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Minicom Advanced Systems announced today that Network Products Guide, industry’s leading information technology research and advisory guide has named AccessIT, a winner of the 2010 Product Innovation Awards. This annually venerated award recognizes and honors vendors, large and small, from all over the world with innovative and ground-breaking products that are bringing essential and incremental changes and are setting the bar higher for others...

Express Logic, Inc., the worldwide leader in royalty-free real-time operating systems (RTOS), announced today that Express Logic’s ThreadX RTOS has been selected by Wincor-Nixdorf for their reverse vending machines (RVMs). Wincor-Nixdorf’s reverse vending machines facilitate consumer returns of recyclable containers through advanced technology.

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) and the National Center for Food Safety and Technology (NCFST) today announced that they have entered into a collaboration to develop new scientific methods for food testing, with the goal of solving a wide range of persistent problems facing global food supply chains.

Agilent Technologies today announced a system that speeds and simplifies the use of DNA to identify fish species in food products, making this highly-accurate technique feasible for routine verification of seafood labeling and detecting species substitutions.

Agilent introduced the Instrument Control Framework (ICF), a software component making it faster and easier for third-party software to enable and control Agilent liquid chromatography (LC) systems in chromatographic data systems or workstations. Based on new standard instrument drivers from Agilent, ICF eliminates much of the delay and effort associated with software developers using low-level instrument control codes to write their own native d...

Manufacturers of security appliance equipment will soon have a highly scalable suite of turnkey solutions from Freescale Semiconductor, thanks to strong market acceptance from top ODMs, board manufacturers and independent software vendors.

Freescale Semiconductor is helping drive down the cost of next-generation eReaders with its i.MX508 applications processor, the first system-on-chip (SoC) to integrate advanced ARM Cortex™-A8 technology together with the newest hardware-based display controller from E Ink. Freescale’s highly integrated i.MX508 processor is designed to deliver the performance, energy efficiency and system cost savings necessary to help OEMs evolve and grow the...

NXP Semiconductors today announced fourth quarter sales of USD 1,130 million, a comparable increase of 8.0% over the third quarter of 2009 (nominal 9.3%) and a comparable increase of 12.6% over the fourth quarter of 2008. Sales continued to improve across each segment and region, with the exception of the Home business segment.

NXP Semiconductors and IBM today announced the final results of a landmark road pricing trial conducted in the Netherlands, which demonstrated that with the help of technology, drivers can be motivated to change their driving behavior, reducing traffic congestion and contributing to a greener environment. The six-month road pricing trial, conducted in the city of Eindhoven, was designed to provide the Dutch government with insights to address the...

Intense Ltd., developer of next generation semiconductor lasers, systems and solutions, today announced the release of two new Ultra High Brightness versions of the Power Core 808, a line of 808 nm multi mode laser engine chips that are easily customized to a wide variety of optics applications. The devices are ultra high brightness, low divergence, free space laser diodes with 25µm and 45µm apertures. Designed for thermal print, graphics, and ...