Engineering & Technical Headline News Archive - August 2006
- 8-31-2006
- Short-Range Wireless Technologies Finding a Role in Cellular
- Chair With iPod Docking Station Hits Market
- Samsung Demos 4G Technology, Plans Late 2008 Launch
- Companies Risk RoHS Fines to Avoid Cost of Compliance
- Glonass to Be Deployed in Full by 2010
- Iridium and Raytheon Provide First Responders Fully Interoperable Communications
- July Chip Sales Rose 10% Year-to-Year
- Over 565 Million High-Frequency RFID Tag ICs Shipped in 2005
- Nanocantilevers Exhibit Surprising Behavior
- Greenpeace Blasts Apple (Al Gore a board member) as Laggard in Green Rankings
- mPhase Technologies to Release Ultra-Sensitive Detection Device for Homeland Security
- Hydrogen Fuel Cells Power Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
- Solar Power May Soon Bring the Web to Remote Areas
- 8-30-2006
- RadioShack Lays Off Nearly 400 Employees Via E-Mail
- Development Under Way May Slash SDR Radio Costs by 98%
- Novel RF device Integrates Switch Within Connector
- Sanyo to Delist from Nasdaq
- Power Line Based Network to Support Worldwide Navy and Marine Corps Intranet
- U R Naughty - Go 2 Bed. Parents Texting Punishments
- Is High-Definition TV Across Broadband Wireless Networks Realistic?
- Japanese Mobile Carrier Aims to Beat iPods
- Seller Beware: Cell Phones' Secrets Can Betray Former Users
- 'Nanocantilevers' Yield Surprises Critical for Designing New Detectors
- Europe's first Lunar Mission Set to Land
- Philips Shows Off Technology That Displays Electronic Images on Clothes
- 8-29-2006
- Broadband Over Powerline Making Progress
- Satellite Broadband Providers Proving Unsuccessful in AWS Spectrum Auction
- Wi-Fi Alliance Breaks Ranks on 802.11n Testing
- Extensive Antenna Work May Disrupt W1AW Schedule
- Google Goes for the Suite Spot
- Hams Use Rain Clouds in 40-km Laser Link
- New Space and Missile Defense Report Gives Detail Latest Technologies
- Government Reports Show Significant H-1B Wage Violations
- NASA Sends Shuttle Back to Launch Pad
- The Robots Are Coming
- Researchers Aim to Close 'Green Gap' in LED Technology
- Jaguar Supercomputer Surpasses 50 Teraflops
- UK Survey Shows Fast Growth in WLAN Popularity
- 8-28-2006
- Finn Takes the Gold at Mobile Phone Throwing Contest
- Chip, Heal Thyself
- Offshoring Data to Get Recrunched
- Professor: BlackBerry Addiction Lawsuits Likely in Future
- U.S. Court Denies Samsung Infringed Matsushita's Patents
- The World's Longest-Running Experiments
- Japan Makes Plans for Greener Cars, Batteries
- Deflated Expectations in China's IC Biz
- Tiny Ion Pump Sets New Standard In Cooling Hot Computer Chips
- Sprint WiMaxes Out
- Putting the Spin on Spintronics
- Atlantis Launch Delayed Until at Least Tuesday
- 8-27-2006
- Pluto Demotion Irks NASA Scientist
- Long-Silent SuitSat-1 Keeps Going and Going
- Turning Fuel Ethanol Into Beverage Alcohol (Drink & Drive?)
- Amateur Radio Antenna Law Leads Virginia County to Revise Ordinance
- Microsoft Releases Near-Finished IE7
- Atlantis Shuttle Launch Postponed by 24 Hours
- Man Gets 3 Years for 'BotNet' Attack
- 8-25-2006
- Wristwatches Being Abandoned for Cell Phones, PDAs
- Spectrum Auction Will Prompt Satellite Operators' WiMAX Partnerships
- NEC Electronics Launches Image Chips for Car Collision Avoidance
- Apple to Recall 1.8M Sony Laptop Batteries Worldwide for Overheating
- Lithium-Ion Technology in the Spotlight
- Economist Explains Why Heat Waves Spur Electricity Blackouts
- EDA Poised to Grow Faster Than IC Market
- RFID, Satellites and Internet Combined for Global Livestock Monitoring Net
- Stolen Briefcase Held News of Vodafone Deal
- Global Plasma TV Sales Jump 95%
- Plastic Meltdown Technology a Real Lifesaver
- Weather Looks Favorable for Sunday Atlantis Shuttle Launch
- Johns Hopkins Astronomers React to Pluto's Planetary Demotion
- 8-24-2006
- Internet Addicts Halfway House Opens in Shanghai
- U.S. Missile Defense Agency to Award $2.5B Contract for Kinetic Energy Interceptor
- Over 100 Million Femtocell Users by 2011
- Airlines Prepare for Mobile Phone Use in Flight
- Half of UK Phones Have Cameras
- Innovative Wireless Medical Devices Based on NFC
- Latin American Mobile Telephony Penetration Reaches 70%
- Innovative Generator Could Spark Energy Savings
- Atmel CEO Resigns in Heated Letter (The guy really needs a grammar lesson.)
- Apple to Pay $100 Million to Settle iPod Patent Lawsuits
- Fortress Technologies Provides Secure Wireless Communications to DOD Exercise
- China and Russia to Launch Joint Mission to Mars
- Pluto Loses Planet Status
- 8-23-2006
- Massive Lockheed Martin Solar Arrays to Be Launched to International Space Station
- Nano-Battery Technology Could Eliminate Fire Risks
- Successful Launch of Koreasat 5 Hybrid Communications Satellite
- Copper Prices Soar (bad for IC fabs yes, but have you priced Romex in Home Depot lately?)
- Pizza Dominates Mobile Directory Enquiries
- Fasten Your Seatbelts and No Cell Phones Please
- India's Go-Getters Stand in Contrast to U.S. Engineers
- Embarrassed by YouTube
- Splitting Light With Artificial Muscles Could Bring New Generation of Color Displays
- Cheap Vista for Christmas?
- Cosmonaut to Hit Golf Ball Into Orbit from ISS As PR Stunt
- 8-22-2006
- Mysterious Russian Mathematician Solves Problem, Refuses Award
- The SIM Card Turns Fifteen Years Old
- The Near Field Communications (NFC) Specs Have Arrived
- Carmakers Must Tell Buyers About Big Brother "Black Boxes"
- Designers, Not Just Dell, Under Fire (pun intended)
- Iraqis Go Nuts Over Cell Phones, Ringtones, Text Messaging
- U.S. Begins Rollout of RFID Passports
- Jenoptik to Develop Diode Laser Stacks for Space LIDAR
- Samsung Offers Mobile Phone With 8-Gig Hard Disk
- Parents Embarrassed by Kids' Blogs
- Spacecraft Designed to Capture 3-D Views of Sun Set for Launch
- Japanese Space Tourist Grounded After Failing Medical Test
- 8-21-2006
- State of the Engineer: The Young and the Restless
- Silicon Bipolar Transistor Reaches 110 GHz
- 'Techno Addicts' Pose Employer
- Infineon Gets Order for US Passport Security Chip
- Dell Turns to Damage Control
- Mobile Phone VAT Raid is Tip of the Iceberg Say Legal Experts
- SpaceX, Rocket Plane Win Spaceship Contest
- 'Star Trek' Fans Get a New Bible
- Japan Adopts Indoor UWB Rules
- Logarithmic Detector/Controller Covers 50 to 4000 MHz
- Construction on Space Station Resumes
- Research Paper Illuminates How Light Pushes Atoms
- 8-18-2006
- In-Flight Web Surfing Takes a Step Back
- RF Power Semiconductor Market Will Near $1 Billion in 2011
- FCC Wireless Spectrum Auction Hits $10 Billion
- UK to Get First City With High-Speed WiMax Coverage
- EPCGlobal is de Facto RFID Spec in China
- Speedy Silicon Sets World Record
- Qualcomm Pays $18 Million for Qualphone
- Dell Reveals SEC Accounting Probe
- Astronomers Set Up Killer Asteroid Task Force
- Radical 'Ballistic Computing' Chip Bounces Electrons Around Like Billiards
- New Mobile Robot Balances, Moves on Ball Instead of Wheels or Legs
- 8-17-2006
- Satellite TV Giants Retire from U.S. Wireless Auction
- Dell Laptop Battery Recall Bad for Sony, Good for Rivals
- Stock Options Scandal Keeping Nasdaq Busy
- Xilinx Clears Stock Investigation
- U.S. Police Act, Then Back Off On Cell Phone Terror Arrests
- In Terrorism War, Phone Sales Raise Alarm
- MtronPTI Announces Line of SAW Filter & Resonators
- Online Fantasy Football Sacks Real Work Production
- Physicist Finds Exotic Superconductivity
- YouTube Crashes as It Gets Even More Popular
- Scientist Says Dolphins are Dim-Wits
- NASA Gives 'Go' for Space Shuttle Atlantis' Launch
- 8-16-2006
- Shakeout Ahead in Consumer Electronics
- US Agency Reviewing All Sony Laptop Batteries
- Driving While Using 'Hands-Free' Cell Phone Still Dangerous
- USA Mobile Phone Sales Reached $4.4 Billion in the First Half of 2006
- Diamond MEMS Integrated With CMOS
- Cadence Bars Competitors from Users' Group Meeting
- Atoms Looser Than Expected: Single-Electron Merry-Go-Round Measures Universal Atomic Force
- TSA Says Shoe X-Rays at Airports CAN Detect Explosives
- Google is Everywhere in Headquarters Town
- Hard Disks to Pass 1 Tbit per Square Inch
- Coffee May Cause a Heart Attack Danger (or, it may not)
- Consumers More Critical of Cell Carriers Than Handset Makers
- 8-15-2006
- Chip IP Market Set to Rise 25% in 2006
- Near Field Communications Forum Rolls New Data Specs
- Texting Study to Identify Criminals
- Phonons May Drive High-Tc Superconduction
- Dell Recalls 4.1M Notebook Batteries
- L-3 Communications to Acquire Nova Engineering
- Shuttle Ku Band Antenna Sparks Launch Question
- Physics Professor Teaches Thermodynamics by Walking on Fire
- Automotive Nanoapplications Driving Future
- Russia to Launch Orbital Laboratories
- 8-14-2006
- Old Rotary Phones Converted to Cellular
- IP Revenue to Climb 25% in 2006
- College: Is It Worth It?
- Russia Boosts Tech Venture Funds
- Pluto Reclassification Could Change Number of Solar System's Planets
- Next Generation Segway Scooters Unveiled
- Sleuths Search for Apollo 11's Mystery Tapes
- Revving a Porsche Engine - Now A Ringtone
- U.S. Satellite Protection Scheme Could Affect Global Communications
- Space Travel Will Take Off in Five Years
- Utah Nanotech Company Planes North Carolina Plant
- Ex-Microsoft Whizz-Kid Passes Space Flight Medical
- 8-13-2006
- Radio Waves Announces Free RWTI September 14th 2006 in Phoenix
- IRS Wants Another $324 Million from Cadence
- New Cell Phone Technology Touted to Improve CDMA Download Speed and Capacity
- Stock Options Scandal Heats Up
- Intel's Worst Nightmare
- Coffee, Tea or Broadband
- Computer Scientists Lay Out Vision for a 'Science of the Web'
- TSMC Reports 32% Rise in July Chip Sales
- ABI Reduces Revenue Expectations for RFID Software and Services
- New Light Microscope Sharpens Scientists' Focus
- Consortium Builds Next-Generation Net
- 8-11-2006
- GE Matches Gifts to IEEE Foundation
- Worldwide DSL Prices Drop by Highest Percentage in Four Years
- Lockheed Martin/Northrop Grumman JV Awarded $125M for Longbow Fire Control Radar
- RFID Market to Slow
- IEEE Releases New Electrical Safety Code
- EJL Wireless Research Reports Significant Growth in Point-to-Point Radio Market
- GM to Show Off Fuel Cell-Powered Car
- Proba-3 Guides ESA's First Steps Towards Formation Flying
- Encoded Metallic Nanowires Reveal Bioweapons
- Robot Shopping Carts Follow You Around
- LM Space Systems Celebrates 50th Anniversary
- Researchers Chase Goal of Non-Hijackable Plane
- 8-10-2006
- James Van Allen, Discoverer of Radiation Belts, Dies at 91
- FCC Wireless-Spectrum Auction Begins; Seen Lasting Weeks
- Education Panel: No Time to Wait for Fixes
- Sailor Charged with Espionage in Laptop Theft
- Homeland Security Issues Worm Alert for Windows Operating System
- Q2 Silicon Wafer Shipments Rise
- Nabaztag Wi-Fi Robot Bunny Wants to Take Over America
- Space Mirrors? Piezoelectric Films To Be Tested In NASA Space Station Experiment
- University of California Joins Google's Book-Scan Project
- 8-9-2006
- U.S. Wireless Spectrum Sale Draws a New Crowd
- Sprint to Use WiMAX for 4G Network
- Nokia Fights Back Against Qualcomm at U.S. Court
- Sony Ericsson Tops Retailer Music Phone Charts
- Nonprofits Team Up on Solar Wi-Fi
- Cuba Targets Illegal TV Dishes as U.S. Weapon (sound like the old USSR?)
- Terror Alert: Egyptian Students Disappear in U.S.
- 446 Million Cellphone TV Viewers by 2011
- $8 Billion Lost to Cybercrime in Past Two Years
- Officials Lower Predictions for Atlantic Hurricane Season
- Purdue Research Helps Advance New Rocket Technology
- Purdue Engineers Lay Groundwork for Vertically Oriented Nanoelectronics
- 8-8-2006
- The Return of Perks at Work
- Is This the Beginning of the "Cellular Phone War"
- Cable, Satellite, Cell-Phone Companies Eye FCC Auction on Wednesday
- U.K. Worker Fired by Text Message
- Nanotech Spending Down
- NASA, Air Force Form Aeronautics Project
- Atomic Scientists Revealing Archimedes' Hidden Writings
- Intel Goes Back to School
- Photo Messaging Climbs as Cameraphones Snap Up Market Share
- Wireless, Portable Devices Escape Lockdown
- Apple Finalizes Transition to Intel Processors
- Sony Introduces Wi-Fi IM, "mylo"
- 8-7-2006
- Transmitting Radio Signals Through the Earth
- GE is Targeting Terrorism for Homeland Security
- USAF Awards Digital Angel Contract for Aircraft Survival Radio System
- Philips Semi CEO Goes Equity Route to Save Company
- RFID Maker Nixes $120 Million IPO
- Hospitals Now Offer High-Speed Internet
- Internet TV Use Expected to Soar
- AP, Google Confirm Online News Deal
- Two Teens Accused in Theft of Computer Containing Data of Veterans
- Magnetic Ties May Explain High-Temp Superconductors
- A Cosmic Rain Lasting 30,000 Years
- Has SETI Been Barking up the Wrong Tree (Mostly)
- 8-6-2006
- FCC Denies Reconsideration Petitions, Adopts Minor Changes to BPL Rules
- Atom Camera? Helium Atoms Sent by Nozzle May Light Way for New Imaging Approach
- New Technique Can Manipulate Light Beams
- 8-4-2006
- WiFi While You Ski
- GM, Ford Embrace iPod; Satellite Radio Dead
- Taking Stock: The Unfolding Stock Option Investigation
- Can High Wi-Fi Boost Space Elevator?
- Philips Sells Semiconductor Unit to Equity Firms
- A Bit of History for Global Warmers: Look at 1930
- Flexilis Claims New RFID Passports are Security Risk
- Senate Ratifies Treaty on Cybercrime
- 'Framing Effect' Influences Decisions
- New X-Ray Microbeam Answers 20-Year-Old Metals Question
- UAVs Performing Well In Strategic Plans
- 8-3-2006
- Los Alamos Lab Develops Radio That Works Underground
- Semi Sales Up; Record Year on Track
- Bluetooth Chips Get Big Boost from Mobile Phone Market
- Hypres Receives $800,000 to Develop A/D Converter for Defense Communications
- Apple, PC Notebooks Vulnerable to Wireless Attack
- Getting Closer to a GPS in Every Handset
- German Ministry of Science Purchases a $6M ROV from Schilling Robotics
- Connecting PC's to 3G Phones
- Rare Snowfall Across South Africa (see all the global warming on the ground!)
- U.S. to Create Bioenergy Centers
- Mobile Music Market to Shift From Ringtones to Full Track Downloads
- Researchers Make Strained Silicon Stick
- Autonomous Lenses May Bring Microworld Into Focus
- 8-2-2006
- 108 Year-Old Telcom Tax Repealed
- Hamming It Up Aboard Space Station Earns Ransom Top Astronaut Award
- Users Find SmartPhones More Valuable than PDAs and Laptops
- Engineers Plan Vertical Nanoelectronics
- Raytheon Booms on Missile Defense Contracts
- Technology is a Girl's Best Friend
- New Radar Technique Locates Storm-fueling Moisture
- Some Motorists Turn to Creative Tire Inflation to Save Gas
- Boeing Laser Communications Demonstration Validates Critical Element of TSAT Network
- Cleaning Event Boosts Power On Opportunity
- Manfred von Richthofen Not Such a Hot Shot? (Snoopy is vindicated)
- 8-1-2006
- Lockheed Martin Set to Make Seed-Sized Spy Plane
- Cingular to Raise Prices for Users of Older Phones
- Shifts Coming for Top 15 Semi Supplier Rankings
- Chinese Air Pollution Reaching U.S. Mainland
- Nonprofit May Run Boston Wi-Fi Network
- Modularity Enables Military Fuel Cell Systems
- Fingerprints Replacing Credit Cards at Retail Stores
- History Without Books Gets a Test in CA Schools (easier to re-write that way)
- Rare Cloud Formation Seen in Antarctica
- Missile Defense Element Successfully Flight Tested
- Oil Recovery Process May Reduce Foreign Dependence
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