Holography News articles from March 2005

Holography News archives from March 2005

Visa adopts Holo/Magnetic combination.(COMPANY NEWS)
March 1, 2005... Visa International has announced a major re-branding for its family of transaction-card based products centred on its Visa Card--the most-used credit card. While Visa's focus is on this re-branding, which includes re-designed logo versions,...

Holographic storage makers unite for standards.(COMPANY NEWS)
March 1, 2005... A new standards body has emerged for holographic storage makers so that they may speed the common push to commercialize data storage disk capacity above 1 terabyte (TB) per disk. Currently a handful of companies say they can produce a 1 TB...

CFC's results even better.(COMPANY NEWS)
March 1, 2005... The last issue of Holography News reported that embossed hologram and foil producer CFC International had announced record sales of $82.6m (2003 = $62.8m) and net income of $3.5m in its preliminary statement for 2004, making it the best...

OpGraphics closes.(COMPANY NEWS)
March 1, 2005... Valerie Love and Nick Hardy, owners of OpGraphics, the reflection hologram producer in Leeds, UK, have confirmed to Holography News that they have closed the company, following DuPont's decision to cease the supply of photopolymer film to...

Pharmaceuticals: a hologram market expanding or threatened?(EDITORIAL)
March 1, 2005... At the time of writing, the 2nd Global Forum on Pharmaceutical AntiCounterfeiting has just finished in Paris, organised by Holography News' publisher, Reconnaissance International. One of the themes to emerge during the course of the 2 1/2...

The future of foil--unlocking the hidden potential of OVDs.(TECHNOLOGY PROFILE)
March 1, 2005... Louisenthal has confirmed its commitment to the future of diffractive and optically variable features as a prime authentication technology for banknotes with the introduction of a number of new developments based on its combined expertise in...

Shares mostly up, CFCI sets blistering pace.(STOCKWATCH)
March 1, 2005... Last month was a fairly exciting one for news and share price changes, all of it positive for once with not a dark cloud on the horizon. This month is not that different. I was tempted to lead with the CFCI story but decided to save the best...

Excellence in Holography 2005 Awards.(CONFERENCES)
March 1, 2005... Applications are now being invited for the Excellence in Holography Awards 2005. These are held annually by the International Hologram Manufacturers Association and sponsored by Holography News, and are made in recognition of outstanding...

Exhibitions and conferences.(CONFERENCES)(Calendar)
March 1, 2005... Opto Ireland April 4-5, 2005 Dublin, Ireland www.spie.org EMA Spring Meeting April 7-8, 2005 Freising, Germany www.eurometallizers.org PISEC 2005 April 18-20, 2005 Vienna, Austria ...

10 years ago.(CONFERENCES)
March 1, 2005... Autosteroscopy to the Fore Richmond Holographic Studios demonstrated prototypes of their realtime 3D autostereoscopic colour display, working on an otherwise standard laptop computer screen. The screen featured a holographic optical...

Liti offers new film.(TECHNOLOGY NEWS)
March 1, 2005... Liti Holographics has developed a proprietary film for use with its low-cost hologram kit and is now offering it as a holographic film (see HN Vol 19 No 2). The unique characteristic of this material is that it requires no chemical processing...

HoloTouch progress.(TECHNOLOGY NEWS)
March 1, 2005... HoloTouch[TM] Inc, a development company based in Darien, Connecticut working in association with Atlantex Corp, has launched the BeamOne HoloTouch evaluation unit, a working demonstration of its non-contact control technique. HoloTouch was...