieved its second milestone of bringing affordable lighting and phone charging products to two million people across 20 countries.In ...
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Israel-Waves Audio has announced that it has become a new member of the AVnu Alliance,an industry forum dedicated to the advancement and certification of Audio/Video Bridging(AVB)devices.As part of this relationship,Waves will be a presence ...
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Spain-XL Video supplied LED screens,cameras/PPU,mapping and projection for the recent International Music Summit in Ibiza.Working together with The Shop Ibiza&IMS,XL Video provided two Barco O-Lite 510 curved LED screens which greeted ...
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The U.S.Department of Energy has completed Series 16 of testing through the DOE Solid-State Lighting CALiPER program.A summary of the results is now available for download on the DOE SSL website. Report 16 analyzes the performance of a ...