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RSS lensLaCie d2 Blu-Ray Drive
White Paper Because the data layer on a Blu-ray disc is placed much "Closer" to the laser lens than on a DVD/CD, the laser beam provides more precision. The LaCie d2 Blu-ray Drive uses a blue-violet laser and improved lens specifications (wavelength, NA... [25 Aug 2007]
More and More Companies Are Reaping the Rewards of IT and Software Asset Management: What Do They Know That You Don't?
White Paper This reactive model often leaves businesses scrambling to locate and assemble information regarding the whereabouts and entitlement status of specific software applications - wasting significant time and resources in the process - rather than... [06 Jul 2007]
Visibility Breakthrough: CooperVision Gains Clear Vision for Future
White Paper CooperVision has been helping contact lens wearers "see beyond the ordinary" since 1958. When CooperVision acquired Ocular Sciences, Inc.in 2004, the company became the world's third largest contact lens company. [02 Jun 2007]
Photos: High tech vans map out Europe
Photo The co-driver watches the screen to check image quality and to make sure nothing gets onto the camera lens. The Dutch company is one of two major European mapping organisations - the other being Navteq - that provide maps to sat-nav manufacturers. [21 May 2007]
Contact Lens Provider Has Clearer Vision of Business With New Data Warehouse
White Paper 1-800 CONTACTS, the leading contact lens provider in the world, sells to consumers across the United States through its Web site and toll-free call center. Company management was frustrated with its limited ability to directly access important data... [01 May 2007]
Fisheye Tree Views and Lenses for Graph Visualization
White Paper Composite Lenses are the result of the integration of several lens techniques. This paper presents interactive visual aids to support the exploration and navigation of graph layouts. It includes Fisheye Tree Views and Composite Lenses. [13 Dec 2006]
XQuery Flowers
White Paper XQuery's purpose is to find, retrieve, and rearrange data viewed through the lens of XML. Query is an XML query language developed and standardized by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). XQuery is the syntax, and XML expressions are what a person... [13 Oct 2006]
Eye Care Pioneer Looks to Outsourced Disaster Recovery Solution
White Paper In the wake of 9-11, CooperVision - a contact lens pioneer for decades, realized the importance of an offsite data center to their business continuance plans. They briefly considered implementing an offsite disaster recovery location managed by the... [09 Aug 2006]
Dan's China diary - day 17
Comment I pull out my camera and just as I'm taking off the lens cap, they all scarper at incredible speed. This is his warts-and-all diary, which appears daily this month. For in-depth coverage of this fact-finding trip inside China, including analysis... [26 Jun 2006]
Image-Processing System LSI for Digital Cameras Milbeaut M-4 Series MB91680
White Paper MB91680, the first product targeted for single-lens reflex and prestige-class compact cameras from FUJITSU, is fully capable of processing large, 2-line output CCD, and HDTV signals. MB91680 is the first product from M-4 Series to use the latest... [02 Jun 2006]
We are on the verge of another technological change; how findable are you?
White Paper Morville suggests that as we map the emerging shoreline that connects the land of atoms and the sea of bits, findability serves as a useful lens for seeing where we've been and what lies ahead. Where the Internet meets ubiquitous computing, the... [16 May 2006]
Are biometrics ready for the UK?
News There are options of using high-resolution photos or hand painting an iris pattern onto a contact lens that you can wear. With the ID cards scheme moving ahead, and Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown backing the use of biometrics, it seems... [23 Feb 2006]
Is Apple planning an iBook camera?
News The camera, which is integrated into the PC, includes an image sensor and a lens assembly, according to documents on the US patent office website. Apple has filed a patent for a laptop that has a camera built into the latch between the lid and the... [20 Sep 2005]
Factor Accumulation Without Diminishing Returns: The Case of East Asia
White Paper In particular, the paper analyzes their factor endowments in years 1965, 1977 and 1990, using the lens condition of Deardorff (1994). This paper investigates the similarity of the country endowments of the newly industrialized East Asian countries... [29 Jun 2005]
Nanotech sheds light on solar revolution
A specially treated camera lens could capture images in the dark by fielding infrared signals. Researchers at the University of Toronto have developed particles that potentially will make it easy, and cheap, to see in the dark. [18 Jan 2005]
