| 12/31/2008 |
|
The Hot 100 Electronic Products of 2008 |
|
2008 Review, a Look at 2009, and Why the Monsters are Due on
Semi Street |
|
Samsung Boosts its Own 4G Wireless Chip Development
|
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'Interference Hunters' Search Country for Stray Signals
|
|
Holiday Sales Drop to Force Bankruptcies, Closings |
|
Motorola to Cut a Further 400 Jobs |
|
Top 20 Predictions for Semis in 2009 |
|
The Year in Materials |
|
Researchers Print Dense Lattice of Transparent Nanotube Transistors
on Flexible Base |
|
DECT Wireless Eavesdropping Made Easy |
|
Private Firms to Haul ISS Cargo |
|
EE Times' Top stories of 2008: Energy, Memristor |
|
Nokia Shows off Chinese Pen-Input Phone |
|
China Approves Long-Awaited 3G Licenses |
|
Launch Delayed for Air Force Communications Satellite
|
|
Experts Uncover Weakness in Internet Security |
|
Downloads of Pirated Windows 7 Beta Candidate Soar |
|
Top Video Games of 2008 |
|
NASA: 'Lethal Trauma' Killed Shuttle Columbia Astronauts
|
| 12/30/2008 |
|
Ford Announces New Self-Parking Technology |
|
RIM Sues Motorola for Curbing Job Hiring |
|
Internet Access Turns School Buses into Rolling Classrooms
|
|
DARPA Chief Reviews Legacy |
|
Uproar in Australia over Plan to Block Web Sites |
|
Army to Upgrade Firefinder Radar Systems |
|
Broadband on Rails |
|
Washington State Starts Free Electronics Recycling Program
|
|
ARRL Kids Day is January 4 |
|
India Defers 3G Spectrum Auction to January 30 |
|
AMD Adds 100 to Planned Layoff |
|
Police to Use Bluetooth to Find Witnesses Around Crime Scenes
|
|
Trends to Watch in 2009: Printed Electronics |
|
How Small Can Computers Get? Computing in a Molecule
|
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iPhone's Popularity Helps Boost MEMS Market |
|
How Helium Can Be Solid and Perfect Liquid at Same Time
|
|
Cable TV Charges Set to Go up in the New Year |
|
Web-Based Case Studies Help Students Develop Career Skills
|
|
RF Micro Devices to Present at the 11th Annual Needham Growth
Stock Conference Jan 8, 2009 |
|
Drunk Dialing: iPhone Apps to Tally Your Tipsiness |
|
Graphene Nanomemory Stores Bits in 10 nm |
|
Consumer Confidence Hits All-Time Low in December |
| 12/29/2008 |
|
Next Inning Technology Research Identifies Undervalued Tech
Stocks for 2009 |
|
Hong Kong University Renounces Its UFO Courses |
|
Time to Raise The Warning Flag on U.S. Space Program
|
|
Samsung Preps WiMax, LTE Chips |
|
China Starts Work on Largest Radio Telescope Ever Built
|
|
Take Your Job Search Online |
|
Oregon Considering Mileage Tax Using GPS |
|
Police to Use Bluetooth to Find Witnesses Around Crime Scenes
|
|
Parallel Universe |
|
Nissan, NEC to Spend $1B on Battery Output |
|
China RoHS: One Year and Counting |
|
India Puts Back 3G Spectrum Auction |
|
Not All Americans Will Benefit from Digital TV Signals
|
|
Google UK Street View Launching in Spring |
|
Batteries to Store Wind Energy |
|
Rethinking Zero iPod Tolerance in the Classroom |
|
What Future is in Store for Microsoft? |
|
New Titanium-Glass Alloys are Tough, Cheap and Light-Weight
|
| 12/28/2008 |
|
Amazon Says 2008 Christmas Season Was 'Best Ever' |
|
BP Offers Free WiFi to Fuel Interest in Gas Stations
|
|
Evil Santa was Laid-Off Software Engineer |
|
Quantum Electronics: Tunneling Effect in Strong Laser Field
Interaction Under Attack |
|
Entering Space: Creating a Space-Faring Civilization
|
| 12/26/2008 |
|
This Year to Be Longer by One Second |
|
In Nevada, Hams Are NWS's Eyes |
|
Mathematicians and Artists Use Algorithms to Make Complicated
Paper Sculptures (watch the
video) |
|
Scientists Warn Christmas Lights Harm the Planet
(News flash! Some scientists harm planet with their idiocy) |
|
ESD Tests Generate Different Results |
|
Russia Launches Three New Navigation Satellites |
|
Grundig Elektronik Shares Jump 10% on Sony Deal |
|
Wal-Mart to Start Selling iPhones |
|
The Hot 100 Electronic Products of 2008 |
|
Time to Reboot the FCC? |
|
NASA Awards Multi Billion Dollar ISS Supply Contracts |
|
Why You Should Stay with IEEE |
|
Hardware and Software Approaches Implement Multiple Radios |
|
With $100M in Pocket, Wireless Startup Expands |
|
China's Spreadtrum Cuts Jobs, Lowers Forecast |
|
'Seeing' the Quantum World: How a Quantum Computer Would Work |
|
Germans Save Egyptian Ship from Radical Muslim Somali Pirates |
|
New Year's Resolution – Avoid Killing Yourself |
|
IE Stutters in Europe. Opera, Not Firefox, Rules |
|
Using the PlayStation 3 to Study Black Holes |
| 12/25/2008 |
|
Pew Study: Internet Takes over Papers as News Source
(Old Media is done... time to put a fork in it) |
|
Australia to Build National Internet Network |
|
NASA Rocket Contract Launches SpaceX into the Big Time |
|
Analyst Warns of 'Solar Market Eclipse' in 2009 |
|
Google Earth Delivers Miracle on 34th Street, and 65th Street,
and... |
|
N. American Semi Equipment Industry November Book-to-Bill Ratio
of 1.00 |
|
Amateurs are Tying Genetic Engineering at Home |
|
Flame Retardants Prove Ineffective on Fresh-Cut Christmas Trees |
| 12/24/2008 |
| NORAD's
Global Santa Tracking Website |
|
Cell Phones Are the New Chalk Board |
|
ROHS 2: Changes Ahead |
|
Cracking a Tough Nut for the Semiconductor Industry |
|
Scientists Discover New Type of Laser |
|
Get
Involved in Defending Amateurs' Rights |
|
Top-10 Christmas Radio Advertisers - Wal-Mart #1 |
|
Good Heavens: Vatican Rehabilitating Galileo |
|
Court Awards Verizon $33 in Cybersquatting Case |
|
Wi-Fi Beats iPod in Geek Survey |
|
EU Reopens Massive Online Library |
|
Space and the Obama Administration |
|
RF-Based TV Remote Runs Forever on Single Cell |
|
Lockheed Martin Agrees to Acquire Universal Systems & Technology |
|
Windows XP Extensions Reflect Vista's Woes |
|
Top 5 Amazing Astronomy Discoveries of 2008 |
| Berkeley
Engineering Faculty Members Named AAAS Fellows |
|
Navy Technician Sentenced for Computer Theft |
|
Notebook PC Shipments Exceeded Desktops for First Time in Q3 |
| 12/23/2005 |
|
Christmas Shut-Down in Silicon Valley |
|
Mobile Phone Subscribers Pass 4 Billion Mark |
|
U.S. Companies Investing in STEM Education |
|
Toyota Predicts Its First Annual Operating Loss in 7 Decades |
|
DOD RFID Efforts Converge |
|
UK Nanotechnology Group Targets Sustainable Design Projects |
|
Obama Names Science and Technology Team |
|
Nanowires Can Now Be Controlled Down to Single Atom Level |
|
The Year in Computing |
|
Slow Quarter Closes Awful Year for U.S. IPOs |
|
Extension of the Patent Prosecution Highway Pilot Program between
the USPTO and the CIPO |
|
Commerce Department Criticizes Internet Addressing Plan |
|
RFID Global Solution Selected as RFID Integrator for JSPRFI
Contract |
|
India Upbeat on 3G Auction, Moves to Hook Foreign Companies |
|
HomePlug Group Breaks 2-Year Deadlock |
|
Improved Volumetric Displays May Lead to 3D Computer Monitors |
|
Vatican Embraces iTunes Prayer Book |
|
Repair Crews Reach Damaged Undersea Internet Cables |
|
Web Browsers to Change over the Next Few Years |
|
Windows XP to be Supported into 2010 |
|
World Faces "Total" Financial Meltdown: Bank of Spain Chief |
|
9 out of 10 Decorating Their Home for Christmas |
| 12/22/2008 |
|
Woman Faces Jail for Death While Texting Road Accident |
|
Internet Predicted to be Dominated by Mobile in 2020 |
|
Report Calls for Restructuring Patent Office |
|
Raytheon Wins up to $3.3B to Deliver Patriot Capabilities to
UAE |
|
U.S. Firms Join Forces to Build Lithium Ion Batteries for Cars |
|
Nokia Shop Attacked by Mob over Mapping Software Dispute
|
|
Fujitsu Develops CMOS Logic-Based 10V-Breakdown Transistor for
PAs |
|
RFID's Security Problem |
|
Asia Tech Firms Cut Costs with Forced Leave for Workers |
|
Computing in a Molecule |
|
Internet Economy Could Shrink in 2009 |
|
LEDs and Smart Lighting Could Save Trillions of Dollars |
|
Split Second Could Spell Death of GMT |
|
Japanese Researchers Propose Recorder Tag for Extending RFID
Apps |
|
Engineers, Meet Social Media |
|
British Scientist Warns We Must Protect the Vulnerable from
Robots |
|
Internet Radio Interoperability Group to Launch at CES |
|
Siemens Wins $2.1B Iraqi Power Plant Deal |
|
Looking Ahead at Cell Phones |
|
Obama Planning to Scrap Shuttle Replacement, Says NASA |
|
SAIC Awarded $17M Task Order by Space and Naval Warfare System
Center - Atlantic |
|
U.S. Fails to Withstand Mock Cyberattack |
| 12/21/2008 |
|
IBM Claims Graphene Field-Effect Transistors at GHz Frequencies |
|
Worldwide Governments Spend $62B on Space Programs |
|
Panasonic Makes $4.5B Move for Sanyo |
|
God or Science? A Belief in One Weakens Positive Feelings for
Other |
|
NASA to Sell, Donate Old Space Shuttles |
|
Holiday Tech Cravings and Power Savings |
|
Why Did the London Millennium Bridge 'Wobble'? |
|
Obama's Top Science Post Picks Advocate "Forceful Government
Response" to Global Warming |
| 12/19/2008 |
|
RIM Reports a Season of Good Cheer
(nice to see a bright spot for a change) |
|
Analysis: IC Market Gloom Won't Last |
|
Palm Loses Over Half a Billion Dollars in Three Months
(oops - it didn't last long) |
|
IBM Claims Fastest Graphene Transistor |
|
STATS ChipPAC to Lay Off 1600 in Latest Restructuring |
|
U.S. Gives Green Light for First Commercial Spaceport |
|
Boeing Gears up for DOD Intelligence Demand |
|
Flexible Polymer Transistors 'Printed' Using Ultraviolet Light |
|
U.S. Files Antitrust Suit Against Microsemi |
|
Dollar, Sterling Plunge to Multi-Decade Lows in Wake of Fed
Move |
|
Helium Ion Beams Illuminate Tiny Particles |
|
Congressmen Accuse FCC of Violating Law in Delaying AWS-3 Vote |
|
India to Shut Down 25 Million Mobile Phones in January |
|
Research in Magnetic Semiconductors Leading to Advances in Computing |
|
U.S. Military Actually Investigated Gravitational Waves |
|
Mass Internet Outages in Egypt
(again!?!) |
|
U.S. R&D Investments to Target Infrastructure, Jobs |
|
Texas Instruments to cut 400 Jobs in Philippines |
|
Raytheon Sensor Activated on Lunar-Orbiting Spacecraft |
|
Bullet Speed Wi-Fi Service for Japan |
|
Instant Photo Inventor Polaroid Files for Bankruptcy
(must not be "too big to fail"
so no bailout taxpayer money) |
|
Solar-Flare Surprise: Pure Hydrogen Shot at Earth |
| 12/18/2008 |
|
EU Commission Proposes Changes to RoHS, WEEE Directives |
|
Frequency Change for Canadian Time Transmission Station CHU |
|
10 Gifts for the Hard-Core Techie |
|
Healthcare, Wireless May Still Thrive in 2009 |
|
New Products that Made Tech Fans Celebrate in 2008 |
|
Excess Inventory Likely to Triple in Q4, Could Delay Semiconductor
Industry Recovery |
|
Nokia Debt Ratings Downgraded to Negative Outlook |
|
Semi Execs Feeling Gloomy About 2009 |
|
Crucial Decisions on Spectrum Needed to Secure Ireland's Wireless
Future |
|
GaAs Device Market to Shrink 5% in 2009 |
|
Experts Detail the 3 Rules for Technological Fixes
(too bad these criteria are not applied to all the social programs) |
|
Irish Government Invests €45M in Research Centres |
|
Biggest Breach of Earth's Solar Storm Shield Discovered |
|
Panasonic Develops 'Natural Super Junction' GaN Power Device |
|
MIT Targets Wave Power for Commercialization |
|
Mozilla Disputes Bit9's Claim That Firefox is "Most Vulnerable
App" |
|
European First as ALICE Achieves Energy Recovery at 11 MV |
|
UKIRT's Galaxies: A View for the Season
(was it named after me?) |
|
Coffee Republic Brews Up RFID Loyalty Cards
(a fine application
of technology for those who create it) |
|
Oil Tumbles below $40 for First Time Since 2004 |
|
88 New Taxes for NYers (thank
the people who keep electing the tax-and-spend crowd) |
|
Global Warming Hits Malibu Beaches |
| 12/17/2008 |
|
Siemens Pays $1.6B in Bribery Scandal Fines
(ouch - that's got to hurt the
bottom line) |
|
Motorola Freeze Pay Rises - Suspends Pension Payments |
|
'Change' Needed in Engineering Education |
|
Engineers Developing Energy-Harvesting Radios |
|
2008, 2009 Will be Industry's First Back-to-Back Years of Declining
Sales |
|
Faster Graphene Transistors |
|
Consumers Want 'Green' TVs, Electronics |
|
Laird Cuts over 4,500 Jobs as Sales Slide by 25% |
|
Military Has Mini Supercomputer in Works |
|
Downturn
Spurs 'Survival Panic' for Some in the U.S. |
|
Semiconductor Lasers Generate Better Random Numbers |
|
Combination ICs – Understanding the Needs of Tomorrow - Today |
|
U.S. Death Map Revealed (due
to acts of nature) |
|
Harris Corporation Completes Agreement to License SDR Technology
for Aviation Broadband Initiative |
|
Scientists Find Hole in Earth's Magnetic Field |
|
Inventory Crisis Looms for Chipmakers |
|
RFID Enables Korean Meteorological Administration to Keep an
Eye on Weather |
|
Mobile Messaging Revenues to Defy Economic Downturn |
|
More Than 1/6 of Households Have Only Cell Phones |
|
Best Buy Makes the Best of a Bad Situation - Yr/Yr Down 77% |
|
582,000 Canadian Jobs at Stake if Big Three Auto Makers Fail |
| 12/16/2008 |
|
Hams Respond to Calls for Assistance as Ice Storms Pummel New
England |
|
Intel Sees PMOS Gain with (110) Silicon |
|
Flawed Carbon Nanotubes Make Perfect Conductors |
|
European Commission Guidelines Push Rollout of Continent's Mobile
TV to Mobile Phones |
|
Cellphone Market to Shrink in 2009, Inventories a Concern |
|
iTunes to Offer Free Content over Christmas |
|
U.S. Trade Commission Investigating Samsung, LG over Patent
Dispute |
|
Eliminating Space Debris - The Quest Continues |
|
Platinum-Free Fuel Cell |
|
MEMS Market Lifted by 'iPhone Mania,' Says iSuppli |
|
USPTO: Reminder to Attorney and Patent Agents to Update Contact
Information |
|
Five Million Customers Buying What MobiTV is Selling |
|
About 90% of all e-Mail is Spam: Cisco |
|
UK Railways Adopt a Single Format for Mobile Ticket Barcodes |
|
TDK-Lambda Invests £25k in UK Skills Centre |
|
EI Receives Illinois Governor's Pollution Prevention Award
(a dubious honor given the gov's current dilemma) |
|
Chinese Company Introduces World's First Plug-In Hybrid |
|
Survey Shows 65% of American Adults Need Daily Internet Access |
|
Jellyfish Taking over World’s Oceans; Shutting Down Nuclear
Power Plants |
|
Greek Rioters Using Green Lasers on Police |
|
Serious Flaw in Internet Explorer Not Fixed Yet |
| 12/15/2008 |
| FCC
Cancels White Space Vote |
|
Impoverished North Korea Getting New Mobile Network |
|
Congressional Committee Members Release Report Lambasting FCC
Chairman Kevin Martin (as if
those clowns have any credibility) |
|
Japanese Engineers Looking Reluctantly Overseas |
|
Consumers Choose Products with More Technical Specs |
|
Sandia Builds Ion Beam Laboratory |
|
Fraud in Science: How Prevalent is it and What Can Be Done? |
|
Group Demos Metamaterials for Invisible Cloak |
|
Multigate FETs: A Risky Proposition |
|
WiMAX Laptop Clients and Embedded Mobile PCs Will Drive the
Device Market |
|
Waste Coffee Grounds Offer New Source of Biodiesel Fuel
(looks like I'm reducing my carbon
footprint 3-4 times each day) |
|
Ofcom: Low Power License-Exemption Limits above 10 GHz |
|
Mobile Network Infrastructure Vendors Starting to Feel the Heat |
|
Decline in European Semiconductor Industry Endangering Half
a Million Jobs |
|
A Novel Electric Thruster for Manned Spacecraft in the Making |
|
Researchers Identify New Region of the Magnetosphere |
|
OSHA Considers Self-Approval of Certain Products
(something seems stupid about this - can you give yourself a
UL or CE label?) |
|
Method Sorts out Double-Walled Carbon Nanotube Problem |
|
Electrical Engineers Create Test for Carbon Monoxide Poisoning |
|
New Energy Guidelines Stump CE Designers |
|
Military Avionics Modernization, Next-Generation ATM Technology
at Avionics 2009 |
|
Comcast to Debut Faster Internet in Baltimore |
| 12/14/2008 |
|
$50B Wall Street Ponzi Scheme Hits Big Names |
|
'Strained' Quantum Dots Show New Optical Properties |
|
Enterprise WLAN Market to See Growth Amid Financial Turmoil |
|
UK Telecoms Regulator Hires Consultancy to Advise on Spectrum
Policy |
| 12/12/2008 |
|
Wireless Companies Gear up to Assist Users of 700 MHz Gear |
|
“Long, Dark Season” for OEMs, Gartner Predicts |
|
Worldwide Semiconductor Revenue Declined $12B in 2008 |
|
Brown Government Aims £1B at High-Tech Start-Ups |
|
Five Growth Markets for 2009 |
|
China's 3G Move to Trigger Spending |
|
The K7RA Solar Update - Finally, Another Sun Spot |
|
Fairchild Slashes Jobs, Reduces Forecast |
|
Investor Has $500M to Spend in Europe |
|
SEMI: 500k Jobs at Risk with EU Chip Decline |
|
Bush Administration Urges FCC to Vote Against Free Broadband
Mandate |
|
Researcher Nabs 'Doubly Magic' Tin Isotope |
|
Marshall SFC Sponsors Four Student Teams in FIRST Robotics Competitions |
|
FCC's Martin, White House Feud over Smut-Free Broadband |
|
iPhone '4G' to Have a Wii-Like Sensor? |
|
FTC Provides Guidance on Labeling Light Bulbs (your tax
dollars at work) |
|
Chemist Tames Longstanding Electron Computation Problem |
|
Russian Entrepreneur Wants to Trademark the Text 'Wink' ;) |
|
Microsoft Tells Users How to Prevent IE Zero Day Attacks |
|
Criminals Winning the Cyberwar on the Desktop Battlefield |
| 12/11/2008 |
|
FCC Calls on Amateur Radio Service for Assistance with Digital
TV Conversion |
|
U.S.
Military Members: Free for You Only - "CD for the Troops II"
(5 for Fighting, Roy Orbison, Isaac Hayes, 3 Doors Down, more) |
|
Pedro Ray Wins IEEE 2009 Presidency |
|
UN Blowback: More than 650 International Scientists Dissent
over Man-Made Global Warming Claims |
|
USPTO: Changes to Representation of Others Before the United
States Patent and Trademark Office |
|
Physicists Set New Record for Quantum Memory Storage and Retrieval |
|
Dreams May No Longer Be Secret with Japan Computer Screen |
|
Biggest Full Moon of the Year |
|
Wind, Water and Sun Beat Biofuels, Nuclear and Coal for Clean
Energy |
|
Neutron Researchers Discover Widely Sought Property in Magnetic
Semiconductor |
|
Celebrating 20 Years of UK Satellite TV |
|
Open Handset Alliance on a Roll |
|
The Rise of Black Market Data |
|
Semi Equipment Sales Fall from $54B to $35B in Two Years |
|
Technology May Help Police Halt Hot Pursuits |
|
FlexRadio Donates Software Defined Radio to W1AW |
|
Blue Streetlights May Prevent Crime, Suicide |
|
What's Next for Computer Interfaces? |
|
Nobel-Winning Physicist Rumored to Be Obama's Pick for Energy
Secretary |
|
Eat More Camel to Save the Environment |
| 12/10/2009 |
|
Half a Million Semiconductor Jobs at Risk |
|
New Radar Can Pinpoint Rocket Launchers |
|
Panel Blasts Federal Nanotech Risk Research Strategy |
|
Business Spend on Wireless Overtakes Wired |
|
Math Gains Reported for U.S. Students |
|
Wireless Technologies Making Their Way into Households to Enable
Multimedia Services |
|
From LG to 4G: The First LTE Phone Chipset |
|
SMS and MMS Set the Cash Registers Ringing in the North American
Mobile Market |
|
Beijing to Become World's Largest WiFi City |
|
Advanced Sensors Give Soldiers Best Battlefield Picture |
|
Here Comes the Mi-Fi: Novatel Debuts Its Portable 3G Hotspot
|
|
Magnetic Nanotubes Could Advance Spintronic Devices
|
|
SEMI Asks EU to Help Semiconductor Industry (an EU bailout?) |
|
India-Built Satellite for International Market |
|
Vitesse Releases VScope Embedded Waveform Viewing Technology |
|
The Hottest PC Technology for 2009 |
|
Global Demand for Oil to Plummet |
|
NASA Gets Inside Pilots' Heads to Make Them Safer |
|
Security Alert: Beware of USB Memory Sticks |
|
Clear Computer Chip Fabricated |
|
GPS, Hidden Cameras Watch over Baby Jesus |
|
Computer Industry Celebrates 40 Years |
| 12/9/2008 |
|
HRL Demos First RF Graphene FETs |
|
EU to Phase Out Standard Light Bulbs by 2012 |
|
Turbocharged WiFi Coming to Cellphones |
|
Tech Jobs a Bright Spot in Gloomy Jobs Data |
|
Emrise Corp. Wins Orders for RF Devices for Signal Jamming |
|
LG Demos LTE Mobile Data Download Speeds of 60 Mbps |
|
60 GHz Radio Implements Standard for Multi-Gigabit Wireless
Applications |
|
Stellar Growth Seen for GaAs-Based Photovoltaics |
|
2008 Will Be Just a Second Longer |
|
ARRL 10 Meter Contest Means HF Fun for Technicians, Too! |
|
Sony to Cut 16,000 Jobs, Slash $1.1B in Costs |
|
Intel Breaks Record with Optical CMOS Device |
|
The Other U.S. Mobile DTV Alliance Opens the Door for a Truce |
|
Nokia Completes Sale of German Handset Factory |
|
Google Earth Accused of Aiding Terrorists (see
Nowhere to Hide) |
|
Ship-in-a-Bottle Kit on a Microchip |
|
Bad Economy Helping Web Scammers Recruit 'Mules' |
|
The Mouse Hits 40-Year Milestone |
|
Mozilla Makes Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 Available |
|
Looking Back on Technology Foresight |
|
Test Drive: Zap's New Electric Car |
| 12-8-2008 |
|
China ICs: A Bomb, or Just a Lot of Firecrackers? |
|
Improving Mobile Internet Access on High-Speed Trains |
|
Technology Firms Benefit from Cash in the Bank (duh!) |
|
New Products Bring Side Effect: Nanophobia |
|
Analyst Sees 10% Cellular Decline in 2009 |
|
IEEE Joins Move to Patent Pools |
|
Motorola Debt Downgraded to Junk Status |
|
An Old Dream Fulfilled: Zinc Oxide as Semiconductor |
|
GM: Volt Program Still Going Full Speed |
|
NASA Awards Weather Integration Research Contract to Sensis |
|
The Best Photon Detector Yet |
|
Wireless Sensor Network Helps School Cut Its Energy Use |
|
Nokia Siemens Wins Major Indian GSM Network Contract |
|
Prisons Looking to Jam Cellphone Signals |
|
Radio Revenues to Continue Decline in 2009 |
|
Broadcom Integrates 802.11n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and FM for Multimedia
Applications in Mobile Devices |
|
ITT Wins $160M U.S. Navy Systems Engineerin Support Contract |
|
Broad Use of Brain Booster Drugs? |
|
FCC Extends Sat Radio Deadline for Third-Party Access |
|
Opera 10 Alpha Shows off New Presto Rendering Engine |
|
Panel Urges Obama to Consider Hacker-Response Plan |
|
Men are Red, Women are Green |
| 12-7-2008 |
|
Coating Provides Near-Perfect Absorption of Sunlight from All
Angles |
|
Edible Electronics Monitor Drugs in Your Body |
|
Gulf Oil CEO Says Gas Could Hit $1/Gallon Next Year (care
to wager on a huge O-tax if so?) |
|
Magnetics-on-Silicon: Enabling Technology for Power SOCs |
|
U.S. Job Losses Signal Recession Will Be Long, Deep |
|
Chinese Property Hunters to Raid U.S. (the sale of America
to the highest bidder continues...) |
| 12/5/2008 |
|
Bluetooth 2.2 Specs in Mid-2009 |
|
Fusion Reactors Inch Toward Commercialization |
|
'Big Bang' Collider Repairs: $29M |
|
Quantum Trick Makes Metals Become Insulators |
|
Resistivity Reduction Enables Tungsten Scaling |
|
Consumer Electronics Association Cuts Q4 View |
|
Venture Capitalists See Opportunity in Recession |
|
Smart Electricity Meter Recognizes Domestic Appliances |
|
Ceramics That Won't Shatter |
|
Senate Approves Cyber-Crime Bill |
|
Students Discover Unique Planet |
|
Wii Fit, IPhone 3G Among Japan's Top Impulse Buys in 2008 |
|
Voice over Wireless Local Area Network Devices Set to Provide
Flexible Work Environment |
|
10 Gifts for the Cubicle Warrior |
|
2008 Will Be Coolest Year of the Decade (correlates with
sun spot activity) |
|
ARRL HQ Welcomes New Membership Manager |
|
DoD Education Activity Encourages Nominations for Teacher Awards |
|
U.S. Job Losses Worst Since 1974 as Downturn Deepens |
|
O'Reilly to End Radio Factor |
|
Surviving the Recession: Finding Wireless Value |
|
Hubble Will Be Repaired in May |
|
Microsoft Seeks 'Community' Help to Make IE8 Standards Mode
Work (this issue is motivating me to do a complete re-design
on RF Cafe in 2009) |
| 12/4/2008 |
|
High Tech Celebrates White-Spaces Victory |
|
Boeing Airborne Laser Successfully Activates High-Energy Laser |
|
Survey Shows Business Marketers Now Spend Nearly Half Their
Budgets Online |
|
Opening the Last Part of Electromagnetic Spectrum |
|
Private Chip Companies Shedding Staff, Too |
|
Electric Shock as Sales of Green Cars go into Reverse in UK |
|
Nokia Says Navigation Key to Services Revenues |
|
Scientists Fear Technology May Be Rewiring Our Brains |
|
Un-Masking a Faster Solution for Chip-Making |
|
Nuclear Fusion Plasma Movement Method Devised at MIT |
|
New Insights on Fusion Power |
|
China to Send Scientists into Space |
|
RocketShip Tours Teams up with XCOR Aerospace to Offer $95,000
Right Stuff Experience |
|
AT&T Cuts 12,000 Jobs, Lowers Capital Spending |
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Russia to Launch Two Telecoms Satellites in February 2009 |
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Efficient Thin-Film Solar Cells |
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SANYO Internet Radio - Thousands of Free Internet Radio Stations,
No Computer Required |
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U.S. and China Find Common Ground in Solar Power |
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Pirelli Gateways Go Femto |
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Small Underwater Currents Could Be the Next Big Thing in Alternative
Energy |
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Sergeant Majors Want Better Technology for the Troops |
| 12/3/2008 |
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Downturn Catching up with Communications ICs |
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Microsoft Partners with Implantable RFID Chip Maker VeriChip |
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NXP Targets Medical Market with Wireless Communication Partnership |
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Proposed New RoHS and WEEE Directives Published |
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RIM Stock Set for a Drubbing after Disappointing Sales and Profit
Outlook |
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Realizing Lithium-Battery Potential |
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Disappearing Superconductivity Reappears -- In 2-D |
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European Commission Warns Germany over Mobile Termination Rates |
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Starwars-Style Holographic 3DTV Could be a Reality by 2018 |
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World’s Largest CIGS PV Array Goes Live |
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STMicro Joins in Tunable RF Device Group's Funding Round |
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Wireless Crib Monitor Keeps Tabs on Baby's Breathing |
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Cell Phones That Never Need to be Charged? Sound Wave-Powered
Devices Possible |
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Vodafone Loses $2 Billion Indian Tax Case |
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Russians Track Wayward U.S. Spy Satellite |
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Herley to Provide Microwave Assemblies for F-16 Upgrades |
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Infineon's Outlook Dire as Downturn, Qimonda Weigh |
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At Glass Factory, RFID Boosts Worker Safety and Productivity |
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Hospital-on-a-Chip Targets Battlefield |
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Telecom Italia to Cut 4,000 More Jobs |
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BIA: Radio Revenues to Fall Further in '09 |
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U.S. Senate Majority Leader - "We Won't Smell the Tourists Anymore"
(talk about elitist!) |
| 12/2/2008 |
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Salary Survey: Globalization Takes a Bite out of EEs' Salaries |
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NASA Awards 382 Small Business Research and Technology (SBIR)
Contracts |
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Wireless Mesh Network Deployed in Oil Refinery |
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Earthlings, Space Beer has Splashed Down (a true brewski...
from Russia) |
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Charge Your Cellphone by Talking |
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Semi Sales Fell 2.4% in October |
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Less Bad News than Anticipated for the Semiconductor Industry
in 2008 |
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FCC to Mull Free Internet Plan at December Meeting |
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First Light-Driven Nanomachine |
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ARISS to Celebrate 25 Years of Amateur Radio in Space with Special
Events |
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Economic Crisis Boosts Urgency for European Chip R&D |
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High School Physics Lessons Updated |
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Malware Attack Leaves Pentagon Scrambling for Answers |
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Nokia Goes Full-Tilt in Unveiling Its N97 |
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Europe Backs Supergrids |
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Clearwire May Slow WiMax Build to Cut Funding Gap |
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Many HDTV Buyers Continue to Take a Pass on HD Programming
(I am one of them... I watch HD via the Web for free) |
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New Year's Eve Ball Grows Bigger and Brighter |
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A $30k Rhodium Bling Ring for Michelle O. (Rh
is world's most expensive metal... a huge C footprint to extract) |
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Data Signal Deep Global Downturn |
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U.S. Manufacturing Hits 26-Year Low |
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Oil Plunges Below $50 after Opec Fails to Cut (at least
one bright spot) |
| 12/1/2008 |
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Drivers Make More Errors when Talking on Cell Phone Than to
a Passenger |
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Myth of the Vanishing Western Engineer |
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Engineers Confront the Rising Tide of Job, Economic Fears
(lots of jobs on the
RF Cafe
Job Board) |
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USPTO Expands Online Archive of the Trademark Official Gazette |
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Lockheed Martin and ITT Corporation Team for U.S. Navy Electronic
Warfare Competition |
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Mobile Phones to Work on Glasgow Underground Railway |
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Researchers Construct Highest Frequency Silicon Cantilever |
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A Design for Cheaper Wind Power |
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China RoHS: One Year and Counting |
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Nujira Touts PA Efficiency Advance in Handsets |
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Highly Efficient Lithium Batteries Developed |
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UCSD Reports 58% PAE for Wireless Base Station PAs |
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Northrop Grumman Wins Joint STARS Radar Modernization Contract |
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Making an Old Brain Young (I need this) |
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Fairchild Files Patent Suit Against Infineon |
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Fuel-Cell Powered Devices Getting Closer |
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Remains of Last Week's Fiery Meteor Found in Western Canada |
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Better Golf Ball Dimples Result in Less Drag and Balls that
Fly Farther |
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Did You Spend Less Green on Black Friday? |
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PayPal Takes Another Crack at Tightening Security |
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Britain Thinking of Joining Euro |
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