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Siemens Hearing
Instruments, Inc., a leading manufacturer of hearing instruments in the
United States, continues their commitment to personalizing solutions for
those with hearing loss. Their new Motion(TM) line of hearing instruments
were announced at this year's International Congress of Hearing Aid
Acousticians (EUHA) in Leipzig, Germany, from October 15-17, 2008.
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Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the acquisition of Qumranet, Inc. The acquisition includes Qumranet's virtualization solutions, including its KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) platform and SolidICE offering, a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), which together present a comprehensive virtualization platform for enterprise customers.
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Hynix Semiconductor, Inc. today announced that it is using MetaRAM’s new DDR3 technology in its next generation R-DIMMs, including the world’s first 16GB 2-rank DIMM (HMT32GR7AER4C-GD), which it will demonstrate at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco (August 19th – 21st). Hynix’s new 16GB and 8GB (HMT31GR7AER4C-GC) 2-rank DIMMs can triple DDR3 memory capacity in servers and workstations, enabling the world’s highest memory capacity per channel without degrading performance.
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As nearly 1.5 million
people, and more than 40,000 custom vehicles gather in the Motor City for
the world's largest one-day automotive event, the Woodward Dream Cruise,
Bosch salutes the significant achievements and innovations of the North
American automotive industry.
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Seagate (NYSE:STX) today unveiled the industry’s first 1.5-terabyte desktop and half-terabyte notebook hard drives to meet explosive
worldwide demand for digital-content storage in home and business environments.
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As museums continue to digitize their art collections, it becomes increasingly easier for paintings to be forged. Two Penn State researchers are part of an international team working on a digital system to help detect original works from counterfeit ones.
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Microsoft Corp. today announced plans to acquire Rapt Inc., the leading provider of advertising yield management solutions for digital media publishers.
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Gateway, Inc. (NYSE:GTW) today introduced the new Gateway XHD3000 30-inch Extreme HD Display, the world's first "Quad-HD" display, delivering more than four times the resolution of standard 720p high definition along with advanced display technology. As a result, it's ideal for consumers who want a truly remarkable, cinema-quality viewing experience.
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To support its embedded technology customers, Intel Corporation announced today plans to extend its embedded NOR flash products to the 65-nanometer (nm) generation.
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SunEthanol Inc., a biofuels technology company, announced today that it has secured funding to commercialize the Q Microbe, a unique natural bacteria capable of converting cellulose into ethanol. Series A financing for developing patent-pending cellulosic ethanol technology around the Q microbe has been provided by VeraSun Energy (NYSE: VSE), Battery Ventures, Long River Ventures and AST Capital.
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AMD (NYSE: AMD) today made available a new specification describing "Light-Weight Profiling" (LWP), a technology designed to increase the performance of software applications by providing a mechanism that allows software to more effectively leverage the benefits of multi-core processing. The LWP specification describes the first technology that supports a recently introduced initiative called "Hardware Extensions for Software Parallelism," which will encompass a broad set of innovations designed to improve software parallelism, and thus application performance, through new hardware features in future versions of AMD processors.
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BenQ today announced a new line of LCD monitors targeting at high performance and value-focused home and business users. The new E Series LCD monitors offers 13 models (E700, E700N, E700A, E900, E900A, E900N, E900W, E900WA, E900WN E2000W, E2000WA, E2200W, E2200WA) ranging from traditional 4:3 to 16: 10 widescreen, and all models feature an ultra-fast 5ms response time, a sweeping viewing angle of up to 170 degree, BenQ's proprietary Senseye+Photo Technology and beautiful LED ambient illumination.
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Nokia today announced that it is introducing a licensing and multisourcing model for its chipset strategy. This will allow Nokia to focus on its core competencies in chipset development, leverage external innovation, and foster competition in the chipset industry. Under this renewed strategy Nokia will discontinue parts of its own chipset development and expand its use of commercially available chipsets.
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Wikia, Inc. the leading provider of community resources for building and organizing free content on every topic, today announced that Intellisophic, Inc., the leading publisher of subject-specific taxonomy, thesaurus and vocabulary products for the search, categorization and text-mining industry, has agreed to make its high-performance categorization software available via open source in conjunction with the Search Wikia project.
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Sprint Nextel (NYSE: S) and Clearwire (NASDAQ: CLWR) plan to jointly construct the first nationwide mobile broadband network using WiMAX technology, and promote the global development of WiMAX-based services.
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Touch Bionics, developer of the world's first commercially available bionic hand, today announced that its i-LIMB Hand and ProDigits partial hand prostheses are now generally available and have been successfully fitted to a significant number of patients across the United States and in Europe.
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Today, id Software unveiled their never-before-seen next-generation game engine technology, id Tech 5™, running on a Mac at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference. This revolutionary new technology will power the studio's internally created new game property and will be available for licensing to third parties. Previous iterations of id technology have powered games with worldwide retail sales totaling more than $1 billion, cementing id's status as the premier technology provider for the industry.
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Intel and One Laptop per Child (OLPC) today announced they have agreed to work together to bring the benefits of technology to the developing world through synergy of their respective programs. Under the agreement, Intel and OLPC will explore collaborations involving technology and educational content. Intel will also join the board of OLPC.
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Transmeta Corporation (NASDAQ: TMTA) and AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that AMD has invested $7.5 million in Transmeta in exchange for Transmeta preferred stock.
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Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. has introduced the largest (70 inch) commercially available full high-definition LCD TV in Korea. The new TV boasts Samsung's very best image enhancement technologies and employs a light-emitting diode (LED) backlight instead of the conventional cold cathode fluorescent lamp (CCFL) version.
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