| 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 |
