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From cover stories and contributed articles to blog features, product reviews and broadcast pieces, we have secured the kind of coverage that drives our clients' businesses forward. We are pleased to share a few examples with you.
Microvision
 March of the Pico Projectors
By Jacques Lincoln, Microvision, contributed to IEEE Spectrum
May 2010
“They all do the same thing-get a big picture out of a tiny device. But there are lots of ways to do it.”
 Macworld Expo 2010 Best of Show winners
By Roman Loyola, Macworld.com
February 11, 2010
“Microvision ShowWX The trend in the projector market is to go small, and more manufacturers are releasing pico projectors. The ShowWX ($500) is the only pico projector that uses laser technology that produces color that’s better than other, non-laser based pico projectors.”
Dr Evil and Showwx Pico Projector Online Favorite at CES
January 11, 2010
“Dr Evil rocks out for SHOWWX laser pico projector, the online favorite for Last Gadget Standing at CES 2010 in Las Vegas.” www.youtube.com
RPT-CES-Are pico projectors the next big cellphone trend?
By Sinead Carew, Reuters
 January 10, 2010
“LAS VEGAS, Jan 10 (Reuters) - Large flat-screen TVs were all the rage at the Consumer Electronics Show, but companies like Microvision, Inc. (NASDAQ: MVIS) are putting their bets on image viewing of a much smaller scale: projections from devices as tiny as cellphones.”
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Akustica
 Akustica Packs Analog MEMS Mic in 1 Square mm
Die-only solution tailored for cell phone market
By R. Colin Johnson, EE Times
June 4, 2007
"Akustica Inc. today will unveil what it says is the world's smallest microphone. The 1-mm2 mic uses a microelectromechanical-systems diaphragm and on-chip complementary CMOS analog circuitry. The integrated chip occupies about 25 percent of the die area of competing two-chip MEMS microphones."
Akustica Brings High-Definition Audio to Mobile Devices
 By Jeffrey L. Wilson, Laptop
June 1, 2007
"The AKU2103 is a high-definition microphone for notebooks and other broadband mobile devices. It's the first microphone to comply with the TIA-920 audio standard for wideband transmission in VoIP and other voice applications. In other words, the single chip enables HD voice quality. The AKU2103's single-chip construction, coupled with a robust digital output, produces static-free voice quality that doesn't degrade when traveling from the mic to codec."
The Microphone shrinks to a single chip
By Michael Kanellos, CNET
 February 27, 2006
"The company, which was spun off from a Carnegie Mellon University project in 2001, announced this week the AKU2000, a single-chip microphone that can be produced on standard silicon processes. Ultimately, the chip could lead to better voice quality on Skype phones embedded in laptops, for example, or sharper, more distinct sound on video captured by digital cameras.”
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Analog Devices
DSPs step
forward in 3 G Stations
Ericsson turns away from ASICs, FPGAs
By Patrick Mannion, EE Times
April 26, 2004
"But
powerhouse Ericsson's decision to go with the TigerSHARC 'is going
to make a lot of companies give DSPs a second look,' said analyst
Will Strauss, president of Forward Concepts (Tempe, Ariz.)."
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DSPs
expand front in consumer media
By Junko Yoshida and Patrick Mannion, EE
Times
January 26, 2004
"As Jim Turley, a microprocessor analyst and editor of Silicon-Insider,
summed it up: 'The 'ASIC boom' of the late 1990s is over - for
good - in my opinion. It's simply too expensive and too time-consuming
to develop your own chip, even if you do have the talent and the
budget. Processors, DSPs, controllers, and even FPGAs offer a
more attractive alternative in many cases…ADI does pretty
well here, holding its own against the 500-pound gorilla - TI
- in consumer electronics.' He said much of the attraction is
Blackfin's 'microcontroller-like features, which make the chips
suitable as the only chip in a product, rather than just the DSP
chip next to some other chip [such as an ARM microcontroller].'"
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JPEG2000
wave rises as ADI shows still-camera accelerator
By Junko Yoshida, EE Times
May 11, 2001 (9:37 AM EDT)
"ADI
has leapfrogged others in the emerging JPEG2000 silicon market
largely because its 15-member team - intact since 1994 - has accumulated
an in-depth knowledge of the wavelet technology that underpins
JPEG2000…" Download
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Cambridge Friends School
Kids in Cambridge donate soccer balls to Africa
 Jillian Fennimore, The Cambridge Chronicle
May 6, 2010
“Not only do the students at the Cambridge Friends School have a ball, they donate them to kids in Africa who can’t afford to play. This is the fifth year that the school has contributed to the “Get a Kick Out of Sharing” program sponsored by World Vision, an international aid organization with a goal to send 250,000 soccer balls to children in need worldwide.”
Giving the Gift of Soccer
Bill Littlefield, “Only a Game” from NPR and 90.9 WBUR Boston
June 10th, 2010
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Soccer fans have been warming up for the World Cup in various ways…some by reading about their favorite teams, some by filling out the brackets, just as they might for the NCAA basketball tournaments, for amusement purposes only. In the case of the students at the Cambridge Friends School in Massachusetts, last month, World Cup Preparation meant kicking soccer balls around their gym."
 Helping kids break stereotypes
By Stacy Teicher Khadaroo, The Christian Science Monitor
September 29, 2008
“First-graders learn firsthand about disabilities – and respect.”
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Intel's Desktop Boards Group
Feature
News Story:
Intel updates Ent PC with audio
'reality amp'
 By Tony Smith, The Register
March 4, 2005
"IDF
Spring 05 Intel demonstrated its latest Entertainment PC system
this week, a major update that will take advantage of the chip
maker's dual-core desktop processors and 945/955 chipset - not
to mention some nifty audio enhancement software." Download PDF
Lakeport chipsets 945/955 to receive
ADAT audio capability
 By Wolfgang Gruener, Senior Editor, Tom's
Hardware Guide
March 2, 2005
"San
Francisco (CA) - The upcoming 945/955 chipsets for the Intel's
dual-core processors will bring a significant upgrade of audio
integration. The platform's audio capability will be extended
from PCM and AC3 of the 915 to PCM, AC3 and ADAT in the second
quarter of this year." Download
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MEMS Industry Group
 MEMS Needs To Be More Accessible
By David Manners, Electronics Weekly
April 27, 2010
“MEMS is one of the fastest growing industry segments in the world, set to almost double in revenues from $2.7bn last year to $4.8bn this year, the MEMS panel at the Globalpress Summit Conference in Santa Cruz was told today by Gartner’s research director, Stephan Ohr.”
MEMS And Nano Push For Higher System Integration Levels
By Roger Allan, Electronics Design
January 10, 2010
“Microelectromechanical-systems (MEMS) devices have matured into commodity market components whose use is growing in many familiar applications, such as consumer, automotive, medical, and environmental electronics.”
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NXP Semiconductors
Fast track your designs with NXP’s high-speed converters
May 2010
Project description: Defined messaging, wrote copy, designed and produced brochure for NXP’s high-speed data converters.
High performance RF for the most demanding applications
April 2010
Project description: Contributed copy and provided project management for design of NXP’s RF product portfolio brochure.
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PlanetTran
Entrepreneur 
Road wage -
Public car service aims to drive revenue with all-hybrid fleet
Sean McFadden, Boston Business Journal
June 9, 2006
“In a market overrun by taxis and limos, Seth Riney's livery business is taking the road less traveled…As gas prices continue to soar, Riney's 3-year-old enterprise, PlanetTran LLC, is carving out a niche for itself in the public ground transportation market by offering the nation's first car service using an all-hybrid fleet of vehicles.”
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