According to a Rapid City traffic engineer John Less in America, since changing over to LED traffic lights three years ago, the city has achieved positive results, so it's going to make a pilot program on LED street lights. The city is using a $49,000 federal grant to replace street lights on Main and St. Joseph streets with two different bulbs to see which one produces the best results. Main Street will get LED street light fixtures while Saint Joseph will get induction fixtures similar to fluorescent bulbs.

LEDs America will join a growing roster of "green" employers at TechCity, Ulster County, promising to add as many as 100 new jobs here. It's said that roughly two-thirds of TechCity's industrial space has been snatched up since 2008 by solar energy companies, green building suppliers and other enviro-friendly businesses.

Lunera Lighting has appointed former Hewlett Packard and Lumileds executive, Karen Owyeung as its new CEO.

GE – at the forefront of innovation and industry transformation Interview with Tomoaki Kimura, General Manager of LED – Asia at GE Lighting As global LED industry is blooming with increasing awareness toward energy efficiency, LEDinside recently interviewed Tomoaki Kimura, General Manager of LED – Asia at GE Lighting to gain insights on his perspectives toward future developments in this industry.

Future Lighting Solutions has come out a new white paper, which titled "Enabling LED-Based Recessed Downlight Applications," to provide guidelines for developing high-performance solid state downlights.

B/E Aerospace has equipped advanced LED cabin interior lighting system on the first 737 Boeing Sky Interior.

Wafer probe card maker MJC Probe (MPI) earned profit NT$272 million (US$8.88 million), up 56％compared to 2Q ,with NT$3.52 per share in net profits, exceeding the total for the whole first half. Gross margin reached about 44.6%, higher than previously expected by market observers. From 1Q to 3Q in 2010, the company posted net profits of NT$515 million, EPS of NT$6.67 and gross margin of 41.7%.

Cree's annual shareholders meeting was held on October 26th.During the meeting, Chuck Swoboda, CEO of Cree, restated the company's commitment to what it has termed the "LED Revolution", saying that the company is in it for the long haul.   As we know, the company has made a great leap in the past several years, growing its cash reserves to $1.1 billion and revenues to $867 million for the past year.  

Chiaki Murata has designed a HONO electric Candle LED lights to celebrate Halloween. This LED Magic Candle features a recharged internal battery, looks like real candles and can also be blown out like real candles. Therefore, these electric candles are not only energy efficient but also safer from the regular candles since your children will not get accidental burns.

With the Design Pro LED lights, Kichler has received the Lighting for Tomorrow Award – a lighting industry honor for energy-efficient solutions.

Cooper Lighting, a subsidiary of Cooper Industries plc has supported the decoration of the Detroit, Michigan-based Downriver Council for the Arts with its Streetworks Generation LED Decorative Post Top Luminaires .

Cree has appointed Robert Tillman, former Lowe's Companies chairman and chief executive officer as the Company's Board of Directors and the Board's Compensation Committee, effective October 26, 2010.

Only one dollar! Now it is time to experience LED lighting era prior! Aeon Lighting Technology Inc. (ALT), the high power LED lighting manufacturer from Taiwan, today announces its latest campaign for 2010 Hong Kong International Light Fair Autumn—To anticipate LED lighting era. Aurora™ (MR16 base) series product is only $1 USD as incredible low, entry-level price. On exhibition, ALT also will launch the latest LED T8 tube version 2 and first Metis™ Chandelier light series.

In fulfilling its mission of aggregating products and services that reduce energy expenses for its customers, Mukherji Energy Management Associates considers using state-of-the-art, energy-efficient LEDs a no-brainer.

New Vigilant™ Series White/Red LED Strobe Lasts up to 10 Years to Slash Maintenance Costs and Reduce Safety Risks Associated with Frequent Changeout of Typical Xenon Tubes

Acuity Brands recently has started to install its Holophane® brand of luminaires and ROAM® wireless controls for Florida A&M University ("FAMU"). ROAM is an Acuity Brands award winning lighting control and monitoring system that minimizes total life-cycle cost, while enhancing safety and sustainability.

Acuity Brands has participated in a pilot outdoor LED lighting and revitalization project in Rock Falls, Illinois with its Holophane® brand of luminaires and innovative SiteLink® pole system. New LED lighting will highlight the City of Rock Falls' overall objective which focuses on the City Hall parking lot and aims at eventually revitalizing the entire downtown area.

It's reported that Arrow Electronics and Cree, will jointly with major manufacturers of complementary components to host a lighting design seminar and solutions fair Dec. 1-2, 2010, at the Island Hotel in Newport Beach, Calif. The free, two-day event is designed for West Coast lighting engineers, specifiers and designers, and professionals.

Mitsubishi Electric has released a new AA057QD01 5.7" QVGA color TFT-LCD module with a white LED backlight. This module features a built-in LED driver, which not only can promote reduced production cost but also achieve a more compressed design. Plus, the LCD device does not require any high-voltage inverters, and its enhanced backlight structure design brings down the thickness level to 8.8 mm.

Affected from LED chip sales in the backlighting market decline, Cree’s revenue for 3Q was about $268.4 million, up 59% compared to the same quarter in 2009 and increasing 1.5% sequentially, but the result was weaker than expected before. Cree’s LED chip sales down almost 20% result from weakness in notebook and monitor backlighting demand.Before that, analysts thought the company’s revenues for 3Q would reach $278 million. But the true amount was weaker than expected to $268.4 million.

GE released a good news that scientists from GE Global Research, the technology development arm for the General Electric Company, GE Lighting, and the University of Maryland-as part of a two-year solid-state lighting program with the U.S. Department of Energy had successfully demonstrated a 1,500-lumen LED bulb (a standard 100-watt halogen PAR38 bulb produces 1,500 lumens) that addresses key barriers to more widespread adoption of LED bulbs for general lighting.  

The Future of Outdoor lighting with less energy usage Energy Smart Industry, which is well known for providing with cost efficient lighting solutions in USA, introduced stylish LED lights for outdoors. The new lights launched by the company are energy efficient and can help the clients to save on their energy bills. The new lights have been introduced for commercial and residential units and are available in different styles and designs.

It’ s reported that Taiwan high power LED lighting manufacturer Aeon Lighting Technology Inc. (ALT), invested in Swaziland, has opened a new era for “African Green Silicon Valley” plan on Swaziland. It has acquired a successful influence on local government as well as other African governments.

Australia Narva has introduced a new line of high powered LED work lamps with flood beams offering 4,500 lumen to an amazing 15,000 Lumens output.   Each lamp can produce a natural white light that is closer to daylight. A typical HID work lamp produces approximately 4,000 lumen.

Verbatim LED lighting, sometimes known as solid state lighting, will be available in wholesale and retail outlets throughout Australia in early 2011. Initially, Verbatim plans to sell lamps focused on the domestic lighting market with the most common shapes and base fittings including A-lamps, candle lamps and directional MR16s, with E14, E27, GU5.3 and GU10 bases. The products will be suitable for direct replacement of incandescent and halogen and compact fluorescent lamps.

Intersil Corporation has developed a new family of innovative multi-channel LED drivers, which provide an ultra-low dimming capability that can significantly extend battery life in notebook, netbook and tablet computers.   The new, highly integrated ISL97671/2/3/4 series reduces undesirable backlight-induced visual artifacts such as flickering, shimmering and banding that are observed when using conventional LED drivers.

Everlight Electronics Co., Ltd. [TSE:2393] appointed Bert Loburg to the newly created position of Director, Distribution Management EMEA, effective from September 23, 2010. Focal points of his new role will be a structural revision of the company's distribution management, to prepare the sales channel organisation for further growth and to develop and introduce additional professional distribution tools.

Under a successful Beta test at a Florida Lexus car dealership, which provided valuable rollout information, SavWatt USA, Inc. has decided to cooperate with their supplier Unilumin,  one of the few Chinese companies that have UL approval for LED Street Lights in Shenzhen ,to launch an aggressive marketing campaign for their UL approved and certified LED Street Lights.

Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO) announced its financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2010. Veeco reports its results on a generally accepted accounting principles ("GAAP") basis, and also provides results excluding certain items. Please refer to the attached table for details of the reconciliation between GAAP operating results and Non-GAAP operating results, and presentation of results on a "Continuing Operations" basis for current and historical periods.

Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO), has announced that Epistar Corporation, headquartered in Taiwan, placed a multi-tool order for Veeco's TurboDisc(R) K465i(TM) gallium nitride (GaN) Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) Systems for high volume light emitting diode (LED) production.