TOULOUSE, France and SANTA CLARA, California, February 26 /PRNewswire/ --

Intexys Photonics introduces its family of Optical Engines for parallel optics applications and more particularly for the Optical Active Cable emerging market.

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The Optical Engine Family consists of a (4+4) x5Gbit/s Infiniband compliant engine and a QSFP version just released. The family will also include a (4+4) x10Gbit/s engine in March with a 12x10Gbs engine in late 2008.

COVENTRY, England, February 26 /PRNewswire/ --

FARO Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: FARO) the world leader in portable computer-aided measurement hardware and software, announced the launch of its new family of 3D Laser Scanners called Photon 80 and Photon 20. The new Photons, which replace the company's Laser Scanner LS 880, 840 and 420, offer greater clarity, accuracy and portability.

"The Photon is FARO's sixth new product release in seven months," FARO President and CEO Jay Freeland said. "It represents not only our commitment to this product line and the diverse markets it benefits, but also our dedication to developing innovative 3D laser scanner technology faster than any other company in the world."

PRAGUE, Czech Republic, February 26 /PRNewswire/ --

- JetBrains and Headway Software Cooperate to Offer a New Exciting Product for Code Structure Analysis and Architecture Control, Compatible With IntelliJ IDEA

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JetBrains, creators of intelligent, productivity-enhancing applications, today announced the addition of an innovative code structure analysis product, Structure101, to the IntelliJ IDEA Companion Products Program.

MIT biologists have provoked soil-dwelling bacteria into producing a new type of antibiotic by pitting them against another strain of bacteria in a battle for survival.

The antibiotic holds promise for treatment of Helicobacter pylori, which causes stomach ulcers in humans. Also, figuring out the still murky explanation for how the new antibiotic was produced could help scientists develop strategies for finding other new antibiotics.

A research team from the University of Granada has managed to produce the most useful material to-date that will eliminate pollutants like benzene, toluene and xylene, organic solvents widely used in the hydrocarbon industry and generated by road traffic in cities.

The world-wide problem of the exposure to aromatic hydrocarbons has mainly focused its attention on benzene, which is considered to be harmful to health, even in low concentrations.

This material is a monolithic carbon aerogel with the advantage of not only being able to retain these pollutants: it can also be easily regenerated and can therefore be used in several cycles.

Using artificial cell-like particles, Yale biomedical engineers have devised a way to produce a 45-fold enhancement of T cell activation and expansion, an immune response important for a patient’s ability to fight cancer and infectious diseases.

The artificial cells, developed by Tarek Fahmy, assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Yale and his graduate student Erin Steenblock, are made of a material commonly used for biodegradable sutures. The authors say that the new method is the first “off-the-shelf” antigen-presenting artificial cell that can be tuned to target a specific disease or infection.

“This procedure is likely to make it to the clinic rapidly,” said senior author Fahmy. “All of the materials we use are natural, biodegradable already have FDA approval.”

CAMBRIDGE, England, February 26 /PRNewswire/ --

- Enhanced Support in ARM RealView Development Suite 3.1 Professional Significantly Reduces Initial Development Time and Ensures Optimal Tools Configuration for Specific TI Processors

DERRY, New Hampshire, February 26 /PRNewswire/ --

Cedar Point Communications, Inc., the leader in integrated Voice over IP (VoIP) switching technologies for service provider and enterprise telecommunications, announced today an expansion of its European footprint with an initial deployment in Germany with TKS Telepost Kabel-Service GmbH & Co, a subsidiary of Kabel Deutschland GmbH.

TKS Telepost Kabel-Service, a provider of English-language telecommunication services throughout Germany, has integrated Cedar Point's SAFARI C(Cubed) Multimedia Switching System at its cable headend at the U.S. Airbase in Ramstein, for the delivery of voice services to the United States Armed Forces in Ramstein and eleven other bases in Germany and Italy.

AUSTIN, Texas, February 26 /PRNewswire/ --

- Modules Provide Real-Time Communications Performance Using Award-Winning Stellaris(R) ARM(R) Cortex(TM)-M3-based Microcontrollers

NUREMBERG, Germany, February 26 /PRNewswire/ --

- Atmel's CryptoCompanion IC Eliminates the Need for Designers to Understand Complex Cryptographic Protocols and Algorithms