RAYSPAN’s Metamaterial Antennas Provide the Extended Range and WiFi Performance in NETGEAR’s Ultimate Networking Machine

September 27th, 2009 SAN DIEGO - RAYSPAN(R) Corporation, the world's leading innovator of metamaterial air interface solutions, is proud to announce that its licensees have now shipped over 20 million of its breakthrough Metamaterial Antennas. "We are extremely pleased to have achieved this milestone," said Franz Birkner, RAYSPAN's CEO.

September 20th, 2009 LONDON - - Value added distributor to offer entire Matrox multi-display graphics product line to the UK digital design market Matrox Graphics Inc., the leading manufacturer of specialised graphics solutions, is pleased to announce a new distribution partnership with value added distributor Man and Machine Limited. The digital design focused company will be distributing the full range of Matrox multi-display products including add-in graphics cards, Remote Graphics Units, and Graphics eXpansion Modules.

August 16th, 2009 SAN DIEGO - RAYSPAN Corporation, the world's leading innovator of metamaterial air interface solutions, is proud to announce it has been granted a fundamental patent, ANTENNAS BASED ON METAMATERIAL STRUCTURES. The sweeping claims of this patent encompass a broad range of metamaterial inventions that make possible RAYSPAN's breakthrough ultra-miniature antennas and related air interface components and systems.

July 26th, 2009 SAN DIEGO - Rayspan Corporation, the world's leading innovator of metamaterial air interface solutions for wireless communications, today announced that it has received US$12.5M in a Series B financing led by new investor Khosla Ventures, who was joined by existing Rayspan investor Sequoia Capital as well as individual private investors. The financing will be utilized by Rayspan to accelerate and expand the development and commercialization of its breakthrough metamaterial wireless technology.

July 21st, 2009 MINNEAPOLIS - - Distribution Agreement Expands Multi-Tech's Reach in Europe and the Middle East Multi-Tech Systems' cellular modems, that enable machine-to-machine (M2M) communications, are now available through Future Electronics in the EMEA markets. The partnership brings together Multi-Tech, a 40-year device networking innovator, with Future Electronics, a distribution innovator of 40 years standing.

July 7th, 2009 KISTA, Sweden - Nanoradio today announced that they have signed an agreement with two new investors, Viking Venture and Creandum, who together with the current investors, Ferd Venture, Industrifonden, Innovacom, Nordic Venture Partners, Teknoinvest will fund Nanoradio through its growth phase. The Nanoradio "Always On WiFi"(TM) solution - the NRX700/2 Wi-Fi chipset, which offers fully tested 802.11b/g functionality, featuring ultra-low power consumption, has won tremendous customer attraction.

June 16th, 2009 LONDON - 85% of Consumers Aware of LBS Would Either be Prepared to Pay More for an LBS-equipped Handset (34%) or Would Choose an LBS-enabled Handset Over One Without (50%) - Top Three Location Based Services Consumers Would Adopt are Locating Nearest Services (56%), Alerting the Emergency Services to Their Location (45%) and Finding Their Friends (17%) - 68% of LBS Users Perceive Current Performance in Terms of Accuracy, Speed and Urban Effectiveness to be Average at Best Sarantel (LSE: SLG), manufacturer of filtering antennas for mobile and wireless devices, today announces the results of a global survey that polled consumers on their views, usage and future expectations in relation to location based services on mobile handsets. Independent marketing agency Ice Blue Sky (www.icebluesky.com) carried out the survey in April and analysed the results on behalf of Sarantel.

March 17th, 2009 SAN DIEGO - Rayspan Corporation, the world's leading innovator of Metamaterial air interface solutions, is proud to announce that its Chief Technology Officer Dr. Maha Achour will give a presentation entitled "The Road to 4G through Metamaterial Air Interface Technology: Long Term Evolution (LTE) and Beyond" at the third European Conference on Antenna and Propagation (EuCAP 2009).

March 16th, 2009 LONDON - Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) announced that its Europe-based air traffic control systems subsidiary, Park Air Systems, has been awarded a contract by the Brazilian Airspace Control System Implementation Commission (CISCEA) to supply and install complete UHF/VHF T6 extended range communication stations at multiple sites across Southern Brazil. The contract valued at US$19M was awarded following an international competitive tender process.

March 15th, 2009 SAN DIEGO - Rayspan Corporation, the world's leading innovator of Metamaterial air interface solutions, is proud to announce that its Chief Technology Officer Dr. Maha Achour will give the IEEE Distinguished Lecture entitled "The Road to 4G through Metamaterial Air Interface Technology: Long Term Evolution (LTE) and Beyond" at the third European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP 2009).

September 30th, 2009 Borders to offer free WiFi starting next monthANN ARBOR, Mich. — Bookseller Borders Group Inc.

July 17th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Scientists in Hong Kong are developing a cloak of illusion, or a material that disguises one object as another. "The metamaterial can turn the appearance of one object into that of another," says Professor Che Ting Chan, a scientist at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and coauthor of a paper that recently appeared in the journal Physical Review Letters.

August 1st, 2009 WASHINGTON - It is now possible to bend the light along the corner of a building or even the profile of the eastern seaboard, for Boston College physicists have created a new metamaterial device that can guide electromagnetic waves around various objects. As directed by the researchers' novel device, these beams continue to behave as if travelling in a straight line.

April 18th, 2009 LONDON - Brit band Girls Aloud members Cheryl Cole, Sarah Harding, Nadine Coyle, Kimberly Walsh, and Nicola Roberts are reportedly planning to launch their own range of eating products. he hit band are contemplating calling their range Love Machine grill.

July 8th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A team of researchers at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB) have come up with a device called a dc metamaterial, which makes objects invisible under certain light. The device does so, according to the researchers, under very low frequency electromagnetic waves by making the inside of the magnetic field zero, but not altering the exterior field.

May 7th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), an immense international telescope project under construction in northern Chile, reached a major milestone when two ALMA antennas were linked together as an integrated system to observe an astronomical object for the first time. The milestone achievement, technically termed "First Fringes," came at ALMA's Operations Support Facility (OSF), 9,500 feet above sea level, on April 30.

March 14th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Scientists have created a metamaterial that could lead to the development of a cloaking device that makes a person invisible, among other applications. Developed by Naomi Halas and graduate student Nikolay Mirin from Rice University, US, the material collects light from any direction and emits it in a single direction, using very tiny, cup-shaped particles called nanocups.

September 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Chinese firefighters recently rescued a three-year-old boy who got stuck inside a washing machine. The boy, a resident of the Tianjin municipality, was trapped inside the washing machine at his home for at least 30 minutes before he was rescued, reports the China Daily.

September 2nd, 2009 PANAJI - Three days after the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) admitted the abrupt end of its Chandrayaan-1 mission, a leading US-based scientist associated with the project Wednesday termed it "a complete success", but added that "what we have not achieved is our ultimate goal, which was a much more extended mission that was to be achieved during the full two years". Speaking to reporters here on the sidelines of an ISRO-sponsored conference, Carle Pieters, science manager at the NASA-supported spectrology facility at the Brown University in the US, said: "I think it's a complete success." "The achievements are very difficult to accomplish.

June 21st, 2009 PENANG - An Indonesian techie is trying to bring in a quiet revolution with the wok - a large, round-bottomed Chinese cooking vessel. His "wokbolic" is a low cost technology that takes wireless connectivity places and dramatically lowers the cost of internet access.