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RSS ionSony to create its own 'iPod economy' with 20GB player
News The device will come with a lithium-ion battery and a LCD remote control that attaches to headphones. Sony will begin selling two hard-drive music players this autumn which, combined with its new music download service, will create an iPod-like... [01 Jul 2004]
Detecting Polymer Flaking in a Applied Materials P5000 Metal Etcher Using Liquid ISPM in the Subsequent EG3 Cleaning Process
White Paper Metal etch is a Vacuum process where a Reactive Ion Process and Arc Layer (anti reflective coating) are used to create metal pattern for interconnects on Semiconductor devices. This white paper shows how real time monitoring of particle levels in... [27 May 2004]
Signaling and Routing in Intelligent Optical Networks
White Paper This paper analyzes the root causes of several problems that service providers are facing and explains how moving toward the Intelligent Optical Network (ION) can help alleviate some obstacles. CIENA's LightWorks Architecture, which combines market... [25 Feb 2004]
RO Water Chemistry
White Paper As the pH increases above 9.6, hydroxyl alkalinity due to the presence of the hydroxide ion starts to occur. Alkalinity is comprised primarily of carbon dioxide, bicarbonate, carbonate and hydroxides. [25 Feb 2004]
Market Shift: From Legacy Infrastructure to Intelligent Optical Networking
White Paper Since 1996, the widespread deployment of high-capacity The Intelligent Optical Network (ION) is fundamentally changing the economics of the service-provider business model - simplifying networks and reducing the costs of operating them - and is... [25 Feb 2004]
Angular Dependence of DRAM Upset Susceptibility and Implications for Testing and Analysis
White Paper Heavy ion irradiations of two types of commercial DRAMs reveal unexpected angular responses. One device’s cross section varied by two orders of magnitude with azimuthal angle. Accurate prediction of space rates requires accommodating this effect. [25 Feb 2004]
Portable Devices Need High-Performance Battery Chargers
White Paper As a result, there have been great strides in battery technology, with lithium-ion and lithium-polymer among the more popular battery chemistries. The proliferation of portable devices in recent years has underlined the need for small, efficient... [25 Feb 2004]
Sprint ION Integrated On-Demand Network
White Paper Sprint ION is a breakthrough technology that lets the user attach simultaneous voice, data, video, Internet/Intranet and fax applications directly to the high-speed backbone network over a single connection through a proprietary hub. [25 Feb 2004]
Nano-Structured Surfaces for Tuned Infrared Emission for Spectroscopic Applications
White Paper Ion Optics has developed a variety of surface texturing processes that create specific nano-structures which alter the emissivity in predictable fashion. Random structures produced by ion beam etching create long and/or short wavelength cutoffs. [25 Feb 2004]
Tunable Narrow-Band Filter for LWIR Hyperspectral Imaging
White Paper The tunable liquid crystal etalon exhibited many of the characteristics predicted in our model, including a bandpass of 0.15 mm , transmsiion in the 8 to 10 um range, and sensitivity to polarization. Additionally, tuning was demonstrated over the... [25 Feb 2004]
Recent Advances in the Miniturization of Infrared Spectrometers
White Paper The MicroSpec is designed to be operated by a laptop computer. The user interface software was designed by our collaborators at NeuroDyne, Inc. Cambridge, MA) and shows the graphical user interface (GUI) and the measured output of the MicroSpec... [25 Feb 2004]
Toshiba nearer to using methanol fuel cells to power laptops
News The consumer electronics industry is rushing to find ways to replace the nickel cadmium batteries and lithium ion batteries that today power most portable electronic devices. Toshiba next week plans to exhibit a fuel cell prototype that it says has... [06 Mar 2003]
Cisco to Sprint: 'You show them ours and we'll show them yours'
News Previously their union was tarred by the failure of the Ion high-speed network project, which promised to enable users to phone, fax and surf the web over a single phone line but was axed in October 2001. [19 Dec 2001]
Ion charges into CRM sector with comm-Centric
News CRM company Ion Group has launched comm-Centric - a complete 'switch and software' package for medium-sized call centres. The company claims the offering offers "unrivalled cost efficiency and all round functionality".comm-Centric has been tested... [17 Dec 2001]
Sprint sheds 7,500 jobs and scraps services
News Sprint is to axe 7,500 jobs as a result of the decision to shut down its ION consumer and business telecoms services in an effort to cut costs. According to William T Esrey, chairman and CEO of Sprint, the tough economic climate means the company... [18 Oct 2001]
