Congratulations to Intel Fellow and director of Intel’s Photonics Technology Lab, Dr. Mario Paniccia who was just named “2008 R&D Magazine Scientist of the Year”. Paniccia is leading much of the innovation behind silicon-based photonic building blocks for future data communications. His body of work includes nearly 50 papers and nearly 70 patents.
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San Diego-based Qualcomm is set to receive $2.3B (1.7 Euros) in a patent licensing deal with Nokia, Nokia disclosed quietly in its third quarter results this week. The firms, which had been battling over patent infringement lawsuits, reached an agreement in July to give Nokia a license to use Qualcomm’s patents, but had not disclosed financial terms of the deal.
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Total Immersion, a French firm providing technology which interacts with a live video feed to provide “augmented reality,” said earlier this week that it has opened up a new lab in Los Angeles. The firm–which very recently opened up a U.S. headquarters, where the firm’s CEO is based–said the Interpublic Emerging Media Lab will support development and deployment of the firm’s augmented reality solutions for Interpublic agencies and their clients…. (more)
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The X Prize Foundation announced Thursday that it has received a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop a prize focused on the effective diagnosis of tuberculosis in the developing world. Amount of the grant was not disclosed. The foundation said the new prize would go to promote ways to promote better management of tuberculosis, which the group said is the world’s second most lethal infectious disease…. (more)
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San Diego-based Cytori Therapeutics disclosed earlier this week that it has scored a $15M loan facility from GE Healthcare Financial Services and Silicon Valley Bank. The firm, which develops products for the regenerative medicine market, said that the loan facility is made up for a term loan of $7.5M, plus the option to exercise an additional $7.5M term loan before December 12th…. (more)
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