| 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 |
|
'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 |
|
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 |
|
Russia to Launch Two Telecoms Satellites in February 2009 |
|
Efficient Thin-Film Solar Cells |
|
SANYO Internet Radio - Thousands of Free Internet Radio Stations,
No Computer Required |
|
U.S. and China Find Common Ground in Solar Power |
| Pirelli Gateways Go Femto |
|
Small Underwater Currents Could Be the Next Big Thing in Alternative
Energy |
|
Sergeant Majors Want Better Technology for the Troops |
| 12/3/2008 |
|
Downturn Catching up with Communications ICs |
| Microsoft Partners with Implantable RFID Chip Maker VeriChip |
|
NXP Targets Medical Market with Wireless Communication Partnership |
|
Proposed New RoHS and WEEE Directives Published |
|
RIM Stock Set for a Drubbing after Disappointing Sales and Profit
Outlook |
|
Realizing Lithium-Battery Potential |
| Disappearing Superconductivity Reappears -- In 2-D |
| European
Commission Warns Germany over Mobile Termination Rates |
| Starwars-Style
Holographic 3DTV Could be a Reality by 2018 |
|
World’s Largest CIGS PV Array Goes Live |
|
STMicro Joins in Tunable RF Device Group's Funding Round |
| Wireless Crib Monitor Keeps Tabs on Baby's Breathing |
| Cell Phones That Never Need to be Charged? Sound Wave-Powered Devices
Possible |
| Vodafone
Loses $2 Billion Indian Tax Case |
| Russians Track
Wayward U.S. Spy Satellite |
|
Herley to Provide Microwave Assemblies for F-16 Upgrades |
|
Infineon's Outlook Dire as Downturn, Qimonda Weigh |
| At Glass Factory, RFID Boosts Worker Safety and Productivity |
|
Hospital-on-a-Chip Targets Battlefield |
| Telecom
Italia to Cut 4,000 More Jobs |
|
BIA: Radio Revenues to Fall Further in '09 |
|
U.S. Senate Majority Leader - "We Won't Smell the Tourists
Anymore" (talk about elitist!) |
| 12/2/2008 |
| Salary Survey: Globalization Takes a Bite out of EEs' Salaries |
|
NASA Awards 382 Small Business Research and Technology (SBIR) Contracts |
| Wireless
Mesh Network Deployed in Oil Refinery |
| Earthlings,
Space Beer has Splashed Down (a true brewski... from Russia) |
|
Charge Your Cellphone by Talking |
|
Semi Sales Fell 2.4% in October |
|
Less Bad News than Anticipated for the Semiconductor Industry in
2008 |
|
FCC to Mull Free Internet Plan at December Meeting |
| First Light-Driven Nanomachine |
| ARISS to Celebrate 25 Years of Amateur Radio in Space with Special
Events |
|
Economic Crisis Boosts Urgency for European Chip R&D |
|
High School Physics Lessons Updated |
|
Malware Attack Leaves Pentagon Scrambling for Answers |
|
Nokia Goes Full-Tilt in Unveiling Its N97 |
|
Europe Backs Supergrids |
|
Clearwire May Slow WiMax Build to Cut Funding Gap |
|
Many HDTV Buyers Continue to Take a Pass on HD Programming (I
am one of them... I watch HD via the Web for free) |
|
New Year's Eve Ball Grows Bigger and Brighter |
|
A $30k Rhodium Bling Ring for Michelle O. ( Rh is world's most expensive
metal... a huge C footprint to extract) |
|
Data Signal Deep Global Downturn |
|
U.S. Manufacturing Hits 26-Year Low |
|
Oil Plunges Below $50 after Opec Fails to Cut (at least one
bright spot) |
| 12/1/2008 |
| Drivers
Make More Errors when Talking on Cell Phone Than to a Passenger |
|
Myth of the Vanishing Western Engineer |
|
Engineers Confront the Rising Tide of Job, Economic Fears (lots
of jobs on the RF Cafe Job
Board) |
|
USPTO Expands Online Archive of the Trademark Official Gazette |
|
Lockheed Martin and ITT Corporation Team for U.S. Navy Electronic
Warfare Competition |
| Mobile
Phones to Work on Glasgow Underground Railway |
|
Researchers Construct Highest Frequency Silicon Cantilever |
|
A Design for Cheaper Wind Power |
| China RoHS: One Year and Counting |
|
Nujira Touts PA Efficiency Advance in Handsets |
| Highly Efficient Lithium Batteries Developed |
|
UCSD Reports 58% PAE for Wireless Base Station PAs |
|
Northrop Grumman Wins Joint STARS Radar Modernization Contract |
| Making an Old Brain Young (I need this) |
|
Fairchild Files Patent Suit Against Infineon |
| Fuel-Cell Powered
Devices Getting Closer |
| Remains of Last Week's Fiery Meteor Found in Western Canada |
| Better Golf Ball Dimples Result in Less Drag and Balls that Fly
Farther |
|
Did You Spend Less Green on Black Friday? |
|
PayPal Takes Another Crack at Tightening Security |
|
Britain Thinking of Joining Euro |
