Optics
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Will Intel and USB make fiber optics mainstream?
News Chipmaker hopes its Light Peak project will bring fiber optic speeds to ordinary computer users, and USB could be logical path to get there.
Tags: Components, Intel Corp., Connector, Fiber-optics, Fiber, Video, Storage, USB, Cable, USB 2.0
Banking on the IT-sales connection
Insight Shee Tse Koon, Standard Chartered Bank's CIO for Singapore, shares the bank's inner workings of the close relationship between sales, technology and operations.
Tags: Security, Authentication and encryption, Banking, IT Management, IT budgeting
Canon LV-X1
Reviews This well-built and handsome-looking 2.7kg LCD projector is worthy of consideration by any mobile professional or home cinema enthusiast who doesn't need digital PC input.
Study: Video game play may improve eyesight
News Playing action video games may help adults improve their ability to notice subtle differences in shades of gray, according to a study.
Tags: Games, Video Game, Action Game, Training, Action Video Game, Video, video-game training, researcher, Microsoft Office, knowledge
IBM uses liquid metal to boost solar-cell efficiency
News The company's tech increases the power of the sun's rays by a factor of 10, using liquid metal to transfer the resulting heat from solar cells.
Tags: Green IT, Innovation, IBM Corp., Nanotechnology, Photovoltaics, Cell, Semiconductor, solar cell, researcher, power generation
GE holographic discs to sound Blu-ray death knell?
Techguide Is the death of Blu-ray, but a few years away? If GE can bring its holographic technology to the masses, then it very well may be.
Tags: Storage, Blu-ray, General Electric Co., IT Manager, Storage, DVD, Hologram, storage system, disc, optics
Can new bosses fix Alcatel-Lucent?
News news analysis Master telecom manager Verwaayen, abetted by French business savant Camus, already has a five-point plan to turn the equipment maker around.
Tags: Mobile/Wireless, Human resources, Executive recruiting, Alcatel, Telecommunications, phone, job, Paris, Lucent Technologies Inc., asset
Intel's Light Peak optical links could arrive in 2010
News Intel won't promise when its optical communication technology will arrive. But a fiber-optic company allied with the chipmaker says cables will be done early in 2010.
Tags: Components, Optical networking, R&D, Intel Corp., Computer, optical networking, Fiber-optics, network, Light Peak, Foci
Flextronics buys 2 fiber-optic makers to add sales
News Flextronics International Ltd said Friday it bought two fiber-optic equipment makers to help the world's second-biggest contract manufacturer win more business in the market for optical products.
Flextronics buys 2 fiber-optic makers to add sales
News Flextronics International Ltd said it bought two fiber-optic equipment makers to help the world's second-biggest contract manufacturer win more business in the market for optical products.
Alcatel-Lucent breaks data-speed record
News Labs tests achieve data transmission at 25.6 terabits per second.
Tags: Networking
Time dotCom on US$789m expansion; expects to double profit
News Time dotCom Bhd, manager of Malaysia's biggest fiber optics network, plans to spend RM3 billion (US$789 million) over five years to expand its phone and Internet services, its draft prospectus said.
Time dotCom on US$789m expansion, expects to double profit
News Time dotCom Bhd, manager of Malaysia's biggest fiber optics network, plans to spend RM3 billion (US$789 million) over five years to expand its phone and Internet services, its draft prospectus said.
Nikon to boost camera production in Thailand
News Expansion project is part of Nikon's plans to relocate its high-cost production base from Japan to Thailand.
Tags: Digital cameras, Offshoring
Time Engineering falls on report its telco unit IPO delayed
News Time Engineering Bhd, manager of Malaysia's biggest fiber optics network, fell as much as 5.3 percent on a report that the company's plan to sell shares in its main telecommunications unit may be delayed.
