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National Institute of Standards and Technology Sets LED Lighting Standards

LED lightbulbs are already available on the market, such as the one shown here (manufactured by the C. Crane Company, available from discoverpower.com) which retails for $34.95 and lasts ten years. DiscoverPower advertises that you can run it 12 hours a day for a cost of 80 cents a year.

OECD issues final report for nanotechnology standards workshop

(Nanowerk News) The International Workshop on Documentary Standards for Measurement and Characterisation in Nanotechnologies was held February 26-28, 2008 at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg (USA), in co-ordination with ISO, IEC, NIST and the OECD. The participants discussed the development, efficacy, harmonisation and uptake of documentary standards broadly relevant to the field of measurement and characterisation for nanotechnologies.

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IE8 Breaking Microsoft's Web Standards Promise?

An anonymous reader points out a story in The Register by Opera Software CTO Hakon Lie which tells the story of how Microsoft's interoperability promise for IE8 seems to have been broken in less than six months. Quoting: "In March, Microsoft announced that their upcoming Internet Explorer 8 would: use its most standards compliant mode, IE8 Standards, as the default. Note the last word: default. Microsoft argued that, in light of their newly published interoperability principles, it was the right thing to do. This declaration heralded an about-face and was widely praised by the web standards community; people were stunned and delighted by Microsoft's promise. This week, the promise was broken."

Making Strides Toward Low-Cost LED Lighting

Roland Piquepaille writes "You all know that incandescent bulbs are pretty inefficient, converting only 10% of electricity into light — and 90% into heat. Light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, could soon replace incandescent and compact fluorescent bulbs in our homes. They are more efficient and environmentally friendly. But LED lights are currently too expensive because they are using a sapphire-based technology. Now, Purdue University researchers have found a way to build low-cost and bright LEDs for home lighting. According to the researchers, the LED lights now on the market cost about $100 while LED lights based on their new technology could be commercially available within a couple of years for a cost of about $5. It would also help to cut our electricity bill by about 10%.

Sunovia Energy Technologies Inc. Acquires Exclusive Rights to LED Lighting Patents

a renewable energy and energy conservation company, announced today that it has acquired the exclusive rights to patents that allow it to expand its existing product offering into the extended-life and security LED lighting markets. The patents acquired, which include a critical electromechanical patent, enable Sunovia's EvoLucia(TM) LED lighting fixtures to differentiate between a power failure and the power being turned-off at the switch. This proprietary feature allows Sunovia the ability to market LED lighting products that remain illuminated during power outages. This system integration is especially important in countries that experience frequent blackouts and also to domestic customers that are concerned with weather events. Currently, the availability of products with this important feature is limited to a hardwire fixture that

Center for Biological Diversity: Conservation Group Uncovers More Holes in Proposed National Gas-Mileage Standards

SAN FRANCISCO - August 18 -In comments filed today, the Center for Biological Diversity highlighted legally fatal flaws in the Bush administration’s latest inadequate fuel-economy standards for cars, pickups, and SUVs. The administration’s proposal and accompanying environmental review were systematically skewed in order to keep fuel-economy standards unreasonably low.

Nigeria: NISTL Accredits Science Laboratory Technology Programme at Lautech

In its determination to make the nation's universities offering Science Laboratory Technology (SLT) degree programme conform with minimum academic and professional standards, the Nigerian Institute of Science Laboratory Technology (NISLT) has taken its inspection tour to Ladoke Akintola University of Technology.

USA. Northeast Maritime Institute develops coating technology that repeals water from all consumer electronics

Golden Shellback is a unique coating that protects material against damage caused by exposure to water. The technology was developed by Northeast Maritime Institute, a private maritime education and training Institute located in Fairhaven Massachusetts. The Institute's creed is "Honor The Mariner".

Best and Worst Coding Standards?

An anonymous reader writes "If you've been hired by a serious software development house, chances are one of your early familiarization tasks was to read company guidelines on coding standards and practices. You've probably been given some basic guidelines, such as gotos being off limits except in specific circumstances, or that code should be indented with tabs rather than spaces, or vice versa. Perhaps you've had some more exotic or less intuitive practices as well; maybe continue or multiple return statements were off-limits. What standards have you found worked well in practice, increasing code readability and maintainability? Which only looked good on paper?"

ULDAGE Releases Joint Patent License for Japanese Digital Cable Broadcasting Standards

ULDAGE Releases Joint Patent License for Japanese Digital Cable Broadcasting Standards TOKYO, Aug. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- ULDAGE Inc. announced today that the Patent Pool License for Digital Cable Broadcasting Standards is scheduled to be available in October, 2008. The License includes essential patents owned by at least following 13 companies. Kenwood Corporation, France Telecom/Telediffusion de France, Hitachi, Ltd., Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Nippon Hoso Kyokai (NHK), Pioneer Corporation, Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Sharp Corporation, Sony Corporation, Thomson Licensing S.A., Toshiba Corporation, and Victor Company of Japan, Limited. The discussion among those 13 companies took place since May 2008 and they agreed on the following terms of license for launching the license program.

BBC embraces H.264 and AAC for online video and audio services

"The BBC has always been a strong advocate and driver of open industry standards. Without these standards, TV and radio broadcasting would simply not function. I believe that the time has come for the BBC to start adopting open standards such as H.264 and AAC for our audio and video services on the web. These technologies have matured enough to make them viable alternatives to other solutions," Erik Huggers, BBC Director of Future Media and Technology writes on the BBC iPlayer blog.

BBC's Open Player Claims Not Followed Through

ruphus13 writes "BBC's iPlayer was originally built on Microsoft's DRM-protected technology, and has never really been liked by folks like the FSF. The BBC is trying to play nice, though, recently claiming, 'the BBC has always been a strong advocate and driver of open industry standards. Without these standards, TV and radio broadcasting would simply not function. I believe that the time has come for the BBC to start adopting open standards such as H.264 and AAC for our audio and video services on the web.' This article argues that actions speak louder than words, and this is where the BBC falls short. 'The fact that both AAC and H.264 are encumbered with patent licenses that make their distribution under free licenses problematic flies in the face of this definition.

New Hadco Inground Fixture sets Standards for Waterproofing Effectiveness; Patented Engineering Earn

Littlestown, PA (PRWEB) August 3, 2008 -- Inground lighting remaining leak-free in up to one meter of temporary standing headwater has been introduced by Hadco, one of the world's premier manufacturers of specification-grade exterior architectural lighting. Dual rated IP66/IP68, the new i2.5 inground fixture creates a category of its own for waterproofing, efficiency and effectiveness.

Know Your Lighting When Using Your Digital Camera

As many of you venture off on summer vacations, you'll probably be bringing along a digital camera (if you're still using film, stop being stubborn and/or lazy, and buy a digital camera, Grandpa). One of the major things that plague amateur photographers is lighting. Whether it's a lack of lighting, or too much lighting, either can make your pictures look horrid. That's why, when I saw this article on USA Today offering five lighting tips, I thought it would be good to share it with all of you. Whether you're going to another country or simply hanging out with friends, don't let bad lighting ruin your pictures.

Tumbleweed to Use Certicom's Elliptic Curve Cryptography Technology

(RTTNews) - Certicom Corp. (CIC.TO: News, Chart, Quote ) and Tumbleweed Communications Corp. (TMWD: News, Chart, Quote ) announced that Tumbleweed Communications would use Certicom's Security Builder family of solutions. Certicom's elliptic curve cryptography technology provides one of the highest standards of encryption for customers and will help Tumbleweed streamline future Federal Industry Protections Standards or FIPS 140-2 and Suite B compliance efforts.

Guidance for securely using SSL VPNs, mobile devices

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has released a guide to virtual private networks that use Secure Sockets Layer technology, comparing and contrasting them with IPSec and other VPN solutions.

NIST revises guidelines for IT security metrics

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has released a revised version of guidelines for developing metrics to ensure that agencies meet information technology security requirements.

Light Touch: Controlling The Behavior Of Quantum Dots

Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI), a collaborative center of the University of Maryland and NIST, have reported a new way to fine-tune the light coming from quantum dots by manipulating them with pairs of lasers.

Wrigley Science Institute executive director receives prestigious food technology career award

CHICAGO, July 21, 2008 – Gilbert A. Leveille, PhD, executive director of the Wrigley Science Institute (WSI) has been selected as the 2008 recipient of the prestigious Institute of Food Technologists' Nicholas Appert Award, one of the highest honors in food science and technology. Dr. Leveille received this lifetime achievement award at the 2008 IFT Annual Meeting and Food Expo on June 29, 2008 and joined an esteemed panel of Nicholas Appert Award recipients that has spanned 65 years.

Near-Edge X-ray Absorption Fine Structure Spectroscopy of Diamondoid Thiol Monolayers on Gold

Materials Science and Technology Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, California 94550, Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, 476 Lomita Mall, Stanford, California 94305, Institute of Organic Chemistry, Justus-Liebig University, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 58, 35392 Giessen, Germany, MolecularDiamond Technologies, Chevron Technology Ventures, 100 Chevron Way, Richmond, California 94802, Materials Chemistry Department, Sandia National Laboratories, 7011 East Avenue, Livermore, California 94550, and Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720

Crystal Plane Dependent Growth of Aligned Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes on Sapphire

Graduate School of Engineering Sciences, Institute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering, Kyushu University, Kasuga, Fukuoka 816−8580, Japan, PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Kawaguchi, Saitama 332-0012, Japan, and Nanotechnology Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST),Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8565, Japan

Vegas 'Quantum Spookshow' Demos On-the-Fly Encryption of Streaming Video

Las Vegas shows often are on the cutting edge. Following this tradition, researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their colleagues at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have landed gigs this week at Caesar's Palace and the Riviera Hotel and Casino to perform live demonstrations of quantum cryptography, theoretically the most secure form of encryption.

Company Reinforces Community Commitment with Donation to National Science and Technology Museum of Milan

MILAN, Italy, Sept. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Spansion Inc. , the world's largest pure-play provider of Flash memory solutions, today reinforced its community commitment with a donation to the National Science and Technology Museum of Milan. The donation was presented to representatives of the Museum at Spansion's official opening of its Security and Advanced Technology Division (SATD) headquarters in Agrate Brianza.

Company Reinforces Community Commitment with Donation to National Science and Technology Museum of Milan

MILAN, Italy, Sept. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Spansion Inc. (Nasdaq: SPSN), the world's largest pure-play provider of Flash memory solutions, today reinforced its community commitment with a donation to the National Science and Technology Museum of Milan. The donation was presented to representatives of the Museum at Spansion's official opening of its Security and Advanced Technology Division (SATD) headquarters in Agrate Brianza.

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