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 |