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 |
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