Holography News articles from February 2007

Holography News archives from February 2007

DNP launches new variation on the Virtuagram.
February 1, 2007... Dai Nippon Printing (DNP) has introduced a new variation on its Virtuagram computer-generated hologram, first introduced in 2003 as 3d-CGH. Virtuagram is a completely synthetic hologram in the sense that the image is totally a computer...

Strong finish to 2006 for holo companies.
February 1, 2007... De La Rue and OpSec have both made trading statements announcing that they will outperform forecasts for 2007/2008 (as they are required to do under London Stock Exchange rules if their results are likely to be 10% below or ahead of market...

Getting the message across.(EDITORIAL)
February 1, 2007... On February 7 Wired.com published an article headlined Fake Holograms a 3-D Crime Wave.' The article argued that holograms no longer serve a purpose as a security or anti-counterfeiting device because there are so many high quality fake...

SPIE's Practical Holography.(CONFERENCE REVIEW)
February 1, 2007... The meeting took place between 21 and 24 January 2007 at the San Jose Conference Centre in California, USA, as part of PhotonicsWest'07. Practical Holography is an annual international event focused on holographic applications and materials....

DuPont Authentication.(PEOPLE IN THE NEWS)
February 1, 2007... Francis Tuffy, formerly of Light Impressions, TSSI and, most recently, the National Physical Laboratory, has joined DuPont Authentication.

ITW.(PEOPLE IN THE NEWS)
February 1, 2007... Graeme Milloy, formerly General Manager of API Holographics, has joined ITW.

CFC International.(PEOPLE IN THE NEWS)
February 1, 2007... Following the acquisition of CFC International by ITW late last year, Greg Jehlik, CFC's CEO, has left the company. He is replaced by Mike Zimmer, an ITW veteran of 21 years who was previously General Manager of the company's security...

American Bank Note Holographics.(PEOPLE IN THE NEWS)
February 1, 2007... Laurence Holden, formerly of API Holographics, has joined American Bank Note Holographics.

Continuing the push to raise industry standards.(ON THE RECORD)(Interview)
February 1, 2007... Wilfried Schipper of German manufacturer Hologram Company Rako was elected Chairman of the IHMA at the AGM last November. Holography News spoke to him about his background in holography, on the direction of the Association under his...

Dynamic Physical Rendering--the "holograms" of the future?(TECHNOLOGY NEWS)
February 1, 2007... In the vein of the 'Princess Leia' holographic projection from Star Wars, researchers at the Intel Corporation lab in Pittsburgh, PA have teamed up with Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) to attempt to create physical, moving three-dimensional...

Opsec & DLR on the up.(STOCKWATCH)
February 1, 2007... In the period the FTSE All (Financial Times All Share index) has risen 4%, NASDAQ has fallen 1% and the Taiwan Stock Exchange has risen 5%. This month we have four shares gaining and two losing value, but not as one might have predicted. ...

Holo-pack*Holo-print 2007 call for papers.(CONFERENCES)
February 1, 2007... This year's Holo-pack*Holo-print Conference and Trade Show will be held in Hong Kong on November 14-16, following the record-breaking attendance at the conference in Shenzhen in 2005. The theme for this year's conference is Raising the...

Exhibitions and conferences.(CONFERENCES)(Calendar)
February 1, 2007... 4th Pan European High Security Printing Conference March 28-29, 2007 Budapest, Hungary www.cross-conferences.com 50th SVC Annual Technical Conference April 28-May 3, 2007 Louisville, KY, USA www.svc.org ...

Silver halide issues dominant.(10 YEARS AGO)
February 1, 2007... Following the previous month's announcement that Agfa was to cease production of silver halide holographic film, the February 1996 issue of Holography News[R] provided wide coverage of the holography community's follow-up. Hans Bjelkhagen...

1996 a year of industry & packaging expansion.(10 YEARS AGO)
February 1, 2007... The Agfa announcement had squeezed out Holography News' review of 1996, so this appeared in the February issue. All the companies interviewed reported expanding sales, notably in the packaging field where orders doubled, leading to new...

Key claims of Davis dot matrix patent rejected.(INDUSTRY NEWS)
February 1, 2007... The US Patent and Trademark Office has issued the results of its re-examination of US patent number 6,486,982 System for Making a Hologram of an Image by Manipulating Object Beam Characteristics to Deflect Image Data, issued on November 26...