Archive for April, 2007

8 April, 2007 | No comments

House OKs aid for blind hunters (Computer Laser Printers)

House OKs aid for blind hunters
Houston Chronicle - House Bill 308, which the House sent to the Senate on Thursday, makes hunting easier for legally blind hunters like McGowen by allowing them to use laser sight devices, which are currently forbidden for hunting in Texas. “This is so important and I
Source: www.chron.com

Full of bright ideas
Times Online - There isn t a laser beam or alien life form in sight. It belongs to that preStar Wars tradition of science-fiction films, such as Kubrick s 2001: A Space Odyssey and Tarkovsky s Solaris, that probe the Big Stuff: God, Reality and What Makes
Source: entertainment.timesonline.co.uk

Neptune hurls 4-hit shutout vs. Jenks
Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise - But, even more than all that, there s just a certain kind of savage satisfaction anytime Bartlesville beats Jenks at anything. It feels excellent, Neptune said. It feels really good. Utilizing a laser-accurate fastball and pinpoint
Source: www.examiner-enterprise.com

Prince mourns friend killed in Iraq
Daily Telegraph - The photograph released of the soldier shows her holding an SA80 assault rifle with laser sights, night vision goggles, the latest body armour and pouches stuffed with ammunition. Friends within the battalion described her as a “genuinely selfless
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Fredericksburg automates parking meter checks
Hampton Roads Daily Press - FREDERICKSBURG, Va. — The meter maid is being automated by a system that allows police officers to ticket violators without leaving their patrol cars. The system is called autoChalk. It uses video, laser and GPS technology to replace parking
Source: www.dailypress.com

Beaming Up 3-D Objects on a Budget
New York Times - Laser scanners with arrays of cameras can create digital models of objects that encode all the significant bumps, cracks, corners and facets of real things. Computers can enhance, morph or tweak the models before shipping them to 3-D printers
Source: www.nytimes.com

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7 April, 2007 | No comments

Question: Do Phone Chargers Waste Power? (Computer Laser Printers)

Question: Do Phone Chargers Waste Power?
CNBC - My laser printer, for instance, doesn’t have an “off” button, and sips 6 watts, according to the Kill A Watt. That costs me $10 a year. To cut off these trickles of electricity, you could connect your appliances to a power strip and turn it off when
Source: www.cnbc.com

The miracle anti-wrinkle cream that women in Ulster can’t do without
Belfast Telegraph - However, not everyone is convinced. Sue Woodall, from the Dundrum Skin Care and Laser Clinic, remains slightly cautious. “I’d have to study the science behind it, but I would be concerned whether it’s marketed as a cosmetic or medical cream.”
Source: www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Beaming Up 3-D Objects on a Budget
New York Times - Laser scanners with arrays of cameras can create digital models of objects that encode all the significant bumps, cracks, corners and facets of real things. Computers can enhance, morph or tweak the models before shipping them to 3-D printers
Source: www.nytimes.com

House OKs aid for blind hunters
Houston Chronicle - House Bill 308, which the House sent to the Senate on Thursday, makes hunting easier for legally blind hunters like McGowen by allowing them to use laser sight devices, which are currently forbidden for hunting in Texas. “This is so important and I
Source: www.chron.com

The forage rangers
Daily Telegraph - We are just saying, ‘Why don’t you just try a bit of experimentation?”’ says 43-year-old Xa as she strides with laser focus towards a large patch of nettles, donning a pair of gardening gloves to protect her fingers from stings as
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Laser-cooling brings large object near absolute zero
MIT News - Using a laser-cooling technique that could one day allow scientists to observe quantum behavior in large objects, MIT researchers have cooled a coin-sized object to within one degree of absolute zero. This study marks the coldest temperature ever
Source: web.mit.edu

‘Treatment of Cellulite with Mid-Infrared Laser’ Patent Allowed By
PR Newswire - ROSEVILLE, Calif., April 5 /PRNewswire/ — CoolTouch Inc., a pioneering manufacturer of medical lasers announced today that the United States Patent & Trademark Office has allowed the patent “Treatment of Cellulite with Mid-Infrared Radiation” to
Source: sev.prnewswire.com

Navy to use Northrop laser minesweepers
BusinessWeek - The U.S. Navy, facing growing threats from improvised explosive devices, is about to deploy new technology that for the first time will allow it to use airborne lasers to search for mines in coastal and oceanic waters. Gary A. Humes, the Navy’s mine
Source: www.businessweek.com

Hardware Laser TV to Take On Plasma and LCD
DailyTech - Laser TV will be here within a year to best plasma and LCD picture quality Plasma and LCD represent the two main technologies of choice for today s high definition televisions, but by this time next year, a third technology, called laser TV will
Source: www.dailytech.com

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5 April, 2007 | No comments

Raiding the house of pirates (Computer Laser Printers)

Raiding the house of pirates
Sunday Times South Africa - Upon further investigation, a mini factory on the roof was discovered with state of the art computer equipment including printers and cassette recorders used in the manufacturing. The reinforced ceiling also had numerous boxes containing music CDs
Source: www.sundaytimes.co.za

Latest News
dBusinessNews.com - distribution and service/repair agreement with Azerty de Mexico, the leading distributor of auto identification and computer Azerty has 12 years experience in this market. Adding Cognitive s new line of Compact Industrial C Series printers and
Source: denver.dbusinessnews.com

Holy Rosary reports sharp increase in check scams in past week
Fosters Daily Democrat - Coupled with the quality of home printers and the prevalence of online connections, these types of crimes are on the rise. There is a computer/high tech crime link on the Rochester Police Department website at www.rochesterpd.org explaining in more
Source: www.fosters.com

The semiconductor industry’s shattered supply chain must be
Chip Design Magazine - by the consumers, and as a way to differentiate their products from everyone else’s, IC designers in markets like printers Lloyd received a degree in Mathematical Science and Computer Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Source: www.chipdesignmag.com

Marketing Press offices List your company
Biz Community - We specialise in below the line territory, delivering strategic solutions that are creatively executed. We have four creative pods: Hello [Brand Strategy], Digital Media & Interactive [Hello Computer], Printed Promotional Material [Hello Brand] and
Source: www.biz-community.com

Killer Forms
Forbes - revived them for 2006 in legislation signed by President Bush on Dec. 20–after the IRS had sent the forms to the printers. That could send computer do-it-yourselfers running to the presumably less befuddled pros, who of course also use software.
Source: www.forbes.com

DisplayPort Is Approved as an Industry Standard Category: SOFTPEDIA
Softpedia - Now only some older dot-matrix printers are still being manufactured with the port for compatibility reasons with old objectives it is designed for, and as a result, this new version has widespread support among all the leading computer and
Source: news.softpedia.com

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4 April, 2007 | No comments

Transact to Enter Macau (Computer Laser Printers)

Transact to Enter Macau
MSN MoneyCentral - Company to Expand Global Reach into Dominant Hub of Fast Growing Asia Pacific Gaming Market WALLINGFORD, Conn., April 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — TransAct Technologies Incorporated TACT , a leading producer of market specific printers for transaction
Source: news.moneycentral.msn.com

Job Title Computer Sales Consultants
Armenia Diaspora - Be able to present the technical detailes of the Computers, Monitors, Printers, Copiers, other peripheries and accessories to the customers. Negotiate with the customers, offer choice and alternatives and sale the product. Assist the customers in
Source: www.armeniadiaspora.com

Xerox’s purchase moves it further into the small-business sector
Herald Tribune - NEW YORK: Xerox, the world’s largest maker of high-speed color printers, agreed Monday to buy Global Imaging Systems for about $1.5 billion to gain more small companies as customers. Global Imaging investors will receive $29 a share in cash, Xerox
Source: www.iht.com

Iraqi publishers compete with foreign literature
USA Today - BAGHDAD Under Saddam Hussein, government censors scrutinized manuscripts and shut down publishers if they were critical of the government. Printers of underground books and magazines, if discovered, disappeared into Saddam’s prisons. Number of
Source: www.usatoday.com

All-in-one printers have merit
San Francisco Gate - January February March April May June July August September October November December 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 Q: I went shopping for a new printer the other day and came away confused. It seems that all-in-one
Source: sfgate.com

KMR Tech Services
WBBM - KMR Tech Services to fix their computers, printers, monitors and network problems. KMR can repair your computer hardware, resolve Virus or Spyware issues and even custom build a new computer to your specifications! KMR Tech Services to fix their
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3 April, 2007 | No comments

Outside the box (Computer Laser Printers)

Outside the box
Newsday - It uses “blue” laser technology (technically it is a blue-violet color) rather than the red laser used for normal DVDs. The price / catalog factor . “I’ll buy a high-definition disc player when it’s $200,” my neighbor said. Only last week, Toshiba
Source: www.newsday.com

A merging of medicine and spas
Newsday - Botox injections to ease wrinkles around the eyes, filler injections to plump up the lips and laser treatments to reduce the redness of broken capillaries in the cheeks. Proimus headed home to consider her options. But she didn’t give much thought
Source: www.newsday.com

Messenger Completes Forty Percent Of Cruise Phase
Space Daily - The MESSENGER Laser Altimeter (MLA) will measure Venus’ brightness at 1064-nm by using its pulse return detector as a passive sensor. MLA will also pulse its laser in an attempt to measure the range to one or more cloud decks for several minutes near
Source: www.spacedaily.com

Let’s get into it
Chicago Sun-Times - We’re going to bring you two-page spreads Monday through Friday that laser in on Chicago commuting, health, travel, neighborhoods and shopping. Each will be loaded with news you can use. We’re also expanding Stephanie Zimmermann’s The Fixer column to
Source: www.suntimes.com

Fujitsu Develops Wavelength Tunable Laser
JCN Newswire - Tokyo, Japan, Mar 30, 2007 - (JCN Newswire) - Fujitsu Laboratories Limited today announced their development of a wavelength tunable laser for 10 gigabits per second (Gbps) dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM)[1] optical transmission. As a
Source: www.japancorp.net

Advanced Medical Optics Completes Acquisition of IntraLase
MSN MoneyCentral - We have taken a major step toward defining a new standard of care in laser vision correction,” said AMO Chairman, President and CEO Jim Mazzo. “Along with the recently announced acquisition of WaveFront Sciences, AMO now owns the most advanced
Source: news.moneycentral.msn.com

Market Report — In Play (LCRD)
MSN MoneyCentral - The first purchase order received under the subcontract calls for delivery of $5.9 mln in Green Cards and Laser Visas over the period from Mar through Sep 2007. General Dynamics is the prime contractor to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for
Source: news.moneycentral.msn.com

Timbaland: ‘Timbaland Presents Shock Value’
AccessAtlanta - Timbaland’s laser-focused sense of what pop should sound like has changed not only hip-hop but vast areas of pop, and it’s solidified here in daring beats and masterful arrangements. Yet the narrative pull that justifies the album format doesn’t hold
Source: www.accessatlanta.com

Navy awaits laser minesweeping
Navy Times - Sweeping along at 60 knots, a Navy helicopter equipped with a blue-green laser will soon be able to detect mines in water deeper than 40 feet. Using data collected during the sweep, the helicopter will return to the area and use a second, more
Source: www.navytimes.com

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2 April, 2007 | No comments

Twin Cities urged to overcome sibling rivalry (Computer Laser Printers)

Twin Cities urged to overcome sibling rivalry
Baltimore Sun - Twin Cities Vein and Laser Clinic; Twin City Fan and Blower; and Twin Cities Flooring and Foam. While St. Paul has undeniably humble roots - it was founded in 1840 as Pig’s Eye after a French Canadian trader settled the area - it wasn’t always this way
Source: www.baltimoresun.com

Airborne Laser passes initial test to track target
Los Angeles Daily News - EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE The development of a flying laser weapon to destroy ballistic missiles hit a major milestone when it showed it could detect and track a target. The Airborne Laser, a highly modified Boeing 747 based at Edwards Air Force
Source: www.dailynews.com

HRH Princess Sofia Regatta 2007 Report
Scoop - Andrew Murdoch is 7th equal in the Laser Class and Jo Aleh is 9th equal in the Laser Radial. The other classes that sailed today only managed one race and as only one of the three 470 Men’s groups managed to complete a race there are no overall
Source: www.scoop.co.nz

Printed Matter
New York Times - RP comes under different aliases such as additive fabrication and 3-D printing and covers a spectrum of techniques, including stereolithography, which uses resin, and selective laser sintering, which employs powdered metal, ceramic or plastic
Source: www.nytimes.com

GbE transceiver supports extended link distances
Electronic Engineering Times - The AFCT-57V6USZ features an advanced digital monitoring interface that continuously monitors operating temperatures, supply voltages, laser bias currents, transmitter optical output power and optical received power. It uses a 1550nm distributed
Source: www.eetasia.com

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1 April, 2007 | No comments

New printers offer fancy, useful features (Computer Laser Printers)

New printers offer fancy, useful features
Edmonton Journal - Top left, Samsung’s CLP-300 small colour laser; top right, Epson’s Stylus R1400 poster jet; bottom, Kodak’s portable G600 Dye Sub; and centre, Lexmark’s X9350 WiFi wireless all-in-one printer. Steve Makris, The Journal Email to a friend Printer friendly
Source: www.canada.com

What state workers have sacrificed
Detroit Free Press - Dimwit and her party so irrelevant is its laser-like obsession with perserving the public/parasitic sector at all costs. It takes a weak Republican candidate for governor and a retard in the White House for Gov. Dimwit and her Ship of Fools to sail
Source: www.freep.com

Fargo urges flood tax
Sacramento Bee - A helicopter will fly low over levees in Sacramento and West Sacramento using laser imaging to gather levee elevation data. The data will help the state decide how to spend $4.1 billion in bond funds that voters approved in November for flood projects
Source: www.sacbee.com

IntraLase Stockholders Approve Merger With Advanced Medical Optics
MSN MoneyCentral - IntraLase designs, develops, and manufactures an ultra-fast laser that is revolutionizing refractive and corneal surgery by creating safe and more precise corneal incisions. Delivering on the promise of ophthalmic laser technology, the IntraLase
Source: news.moneycentral.msn.com

Cheaper avenue to 65 nm?
EETimes.com - By coating wafers with a special polymer called DAPB (di-n-butylaminobiphenyl), a laser can solidify very fine features, since the polymer only becomes insoluble at the precise focal point of the laser. “The laser cross-links the polymer, which is a
Source: www.eetimes.com

Baseball 2007: Indians hoping to climb AL Central ladder
FOXSports.com - Peralta was bothered by blurry vision, which he thinks was corrected with offseason laser surgery. “I think I’m closer to the player from two years ago,” Peralta said. “It was a bad year last season. Baseball’s like that. Not everybody has a good year
Source: msn.foxsports.com

In brief
Baltimore Sun - Laser treatments do not permanently remove birthmarks known as port-wine stains, researchers have found. The stains, caused by enlarged capillaries in the skin, occur at birth in 0.3 percent of the population and are most prominent on the face. Since
Source: www.baltimoresun.com

Ask the LASIK Expert
KFOR - LASIK laser vision correction may free you from vision aids. After LASIK surgery, glasses or contact lenses may no longer limit your activities. LASIK is an opportunity to change your vision for the better, and to improve your sense of well-being
Source: www.kfor.com

New Imaging Techniques Provide Closer Look Inside Lungs
Forbes - Patients inhale helium that’s been exposed to laser light to make all of the atoms spin in the same direction. MR is used to track the polarized helium as it moves through the lungs. “We have moved from imaging the structure to imaging the function of
Source: www.forbes.com

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