Attend Asia-Pacific Optical Communications (APOC), one of the world’s major conferences in optical communications. Your participation is important in this international forum.

ICBEMM 2009 : International Conference on Business, Economics, Management and Marketing

Organized by: World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: Not available.

Please see http://www.jaabc.com
Organized by: JAABC
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 6 February 2009

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Premiere conference for academics in all business disciplines. Refereed journal publication possible for papers presented at conference.

Website: http://ibsindia.org/
Contact name: Dr. S. Vijayalakshmi

Organized by: IBS, Hyderabad
Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 15 September 2008

Don't miss the definitive conference that demonstrates the employee communicator's critical role in delivering profits, quality products and happy customers.

Professional eye and vision care in an artful setting with an emphasis on patient care, customer service and style.

TurnHere, Inc., produces Internet video for a variety of businesses across the globe including media, real estate, small businesses, travel and financial services.
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Recently, studies conducted on potential applications of quantum technology utilizing the optical and electrical domains have attracted a considerable amount of interest. Quantum technology possesses the characteristics necessary to become the fundamental functional architecture for future computer processing and communication technologies.

Family-owned ClearVision has operated for almost 60 years as one of the world's leading distributors of prescription eyewear and sunwear. Operating throughout the United States and in 40 countries around the world, the company has consistently expanded its business while staying true to its mission of making a meaningful, positive impact on the lives of its customers, employees, business associates and the community.

Mintera® Corporation, the high bit-rate optical transport systems solution leader, today announced that Mike Hamilton-Smith has joined the company as Vice President of Sales for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). “Mintera’s customer base in EMEA has expanded significantly and we are extremely pleased that Mike is joining our team to support our rapid growth,” said Mintera President and CEO, Terry Unter.

Shares of $405 million (market cap) optical component maker Finisar (FNSR) are up 13 cents, or 11%, today at $1.31, after the company last night announced sales and profit that beat estimates following Finisar’s merger with fellow component maker Optium, announced back in May.

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Efficient Creation Innovations, Inc. (ECI) has named Dr. Steven C. Furlong as Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, responsible for the design and development of ECI’s novel technology. Dr. Furlong is an optical physicist and patent engineer with over 25 years of experience designing a wide variety of custom optics and optical sensor systems for military, communications and medical applications and is a Patent Engineer with the Altera Law Group, LLC in Minneapolis, MN.

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"We're building from scratch an instrument for the UNM Cancer Research and Treatment Center that will make an optical image with a resolution of better than one nanometer," said UNM Physics Professor Jean-Claude Diels, the lead investigator in the program who won the Optical Society of America's Engineering Excellence Award in 2006. "This is considerably less than the wavelength of light, which is generally considered to be the resolution limit for imaging."

In hopes of keeping customers and expanding business on the west side of the river, McDonald Optical will open a new location in the Coral North development. The new location will be just north of Interstate 80 at the Coral Ridge Avenue exit in the same shopping center as Buffalo Wild Wings, Texas Roadhouse, Golf USA and Bed, Bath & Beyond. Don McDonald, company vice president who oversaw the University Hospitals' location, said the hospital optical care location closed Memorial Day weekend.

Italian and Japanese scientists have demonstrated a laser based wireless communications system which has achieved a record transmission of 1.28 Terabit/s (or 1280 Gigabit/s) in a free air link between two transceivers installed on the roof of the CEIIC building and on the roof of the Building A at the Italian National Research Council around 210 meters away.

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