Technology Headline News Archive: August 2003

Technology Headline News Archives - RF Cafe

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8-29-2003

FBI Arrests Teen in 'Blaster' Attack

Lockheed Martin and General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Sign Teaming Agreement for U.S. Navy BAMS Program

Microtune Claims Permanent Injunction against Broadcom

Intersil Cuts 8% of Staff

Browser Suit Spurs Microsoft to Change IE

MK Milliwave launches new line of low noise, SATCOM amps

8-28-2003

World's biggest battery switched on in Alaska

RF start-up Amalfi closes $12 million first round

Researchers Work To Protect Power Grid From Terrorism

Landline to wireless number portability expected shortly

Airborne Laser Contract Aims To Shore Up Industrial Base

8-27-2003

RF Micro Devices Announces Customer Qualification of Six-Inch Wafer Manufacturing Capacity

Wi-Fi prices dropping, but hype could undermine service

L-3 Wins $5.6M Contract to Provide Telemetry for JDAM 8-27-2003

11.8 Teraflops: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Supercomputer Fastest Open System In U.S.

Eagleware Corporation  announces the appointment of Alex B. Best to its Board of Directors

8-26-2003

DigitalGlobe Plans Third Ground Station - this place provides the cool satellite imagery of many landmarks

UCSD Chemists Develop Self-Assembling Silicon Particles -- A First Step Toward Robots The Size Of A Grain Of Sand

RF Micro Devices is Industry's Fastest Company to Ship 250 Million Power Amplifier Modules

Report: Power Grid Upgrade May Cost $100 Billion

Over 150 million Latin American mobile users by 2007 - report

Military test house undergoes big makeover

Smarter grid could warn of impending blackouts

8-25-2003

Launching Satellites Into Space From an Aircraft Has Special Challenges

New boss for CTIA - Steve Largent of NFL fame

RFMW makes formal debut as a technical distributor

NTT verifies diamond semiconductor operation at 81 GHz

Appreciation Of Humor Doesn't Change With Age

8-22-2003

Woman suffers facial burns from cell phone

Standard set for measuring cellphone impact on humans

Largest Gain In Two Years

Standard set for measuring cellphone impact on humans

Woman suffers facial burns from cell phone

8-21-2003

NASA Seeks Public Suggestions For Mars Photos

Boeing to Tell Air Force It Deserves Launch Contracts Again

U.S. Army Selects Northrop Grumman Design Concept for Mobile High-Energy Laser Weapon for Tactical Missile Defense

Start-ups Are Back

Ericsson signs massive GSM contract

Darpa head expresses skepticism about quantum computing

8-20-2003

Powell proposal aims to boost low-power FM

New Computer Virus Clogs E-Mail Inboxes

8-19-2003

Smart-1 - All Set To Fly To The Moon; Europe Embarks Upon Its First Lunar Mission

PNNL Advances Power Grid Reliability, Envisions Grid Of The Future; Research Under Way To Design Grid-friendly Appliances, Grid Monitoring

Nanowire approach to supercomputing touted at Hot Chips

Camera phones sales to double

Northeast Blackout Destroys Schedules; Air Canada Worst Hit

8-18-2003

Wireless Growth Hinders Rescuers

States Begin Post-Blackout Workweek

Preparing For The Rebound

Bleak future for 'unconnected' PDAs, says report

Death sentence for cell phone thieves - let this be a lesson!

Mobile phone jammer dropped by parachute

8-15-2003

Cities Slowly Climb Back From Blackout of 2003

New Solid-state Power Switch Safeguards Electric Service

Last-minute change casts doubt on U.S. digital radio spec

Niagara Mohawk Restores Power to Customers Across State

Is Moore's Law Irrelevant?

8-14-2003

Return Of Long Security Lines Hampers Summer Traffic Recovery

Youth market key to further growth

Flextronics pays $80 million for GSM phone maker

Using The Internet May Harm, Not Help, People Find A Job

Researcher Invents New Graphing Method

Single Photon Detector Conquers The Dark Side

Blaster Worm on the Move

Nanotech company to co-develop titanium metals for military

Leap gets permission to sell spectrum licenses

Lockheed Martin Wins $200 Million EW Prime Contract from U.K. MOD

8-12-2003

Camera phone sales to outstrip sales of all other types of camera combined

Cypress Semiconductor radio targets low-cost wireless USB

Aircraft Carrier Cost Overruns Cause Northrop's Profit to Drop 26 Percent

Researchers Create The World's Fastest Detailed Computer Simulations Of The Internet

8-11-2003

Russian Low-Observable Technology Research Detailed

Prosecuted for selling cell phone radiation blockers

U.S. trade agency funds effort to improve Chinese ports

'Spintronics' Could Enable A New Generation Of Electronic Devices, Physicists Say

Semico sees upturns, downturns in the business

8-7-2003

10% of base stations using smart antennas

Lack of OEMs Not Helping Europe, Firm Says

Orbital Selected for $25M Scientific Satellite Contract

Dr. Robot Tested At Hopkins

8-6-2003

Sun, others push for Linux on the desktop

Purdue Scientists Discover Why We're All Lefties Deep Down - Hey, I'm A Southpaw

Cingular confirms large spectrum purchase deal

Handset Market Increases to 107 Million Units

8-5-2003

Wireless FIZZ - Coke & Siemens play to win

Electronics Buyers' Index jumps to a near three-year high

Smart antennas set to take off

Motorola, NEC Collaborate on Wireless Voice and Data Technology

Self-assembling Devices At The Nanoscale: New Hybrid Technique Could Lead To Mass-Produced Chips With Molecular-Scale Structure

IBM, Raytheon sign $100 million aerospace-defense chip design deal

8-4-2003

Space: The final frontier for COTS

ZigBee market begins to buzz, says report

US blocks French and German companies from Iraqi tender

Motorola wins US$4 billion lawsuit - could boost profits

Global Q2 Chip Sales Up 10%, SIA Reports

Blakey Says Compromise Not Perfect But Would Be Signed

8-1-2003

U.S. Search Teams Find Buried Iraqi Jets - any doubts the WMDs are buried, too?

Crackers Tuning Up for Massive Net Attack

China's PC Alley swept into history's dustbin

TI acquires RF chip maker Radia

US blocks French and German companies from Iraqi tender