04/18/2005 SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 18, 2005--PURE Bioscience today announced it has signed an agreement licensing Ciba Specialty Chemicals to market and sell PURE's silver dihydrogen citrate antimicrobial.
04/18/2005 (April 18, 2005) San Jose, Calif. — SEMI and the Silicon Integration Initiative (Si2; Austin, Texas), have agreed to partner in order to bring up the increasing cost and complexities associated with design for manufacturability (DFM). Designers, manufacturers, and technology providers increasingly need to collaborate in addressing the difficulties of manufacturing, according to both organizations.
04/18/2005 WASHINGTON, April 15 /PRNewswire/ -- The latest attacks on effective germ-killing products are more about hype and headlines than real-world science, according to The Soap and Detergent Association (SDA).
04/18/2005 April 18, 2005 - The Silicon Integration Initiative (Si2) and SEMI today announced a partnership agreement to address the increasing cost and complexities associated with design for manufacturability (DFM) of ICs. A number of both near-term and ongoing-term collaboration efforts are planned.
04/15/2005 WASHINGTON, April 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Continuing reductions in foodborne illnesses in the United States announced by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) correspond to continuing reductions in pathogenic bacteria on meat and poultry products, according to the American Meat Institute Foundation (AMIF).
04/15/2005 (April 15, 2005) San Jose, Calif. — Moore's Law could stay effective for another 15 to 20 years by overcoming several challenging obstacles, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA). April 19th marks the 40th anniversary of chip-industry pioneer Gordon Moore's observation that the number of components on a silicon chip was doubling just about every year. Since then, Moore's Law has been the most important competitive benchmark for the industry.
04/15/2005 The movie industry has its Golden Globes. This month the television industry will introduce another kind of golden globe to viewers: metallic nanoshells.
Rice University researcher Naomi Halas will make her debut on national television this month with the airing of an eight-minute segment on the PBS show, NOVA scienceNOW. The episode is scheduled to run at 8 p.m. April 19.
04/14/2005 EXTON, Pa., April 14, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- ViroPharma Incorporated today announced the presentation of data by industry experts describing the sharp increase in severity and incidence of disease caused by the bacterium Clostridium difficile.
04/14/2005 SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 13, 2005--Silicon Valley Technology Center (SVTC), a division of Cypress Semiconductor Corp., and American Semiconductor, Inc. (ASI), announced that ASI will be using SVTC's R&D manufacturing services to commercialize its Flexfet advanced Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) CMOS wafer fabrication process for manufacturing.
04/14/2005 (April 14, 2005) San Jose, Calif. — Tessera Technologies has appointed Liam Goudge as senior VP of the Emerging Markets and Technologies Group—newly created within Tessera to expand the company's portfolio into new areas of electronics miniaturization. Goudge will report to Bruce McWilliams, chairman and CEO of Tessera.
04/14/2005 EMERYVILLE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 14, 2005--Chiron Corporation today announced that the South African National Blood Service (SANBS) plans to initiate testing of whole blood donations using the fully automated PROCLEIX TIGRIS System with the PROCLEIX ULTRIO Assay beginning in September 2005.
04/14/2005 (April 14, 2005) San Diego, Calif. — StratEdge has been recertified, with no non-conformances, to ISO 9001:2000 by Det Norske Veritas (DNV). Achieving ISO 9001:2000 indicates that specific requirements for a quality management system have been met, such as a product that meets customer and applicable regulatory requirements.
04/14/2005 April 14, 2005 - Global sales of chipmaking equipment in February fell 2.5% from a year earlier to 2,429.91 million dollars, an industry survey showed Wednesday, according to Jiji Press Ltd. It was the first year-on-year drop in 19 months, according to data compiled by the Semiconductor Equipment Association of Japan and Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International.
04/14/2005 China Automotive Systems Inc. of Hubei Province, China, announced it signed a joint venture agreement with Sensor System Solutions Inc. of Irvine, Calif., to produce sensors for the automotive market.
04/14/2005 If there's anything I took away from the Stephens Nanotechnology Investors Conference last week in Pasadena, Calif., it was this: If nanotech ever takes on Wall Street in a big way, it will appear to happen suddenly. Expect nano companies to be as opportunistic as they can – to file with the SEC if the market seems ready and to follow up as rapidly as possible with the IPO. Of course when, or even if, this will happen is another matter altogether.
04/13/2005 (April 13, 2005) Sunnyvale, Calif. — Silicon Storage Technology Inc. (SST) has acquired Actrans Systems Inc., a privately held, Hsinchu, Taiwan-based fabless IC company that designs flash memory and EEPROM. SST plans on integrating Actrans' split-gate NAND flash technology into its licensable IP portfolio.
04/13/2005 April 13, 2005 - Toshiba Corp. and Samsung Electronics Co. will soon start to mass-produce 0.85-inch hard-disk drives, the world's smallest, to replace flash memories as the main storage medium for cellular phones, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported in its Tuesday evening edition.
04/13/2005 FLORHAM PARK, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 12, 2005--EasyClone 384 replaces traditional freezer storange methods and offers first of its kind, single device for entire sample archiving and purification workflow, enabling faster DNA mining and discovery.
04/13/2005 VANCOUVER, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 13, 2005--MIV Therapeutics Inc., a developer of next-generation biocompatible stent coatings and drug delivery technologies, announced today that it will conduct a presentation about its proprietary biocompatible medical device coating technology at the 4th European Symposium of Vascular Biomaterials in Strasbourg, France, scheduled for May 11-13.
