| 5-31-2007 |
| Technology Firm Executives Say Immigration Barriers Hurt America |
| Power Limit for Unlicensed 5.8 GHz WLANs Raised to 4W in U.K. |
| Motorola Cuts Another 4,000 Jobs |
| Chinese City Suspends Work on Chemical Plant After 1M SMSers Protest |
| Layoffs hit IBM, Motorola and Tundra |
| FAA Turns to General Dynamics for Air Traffic Control Communications |
| USPTO to Host Exhibition of Winning Inventions from the 2007 Modern Marvels Invent Now® Challenge |
| Sensors, Safety Pace Auto Chip Market Growth |
| Globalstar Gets Another Four Satellites into Space |
| Web Site Error Rocks Global Oil Markets |
| New Field of Nanotechnology Leads to Novel Control of Quantum State in Electrons |
| Study: RFID Skills Improving, but Deployment Slows |
| Brrr! Scientists Identify the Body’s Cold Spot |
| Nanoscale Imaging Reveals Unexpected Behaviors in HT Superconductors |
| 5-30-2007 |
| A Transparent Sheet that Can Block Mobile Phone Signals |
| Vietnam Experiences Internet Slowdown Due to Stolen Cable |
| China Chip Market on Track for 20% Growth, Headed for ‘Bubble’ Status? |
| Broadcom Scores Another Patent Victory Against Qualcomm |
| Global Chip Makers Cut 2007 Sales Outlook |
| Sony to Market First U.S. Digital Radio Sets in July |
| Method Developed for Forecasting Space Radiation Hazards, Safeguarding Astronauts |
| NEC Staff Caught Faking Orders, Taking Kickbacks |
| Snow Covers Parts of Europe |
| High-Tech Hotels for Business Travelers |
| Microsoft to Unveil Coffee-Table-Shaped Computer |
| A Bevy of Exoplanets Announced |
| Google Adds Some Street-Level Views to U.S. Maps |
| Russia Launches 4 U.S. Satellites |
| 5-29-2007 |
| Senate Passes H-1B Visa Reform Bill Amendment |
| WiMAX Subscribers Jumped 85% in 2007 |
| U.S. Colleges Retool Programming Classes |
| Nokia to Ship 3G Phones to China in 2008 |
| Wi-Fi RFID Tag Market Doubling in Size Annually |
| Electronics Cooling Techniques Highlight June 5 M&AE Webcast |
| Missile Interceptor Test Launches a Debate |
| Nokia Says Row with Qualcomm May Hurt 3G Uptake |
| Ofcom Cites Microsoft Support for License-Free Use of "Digital Dividend" |
| Astronomers Discover 28 New Exoplanets |
| Fireworks Displays Linked To Perchlorate Contamination in Lakes (now they want to kill 4th of July) |
| China to Catch Up with U.S. Economy |
| New Abort System on NASA Craft Would Hurl Astronauts to Safety (play the trés cool animation) |
| 5-28-2007 |
| FCC Consults on Google Spectrum Auction Plan |
| European Aerospace and Defense Industry Serious Competitor to U.S. Market |
| Switchable Two-Color Light Source on a Silicon Chip |
| HK to Provide Wireless Internet Services in Public Places |
| Rodney Smith, Long Term Altera CEO, Dies in Accident |
| Mobile Phone Headaches are Illusory |
| Philadelphia Wireless Internet Project Advances |
| U.S. Trade Commission Postpones Ruling on Qualcomm Chips |
| April Chip Market Up 10.9% Annually |
| Airbus Edges Ahead of Boeing in U.S. Aerospace and Defense Market |
| Calgary, Canada, Sets New Snowfall Record |
| 'Blue Moon' Tomorrow Night |
| Clamp Down on Indecent Cameraphone Usage |
| Not-So-Heavy Metal: Electrical Conductivity in Textiles |
| 5-26-2007 |
| ARRL Files Federal Appeals Court Brief in Petition for Review of BPL Rules |
| New Fabrication Technique Yields Nanoscale UV LEDs |
| Google Will Tell You What Your Next Job Should Be |
| 'Not So Fast, Supercomputers,' Say Software Programmers |
| 5-25-2007 |
| Amendment Hiking H-1B Fees Approved by Senate (legal residents to pay for Illegals) |
| Australia to Establish National Nanotechnology Strategy |
| Electronics Industry Outlines Plan for National e-Cycling Program |
| Russian GLONASS Devices Go on Sale This Year |
| Senator Against Satellite Radio Merger |
| Brits Using Mobile Phones in Toilets to Bypass Office Internet Restrictions |
| 'Teaching Gap' Exists Among U.S. and Asian Math Teachers (no surprise there) |
| Sony Invents Razor Thin Display That Bends While Showing Full Color Video |
| Mobile Office Market Will Cease to Be a Major Enterprise Driver |
| Connecticut Sues Best Buy for Deceiving Customers ("treated its customers like suckers") |
| Turkey Poop Power Plant |
| World Demographic Makeup Shifts from Mostly Rural to Mostly Urban |
| Hitachi Brain Scanner Fun Toy |
| 5-24-2007 |
| Singapore Aquarium Puts RFID Chips in Fish |
| Mobile Phones Could Wipe Car Ignition Fobs |
| Flexible Organic 13.56 MHz RFID Tag is a Cost Breakthrough |
| Inverse Ge Woodpile Structure has Extremely Large Photonic Band Gap |
| Qualcomm Commits $134.5M to Funding European 3G Start-Ups |
| Boeing Arms Chief Warns Against 'Peace Dividend' |
| Memory on Glass: NEC Integrates DRAM with Display |
| Broadband Access 'A Universal Right' for Italians |
| Senator Skeptical About Permanent Internet Tax Break |
| ARRL Senior News Editor Named to CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame |
| Dell to Offer Computers with Linux |
| New Large-Cell Battery Technology Raises Reliability, Lowers Cost |
| Historic Pole-to-Pole Helicopter Flight Completed |
| Chinese Government to Control 2008 Olympics Weather |
| 5-23-2007 |
| True Fixed/Cell Phone Convergence Seen Years Off (see Kirt's Cogitations) |
| U.K. Climber Sets Record with Mobile Call and Text Message from Mount Everest |
| Municipal Wi-Fi Networks Run Into Financial, Technical Trouble |
| Intel, STMicroelectronics and Francisco Establish New Semiconductor Company |
| Nanoscale Pasta: Toward Nanoscale Electronics |
| European Space Policy formalized as joint effort between ESA, EU |
| Companies Throw Weight Behind WAPI |
| Promising Technique Will Take Bite out of Spam |
| E-Mail to Bypass Phone Charges |
| Korean Phone Now Includes Fish Finder |
| Is "Home Phone Number" a Thing of the Past? |
| Micron Predicts Flash Memory will Replace Disk Drives |
| EU Endorses Deal to Cap Roaming Fees |
| Lithium-Ion Batteries Power Next Generation of Electric Vehicles |
| 5-22-2007 |
| "Massive Outage" as Satellite Problems Hit XM Radio |
| Avis to Offer Wireless Internet Gear for Use in Car, Hotel, Meetings |
| Motorola Gets Patent for Sun-Powered Mobile Phone |
| Art Project Tracks Bluetooth Users |
| Internet Pioneer to Oversee its Redesign |
| QUALCOMM Announces New $3B Share Buyback |
| U.K. Ministry of Defence Selects Raytheon MicroLight Radio for Army's FIST Program Trials |
| Google's Novel Idea for FCC Radio Spectrum Auction |
| Bose-Einstein Condensate Makes Sensitive Magnetometer |
| Cell-Phone Execs Expect Apple's iPhone to Shake Up Market |
| Nanoident Claims Size Record for Plastic Photodetector Array |
| A Mighty Number Falls |
| NYC's Taxi Fleet Will be Green (Hybrid) by 2012 |
| 5-21-2007 |
| Attack-Proof Power Line to be Installed Under NY |
| Senator Rear-Ends Vallejo Woman While Talking on Cell Phone (she voted for a bill prohibiting talking while driving) |
| Tech Customers Baulk at Cost of Going Green |
| Engineers Charged with Industrial Espionage |
| Wi-Fi Risks in Schools 'Must be Reviewed' |
| IBM Claims ‘Fastest MPU Ever Built’ |
| NYC's Con Ed to Get Superconductor Power Grid |
| Putin Makes Glonass Navigation System Free for Customers |
| Alert: Ads-to-Cell Phone Screens Set for Rapid Growth |
| Hong Kong Man Becomes First Ever Convicted for Internet Piracy |
| RFID-Reading Phones to Debut in October |
| Opel Shows Concept Car with All-LED Exterior Lighting |
| Hot New Niche: Lawyers Who Speak Science |
| Apple Gets FCC Approval for iPhone |
| 5-20-2007 |
| Scientists Put 'Spin' in Silicon, Advance New Age of Electronics |
| James 'Scotty' Doohan's Ashes Found in New Mexico Mountains |
| Google Study: 10% of Web Pages Carry Malicious Code - RFCafe.com 100% Safe |
| 5-19-2007 |
| Wireless Technology Developed to Speed Care of Heart Attack Patients |
| NASA Takes Students Around the World in 8 Minutes |
| Global Warming Debunked |
| 5-18-2007 |
| Dayton ARRL Hamvention Begins Today |
| NTT Outage Cuts Off Millions of Internet, IP Phone Users in Japan |
| Betting on '08, Taiwan Vendors Prep WiMAX 16e Systems |
| Purdue University Touts Hydrogen Energy Breakthrough |
| Lexus LS Hybrid - a Mere $100k+ (green at 20 mpg/438 hp?) |
| International Summit for Community Wireless Networks Begins Today |
| Good Decision-Makers May be Made, not Born |
| Hundreds Click on 'Click Here to Get Infected' Ad (morons) |
| Villagers Uses Park Bench to Get Cellphone Coverage |
| Study Finds 25 Countries that Block Websites |
| NASA, JPL Plan Business Science Symposium |
| Pentagon Defends Move to Block Websites |
| 5-17-2007 |
| Japan is World's Most Innovative Country, Switzerland #2, U.S. #3 |
| DoD Announces Value Engineering Achievement Awards for 2006 |
| Water-Fueled Engine Appears on the Horizon per Purdue EE Prof |
| Mobile Phones to be Jammed for President Bush Visit to Australia |
| EC Decides on Common Format for Spectrum Information |
| Foreign R&D Centers Employ 35,000 Workers in Israel |
| Hyperactivity and Academic Achievement Could be Linked by Genetics |
| Market for Handheld Devices Continues to Shrink |
| One Giant Leap for Space Activities in Europe |
| Positioning Phones to Create New Social Networks |
| Move Over, Elmer’s™: Nanoglue is Stickier |
| 5-16-2007 |
| Surf the Internet on Your Umbrella |
| Next Gen of Wi-Fi Is Planned for Summer |
| China Tech Industry to Hit $1.45 Trillion by 2010 |
| 3G Bandwidth Use to Increase 10-Fold by 2011 |
| H-1B Bills Seek to End Abuses, Raise Visa Cap |
| EU Proposes Public-Private Partnership to Fund Galileo |
| IBM Employee Group Plans Work Stoppage |
| Google: 10% of Sites are Dangerous |
| 10,000-Year-Old Tools Found at Maine Airport |
| Solar System Sails Sideways Through Galaxy |
| Not Enough Hours in the Day, Then Look to Mars |
| Johns Hopkins Team Finds Ring of Dark Matter |
| 5-15-2007 |
| DirecTV May Try Broadband over Power Lines (BoPL) |
| TI Says Calculators Tell Teachers Which Pupils are Failing Math |
| Industry Calls on Congress to Increase NASA Budget |
| College Students: Surprisingly Fat, Getting Even Fatter |
| Industry Shuns 40 GHz Wireless Spectrum |
| Major RFID Trial in New Zealand "Deferred Indefinitely" |
| Shuttle Starts Trip Back to Launch Pad |
| U.S. Naval Academy-Built Satellite to Carry NASA Experiments |
| China Netcom Decides on Homegrown WiMAX Rival for 2008 Olympics |
| Motorola Banks on Vo-Fi |
| Clean Technology Bigger than the Internet |
| DoD Blocks Access to 13 Major Social Networking Websites |
| 5-14-2007 |
| U.S. Representative Sounds IT Wake-Up Call |
| Patent Troll Casts Shadow over Cable |
| Japan to Set up 'Wireless Island' |
| Siemens Managers Convicted of Paying Bribes |
| Motorola Chief Promises 'Media Monster' Cell Phone |
| Honeywell Microelectronic Product Line Targets Military and Space Applications |
| ESA's Envisat Presents Sharpest Ever Satellite Map of Earth |
| Japan to Develop Laser Weapons amid North Korea Threat |
| Russia Pushing for 2015 Manned Moon Mission |
| Microsoft Claims Open-Source Technology Violates 235 of Its Patents |
| Tiny Spectrometer Offers Precision Laser Calibration |
| Israel Carries Out Successful Test of Its Hetz Anti-Missile System |
| Fewer Moms Are Working: Policies, Attitudes Are Implicated (Belated Mother's Day item) |
| Canada's Gravity Hole |
| 5-13-2007 |
| RFID Chips Could Make Stolen DVDs Useless |
| Laser Inventor Theodore Maiman Dies |
| Is that Painting Real? Ask a Mathematician (ala Numb3rs) |
| Mission Could Seek Out Spock's Home Planet |
| 5-11-2007 |
| Wireless USB to Soar in 2007 |
| Study Says iPods Cause Malfunction in Implanted Pacemakers |
| Exam Papers to be RFID-Tagged |
| Nokia Unveils Record Phone Order from China Worth $2.5B |
| RFID Market Growing Fast in China |
| Banner Ads DO Work -- Even if You Don't Notice Them at All |
| One Million Low-Cost Handsets Sold in One Week |
| Hyper-Accurate Clocks - The Beating Heart of Galileo |
| Making a GSM Phone Call from the Summit of Mt. Everest |
| New Domain Name Suffixes Coming in 2008? |
| ST Tips Moves into Fuel Cells, Plastic Electronics |
| IRS Leans on Auction Sites to Spill Customer Information |
| [Idiot] Woman Runs for Her Life after SatNav Leads Her into Path of Train |
| 5-10-2007 |
| IEEE Foundation Awards More Than US $50 000 |
| USPTO's EFS-Web Electronic Patent Filing System Celebrates Successful First Year |
| Google's Employee Perks - Haircuts to Bike Repairs |
| Beijing Sets up $1.3 Billion War Chest for Innovation |
| Phones to Alert Users to Save Energy |
| Satellite Broadband Access Slow, Expensive, Necessary |
| Taliban Threatens Afghan Mobile Phone Network |
| Eyeing Web Phone on a Chip, Intel Invests in Jajah |
| Police Use Cell-Tracking Technology to Find Transplant Patient |
| Draft 802.11n Wi-Fi Networks Move to Mainstream |
| Engineers Uncover Factors that Control Ion Motion in Solid Electrolytes |
| Jim Rapoza's 10 Emerging Technologies That Flopped |
| BAE Systems' Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System (APKWS) Takes Flight |
| 5-9-2007 |
| TI Tips Single-Chip Cellphone Roadmap |
| Russian/U.S. Understanding Reaches New Standards |
| EU Assembly Group Moves Towards Lax Roaming Rules |
| Inventory Correction Spurs Q1 Semi Supplier Shake-Up |
| Fuel Cell Industry Hosts Congressional Expo |
| Five BenQ Executives Indicted |
| SMS Alerts Can Track Your Dog's Location |
| Silly Worm Targets USB Memory Sticks |
| Advance Reported in Solid Electrolytes |
| Comcast CEO Shows off Super Quick Modem |
| Burnt-Out Rockets May Be Carrying Bacteria to Stars |
| New Lithium Battery Material Created |
| Surge of 3-D Films Set for U.S. Theaters by 2009 |
| 5-8-2007 |
| Bermuda to Put RFID in All Vehicles on Island |
| RFMD and Skyworks Gain Share in Handset PAs: Further Consolidation Likely |
| U.S. Government Turns to Startup Technology Firms for Next-Gen Military Tools |
| IC Insights Sees Big Shake-Up in Q1 Chip Rankings |
| IEEE Spectrum, The Institute Move to Digital Delivery |
| Scientists Propose a Simple and Economic Qbit Structure |
| New Technology Enables a Battery to Deliver 3 kW per Kilogram |
| Increasing Cellphone Use Among Children Aged 11 and Under |
| Wal-Mart to Launch Pilot Solar-Power Program for 22 Stores |
| Ariane 5 Achieves Record Performance with Geostationary Transfer Orbit |
| Paxar Reinvents the Retail Experience with New Interactive RFID Mirror |
| Study: Ceiling Heights Affect How People Think |
| NASA's Chandra Sees Brightest Supernova Ever |
| Despite Warnings, Most U.S. Babies Watch TV |
| 5-7-2007 |
| Japanese Find Sleep, Shelter in Cyber Cafes |
| EU to Consider Taking Over Galileo Satellite System |
| France Considers 3G at 900 MHz |
| Amateurs Serve Those Displaced by Kansas Twisters |
| Andrew Corporation to Sell Satellite Communications Business |
| Nearly 50% of Americans Have Little Use for Internet and Cell Phones |
| Militants Confiscate Mobile Phones in Northern Pakistan |
| RIM throws Us a BlackBerry Curve |
| Next U.S. Census will Count on a Handheld Computer |
| India Looks to Produce World's First $10 Laptop |
| China Punished 3,176 Industrial Polluters |
| Question Marks over Commitment by China Climate Change Mitigation |
| 5-6-2007 |
| Survey Shatters Technology Assumptions |
| New Worm Targets Portable Memory Drives |
| Mathematicians Design Invisible Tunnel |
| 5-5-2007 |
| GIOVE-A Transmits First Navigation Message |
| Youngsters in Europe, US Get Front-Row Seats to Space via Ham Radio |
| No Launch Delay After Train with Shuttle Booster Derails |
| Multitasking is Hardest in the Early Morning |
| 5-4-2007 |
| Maine Engineer Wins $200,000 NASA Astronaut Glove Prize |
| European Military Electronics Markets Set to Jump to $15B in 2008 |
| TI Investing $1B in Philippines Plant |
| Homeland Security Looking Into Cell Phones as Anti-Terror Device |
| Nokia Siemens Networks to Cut 9,000 Jobs |
| Pioneer Astronaut Wally Schirra Dies at 84 |
| Grand Jury Subpoenas Documents in Broadcom Options Probe |
| Scientists Try to Prepare for Extraterrestrial Contact |
| Microsoft Eyeing Deal to Buy Yahoo! |
| German Telecoms Workers Continue Strikes Against Pay Cuts |
| New Quantum Dots Make Cheaper Solar Panels |
| Cellphones Hit Fashion's Runway as Accessories |
| Princeton Physicists Connect String Theory with Established Physics |
| 5-3-2007 |
| Mobiles Lose Their Magic as Calls Fall for the First Time |
| U.S. Tech Firms Dabble Offshore, But Keep Most Workers Here |
| Hackers Hijack Satellite TV in Southern China |
| GaAs Device Market Set to Grow by 76% Over Next 5 Years |
| Hemlock Investing $1B to Expand Polysilicon Production - Solar Cells |
| Experience More Important to Business Success Than Being Tech-Savvy |
| UK Pubs Getting Wi-Fi Access |
| Budget Cuts Imperil Weather Satellites |
| IBM Uses Self-Assembling Material in Chip Advance |
| Beer Power: Foster's, Scientists to Generate Clean Energy From Brewing Process |
| New Micro-chip Detector Will Be Able to Detect Thousands of Substances |
| 5-2-2007 |
| Ultrashort Light Pulse Blazes New Paths for Science, Industry |
| FCC Approves First WiMAX-Class Laptop Card to Be Offered by Clearwire |
| UK Updates RFID Rules Per EU Directive |
| Electromagnetic Fields Are Not Increasing Cancer Risk Among Energy Workers Overall |
| USPTO's EFS-Web Electronic Patent Filing System Celebrates Successful 1st Year |
| China Seeks 'Indigenous Innovation' |
| Zarlink Transceiver Helps Implants Go Broadband |
| Raytheon Wins GEM-T Contract |
| Arrested Politicians Campaigning on Cellphones from Prison Cells |
| NASA 'New Horizons' Probe Reveals New Views of Jupiter |
| 12 Nations Put on Copyright Piracy List |
| IBM Cuts Jobs at U.S. Facilities |
| Los Angeles Smoggiest American City Once Again |
| 5-1-2007 |
| New Processor Technology May Solve Silicon Barrier |
| Supreme Court Ruling Toughens Patent Process |
| U.S. Will Not Oppose IEEE Patent Disclosure Policy |
| Ofcom Plans to Offer More License-Exempt Spectrum |
| Micro Fuel Cells to Hit Mainstream in 2010 |
| AT&T to Spend $750M on Global Network in 2007 |
| ASEAN Nations to Build $500M Cable Link to U.S. |
| Artificial 'Snot' Enhances Electronic Nose |
| Noise-Cancelling Windows with Piezoelectric Patches |
| Big Advances Come to Tiny Optical Components |
| Circulation Drops Again as Papers Trim Subscribers (who still gets news on paper, anyway?) |
| Nanoparticles May Cause Arterial Disease |
| Star Trek Star Scotty Rockets into Space in Final Journey |
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