Applied Physics

No Chairs And 'Walking' Meetings? Welcome To The Office Of The Future

Mayo Clinic endocrinologist James Levine, M.D., Ph.D., has laid out some environment-changing innovations with a six-month study of a real-life office that was re-engineered to increase daily physical activity, a program called NEAT (non-exercise activity ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 2 2008 - 11:05am

ARCADIS Divests Copijn To Hoek Hoveniers

ARNHEM, The Netherlands, August 4 /PRNewswire/-- ARCADIS (EURONEXT: ARCAD), the international consulting, design, engineering and management services company, today announced that it will sell Copijn to Hoek Hoveniers from Voorhout, the Netherlands. Copij ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Aug 4 2008 - 1:30am

Military: 30 Percent Robot Forces By 2020, Say Researchers

The first thing iRobot Corporation wants you to know, because they have been asked so many times, is that the Packbot is no Terminator- and never will be. Robots in the military are not the stuff of science fiction but their mission parameters are very spe ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 4 2008 - 5:53pm

INCAT Lands Major New IT Services Contract At Jaguar Land Rover

LONDON and PUNE, India and DETROIT, August 5 /PRNewswire/--- Jaguar Land Rover appoints INCAT as Application Transition Vendor and Application Management Services provider in a move that underscores INCAT's leadership in IT and engineering management ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Aug 4 2008 - 11:30pm

C++ Creator And ISO C++ Chair To Deliver Two Day Super Session At TechInsights' Embedded Systems Conference Boston 2008

SAN FRANCISCO, August 5 /PRNewswire/--- Bjarne Stroustrup, Inventor of the Programming Language, Will Present Alongside ISO C++ Chair Herb Sutter on Next Generation Device Development TechInsights (http://www.techinsights.com/) today announced that Bjarne ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Aug 5 2008 - 7:30am

Sonos Introduces The Sonos ZonePlayer 120 And Sonos ZonePlayer 90

HILVERSUM, The Netherlands, August 5 /PRNewswire/--- Wireless Range and Amplifier Design Innovations Deliver State of the Art Multi-Room Music Experience Sonos(R), Inc., the leading developer of wireless multi-room music systems for the home, today introd ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Aug 5 2008 - 9:30am

His Royal Highness Prince Feisal Ibn Al-Hussein Of Jordan To Deliver Opening Session Keynote Address At Inaugural WaterSmart Inn

LAS VEGAS, August 6 /PRNewswire/--- Brother of King Abdullah II Chairman of Royal Water Committee His Royal Highness Prince Feisal Ibn Al-Hussein of Jordan, who as a chairman of the Royal Water Committee is active in water resource management and alternat ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Aug 6 2008 - 12:33am

Addax Petroleum Announces Record Second Quarter 2008 Results

CALGARY, Canada, August 6 /PRNewswire/--- 83 Per Cent Increase in Funds Flow From Operations to USD524 Million- 190 Per Cent Increase in Net Income to USD293 Million- 8 Per Cent Increase in Production to 132.9 Mbbl/d Addax Petroleum Corporation ("Add ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Aug 6 2008 - 8:33am

Cloud Computing And Next Generation Anti-Virus Software

A 'cloud computing', applications and services provided seamlessly on the Internet, approach to malicious software detection developed at the University of Michigan could make old antivirus software techniques a relic of the past. Traditional ant ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 6 2008 - 5:50pm

Today, Stretchable Optoelectronics- Tomorrow, Artificial Retina

By combining stretchable optoelectronics and biologically inspired design, scientists have created a remarkable imaging device, with a layout based on the human eye. As reported in the Aug. 7 issue of the journal Nature, researchers at the University of Il ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 6 2008 - 6:15pm