Technical Headline News Archive - February 2006 2-28-2006 Mobile Phone Sales up 21% in 2005 Companies Devise a Way to Advertise on the Sky China Ready to Inve$t Billion$ Widening the Scope of Emergency Communications IBM and Harvard Team up to Create Microsoft Alternative RIM: BlackBerry Out-of-Court Settlement Not an Option Apple's OS X Suddenly Not So Secure After All Key to Happiness Lies in Attitude GPS Satellites Built by Lockheed Martin Hit Milestone Future of the Internet Highway Debated Google Eyes New Ad Venues: Old Media Real Intent Releases Next Generation Clock Domain Verification Tool 2-27-2006 Increase in Wireless Technology for Monitoring Hospital Patients California: New Law Proposed Ban on Toxins in Cellphones NTT Docomo Trialed 4G in December U.S. Issues Visa and Apology to Scientist Rural Broadband Users Closing Gap Microsoft Set to Unveil Secret 'Origami' Product USMC Awards General Dynamics $49M Contract San Francisco Hopes to Harness Power of Dog Poop (why am I not surprised?) MIT Thinks Small to Find Safer Metals: Technique Could Replace Chromium Robots Used to Keep Children Safe in Japan 2-26-2006 Scientific Study Finds Meetings at Work Decrease Employee Well-Being ARRL to FCC: Order an End to Arbitrary Access Limits to BPL Database Decision Delayed in BlackBerry Case; RIM Wins Round in Patent Battle Kauffman Study Identifies Key Factors Driving Offshoring of Corporate R&D Helped Wanted Ads Double on IEEE Job Site Buff & Brainy: Exercising the Body Can Benefit the Mind NASA Scientist Looks at Olympic Ice in a Frozen Light Wireless Mesh Surges New Map of Milky Way Reveals Millions of Unseen Objects EarthLink to Ttelecom World: Watch Us Now 2-24-2006 ITU Approves UWB Standard Final Round Begins in BlackBerry Battle Microsoft Revamping Initiative For Tech Education Fly the Cell-Free Skies ... While You Still Can DoCoMo Conducts World's First 2.5Gbps 4G Tests USAF Awards $68M Contract to Lockheed Martin for WSTs U.S., Britain Conduct Nuclear Experiment Midwest's Windmill Generators Generate Buzz Researchers Describe Discovery Of Pluto's New Moons 2-23-2006 DoD Awards $150 Million in University Research Projects (a pittance!) Broadband Use Booming in U.K. EU Unveils Plans to Create Technology Institute Electronic Waste No-Dumping Zones MEMS Market for Defense and Aerospace to Hit $265 Million by 2009 China Claims 400M Mobile Phone Users - World's Largest New Taser Technology Being Developed Tough Sledding Seen for Chinese Foundry Growth Google, EarthLink Team Up in Wi-Fi Bid U. of Manchester Develops Wireless 'Wear And Tear' Sensor Photon Physics Used to Foil Hackers 2-22-2006 Canadian College Bans Wi-Fi Over Health Concerns London to Offer Complete Wi-Fi Coverage Aerospace Orders Hit Record Levels in 2005 European Distributors See Chip Sales Turn Up Semico Maintains 17% Growth Forecast Second New Worm Targets Apple OS X: Mac Attack Google Signs on Do-Good Doctor to Head $1B Charity Outer-Space Ventures Offer Payloads to Space for <$5k China Cracking Down on Junk E-mail Alpha Networks Chooses Azimuth Test Platform to Validate its Wireless Products 2-21-2006 Adapt4's XG1 Receives Certification as World's First Commercial Cognitive Radio New U.S. Legislation Lets Unlicensed WLANs Use Empty TV Channel Drivers Distracted by GPS Navigation Systems UMC Claims Silicon Frequency Record of 192 GHz Explosive News: Intel to Build Semiconductor Center in Gaza German Foundry Offers RF Library Support Mitsubishi Claims first Laser-Based Rear Projection TV Cellphone Users Double Up EDA Software Being Sold by Wal-Mart BAE Systems Unmanned Aerial Wolfpack Sensors (flying buoy?) Azimuth Systems & Ray Cronin Featured in Movers & Shakers of the Month Agilent Technologies Announces High-Speed Packet Access Wireless Library 2-20-2006 No Ill Effects Found in Hospital Cellphone Use Mathematical Proofs Becoming More Impossible to Verify RadioShack to Close Down Hundreds of Stores Skype Calls May Be Impossible to Wiretap RFID Tracking Technology for Homeland Defense U.S. Radio Companies May Report Low Earnings ST to Hire 300 More Engineers in India Google Denies Justice Department Request - Standing Firm RIM Still Open to 'Reasonable Settlement' in BlackBerry Case 2-18-2006 SuitSat-1 Battery Voltage May Be on Downward Slide Unique RF Shielding Technology is Nanotube-Based Vietnam Man Has Not Slept for 33 Years (that's what I need) The Windy City Gears up to Be The Wireless City Lithium Battery Could Work in Hybrid Cars UAE Chosen for Sub-Orbital Tourism Spaceport Smallest Low Power WiFi Solution in the World Magnet Provides Promise for Electronics Advances This Is Your Brain on Money Lockheed Martin Built EchoStar X Satellite Launched Successfully 2-17-2006 Near-Field Communications Makes a Splash at 3GSM Nokia Expects Rapid Growth in Blended Telephone Networks Israeli Scientists Produce Nanoscale Wires from Proteins New Videos Help Explain Mysterious Flashes Above Earth ESA Gives Support to Japanese Satellite Trojan Targets Sainted Mac OS X Technology "Stabilizes" Electricity from Wind Energy New Group to Develop Passenger Spaceship NIST Method May Help Optimize Light-emitting Semiconductors Sharp Readies 65-Inch LCD Computer Monitor 2-16-2006 TIA Sees U.S., Global Telecom Growth Gartner Raises 2006 Chip Market Growth to 9.5% Mobile Phone Industry Targets the Third World Electronics Driving Malaysian Exports, Investment China Defends Right to Censor Web Content Rockwell Collins Gets Order for 25,000 Handheld GPS Units Microsoft Unveils Multiple Versions of Office 2007 Scientists Report Spin Theory Breakthrough Japan's Camera Phone Craze Spreads to Funerals Agilent Technologies Announces Breakthrough 2-15-2006 Cellphone Could Easily Crack RFID Tags, Says Cryptographer RFID Poised to Emerge as 'Household' Technology Worldwide Wi-Fi Hotspots Hits the 100,000 Mark Britain's Weapon Against Loitering Youths: Sonic Teenager Deterrent WiMAX Getting Real, but What About 802.20? New Report Says Women are Big Spenders in Technology Listen to a Lightning Storm on Saturn Einstein's Theory 'Improved'? Titania Nanotubes Create Potentially Efficient Solar Cells 2-14-2006 Employees Implanted With RFID Tag Microsoft Mounts Challenge to BlackBerry TV Phone Sales to Hit $30B by 2010 picoChip Shows 'Femtocell' Home Base Station at 3GSM Robots Saving American Lives in Iraq and Afghanistan Ford Working on 60 MPG Hybrid F150 Truck Bush Honors Science & Tech Achievements Data Security: A Problem In Search Of A Mathematical Theory Facial Characteristics Indicative of Personality Traits, Say Experts China Says Foreign Internet Companies Must Abide by Local Laws 2-13-2006 3GSM World Congress Gets Under Way Patent Lawsuits Hit Tech Titans DoCoMo to Build Core Platform for HSDPA Spectrum License Distribution Scrutinized Nokia Pushes Cellular-WiFi Convergence at 3GSM Microsoft Venture Adds to Blackberry’s Woes Development Fund Launched to Bridge Digital Divide U.S. Stages Massive Mock Internet Attack ESA Seeking to Challenge Conventional Space Systems NexTek Launches High Performance 12.5 GHz SurgeGuard™ Lightning Arrestors 2-11-2006 Fossett Breaks Record for Nonstop Flight New York Ham Station Copies Complete "SuitSat-1" Telemetry WiMAX — Better ROI than 3G? Frenetic Activity Seen in Batteries, Fuel Cells FTC to Hold High-Tech Issue Hearings Wireless Pager Teams up with GPS to Perform Multiple Surveillance Tasks M/A-COM Announces 20W X-Band High Power Amplifier Yahoo Accused of Selling Out Chinese Dissident 2-10-2006 Fractal Antenna Firm to Demo Wireless Package Super 3G Could Arrive Within 3 Years Single-Chip RF Circuits Coming U.K. Survey: Consumers Disenchanted with 3G NASA's Centennial Challenges Offer Big Rewards for New Technology RIM Unveils Plan to Keep BlackBerrys Alive GEO Market Worth $28B over Next Decade Car Companies See Internet Purchase Increase SpaceX Launch Scrubbed for a Third Time New Georgia Tech Probe Revolutionizes Nano Imaging Fossett Passes Halfway Mark 2-9-2006 Military Role in Space Said Set to Expand Satellite Phone Firms Get Spectrum Windfall RIM Unveils Blackberry Workaround Plan (hoorah for them) Mobile TV Chip Group Raises $25 Million Export Controls Killed China Deal, Says Transmeta Analysts Forecast 176 New Satellites by 2015 Astronomers Spot Two Huge Solar Systems Battery Alternative: Nanotube Structures Key to Work Google Offers New Search Feature U.S. Could Fall Behind in Global 'Brain Race' - Public Schools Failing Us 2-8-2006 RFMD Unveils RF8110 IC Software-Based GPS Solution for Mobile Devices FCC to Start Auctioning Airwaves Dutch Researchers Adopt UWB for 'Body Nets' Radar System Spots Debris on Runway Dell Undergoing Tests with Google IP Theft Continues Liftoff! Fossett Tries to Beat Flight Record NASA Concentrates on Building New Moon Craft Key Challenges Loom for DHS' Efforts to Ramp up Border Technology 2-7-2006 RFMD Ships 20 Millionth Polaris Total Radio(tm) Transceiver World's Largest Solar Photovoltaic Project to be Built in Nevada Record DoD Budget Request Targets Comms, Intel NASA Funds Research on All-Electric Aircraft IBM to Unveil Details of Super Fast Microprocessor Transistor Laser Functions as Non-linear Electronic Switch, Processor Google, Skype Back Effort to Link Wi-Fi Hotspots NASA Unveils FY 2007 Budget Request White House Approves Oregon Nanotech Center Customers Disappointed With Camera Phones 2-6-2006 New Exam Measures Technical Literacy Philips to Present Plastic RFID Circuit Hitachi Advances Paper-Thin RFID Chip New Technology Unveiled Makes Networks Virtually "Invisible" NASA: SuitSat Off the Air, Hams Disagree Dept. of Justice Warns Against BlackBerry Shutdown SIA: World Chip Sales Rose 6.8% in 2005 Gazillionaire Steve Fossett Tries to Break Aviation Distance Record 3G Based Mobile TV to Dominate - But Not For Long Government Tweaks Tornado Rating Scale 2-5-2006 Welcome or Not, Cell Phones Set for NYC Subway "SuitSat-1" Successfully Launched from ISS Docomo to Evaluate WiMax IDC: Mobile Telephony to Continue Growing at 2 Digits IBM Describes 60 GHz SiGe Transceiver Chip Set Greek Phone-Tapping Didn't Endanger National Security Inventions Inc. IEEE-USA Applauds President’s American Competitiveness Initiative Internet Jihad: Tackling Terror on the Web 2-3-2006 NFL Picks Motorola for Super Bowl Media Links ARRL Urges New York Members to Protest State Grant to Troublesome BPL Trial Bush to Request $439.3 Billion Defense Budget GM to Outsource $15B in Information Technology Israeli Electronics Investors Unfazed by Political Turmoil New Technologies Enhance Quantum Cryptography U.S. Seeks Free Trade Agreement with South Korea Vietnam to Invite Formal Bids for Satellite Project New Microsoft Windows Tools in the Wings Are Parents Ready to Give Phones to Kids? 2-2-2006 U.S. Government Details Opposition to BlackBerry Ban RFMD's Bluetooth Enables Award-Winning Wireless Stereo Headphones Mini Radios Increase Efficiency of Oil Well Drilling Fabric Keyboard Company Raises $7.1M Philadelphia, EarthLink Agree on Citywide Wi-Fi U.S. DTV Transition in 2009, $1B Set-Top Subsidy Planned (your tax dollars at work) SIA: 2005 Set Semi Sales Record U.K. Agency Criticized for Poor RoHS Advice Lockheed Martin Boosts Accuracy of Air Force GPS Gates: Internet Censorship Won't Work Blue Light Makes People Alert at Night Rocket Racing League Issues RFPS for Race Venues and Teams (Très Cool!) 2-1-2006 Computer Worm Threatens Major Destruction Friday Bush to Boost Research Funding Near Field Communications Jumps into the Patent Pool Worn-Out Russian Space Suit to be Released as Amateur Radio Beacon (SuitSat) BlackBerry Battle Spurs Secondary Spats Bush Outlines Advanced Energy Initiative Tall Men Get Better Education Quarterly Mobile Phone Shipments Top 200 Million Again