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• E-Mobile's RF Tune, Inc. Should Benefit Materially from 42 Percent Growth of Wi-Fi Chipset Market to $1 Billion, According to Unstrung Insider, a Wi-Fi Industry Publication

  - 2004-09-20

  PLANO, Texas -- RF Tune, Inc. believes its new chipset designs for Wi-Fi applications in laptop computers and PDA's will participate significantly in the positive industry growth trends. Their smart antenna chips can increase network capacity, enhance the quality of voice and data services, expand cell phone communication range, and...

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• How to get profs to be practical.

  - 2001-10-08

  * Two centuries ago, Pennsylvania Mennonites and European Germans opened homesteads around Kitchener. In 1957, their descendants--hardworking and prudent as ever--established the University of Waterloo with an emphasis on technology. From the outset, the U of W adopted an innovative rule: professors could retain the commercial...

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• Betacom's New Technology Enables Legally-Blind People to See

  - 2001-10-01

  Business Editors NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE--Oct. 1, 2001 A new medical device that promises to return sight to those who are classified as legally blind is being introduced this month by a small Toronto-based company, Betacom Corporation. Called the VisAble Video TelescopeTM, this product looks like a purple...

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