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Technology Headline News Archive: May 2004

5-28-2004

New Center To Research Methods To Create Hydrogen Economy

Matchmaking Site Takes Out 'Love' Patent (now I've heard everything)

Staff Anger At Bookham GaAs Line Closure

SAWs Shrink to New Standard Sizes

Fabless Companies Up 37%

Skyworks Starts Licensing SMV Vocoder

Navy Floats High-Tech Arsenal

NORAD Marks Shift To New Aircraft Tracking System

5-27-2004

Russian Navy May Sink By 2008

Private Satellite Plan Wins Public Support

Cyber Investigators Getting Trained To Catch Internet Crooks

Want Wi-Fi With That Order?

Pb-Free Confusion Must Be Cleared Up, Says U.K.

Nanomagnets Tapped To Generate Microwave Fields

May 2004: US Broadband Penetration Jumps to 47.9%

GSM The Most Popular In America

5-26-2004

Doctor's Neckties: A Reservoir For Bacteria?

Army Reboots GIs' Tired Fatigues

DHS Awards $10M Wireless Geospatial Contract to Northrop Grumman

Low-Power-Radio Transceiver Takes More Onboard

Cadence To Open R&D Center In Moscow

Electronic Paper Supplier To Work With Philips' Venture

Fears Over BAE Moving Abroad

5-25-2004

DOD Awards $1.4B Next Generation Aircraft Carrier Contract

Investors Seek Nanotech Payday

Chip Makers Mull Cell Phones with Hard Drives

New Study Super-Sizes the Universe

Integrated Magnetics Shrinks DC-to-DC Converter

Eurofighter too Dangerous for Solo Flight: British Report

Wrong SMS Leads to Suicide

5-24-2004

Tightly Focused Laser Light Generates Nonlinear Effects And Rainbow Of Color

House Approves $422B DOD Funding Bill

Bluetooth's Future Remains Unclear

No New IC Startups Seen on the Horizon

Adidas Puts Best Foot Forward With 'Smart Shoe'

Now, Two-Thirds of All E-Mail is Spam

Beagle 2 Mars Lander Doomed From The Start

5-21-2004

Might Russia Join ESA?

Geophysicist Discovers Why Earth 'Wobbles'

Team Seeks To Expand Robot Planes' Reach To Civil Airspace

Qualcomm Pushes Technology Limits With New Wireless Offerings

SEMI's Book-To-Bill Ratio Climbs To 1.14 In April

BAE Gets $17M USAF Contract to Convert F-4Es Into Drones

Wireless To Play A 'Major Role' In US Broadband Growth

5-20-2004

Cellular Infrastructure Market Fell 12% in 2003

China Promoting Its Own Interoperability Spec

Electronics M&A Activity Slows Down After Binge

Orbital Flight Tests Supersonic Sea-Skimming Target Missile

Is Torvalds Really the Father of Linux?

Futurist Explains New World for Pentagon

5-19-2004

Kibuv Worm, Bobax Trojan Try Many Methods

IBM CEO Says Tech Spending Improving

EU Scraps Plan For Single European Patent System

Big Business Blasts Tech Industry On security

Equipment Makers On Track To Double '03 Revs

5-18-2004

China To Launch Permanent Manned Space Station Within 15 Years

Hypersonics Research Speeds Up

Language Of Science Lags Behind Nanotech

Take the PC Knowledge Test

Siemens To Pour Cash Into China

SIA Again Urges China To Drop Value-Added Chip Tax

Agilent Orders, Revs Highest in Three Years

Defense Restructuring AT&L, Undersecretary Wynne Says

5-17-2004

Student Claims Cellphone Ignites Gas Pump

US Broadband Hits 26 Million

Fuel Cells To Start Powering PDAs, Laptops In 2005

Breakfast in the Valley: The Truth About Standards

Telecom Firms Pile On Extra Fees Under Official-Sounding Names

SI International Awarded DoD Next-Generation Internet Contract

5-14-2004

Man Hurls Phones, Causes $2K Store Damage

Missile Defense Agency Eyes Using Russian Radars, Targets

Cellphone Tower In Mental Health Protest - Weird

Cheaper Broadband Access On The Way In U.K.

FCC To Free TV Spectrum For Wireless Services

Airbus Opens Massive Facility For Giant Airliner

Analog Devices Doubles Net Income

Spaceship One Soars Beyond 200,000 Feet In Altitude

Dublin Grad Student Easily Deciphers Censored 9/11 Memo

5-13-2004

SpaceShipOne Makes Flight To 200k Feet - X-Prize Within Reach

802.11b Wireless Flaw Identified

Disaster Flick Exaggerates Speed Of Ice Age

Ultra small Radio: UF Team Demonstrates On-Chip Antenna

Raytheon Receives $63.7M For USAF and USN Towed Decoys

Ultra Wideband (UWB) Camps Divided

Taiwan Foundries Face Intel Pricing Competition & Capacity Jam

Northrop In 2-for-1 Stock Split

Magellan Says Defence, Business Aircraft Markets Stronger

5-12-2004

U.S. To Build World's Fastest Computer: 50x10^12 Calcs/Sec

ZigBee Announces 27 Companies Join Alliance

Tension Builds In The Supply Chain As Chip Industry Heats Up

Globalization Makes Design Wins Increasingly Difficult to Track

Microsoft Warns Of "Important" New Windows Flaw

New Mexico Chosen For Future Rocket Fest

5-11-2004

Rare Birds Thwart Antenna Installation - Wackos:1, Public:0

Home Networking With ZigBee

Welch: GE Ex-CEO Blasts Outsourcing Opponents (That Boy Is Looking Old!)

Fair Wind For WiFi And WiMAX

Harris Corp To Build Intra-Flight Data Link Components For F-35 JSF

Lawmakers Hope To Boost Laws Involving Cell-Phone Camera Abuse

Shuttle Or Not, Hubble Will Be Saved

Microsoft Kills Wi-Fi Product Line

5-10-2004

Atmel Rolls Zigbee Chip Set, Eyes Further Wireless Forays

Senate Panel Votes To Authorize $422.2 Billion For Defense

Fined In Australia For Cycling While Chatting

Laser Weapon Passes Biggest Test - Photo

NTT DoCoMo Sharply Lower After Warning Price War To Hurt Profits

Wi-Fi Phones May Help Cut Calling Costs

Defense Contracts Booming

5-7-2004

NASA Genesis Spacecraft On Final Lap Toward Home: Mid-Air Re-Entry Catch By Helicopters Planned - COOL

Sandia Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Brings Goal Of High Temp Fuel Cell Closer

Apple's Big Security Hole

Europe Testing Space Shuttle Prototype

Lockheed Martin and General Atomics Demonstrate Maritime UAV Surveillance System

1Q Notebook Shipments up 44% on Year in China; Global Vendors Capture Over 50%

BMW Explores In-Car WLAN

HASC Panel Votes To Boost Military's Unfunded Requirements

Israeli-U.S. Laser Downs Long-Range Missile in Test

5-6-2004

Fox News Broadband Traffic Triples

HASC Subcommittee Authorizes Additional $890M For Defense

Cellphones Still High On Complaints List

China's Military Industry Enterprises Come Out Of Mountains To World Market

Mobile Phone Market Grows 29%, IDC Says

Lockheed Martin Wins $5B Program For Joint Common Missile

U.S. Losing Ground To Foreign Scientists

Man Or Machine? Beyond The Moon To Mars

5-5-2004

Got An Invention? Watch Out: You, Too, Can Be Scammed.

Next Windows Release Will Ship In Two Versions--But Likely Not Before 2006.

FCC Forms Wireless Task Force

Boeing Flies High After Large Order For Its New 7E7

Lockheed Martin Wins Big NASA "Plain Old IT" Contract

Boeing Acquires UAV Developer Frontier Systems Inc.

BAE Faces Bribery Inquisition

5-4-2004

Rural Broadband To Be Made Easier

UK Tech Firms Urged To Focus On Electromagnetics

Northrop Profit Up On Defense Spending

3G Will Take Off In W. Europe - Eventually

'Sasser' Computer Worm Still Spreading

City-Sized Asteroid To Pass Earth This Fall

5-3-2004

The Spark Of A Multimillion-Dollar Idea - Patent Process

FCC Hosts Wireless Broadband Forum

Zigbee Efforts Alter Philips Semi Plans

U.S.-China Deal Tweaks Export Controls

March Semi Sales Up 32.3%, SIA Reports

Northrop Grumman Wins $888 Million Contract For Advanced Airborne Radar

Raytheon Awarded $233M For Evolved SEASPARROW Missile Production

Australia to Buy $1B Worth Of U.S.-Made Unmanned Spy Planes

Quantum Computers Are A Quantum Leap Closer

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