|
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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