| 5-31-2007 |
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Technology Firm Executives Say Immigration Barriers Hurt America |
|
Power Limit for Unlicensed 5.8 GHz WLANs Raised to 4W in U.K. |
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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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