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Nationwide car wraps manufacturer, JMR Graphics, comments on the introduction of new police cars in Dubai for event promotion. Bohemia, NY (PRWEB) May 20, 2013 On May 20, JMR Graphics discusses the use of vinyl car graphics on Dubai’s police force to promote an event. According to an article in The National published on May 17th, 2013 , several expensive vehicles have been added to Dubai’s “fleet of high-speed exotics” featuring Dubai’s distinctive colors to advertise their bid...
Laptopbackpacksource.com is currently building an entirely new website, which will be released in the near future to support its growing presence in the laptop backpack and carrying case industry. The web store will be updated to have a more modern look with additional features to make shopping for a laptop transportation solution even easier. Las Vegas, NV (PRWEB) May 20, 2013 Laptopbackpacksource is dedicated to creating the best shopping experience possible in the laptop backpack and...
LogMyCalls , the award-winning call tracking application, celebrates its 1 year anniversary—already boasting more than 1000 customers. St. George, UT (PRWEB) May 20, 2013 LogMyCalls, the next-generation of call tracking and call analytics, is celebrating its one year anniversary. LogMyCalls emerged from Beta in May 2012. LogMyCalls is celebrating its one-year anniversary by offering $40 off their Pro service plan. So instead of paying $69/month, you’ll pay only $29/month. To take...
Partnership Provides SOMAX Cloud-Based CMMS / EAM to Burgeoning Mexican Market Alpharetta, GA (PRWEB) May 20, 2013 SOMAX, Inc. has announced that they have reached a partnership agreement with Dragons De Vera Cruz, a leading supplier of American and European products and services in Mexico. The agreement allows Dragons De Vera Cruz to sell and support SOMAX’s world class, cloud-based and on-site CMMS and EAM solutions in Mexico. “We are very pleased to add Dragons De Vera Cruz as our...
Award Honorees to be Recognized at ISTE 2013 Conference, June 23-26, in San Antonio WASHINGTON, D.C. (PRWEB) May 20, 2013 Today the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE®) announced the outstanding education leaders that will be honored at the world’s premier educational technology event, ISTE 2013, in San Antonio, June 23-26. “The 2013 ISTE award honorees are living examples of the how educators are, right now, using thought leadership, advocacy and innovation...
Winners Revealed at 25th DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation. WILMINGTON, Del. (PRWEB) May 20, 2013 Recloseable packaging and microwaveable plastic trays were named top packaging breakthroughs that most impacted peoples’ lives over the last 25 years in an on-line survey hosted by DuPont. Together the two categories of invention captured 48 percent of the votes. The online survey was available to industry professionals from April 9 through May 10, 2013. Reclosable packaging, which...
The Riveer Total Aircraft Washing System (TAWS®) is being deployed to a growing number of air stations and field ops as both military and commercial aviation mounts a growing battle against corrosion on fixed wing and rotary aircraft. South Haven, MI (PRWEB) May 20, 2013 The Riveer Total Aircraft Washing System (TAWS®) is being deployed to a growing number of air stations and field ops as both military and commercial aviation mounts a growing battle against corrosion on fixed...
Sharp’s proprietary IGZO (Indium Gallium Zinc Oxide) technology will be on show in the Sharp booth during Display Week 2013 (May 21 - 23 in Vancouver, BC). The LCDs will include 11.6-inch and 31.5-inch QFHD displays, a 15.6-inch QHD+ display, and a 13.3-inch 4K/2K (ultra-HD) OLED display. Camas, WA (PRWEB) May 20, 2013 Today, Sharp Microelectronics of the Americas (SMA) announced that LCDs and OLEDs powered by Sharp’s proprietary IGZO (Indium Gallium Zinc Oxide) technology will be on...
Sharp announces several expansions to its TFT-LCD offerings, including a new "Value IA" line, PCAP, Automotive-Grade IA and Performance Consumer LCDs. Camas, WA (PRWEB) May 20, 2013 Today, Sharp Microelectronics of the Americas (SMA) announced several expansions to its Industrial Strength LED-backlit TFT LCD product offering. These include: new PCAP (Projective Capacitive Touch) displays; Automotive-Grade displays for Industrial Applications (IA); new Wide Aspect Ratio LCDs...
According to a new market report published by Transparency Market Research, "Powder Coatings Market for Automotive, Electronics, Architectural and Industrial Applications - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast, 2012 - 2018," the global powder coatings demand was 1,680.0 kilo tons in 2011 and is expected to reach 2,667.6 kilo tons in 2018, growing at a CAGR of 6.8 percent from 2012 to 2018. Browse the full report at...
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The Fairchild Channel F is a game console manufactured by Fairchild Semiconductor that was released in August 1976. It was the first programmable ROM cartridge-based video game console as well as the first to use a microprocessor. The original name for the system was the Video Entertainment System, but when Atari released their VCS the name was changed to Channel F. By 1977 sales had reached 250,000 and was second to the Atari VCS. The Channel F, using an F8 CPU, produced enough AI to use...
The RCA Studio II was released in January 1977 by RCA as a video game console. It had black and white graphics that were similar to Pong consoles. Game control used two built-in ten button keypads instead of controllers. The keypads made it difficult for two player games to be played because the players would have to sit so close together. It was discontinued in 1979. It used a switch box for the RF modulator and power supply. The sounds produced from the unit were comprised of varying...
The Bally Astrocade is a video game console and simple computer combination manufactured by Midway. The original name was the Bally Home Library Computer released in 1977 by mail order only, but shipments were delayed and the system was renamed the Bally Professional Arcade. In 1979 Bally sold the Consumer Product Division and a partnership was formed and in 1981 the system was released as the Bally Computer System. In 1982 the name was changed to the Bally Astrocade and production of the...
The Cybook Opus is an e-book reader produced by Bookeen from France, released on July 27, 2009. The operating system for the Opus is Linux with an open source firmware. In June 2010, Bookeen published and improved firmware with a one-second mode which allows the device to be turned on and off in one second. It also keeps the last page read open and the user does not have to reboot each time. There is no keyboard and it does not have a dictionary or bookmarks. There is no internet access...
The Cybook Gen3 is an e-Reader designed for reading e-books, e-news, and for listening to audio books or MP3 music. It was produced by Bookeen, a French company, and released on October 29, 2007. The display is a six-inch E-Ink screen using 166 dpi, black and white, 2-bit grayscale and on the gold edition 8-bit grayscale was used. The screen is readable under sunlight and only uses the battery for turning pages, giving it 8,000 page flips of battery life. The Gen3 uses a 200MHz CPU;...
