Technology Headline News Archive: April 2004

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4-30-2004

EU Will Lift Arms Sales Embargo: Tiananmen Square Forgive & Forget

Zigbee Efforts Alter Philips Semi Plans

Motorola Shifts Gears in China to Auto Electronics

Offshore Opt-Out From E-Loan

Offshoring: Good for Business, Bad for America

X Prize Founder Predicts Summer Victory

New NASA Technology Helps Forecasters In Severe Weather Season

Scientists Developing Liquid Body Armor

4-29-2004

Funding Remains At Center Of Debate On Missile Defense For Airliners

Capitol Hill Hotspot Offers Free Wi-Fi (Think Big Brother Will Be Listening?)

Defense Official Faces Corruption Probe For Cell Phone Contract

Raytheon Eup, Pension Expenses A Drag On Profits

Hiring Spike In U.K.

High-speed Nanotube Transistors Could Lead To Better Cell Phones, Faster Computers

Mars Rovers Finish Primary Mission

4-28-2004

U.S. Patent Office Swamped by Backlog

APLAC Version 7.92 Released

Anti Missile Defense Shield On Alert By September

New Space For Satellites in Arizona

UWB Developer Pulselink Raises $30 Million; Joins Both UWB Groups

Boeing Gets US$6B Order

US Cell Customers Generally Happy

4-27-2004

Lockheed 1Q Earnings Rise 16 Percent

Japanese Joint Venture To Develop Super Capacitors That Rival NiHM Cells

Ceramic Diodes Claim Optimum ESD Protection

Interest Growing In 'Security' Blimps

Doing Business With Asia/Pacific Inc.

Bush Touts Broadband, Fuel Cells In MN Speech

Diary Sheds Light On Einstein's Final Years

Space Superiority Essential In War

4-26-2004

China's Weapons Buildup Seen Posing Growing Challenge To U.S.

National Semi Open Korean Design Center

China IP Theft May Get Worse

Steady Growth Continues

Local Firms Respond to A Changing U.S. Military

Report: College Science Classes Are Boring

Scientists Post A Lower Speed Limit For Magnetic Switching

4-23-2004

Robotic Hubble Servicing Is Feasible, NASA Decides

Call To Recycle Cell Phones

Samsung Tops Intel In Capital Spending Rankings

Microminiature D-Subs Aim For Aerospace Applications

China IP Theft May Get Worse

Bell Labs Wins $26 Million DoD Contract For Laser Communications

April Shower Kicks Off Meteor Season

Arecibo Radiotelescope Made Incredibly More Sensitive

RFMD Acquires Leading Bluetooth Product Company Silicon Wave

New Managing Director At APLAC Solutions

Eagleware Announces Shipment of GENESYS 2004

4-22-2004

China Backs Off Of WAPI Proposal

Industry Feverishly Building Fibs, Says SMA

Scientists Define Cyber-Speed Limit

Military Looks To Northeastern Professor For A Future Powered By Fuel Cells

UCLA Geophysicist Warns 6.4 Quake To Hit LA By Sept 5'

NASA, Russia Head Toward Showdown in space

4-21-2004

Lockheed Martin Awarded Contract for Space Based Radar

Soyuz Docks Safely at International Space Station

In Search of Gravitomagnetism

Aerospace Lifts Honeywell Profits

Record Cash Flows for Europe's Telcos

Homeland Security Companies Consolidating

4-20-2004

New Managing Director At APLAC Solutions

RF Micro Devices (RFMD) Announces New Business Strategy

Analog Devices' 14-Bit DAC Breaks 1,000 MSPS Speed Barrier: 1.2 GSPS

Dell Contributes 448 Gflops To Online Database Of Earth Images

Dean Demands Changes In Engineering Education

Boeing In-Flight Web Plan Gets Airborne

Radio Waves Supports Potential 3.6 GHz WISP Allocation

FCC Proposes Opening 3.6 GHz Band For Wi-Fi

U.S. Army Seeking 'Early Success' For Directed Energy Weapon

4-19-2004

The Urge To Innovate

Norway Threatens To Revoke Support For Strike Fighter

RFID Reshapes Supply Chain Management

Broadcom Acquires Bluetooth Player

Wireless Security Tops U.S.-China Trade Talks

Linux: Unfit For National Security?

Grumman Faces Accounts Quiz

Judge Orders Phone Thrown Out Of Window

4-16-2004

Telecom Industry to Begin Rebound in 2004 - Report

Loral Skynet Successfully Completes Skyreach Trials

IBM Reports $150M Loss in IC Unit, Blames 300-mm Fab Yields

Polymer FETs Pushed Below 1 Micron

Pressure on Sun Rises as Earnings Continue Slide

NATO To Award Surveillance Plane Deal

Web Inventor (no, not Algore) Wins $1.23M Award

Toppan and Sony Develop 25GB Paper-Based, Blu-Ray Disc (Bye-Bye DVD?)

4-15-2004

UCLA Geophysicist Warns 6.4 Quake To Hit LA By Sept 5th

One In Six Use Wireless Net, Survey Finds

Nanotron Raises $9.5 Million For Short-Range Wireless Technology

RFID Chip Price Expected To Drop Below US$0.05

Microsoft To Pour Millions Into Chinese Software Industry

Idaho Terrorist Website Operator's Trial Could Test Patriot Act

Agilent To Triple Staff In India By 2006

RFID Could Make Retail Price Checking Easier

4-14-2004

Defense Drives Economy

UAV Battlelab Experiments With Feature Recognition Software

Grads See Brighter Job Prospects

Wi-Fi Will Surpass 3G By 2007

Phone Explodes In Hong Kong

New Molecule Heralds Breakthrough In Electronic Plastics

Maxim Files Suit Against Qualcomm Over CDMA Patents

4-13-2004

After 45 Years (and $700M), A Gravity Experiment Takes Flight

Three Top European Satellite Firms On PanAmSat

Foreign Fraud Hits U.S. e-Commerce Firms Hard

Raytheon Awarded $82.4M AIM-9X Missile Contract

Satellites To Extend Broadband's Reach

U.S. War Plans For Korean Peninsula Being Rewritten

4-12-2004

Cell Phone Sparks Fire

Broadband Prepares To Take Off

Boeing Plays Defense

Green Hills Calls Linux 'Insecure' For Defense

Breakfast In Silicon Forest: Nano Comes To Life

Engineering Sector Feels The Pressure

Possible Answer To Earth's Magnetic Field Reversal

4-9-2004

Handset Chipmakers To Extend Lead Times Due To RF IC Shortage

Windfall Predicted For Chip Gear Makers

After Years Of Struggle, GPS Is Taking Off

FTC Raids Intel's Japan Unit Over Microprocessor Deals

Northrop Grumman Develops New Capability for Electronic Attack Aircraft

New .mail Domain Designed To Slow Spam

Tiny Surveillance Aircraft To Fly In Tucson

4-8-2004

GE Earnings Up 8 percent

L-Mart Receives $73 Million To Provide KC-130J Simulators

Defense Firm BAE To Cut 1,000 Jobs

Wisair Demos First MB-OFDM UWB Transceiver

US Set For Massive Broadband Growth...

Raytheon Plans Low-Cost Variant Of Joint Standoff Weapon

Rutan's SpaceShipOne Gets Federal Go-Ahead

4-7-2004

Internet2 May Change The Way Scientists Conduct Research

Luxury Electronics Aid Japan's Recovery

UMC's Q1 Up 41.5%

US Broadband Market Reaches Critical Mass

San Francisco State University Mulls Axing Engineering School

Boeing & Airbus Domination Challenged With New Chinese Regional Jet

4-6-2004

Cell Phones Disrupt Some Police Radios

Flash Mob Creates 180-Gflop Semi-Super Computer

Moto To Be Freescale Semi Customer Through 2006

Air Force May Reinstate Boeing

Airbus Sees New Orders Slide

Lucent lays Off China Execs

Security Scare For Business Laptops

4-5-2004

Microsoft's Gates Dethroned As World's Richest Person By Cheap Furniture Magnate

Outraged Public Hatches Schemes To Save Hubble

Microtune Claims Victory Against Broadcom

Intel Refuses To Back Down On Chinese WLAN Spec

Mobile Industry Expects Rising Profits This Year

New Legislation Would Speed FAA Certification Of Airliners Anti-Missile Systems

4-2-2004

Intel: Radio Bands Need Better Tuning

Court Strikes FCC's Broadband Stance

Inquiry Calls UK Gvt. Support Of Nanotechnology 'Lacking In Foresight'

Legislation Speeds FAA Certification Of  Airliners Anti-Missile Systems

Agilent Sets Up Chip Design Centr In India

Shuttle Return-To-Flight Cost Projected To Be $600-700 Million

4-1-2004

NASCAR Event Gets Wi-Fi Via Tropos' Gear

Smartphones Not So Smart - Report

Guru Robert Lucky Warns Of End-User Broadband expectations

Ericsson Raises Q1 Expectations

Big Changes In Store For PCs

Judge: File Sharing Legal In Canada - Your Company's Software Can Be Stolen

Quasar Studies Keep Fundamental Physical Constant - Constant