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| Nikon Metrology to deliver the most powerful industrial microfocus CT system in North-America to Chesapeake Testing | 7/9 | Nikon Metrology announces that Chesapeake Testing has ordered a combined 225-450kV microfocus X-ray and computer tomography (CT) system. Chesapeake Testing primarily selected this powerful inspection system for its highly accurate 450kV source, the only microfocus X-ray source at this energy. The system's powerful source, walk-in bay and Panel Shift capability allow Chesapeake Testing to scan large objects up to 39' wide made of dense materials such as metals, ceramics and composites. The system  | | |
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| European collaborative research to develop lab-on-chip system for cheap and fast cancer diagnosis | 1/9  | | Leuven, Belgium - September 1, 2010 - Today, at the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC) in Buenos Aires (Argentina), imec and its project partners announce the launch of the European Seventh Framework Project MIRACLE. The MIRACLE project aims at developing an operational lab-on-chip for the isolation and detection of circulating and disseminated tumor cells (CTCs and DTCs) in blood. The new lab-on-chip is an essential step towards faster and cost-efficient diagnosis of cancer. | | |
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| Option reports First Half Year 2010 results | 31/8 | | Leuven, Belgium - August 31, 2010 - Option N.V. (EURONEXT Brussels: OPTI; OTC: OPNVY), the wireless technology company, today announced its results for the first half fiscal year ended June 30, 2010. The financial information reported in this release is presented in Euros and has been prepared in accordance with the recognition and measurement criteria of IFRS as adopted by the European Union. The accounting policies and methods of computation followed in the attached financial statements are | | |
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| TiGenix announces the grant of a US patent for ChondroMimetic | 31/8 | Leuven (Belgium) - August 30, 2010 - TiGenix (NYSE EURONEXT: TIG) announces that the US Patent & Trademark Office has granted a new patent for ChondroMimeticT.
This new patent (US 7,780,994) entitled 'Composite biomaterials comprising calcium phosphate materials, collagen and glycosaminoglycans' describes and claims the composition of and methods to produce a composite material comprising a triple coprecipitate of collagen, one or more glycosaminoglycans (GAG) and calcium phosphate. This patent | | |
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| Amplexor zet collaboration platform | 26/8 | Leuven, 26 augustus 2010 - Amplexor, specialist in Enterprise Content Management (ECM), zorgde voor een volledige implementatie van een collaboration platform bij het Interdisciplinair Instituut voor Breedband Technologie (IBBT). Via dit platform (MyBBT) wordt samenwerking mogelijk gemaakt tussen projectmedewerkers met zeer verschillende achtergronden en werkzaam op diverse locaties. Tegelijk biedt het platform een eenvoudig communicatiekanaal tussen alle betrokken partijen.
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| TiGenix announces spin-out of its targeted drug discovery activities in newco Arcarios | 26/8 | | Leuven (BELGIUM) - August 25, 2010 - TiGenix (NYSE EURONEXT: TIG) has entered into an agreement with its academic partners, the Catholic University Leuven (KULeuven) and Ghent University(UGent), the Dutch company Therosteon and a consortium of investors for the creation of a new small molecule drug development company, Arcarios, that will focus on the discovery and development of innovative, disease modifying drugs that target bone and joint diseases. TiGenix has a significant equity stake in | | |
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| Steunplafond KMO-Portfeuille verlaagd voor de pijler advies | 25/8 | | Het kabinet van Kris Peeters, Vlaams minister voor Economie, Buitenlands Beleid, Landbouw en Plattelandsbeleid, deelt mee dat sinds de invoering van het systeem van de kmo-portefeuille op 1 januari 2009 het aantal aanvragen voor de pijler advies exponentieel gestegen is. Hierdoor dreigt het voorziene budget vroegtijdig opgebruikt te worden. Om dit probleem te voorkomen heeft de minister beslist het steunplafond van de pijler advies te verlagen van maximaal 5.000 euro per jaar naar maximaal 2.500 | | |
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| Investing for the future | 16/8 | Allard-Europe has been a reliable partner for companies around the world for many years. Every day, new cast parts are produced in our steel and iron foundry mill using the latest technologies and highly advanced machinery. Together with our team, we intend to continue to live up to our position as a market leader, which is why we are investing some 20 million euros in new machinery, buildings and capacity.
2009 - 2012 investment plan:
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| ICsense wins 18% new projects YTD | 4/8 | The focus on last year's sales activities, in particurlarly during the global financial recession of 2008-2009, has paid off. ICsense's YTD (Year-to-date) statistics of July 2010 show a project increase of 18% compared to the amount of projects kicked off in the same period last year.
ICsense further extended its amount of employees to support the growth. The design team has grown with 22 % since July 2009 and is composed of 27 analog designers and layouters as of this summer.
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| imec: Verloren warmte recupereren om elektriciteit te winnen | 2/8 | | Leuven, België -2 augustus 2010 - Imec heeft een nieuwe technologie ontwikkeld om warmte die verloren gaat bij bvb. de productie van staal, glas of zelfs warm water met een hoge efficiëntie om te zetten in elektriciteit. Net zoals zonnecellen de energie van de zon omzetten in elektriciteit, zetten thermofotovoltaïsche cellen de straling van warmtebronnen met een temperatuur lager dan die van de zon om in elektriciteit. Imec's technologie is een belangrijke stap naar marktintroductie van | | |
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| Sigasi announces first funding round | 29/7 | Ghent, Belgium - June 25, 2010 - Sigasi, a Ghent-based high tech EDA start-up, announced that it has closed its first round of funding. The investors in this round are Baekeland Fund II, the venture seed fund of Ghent University, business angels, and the team.
Sigasi was founded in January of 2008 by two PhD's from Ghent University. The company was initially financed by seed capital provided by the founders, by subsidies from the Flemish government via the Agency for Innovation through | | |
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| Transparency Information | 27/7 | Leuven (BELGIUM) - July 23, 2010 - TiGenix (NYSE EURONEXT BRUSSELS: TIG)publishes the information in accordance with articles 15, 18 and 29 of the Belgian Act of May 2, 2007 and the Royal Decree of February 14, 2008, regarding the publication of major holdings in issuers whose securities are admitted to trading on a regulated Belgian market.
TiGenix has received a notification with regard to the participation in TiGenix NV of F&C Asset Management Ltd, having its registered office at 80 George | | |
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| Imec reports breakthrough in narrow pitch interconnects | 14/7 | SEMICON WEST - SAN FRANCISCO (CA) - BOOTH 1934 SOUTH HALL - JULY 13-15, 2010
Leuven, Belgium - July 13, 2010 - Imec sets major step towards 20nm half pitch interconnects with the realization of electrically functional copper lines embedded into silicon oxide using a spacer-defined double patterning approach.
'We are very proud to be the world's first in developing and processing such small on-pitch working interconnects;' said Zsolt Tokei, program director interconnects at imec. | | |
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| Imec and ASML demonstrate potential of 193nm immersion lithography with freeform illumination | 14/7 | SEMICON WEST - SAN FRANCISCO (CA) - BOOTH 1934 SOUTH HALL - JULY 13-15, 2010
Leuven, Belgium - July 13, 2010 - Imec and ASML collaborated to qualify ASML's Tachyon Source Mask Optimization and programmable illuminator system FlexRayT, proving its potential with the demonstration of a 22nm SRAM memory cell. In October 2010, the ASML XT:1900i lithography scanner at imec will be equipped with FlexRayT, enabling imec to step ahead and further explore the ultimate frontiers of immersion | | |
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| DE INNOVATIE-TIENKAMP VAN QIVINO | 8/7 |  Innoveren voor nieuwkomers, een verhaal van vallen en opstaan
Vele ondernemers in de meest uiteenlopende sectoren worden er regelmatig mee geconfronteerd. Nieuwe initiatieven om efficiënter en doeltreffender te kunnen werken met een beter resultaat, maar die de verwachtingen niet of onvoldoende inlossen. En aangezien elke ondernemer de perfectie nastreeft zijn er drie mogelijkheden. Ofwel laat hij het nieuwe initiatief of het vernieuwende product voor wat het is. Ofwel gaat hij verder op zoek | | |
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| Amplexor krijgt nieuwe thuisbasis | 8/7 | Content management specialist neemt intrek in Arenberg Wetenschapspark.
Leuven, 5 juli 2010 - Het Arenberg Wetenschapspark te Leuven (Heverlee) is voortaan de nieuwe thuisbasis van Amplexor. De content management specialist verlaat haar kantoren in het Holsbeekse bedrijvenpark De Vunt om haar intrek te nemen in een state of the art gebouw met ecologisch karakter.
Bedrijf in expansie
Als gevolg van haar gestage groei is Amplexor anno 2010 aan uitbreiding toe. De kantoren in De Vunt | | |
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| Amorfix Life Sciences and reMYND announce testing agreement for the A4-Alzheimer's test | 6/7 | Toronto, Ontario and Leuven, Belgium - July 6, 2010 - Amorfix Life Sciences Ltd. (TSX:AMF) and reMYND NV today announced the signing of a partnership agreement to offer the Amorfix A4 amyloid testing service to reMYND's contract research clients. reMYND's contract research business offers an extensive portfolio of preclinical in-vivo efficacy, pharmacokinetic and safety testing of experimental Alzheimer therapies using proprietary mouse models of Alzheimer's disease (AD).
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| Comprehensive sound source localization solutions maximize efficiency | 1/7 | New cutting-edge near-field acoustic holography contributes to top HD results
LMS International continues to offer the most extensive range of sound source localization techniques. Two recent additions to the portfolio, the LMS Test.Lab High Definition Acoustic Camera and LMS Test.Lab 3D Acoustic Camera, separate acoustics cameras for exterior and interior sound source localization respectively, shed new light onto even the most complex sound source localization issues.
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| Real-time-ready LMS Imagine.Lab AMESim featured at Real-Time 2010 | 1/7 | Innovative 1D software platform makes HIL simulation simpler and faster
LMS will showcase the power of its system simulation platform, especially its link with real-time targets at the Real-Time 2010 Conference held in Paris, France from June 27th until June 30th, 2010.
Participants will want to catch the presentation 'Re-use of multi-domain design plant models for controller and system performance testing' during the conference sessions on Monday, June 28th at 12:00 in the Sidney | | |
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| Deloitte Technology Fast50 competition | 1/7 | Election of the 50 fastest growing technology companies
Deadline for registration: 1 August 2010.
Online registration is now available
For the eleventh year Deloitte and its co-sponsors organise the Deloitte Technology Fast50.
Participants can be public or private, and encompass all technology industry segments including software, internet, biotech/pharmaceutical/medical equipment, computers/peripherals, semiconductors/components/electronics, telecommunications/networking, | | |
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| LMS extends its SCADAS Mobile front-end series | 30/6 |
LMS extends its SCADAS Mobile front-end series with new 16-channel system and hyper-efficient E-series input modules
As the trend in testing continues to focus on tighter deadlines with significantly reduced resources, LMS continues to innovate and extend its comprehensive testing portfolio with new products like the LMS SCADAS Mobile 02 and hyper-efficient E-series input modules.
The latest LMS SCADAS Mobile 02 with its 16 channels is a powerful yet compact and lightweight data | | |
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| European Commission opens investigations of WWAN modem imports | 30/6 |
LEUVEN, Belgium - 30 June 2010 - Option (Euronext: OPTI; OTC: OPNVY), the wireless technology company, notes that today the European Commission has opened an anti-dumping investigation of imports of wireless wide area networking (WWAN) modems from China. Option had requested the investigation and immediate registration of imports because of the severe injury caused by the sharp increase of obviously dumped imports into the European market.
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| Option collaborates with Qualcomm to provide new Gobi embedded solutions | 29/6 | | LEUVEN, Belgium - June 30 2010 - Option (Euronext: OPTI; OTC: OPNVY), the wireless technology company, today announced that it is working with Qualcomm (Nasdaq: QCOM) to develop and deliver customized global embedded connectivity solutions based on the new Gobi(TM) 3000 platform. Option is one of the first companies with whom Qualcomm is partnering to bring these high speed 3G solutions to the market. Both companies have been working together on earlier generations of the Gobi platform and have | | |
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| Imec reports asymetric nanostructures for early and more accurate prediction of cancer | 23/6 | Tech Connect World, Anaheim (US), June 22, 2010 - Researchers at the nanotechnology research centre imec (Leuven, Belgium) have demonstrated biosensors based on novel nanostructure geometries that increase the sensitivity and allow to detect extremely low concentrations of specific disease markers. This paves the way to early diagnostics of for example cancer by detecting low densities of cancer markers in human blood samples.
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| Option: iCON USB modem adds wireless broadband to Pioneer's new car navigation system | 19/6 | LEUVEN, Belgium - June 17 2010 - Option (Euronext: OPTI; OTC: OPNVY), the wireless technology company, today announced that Pioneer Corporation has selected Option as its trusted partner for a second wireless project in the Japanese market. Option's new iCON® wireless USB modem will add broadband connectivity to Pioneer latest car navigation systems.
An iCON USB modem, a SIM card and a data plan from SoftBank Mobile network are provided with each new car navigation system. The wireless car | | |
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| AnSem develops a novel architecture for FM Car Radio | 15/6 | | Leading car manufacturers challenged AnSem to rethink current architectures of FM receivers for the automotive market. The result is a novel radio architecture that meets the high demanding car radio RF specifications and lowers the bill of material. During the system design, AnSem made extensive use of its development tools M-REX for receiver modeling and architecture definition and PLLOP for PLL design and optimisation. The architecture features a fully integrated, low power fractional-N | | |
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| Meet AnSem at the Bits & Chips Hardware conference 2010 | 15/6 | June 17, 2010 - Eindhoven, The Netherlands
AnSem exhibits at the Bits&Chips Hardware Conference 2010. We are looking forward to meeting you on our booth.
About the Bits&Chips Hardware Conference 2010.
The Bits&Chips Hardware Conference 2010 is an event organized for high level professionals and technical managers from the high end electronics and IC design community. The goal of the event is to stimulate exchange of information and creation of contacts.
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| Materialise Builds a Replica of King Tut! | 15/6 | 08 Jun 2010
In 1922, the treasure-filled tomb of 'The Boy King', King Tutankhamun, was discovered and created a sensation. During the 1970s, the magnificent artifacts were brought to the public in a touring exhibition. These treasures are back ..but you've never seen King Tut like this before!
Materialise is well known in the industry as a leader for Additive Manufacturing solutions. When a replica of King Tut's mummy needed to be built in an expedited fashion, who else but Materialise | | |
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| Driving dynamics and real-time systems modeling are key LMS topics at Vehicle Dynamics Expo 2010 | 14/6 | LMS International will highlight its comprehensive solution portfolio during the Vehicle Dynamics Expo 2010 in Stuttgart, Germany. Interested participants will be able to attend expert presentations about the latest tools and techniques at the Open Technology Forum and visit the LMS International stand (#5530) for a live demo of an advanced real-time simulation model.
Participants interested in the latest engineering techniques regarding car body flexibility and its influence on vehicle | | |
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| Optus offers Australian mobile users a USB modem personalised for football tournament in South Africa | 11/6 |
LEUVEN, Belgium - June 11 2010 - Option (Euronext: OPTI; OTC: OPNVY), the wireless technology company, today announced that Optus has selected the iCON® XY to launch their wireless broadband promotion for the football tournament in South Africa. The iCON XY is Option's total solution, setting new standards in customization, as not only the USB modem itself is fully customizable but also the software, via uCAN Connect®, and the packaging.
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| LMS: Automotive industry raves about new time-domain acoustic BEM solver | 9/6 | Power-packing technology responsible for better and faster acoustic design
The latest version of the simulation platform LMS Virtual.Lab Acoustics integrates a powerful time-domain BEM solver developed by IMACS, a spin-off of the Ecole Polytechnique in France. This powerful back-engine lets acoustic engineers perform realistic simulations very efficiently and gain more insight into a wide variety of acoustic issues including for instance engine injection ticks, tire noise and door slams - | | |
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| Positive 5-year ChondroCelect follow-up results to be presented at ESSKA | 9/6 | Leuven (BELGIUM) - June 8, 2010 - TiGenix NV (NYSE EURONEXT: TIG) announces that the 5-year follow-up results of the ChondroCelect® TIG/ACT/01/2000 pivotal
clinical study will be presented this week at the 14th ESSKA Congress in Oslo, Norway. The results confirm the durability of the therapeutic effect of ChondroCelect
and clearly illustrate that early treatment results in superior long-term clinical outcomes.
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| Intel, imec and Five Flemish Universities Open Flanders ExaScience Lab | 9/6 | New Lab to Develop Solar Flare Prediction as Driver for Intel's Future Exascale Supercomputers.
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS
- Intel, imec, the Flemish Agency for Innovation by Science and Technology (IWT) and five Flemish universities announced the opening of the ExaScience Lab in Leuven, Belgium
- The lab's goal is to achieve breakthroughs in power reduction and reliability, an effort critical to extend today's supercomputer architecture to exascale levels of performance, or speeds 1,000 times faster | | |
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| Onderzoekscentrum Holst Centre eerste om flexible OLED werkelijk toe te passen | 9/6 | Eindhoven zorgt voor wereldpimeur tijdens 24u van Le Mans
Eindhoven, 9 juni 2010 - Tijdens de 24-urenrace van Le Mans op 12 en 13 juni zal het Franse raceteam Oreca aan de start komen met een unieke wagen. Dankzij de technologie van het Eindhovense Holst Centre, een initiatief van imec (B) en TNO (NL), zijn in de achteruitkijkspiegels flexible OLEDs verwerkt. De lichtindustrie voorpselt een grote toekomst voor deze nieuwe manier van verlichting, maar totnogtoe beperkte hun zichtbaarheid zich | | |
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| Imec inaugurates first phase in its high-tech pole expansion | 9/6 | | Leuven, Belgium - June 8, 2010 - Imec today officially opens the extension of its state-of-the-art cleanroom at its campus in Leuven, Belgium. Moreover, imec also kicks off the construction of a new office building fitting in its plan for further expanding its high-tech ecosystem. With these extra 18,000m2 cleanroom, lab and office space, imec will have a research campus of 80,000m2 that can stand the comparison with any other high-tech research center worldwide. As such, imec aims at playing an | | |
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| Thrombogenics publiceert goede tests | 8/6 |
Het Leuvense biotechnologiebedrijf Thrombogenics heeft veelbelovende tests van microplasmine gepubliceerd. Thrombogenics heeft op het World Opthalmology Congress in Berlijn nieuwe resultaten van een studie naar microplasmine bekendgemaakt, een middel dat kan worden gebruikt om aandoeningen aan de achterkant van het oog te genezen zonder chirurgische ingreep. Thrombogenics stelde dat microplasmine bij de helft van de patiënten een gaatje kon genezen, wat een hoger percentage is dan bij eerdere | | |
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| ABLYNX AND REMYND SETTLE DISPUTE AMICABLY | 2/6 | GHENT and LEUVEN, Belgium, 2 June 2010 - Ablynx NV [Euronext Brussels: ABLX] and reMYND NV announced today that they have reached a settlement concerning a dispute relating to a collaboration agreement to discover and commercialize new Nanobodies® which Ablynx and reMYND entered into in 2003.
In 2007, Ablynx was notified by reMYND that a difference of interpretation existed in respect of Ablynx's contractual obligation to reMYND under the 2003 agreement. Under this agreement, Ablynx had the | | |
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| TiGenix Business and Financial Update for the First Quarter of 2010 | 25/5 | Leuven (BELGIUM) - May 19, 2010 - TiGenix (NYSE EURONEXT: TIG) gives a business and financial update as of March 31, 2010.
Business Update
Commercial roll-out of ChondroCelect® in Europe
During the first quarter of 2010, TiGenix has begun the commercial launch of its lead product, ChondroCelect, in Germany, Belgium, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
While working towards reimbursement in our key target markets, the first 'prereimbursement' ChondroCelect patients have been treated | | |
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| Samenwerking met Chinees halfgeleiderbedrijf Huali geeft imec China een vliegende start | 25/5 | Leuven, België - 25 mei 2010 - Imec opent vandaag officieel zijn nieuwe vestiging imec China in het Zhangjiang High-tech Park in Shanghai, China. De opening wordt bekrachtigd door de ondertekening van een belangrijke samenwerkingsovereenkomst met het halfgeleiderbedrijf Huali voor het ontwikkelen van geavanceerde chipprocestechnologie.
China's wereldwijde economische invloed is onmiskenbaar. Het land toont een groeiende interesse om te investeren in geavanceerde technologieën, en is daardoor | | |
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| Access to TSMC technologies through leading European partners: imec and DELTA partner to provide comprehensive ASIC solutions | 18/5 | Leuven, Belgium and Copenhagen, Denmark - 18 May, 2010 - Imec, certified TSMC Value Chain Aggregator (VCA), and DELTA Microelectronics, a leading provider of ASIC services, have concluded a cooperation agreement to provide customers in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) with comprehensive TSMC-based turnkey and partial turnkey ASIC services.
This agreement combines the strengths of these two recognised players in the EMEA microelectronics industry. Imec as certified TSMC Value Chain | | |
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| FMTC COORDINATES EUROPEAN RESEARCH ON DESIGN METHODS FOR ENERGY EFFICIENT MACHINES | 17/5 |
Machines of the future will have to consume much less energy than the current generation of machines. Flanders' MECHATRONICS Technology Centre vzw (FMTC) brought together a European consortium that will develop methods for designing energy efficient machines.
Estimates show that reductions up to 30% of the consumed energy are achievable by taking energy consumption systematically into account as a parameter during the machine design.
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| LMS and G.R.A.S. establish an acoustics partnership to strengthen solutions portfolio for acoustics testing | 7/5 | | LMS International and G.R.A.S. recently concluded an acoustics partnership to provide an integrated solutions portfolio for acoustic testing and analysis, and jointly develop new innovative solutions for acoustics engineering. LMS provides data acquisition systems and analysis software for a broad range of acoustic engineering applications, including sound intensity and sound power testing, material testing, pass-by noise testing, sound source localization and sound quality. G.R.A.S. is one of | | |
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| Imec successfully concludes 2009 thanks to strengthened global open innovation | 4/5 | | Leuven, Belgium - April 30 2010 - At today's General Assembly, the imec Board announced the results of 2009. Despite the severe economical downturn, 2009 was a satisfying year for imec. Imec's total revenue amounted to 275 million euro, including 222 million euro coming from collaboration with the global industry. 44.7 million euro was granted to imec Belgium by the Flemish government, to guarantee imec's long term research and investment in new research initiatives, and imec the Netherlands at | | |
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| AnSem awarded Trends Gazelles 2010 | 3/5 | On March 17th 2010, Trends announced the Trends Gazelles 2010 for the province of Flemish Brabant (Belgium). AnSem obtained the 6th position in the category of small-sized companies.
Trends is a leading Belgian financial and business newsmagazine. As a Trends Gazelle, AnSem belongs to the fastest growing companies that significantly contribute to the economic dynamism of the region, in terms of employment, innovation, competitiveness and creative entrepreneurship.
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| AnSem announces profit in 2009 | 3/5 | During the Annual General Meeting held on April 20, 2010, AnSem's shareholders have approved the results of the fiscal year 2009. AnSem is pleased to announce that the company ended once more the fiscal year with a positive result. This sets AnSem's track record of profitability to the 12th year in a row and confirms AnSem's dedication to be a stable and solid partner to its customers.
'Although the economy has been challenging in 2009, AnSem has been able to finish the year with a | | |
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| Materialise helps bring Pier Luigi Nervi back to life | 3/5 | Complete scale models of Nervi's buildings reconstructed in stereolithography on Materialise Mammoth machines.
Leuven (BELGIUM), 30 April, 2010. Materialise is playing its part for art by constructing 12 scale models of Italian artist, Pier Luigi Nervi's architectural masterpieces to be shown at an exhibition that will tour the globe, beginning this June in Brussels.
As the first major exhibition devoted to Nervi's entire career, the Brussels exhibition, entitled 'Pier Luigi Nervi, | | |
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| Option trading update - first quarter 2010 | 29/4 | LEUVEN, Belgium - April 29, 2010 - Option (EURONEXT Brussels: OPTI; OTC: OPNVY), the wireless technology company, today announced that during the first quarter of 2010 the Company generated revenue of EUR 13.1 million. The continuing pressure of Chinese competition on the commoditized USB modem market in particular explains the continuing market share losses, stressing the need for the product repositioning strategy currently underway.
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| Option announces changes to the Board and publishes consolidated and statutory report 2009 of the Board of Directors | 16/4 | Leuven, Belgium - April 15, 2010 - Option (Euronext: OPTI; OTC: OPNVY), the wireless technology company, today announces a reorganisation of its Board of Directors and the publication online of its consolidated and statutory report 2009 in preparation of the Annual Shareholders Meeting that will be held on April 30, 2010 at 9.00AM in the Option offices in Leuven (Belgium).
Following the decision of Visinnova BVBA, represented by Patrick Desmedt, and Jan Loeber to leave the Board (effective | | |
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| imec Virtual Camera (iVC), the ultimate angle on reality | 12/4 | Las Vegas, US - NAB Show - April 12, 2010 - At the NAB Show in Las Vegas, the nanotechnology research center imec presents imec Virtual Camera (iVC), a revolutionary new video technology for dynamic viewing and advanced image manipulation.
Imec Virtual Camera turns the input from fixed cameras into a 3D space where the Director or cameraman has the total freedom to choose any angle or distance to the action. iVC gives the Director a flying camera that he can easily steer anywhere he wants to | | |
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| Dow Corning and imec collaborate on high-efficiency, low-cost silicon solar cells | 7/4 | Leuven, Belgium - April 7, 2010 - Dow Corning, a global leader in silicones, silicon-based technology and innovation, signed a three-year contract with imec to perform joint research on next generations of crystalline silicon solar cells. In the framework of imec's industrial affiliation program (IIAP) on silicon solar cells, Dow Corning has joined several program activities.
With its silicon solar cell IIAP, imec has set up a research ecosystem with the aim to create innovative processes to | | |
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| Punch Powertrain secures 24 million euro capital | 6/4 | Leuven, Belgium: 31 March 2010 - Gimv and Capricorn supply additional funding for the further development and commercialisation of Punch Powertrain's CVT drivetrains
Punch Powertrain www.punchpowertrain.com is an independent manufacturer of Continuously Variable Transmission systems (CVTs) for cars. The company was acquired by Punch International in 2006. In May 2009, LRM carried out a capital increase of 7 million euro and obtained 30% of the shares in return. Recently, LRM exercised its | | |
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| Expansion of the Dekimo group | 2/4 | Dekimo group is glad to inform you that the Blue Guide EMC lab (www.bgemc.com) in Erpe-Mere, founded in 1996 by Pioneer Electronics, is now also part of the Dekimo group.
The BGEMC lab is accredited and fully equipped to perform full compliant measurements, so you obtain a conformity certificate and you may label your product as CE. However, also pre-compliant measurements and tests can be executed on your products in development. We also support you with professional advice, possibly in our | | |
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| Plasmonica, een nieuwe technologie voor efficiëntere zonnecellen | 30/3 | Europese samenwerking wil onderzoek vooruit stuwen
Leuven, België - 30 maart 2010 - Imec gaat samen met zijn partners in het Europese PRIMA-project (7de kaderprogramma voor ICT) onderzoek doen naar het gebruik van metallische nanostructuren bij de ontwikkeling van efficiëntere zonnecellen. Imec zal het project coördineren. Het onderzoek zal samen gebeuren met het Imperial College (Londen, VK), Chalmers University of Technology (Zweden), Photovoltech (België), Quantasol (VK) en Australian | | |
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| AnSem awarded Trends Gazelles 2010 | 26/3 | On March 17th 2010, Trends announced the Trends Gazelles 2010 for the province of Flemish Brabant (Belgium).
AnSem obtained the 6th position in the category of small-sized companies.
Trends is a leading Belgian financial and business newsmagazine. As a Trends Gazelle, AnSem belongs to the fastest growing companies that significantly contribute to the economic dynamism of the region, in terms of employment, innovation, competitiveness and creative entrepreneurship. | | |
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| Jonge Leuvense bio-ingenieurs winnen eerste Battle of Talents | 24/3 | Bron: Dagkrant K.U.Leuven en Addestino
Zes onderzoekers van de K.U.Leuven hebben met hun ondernemingsplan de eerste Battle of Talents wedstrijd gewonnen. Tijdens de finale op 22 maart in het hoofdkwartier van BNP Paribas Fortis te Antwerpen kwam SenseWell na een spannende eindstrijd als beste onderneming naar boven.
De Battle of Talents is een competitie waarin teams van Vlaamse universiteiten en hogescholen hun ondernemerstalent mogen tonen. De zes jonge onderzoekers van de | | |
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| GetWireless announces North American distribution agreement with Option | 24/3 |
LEUVEN, Belgium and MINNEAPOLIS, US - March 24, 2010 - GetWireless, a national distributor of cellular-based solutions, today announced a North American distribution agreement with Option (EURONEXT Brussels: OPTI; OTC: OPNVY), a global leader in wireless broadband technology. GetWireless will now be a premier North American distributor for Option's GlobeSurfer® III broadband router and the iCON® 452 USB modem, some of the first products of their kind to operate on the AWS frequency band in the | | |
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| Portable, easy-to-wear mind speller - Typing words with your brain | 23/3 | Stuttgart, Germany - Medtech Conference - March 23 2010 - Imec, Holst Centre and the lab of Neuro- and Psychophysiology at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven today present the Mind Speller, a portable, easy-to-wear, intelligent textual and verbal communications prototype device enabling people with motoric disabilities (suffering from for example brain paralysis or speech or language disorders) to communicate.
The Mind Speller is a EEG(electro-encephalogram)-based device that interprets | | |
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| TiGenix reports on regulatory path for ChondroCelect in the US | 17/3 | REGULATED INFORMATION MARCH 16, 2010
Leuven (BELGIUM) - March 16, 2010 - TiGenix (NYSE EURONEXT: TIG) has obtained clarity from the American Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on the regulatory path
towards approval of its lead product ChondroCelect in the US.
The FDA has reviewed the summary of the clinical data from the pivotal trial that formed the base for the European marketing authorization for ChondroCelect which was approved in
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| TiGenix Reports on Sales of ChondroCelect | 10/3 |
Leuven (BELGIUM) - March 9, 2010 - TiGenix NV (NYSE EURONEXT: TIG) provides an update on the launch of ChondroCelect and the status of reimbursement applications.
TiGenix has begun the commercial launch of its lead product, ChondroCelect, for the treatment of cartilage damage in the knee, in the initial target markets which include Germany, Belgium, United Kingdom and the Netherlands. The first commercial patients have been treated and initial revenues
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| Imec and Synopsys Collaborate on 3D Stacked IC Development | 9/3 | Synopsys TCAD Tools Accelerate Development of Through-Silicon Via Technology
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - March 9, 2010 - Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, and the Belgian nanoelectronics research center, imec, today announced they have entered into a collaboration to use Synopsys TCAD (Technology Computer-Aided Design) finite-element method tools for characterizing and optimizing the reliability and | | |
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| Imec and Altos collaborate on chip design and prototyping service | 9/3 | Leuven, Belgium and San Jose, California, US - March 8, 2010 - Imec and Altos Design Automation, Inc. today announce that they have entered into an agreement to set up a library re-characterization service based on Altos ultra-fast characterization tools. With this collaboration, imec will extend its ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit) prototyping and volume fabrication service with library re-characterization which is essential when designing in 65nm and 40nm nodes.
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| Tigenix: Transparency information | 8/3 | Leuven (BELGIUM) - March 8, 2010 - TiGenix (NYSE EURONEXT BRUSSELS: TIG) publishes information in accordance with articles 15, 18 and 29 of the Belgian Act of May 2, 2007 and the Royal Decree of February 14, 2008, regarding the publication of major holdings in issuers whose securities are admitted to trading on a regulated Belgian market.
TiGenix has received a notification with regard to the participation in TiGenix NV of F&C Asset Management Ltd, having its registered office at 80 George | | |
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| Leuven.Inc viert 10 jaar netwerking! | 5/3 |
Leuven Innovation Networking Circle of kortweg Leuven.Inc is in Vlaanderen geen onbekende meer. Het netwerk neemt reeds 10 jaar lang een prominente rol als netwerkplatform in. Dat dient gevierd te worden en dat doet het netwerk op vrijdag 12 maart 2010 samen met haar leden en in aanwezigheid van onder andere Gouverneur Lodewijk De Witte en Burgemeester Louis Tobback.
Tijdens het lustrum-programma wordt teruggekeken op 10 jaar netwerking ingebed in de Leuvense regio.
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| Option to bring premier USB modem to AT&T | 5/3 | First GPS-enabled LaptopConnect device from AT&T
LEUVEN, Belgium, March 5 2010 - Coinciding with AT&T's announcement of yesterday afternoon, Option (EURONEXT Brussels: OPTI; OTC: OPNVY), the wireless technology company, today announced that it is shipping AT&T's first ever mobile broadband USB-modem with integrated GPS. The AT&T USBConnect Velocity is the premier mobile broadband USB modem offered by AT&T today, offering mobile users 3 great features in one device: built-in GPS, microSD | | |
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| Option reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2009 results | 4/3 |
Leuven, Belgium - March 4, 2010 - Option N.V. (EURONEXT Brussels: OPTI; OTC: OPNVY), the wireless technology company, today announced its results for the full fiscal year and fourth quarter ended December 31, 2009. The financial information reported in this release is presented in Euros and has been prepared in accordance with the recognition and measurement criteria of IFRS as adopted by the European Union. The accounting policies and methods of computation followed in the attached financial | | |
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| ASML RECEIVES INTEL'S PREFERRED QUALITY SUPPLIER AWARD | 4/3 | VELDHOVEN, Netherlands, March 3, 2010 - ASML has been recognized as one of 16 suppliers to receive Intel Corporation's Preferred Quality Supplier (PQS) award for their performance in 2009. ASML is recognized for their significant contributions, providing Intel with lithography process tools, deemed essential to Intel's success.
'ASML is honored to be selected by Intel as a recipient of their Preferred Quality Supplier award for 2009. This recognition validates a significant mutual effort | | |
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| Option and Kobil to develop revolutionary 3G solution for secured transactions | 2/3 | | LEUVEN, Belgium, March 1 2010 - Option (EURONEXT Brussels: OPTI; OTC: OPNVY), the wireless technology company, and Kobil Systems GmbH, a market-leading trendsetter of mobile IT solutions in the area of digital identities, today announced that they collaborate the development and combined selling of a new strategic security product, the mIDentity 3G. The mIDentity 3G will be unique in combining wireless broadband 3G technology and digital security of data and identities while opening up a market | | |
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| Materialise Celebrates 20th Anniversary at its World Conference | 2/3 | | Leuven, Belgium -- Materialise is celebrating its 20th anniversary in a big way! For the first time, they have organized a conference that combines all of their popular events into one - the Materialise World Conference. It will begin on Wednesday, April 21, 2010 and will end on Saturday, April 24, 2010. Materialise 'drives your innovations' by offering opportunities to participate in educational events that allow customers to learn how other industry leaders are maximizing the software | | |
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| FMTC presenteert nieuwe resultaten op Hightech mechatronica | 24/2 | Op Hightech mechatronica, de conferentie en beurs voor geavanceerde machinebouw, die op 25 maart 2010 doorgaat in Veldhoven, Nederland, zal FMTC twee recente resultaten voorstellen: namelijk een tweevoudige lerende controle voor het verbeteren van de prestaties van industriële machines, en een visie systeem voor het volgen van de positie van snelle objecten.
Van moderne machines wordt verwacht dat ze zich autonoom kunnen aanpassen aan veranderende werkingsomstandigheden. Voor systemen die | | |
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| Option elects Olivier Lefebvre as new Chairman of the Board of Directors | 22/2 | Philippe Rogge stepping down as COO
LEUVEN, Belgium - February 22, 2010 - Option (EURONEXT Brussels: OPTI; OTC: OPNVY), the wireless technology company, today announced that Olivier Lefebvre has been appointed as Chairman of the Board of Directors effective immediately. Jan Callewaert will focus full time on his responsibilities as CEO while continuing to serve as a member of the Board of Directors.
Olivier Lefebvre, who has been an Option Board member since July 2008, was previously | | |
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| Better3Fruit lanceert nieuw appelras 'Zari' | 19/2 | SINT-TRUIDEN 21/08 (BELGA) = Het Leuvense fruitveredelingsbedrijf
Better3Fruit, heeft na jarenlange testen en onderzoek een nieuw appelras gelanceerd. Het gaat om het zomerras 'Zari', een nakomeling van de variëteiten Elstar en Delbardestivale. Het nieuwe appelras wordt enkel onder licentie verdeeld. In het Proefcentrum voor Fruitteelt in Kerkom bij Sint-Truiden werden 300 bomen van het nieuwe ras aangeplant, zo deelt
Better3Fruit donderdag mee.
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| Univeg markets new apple variety | 19/2 | | Univeg-Legumex Trade, subsiduary of fruit and vegetable company Univeg Group has obtained a licence for the exclusive production and sale of two new apple varieties. It is the first time that Univeg has independently put new apple varieties on the market. The concept-apples from Better3Fruit are a cross between Gala and Braeburn and have no brandname as yet. 'Both varieties are green with a red flush, have a slighty sour taste and are crisp and juicy,' said Peter Hostens, general diretor of | | |
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| Option and Skinit partner to deliver on-demand personalization of mobile devices | 16/2 | Partnership deepens Option's total broadband solutions offering
LEUVEN, Belgium - February 16, 2010 - Option (EURONEXT Brussels: OPTI; OTC: OPNVY), the wireless technology company, today announced that it is has signed an agreement with Skinit, the leading provider of consumer electronics device personalization, to support network operators, companies selling mobile devices and end-users in making their mobile devices truly their own. The ability to personalize devices has been equated to the | | |
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| Record number of papers at SPIE Advanced Lithography reports imec's progress in advanced lithography | 16/2 | Leuven, Belgium - February 16, 2010 - At next week's SPIE (www.spie.org) Advanced Lithography Conference, to be held February 22 - 26 in San Jose, California, imec technologists contribute in a record number of over 30 papers showing their newest breakthroughs in advanced semiconductor lithography research.
While imec pushes 193nm to its limits by investigating cost-effective double patterning methods and by source mask optimization for 22nm half pitch, most research has been shifted to EUVL | | |
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| Option announces world's first ultra customizable USB modem solution: iCON XY | 15/2 | LEUVEN, Belgium - February 15, 2010 - Option (EURONEXT Brussels: OPTI; OTC: OPNVY), the wireless technology company, today announced that it has launched a new and highly customizable USB modem solution, the iCON® XY enabling mobile network operators to target different market segments with different levels of customization including branding, look & feel, packaging and software with just one device while reducing the cost and complexity of their supply chains.
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| Option announces uCAN Connect 3.0 | 15/2 | | LEUVEN, Belgium - February 15, 2010 - Option (EURONEXT Brussels: OPTI; OTC: OPNVY), the wireless technology company, today announced the latest version of its cutting-edge connection management software platform. At the same time the Company announces that is working with Telenor Norway to develop the network operator's new connection manager based upon the uCAN® Connect platform. uCAN Connect reduces costs and increases customer satisfaction by extremely simple support for different branded | | |
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| Tigenix: Transparency Information | 12/2 | Leuven (BELGIUM) - February 12, 2010 - TiGenix (NYSE EURONEXT BRUSSELS: TIG) publishes the information in accordance with articles 15, 18 and 29 of the Belgian Act of May 2, 2007 and the Royal Decree of February 14, 2008, regarding the publication of major holdings in issuers whose securities are admitted to trading on a regulated Belgian market.
TiGenix has received a notification with regard to the participation in TiGenix NV of ING Group NV, having its registered office at Amstelveenseweg | | |
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| FUGEIA stelt Herman Van Mellaert aan tot CEO | 11/2 |
Leuven, 11 februari 2010. FUGEIA kondigt vandaag de aanstelling van Herman Van Mellaert tot Chief Executive Officer aan. Oprichter Willem Broekaert wordt nu de Chief Technology Officer van het bedrijf.
Herman Van Mellaert heeft jarenlange ervaring in het opzetten en uitbouwen van sterke technologiegedreven ondernemingen. Hij was mede-oprichter en CEO van CropDesign NV, een toonaangevend bedrijf in de plantenbiotechnologie dat in 2006 werd gekocht door BASF Plant Science. Onder zijn leiding | | |
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| Imec, Renesas and M4S report a single-chip reconfigurable multi-standard wireless transceiver in 40nm CMOS | 11/2 | Leuven, February 10, 2010 - At today's International Solid State Circuit Conference, imec and its research partners Renesas Technology Corp. and M4S present a complete transceiver with RF, baseband and data converter circuits in 40nm low-power CMOS. The fully reconfigurable transceiver is compatible with various wireless standards and applications, including the upcoming mobile broadband 3GPP-LTE standard.
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| Imec and Holst Centre present ADC with record figure of merit suited for low energy radios | 11/2 | Leuven, Belgium and Eindhoven, the Netherlands, February 10, 2010 - At today's International Solid State Circuit Conference, imec and Holst Centre report an ultra-low power 8 bit analog to digital convertor (ADC) consuming only 30fJ energy per conversion step. This world-class figure of merit ADC is especially suited for upcoming low energy radios in the ISM (industrial, scientific and medical) radio bands such as low-energy Bluetooth or IEEE 802.15.6 for body-area networks.
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| Imec and Holst Centre prominently present at International Solid State Circuit Conference | 5/2 | Leuven, Belgium and Eindhoven, The Netherlands, February 5, 2010 - At next week's International Solid State Circuit Conference, imec and Holst Centre present their newest breakthroughs in ultra-low power design for wireless communications and wireless sensor networks, 3D design and in organic electronics with an impressive number of contributions including 10 reviewed publications and 6 contributions to tutorials and workshops.
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| Option integrates 3G/EV-DO solution into IREX's new e-reader | 4/2 | Advanced 3G and EV-DO Connectivity Enables Users to Download eBooks Anytime, Anywhere
LEUVEN, Belgium - February 4, 2010 - Option (EURONEXT Brussels: OPTI; OTC: OPNVY), the wireless technology company, today announced that the Company's mobile solution based on Gobi 2000 has been integrated into IREX's new DR800SG e-reader. Gobi 2000 is the first embedded module of its kind to offer worldwide high-speed wireless Internet access, thanks to the integration of quad-band WCDMA and dual-band EV-DO | | |
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| Frost & Sullivan Recognizes Holst Centre and imec for Its Path Breaking Wearable Energy Harvester Technology | 2/2 | | LONDON - February 2, 2010 - Based on its recent research on the wearable energy harvesters market, Frost & Sullivan presents Holst Centre and imec with the 2009 European Frost & Sullivan Award for Technology Innovation for its wearable electrocardiograph energy harvesting solution, which provides tens of microwatts of energy per square centimetre for modules with 3x4 cm2 dimensions. Due to its convenience of use, self powering, and low maintenance, this has opened the way for a wide range of | | |
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| Belangrijke doorbraak voor optische communicatie | 25/1 | | Leuven, 25 januari 2010 - Het januarinummer van het belangrijke wetenschappelijk tijdschrift 'Nature Photonics' bericht over een superklein en snel, optisch geheugen met een superlaag energieverbruik, elektrisch aangestuurd en gefabriceerd op een siliciumchip. Dit resultaat werd bereikt door imec en zijn geassocieerd lab INTEC (Universiteit Gent) en opent meteen deuren voor een optisch pakket-schakelsysteem met een drastisch verminderd energieverbruik, voor hoge-snelheids optische | | |
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| IMEC joins consortium to radically reduce energy consumption of communication networks | 12/1 | The Green TouchT Initiative is a new research consortium initiated by Bell Labs to rethink ICT network architectures towards sustainability
Leuven, January 11, 2010 - Today, imec announces that it will take part in the Green Touch Initiative, a new consortium initiated by Bell Labs, the research arm of Alcatel-Lucent. The Green Touch Initiative is committed to inventing the technologies that will be at the heart of the next generation of sustainable networks. The consortium has set itself | | |
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| K.U.Leuven participeert in Europese innovatiehotspot voor duurzaam energiegebruik | 22/12 | Europa heeft een Vlaams-Nederlands project waarin ook de K.U.Leuven participeert, erkend als dé Europese innovatiehotspot voor duurzaam energiegebruik in gebouwen en steden. Dit project behoort tot een groter Europees consortium dat door Europa aangeduid werd om leider te worden op het vlak van duurzame energie.'
Vlaams minister van Innovatie Ingrid Lieten: 'Vlaanderen loopt voorop in Europa op vlak van innovatie in duurzame energie. Gisteren erkende Europa een Vlaams-Nederlands project | | |
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| OPTION REQUESTS SUSPENSION OF TRADING OF SHARES | 18/12 | NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION OR RELEASE IN THE UNITED STATES, CANADA, JAPAN OR AUSTRALIA
LEUVEN, Belgium - December 18, 2009 - Option NV announces that it has requested the temporarily suspension of the trading of its shares on Euronext Brussels until the end
of the scrip private placement which will take place today, Friday 18 December 2009, within the framework of its rights offering. Trading in the shares will resume after the
results of the placement are announced.
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| TiGenix successfully completes private placement raising EUR 7.7million | 11/12 | Leuven (BELGIUM) - December 10, 2009 - TiGenix NV (NYSE Euronext Brussels: TIG) announces that it has successfully raised EUR 7.7 million through a private placement.
Today, TiGenix completed the private placement of EUR 7.7 million with Belgian and international institutional and professional investors in the European Economic Area and
Switzerland through the issuance of 2,204,300 shares at an issuance price of EUR 3.5.
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| Option is offering 41,249,296 new shares at a subscription price of EUR 0.49 per new share | 10/12 | - Rights issue for an amount of up to EUR 20.2m
- Subscription price: EUR 0.49 per new share Option representing a discount of approximately 47.31% compared to the theoretical price after separation of the Right
- Subscription price represents a discount of 64.23% compared to the closing price on Wednesday December 9th, 2009
- 1 Right gives the right to subscribe to 1 new share
- Coupon nr. 1 was separated on 9 December 2009 after closing of the stock exchange
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| TiGenix announces private placement | 10/12 | REGULATED INFORMATION 10 DECEMBER 2009
Leuven (BELGIUM) - December 10, 2009 - TiGenix NV (NYSE Euronext Brussels: TIG) announces its intention to raise an indicative amount of EUR 7.5 million in a private placement. The proceeds will be used to fund TiGenix' commercial launch of ChondroCelect and ChondroMimetic and to accelerate the clinical pipeline development.
TiGenix intends to raise an indicative amount of EUR 7.5 million. The new shares will be offered through an accelerated | | |
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| Toxikon: software van onderzoekslaboprobleemloos door internationale audits | 9/12 | Diegem, 9 december 2009 - Toxikon, een onderzoekslaboratorium dat productveiligheid in de LifeScience sector analyseert, liet haar eigen ontwikkelde laboplanningssoftware valideren door CTG. De leverancier van IT-oplossingen en -diensten biedt sinds kort een nieuwe validatieservice aan, Agile Computerized Systems Validation. De dienst biedt bedrijven de garantie om overheidsinspecties (FDA, EMEA) met glans te doorstaan.
Het onderzoekslabo Toxikon gaat via analytische en bio-analystische tests | | |
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| Micromachined piezoelectric harvester with record power output drives fully autonomous wireless sensor | 9/12 | | IEEE IEDM, Baltimore - December 8, 2009 - 5pm pacific time - For the first time, a piezoelectric harvesting device fabricated by MEMS technology generates a record of 85ìW electrical power from vibrations. A wafer level packaging method was developed for robustness. The packaged MEMS-based harvester is used to power a wireless sensor node. Within the Holst Centre program on Micropower Generation and Storage, imec researchers developed a temperature sensor that can wirelessly transmit data in a | | |
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| Holst Centre, imec and TNO report a world-first plastic transponder circuit at 50 kb/s | 9/12 | IEEE IEDM Baltimore, December 8, 2009 5pm Pacific Time - Today, at the International Electronics Devices Meeting, Holst Centre, imec and TNO presented the world-first organic transponder circuit with a bit rate of 50kbits/s. This bit rate approaches the requirements for the Electronic Product Coding (EPC) standards.
Flexible circuits offer ruggedness during processing as well as in the final product, a property which makes them appealing for new applications such as plastic RFID tags (radio | | |
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| Option announces commitment of Gimv to its rights issue | 9/12 | LEUVEN, Belgium - December 9, 2009 - Option, the wireless technology company, announces that Gimv NV commits itself to support Option's rights issue subject to certain conditions.
Gimv has committed to subscribe to the capital increase for an amount of EUR 2.5 million, in case and to the extent that not all unexercised rights would be sold in the private placement following the rights subscription period. The commitment of Gimv is subject to the Company raising at least EUR 8.5 million | | |
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| Imec presents new GaN-on-Si architecture for enhancement mode power switching devices | 8/12 | IEEE IEDM 2009, Baltimore, December 7, 2009 5pm pacific time - At this weeks International Electron Devices Conference, the nanoelectronics research center imec presents an innovative, simple and robust GaN-on-Si double heterostructure FET (field effect transistor) architecture for GaN-on-Si power switching devices. The architecture meets the normally-off requirements of power switching circuits and is characterized by low leakage and high breakdown voltage, both essential parameters to reduce | | |
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| Essensium N.V., an IMEC spin-off, joins the Wavenis Open Standard Alliance and starts volume production of Coronis first Wavenis compliant SOC | 8/12 | Leuven, Belgium, December 8, 2009 - Essensium N.V., a fabless provider of low power System-on-Chip (SOC) solutions, today announced it has joined the Wavenis Open Standard Alliance (Wavenis-OSA), as a Participating Member, enabling them to positively influence the voting committees as the first semiconductor member, all the while continuing its partnership with Coronis S.A.S. to complete Coronis´ first Wavenis compliant SOC.
Wavenis is a leading edge wireless technology platform that was | | |
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| LSP's portfolio company Movetis raises targeted EUR 85 million in successful Initial Public Offering on Euronext Brussels | 7/12 | First significant size IPO in the European Life Sciences sector since early 2008 -Largest IPO in the Life Sciences sector on Euronext Brussels
Amsterdam, December 4th, 2009
LSP (Life Sciences Partners) today announced that Movetis, a European specialty pharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development and commercialisation of proprietary, innovative and differentiated drugs for the treatment of diseases in the GI area with a high unmet medical need, has successfully completed | | |
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| Leuven.Inc slaagt glansrijk voor Qfor audit | 3/12 |  Op 29 september 2009 slaagde Leuven.Inc met glans voor de klantentevredenheidsaudit Qfor.
Met algemene tevredenheidsscores van 94% voor de pijler Opleiding en 100% voor de pijler Consulting/Begeleiding kregen wij een bevestiging van de kwaliteit en inzet die Leuven.Inc steeds vooropstelt bij de organisatie van onze activiteiten.
Conclusie van het eindrapport: 'Leuven.Inc is een professionele en dynamische organisatie die er in slaagt bedrijven en organisaties uit verschillende sectoren | | |
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| FORMAC appoints new CEO | 2/12 | November 26, 2009 - Leuven, Belgium. FORMAC Pharmaceuticals N.V., a Belgian-based drug delivery and development company, today announced that as of January 1, 2010 Jan Rosier will become the company's new Chief Executive Officer (CEO), replacing Laurens G. Theunis. The change in management takes place at a time where FORMAC is moving its lead program FP-0110 into Phase IIa clinical development.
'We thank Laurens for guiding FORMAC through the first two years and wish him a lot of success | | |
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| Option indicates preliminary Q4 and full year 2009 results | 2/12 | LEUVEN, Belgium - December 2, 2009 - Option N.V. (Euronext: OPTI; OTC: OPNVY), the wireless technology company, today announced that revenues for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2009 are expected to be in the range of EUR 20-25 million. These revenues combined with EUR 128 million for the first three quarters of 2009 will generate full year revenue in the range of EUR 148-153 million which is approximately 44% less than the full year 2008.
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| TiGenix closes Orthomimetics acquisition | 1/12 | Leuven (BELGIUM) - December 1, 2009 - TiGenix announces the successful closing of the acquisition of Orthomimetics Limited, a privately held medical technology company based in Cambridge, the United Kingdom.
Further to the press release of 16th November, TiGenix now announces that it has acquired all of the 3,286,438 shares in Orthomimetics at a value of EUR 16,262,338.
The shareholders of Orthomimetics Limited have contributed 2,605,752 Orthomimetics shares, valued at 12.9 million to | | |
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| OPTION announces rights issue | 1/12 | LEUVEN, Belgium - November 30, 2009 - Option today announces its intention to raise approximately EUR 20 million, by way of a public market transaction with nonstatutory preferential rights to existing shareholders. It is expected that the subscription
period will start on or about December 7th.
The rights are expected to be tradable on Euronext Brussels. The detailed terms and conditions of the transaction will be announced in due time.
Jan Callewaert, both personally and through his | | |
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| Materialise presents a comprehensive range of software solutions for additive manufacturing at EuroMold 2009 | 1/12 | Leuven, November 30, 2009. The latest innovations in additive manufacturing software solutions will be showcased by Materialise at EuroMold 2009, December 2 - 5 at Frankfurt Main. Materialise will exhibit the Magics e-RP Solution Suite - the comprehensive range of software solutions for additive manufacturing at booth C62 in the new hall 11.
Highlights include the recently launched Magics 14, the live link-up of Materialise's Magics e-RP with laser sintering machines at the EOS booth and | | |
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| Materialise and DSM Somos set a new standard for investment casting patterns | 26/11 | Materialise and DSM Somos present their high-quality alternative for lost wax models at Euromold 2009, Frankfurt, Germany
Leuven (BELGIUM), 26 November, 2009. Europe's leading rapid prototyping and manufacturing service bureau, Materialise, have announced the implementation of TetraShellTM stereolithography (SL) models in investment casting processes, resulting in metal models of a superior quality.
Materialise uses TetraShellTM software (a proprietary DSM Somos application module | | |
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| Option 3G solution in Google Android 2.0 | 25/11 | Option 3G solution in Google Android 2.0 development platform for pocket, handheld and tablet devices from MOTO Development Group
LEUVEN, Belgium - November 24, 2009 - Option, the wireless technology company, today announced that its GTM501, the world's smallest 3G module and one of Option's broadband wireless breakthroughs, will be used in MOTO Development Group's Android 2.0 Media Platform (AMP) offering reduced time-to-market for next-generation multi-touch consumer and enterprise | | |
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| OPTION: FINANCIAL NOTIFICATION | 24/11 | LEUVEN, Belgium - November 23, 2009 - Option today presented in more detail its strategy during an Analyst Briefing. During the meeting the Company reiterated its
strategy to move towards integrated hardware, software and services solutions. In addition, the Company confirms indicating that its targeted revenues for 2010 will be
approximately 20% higher compared to 2009. Finally the Company reconfirmed its previously announced intention to raise approximately EUR20 million in a capital raise
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| K.U.Leuven and IMEC honour Willem P. Roelandts | 19/11 | Honorary doctorate to be conferred on Tuesday, 24 November 2009
On 24 November, Rector Mark Waer will confer the degree of doctor honoris causa on Willem P. Roelandts. Willem P. Roelandts is the former chair of the Board of Governors and CEO of Xilinx, one of the world's leading businesses in the microelectronics industry. The executive will be awarded the honorary doctorate for his implementation of management and leadership styles that stimulate innovation whilst also prioritising human | | |
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| FMTC bundelt onderzoekskrachten om lerende machines te ontwikkelen | 18/11 | De machines van de toekomst zullen zich autonoom aanpassen aan veranderende omstandigheden en zo continu een optimale werking garanderen. Schattingen tonen dat voor
bepaalde machines op die manier een verhoogde productiviteit van 10% en een vermindering van het energieverbruik met 10% kan gerealiseerd worden. Dit resulteert in een significante
kosten- en energiebesparing voor de eindgebruikers van deze machines. Flanders' MECHATRONICS Technology Centre vzw (FMTC) bracht de Vlaamse | | |
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| GTM501 HSPA wireless module winner at GSMA's Embedded Mobile Module competition | 18/11 | | LEUVEN, Belgium - November 18, 2009 - Option, the wireless technology company, today announced that its GTM501, the world's smallest HSPA module and one of Option's broadband wireless breakthroughs, has been selected as the winner of the GSMA's Embedded Mobile Module competition in the 'Best Embedded Module in the High-Bandwidth Application' category. The announcement was made today at the GSMA Mobile Asia Congress in Hong-Kong. This award validates the market leading technology that makes the | | |
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| Lumoza, laat er licht zijn! | 17/11 | | Stel je voor dat je elektronica kan printen, net als inkt, op welk oppervlak dan ook. Op een dun laagje plastic bijvoorbeeld, dat vervolgens geplooid of opgerold kan worden. De mogelijkheden zijn eindeloos: lichtgevende plafonds, meubels, verpakkingen, reclameborden, kledij, vrachtwagenbekleding, enz. Lumoza, een nieuwe spin-off van het Instituut voor Materiaalonderzoek (IMO) van UHasselt en IMEC, het Leuvense onderzoekcentrum in nanotechnologie, start vandaag met deze technologie naar de markt | | |
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| Option embeds world's smallest 3G module into Plastic Logic's large screen, lightweight eReader | 16/11 | 3G connectivity vital to Plastic Logic's eReader strategy of targeting of active mobile business professionals versus leisure readers
LEUVEN, Belgium - November 16, 2009 - Option, the wireless technology company, today announced that its GTM501, the world's smallest 3G module and one of Option's broadband wireless breakthroughs, will be used in Plastic Logic's new eReader device. This project demonstrates the Company's strategy to concentrate on total solution offerings, including software, | | |
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| TiGenix to acquire Orthomimetics | 16/11 | Leuven (BELGIUM) - November 16, 2009 - TiGenix strengthens its product portfolio and biomaterials platform through the acquisition of Orthomimetics, a privately held
medical technology company based in Cambridge, the United Kingdom. This acquisition fits with TiGenix' growth strategy of becoming a leading player in the promising and fast-growing field of regenerative medicine. Orthomimetics was founded in 2005 as a spin-out from the University of Cambridge and the
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| METRIS REBRANDS TO NIKON METROLOGY | 10/11 | November 10, 2009
Leuven, November 10 - The corporate name of Metris is changed into Nikon Metrology NV. Under the Nikon brand, Nikon and Metris will synergize their respective strengths with regards to technology, marketing and services, thereby delivering innovative metrology products with a broad application reach to its worldwide customer base.
Convincing business logic and secured growth path
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| IMEC's unique micronail chip makes electronics and bio cells communicate | 9/11 | Leuven, November 9, 2009 - IMEC presents a unique microchip with microscopic nail structures that enable close communication between the electronics and biological cells. The new chip is a mass-producible, easy-to-use tool in electrophysiology research, for example for fundamental research on the functioning and dysfunctioning of the brain. Each micronail structure serves as a close contact-point for one cell, and contains an electrode that can very accurately record and trigger in real-time | | |
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| reMYND receives license renewal from Schering-Plough for RadarScreen | 8/11 | Leuven, Belgium - 18 November 2009
reMYND NV ('reMYND') announced today that it has received the renewal of the non-exclusive license agreement with Schering-Plough (NYSE ticker: SGP) for the supply and use of RadarScreen, a novel yeast-based screening system that allows the rapid and cost-effective identification of genotoxic
compounds in early stage drug discovery.
RadarScreen allows high-throughput identification of genotoxic liabilities, such as the induction of
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| TiGenix comments on rumors of a capital increase | 6/11 | Regulated information November 5, 2009
Leuven (BELGIUM) - November 5, 2009 - TiGenix comments on reports in the Flemish media regarding a potential capital increase.
With a cash position of 21.9 million EUR on September 30 2009, TiGenix has sufficient financial means at its disposal to finance its activities at least over the coming 12 months, not accounting the expected income generated by sales of ChondroCelect®.
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| LSP participates in ? 36 Million (US$ 54 Million) Series B Financing of Probiodrug AG | 5/11 | Amsterdam, November 5th, 2009
LSP (Life Sciences Partners) today announced that it has participated in a ? 36 million Series B financing round of Probiodrug AG, Halle/Saale (Germany). Probiodrug is a biotech company developing novel concepts and products for the treatment of neurodegenerative and inflammatory diseases with a special focus on Alzheimers disease.
LSP invested alongside BB Biotech, Edmond de Rothschild Investment Partners (EdRIP) and Biogen Idec New Ventures, all joining as | | |
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| Materialise releases Magics 14 with enhanced customer service | 5/11 | Materialise has proudly announced the release of a new version of the market leading pre-processing software solution for the rapid prototyping and additive manufacturing industry - Magics 14. It's bursting with lots of new features and comes equipped with a completely renewed customer service approach to enable users to make the most of this powerful software solution.
Magics is a core component of the Magics e-RP Solution Suite, which offers an essential range of integrated efficiency | | |
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| TiGenix - Business and Financial Update for the Third Quarter of 2009 | 4/11 | Leuven (BELGIUM) - November 3, 2009 - TiGenix (NYSE EURONEXT: TIG) gives a business update and reports cash position as of September 30, 2009.
Business Update
European approval of ChondroCelect®
On October 5, ChondroCelect received the awaited European marketing authorisation from the European Commission and became the first centrally approved Advanced Therapy Medicinal Product in Europe. The approval authorises TiGenix to commercialise the product in the 27 countries of the European | | |
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| The ChondroCelect HarvesterT receives CE mark approval | 3/11 | Leuven and Hasselt (BELGIUM) - November 2, 2009 - TiGenix (NYSE EURONEXT: TIG) and MedInvents announce that the ChondroCelect HarvesterT has received CE (Conformité Européenne) Mark approval. The ChondroCelect HarvesterT is a proprietary biopsy tool that will be provided to orthopedic surgeons for harvesting cartilage biopsies.
The ChondroCelect HarvesterT is a proprietary biopsy tool that will be provided to orthopedic surgeons for harvesting cartilage biopsies.
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| AgileTeam releases free Scrum tool for international software teams | 2/11 | Software teams are globalized. Anyone involved in software development experiences this daily. More and more companies are implementing Agile practices to deliver value in our globalized world.
AgileTeam created a Scrum template for Google Docs. The template supports the Scrum development process.
The Google platform allows for real-time collaboration between software team members around the world, without installing any software or additional hardware, giving you the time to do your job | | |
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| Option reports Third Quarter 2009 results, planned capital increase and additional cost reductions | 29/10 | | Leuven, Belgium - October 29, 2009 - Option N.V. (EURONEXT Brussels: OPTI; OTC: OPNVY), the wireless technology company, today announces its results for the third quarter ended 30 September 2009. The financial information reported in this release is presented in Euros and has been prepared in accordance with the recognition and measurement criteria of IFRS as adopted by the European Union. The accounting policies and methods of computation followed in the attached financial statements are the | | |
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| ChondroCelect 36 month data published in the American Journal of Sports Medicine | 29/10 | October 29, 2009 - TiGenix (NYSE EURONEXT BRUSSELS: TIG) announced that the 36 month follow-up data of the ChondroCelect® TIG/ACT/01/2000 clinical study were published in the American Journal of Sports Medicine.
The publication entitled 'Treatment of Symptomatic Cartilage Defects of the Knee: Characterized Chondrocyte Implantation Results in Better Clinical Outcome at 36 Months in a Randomized Trial Compared to Microfracture.' by D. Saris, J. Vanlauwe et al. is now available as e-publication | | |
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| Capricorn Venture Partners expands its senior team and launches Capricorn Health-tech Fund | 21/10 | Leuven, Belgium: 21 October 2009 - Capricorn Venture Partners is pleased to announce the launch of its Capricorn Health-tech Fund (CHF).
The objective is to raise Eur 100 to Eur 120 million venture capital for a new fund focusing on early to mid stage human health-technology investments in Europe. Capricorn Venture Partners defines health-technology investments as investments in companies whose business and products relate to the prevention, the diagnosis or the treatment of diseases. The | | |
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| Biocartis raises 10 million euro in Series A financing round | 15/10 | Lausanne, Switzerland, October 15th 2009 - Biocartis SA, a diagnostics company focused on fast and low-cost, integrated molecular and immunodiagnostics based on its proprietary micro-technology platform, today announced the successful closing of a Series A equity financing round. The Company raised EUR 10 million (~ USD 14.9 million) from a syndicate of leading life science investors.
The deal was led by Aescap Venture (Amsterdam, The Netherlands). Other members of the syndicate are Biovest | | |
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| ThromboGenics Raises EUR 0.6 Million from the Exercise of Warrants | 13/10 | Leuven, Belgium - October 9, 2009 - ThromboGenics NV (Euronext Brussels: THR), a biopharmaceutical company focused on innovative medicines for eye disease, vascular disease and cancer, today announces that it has raised EUR 0.6 million as the result of the exercise of warrants by a number of the Company's employees. The 90.000 shares created as a result of this warrant exercise are now listed on Euronext Brussels. Following this
transaction, ThromboGenics now has 26.417.789 shares outstanding. | | |
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| IMEC and BP Solar demonstrate high-efficiency low-cost silicon solar cell | 8/10 | Leuven, Belgium - October 5, 2009 - IMEC, one of the leading European research centers in photovoltaics, and BP Solar, a leading energy company, demonstrated a 18% conversion efficiency for silicon solar cells made of BP Solar's newly developed Mono2 TM silicon. By combining IMEC's advanced processing techniques with BP Solar's high-quality low-cost substrates, the companies demonstrated that Mono2 TM has a good potential to become a new base material for low-cost highly-efficient solar cells.
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| IMEC launches industrial affiliation program on designing with emerging technologies | 8/10 | | Leuven, Belgium - October 5, 2009 - IMEC launches the industrial affiliation program (IIAP) INSITE or Integrated Solutions for Technology Exploration. INSITE is a framework of design exploration modules that allows fables and fablite companies, foundries and EDA vendors to develop design and product information using emerging IC process technologies 1 to 3 generations ahead of IC manufacturing. INSITE can be used both to design in both IMEC's emerging process technologies developed within its | | |
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| IMEC develops 8-channel wireless EEG system for ambulatory monitoring | 8/10 | Leuven, Belgium - October 5, 2009 - IMEC and its research affiliate Holst Centre have unveiled a miniaturized and wireless 8-channel EEG system. The system is suited for remote monitoring of patients in their daily environment, resulting in more natural readings and greatly increasing the patient's comfort.
The EEG system can be connected to individual electrodes, standard EEG monitoring hats or proprietary EEG headsets. The system records high quality EEG signals when connected to gel | | |
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| IMEC's spray-coating technique holds promise for cheap fully solution-processed organic solar cells | 8/10 | Leuven, Belgium - October 5, 2009 - IMEC has demonstrated a fully solution-processed organic solar cell with a spray-coated active layer and a metal top contact spray-coated on top. The resulting cell shows power conversion efficiencies above 3%, a performance comparable to organic solar cells produced by spin coating of the organic layer and vacuum evaporation of the top contact metal. This is an important step towards producing organic solar cells with cheap and large-area processes.
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| IMEC and ANSEM launch design service to bring innovative radio chips to the market | 8/10 | Leuven, Belgium - October 5, 2009 - IMEC, Europe's largest independent research centre on nanoelectronics and ANSEM, the IMEC spinoff specialized in analog and mixed-signal design, announce a collaboration to offer services for the customized design of radio ICs for wireless communication applications.
The joint offering is targeted at companies that want to integrate IMEC's innovative research results, and choose to outsource the design and customized development of their advanced | | |
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| TSMC and IMEC join forces to bring novel technology solutions to emerging markets | 8/10 | | Leuven, Belgium & Hshinchu, Taiwan - October 6, 2009 - IMEC and TSMC today announce that they have forged an Innovation Incubation Alliance to create a platform enabling the development of innovative product solutions using emerging More-than-Moore technology options. Integrating extra functionalities with foundry CMOS enables customers to compete in emerging markets. By combining IMEC's expertise in design & technology R&D with TSMC's excellence in high-volume manufacturing, customers will | | |
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| ChondroCelect approved in Europe | 7/10 |
Leuven (BELGIUM) - October 6, 2009 - TiGenix (NYSE EURONEXT BRUSSELS: TIG) announced that it has received today the approval from the European Commission for ChondroCelect as the first Advanced Therapy Medicinal Product.
The European Commission has adopted the decision to authorise TiGenix to commercialise ChondroCelect in the 27 countries of the European Union as well as in Iceland, Lichtenstein
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| FibreMax winnaar en Visys runner-up in eerste Benelux Rising Star 2009 | 2/10 | Visys, een Belgisch bedrijf uit Hasselt, wint de tweede plaats in de Benelux Rising Star Award
Brussel, 2 oktober 2009 - Fibremax is tot winnaar uitgeroepen van de Benelux Rising Star Award 2009. De Rising Star verkiezing is een onderdeel van de Deloitte Technology Fast 50 en is speciaal in het leven geroepen voor bedrijven jonger dan vijf jaar. Elf genomineerde organisaties gingen de uitdaging aan en hielden een elevator pitch tijdens het Rising Star Event. FibreMax uit Joure ontving de | | |
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| Materialise wenst het Belgische Solar Team veel succes in Australië | 2/10 | Leuven, 2 oktober 2009. Terwijl het Belgische solar team hun Umicar Inspire voorbereid op de start van de World Solar Challenge op 25 oktober in Australië, wil Materialise hen graag nog een succesvolle race toewensen en een veilige rit.
In een tocht van 3000 km doorheen de Australische woestijn van Darwin tot Adelaide, worden tijdens de World Solar Challenge technologie, onderzoek en productie-innovaties van zonnewagens op de proef gesteld. Er zijn dit jaar 38 zuivere zonnewagens die deelnemen | | |
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| Amplexor is Silver Service Partner van Liferay | 28/9 | ECM-specialist komt tegemoet aan groeiende vraag naar portaalsoftware
Leuven, 28 september 2009 - Amplexor, specialist in enterprise content management (ECM) is door Liferay aangesteld als Silver Service Partner. Liferay is een leider op het gebied van portaal- en collaboratiesoftware en biedt zijn platform aan onder de vorm van commerciële open source. Hierdoor staat de broncode ter beschikking van de klant en de community, maar zijn de klanten ook verzekerd van ondersteuning en het | | |
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| Materialise makes components for for "Trabant nT"prototype, | 24/9 | Frankfurt, Germany, 21 September 2009. The International Motor Show or Internationale Automobil-Ausstellung (IAA) is the world's largest motor show. This year, in the event's 63rd year, it also houses the most impressive concept cars and newest serial production cars all manufactured using the latest technologies.
One of the remarkable projects this year in Frankfurt is the comeback of the Trabant. In 2007, Herpa, manufacturer of high-quality vehicle- and airplane miniatures, had the idea of | | |
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| ASML announces appointment of new COO to the Board of Management | 24/9 | | VELDHOVEN, the Netherlands, September 24, 2009 - ASML Holding NV (ASML) today announces that the Supervisory Board intends to appoint Frederic Schneider-Maunoury as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer (COO) to the Board of Management, subject to notification of the general meeting of shareholders which is scheduled to be held on March 24, 2010. Mr. Schneider-Maunoury (47) is currently Vice President Thermal Products Manufacturing at French industrial and transport equipment | | |
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| IMEC unveils promising mechanically-stacked GaAs/Ge multijunction solar cell | 21/9 | Leuven, Belgium - September 21, 2009 - At the European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference (Hamburg, Germany), IMEC presents a mechanically-stacked GaAs/Ge multijunction solar cell. This is the first promising demonstrator of IMEC's novel technology to produce mechanically stacked, high-efficiency multijunction solar cells, aiming at efficiencies above 40%.
At the top of the stack is a one-side contacted GaAs top cell that is only 4µm thick and that is transparent for infrared light. Its | | |
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| IMEC presents large area solar cells with 18.4% conversion efficiency, featuring Cu-plated contacts | 21/9 | Leuven, Belgium - September 21, 2009 - At the European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference (Hamburg, Germany), IMEC presents a large-area solar with a conversion efficiency of 18.4%. Compared to the standard i-PERC cell process, IMEC's solar cell features a shallow emitter and advanced front metallization using copper plating. The results were obtained on large-area cells (125cm2), proving the industrial viability of the process.
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| Total, GDF SUEZ, and Photovoltech join IMEC's silicon solar cell research program | 21/9 | Leuven, Belgium - September 21, 2009 - The two major energy companies Total and GDF SUEZ and their common solar cells manufacturing subsidiary Photovoltech join the IMEC industrial affiliation program (IIAP) on next generations of crystalline silicon solar cells. The multi-partner R&D program concentrates on sharply reducing the silicon use, whilst at the same time increasing the efficiency of solar cells. This will substantially lower the cost for solar energy.
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| Elsyca Technology accelerates implementation of green coatings | 18/9 | Mid september at the ASETSDefense meeting (http://www.asetsdefense.org/NextWorkshop.aspx) in Denver, USA, Dr. Alan Rose of Elsyca Inc. presented a paper on simulating the deposition of alloy coatings, earmarked as more environmentally friendly alternatives to electrolytes containing chromium and cadmium.
Due to the toxic nature of most cadmium salts, a growing environmental pressure to reduce cadmium usage has lead some countries to ban the use of cadmium and research for alternatives has | | |
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| IMEC to house Kaneka's European Photovoltaics Lab advancing joint research | 14/9 | Leuven, Belgium - September 14, 2009 - IMEC, Europe's leading nanoelectronics research center, and Kaneka Corporation, the Japanese leading manufacturer of chemical specialties and solar cells, have announced a bilateral cooperation. Under the agreement, Kaneka will incorporate its European Photovoltaics Laboratory at IMEC in Leuven, Belgium. Working in IMEC's facilities and collaborating with IMEC's experts, this will allow Kaneka to further improve its current thin-film solar cells and to | | |
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| Materialise: Voor vernieuwende produkten is de crisis voorbij | 8/9 | Frisse wind waait door produktontwikkeling
Leuven, 8 september, 2009 - Fried Vancraen, general manager Materialise en laureaat Vlaamse Leeuw van de Export.
' Als bedrijf dat prototyping diensten levert, hebben we de laatste maanden een merkbare opleving kunnen vaststellen bij bedrijven die aan vernieuwende produktontwikkeling doen. Dit illustreert zeer duidelijk het feit dat eerder nieuwe en verfrissende ideeën de economie terug op het juiste spoor kunnen zetten. Het feit dat bedrijven | | |
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| Wireless sensor systems enable a better sleep | 2/9 | Leuven, Belgium & Eindhoven, The Netherlands - September 2, 2009 - Today, at IEEE EMB Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA), IMEC and its research affiliate Holst Centre present the clinical validation of a wireless sleep staging system. The miniaturized wireless system allows patients to wear the device in the comfort of their home, thus enabling early screening of abnormal sleep profiles outside clinics. The sleep staging system has been validated in the sleep laboratory at the | | |
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| Necklace for long-term and robust cardiac monitoring in daily life | 2/9 | Leuven, Belgium & Eindhoven, The Netherlands - September 2, 2009 - IMEC and its research affiliate Holst Centre today present a prototype of an electrocardiogram or ECG necklace at the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Conference (EMBC) in Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA). The technology enables long-term monitoring of cardiac performance and allows patients to remain ambulatory and continue their routine daily activities while under observation. The embedded beat detection algorithm copes | | |
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| 3WIN : private plaatsing van 5 mio euro | 27/8 | 3WIN : private plaatsing van 5 mio euro voor de verdere ontwikkeling van actieve implanteerbare neurostimulatoren.
3WIN (www.3win.be) werkt op dit ogenblik aan een volledig implanteerbare diepe hersenstimulator (DBS) en een hybride hoorimplant (HAI) op basis van één platform.
Ter financiering van de huidige ontwikkelingen geeft 3WIN een private plaatsing uit van 5 mio euro onder de vorm van een converteerbare obligatielening (zie http://www.meritcapital.be/index.php?itemno=39 ) waarop U kan | | |
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| NIKON CORPORATION and METRIS | 20/8 | Today, 20 August, NIKON CORPORATION announced that the voluntary reopening of the takeover bid on Metris has resulted in ownership of 92.17% of the Metris shares
Leuven, August 20th - As a result of the initial acceptance period of the Takeover Bid and the subsequent voluntary reopening, NIMD holds 92.17% of the Metris shares. NIMD will now proceed from August 31, 2009 to September 18, 2009 to a mandatory reopening of the Takeover Bid, in accordance with Article 35, 1° of the Belgian Royal | | |
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| Slimmer elektronica produceren! | 12/8 | Leuven, België en Zoetermeer, Nederland, 12 augustus 2009 - NEVAT EMS Technologiegroep treedt toe tot het Electronic Design & Manufacturing programma van het nano-elektronica onderzoekscentrum IMEC en het Belgisch centrum voor technologische innovatie Sirris. Met dit programma helpen IMEC en Sirris bedrijven om op een kostenefficiënte manier elektronicaproducten van topkwaliteit te produceren in de eigen regio.
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| CMOSIS Raises 3 Million Euros in Additional Capital for Corporate Expansion | 10/8 | | Antwerp, Belgium, 10 August 2009 -- CMOS image sensor start-up CMOSIS NV has successfully concluded a round of private equity financing totalling 3 million euros from several well-known and highly regarded Belgian high-tech investment firms. Lead investor for this round is ING Corporate Investments of Brussels, Belgium, acting as strategic financial partner. The new round of capitalization for CMOSIS is geared towards the ongoing development of innovative CMOS image sensor technologies and | | |
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| Deloitte Technology Fast50 and Rising Star competition | 30/7 | Election of the 50 fastest growing technology companies
Deadline for registration: 31 August 2009
For the tenth year Deloitte and its co-sponsors (e.g GIMV) organise the Deloitte Technology Fast50. In this anniversary year the Fast50 election is expanded from the Netherlands to the Benelux.
Participants can be public or private, and encompass all technology industry segments including software, internet, biotech/pharmaceutical/medical equipment, computers/peripherals, | | |
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| Israel Cleantech Ventures and Capricorn Venture Partners Co-lead a $6 million Series | 29/7 | | Tel Aviv, Israel / Leuven, Belgium - 29 July 2009: Israel Cleantech Ventures (ICV) and Capricorn Venture Partners (CVP) announced today that they have invested $6 million in FRX Polymers, Inc, (FRX) the manufacturer of a new, environmentally friendly family of inherently flame retardant plastics. FRX's products are finding markets as polymeric flame retardant additives and as 'standalone' inherently flame retardant engineering plastics. FRX Polymers is currently in the commercialization stage | | |
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| Capricorn Cleantech Fund Doubles its Investment in Metallkraft AS | 29/7 | Leuven, Belgium - 29 July 2009: Capricorn Venture Partners announced today that it has doubled
its investment in Norway based Metallkraft AS, Kristiansand.
The Capricorn Cleantech Fund, domiciled in Leuven, Belgium, has acquired an additional 500,000 newly issued shares in Metallkraft under the company's on-going share expansion program. This transaction increased Capricorn Cleantech Fund's ownership in Metallkraft to 7%, doubling its initial
investment from December last year.
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| Nikon Corporation and Metris | 27/7 | Today, 25 July 2009, Nikon Corporation announced that its cash tender offer to acquire all outstanding Shares and Warrants of Metris becomes unconditional as the 85% threshold has been reached
Leuven, July 25th - Nikon Corporation, a pioneer in optical technology, has announced today that its wholly-owned Belgian subsidiary NIMD SPRL ('NIMD') has acquired, during the Initial Acceptance Period which ran from June 24, 2009 until July 22, 2009 (inclusive), 85.25% of the outstanding shares of | | |
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| Option launches new iCON USB modem series into U.S. with Cincinnati Bell as first customer | 14/7 | iCON 452 Designed to Give U.S. Service Providers Enhanced 3G Access Through AWS at the Fastest Network Speeds Available in the Country
LEUVEN, Belgium and CINCINNATI, Ohio, July 14 2009 - Option.N.V. (EURONEXT Brussels: OPTI; OTC: OPNVY), the wireless technology company, , today announced the launch of its iCON 452 HSPA+ USB modem series in the U.S. with Cincinnati Bell Inc. (NYSE: CBB) as the first customer.
Cincinnati Bell now carries the Option iCON 452, which uses Advanced Wireless | | |
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| Publication of ChondroCelect pivotal trial results honoured with prestigious award | 14/7 | Leuven (BELGIUM) - July 13, 2009 - TiGenix (NYSE EURONEXT BRUSSELS: TIG)announces that the American Journal of Sports Medicine publication on the positive structural results of the ChondroCelect pivotal trial was awarded with the Hughston Award.
Every year, the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine (AOSSM) recognises the individuals who have made significant contributions to orthopaedic sports medicine. The Hughston Award is given for the most outstanding paper that appeared in The | | |
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| .MGX receives two Good Design awards for 2008 | 13/7 | Last year was the largest Good Design Awards program in history, and out of a record number of products considered, both the One_Shot.MGX and the Sequence.MGX emerged as winners for their cutting-edge designs.
The One_Shot.MGX (designed by Patrick Jouin for .MGX) is a foldable stool which is manufactured by selective laser sintering as one complete piece; the stool emerges from the machine in its final form, complete with hinges that are concealed by the graceful structure of the stool | | |
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| METRIS CUSTOM 320KV BAY INTRODUCED IN BRAND NEW CT IMAGING FACILITY IN MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY | 13/7 | Leuven, Juli 7th, 2009 - Dinosaur experts will rub shoulders with aircraft designers at a new x-ray imaging facility at the University of Manchester, which was officially opened on June 8th. The Henry Moseley X-ray Imaging Facility recently took delivery of a powerful and highly accurate custom Metris 320kV Micro-CT system. Two Metris systems and other imagers provide academic and industrial users with world-leading characterization and research CT instrumentation.
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| Septentrio has rented 1800 m² offices on Greenhill Campus | 9/7 | Septentrio has rented building G on Greenhill Campus, consisting of 1784 m² offices, 150 m² archives and 36 parking places. The company already signed head of terms earlier this year and the transaction has succesfully been completed.
Septentrio Satellite Navigation NV, designs, manufactures, markets and supports high-end dual-frequency GNSS receivers with the best possible performance at a very competitive price. Targeted at original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), Septentrio's core | | |
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| Update on Capital Increase | 29/6 |
Leuven (BELGIUM), June 26, 2009 - TiGenix (NYSE EURONEXT: TIG) announces that the capital increase of EUR 5.4 million as communicated on June 19, 2009, has been completed.
The capital increase was executed following the signing of a long term lease agreement for a production facility located on the Chemelot Campus in Sittard-Geleen, the Netherlands.
The capital increase was subscribed by NV Industriebank LIOF, Particon BV, Limburg Ventures BV and LRM NV.
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| TiGenix receives positive CHMP opinion on European MAA for ChondroCelect | 26/6 | Leuven (BELGIUM), June 26, 2009 - TiGenix (NYSE EURONEXT: TIG) announces that the company has received a positive opinion from the Committee for Advanced Therapies (CAT) and the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European
Medicines Agency (EMEA) on the European Marketing Authorisation application (MAA) for its lead product ChondroCelect.
ChondroCelect is a regenerative autologous medicinal product indicated for the repair of full thickness cartilage lesions of the | | |
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| Amplexor kent continue groei | 9/6 | Leuvense ECM-specialist ziet omzet verder stijgen
Leuven, 9 juni 2009 - Amplexor, specialist in enterprise content management (ECM), heeft een uitstekend 2008 achter de rug. Niet alleen was het Belgische IT-bedrijf voor het vierde jaar op rij winstgevend, het genereerde in 2008 ook een omzet van 4.550.000 euro en een groeipercentage van 18%.
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'2008 was voor ons alweer een mooi jaar', aldus Eric Pieters, ceo van Amplexor, 'niet alleen kenden we een sterke groei in onze | | |
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| IMEC demonstrates first spectrum sensing capabilities for cognitive radios | 4/6 | Leuven, Belgium - June 4, 2009 - IMEC has demonstrated spectrum sensing functions, using an experimental setup including its integrated reconfigurable radio platform. The setup senses information on spectrum occupancy from UMTS and WLAN signals in specific bands. It retrieves information on the frequency and bandwidth, with estimates for power and noise. The system includes IMEC's advanced ASICs implementing a programmable baseband platform and a flexible RF transceiver front-end. This | | |
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| NIKON CORPORATION AND METRIS | 3/6 | NIKON CORPORATION files its intention to launch a cash tender offer to acquire all outstanding shares and warrants of Metris
Leuven, June 3rd - Metris N.V., a metrology solutions company, today announces that NIKON CORPORATION, a pioneer in optical technology, has filed with the CBFA (the Belgian supervisory authority) its intention to launch a conditional cash tender offer to acquire all outstanding shares and warrants of Metris N.V. at an offer price of Euro 5.50 per Metris share.
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| FMTC lanceert oproep voor strategische onderzoeksprojecten | 3/6 | FMTC is het onderzoekscentrum van de leidende mechatronische bedrijven in Vlaanderen en is een initiatief van Agoria, de Belgische federatie van de technologische industrie. FMTC helpt de kloof tussen academische kennis in de
mechatronica en het gebruik hiervan in industriële toepassingen te overbruggen.
Teneinde zijn missie te volbrengen, beschikt FMTC over een uniek werkingsmodel van gemeenschappelijke onderzoeksprojecten. FMTC wordt ondersteund door de
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| SCHOTT Solar joins IMEC research program on silicon photovoltaics | 3/6 | Leuven, Belgium - June 3, 2009 - SCHOTT Solar, a leading photovoltaics manufacturer, entered into a 3 year research partnership with IMEC, Europe's leading independent nanoelectronics research center. SCHOTT Solar joins IMEC's newly launched silicon photovoltaics industrial affiliation program (IIAP). Within this multi-partner R&D program, IMEC aims to explore and develop advanced process technologies to fuel the steep market growth of silicon solar cells in a sustainable way. The program will | | |
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| IMEC expands partnership with TSMC | 3/6 | Leuven, Belgium - June 3, 2009 -IMEC, Europe's leading independent nanoelectronics research center on leading-edge process technology for the next generations of IC manufacturing, has signed a new and expanded research agreement with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the world's leading semiconductor foundry. TSMC will also base its extended European research efforts at the IMEC premises.
Under the agreement, TSMC extends its collaboration with IMEC as a core partner which | | |
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| IMEC, VIB and K.U.Leuven launch pioneering brain research | 3/6 | Leuven, Belgium - June 3, 2009 - IMEC, Europe's leading independent nanoelectronics research center, VIB, Flanders' leading life science institute, and the Leuven University, K.U.Leuven, set up a joint basic research initiative to unravel the neuronal circuitry of the human brain: Neuroelectronics Research Flanders (NERF). Supported by the Flemish Government, NERF will look into fundamental neuroscientific questions through collaborative, interdisciplinary research combining nanoelectronics with | | |
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| IMEC names Luc Van den hove to serve as President and CEO | 2/6 | Leuven, Belgium - June 2, 2009 - IMEC today announced that its board of directors has named Luc Van den hove as IMEC's new President and Chief Executive Officer.
Gilbert Declerck is elected as member of the Board of IMEC International. In addition, he will continue to serve IMEC as Executive Officer, concentrating on key
governmental and industrial relations and on strategic advice. Changes will become effective on July 1, 2009.
Luc Van den hove has spent his entire career at IMEC, where he | | |
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| Nemetschek Engineering Group reveals the winners of its International User Contest, edition 2009 | 25/5 | Munich, May 4, 2009 - The Nemetschek AG, Europe's largest vendor of software for architects, engineers and the building industry with headquarters in Munich, Germany, has revealed the winners of the Nemetschek Engineering User Contest 2009. The sixth edition is more international than ever; it was open to all users of software from the Nemetschek engineering companies i.e. Scia Engineer, Allplan Engineering, Allplan Precast, Frilo statics and Glaser - isb cad -.
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| Business and Financial Update for the First Quarter of 2009 | 20/5 | Leuven (BELGIUM) - May 19, 2009 - TiGenix (NYSE EURONEXT: TIG) gives a business update and reports cash position as of March 31, 2009.
ChondroCelect registration procedure
During the first quarter of this year, the company's activities were primarily focused on resolving the outstanding questions on the ChondroCelect product and process validation
processes that were raised by the regulatory authorities in the 4th quarter of 2008. We have now completed all required validation assays and | | |
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| Swine flu spreading control with Xenics infrared cameras | 18/5 | Xenics presents a secure and unobtrusive countermeasure to the uncontrolled spreading of the respiratory disease, sometimes called swine flue, caused by the potentially pandemonic virus AN1H1. Easily installed and operated at airports and border stations, Xenics offers the new Raven, an uncooled microbolometer infrared camera, which measures, from a safe distance and in real time, crucial differences in body temperature at an accuracy of up to 0.05°C - pinpointing any suspicious fevers in | | |
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| Metris 09Q1 trading update: Progressing as planned, confirming 2009 outlook | 15/5 | Leuven, May 13th 2009 - Metris, leading innovator in the metrology industry, today issues its Q1 2009 qualitative trading update. The group will announce its H1 2009 results on August 27th, 2009.
During Q1 09, sales came in on plan realizing double digit sales growth compared to Q1 08, despite the continuing recession. Investments in optical metrology systems serving productivity and process optimization proved more recession resilient than the investments in classical mechanical measuring | | |
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| Option and Sharp build the new 3G Sidekick LX for T-Mobile USA | 14/5 | LEUVEN, Belgium, May 14, 2009 - Option N.V. (Euronext Brussels: OPTI; OTC: OPNVY), the wireless technology company, today announced that it has developed a highly-integrated system board for the Japanese consumer electronics giant, Sharp Electronics Corporation. The system board incorporates all smartphone functionalities including 3G mobile broadband, and is being integrated by Sharp into the new 3G Sidekick LX messaging phone, commercialised by T-Mobile USA.
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| Samsung Electronics joins IMEC research program on green radios | 13/5 | Leuven, Belgium - May 13, 2009 - Samsung Electronics today signed a Memorandum of Understanding with IMEC to lay down their intent to collaborate on technologies for green radios. The research collaboration topics will include cognitive reconfigurable radio baseband and millimeter-wave wireless communications technologies.
Building on its expertise in software-defined radios that support the major standards for wireless communications, IMEC pushes its research one step further towards | | |
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| Second Round of Financing For Image Sensor Startup CMOSIS | 11/5 | Antwerp, Belgium, 08 May 2009 -- CMOSIS NV has successfully concluded its second round of financing by raising ? 1.11 m from present shareholders, new personnel and management. The new investment is earmarked for the ongoing development of new CMOS image sensor technologies and further business expansion. The second round of financing coincides with the appointment of Luc De Mey as CMOSIS CEO and President. Guy Meynants will become VP R&D.
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| IMEC reports method to integrate plasmon-based nanophotonic circuitry with state-of-the-art ICs | 30/4 | Leuven, Belgium - April 30, 2009 - IMEC, Europe's leading independent nanoelectronics research institute, reports a method to integrate high-speed CMOS electronics and nanophotonic circuitry based on plasmonic effects. Metal-based nanophotonics (plasmonics) can squeeze light into nanoscale structures that are much smaller than conventional optic components. Plasmonic technology, today still in an experimental stage, has the potential to be used in future applications such as nanoscale optical | | |
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| Raad van Bestuur van IMEC vol vertrouwen over de toekomst | 24/4 | Raad van Bestuur van IMEC vol vertrouwen over de toekomst
Leuven, België - 24 april 2009 - De Raad van Bestuur van IMEC heeft vandaag tijdens haar algemene vergadering de resultaten van 2008 bekendgemaakt. 2008 was een goed jaar voor IMEC, en dat ondanks de uitdagende economische situatie. De Raad van Bestuur kijkt ook met vertrouwen naar de toekomst. Nano-elektronica heeft namelijk enorme toekomstperspectieven in de gezondheidszorg, energievoorziening, ontspanning, . In de huidige economische | | |
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| IMEC presents functional 22nm SRAM cells fabricated using EUV technology | 22/4 | LEUVEN, BELGIUM - APRIL 22, 2009 - Today, IMEC presented the world's first functional 22nm CMOS SRAM cells made using EUV lithography. The 0.099µm² SRAM cells are made with FinFETs and have both the contact and metal1 layer printed using ASML's full field extreme ultraviolet (EUV) Alpha Demo Tool (ADT). The ultra-small circuit structures were made using Applied Material's most advanced deposition systems. These results were presented during IMEC's core partner review week, which was attended - | | |
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| IMEC's design strategy for brain implants paves the way to multi-electrode deep-brain stimulation | 21/4 | Leuven, Belgium - April 21, 2009 - At this week's Design, Automation & Test in Europe (DATE) conference, IMEC presents a new design strategy for brain implants, which it used to create a prototype multi-electrode stimulation & recording probe for deep-brain stimulation. With this development, IMEC highlights the opportunities in the healthcare market for design tool developers.
Brain implants for electrical stimulation of specific brain areas are used as a last-resort therapy for brain | | |
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| IMEC transferred Design-for-Manufacturing tool for embedded SRAMs to Samsung Electronics | 21/4 | Leuven, Belgium - April 21, 2009 - IMEC successfully transferred MemoryVAM (Memory Variability Aware Modeling), the first EDA tool for statistical memory analysis, to Samsung Electronics. The tool predicts yield loss of SRAMs caused by the process variations of deep-submicron IC technologies.
IMEC's MemoryVAM is an essential tool to avoid already at design time the most likely reasons for failure, anticipating and correcting weak design spots before tape-out, and hence avoiding redesign | | |
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| Important breakthrough towards silicon-based all-optical integrated circuits | 14/4 | LEUVEN, BELGIUM - April 14, 2009 - The April issue of the premier scientific magazine Nature Photonics publishes the first experimental proof of all-optical ultra-fast communication signal processing with silicon-based devices for transmission speeds above 100Gbit/s.The paper results from the collaboration between University of Karlsruhe, Germany; IMEC, Leuven, Belgium; Lehigh University, USA and ETH Zürich, Switzerland. The achievements are a key step towards the development of complex | | |
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| IMEC and CYTEC collaborate to increase the lifetime of organic photovoltaics | 9/4 | Woodland Park, NJ, and Leuven, Belgium - April 9, 2009 - Cytec Industries Inc. (NYSE:CYT), a global leader in specialty chemicals and materials, and IMEC, Europe's leading independent nanoelectronics research institute will work together to develop a commercially viable technology for organic photovoltaic devices with enhanced stability and extended lifetime.
Over the last few years, worldwide research on organic solar cells has mainly focused on increasing the conversion efficiency. However, | | |
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| IMEC expands its research activities | 7/4 | LEUVEN, BELGIUM, APRIL 7, 2009 - The Belgian nanoelectronics research institute IMEC starts with the expansion of its research labs with 2,800m2 including the extension of its state-of-the-art clean room at its Leuven campus. With this extension, IMEC will expand its research on sub-32nm CMOS, on low-cost and high-efficiency solar cells, and on biomedical electronics. IMEC also plans to build a new office building starting later this year.
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| IMEC launches new start-up PEPRIC | 3/4 | Leuven, Belgium - April 3, 2009 - IMEC announces the start of PEPRIC NV, a new company that will develop and commercialize molecular and functional imaging technology based on magnetic nanoparticles. Pepric's technology addresses pharmaceutical applications for drug development and preclinical studies.
The demand for targeted healthcare, specifically targeted to the problem zone in the body, increases as this can reduce the side effects to a minimum. With its Human++ program, IMEC aims to | | |
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| IMEC launches research program to improve dynamic behavior of embedded systems | 1/4 | | EMBEDDED SYSTEMS CONFERENCE 2009 - SAN JOSE, CA - March 31, 2009 - To deal with the increasing dynamism in (networked) embedded systems, IMEC launches a new research program. This program will focus on moving the management of the system's resources from the design phase to runtime software solutions. The resulting embedded systems will be more flexible and efficient, and will have a shorter time-to-market. Systems that would profit from such improved dynamism are, for example, multimedia | | |
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| IMEC unveils tools to speed up design of energy-efficient multi-processor SoC platforms | 1/4 | | EMBEDDED SYSTEMS CONFERENCE 2009 - SAN JOSE, CA - March 31, 2009 - IMEC, Europe's leading independent nanoelectronics research institute, unveils a suite of tools and methods to optimize the mapping of applications on embedded multiprocessor system-on-chip (MPSoC) platforms. These result in systems that are more energy-efficient and that can be designed faster, leading to a shorter time-to-market. IMEC's MPSoC tools are intended for companies that design multicore platforms for tomorrow's | | |
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| METRIS: 2008 SALES GROWTH HALTS AND EBIT TURNS NEGATIVE | 18/3 | SWIFT ACTIONS TAKEN DURING 2008 ENABLE ADEQUATE POSITIVE FREE CASH FLOW FOR 2009
HIGHLIGHTS
- Sales growth in 2008 halts with sales declining 4% over 2007 to ?89 million
- 50% gross profit margin in 2008 versus 51% in 2007, the decline due to higher amortizations
- 2008 EBITDA came in just above break-even at ?3.7 million
- 2008 EBIT turned negative to -?9.7 million
- 2008 showed a net loss of ?14 million or ?1.1 net loss per weighted average undiluted share
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| TiGenix gives business update and announces the full year 2008 financial results | 17/3 | Leuven (BELGIUM) - March 16, 2009 - TiGenix (NYSE EURONEXT: TIG) gives an update of business activities and announces its financial results for the full year ending December 31, 2008.
Business Highlights
Preparing for European launch of ChondroCelect
- ChondroCelect three-year clinical data analysis confirms clinical superiority
- EMEA registration procedure progressing
- CHMP opinion anticipated by end of H1 2009
- More than 500 patients treated with ChondroCelect to-date
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| IMEC blaast 25 kaarsjes uit | 16/3 | Leuven, België - 16 maart 2009 - IMEC, het Leuvense onderzoekscentrum in nanotechnologie en nano-elektronica viert dit jaar zijn 25ste verjaardag. Op 16 januari 1984 werd de handtekening gezet onder de oprichtingsakte van IMEC, en op 15 maart, exact 25 jaar geleden, verscheen IMEC als gloednieuw onderzoekscentrum in het staatsblad. Nu, 25 jaar later, is IMEC uitgegroeid tot een topinstituut met wereldfaam.
Gilbert Declerck, CEO van IMEC: 'Dat IMEC na 25 jaar zo succesvol is, hebben we | | |
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| IMEC ontwikkelt slimme medische implantaten | 10/3 | Brussel, 10 maart 2009 - Vandaag stelt IMEC op de Europese conferentie Smart Systems Integration in Brussel een nieuw prototype van een neuroprobe voor. De probe kan gebruikt worden in hersenimplantaten om de elektrische signalen van de hersenen te meten en te interpreteren. De probe kan ook gebruikt worden voor elektrische stimulatie van hersencellen, bijvoorbeeld voor de behandeling van hersenaandoeningen zoals epilepsie.
Vandaag zijn er al hersenprobes op de markt. Maar door de manier | | |
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| IMEC reports ultra-thin chip embedding for wearable electronics | 10/3 | LEUVEN, BELGIUM - March 10, 2009 - At today's Smart Systems Integration Conference in Brussels (Belgium), technologists from IMEC and its associated laboratory at Ghent University present a new 3D integration process enabling flexible electronic systems with a thickness of less than 60 micrometer. This ultra-thin chip package (UTCP) technology allows integrating complete systems in a conventional low-cost flex substrate. This paves the way to low-cost, unobtrusive wearable electronics for e.g. | | |
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| Option reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2008 results | 5/3 | | LEUVEN, Belgium - March 5, 2009 - Option N.V. (EURONEXT Brussels: OPTI; OTC: OPNVY), the wireless technology company, today announced its results (regulated information) for the full fiscal year and fourth quarter ended December 31, 2008. The financial information reported in this release is presented in Euros and has been prepared in accordance with the recognition and measurement criteria of IFRS as adopted by the European Union. The accounting policies and methods of computation followed in | | |
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| Onderzoekscentrum FMTC breidt uit en werft aan | 4/3 |
Vlaamse mechatronicabedrijven willen Europese technologieprimeurs ontwikkelen.
Het onderzoekscentrum Flanders' Mechatronics Technology Centre (FMTC) in Heverlee breidt haar onderzoeksactiviteiten tijdens de komende jaren flink uit en verdubbelt het aantal onderzoekers. Dat wordt onder meer mogelijk gemaakt door een subsidie van Vlaams minister van Economie Patricia Ceysens. Die maakt tussen
2009 en 2013 een budget van 16,5 miljoen euro vrij. Een belangrijke investering, want zo kunnen | | |
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| Noesis Solutions announces the release of OPTIMUS Revision 8 | 3/3 | Leuven, Belgium - February 27, 2009 - Noesis Solutions, the leading provider of process integration and multi-disciplinary design optimization software, announces the release of OPTIMUS Revision 8. With the new OPTIMUS Revision 8 release, Noesis Solutions realizes groundbreaking achievements in a multitude of areas.
There are several ways in which process integration and design optimization tools can effectively improve the productivity of simulation engineers. One, of course, is to provide | | |
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| Vrouwen met talent - IMEC stimuleert vrouwen in wetenschappelijk onderzoek | 3/3 | Leuven, 3 Maart 2009 - Vandaag organiseert IMEC een 'shadowing day'. De deuren worden geopend voor meisjes uit het 6de middelbaar die een hele dag hun 'target', een vrouwelijke wetenschapper of ingenieur, schaduwen. Zo maken ze op een unieke manier kennis met wat wetenschappelijk onderzoek in een onderzoeksinstituut als IMEC concreet inhoudt.
Vrouwen in de wetenschap, daar is nood aan. Vrouwen hebben duidelijk de onderzoekswereld nog niet veroverd. Begin februari stelden op ISSCC, de | | |
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| SRC AND IMEC SIGN A MOU TO JOINTLY ACCELERATE GREEN MANUFACTURING PROGRESS FOR SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY | 17/2 | | RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. and LEUVEN, BELGIUM (February 17, 2009) - Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), the world's leading university-research consortium for semiconductors and related technologies, and IMEC, Europe's leading independent nanoelectronics research center, intend to set up an international collaboration aimed at creation of novel processes and materials for advanced semiconductor manufacturing. The memorandum of understanding (MOU) calls for the consortia to apply their | | |
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| Option demonstrates HSPA+ | 17/2 | | LEUVEN, Belgium and BARCELONA, Spain - February 16, 2009 - Option N.V. (EURONEXT Brussels: OPTI; OTC: OPNVY), the wireless technology company, proves its readiness for HSPA+, the next phase in the evolution of wireless broadband technology, with a wireless embedded module delivering speeds of up to 11.4 Mbps on the uplink and 42Mbps on the downlink. This uplink performance represents a doubling of the maximum HSUPA performance available today. At the Mobile World Congress, Option is | | |
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| O2 offers new Option ExpressCard with retractable antenna | 17/2 |
Traveler Antenna makes GlobeTrotter Express 441 the first 'install & forget' ExpressCard
LEUVEN, Belgium and BARCELONA, Spain - February 16, 2009 - Telefónica O2 Germany will be one of the first operators to offer the GlobeTrotter Express 441, the latest ExpressCard from wireless technology company Option (EURONEXT Brussels: OPTI; OTC: OPNVY). The operator will market the GlobeTrotter Express 441 under its own brand as the O2 Surfcard Speed. It joins Option's entry-level iCON 210 USB modem | | |
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| Actieve functionaliteit in een passieve RFID-tag | 17/2 |
Bits&Chips - nr. 2 | 13 februari 2009
Redactie Alexander Pil
Easics (Ramses Valvekens) en ICsense (Bram De Muer)ontwikkelen samen actieve functionaliteit in een passieve RFID-tag.
ACHTERGROND OVER SIGNAALINTEGRATIE
De RFID-paraplu dekt vele ladingen, van eenvoudige antidiefstallabels en veredelde barcodevervangers tot intelligente draadloze sensorknopen die op uiteenlopende wijzen interageren met hun omgeving. Ramses Valvekens en Bram De Muer bespreken een recente samenwerking | | |
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| Gemalto deploys innovative solution for the management of 3G/HSPA connected devices | 17/2 |
Gemalto partners with Option to deliver remote management over the internet of 3G/HSPA USB modems for mobile operators
LEUVEN, Belgium and BARCELONA, Spain - February 17, 2009 - Gemalto, the world leader in digital security, today announces the next step in its strategy to manage all connected devices remotely, with the combination of its Smart Device Management Center (SDMC) service offer and the 3G/HSPA USB modem from Option N.V. (EURONEXT Brussels: OPTI; OTC: OPNVY). This universal | | |
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| Javelin Design Automation And IMEC Extend Javelin PathFinding Design Technology For 3D Stacked ICs | 16/2 | SARATOGA, California and Leuven, Belgium - February 16, 2008 - Javelin Design Automation, the leading provider of PathFinding solutions, announces a revolutionary solution for the rapid design exploration and optimization of three dimensional stacked ICs (3D SIC). Developed in close collaboration with IMEC, Europe's leading independent nanoelectronics research center, and Qualcomm, a partner in IMEC's 3D integration program, 3D PathFinding extends the Javelin PathFinding methodology and j360 | | |
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| Holst Centre reports major step towards organic RFID | 9/2 | ISSCC2009, SAN FRANCISCO - February 9, 2009 - At this week's International Solid State Circuit Conference, Holst Centre - founded by the Belgian nanoelectronics research center IMEC and the Dutch research center TNO - presents world's first 128 bit organic RFID transponder chip with Manchester encoding, anti-collision protocol and record high data rate. The reported RFID transponder chip is a major step towards the application of organic RFID tags in electronic product coding (EPC).
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| IMEC matures reconfigurable transceiver technology and prepares for digital flexible radio | 9/2 | | ISSCC2009, SAN FRANCISCO - February 9, 2009 - With the launch of its single-chip reconfigurable receiver achieving industry state-of-the-art performance, IMEC matures its flexible radios in deep sub-micron digital CMOS to ease the implementation of both the analog and the digital functionality into the same system-on-chip (SoC). The architecture optimally benefits from the speed advantages of chip technology scaling resulting in low cost, low power radios. In parallel, IMEC is working on | | |
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| IMEC reports low-cost low-power 60GHz solutions in digital 45nm CMOS | 9/2 | | ISSCC2009, SAN FRANCISCO - February 9, 2009 - At this week's International Solid State Circuits Conference, IMEC presents a 60GHz front-end receive chain, phase-locked loop and power amplifier in 45nm digital CMOS technology. These building blocks pave the way to second-generation 60GHz radios by 2010 which will rely solely on plain CMOS, true one-chip solutions. IMEC also demonstrated multi-gigabit per second wireless communication with its 60GHz module that integrates IMEC proprietary | | |
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| XYLOPHANE AB | 28/1 | CAPRICORN CLEANTECH FUND AND SEB VENTURE CAPITAL
INVEST EUR 3.3 MILLION IN XYLOPHANE AB
Leuven - 27 January 2009, Capricorn Venture Partners announced today its investment in Sweden based Xylophane AB, Gothenburg.
Xylophane AB, developer of a unique renewable packing material that extends the shelf life of sensitive food products, has raised ? 3.3 million (34 MSEK) in an issue of new shares. SEB Venture Capital and Capricorn Cleantech Fund joined as new investors. The capital ensures the | | |
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| Option shipping stylish new wireless router: the GlobeSurfer III | 23/1 | LEUVEN, Belgium - January 22, 2009 - Option N.V. (EURONEXT Brussels: OPTI; OTC: OPNVY), the wireless technology company, today announced that it is shipping a new 3G wireless router to mobile operators, distributors and Value Added Resellers. Offering businesses and households a versatile communications hub that creates an instant Wi-Fi hotspot the GlobeSurfer III enables multiple users to share a superfast HSPA broadband connection.
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| ASML Supervisory Board nominates Wolfgang Ziebart as new member | 21/1 |
VELDHOVEN, the Netherlands, January 21, 2009 - The Supervisory Board of ASML Holding NV (ASML) is pleased to announce it will nominate Mr. Wolfgang Ziebart for appointment as a member of its Supervisory Board by the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders, which is scheduled to be held on March 26, 2009.
His candidacy will fill the vacancy left by Jan Dekker who has served on the Supervisory Board for 12 years and whose term expires on March 26, 2009. ASML wishes to thank Mr. Dekker for | | |
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| Magna Powertrain doubles testing productivity with LMS Test.Lab | 21/1 | Automotive supplier shortens in-vehicle NVH test cycles by 50% and responds faster to customer requests with mobile testing systems
Leuven, Belgium - January 19, 2009 - LMS, the engineering innovation company, announced today that automotive supplier Magna Powertrain has successfully deployed LMS Test.Lab and is experiencing productivity gains of up to 50%. Magna Powertrain uses the LMS systems to optimize the NVH performance of powertrains and drivelines it designs and manufacturers for | | |
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| Metris outsources C3 CMM manufacturing by spinning off Italian CMM operations | 16/1 | Leuven, January 16th, 2009 - Metris announces that its Italian C3 CMM operations continue as an independent organization. Metris will continue to source its aluminum-based C3 range of CMMs from its spin-off that also becomes the exclusive reseller of Metris products for Italy.
Angelo Muscarella, former CEO of Coord3 and sales director of Metris Italy, takes over the Bruzolo operations from Metris to create an independent CMM company. This new company includes both the development and | | |
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| METRIS 08Q4 TRADING UPDATE: RECESSION CAUSES SALES Q4 TO DECLINE- H2 EBITDA BREAK EVEN | 16/1 | Dit artikel in het Nederlands
METRIS 08Q4 TRADING UPDATE:
RECESSION CAUSES SALES Q4 TO DECLINE;
H2 EBITDA BREAK EVEN
Leuven, January 16th 2009 - Metris, leading innovator in the metrology industry, today issues its 08Q4 qualitative trading update. The group will announce its H2 and full year 2008 results on March 18th, 2009.
Until September 2008, Metris has been on track for Sales, Gross Profit and EBITDA plan. In Q4 however Metris' sales have been negatively impacted by recession, | | |
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| ServersCheck Monitoring Appliance | 16/1 | Goedkoper dan Open Source?
Kleinste en meest groene server monitoring oplossing
van ServersCheck maakt het waar.
ServersCheck Monitoring Appliance is kleinste en meest groene toestel op de markt.
Waver/Zaventem (België), Montréal (Canada) 14 januari 2009 - Goedkoper dan open source? Het lijkt een paradox, maar toch is het mogelijk. ServersCheck, gespecialiseerd in sensoren, hardware en sofware voor server room monitoring, lanceert met de Monitor Appliance een uniek concept. Dit toestel | | |
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| Option's new entry-level USB modem selected by O2 | 12/1 | LEUVEN, Belgium - January 12, 2008 - Option (EURONEXT Brussels: OPTI; OTC: OPNVY), the wireless technology company, today announced that its new entry-level USB modem has been selected by O2. Carrying the O2 branding, Option's new iCON 210 HSPA USB modem is shipping to Telefónica O2 Germany. The iCON 210 is the third distinctive USB modem designed and released by Option in the last three months to meet specific market needs of major European and US operators.
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| METRIS AND RENISHAW ANNOUNCE AGREEMENT | 6/1 |
METRIS AND RENISHAW ANNOUNCE AGREEMENT
ON THE LICENSING OF METRIS CAMIO CMM SOFTWARE
Leuven, January 6th, 2009 - Metris and Renishaw today announce a recent agreement under which Renishaw licenses the source code of the Metris Camio CMM software. In order to support their own further development Renishaw has also employed a number of Metris engineers.
Metris preserves full ownership of the original source code and the Camio brand name.
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| Option appoints Philippe Rogge to new role of Chief Operating Officer | 23/12 | LEUVEN, Belgium - December 23, 2008 - Option N.V. (EURONEXT Brussels: OPTI; OTC: OPNVY), the wireless technology company, today announced a significant strengthening of its management and organizational structure with the appointment of Philippe Rogge as the company's first Chief Operating Officer.
Philippe joins Option from Belgacom Group where he was most recently Vice President Business Development & Planning. During seven years at Belgium's largest telecommunications company, Philippe | | |
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| Italian operator offers Option-connected Mobile Internet Device | 19/12 | MID incorporating Option wireless module on sale in Italy as well as France
LEUVEN, Belgium - December 19, 2008 - A second European operator is now offering a Mobile Internet Device (MID) based on a wireless embedded module from Option N.V. (EURONEXT Brussels: OPTI; OTC: OPNVY). The MID is being marketed by Italy's leading mobile operator TIM (Telecom Italia Mobile) as the Alice Mobile MID IDOL
The Alice Mobile MID IDOL - an MID with HSPA connectivity, 4.8' touch screen, retractable | | |
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| GIMV: Successful first closing XL fund at EUR 500 million | 19/12 | 18-12-2008 10:00
Gimv announces today the successful first closing of the XL fund at EUR 500 million. The XL fund, which has been initiated by Gimv, focuses on growth companies with an enterprise value between EUR 75 and EUR 750 million. These companies typically show healthy activity and have the potential to expand their business from the Flemish to the international market. Because of its high importance to the Flemish economy, the fund is also backed by the Flemish Government.
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| ASML takes action to adjust its organization due to severe order slowdown | 18/12 | | VELDHOVEN, the Netherlands, December 18, 2008 - ASML Holding NV (ASML) announces today that it has seen a severe deterioration in its order intake due to the global economic crisis. 'Never before have we witnessed such a sharp and sudden fall-off in lithography system demand, triggered by an unprecedented mix of falling end-demand for semiconductors, weak memory prices and restricted access to capital for our customers,' said Eric Meurice, President and Chief Executive Officer of ASML. 'This | | |
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| IMEC builds reliable 11 megapixel micro-mirror array for high-end industrial applications | 16/12 | SAN FRANCISCO, US - December 15, 2008 - At today's IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting, IMEC presents a monolithically integrated 11 megapixel micro-mirror array for high-end industrial applications, a world's first both in terms of pixel density and reliability. Each mirror in the array is 8ìm x 8ìm and can be individually tilted by the high-speed integrated CMOS circuitry underneath the array. This device fits in IMEC's CMORE initiative, which offers cost-effective solutions for | | |
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| Option to offer USB wireless modem in the UK | 15/12 |
LEUVEN, Belgium - December 15, 2008 - Option N.V. (Euronext Brussels: OPTI; OTC: OPNVY), the wireless technology company, today announced that T-Mobile UK is adding an Option USB wireless modem to its pioneering mobile broadband service. The iCON 431 is an intelligent HSUPA USB modem offering fast, future-proof broadband connectivity: it will be marketed by T-Mobile UK as the Mobile Broadband USB Stick 530.
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| CMS awards voor webprojecten Amplexor | 12/12 | 4 keer goud, 1 keer zilver en 2 keer brons op CMS awards voor webprojecten Amplexor
Leuven, 5 december 2008 - Amplexor, specialist in enterprise content management (ECM), zag donderdagavond op de vierde editie van de CMS awards in de Sky Hall in Zaventem maar liefst 7 van zijn recente projecten in de prijzen vallen. De CMS awards worden sinds 2005 jaarlijks uitgereikt aan de beste Belgische websites gebaseerd op een content management systeem (CMS). Daarmee bewijst Amplexor dat ze dé Web | | |
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| Surfen met de snelheid van het licht | 10/12 | Optische chiptechnologie breekt door
Brussel, België - 10 December 2008 - Intensieve samenwerking tussen Europese universiteiten, onderzoeksinstellingen waaronder het Leuvense IMEC en fotonicabedrijven heeft ervoor gezorgd dat optische chips in Europa op het punt staan om door te breken in tal van toepassingen. Zo zullen optische chips ons in de toekomst nog sneller laten surfen doordat ze overal in het glasvezelnetwerk gebruikt zullen worden, gaande van de eindgebruiker tot diep in het | | |
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| Deloitte Fiduciaire maakt resultaten bekend van haar 'KMO Kompas 2008 - 10 financiële sleutels om uw onderneming te sturen' | 8/12 | - Een KMO financiert zich per 5,8 keer meer met eigen middelen dan met bancair vermogen
- 75% van KMO allicht voldoende gewapend tegen financieel-economische crisis, maar.
- Energiekosten 2,5 maal sneller gestegen dan index consumptieprijzen
- Budget reclameuitgaven laatste 4 jaar gedaald
- Totale belastingdruk op KMO sterk onderschat
Brussel, 26 november 2008 - Deloitte Fiduciaire, marktleider inzake accountancy, fiscaal-juridisch en financieel advies aan familiale ondernemers en KMO's, | | |
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| ELAt zorgt voor innovatiestimulans en verbetering van competitief vermogen | 8/12 | Innovatie agenda 'Engineering the Future' zorgt voor actie in ELAt (Eindhoven, Leuven en Aachen triangle)
Op dinsdag 2 december is de innovatie agenda, 'Engineering the Future' voor de Eindhoven-Leuven-Aachen triangle (ELAt) gepresenteerd tijdens een conferentie op de High Tech Campus Eindhoven. De innovatie agenda vormt een paraplu boven tal van bottom-up gedreven initiatieven en samenwerkingsverbanden van organisaties uit het gebied Eindhoven-Leuven-Aachen. Het ELAt partnersschap zal worden | | |
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| Gilbert J. Declerck to Receive 2008 IEEE Frederik Philips Award | 1/12 |
GILBERT J. DECLERCK, CO-FOUNDER OF WORLD'S MOST ADVANCED SEMICONDUCTOR RESEARCH CENTER, TO RECEIVE 2008 IEEE FREDERIK PHILIPS AWARD
Helped Build and Manage Worldwide Research and Development Alliances in Emerging Fields, Including Nanotechnology
PISCATAWAY, N.J. (1 December 2008) - Gilbert J. Declerck has been named the recipient of the IEEE Frederik Philips Award for scientific and technical leadership and visionary management of the Interuniversity Microelectronics Center (IMEC) - the | | |
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| Aristo Music receives capital injection of 2.6 million euros | 26/11 | Financing must enable international growth
Aristo Music, specialist in new selection and distribution techniques for digital music, has today announced a capital increase for an amount of 2.6 million euros. The new resources
will be used first and foremost for the international expansion of its activities. The parties involved in this round are LRM, KBC Arkiv and the Baekeland Fonds II and the Gemma Frisius
Fonds II that was already a shareholder.
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| Metris 08Q3 trading update | 21/11 | EBITDA on track,cCoping with recession through new revenue and cost initiatives to reach 08 plan.
Leuven, November 18th 2008 - Metris, leading innovator in the metrology industry, today issues its 08Q3 qualitative trading update, in line with article 14 of the Royal Decree of November 14th, 2007. The group will announce its H2 and full year 2008 results on March 18th, 2009.
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| IMEC and Panasonic Sign Comprehensive Joint Research Contract | 12/11 | Cutting-edge CMOS processes and More than Moore (networks, wireless,and biomedical) featured.
Osaka, Japan and Leuven, Belgium - November 12, 2008 - Today, the nanoelectronics research center IMEC and Panasonic Corporation have signed a joint research contract concerning the most advanced technologies in the semiconductor, networks, wireless, and biomedical fields. Research will be carried out at the Leuven (Belgium) facilities and IMEC's research unit at Holst Centre in Eindhoven (the | | |
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| Option and Microsoft collaborate on Windows 7 | 6/11 | | LEUVEN, Belgium - November 6, 2008 - Option N.V. (EURONEXT Brussels: OPTI; OTC: OPNVY), announced today that its HSPA broadband connectivity devices will be Windows 7 enabled. Option continues to collaborate with Microsoft to provide development support between Windows 7, the next version of Microsoft's operating system, and Option's mobile broadband devices such as USB modems, data cards, routers and embedded modules. As a result, Option will deliver a consistent Windows user experience with | | |
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| DuPont Teijin Films joins Holst Centre research program on Systems-in-Foil | 5/11 | EINDHOVEN - November 5, 2008 - DuPont Teijin Films, the world's leading differentiated producer of PET and PEN polyester films, joins the Systems-in-Foil program of Holst Centre, a research initiative of the Flemish and Dutch research centers IMEC and TNO. By getting a major substrate vendor on board, Holst Centre gathers the entire ecosystem of industrial players around its Systems-in-Foil program line.
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| Business and Financial Update for the Third Quarter of 2008 | 5/11 | Leuven (BELGIUM) - November 5, 2008 - TiGenix (NYSE EURONEXT: TIG) gives a business update and reports cash position as of September 30, 2008.
Highlights
- Further data analysis confirms clinical superiority of ChondroCelect
- ChondroCelect registration procedure progressing
- European cell expansion facility obtained GMP status
- TiGenix' core patent granted in US
- Cash position of EUR 29 million on September 30, 2008
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| Option delivers new USB modem for Vodafone | 4/11 | LEUVEN, Belgium - November 4, 2008 - Option (EURONEXT Brussels: OPTI; OTC: OPNVY), the wireless technology company, today announced that a new high-performance USB wireless modem with micro SD slot is shipping to Vodafone.
Developed with Vodafone and targeted at both the tech savvy consumer and enterprise markets, the Vodafone K3760 USB Stick will launch in a number of European countries this year. The device will be available for other Vodafone operators and partner networks during 2009.
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| Openbaarmaking van belangrijke deelnemingen. | 3/11 | Leuven (België) - 3 november 2008 - TiGenix (NYSE Euronext Brussel: TIG) kondigt aan dat het transparantieverklaringen heeft ontvangen van verschillende belangrijke
aandeelhouders overeenkomstig Artikels 14 en 29 van de nieuwe Belgische transparantiewetgeving (Belgische wet van 2 mei 2007 - Koninklijk Besluit van 14 februari 2008) betreffende belangrijke deelnemingen in emittenten waarvan de aandelen zijn toegelaten tot verhandeling op een gereglementeerde Belgische markt.
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| ASML announces changes to the Board of Management | 30/10 | Klaus Fuchs to resign as EVP Operations, Frits van Hout to join the Board
VELDHOVEN, the Netherlands, October 30, 2008 - ASML Holding NV (ASML) today announces that Klaus Fuchs, Executive Vice President Operations, has confirmed to the Supervisory Board that he has decided to resign from his position on the Board of Management effective January 1, 2009.
At the same time, the Supervisory Board intends to appoint Frits van Hout as a member of the Board of Management, subject to | | |
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| Option reports Third Quarter 2008 results | 30/10 |
LEUVEN, Belgium - October 30, 2008 - Option N.V. (EURONEXT Brussels: OPTI; OTC: OPNVY), the wireless technology company, today announced its results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2008. The financial information reported in this release is presented in Euros and has been prepared in accordance with the recognition and measurement criteria of IFRS as adopted by the European Union. The accounting policies and methods of computation followed in the attached financial statements are the | | |
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| IMEC calls for true European collaborations | 30/10 | Leuven, Belgium - October 30, 2008 - To increase Europe's microelectronics competitiveness, the Belgian nanoelectronics research center IMEC asks Europe and its governing public authorities to stimulate true cross-border collaborations, not only by setting up networks but also by creating financial means. Only international collaboration will enable Europe to continue to play a competitive role in nanoelectronics and related fields.
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| Intelligente elektronica om emoties te meten | 29/10 | Leuven, België - 27 Oktober 2008 - In het kader van Holst Centre ontwikkelde IMEC een 'emotiemonitor', een toestel dat de staat van opwinding van een proefpersoon 'in real time' kan meten aan de hand van vier lichaamsparameters: het hartritme, de ademhaling, de geleidbaarheid van de huid en de temperatuur van de huid.
De emotiemonitor kan in de eerste plaats toegepast worden in de gezondheidszorg. Zo moet het mogelijk worden om in de toekomst het effect van bijvoorbeeld antidepressiva | | |
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| Major French operator launches Option-connected Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) | 29/10 | LEUVEN, Belgium - October 28, 2008 - Option N.V. (EURONEXT Brussels: OPTI; OTC: OPNVY), the wireless technology company, today announced that a major French operator has announced two Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs), the SFR M! PC Pocket 3G+ and the Archos 3G+, that connect to the operator's national HSPA mobile broadband network via embedded modules from Option. The SFR M! PC Pocket 3G+ is also the first device incorporating Option's Linux-based connection management software.
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| AVANTIUM COMPLETES EUR18 MILLION FINANCING ROUND | 29/10 | Amsterdam, October 29, 2008 -
Avantium announced today the successful completion of a EUR 18 million private financing round. Avantium is active in
the development and commercialization of Furanics, Avantium's next generation biofuel and bioplastic, and the improvement of pharmaceutical products. The financing will be used to accelerate its two proprietary development programs. The focus of the next-generation biofuel and bioplastic
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| Solvay joins Holst Centre research program on Systems-in-Foil | 23/10 | EINDHOVEN - October 23, 2008 - The international chemical and pharmaceutical group Solvay today signs an agreement to become part of the research network of Holst Centre, an open-innovation initiative by IMEC (Belgium) and TNO (The Netherlands).
Flexible organic electronics - or systems-in-foil - will in the future be driven by an industry producing, laminating and combining a variety of smart foils. As an example, one can envisage light-emitting foils, memory- and processing foils being | | |
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| USI selects Option embedded wireless module for razor-thin Mobile Internet Device | 21/10 |
LEUVEN, Belgium - October 21, 2008 - Option N.V. (EURONEXT Brussels: OPTI; OTC: OPNVY) the wireless technology company, today announced that its GTM501 embedded module is providing 3G HSPA connectivity to a new ultra-compact Mobile Internet Device (MID) from USI (Taiwan Stock Exchange: 2350.tw). The new MID also includes GlobeTrotter Connect for Linux, the connection management software specially developed by Option for MIDs.
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| Capital-E investeert in Movidia Ltd (Ierland) | 20/10 | Movidia secures funding to enable budding 'Spielbergs on the move'
On-device video production for social networking will be a key differentiator for mobile phones.
Dublin, Ireland & Hong Kong - 20th October 2008 - Movidia, the mobile video processor company, announced today that it had secured over US$14 million in Series A funding. Investments from an international syndicate led by Celtic House Venture
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| TRINEAN announces closing of a 3,5 million Euro funding round. | 20/10 | Belgium, Gentbrugge, October 20, 2008
Trinean NV, an innovative player in the sector of molecular instrumentation, today announced the closure of a 3,5 million EURO round of financing. The round was co-lead by new investor Vesalius Biocapital and existing investor Capital-E.
Trinean (www.trinean.com) is a spin-off of the University of Ghent (Intec) and the Belgium nanoelectronics research center IMEC. The company develops and markets the first nanoliter spectrophotometer with | | |
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| Option to extend collaboration with Intel on wireless modules for Mobile Internet Devices | 20/10 |
LEUVEN, Belgium - October 20, 2008 - Option N.V. (EURONEXT Brussels: OPTI; OTC: OPNVY), the wireless technology company, today announced that it is developing a new 3.5G HSPA embedded module for the 'Moorestown' platform, Intel's next generation Mobile Internet Device (MID) platform based on the Intel® Atom(TM) processor.
Option has collaborated with Intel since 2007, which has resulted in Option becoming the first company in the world to deliver a WWAN module that was physically small | | |
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| IPCOS acquires Aptitude Ltd | 16/10 | Today, IPCOS announced it has acquired a majority stake in Aptitude Ltd, a UK-based company focusing on delivery of high-performance Advanced Process Control (APC) solutions to the refining and petrochemical markets and the development of high-end APC software tools. Aptitude has offices in Cambridge, UK, and Chandigarh, India. Aptitude will change its name to IPCOSAptitude and become a member of the IPCOS group.
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| AC Milan en Belgische BioRICS starten met revolutionaire begeleiding profvoetballers | 16/10 | Italiaanse topclub koopt wereldwijde en exclusieve licentie op technologie van Belgische spin-off van de K.U.Leuven.
Leuven, België, 10 oktober 2008 - AC Milan, de Italiaanse topclub uit de Serie A, rolt samen met de Belgische spin-off BioRICS een revolutionaire methode uit om profvoetballers fysiek en mentaal te begeleiden. AC Milan heeft daartoe een wereldwijde, exclusieve licentie gekocht om de technologie van BioRICS toe te passen in het voetbal. De overeenkomst betekent een belangrijke | | |
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| IMEC presents scalable architecture for flexible forward error correction | 14/10 | IMEC Annual Research Review Meeting - Leuven - Belgium
Leuven, Belgium - October 14, 2008 - IMEC has developed an innovative architecture for flexible forward error correction (FEC). The solution targets data transmission applications that need to combine flexibility, high throughput, and low power consumption. Examples are future wireless terminals and optical storage. IMEC's FEC enables, on one processor, the turbo- and LDPC decoding of major communication standards. The technology is | | |
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| Body area network monitors arousal level | 14/10 | IMEC Annual Research Review Meeting - Leuven - Belgium
Leuven, Belgium - October 14, 2008 - In the framework of Holst Centre, IMEC developed an ambulatory arousal monitor. The new research concept uses a combination of body parameters to monitor a person's arousal level. The compact form factor and the long battery lifetime allow the use of the arousal monitor in new application domains such as mobile gaming and clinical trials.
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| IMEC starts new research activities on resistive RAM | 14/10 | IMEC Annual Research Review Meeting - Leuven - Belgium
Leuven, Belgium - October 14, 2008 - In order to explore solutions to overcome the scaling limitations of conventional Flash memory cells, IMEC has started new research activities on resistive RAM (RRAM) cells. With these activities, IMEC answers the needs of today's major memory companies.
Resistive switching memories are based on materials whose resistivity can be electrically switched between high and low conductive states. RRAM is | | |
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| IMEC reports record power for micromachined piezoelectric energy harvester | 14/10 | IMEC Annual Research Review Meeting - Leuven - Belgium
Leuven, Belgium - October 14, 2008 - In the framework of Holst Centre, IMEC achieved a new record for micromachined piezoelectric energy harvesters, now delivering an output power of 60µW. The harvester can be realized with a simple, low-cost CMOS-compatible production process by using aluminum nitride (AlN) as piezoelectric material. The low resonance frequency of only 500Hz makes the device widely applicable. The output power of 60µW | | |
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| AT&T and Option launch AT&T USBConnect Quicksilver | 14/10 | New USB Mobile Broadband Device Is Stylish, Small and Very Fast
DALLAS, Texas, and LEUVEN, Belgium, October 14, 2008 - AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) and Option N.V. (Euronext Brussels: OPTI; OTC: OPNVY) today announced the availability of the AT&T USBConnect Quicksilver, a new USB mobile broadband device with an award-winning design. The Quicksilver is the newest addition to AT&T's High Speed Packet Access (HSPA)-capable lineup of LaptopConnect devices on the nation's fastest third-generation (3G) | | |
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| Toshiba licenses IMEC's power-efficient, flexible processor technology | 13/10 | IMEC Annual Research Review Meeting - Leuven - Belgium
Leuven, Belgium - October 13, 2008 - IMEC, Europe's leading independent nanoelectronics research institute today announced that Toshiba, world-leading integrated device manufacturer, has licensed IMEC technology for designing power-efficient, flexible processors in a single- and multiprocessor architecture. The agreement concerns IMEC's ADRES reconfigurable processor template, the DRESC compiler, and the MPSoC (multi-processor | | |
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| IMEC paves the way towards optical sensing foils | 7/10 | Leuven, Belgium - October 7, 2008 - IMEC's associated laboratory at the Ghent University, INTEC, has made the first functional optical links embedded in a flexible substrate. The links include optical waveguides, light sources, and detectors. With this technique, it becomes possible to make foils that sense changes in pressure. Such sensing, skin-like foils could be used for monitoring irregular or moving surfaces, e.g. in robots, pliable machinery, or as an artificial skin.
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| IMEC and Taiyo Nippon Sanso Corp. collaborate on green LED manufacturing technology | 3/10 | Leuven, Belgium and Osaka, Japan ¨C October 3, 2008 -¡¡IMEC, Europe¡¯s leading independent nanoelectronics research institute, and Taiyo Nippon Sanso Corp. (TNSC), a total solution provider in the compound semiconductor field, today announce that they have signed an agreement to jointly develop manufacturing technology for high efficiency LED (light-emitting diode) devices. The agreement marks the first time Taiyo Nippon Sanso collaborates with an advanced research center based in Europe.
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| Ontdek de toekomst op zondag 5 oktober | 2/10 | Leuven, België - 2 oktober 2008 - Een slim fietsshirt met richtingsaanwijzers of een hip jasje met ingebouwde LED-lampjes - dit is geen verre toekomst meer. De eerste prototypes van rekbare en wasbare elektronica in kleding kan je nu al ontdekken tijdens de OpenBedrijvendag op IMEC.
Het Leuvense nano-elektronica onderzoekscentrum IMEC opent zijn deuren op zondag 5 oktober van 10u tot 17u. Aan de hand van talrijke demonstraties kan je een kijkje nemen in de toekomst.
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| ICsense obtains ISO 9001:2000 certification | 29/9 | ICsense has obtained ISO 9001:2000 certification for the design, development and production of microelectronic components and systems. The quality management system has been assessed and approved by the 'Belgisch Centrum voor Certificatie'.
Since its startup, ICsense has been designing and developing ICs and sensor systems using its own quality management system and procedures, derived from the ISO 9001:2000 standard. This has resulted in a maintained high-quality of service with a high | | |
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| NiniX Technologies wordt lid van Flanders' MECHATRONICS Technology Centre | 19/9 | NiniX Technologies uit Brugge is lid geworden van het Flanders' Mechatronics Technology Centre v.z.w. (FMTC), het onderzoekscentrum van de toonaangevende Vlaamse machinebouwers. In totaal heeft FMTC nu 20 industriële en 2 geassocieerde leden.
NiniX Technologies is in 2001 ontstaan als spin-off van BC Components en is in enkele jaren uitgegroeid tot een bedrijf met een dertigtal medewerkers. Het bedrijf ontwikkelt en produceert
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| Capricorn Venture Partners continues its expansion into cleantech | 19/9 |
Sitra joins as a strategic partner
Over the summer the Belgium based venture capital firm Capricorn Venture Partners has been busy expanding its cleantech franchise. With investments in Ensartech bv, Fluxome Sciences A/S, Alaska Food Diagnostics Ltd and Concentrator Optics GmbH, Capricorn has been expanding its cleantech portfolio to a total of 7 investments. In line with Capricorn's approach to the clean technology sector these investments cover a broad range of different subsectors, | | |
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| PharmaAbs: Launching Event, October 1, 2008 | 17/9 | Auditorium BMW 6, Gasthuisberg, O&N II, Herestraat 49, Leuven
PharmAbs is a research center that focuses on production, development and characterization of antibody-based molecules. It has been founded by K.U.Leuven R&D and five groups of the K.U.Leuven which clustered their complementary expertise in a validated platform that can deliver tailor-made monoclonal, full human or humanized antibodies, antibody fragments or antibody-based molecules (see www.pharmabs.org).
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| CMOSIS: Lou Hermans appointed Vice President | 16/9 | September 2008, Antwerpen/Belgium -- Lou Hermans, co-founder and Chairman of the Board of CMOSIS NV, Antwerpen, Belgium, has been appointed Vice President of Marketing and Sales from September, 2008. Hermans was one of the founders of CMOSIS in November 2007. After some time in the background, he is now back on the active side of a young and prospering image sensor company.
In November 1999, Lou Hermans co-founded FillFactory, a spin-off of IMEC, developing, producing and commercializing CMOS | | |
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| ICMS stelt TINKcategorize voor | 11/9 | TINKcategorize biedt oplossing voor het tijdrovend opslaan en
behandelen van documenten en e-mails
Boortmeerbeek, 11 september 2008 - ICMS, een Belgisch bedrijf gespecialiseerd in kennis- en informatiebeheer, heeft een oplossing ontwikkeld voor automatische categorisatie en verrrijking van informatie. Met behulp van TINKcategorize wordt alle informatie binnen een organisatie automatisch verrijkt met contextuele gegevens en vervolgens op de juiste plaats opgeslagen en/of naar de juiste | | |
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| CAPRICORN CLEANTECH FUND MAKES INVESTMENT IN CONCENTRATOR OPTICS GmbH | 11/9 | Leuven - 11 September 2008, Capricorn Venture Partners announced today its investment in Germany based Concentrator Optics GmbH, Marburg.
Concentrator Optics engages in the design and production of Fresnel lenses for concentrating photovoltaics (CPV). Manufacturers of CPV modules need Fresnel lenses in order to concentrate incident light onto modern multi-junction devices with high power conversion efficiency.
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| Distribution channels select award winning Option iCON 401 USB modem | 11/9 | LEUVEN, Belgium - September 11, 2008 - Option N.V. (Euronext Brussels: OPTI; OTC: OPNVY), the wireless technology company, today announced that its iCON 401 USB modem, recent winner of the red dot award in the product design category, is shipping commercially through distributors in South Africa, Norway, Finland, Germany, Italy and the UK.
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| METRIS LC60D LASER SCANNER REVOLUTIONIZES DIGITAL INSPECTION | 6/9 | | Leuven, September 4th 2008 - Metris (Euronext - MTRS) launches LC60D, a next-generation digital 3D line scanner. Equipped with state-of-the-art digital technology and powerful on-board data processing, the LC60D scanner more than triples today's common scan rates. At IMTS 08 in Chicago, USA, Metris will premiere the LC60D, and demonstrate its superior scanning productivity, performance and robustness. LC60D strengthens and accelerates the Digital Inspection ProcessTM by scanning parts and | | |
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| IMEC and Plextronics collaborate on high-efficiency reproducible organic solar cells | 2/9 | Leuven, Belgium & Pittsburgh, PA - September 1, 2008 - IMEC, Europe's leading independent nanoelectronics research institute and Plextronics, Inc., an international technology company specializing in printed solar, lighting and other organic electronics, signed an agreement to collaborate on state-of-the-art materials and inks for organic solar cells.
With this collaboration, IMEC aims to develop a reproducible process for high-efficiency organic solar cells using Plextronics' Plexcore® | | |
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| IMEC and CEA-LETI gear up cost-effective silicon photonics prototyping service | 2/9 | Leuven, Belgium and Grenoble, France - September 2, 2008
IMEC and CEA-LETI launch ePIXfab, the continuation of their successful multi-project wafer silicon photonics prototyping service started in 2006. Co-funded by the European Union through the Seventh Framework Program and coordinated by IMEC, ePIXfab aims at reducing the large barriers for access to and market take-up of silicon photonics technology by focusing on reduced cost, risk and design effort, education, and roadmapping.
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| Tigenix: Business Update and Financial Results for First Half of 2008. | 28/8 |
Leuven (BELGIUM) - August 28, 2008 - TiGenix (NYSE EURONEXT: TIG) gives an update of the business activities and announces the financial results for the half year ending June 30, 2008.
Business Highlights
- ChondroCelect (TGX001) three-year clinical data confirm clinical benefit
- EMEA registration procedure ongoing, CHMP opinion anticipated by end of 4th quarter 2008
- Commercial team strengthened in anticipation of the ChondroCelect launch
- Pipeline development progressing
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| Option ships HSPA ExpressCard designed exclusively for Vodafone | 28/8 | World's first 5.76 Mbps-capable HSUPA device supports 900 MHz frequency bands.
Leuven, Belgium - August 28, 2008 - Option N.V. (EURONEXT Brussels: OPTI; OTC: OPNVY), the wireless technology company, today announced that it started shipping a new, stylish and high performance wireless broadband ExpressCard to Vodafone.
Exclusively developed for the Vodafone Group and its Partner Networks, the new ExpressCard is designed to achieve peak HSDPA download speeds of 7.2 Mbps with HSUPA uploads | | |
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| Metris H1 2008 on track, Full year outlook reconfirmed | 28/8 |
* Sales increased 33.7% compared to H1 2007 and came in at ?48.4 million, sales in local currencies increased with 46.3%, organic sales growth in local currencies came in at 18.7%
* Very strong growth of optical sales (+ 74.7%)
* Results came in as expected given sales seasonality and acquisitions:
- Gross profit margin came in at 47.4%
- EBITDA came in at ?3.5 million
- Net result came in at -?0.9 million
- Earnings per share came in at -?0.07
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| Triphase en Groep T ontwikkelen race kart op waterstof | 24/8 | Leuven, 21 augustus - Op 22 en 23 Augustus vindt in Rotterdam het Formula Zero Championship 2008 plaats, het eerste internationale kampioenschap voor racewagens waarbij de deelnemers geen CO2 uitstoten. Zes raceteams van internationale topuniversiteiten gaan twee dagen de strijd aan met elkaar op het Willemsplein op een voor dit evenement. speciaal gebouwd circuit. De universiteitsteams hebben zelf hun eigen waterstof- en brandstofcel race kart ontworpen en gebouwd.
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| eHealth closer to reality thanks to real-time relevant medical data extraction | 20/8 | IMEC and i.Know apply 'knowledge streaming' on wireless cardiac monitoring
Eindhoven (The Netherlands) - August 20, 2008 - In the framework of Holst Centre, IMEC - Europe's leading independent nanoelectronics research institute - has broadened the functionality and scope of its wireless health monitoring technology by linking it to real-time extraction of relevant medical data. The new technology builds upon the 'knowledge streaming' concept of i.Know - a Belgian SME specialized in | | |
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| Option unveils Compal as first MID customer | 20/8 | | IDF, San Francisco, USA - August 19, 2008 - Option N.V. (EURONEXT Brussels: OPTI; OTC: OPNVY), the wireless technology company, today announced that its embedded wireless modules and Linux-based connection management software have been selected by Compal Electronics (Taiwan: 2324.tw) to provide HSPA 3G connectivity to a new range of Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs). The Compal Group is the world's second largest original device manufacturer (ODM) - a specialist manufacturer of products on behalf | | |
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| Capricorn leads £ 4.5 million investment in Alaska Food Diagnostics Ltd. | 11/8 | Funding to accelerate commercial roll-out of revolutionary fastrAKT pathogen detection technology
Porton Down, UK fastrAKT, the revolutionary pathogen detection technology from Alaska Food Diagnostics Ltd (AFDL), has attracted over £ 4.5 million investment from a European and London based syndicate comprising Capricorn Venture Partners, ICOS Capital, Quest for Growth and Richmond Park
Capital, and advised by Andeman Plc.
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| Capricorn Venture Partners leads EUR 13.4 million funding for Fluxome Sciences | 24/7 | Capricorn Venture Partners announced today that it led a ? 13.4 million capital increase for Fluxome Sciences in Copenhagen, Denmark. Its Capricorn Cleantech Fund will contribute ? 5 million to this round of financing.
The DKK 100 million / ? 13.4 million capital increase has been secured through a continued strong commitment from current investors SEVENTURE Partners (France), INCUBA Venture (Denmark),
VECATA Venture (Denmark) and the addition of one of Europe's leading cleantech funds, | | |
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| Option reports Second Quarter and First Half Year 2008 results | 24/7 | | Leuven, Belgium - July 24, 2008 - Option N.V. (EURONEXT Brussels: OPTI; OTC: OPNVY), the wireless technology company, today announced its results for the second quarter and the half fiscal year ended June 30, 2008. The financial information reported in this release is presented in Euros and has been prepared in accordance with the recognition and measurement criteria of IFRS as adopted by the European Union. The accounting policies and methods of computation followed in the attached financial | | |
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| ASML announces 2008 Second Quarter Results - Immersion technology growth continues amid macro-economic pressure | 16/7 | VELDHOVEN, the Netherlands, July 16, 2008 - ASML Holding NV (ASML) today announces 2008 second quarter results according to US GAAP as follows:
- Q2 2008 net sales of EUR 844 million versus Q1 2008 net sales of EUR 919 million (Q2 2007 net sales of EUR 930 million)
- Q2 2008 net income of EUR 192 million or 22.7 percent of net sales - including a non-recurring tax benefit of approximately EUR 70 million -- versus Q1 2008 net income of EUR 145 million or 15.8 percent of net sales (Q2 2007 | | |
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| Crucial step towards GPS-Galileo RTK demonstrated using live Galileo satellites | 16/7 | Leuven, Belgium - Using 2 off-the-shelf GNSS receivers from Septentrio, researchers at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), the Netherlands, produced the first Galileo double difference measurements from live satellite signals. Double difference measurements play a key role in RTK applications. This event paves the way for multi constellation RTK receivers.
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| Gimv appoints Koen Dejonckheere as CEO | 15/7 | the Board of Directors of GIMV appointed Koen Dejonckheere as the new CEO of GIMV, replacing Dirk Boogmans. It is expected that Koen Dejonckheere will start in his new function on 1 October 2008. Until that time President Herman Daems, as announced previously, will continue to take on the responsibilities of the President-CEO.
Koen Dejonckheere is Managing Director and head of Corporate Finance at KBC Securities until now. Before that he worked for Nesbic, Halder, Price Waterhouse Corporate | | |
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| Hartmonitoring met een pleister | 14/7 | Leuven, België - 14 juli 2008 - IMEC ontwikkelde een klein draadloos sensorsysteem dat in staat is om continu het hart te monitoren. De draadloze sensor werd ingebouwd in een plooibaar en rekbaar materiaal en geïntegreerd in textiel zodat ze comfortabel gedragen kan worden op het lichaam. Dergelijke draadloze ECG(electrocardiogram)-pleisters zullen detectie van bijvoorbeeld hartritmestoornissen mogelijk maken tijdens dagdagelijkse activiteiten buiten de ziekenhuisomgeving.
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| IMEC research business forum 2008 | 11/7 | October 15-17, 2008
Aspiring a better future through semiconductor technology and technology for ambient intelligence
Leuven, Belgium -- August, 2008 -- On October 15-17, 2008, the 18th edition of IMEC's Annual Research Review Meeting will take place at the
Radisson SAS Royal hotel in Brussels, Belgium. The 2-day event includes presentations by prominent speakers from the semiconductor industry and
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| Option indicates preliminary Q2 and first half 2008 results | 11/7 |
Leuven, Belgium - July 11, 2008 - Option N.V. (Euronext: OPTI; OTC: OPNVY), the wireless technology company, today announced that although the Company had its highest ever quarterly volume of units shipped, pre-audited preliminary revenues for the second quarter of fiscal year 2008 will be in the range EUR 60-62 million. These revenues combined with EUR 77 million for the first quarter 2008 will generate half year revenue in the range of EUR 137-139 million which is approximately 9% less than | | |
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| Option to nominate two new Board members | 2/7 |
LEUVEN, Belgium - July 2 2008 - Option (Euronext: OPTI; OTC: OPNVY), the wireless technology company, today announced that Mr. Olivier Lefebvre and Mr. Patrick De Smedt have been nominated to join its Board of Directors. Final appointment of the new directors will be subject to vote at the Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders on July 29, 2008. Both will act as independent Board members, expanding the Option Board of Directors to eight members.
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| Materialise establishes a Chair for patient-specific, image-based biomechanics at the University of Leuven | 2/7 |
New chair stimulates research in and development of patient-specific biomechanical models and surgery simulations.
Leuven (Belgium), July 1, 2008. Starting from August 1, 2008, Materialise NV, world leader in software development for medical image processing, will support a new chair at the University of Leuven (Belgium). This chair will concentrate on research in the simulation of patient-specific interventions on the musculoskeletal system.
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| Gimv FINALISES TAKEOVER OTN | 1/7 | GIMV announces that it has finalised the takeover of OTN, which was already reported earlier on in June. GIMV purchases OTN from Nokia Siemens Networks. The 80 OTN employees will be transferred to OTN Systems NV, a newly formed company established by GIMV and the OTN management.
OTN (Open Transport Network) is a flexible communications network based on optical fibres. The OTN network is possibly the most performant multiplexer that currently exists for industrial uses., The system permits all | | |
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| Metris acquires CMM software company Integrated Quality Inc. | 1/7 |
Leuven, June 30 2008 - Metris (MTRS, Euronext Brussels) announces that it has acquired 100% of the stock of Integrated Quality Inc. (IQ), a US company specialized in developing software for Coordinate Measuring Machines (CMM). This transaction fits in the Metris acquisition strategy to strengthen its product portfolio and to extend its distribution channels to the market.
The purchase price amounts to US$5.9 million, representing an EV/EBIT08 multiple of 4.5. Independently from Metris, IQ | | |
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| LAYERS EN DEKIMO BUNDELEN KRACHTEN | 1/7 |
Gent/Leuven, 01/07/08. Layers ('The House of PCB design') sluit zich per 1 juli 2008 aan bij de Dekimo groep. Layers breidt hiermee haar activiteiten uit naar een totaalpakket dat zowel het ontwerpen van elektronica en Printed Circuit Boards als de ontwikkeling van embedded software omvat.
'Dekimo zocht uitbreiding aan de oostkant van Brussel en kan dit nu op een snelle manier via de bestaande verkoopskanalen en netwerken van Layers. Bovendien waren wij nooit gefocust op PCB ontwerp als | | |
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| European Infrared Detector Leader XenICs Inaugurates Volume Production in Singapore | 23/6 | | Leuven/Singpore, 23, June 2008 --- XenICs, Europe's leading developer and manufacturer of advanced infrared detectors and customized imaging solutions covering the LWIR to the visible realm, continues its worldwide ex¬tension strategy and growth by establishing Singapore-based sInfraRed Pte Ltd. A company 100% owned by XenICs, sInfraRed is to provide comprehen¬sive marketing, sales and support as well as volume production and cus¬tomization of XenICs' products in the Asia, Australia and Middle | | |
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| IMEC reports progress on simplified high-k/metal gate process for the 32nm node | 18/6 | VLSI SYMPOSIUM 2008 - HAWAII, USA - JUNE 17-20, 2008
17-06-2008 - Leuven, Belgium -- At today's VLSI Symposium, IMEC reports an improved performance for its planar CMOS using hafnium-based high-k dielectrics and tantalum-based metal gates for the 32nm CMOS node. The inverter delay advanced from 15ps to 10ps. IMEC also simplified its high-k/metal gate process by decreasing the number of process steps from 15 to 9.
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| IPTEC Tech Transfer Award | 16/6 | | K.U.Leuven Research & Development (LRD) has been awarded the IPTEC Tech Transfer Award in Frankfurt. This award recognizes institutions with an outstanding record in technology transfer: making the bridge between science and industry, and getting technologies to the market. LRD faced fierce competition. The other finalists in the category 'universities' were Columbia University (USA), Imperial Innovations (UK), MIT (USA) and Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (USA). It is the third time this | | |
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| Prestigieuze onderscheiding voor K.U.Leuven Research & Development | 13/6 |
K.U.Leuven Research & Development, kortweg LRD, heeft de IPTEC Tech Transfer Award in de wacht gesleept. Het gaat om een onderscheiding voor organisaties die uitblinken in technologietransfer. Dat is de overdracht van kennisinstellingen naar het bedrijfsleven en het op de markt brengen van nieuw ontwikkelde technologieën.
LRD moest afrekenen met stevige concurrentie. De vier andere genomineerden in de categorie 'universiteiten' waren Colombia University (USA), Imperial Innovations (UK), MIT | | |
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| TalkerBee: Integrated IM and Presence in any website | 12/6 | Androme launches TalkerBee, a brand new service that allows webdevelopers to easily integrate instant messaging and presence into their websites.
TalkerBee can be integrated into any website, and uses only HTML and Ajax. No client-side installation is required. Furthermore, TalkerBee is fully customizable, and does not require any private data (e.g. emailaddresses or passwords) to be shared.
The use of direct communication through the web is booming since social platforms like Facebook and | | |
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| TiGenix awarded European Union grant | 11/6 |
Leuven (BELGIUM) - June 10, 2008 - TiGenix (EURONEXT: TIG) announced today that it has been awarded a EUR 1.2 million grant from the European Union for its participation in TREAT-OA, a research consortium focused on the development of novel diagnostics and treatments for osteoarthritis.
The TREAT-OA consortium brings together a selected team of academics, clinicians and industry experts. This five-year research program represents a large-scale, integrated and trans-disciplinary project that | | |
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| Option announces Linux Connection Management Software for MIDs | 5/6 | GlobeTrotter Connect for Linux brings Mobile Internet Devices closer to market acceptance.
Leuven, Belgium - June 5 2008 - Option, the wireless technology company, announced its GlobeTrotter Connect for Linux - the connection management software for Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) based on the Intel® Centrino® Atom(TM) processor technology. The software is written for Moblin-based Linux operating systems, an OS choice well-suited for MIDs.
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| Artec en Indie Education worden Televic Education | 5/6 | Indie Group uit Kortrijk verkoopt haar afdeling Education aan Artec, onderdeel van het Izegemse Televic. Artec en Indie Education gaan vanaf 1 juni samen verder onder de noemer Televic Education.
Artec is een belangrijke leverancier van hoogtechnologische multimediaklassen en taallabo's. Het bedrijf heeft reeds meer dan 40 jaar ervaring in de sector, is operationeel actief in meer dan 50 landen en heeft vestigingen in de UK, Frankrijk en Bulgarije.
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| WATERLEAU neemt SCHEPENS Air & Solids over | 4/6 | Herent-Dendermonde (2 juni, 2008) - De milieugroep WATERLEAU neemt SCHEPENS Air & Solids n.v. over van het Nederlandse VADO. SCHEPENS Air & Solids is gespecialiseerd in de engineering, het ontwerp, de bouw en de montage van luchtzuiveringssystemen, afval- en stortgoederenbehandeling en complexe staalstructuren voor industriële en overheidsklanten en realizeerde in 2007 een omzet van 5.9 miljoen euro.
'De kennis en ervaring aanwezig bij Schepens Air & Solids kon als stand-alone perfect | | |
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| IMEC and AIXTRON set important step towards low-cost GaN power devices | 4/6 | Presented at Aixtron's user meeting during the 14th International Conference on Metal Organic Vapor Phase Epitaxy - Metz, France
Leuven, BELGIUM - June 3, 2008 - IMEC, Europe's leading independent research center in the field of nanoelectronics, and AIXTRON, the world leader in metal-organic chemical-vapor deposition (MOCVD) equipment, have demonstrated the growth of high-quality and uniform AlGaN/GaN heterostructures on 200mm silicon wafers. This demonstration is a milestone towards | | |
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| Clear2Pay, Keyware en Integri leveren bouwstenen voor toepassingen gebaseerd op NFC-technologie | 3/6 | Clear2Pay, Keyware en Integri leveren bouwstenen voor toepassingen gebaseerd op NFC-technologie
Belgische universiteiten sluiten overeenkomst met technologiebedrijven voor onderzoek naar Near Field Communication (NFC)
3 juni 2008, Brussel - Een aantal IBBT onderzoeksgroepen van de Belgische universiteiten van Leuven, Gent en Brussel kondigen een samenwerking aan met IT bedrijven aktief in de betalingswereld om de mogelijkheden, het gebruik en de veiligheid van NFC toepassingen te | | |
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| TiGenix verhuist naar nieuw hoofdkantoor | 26/5 | Leuven (België) - 26 mei 2008 - TiGenix (EURONEXT: TIG), het biomedisch bedrijf dat zich toespitst op de ontwikkeling van innovatieve lokale behandelingen voor beschadigde en osteoartritische gewrichten, kondigt de verhuis op 30 mei naar haar nieuwe kantoren aan.
Op 30 mei zal TiGenix haar nieuwe kantoor- en R&D-gebouw in Leuven in gebruik nemen. Het nieuwe gebouw beschikt over ongeveer 2.000 m2 kantoor- en laboruimte en een bijkomende 700 m2 voor uitbreiding.
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| iCON 225 adds wireless broadband and new services to Pioneer's Car Navigation System | 26/5 | | LEUVEN, Belgium - May 26 2008 - Option (Euronext: OPTI; OTC: OPNVY), the wireless technology company, today announced that Pioneer Corporation has selected the iCON 225 wireless USB modem to add broadband connectivity to its latest car navigation system for the Japanese market, the Air Navi AVIC-T10. An iCON 225 is provided with the car navigation system to customers who sign-up with Pioneer Mobile Networks. Pioneer Mobile Networks is an MVNO offering mobile services across the Softbank Mobile | | |
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| Capricorn Venture Partners closes its Cleantech Fund at Euro 100 million | 21/5 | Last week Capricorn Venture Partners held the final closing of its Capricorn Cleantech Fund well above its original fundraising target, at over Euro 100 million. Three existing investors, PMV
(ParticipatieMaatschappij Vlaanderen), Ethias and a Dutch pension fund, increased their participation in the fund. In addition Capricorn welcomed the Solvay Group as a strategic partner and over 15 private investors as new shareholders to the fund.
'These are exciting times,' says Dr Jos B. Peeters, | | |
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| IMEC Board reports successful 2007 | 25/4 | 25-04-2008 - Leuven, Belgium -- During today's General Assembly, the IMEC Board confirmed that 2007 was a successful year with excellent achievements, during which IMEC maintained its position as a world-leading nanoelectronics research institute. The board also looks confidently to 2008 and beyond.
The skills, devotion and hard work of the IMEC researchers lead to many important results, evidenced by about 1,600 publications in prestigious journals and conference contributions, often in | | |
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| Option reports first quarter 2008 results | 24/4 | | Leuven, Belgium - April 24, 2008 - Option N.V. (EURONEXT Brussels: OPTI; OTC: OPNVY), the wireless technology company, today announced its results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2008. The financial information reported in this release is presented in Euros and has been prepared in accordance with the recognition and measurement criteria of IFRS as adopted by the European Union (IFRS). The accounting policies and methods of computation followed in the attached financial statements are the | | |
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| Renesas collaborates with IMEC on reconfigurable RF transceivers | 21/4 |
Leuven, Belgium and Tokyo, Japan -- April 21, 2008 -- Renesas Technology Corp., one of the world's leading semiconductor system solutions providers for mobile, automotive and PC/AV (Audio Visual) markets, has entered into a strategic research collaboration with IMEC, Europe's leading independent research center in the field of nanoelectronics, to perform research on 45nm RF transceivers targeting Gbit/s cognitive radios. To this end, Renesas has joined IMEC's software-defined radio(SDR) | | |
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| Materialise voegt twee extra Maxums toe aan FDM machinepark | 15/4 | Leuven, 11 april, 2008. Materialise zet april in met 14 FDM systemen. Met de installatie van 2 extra Maxum machines, verstevigt Materialise hun reputatie als grootste state-of-the-art FDM capaciteit in Europa en versterken ze de positie van Fused Deposition Modelling als echte productietechniek.
Sinds de start in december 2003, is de FDM technologie bij Materialise een groot succes geweest. In 2007 werden 5099 FDM stukken besteld en geproduceerd (in 2004 waren dat er 2225).
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| Wireless EEG system self-powered by body heat and light | 10/4 | Smart Systems Integration, April 9 -10, 2008, Barcelona, Spain - Booth 125
09-04-2008 - eindhoven, The Netherlands and Leuven, Belgium -- In the framework of Holst Centre, IMEC has developed a battery-free wireless 2-channel EEG* system powered by a hybrid power supply using body heat and ambient light. The hybrid power supply combines a thermoelectric generator that uses the heat dissipated from a person's temples and silicon photovoltaic cells. The entire system is wearable and integrated | | |
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| Draagbaar draadloos EEG-toestel dat werkt op lichaamswarmte en zonne-energie | 9/4 |
Eindhoven, Nederland en Leuven, België - 9 april 2008 - In het kader van Holst Centre ontwikkelde IMEC een klein draagbaar draadloos EEG-toestel (apparaat dat hersenactiviteit meet) dat wordt aangedreven door een combinatie van lichaamswarmte en zonne-energie in plaats van door een batterij.
IMEC ontwikkelt technologie voor draadloze en draagbare EEG-toestellen die continue hersenmetingen mogelijk moeten maken in de huiselijke omgeving, en die de patiënt zo min mogelijk storen in zijn | | |
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| Van Overstraetenplein krijgt sculptuur over het bezielen van kennis en creativiteit | 3/4 |
 Leuven - 3 april, 2008 - In juni dit jaar zal het nieuwe (Prof. Roger) Van Overstraetenplein in Leuven verrijkt worden met een werk van de Leuvense kunstenaar Wouter Mulier, dat het vuur van Prometheus, symbool van kennis, bezieling en creativiteit, voorstelt. Het Leuvense nano-elektronica-onderzoekscentrum IMEC koos dit werk omdat hetperfectaansluit bij het levensmotto van Professor Van Overstraeten, stichter van IMEC.
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| Televic en IMEC bundelen expertise voor ultramoderne digitale draadloze conferentiesystemen | 27/3 |
26 maart 2008 - Izegem en Leuven - Televic brengt een ultramodern digitaal draadloos conferentiesysteem op de markt en deed daarbij een beroep op de draadloze communicatie expertise van IMEC. Het systeem koppelt betrouwbare draadloze communicatie aan gebruikersgemak en aan de laatste snufjes qua conferentiefuncties, zoals simultaanvertaling en een systeem om te stemmen.
Televic is een KMO die hoogkwalitatieve producten ontwikkelt voor audio-, multimedia- en communicatiedoeleinden. Het | | |
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| Kingfisher Healthcare (KFH) launches innovative technology forwound healing in Europe | 27/3 |
11 March 2008 - KFH has today announced the European launch of KFH Novo, a new and innovative product to address the major problem of chronic wounds. KFH Novo is a patented, high-tech medical device that is non-invasive, and can be used without interfering with standard conventional therapy.
It utilizes Bio-Electric Stimulation Therapy (BEST) to deliver extremely low levels of current to wounds. The electrodes are placed a distance away from the wounds, completely outside the normal | | |
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| Amplexor opent tweede Belgisch kantoor in Gent | 27/3 | Leuvense ECM specialist krijgt tweede vestiging in Uco-Toren
Leuven, 26 maart 2008 - Amplexor, specialist in enterprise content management (ECM), opent een nieuwe vestiging in Gent. Naast het hoofdkantoor in Holsbeek (Leuven) krijgt Amplexor er een tweede kantoor bij in de bekende Gentse Uco-Toren.
Betere dienstverlening
Amplexor wil met het tweede kantoor in Gent zijn klanten uit Oost- en West-Vlaanderen een betere dienstverlening bieden. Luc Peeters, die eind vorig jaar bij Amplexor | | |
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| > March 19, 2008: cmosis speaks at the IntertechPira conference | 26/3 | | On March 20th, Guy Meynants, CEO of cmosis, speaks at the IntertechPira conference on image sensors in London. His talk, entitled 'Increasing Dynamic Range in CMOS image sensors' will focus on the importance of dynamic range for various applications, show where limitations in dynamic range originate from, and illustrate various solutions to increase the dynamic range. | | |
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| CMOSIS creation | 26/3 | Antwerp, Belgium, 15 January 2008
A team of former FillFactory founders and senior staff created cmosis nv, a new supplier of advanced CMOS image sensors solutions. cmosis structured as a VCbacked, privately held company, started operations mid November 2007 providing turnkey image sensor solutions to the industrial and professional markets, ranging from sensor design over prototyping, characterization and packaging to qualification and volume production.
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| METRIS REALIZES 50% SALES GROWTH AND NEARLY DOUBLES NET PROFIT IN 2007 | 19/3 | HIGHLIGHTS
- Sales in 2007 increased 50% over 2006 to ?93 million
- 30% organic sales growth, 20% through acquisitions
- 51% gross profit margin in 2007 versus 54% in 2006
- 2007 EBITDA increased 30% over 2006 and came in at ?16 million
- 2007 EBIT increased 33% over 2006 to ?7,5 million
- 2007 net profit increased 93% to ?7,0 million from ?3,6 million in 2006
- 2007 earnings per weighted average undiluted share was ?0,57
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| Metris acquires 100% of Chinese joint venture | 19/3 |
Leuven, March 19 2008 - Metris announces today that it has acquired 100% of the Chinese SLK joint venture. This acquisition will enable Metris to further extend its strong presence in China and to expand its manufacturing capacity for increased production output. Manufacturing CMMs and subassemblies of other Metris products in the newly acquired Chinese manufacturing entity will reduce overall cost of sale.
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| TNO and IPCOS strategic alliance on Advanced Process Control solutions for the | 14/3 | On September 30th, 2006, TNO and IPCOS have formalized their strategic alliance to intensify their cooperation in the area of advanced process optimization and control solutions for glass furnaces and production. Over the years, there has been an intensive collaboration between both companies resulting in Advanced Process Control projects and a unique technological solution in which TNO's well-known Furnace Simulation
software GTM-X is applied on-line in combination with the IPCOS multivariable | | |
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| Materialise maakt onderdelen voor Pininfarina Sintesi project, te zien op autosalon van Genève | 5/3 | Leuven, 4 maart, 2008. Materialise onthult haar bijdrage aan het Pininfarina Sintesi project op het 78ste Internationale Autosalon in Genève. Het is de allereerste keer dat additieve technieken zo een prominente rol spelen in een concept car project.
Sintesi
'Sintesi' is het resultaat van het Pininfarina Design Departement, onder leiding van Lowie Vermeersch, de 33-jarige Design Director van Belgische afkomst met een 10-tal jaar ervaring binnen Pininfarina.
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| ASUS SELECTS OPTION FOR WIRELESS BROADBAND CONNECTIVITY | 4/3 | LEUVEN, Belgium - March 4 2008 - Option (Euronext: OPTI; OTC: OPNVY), the wireless technology company, today announced that ASUS, the Taiwanese computer, communications and consumer electronics manufacturer, has selected Option's GTM 378 embedded module as its 3G wireless connectivity solution.
Based in Taiwan, ASUS is a leading provider of computer, communications and consumer electronics solutions. In Q3 2007, analysts ranked ASUS as the world's 8th largest PC manufacturer by volume. | | |
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| NEOSENS CLOSES FUNDING ROUND OF 2.5M euro | 3/3 | TOULOUSE, France I February 25th , 2008 - Neosens, a company specialized in microelectronics based sensor technology used to monitor fouling and dissolved oxygen in industrial processes, announces the closing of 2.5M euro in capital funding. The group of investors, led by SOFINNOVA Partners, includes the Belgian fund, Capricorn Cleantech Fund and GALIA Gestion, and the original investors, ICSO Private Equity and IRDI.
Neosens was founded in 2001 in Toulouse, France by Laurent Auret after | | |
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| Amplexor door Alfresco uitgeroepen tot Europese Partner van het Jaar | 3/3 | Leuvense specialist gelauwerd voor uitgebreide expertise
Leuven, 29 februari 2008 - Amplexor, specialist in enterprise content management (ECM), krijgt van Alfresco, wereldleider op het vlak van open source ECM-oplossingen de award 'European Partner of the Year'. Deze award is een erkenning voor de inspanningen die Amplexor leverde, zowel in het uitbouwen van haar expertise rond deze open source ECM-oplossing, als in de promotie en verkoop naar de publieke en private sector.
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| IMEC obtains record conversion efficiency of 24.7% for GaAs solar cells on Ge substrate | 25/2 | LEUVEN, BELGIUM - February 25, 2008 - IMEC has realized a single-junction GaAs solar cell on a Ge substrate with a record conversion efficiency of 24.7%. The efficiency was measured and confirmed by NREL (National Renewable Energy Laboratory, US). GaAs solar cells are used in satellite solar panels and earth-based solar concentrators.
IMEC realized this record on a single-junction GaAs cell, grown epitaxially on a Ge substrate with an improved micro-defect distribution. The record cell | | |
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| KLA-Tencor Announces Intent to Acquire Belgium's ICOS Vision Systems | 22/2 | (Announcement made in accordance with article 8 of the Belgian royal decree of April 27, 2007 on takeover bids)
KLA-Tencor's Global Market Presence to Help Accelerate
ICOS's Growth and Expand KLA-Tencor in Solar and Other Emerging Markets
SAN JOSE, California, and LEUVEN, Belgium - February 21, 2008 - KLA-Tencor Corporation (NASDAQ: KLAC)and ICOS Vision Systems Corporation NV (Euronext: IVIS) today jointly announced an agreement under which KLA-Tencor will make a | | |
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| TiGenix announces changes to Board of Directors | 21/2 | Leuven (BELGIUM) - February 20, 2008 - TiGenix (EURONEXT: TIG), the biomedical company that focuses on innovative local treatments for damaged and osteoarthritic joints announces the resignation of Capricorn Venture Partners, represented by Mr. Claude Stoufs as Director.
Mr. Claude Stoufs served as a dependent Non-Executive Director representing Capricorn Venture Partners since 15 September 2003 when Capricorn Venture Fund II became shareholder of the Company. The resignation of Capricorn | | |
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| TMF lanceert uniek online radioconcept: TMFradio | 19/2 | Jongerenzender TMF lanceert vandaag TMFradio, een gloednieuw en uniek online radioconcept waarbij je als luisteraar helemaal zelf bepaalt wat je graag wil horen. Het nieuwe online radioplatform bevat meer dan 100.000 songs onderverdeeld in verschillende muziekstijlen. Aristo Music, een spin-off van de KU Leuven, tekende voor de technologie. ONE Agency zorgde voor de creatie van de webapplicatie.
TMFradio: op maat van elke luisteraar.
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| OPTION SELECTED BY QUALCOMM TO COLLABORATE ON GOBIT WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY | 18/2 | LEUVEN, Belgium - February 18 2008 - Option (Euronext: OPTI; OTC: OPNVY), the wireless technology company, today announced that it has been selected by Qualcomm to provide complete solutions based on Qualcomm Incorporated's GobiT global mobile
internet platform for laptops to OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturers) worldwide.
The embedded multi-mode Gobi solution is based on Qualcomm's MDM1000T chipset, includes associated software and API, and a reference design for a software-defined | | |
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| A joint initiative to bring science and technology to life through art and design | 18/2 | | Leuven, February 18, 2008 - Addictlab and IMEC are launching a new call for ideas and visions on future applications of emerging technologies in the field of art, design , architecture, fashion, communication, environments, health and well-being. After a first successful collaboration researching visual, conceptual and more practical ways of communicating about nanotechnology, a new call will take it one step further into the world of emerging technologies and their applications, with a focus on | | |
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| GSMA AWARD-WINNING WIRELESS NOTEBOOK INCORPORATES OPTION EMBEDDED MODULE | 13/2 | BARCELONA, Spain - February 13 2008 - Option (Euronext: OPTI; OTC: OPNVY), the wireless technology company, congratulates Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) on its success in the GSM Association's Mobile Broadband Notebook competition.
ECS' G101L notebook was named as the Best Pre-Commercial Mobile Broadband Notebook in this year's GSMA Mobile Broadband Notebook competition. The judges cited its feature-rich package, its compact and light form factor, and its affordable price as matching | | |
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| OPTION ENTERS RUSSIAN MARKET WITH VIMPELCOM | 11/2 | BARCELONA, Spain - February 11 2008 - Option (Euronext: OPTI; OTC: OPNVY), the wireless technology company, today announced that the Company's wireless devices have been selected by VimpelCom as the Russian operator builds its product portfolio of mobile broadband solutions.
The mobile operator recently introduced the iCON 7.2 USB modem, as well as the GT MAX and GT EXPRESS HSDPA wireless data cards for 'prosumer' and professional market segments. These backward-compatible quad-band EDGE | | |
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| OPTION ADDS UNLIMITED CONNECTION TO TELENOR'S MOBILE BROADBAND SERVICE | 11/2 | BARCELONA, Spain - February 11 2008 - Option (Euronext: OPTI; OTC: OPNVY), the wireless technology company, today announced that Telenor has incorporated its Unlimited Connection software in Mobilt Bredbånd, the Norwegian operator's mobile broadband service.
Unlimited Connection is the mobile-IP seamless handover solution from Option that enables laptops to switch automatically and seamlessly between mobile broadband -
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| First >100 Mbps mobile SDR baseband platform in processing | 11/2 | | Leuven, Belgium - February 11, 2008 -- IMEC has completed design and tape-out of a flexible-air-interface (FLAI) baseband platform for software-defined radios (SDR). IMEC's solution is an ideal basis to support upcoming generations of mobile devices featuring 802.11n, 802.16e, mobile TV and 3GPP-LTE communication standards. The system-on-chip (SoC) platform and its patented components with their programming environment will be licensed to industry for commercial product development as | | |
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| Essensium NV and Coronis Systems join forces | 8/2 | NEWS RELEASE
Coronis Systems, an Elster Company, and Essensium N.V., an IMEC spin-off, join forces to develop the next generation ultra-low-power, long range Wavenis® System-on-Chip solution
Montpellier, France and Leuven, Belgium, November 08, 2007 - Coronis Systems a provider of ultra-low power wireless OEM solutions for both short range and long range wireless sensor, control and metering networks and Essensium N.V., a fabless semiconductor provider of low power System-on-Chip ASIC | | |
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| IMEC realized full CMOS multiple antenna receiver for 60 GHz | 6/2 | INTERNATIONAL SOLID STATE CIRCUIT CONFERENCE 2008 - SAN FRANCISCO - CALIFORNIA
05-02-2008 - San Francisco, California, USA -- At today's IEEE International Solid State Circuit Conference, IMEC introduced its prototype of a 60GHz multiple antenna receiver, and invites industry to join its 60GHz research program. The 60GHz band offers massive available bandwidth that enables very high bit rates of several Gbits-per-second at distances up to 10 meters (about 33 feet). To make the 60GHz | | |
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| IMEC reports 3 analog to digital converters with record power efficiency | 6/2 | INTERNATIONAL SOLID STATE CIRCUIT CONFERENCE 2008 - SAN FRANCISCO - CALIFORNIA
05-02-2008 - San Francisco, California, USA -- At today's International Solid State Circuit Conference, IMEC presents three ultra-low-power analog to digital converters (ADC) with record figures of merit targeting wireless SDR, 60Ghz communication and sensor networks applications. IMEC has submitted patents for the architecture of its SAR (successive approximation), Flash and CABS (comparator-based asynchronous | | |
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| Holst Centre reports breakthrough in organic RFID | 6/2 | The plastic RFID tag builds on IMEC's plastic rectifier technology combined with Polymer Vision's organic electronics technology and approaches item-level tagging requirements
05-02-2008 - San Francisco, California, USA -- At today's International Solid State Circuit Conference, Holst Centre - founded by the Belgian nanoelectronics research center IMEC and the Dutch research center TNO - presents a plastic 64-bit inductively-coupled passive RFID tag operating at 13.56MHz. With a record | | |
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| België en Nederland maken technologische indruk op Amerikaanse topconferentie | 5/2 | LEUVENSE IMEC EN EINDHOVENSE HOLST CENTRE HALEN INTERNATIONALE TOP MET MAATSCHAPPELIJK RELEVANTE ONDERZOEKSRESULTATEN
LEUVEN, EINDHOVEN - 5 Februari 2008 - Een chip om met uiterst kleine apparaatjes hersengolven te meten en een plastic RFID label dat in de toekomst de barcode moet vervangen: het zijn twee technologische huzarenstukjes waarmee IMEC en Holst Centre uitpakken op de jaarlijkse topconferentie ISSCC in San Francisco. Beide resultaten zijn op meerdere vlakken uniek en kunnen een | | |
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| OPTION TO SHOWCASE NEW PRODUCTS AT MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS 2008 | 4/2 | LEUVEN, Belgium - February 4, 2008 - Option N.V. (Euronext: OPTI; OTC: OPNVY), the wireless technology company, today announced it will unveil several exciting new mobile devices at the upcoming Mobile World Congress 2008 in Barcelona, Spain, Feb. 11-14.
These state of the art new product releases include:
- A compact, high performance USB wireless modem which has already received a top industry award for its innovative and stylish design
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| Powerchip partners with IMEC on sub-32nm CMOS research | 29/1 | LEUVEN, BELGIUM AND HSINCHU, TAIWAN January 28, 2008 - Powerchip Semiconductor Corporation (PSC), a leading Taiwan-based memory semiconductor supplier offering Dynamic Random Access Memory chips (DRAMs) and Flash memory chips, has entered into a partnership with IMEC, Europe's leading independent nanoelectronics research center, to perform research and development for the sub-32nm memory process generations.
As part of the agreement, PSC will collaborate within IMEC's advanced lithography | | |
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| AMI Semiconductor en IMEC bundelen krachten in ontwikkeling van nieuwe generatie Smart Power Technologieën | 28/1 |
28-01-2008 - Oudenaarde en Leuven - Het Amerikaanse AMI Semiconductor (AMIS), een belangrijke chipfabrikant met Europese hoofdzetel in Oudenaarde, en het Leuvense nano-elektronicaonderzoekscentrum IMEC zetten hun handtekening onder een tweejarig samenwerkingsproject. Binnen dit project zullen AMIS en IMEC samenwerken aan de ontwikkeling van nieuwe generatie Smart Power technologieën.
Smart Power technologie integreert functies voor het schakelen van grote vermogens in steeds kleinere chips, | | |
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| OPTION INDICATES PRELIMINARY Q4 AND FULL YEAR 2007 RESULTS | 25/1 | Leuven, Belgium - January 25, 2008 - Option N.V. (Euronext: OPTI; OTC: OPNVY), the wireless technology company, today announced that pre-audited preliminary revenues for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2007 will be in the range EUR 67-70 million, which includes certain extraordinary adjustments, representing a minimum growth of 6% over Q4 2006. Full year revenue will be in the range of EUR 298-301 million
representing a minimum growth of 7% versus full year 2006. EBIT for the quarter will be | | |
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| UALBANY NANOCOLLEGE AND IMEC TO COLLABORATE ON EUV LITHOGRAPHY | 21/1 | FIRST EXPERIMENTS TO BE PERFORMED AT CNSE's ALBANY NANOTECH
IBM, ASML researchers will also participate in program designed to advance EUV lithography
(Albany, NY) - The world's two leading centers for next-generation nanoelectronics research and development ('R&D') - the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering ('CNSE') of the University at Albany in Albany, NY and IMEC in Leuven, Belgium - today announced plans to jointly perform extreme ultraviolet lithography ('EUVL') experiments | | |
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| LSP co-leads CHF 17.0 million Series A financing of Vivendy Therapeutics AG | 18/1 | Munich, January 15, 2008
LSP today announced the closing of a CHF 17.0 million Series A round of Vivendy Therapeutics Ltd., a bio-pharmaceutical company located in Basel, Switzerland. The round was led by BioMedinvest AG and co-led by LSP and TVM Capital.
Vivendy Therapeutics Ltd. is a pharmaceutical start up company that is developing an enzyme replacement therapy (ERT) for Morbus Morquio (Mucopolysaccharidosis (MPS) IVA), a rare
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| Former FillFactory Personnel Found Image Sensor Company CMOSIS | 17/1 | Antwerp, Belgium, 15 January 2008 - A team of former FillFactory founders and senior staff created cmosis nv, a new supplier of advanced CMOS image sensors solutions. cmosis structured as a VCbacked, privately held company, started operations mid November 2007 providing turnkey image sensor
solutions to the industrial and professional markets, ranging from sensor design over prototyping, characterization and packaging to qualification and volume production.
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| elbion Partners with Oakwood Laboratories for Sustained Release Naltrexone Treatment for Alcohol Dependence | 17/1 | Leuven, Belgium ... elbion NV, a European specialty pharmaceutical company with a focus on neurology and immunology, today announced that it has entered a collaboration agreement with Oakwood Laboratories, L.L.C for manufacturing of its Naltrexone Depot sustained release product for alcohol dependence.
Oakwood Laboratories of Oakwood Village (near Cleveland), Ohio, USA is a privately held company specializing in the development and manufacture of controlled release injectable pharmaceutical | | |
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| IMEC speeds up scalable video decoder (SVC) with factor 20 | 15/1 | | LEUVEN, BELGIUM - January 15, 2008 - IMEC has further improved its source-code for standard-compliant Scalable Video Decoding (SVC = H.264 extension), now performing 20 times faster and using only a tenth of the memory footprint compared to the SVC standard reference code. These groundbreaking results were obtained by further optimizing the code mainly through the removal of redundant code and function calls as well as through the improved memory use of IMEC's earlier (mid 2007) SVC source code. | | |
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| Polymer Vision participates in Holst Centre open innovation program on systems in foil | 21/12 | EINDHOVEN - December 18, 2007 - The Dutch rollable display company Polymer Vision joins Holst Centre, an initiative of the Flemish and Dutch research centers IMEC and TNO. During the partnership Polymer Vision will research and develop organic transistor technology and patterning processes in the open-innovation setting of Holst Centre.
Flexible, large-area, low-cost electronics have a huge market potential. Some studies indicate that the organic-electronics market will even exceed the size | | |
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| Luc Peeters leidt consultancyteam van Amplexor | 19/12 | Leuven, 19 december 2007 - Amplexor, specialist in enterprise content management (ECM), heeft Luc Peeters aangeworven als senior consultant. Hij krijgt de opdracht om de consultancy van Amplexor in goede banen te leiden en verder uit te bouwen om zo een nog betere dienstverlening aan de klanten van Amplexor aan te kunnen bieden.
Luc Peeters stond tot nu toe als freelance consultant in voor strategisch advies en projectmanagement op het vlak van ECM. Hij werkte reeds samen met Amplexor aan | | |
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| OPTION APPOINTS JOHN P. ZIEGLER AS NEW CFO | 19/12 | LEUVEN, Belgium - December 19, 2007 - Option N.V. (Euronext: OPTI; OTC: OPNVY), the wireless technology company, today appointed John Patrick (J.P.) Ziegler as the company's Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Ziegler will be responsible for the company's financial management and reporting, strategic and business planning and investor relations. Mr. Ziegler will be a key member of Option's Executive Management Team and report directly to Jan Callewaert, Option's CEO.
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| IMEC increases performance of high-k metal gate planar CMOS and FinFETs | 14/12 | 2007 IEEE INTERNATIONAL ELECTRON DEVICES MEETING - WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON, US - December 11, 2007 - At today's IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting, IMEC reports significant progress in improving the performance of planar CMOS using hafnium-based high-k dielectrics and tantalum-carbide metal gates targeting the 32nm CMOS node. Low threshold voltage (Vt) is achieved by applying a thin dielectric cap between the gate dielectric and metal gate. In addition, the use of laser-only annealing | | |
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| Soepeler schakelen met behulp van modelgebaseerde regeltechnieken | 6/12 | Flanders' MECHATRONICS Technology Centre vzw (FMTC) toont hoe toepassing van regeltechnieken die gebruik maken van informatie over het dynamisch gedrag van de aandrijflijn toelaat soepeler te schakelen met vorkheftrucks.
De vraag naar steeds nauwkeurigere machines, die sneller draaien, hogere vermogens leveren en bovendien steeds lichter worden, noodzaakt het gebruik van regeltechnieken die het dynamisch gedrag van de machine mee in rekening nemen bij de aansturing van de machine. Dit | | |
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| Gemma Frisius Fonds: 10 jaar zaaikapitaal voor onderzoek | 26/11 | | Het Gemma Frisius Fonds (GFF) bestaat 10 jaar. Het fonds werd opgericht in 1997 door K.U.Leuven Research & Development, KBC Private Equity en Fortis Private Equity, met als doel wetenschappelijk onderzoek te helpen vertalen naar innovatieve, commercieel beschikbare producten en diensten. De visie van het GFF bestaat erin om kansen te geven aan beloftevolle initiatieven en niet onmiddellijk terug te deinzen voor berekende risico's. Het GFF staat open voor elk type technologie ontwikkeld binnen de | | |
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| VLAJO WINT EERSTE ICOS CREATIVITY AWARD. | 20/11 | Heverlee - 19 november 2007 - ICOS Vision Systems Corporation NV (Euronext : IVIS), wereldleider in visie- en inspectiesystemen voor de chipindustrie, reikte voor het eerst de 'ICOS Creativity Award' uit.
De hoofdprijs ging naar Vlajo dat met zijn Small Business Plan project de hogeschoolstudenten in Vlaanderen aanzet om hun technologische kennis te koppelen aan creativiteit en duurzaam ondernemerschap. Als runner up koos de jury met Link in de Kabel voor een sociaal project dat | | |
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| Vidivic enables free web based Videoconferencing | 6/11 | Diepenbeek, Belgium, November 6, 2007 - Androme, a leading software development company announces the launch of Vidivic (http://www.vidivic.com), a free web based service offering high-quality videoconferencing using Androme's Intellivic Software Development Kit (SDK).
Vidivic is a revolutionary new offering that will transform the way meetings are conducted. It enables users to meet business partners inside the web browser window, thus removing the need to travel long and time consuming | | |
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| First Edition of Materialise Innovation Forum Great Success | 9/10 | Leuven, September 27, 2007. On September 12 and 13, 2007, the Provinciehuis in Leuven, Belgium, has been the setting for the Materialise Innovation Forum, a successful symposium consisting of three different sessions. On September 12, Magics users, clinicians and medical scientists from all over the
world gathered to attend sessions at the Magics International Summit or the Rapid Implant Manufacturing Forum, the latter hosted in cooperation with EOS. On September 13, Materialise's
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| Light Blue Optics raises US$26 million to accelerate development of laser-based miniature projection systems | 2/10 |
**Largest Series 'A' funding round in European electronics sector for past 5 years**
**Funding round to accelerate product development programme**
Cambridge, UK, October 1, 2007-- Light Blue Optics (LBO), the industry-leading developer of holographic laser projection technology, today announced closing a US$26 million Series 'A' funding round, led by Earlybird Venture Capital and Capital-E. Existing investors 3i plc, who led LBO's US$3.5 million seed-funding round, and NESTA also | | |
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| Materialise Rewards Top Level Research | 2/10 | Materialise NV, world leader in software development for medical image processing rewards top level research conducted with the assistance of Mimics with a money prize up to 5,000 EUR. Winners in each category will be announced at the Medical Innovations Conference 2008, May 30-31, in Vienna, Austria. Researchers all over the world are kindly invited to send in their research case and take their chance at 5,000 EUR.
Please read the press release for more information.
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| Altus launches APS-3 based on Septentrio AsteRx2 receiver | 25/9 |
Leuven, Belgium -Septentrio, a European manufacturer of professional OEM GNSS receivers, will deliver its dual-frequency GPS/GLONASS OEM receiver modules AsteRx2 as a core component of Altus Positioning Systems' new survey solution.
Altus Positioning Systems is a new company in the field of survey equipment, capitalizing on the experience of a team of engineers that have been involved in development of survey products since the beginning of the satellite surveying era. APS-3 is a fully | | |
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| VERIPOS selects Septentrio for delivery of GNSS and L-band modules | 25/9 |
Leuven, Belgium - Septentrio, a European manufacturer of professional OEM GNSS receivers, has been awarded a contract by VERIPOS to supply its dual-frequency GPS/GLONASS OEM receiver modules and matching L-band modules, for delivery of the complete range of VERIPOS augmentation services to its customers world-wide.
VERIPOS, a leading supplier of precise positioning solutions to the international offshore and marine industries, will use Septentrio's AsteRx2 receivers and L-band modules to | | |
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| METRIS LAUNCHES MCA | 21/9 | Leuven, September 18th 2007 - Metris (MTRS, Euronext Brussels) announces today the launch of the MCA (Manual Coordinate measuring Arm), a new, highly accurate and easy to handle measurement arm.
Lightweight components and innovative design turn the Metris MCA into a portable articulated arm that can be put to work just as easily in the metrology laboratory as on the shop floor. The manual coordinate measuring arm supports a wide range of measurement tasks, as it can be equipped with a | | |
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| Kingfisher Healthcare (KFH) launches breakthrough product in Europe | 18/9 | KFH has today announced the launch of KFH Energy, a product to alleviate fatigue and pain, two common problems associated with chronic diseases such as postpolio syndrome, fibromyalgia and multiple sclerosis. KFH Energy is a patented, high-tech medical device for home use.
It utilizes Bio-Electric Stimulation Therapy (BEST) to deliver extremely low currents to the body. BEST works by enhancing the physiological processes at cellular level, documented effects include
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| ICOS Vision Systems creëert ICOS Creativity Award | 6/9 | Leuven, 3 september 2007
Naar aanleiding van haar 25-jarig bestaan creëert ICOS Vision Systems NV uit Leuven een jaarlijkse prijs om projecten te belonen die op duurzame wijze bijdragen tot het stimuleren van creativiteit in technologie. Aan deze jaarlijkse prijs is een bedrag van ?25,000 verbonden. Het is de bedoeling om een brede waaier van projecten aan te spreken in industrie en onderwijs.
'Creativiteit wordt dikwijls geassocieerd met activiteiten zoals mode, kunst of design.', zegt | | |
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| TiGenix - Business Update and Financial Results for First Half of 2007 | 3/9 | Leuven (BELGIUM) - August 30, 2007 - TiGenix (EURONEXT: TIG) gives an update of its business activities and announces its financial results for the half year ending June 30, 2007.
Business Highlights
- Successful completion of ChondroCelect pivotal phase III trial
- ChondroCelect enters registration phase
- Strategic alliance with Fidia Advanced Biopolymers
- Next generation ChondroCelect 3D (TGX002) development on track
- US manufacturing facility acquired and team in place
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| QUALCOMM Joins IMEC's Technology-Aware Design Program on Design Solutions for (sub-) 45nm scaling | 3/9 | August 30, 2007
IMEC, Europe's leading independent nanoelectronics research institute, today announced that QUALCOMM Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM), a leading developer and innovator of advanced wireless technologies and mobile data solutions, has joined IMEC's technology-aware design program (TAD). IMEC and QUALCOMM will be collaborating on innovative circuit and system design methodologies.
Due to the increased variability observed in aggressively scaled devices and interconnects, use of | | |
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| ICOS Vision Systems creëert 'Creativity Award | 3/9 | Leuven, 3 september 2007
Naar aanleiding van haar 25-jarig bestaan creëert ICOS Vision Systems NV uit Leuven een jaarlijkse prijs om projecten te belonen die op duurzame wijze bijdragen tot het stimuleren van creativiteit in technologie. Aan deze jaarlijkse prijs is een bedrag van ?25,000 verbonden. Het is de bedoeling om een
brede waaier van projecten aan te spreken in industrie en onderwijs.
'Creativiteit wordt dikwijls geassocieerd met activiteiten zoals mode, kunst of design.', zegt | | |
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| Kingfisher Healthcare (KFH) achieves world class quality platform | 3/9 | 3 September 2007
Kingfisher Healthcare (KFH) achieves world class quality platform
KFH has announced that it has succeeded in obtaining registration for both the ISO 13485 and ISO 9001:2000 quality management systems with the British Standards Institution (BSI).
KFH's Medical Director, Dr Sally Sennitt, MD, says: 'We are delighted to have achieved registration to these top quality management systems through working with BSI. It is a major milestone for a young company, and one that very | | |
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| MDA and AnSem validate Design Tool | 22/8 | Switched-capacitor circuit captured and optimized using MDA's M-DESIGNT analog, mixed-signal and custom digital design tool leads to considerable performance and robustness gains over manual design.
Leuven, Belgium, August 22, 2007 - Mephisto Design Automation (MDA), a leading analog EDA innovator and provider of analog EDA tools and services, and AnSem, a leading analog design services company, today announced the successful validation of MDA's M-DESIGNT tool capabilities.
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| Amplexor creëert kenniscentrum bij de CBPL | 10/8 | Commissie voor de Bescherming van de Persoonlijke Levenssfeer kiest voor oplossing van ECM specialist
Leuven, 6 augustus 2007 - Amplexor, het Leuvense bedrijf gespecialiseerd in Enterprise Content Management, heeft bij de Commissie voor de Bescherming van de Persoonlijke Levenssfeer (CBPL) een document management oplossing en een web content management systeem geïnstalleerd. De volledige bibliotheek van de CBPL werd gedigitaliseerd en zeer makkelijk ontsluitbaar gemaakt. Tegelijkertijd werd | | |
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| Septentrio strengthens activities in North America and opens US office | 10/8 |
Septentrio strengthens activities in North America and opens US office
Leuven, Belgium - Septentrio, a leading European developer of high-end GNSS re¬ceivers for industrial applications, opens a business development office in Los Angeles, California. Septentrio welcomes J. Christopher Litton as Business Development Manager to start up and run the North-American operations for Septentrio.
'Over the past several years, Septentrio has built a strong reputation for high quality GNSS products, | | |
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| OPTION ANNOUNCES FIRST HALF AND SECOND QUARTER RESULTS FOR 2007 | 26/7 | Leuven, Belgium - July 26, 2007 - Option N.V. (EURONEXT Brussels: OPTI; OTC: OPNVY), the wireless technology company,
today announced its results for the first half year and the second quarter ended June 30, 2007. The financial information
reported in this release is presented in Euro and has been prepared in accordance with the recognition and measurement
criteria of IFRS as adopted by the European Union (IFRSs). The accounting policies and methods of computation followed in the
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| Chipidea Flexible Mixed-Signal IP Platform Architecture Provides Unprecedented Analog Integration | 26/7 | Innovative technology streamlines electronic system design for communication and consumer applications by leveraging the industry's largest analog IP portfolio
LISBON, Portugal - July 17, 2007 - Chipidea, the world's leading provider of analog/mixed-signal subsystems and intellectual property, today announced the industry's first Flexible Mixed-Signal IP Platform ArchitectureT (FLEMIA), a highly innovative approach to integrating multiple blocks of analog functionality into a single chip to | | |
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| METRIS EXPANDS SHAREHOLDER BASE | 19/7 | Leuven, July 19th 2007 - Metris (MTRS, Euronext Brussels) has been informed today that 811,608 existing shares have been successfully placed outside the order book with existing and new institutional European investors through KBC Securities.
Given the broad appetite for Metris' shares amongst renowned institutional investors, 811,608 shares from various NIF funds have been successfully placed on July 18th 2007.
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| Metris acquires iLS division from Virtek | 4/7 | Leuven, July 4th 2007 - Metris (MTRS, Euronext Brussels) and Virtek Vision International Inc. (TSX:VRK) announce today that they have signed an asset purchase agreement for the acquisition by Metris of the Virtek Intelligent Laser Systems (iLS) division. The Virtek iLS acquisition fits in the Metris strategy to strengthen its distribution channels by acquiring companies that provide integration services in conjunction with Metris large scale metrology products.
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| EconCore, a spin-off from the KUL expands in Haasrode | 20/6 | Econcore has rented a unit in the Haasrode Business Estate consisting of 567 m² warehouse and 132 m² offices. The site is located in the SMSE business park of Haasrode and consists of several business units offering offices and warehouse facilities.
EconCore is a spin-off company of the University K.U.Leuven and provides core technologies for most economic honeycomb sandwich panels and parts and supports customers and licensees in their application development.
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| Pharma Diagnostics | 20/6 | BRUSSEL - 19 juni 2007 - Het Vlaams Innovatiefonds (Vinnof), Capital-E ARKIV en Allegro investeren 1,25 miljoen euro in de biotechnologische spitstechnologie van Pharma Diagnostics.
Dankzij de participatie van Capital-E (750.000 euro), Vinnof (250.000 euro) en Allegro (250.000 euro) verankert Pharma Diagnostics biotechnologische spitstechnologie in Vlaanderen. Pharma Diagnostics is een start-upbedrijf in de bio- en nanotechnologie dat werd opgericht door dokter Patrick Englebienne en zijn |
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