2-29-2008 |
Taliban
Blow Up Afghan Phone Tower |
Scientists Measure Force Required to Move Individual Atoms |
OFCNFOEC: The Increasing Demand for Bandwidth |
TELUS Completes $100M Broadband Rollout in Western Canada |
High-Tech Insulator
Created from Rice Husks |
CDMA
Worldwide Subscriber Base Reaches 431M |
Magnetic Atoms of Gold, Silver and Copper Have Been Obtained |
Chip Execs Expect Growth, Profit Volatility |
EU's DOTFIVE Project to Boost SiGe HBTs from 300 GHz to 0.5 THz |
The 2007 Electronic Monitoring and Surveillance Survey |
Data Transmission Reaches 16.4 Tbps Over 1,500 Miles |
U.S., Canada Seize $76M in Fake Cisco Hardware |
China to Carry Out First Spacewalk in Late 2008 |
Harvard Scholars to Explore Net Safety |
Pentagon Hoping No Sore Losers in Aircraft Bid |
NASA Chief Warns
of Possible Job Cuts at End of Shuttle Program |
Students Slow to Embrace Text Alerts |
2-28-2008 |
ETSI Pushes Standards for NFC with Mobiles |
SOHO to Give Early Warning of Radiation Storms that Disrupt Communications |
ARRL, FCC, DoD Review New Developments in PAVE PAWS Interference
Mitigation |
USPTO Director Testifies in House Subcommittee Oversight Hearing |
Sprint
Nextel Losses Nearly $30 Billion in Q4 |
New Electrodes May Provide Safer, More Powerful Lithium-ion (Li-ion)
Batteries |
NASA to Smash Moon With Double Sledgehammer |
Embedded World - Showcasing Embedded Electronics |
Sun to Guide
IC Curriculum Development for China’s Universities |
Criminals Find Easy Way to Crack Chip and PIN Security on Bank Cards |
Motorola's Handset Woes Continue |
AXT Grows 31% as SI GaAs Market Share Passes 20% |
U.S. House Panel Questions DoD Spending Estimates |
iPhones for Freshmen at ACU |
U.S., Czech on Cusp of Missile Shield Deal |
Arctic 'Doomsday' Seed Vault Opens Doors for 100 Million Seeds |
The End of an Era - Polaroid To Stop Making Instant Film |
2-27-2008 |
Silicon Valley Losing Its Middle Class |
500 kHz Distance Record Broken Again |
Computer Spying Unconstitutional in Germany |
USAF Seeks 'Battlespace Infosphere' |
O2 Faces
Sanction Over Failure to Meet 3G Coverage Requirements |
Temperature Monitors Report Wide-Scale Global Cooling |
NASA Adds Technologies Web Feature |
NICTA’s
New Chip Promises True Wireless Revolution |
Sci-Fi Tech Toys &
Gadgets |
Chinese Online Auction Site to Offer Wireless Service |
With Chip Hopes Fading, India Looks to Systems Manufacturing |
2007 Not a Brilliant Year for European Components Distribution |
Cal
Test's Mini Passive Voltage Probes Work at 500 MHz |
Special Coating Greatly Improves Solar Cell Performance |
Europe Sets a Course for the ISS |
EU Fines Microsoft Record $1.35 Billion |
Crystal Bells Stay Silent as Physicists Look for Dark Matter |
Expert: Robots Used for War Are Threat to Humanity |
2-26-2008 |
New Study
Confirms That Living Tissue is Affected by Mobile Phone Radiation |
Hackers Decrypt Computer by Freezing (literally) Memory Chips |
UK Spectrum Goes for a Song |
Tightened
Power-Efficiency Regulations Force Power Supplies to Keep Up |
Tech
Firms Paid Lobbyist $500,000 |
Siemens to Refocus Telecom Equipment Unit on Software Solutions |
Directed Self-Ordering of Organic Molecules for Electronic Devices |
Group With Google Building Underwater Pacific Cable |
FCC Says Will Act on Web Neutrality if Needed |
Security System Calls Your Cell |
Pakistan Causes
Worldwide YouTube Outage |
Exclusive
iPhone Deal Could Be Illegal in Australia |
Snow Cover Over N. America, Siberia, Mongolia, China Greater Greatest
Since 1966 |
ARRL
Field Day 2008 Webpage Up |
U.S. Certifies Satellite Shoot-Down as a Success |
Move Over Wii, Here Comes HP's GPS-Based Platform |
North American Army Created w/o OK by Congress |
2-25-2008 |
Nokia
Shows Off Nanotech Mobile Phone Concept |
Taliban
Threaten Phone Companies |
Silicon Carbide Ready for Prime Time |
Thousands
of Jobs Under threat at Siemens Telecoms Unit |
From Tips to Clicks: Restaurants Try eMenus |
Electron Gets Film Debut in First-ever Video of Its Kind |
IMEC Claims Record 24.7% Efficiency for Single-Junction GaAs-on-Ge
Solar Cell |
Nanoparticles Could Make Hydrogen Cheaper Than Gasoline |
New Submarine Communications Technology Underway |
Astronomy Technology Brings Nanoparticle Probes into Sharper Focus |
100,000
SMSs Sent to Order Taxi Cabs in London |
Internet Users in the Philippines to Reach 24M This Year |
Airports, Borders Drive Security Technology Spending in Asia Pacific |
Pakistan Blocks YouTube for 'Blasphemous' Content |
Need to Spy on Employees? |
Internet Ads Up 25% in 2007 |
'Cult of Death' Hackers Use Google to Find Website Vulnerabilities |
2-24-2008 |
New Electron Microscope Identifies Individual Color-Coded Atoms |
Hobbyists Track Secret Orbits of Spy Satellites |
US, EU Crack Down on Counterfeit Components |
Japan Successfully Launches High-Speed Internet Satellite |
Flawless Data Reception for Internet and Other Fiber-Based Telecommunications |
2-22-2008 |
EU Wants RFID Tags Turned Off |
BBC Apologises
Over Wi-Fi Safety Scare TV Show |
TriQuint Faces Dip in Q1 After Record 2007 |
Techie Law Professor Could Be Your Next Congressman |
ARRL Homebrew Challenge Winners Announced |
IBM Unveils Atomic Memory Advance |
U.S. Telecom Growth Seen Slower than Global Industry |
RFID and the University of Washington's Human Tracking Pilot |
North American
Semi Equipment January Book-to-Bill Reflects Reduction in Capital Spending |
BMW Shows How Electronics Improve Fuel Effectiveness |
China
Nearing Final Touches on Telecoms Makeover |
BAE Systems Had 45% Profit Slump in 2007 |
Private Race
to the Moon (and Money) Takes Off |
Intel Chair Says No Chance to Reply Before EU Raid |
Secure Internet Transactions at Internet Cafes Possible with Tiny
Security Device |
Gates Sees Diminished Role for Keyboards |
Computers Stumped by Apostrophes in Names |
Top 5 Most Anticipated
Games of 2008 |
2-21-2008 |
A Direct Hit on the First Shot!!! |
Warning Given to 'Techno Addicts' |
Boeing Wins $49M Air Force Contract to Develop Advanced Laser |
3Com's U.S. Roadblock Seen Deterring China Investors |
ARRL Handbook Designated
a "Must-Have" for Broadcast Industry |
FCC Ordered to Study Bird-Tower Collisions |
'NMR on a Chip' Features NIST Magnetic Mini-Sensor |
2009 Defense Budget Plan a Crowd Pleaser For Now |
Cobra Creates First Bluetooth CB Radio |
Kansas Hams Working to Get Antenna Bill Passed |
Nominees Sought by USPTO for National Medal of Technology and Innovation |
Record Growth in Sales of GPS Tracking Devices to Police |
Shuttle Launch Postponed Due to ET Delays and Solar Energy Shortage |
Mind-Reading Headsets to Be Released |
Electronic Taster Has a Nose for Coffee |
Chinese Youth Push Political Expression Online |
2-20-2008 |
ETSI Sounds Out Reconfigurable Radios |
Total Lunar Eclipse Tonight at 10:00 pm EDT |
Vubiq Announces Availability
of World’s First 60 GHz Integrated Radio on a Chip – Smaller Than a Dime |
Virginia
Tech Grad Creates Gravity-Powered Floor Lamp |
Shuttle Atlantis
Lands Safely in Florida |
ACMA Set to Transform Spectrum Management in Australia |
U.S. Not Set up to Trace Nuclear Terrorist Device in Aftermath |
Internet Censorship Won't Succeed Says Bill Gates |
Harris Provides Tactical Radios to Brunei MoD |
U.S. Navy Could Try Sat Shoot-Down Today |
How Satellite Shoot-Down Will Work |
YouTube Brings Life, Weirdness to Spain Election |
How Technology Makes Your Children Dim |
63% of Americans
Use Roughly the Same Password for Different Online Accounts |
2-19-2008 |
Navy to Shoot Down Failed Satellite Thursday |
Investor Coalition Pledges $10B for 'Cleantech' |
How to Hack Into a Boeing 787 |
Solar Cell Directly Splits Water to Produce Recoverable Hydrogen |
Innovation Challenge Grant Competition Sponsored by Homeland Security
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center |
Motorola
and RIM Sue Each Other |
Laser Beam Believed to Set Record for Intensity |
The Home Base Station: Too Much of a Hard Cell? |
Semiconductor Firm Makes PyroElectic Detectors |
Atlantis Leaves Space Station After Making it More European |
Polish
Police Use Jamming Kit to Block Protesters Phones |
Wall St. Banks Confront a String of Multi-$B Write-Downs
|
Amateurs Visiting
Australia May Operate Under Class License |
Microsoft Giving Away Developer Software to Students |
LED Market Growth to Accelerate to 12% in 2008 |
High-Pitched Teen Deterrents to be Installed in Australia |
Over
400,000 IPhones Reported in Use in China |
2-18-2008 |
MIT to Lead Development of New Radio Telescope Array on Lunar Farside |
India's Fab City Investment to Top $7B as Focus Moves to Solar |
HDTV Coupons Are in the Mail (my tax dollars at work again) |
Toshiba Signals Retreat in High Def DVD Wars |
Nanotube Wires Made to Operate At Speed of Commercial Chips |
Electronic Component Orders Dip in January, but Outlook Still Bright |
DoD RFID II Contract Extended by a year; Spending Ceiling Raised
by $60M |
NAB Wants National-Only Rule for Satellite Radio |
Colombia, Jamaica Linked by Underwater Fiber Optic Cable |
Big Science's Big Day Coming |
Sharp, Tokyo Electron to Tie Up on Solar Cells |
"Rock-Bottom" Mobile TV Companies Looking Up |
Piezoelectric Zinc Oxide Nanowire Fashions for Spring |
Silicon Wafer Costs Have Bigger Impact on Solar Apps |
Britain Considers Manned Space Missions |
10 Things the Next President Should Do About IT |
Worldwide Hunt to Solve the Mystery of Gamma-Ray Bursts |
Russia Becomes Malware Czar |
2-17-2008 |
Superconducting Breakthrough: Better Understanding Could Bring 'Endless
Applications' |
China's Telecoms Hit Hard by Recent Storms |
Winners, Losers in Digital TV Transition |
Heavy Cell Phone Use Linked to Cancer |
Is the Party Over in China? Massive Unemployment Looms |
2-15-2008 |
U.S. to Shoot
Down Crippled Satellite |
Imperial College Makes Terahertz Advance |
GPS for the Prostate: System Keeps Radiation Therapy on Target |
Motorola's Decline Seen as Cautionary Tale |
Wireless Monitoring of People and Things: Future of Social Networking? |
Brit Robots to Put Phone Mast on Moon |
Hittite Continues Growth, but Profit Falls Short |
WENR to Launch First Surveillance Airship in March |
Vietnam's First Satellite Ready for Launch |
Chartered Buys Hitachi Fab in Singapore |
WiFi Coming to Trains in India |
Nanofibers in Unlimited Lengths Now Available |
Wireless Entrepreneurs are 'Connecting the Unconnected' |
Graphene Holds Promise For Spintronics |
MySpace Could Merge with Yahoo! to Scupper Microsoft’s Takeover
Bid |
Bluetooth
for Ham and 2-Way Radio |
Cell Phone-Cancer Link Claimed by Israeli Scientist |
Regular
Cellphone Use May Affect Male Semen Quantity (it was only a matter of time) |
Two New Exoplanets Discovered |
2-14-2008 |
Panel Set to Identify Engineering 'Grand Challenges' |
HP Settles Journalist Spying Lawsuits |
Combo Wi-Fi-WiMax Technology Gains Ground |
Intel Sees $10B Mobile Web Chip Market |
E-mail
Addresses Changing Design of Japanese Business Cards |
Anadigics' Record Sales Boosted by 3G and WLAN/WiMAX |
Mobile Industry Sees New Security Risks |
Mobile
Search Proves Invaluable During Airport Strikes |
STS-122 Spacewalkers Complete 6-hr 45-min Mission |
Carbon Capture Strategy Could Lead to Emission-Free Cars |
House Bill Bars ISPs from Controlling Internet Content, Traffic |
Japan Delays High-Speed Internet Satellite |
A Radio in Every Portable within 5 Years |
Use of Rogue DNS Servers on Rise (RF Cafe immune due to new service) |
Shear Ingenuity: Tweaking the Conductivity of Nanotube Composites |
Swiss Car Lets Motorists Drive Underwater |
DOJ Requires Clear Channel to Divest in Four Markets to Complete
Buyout |
2-13-2008 |
Lockheed Wins FBI Contract Potentially Worth $1B |
ST Readies Integrated SoC for Near Field Communications (NFC) Applications |
Disney Revives
'House of the Future' |
Fortress Europe Prepares Sci-Fi Borders |
Gearing Up for World's Largest Rocket Contest |
Major Yahoo Investor Urges Microsoft to Raise Offer |
Woman Sues Best Buy for $54M Lost Laptop |
EU Columbus Module Installed in New Home on ISS |
Service Outage Gives BlackBerry a Black Eye |
Barely
1/3 of Consumers Would Accept a Femtocell in Their House |
Users Face Being Cut Off from the Internet for Downloading Films
and Music Illegally |
Communications, Networking Holds Great Potential in Defense Industry |
Nanosieves Save Energy in Biofuel Production |
Under Secretary of Commerce Announces FY 2009 Budget Proposal for
USPTO |
U.S. Could Place Another Anti-Missile Radar System in Europe |
HP and Qualcomm to Deliver Options for Worldwide Internet Access |
Human Skin Cells Reprogrammed into Embryonic Stem Cells |
2-12-2008 |
BlackBerry Outage Frustrates Users Again |
EU Conducts Antitrust Raid on Intel, Retailers |
DoD Analyst, Former Boeing Employee, 2 Chinese Immigrants, Arrested
in Two Spy Cases |
Motorola Promotes WiMax Ecosystem |
GM Posts Largest-Ever $38.7B Annual Loss, Offers Buyouts to 74,000
Workers |
Microsoft Scrambles to Explain Prototype 'White Space' Device Failure |
U.S. Air Force Chief Unveils Plans for Next 20 Years |
Google's Android Prototypes Struggle to Compete with Nokia |
Cray to Upgrade Sandia Red Storm Supercomputer to 284 Teraflops |
Next-Generation Music: Deepening the Musical Experience |
Arrow Acquires Defense, Aerospace Component Distributor |
Bad Breath? Your Phone Can Tell You! |
New Hybrid Vehicle Given Its First Test Drive in the Ocean |
Lawyer
Sentenced in Scheme Involving Class-Action Lawsuits (finally, some good news) |
Scientists Develop 'Gecko-Foot' Adhesive |
Senate Heads Toward Approval of Phone Immunity |
UK P2P Clampdown to Fuel Wi-Fi Hijacking |
2-11-2008 |
Injured NJ Policeman Makes History as First to Have Medical History
Read by RFID Implant |
NFL Awards Anritsu Spectrum Analyzer Contract |
Bluetooth to Piggyback on Wi-Fi |
ITT Wins $18M Navy Radar System Upgrade Award |
Why >182,420 Mobile Subscribers a Day Left Service Providers |
Nokia to Launch Touchscreen Cellphones Later This Year |
Shuttle Atlantis Docks with Space Station |
Field Day 2008 Rules and Forms Now Available |
'T-ray' Breakthrough Signals Next Generation of Security Sensors |
EU Emergency
Phone Number Rings No Bells with Citizens |
N. Korea Suspected of Misusing Oil Aid for Military Trainings |
Wholesale Price of GPS-Enabled Handsets to Fall Under $200 by 2010 |
Broadcom Puts LiMo Linux in Mobile Handsets |
Yahoo Formally
Rejects Microsoft Offer |
Wireless Industry Meets in Barcelona |
Rubik's Cube in Center of Earth? Computer Simulations Support New
Model of Earth's Core |
Hospitals Install 'Wii'habilitation Gear |
2-10-2008 |
UMass Student Invents Bicycle Helmet That Calls 911 When Rider is
Down |
U.S. Government Increasing Commitment to Semiconductor Research |
Sick Astronaut Delays First Atlantis Spacewalk |
Audit: 39% of Mobile Calls Don’t Meet Minimum Voice-Quality Standard |
Organic Solar Cells: Electricity from a Thin Film |
Volvo's Crash-Resistant Car with Laser-Controlled Brakes |
2-8-2008 |
Clearing the
Air About Traveling with Batteries |
Woman Shoots Others, Self at Louisiana Technical College |
ARM Google Phone Platform Demo Due Monday |
Hybrid Electric Vehicles Not as Green as They are Painted, Analysts
Contend |
Sun's 'Disturbingly Quiet' Cycle Prompts Fear of Global Cooling |
Rohde &
Schwarz Appoints New President and COO |
Electronic Manufacturing Capacity to See Global Rebalancing |
European Roadmap for Photonics and Nanotechnologies |
France's
President Sarkozy Sues Over Fake SMS |
Chinese Cell Phone Shipments Expected to Slow |
Microsoft Shatters $900 Million Global Software Piracy Ring |
NEC Reconfigures Analogue Baseband IC for Software Defined Radio |
Patent Court Affirms Kodak Digital Imaging Win over Ampex |
Human Dynamo: How Energy from Your Knees Could Power an iPod |
Organic Solar Cells: Electricity from a Thin Film |
ISSCC: Engineers Should Seek 'Design for Environment' |
First Chevrolet Vehicle to Offer XM NavTraffic Service |
2-7-2008 |
Graphene May be Best Conductor Ever |
Watch the Space Shuttle Launch Live 2:45 pm EST |
ISSCC Shrinks 11n, Wimax and Bluetooth |
Rewritable
Holograms Could Appear in Mobile Phones |
Intel, ST Claim Phase Change Memory Prototypes |
64-bit RFID Tag Could Replace Bar Codes |
European
Operators Slash Mobile Data Roaming Rates |
2-6-2008 |
Fujitsu Presents First 77 GHz CMOS-Based PA |
"Source" Disavows Inflated NTIA BPL Figure |
Robot Pumps Gas at Dutch Filling Station |
Rugged
SIM Cards for Rough Conditions |
Harris Corp. to Provide American Forces Network with Broadcast Communications
System |
NASA Plans to Launch up to Six Space Shuttles in 2008 |
Single-Molecule Sensing Breakthrough: Optical and Electronic Measurements
Made Simultaneously |
Key to Fusion
Power May be Found in Space |
Ultralife Receives $4.4M in Military Battery Orders |
Ticket Scalpers Thrive in China's Frozen Transport Chaos |
$1M Adds a Letter "S" to an Internet Address |
2-5-2008 |
Commerce Department Slams Patent Reform Effort |
Wireless Front End Remains an Integration Challenge |
New Way to Kill Viruses: Shake Them to Death with a Laser |
Teardown TV - Product Teardowns Come to a Screen Near You
|
South
Dakota Warns About Unexpected Bills for Ringtone |
National
Semi Lowers Sales Outlook on Wireless Shortfall |
Fewer
Than One in 10 U.S. Consumers Recycled Their Old Mobile Handsets in Q4 |
DoD 2009 Spending to Top $651B |
Atlantis Launch Countdown Begins |
|
TV Migrates
to Cell Phones |
Nanotechnology: Entirely New Way of Storing Gas Created |
Son of Concorde: New Hypersonic Airliner |
Women Take Almost 50% More Short-term Sick Leave than Men |
Bush Sets Out 2.9% Rise in Space Budget |
Consortiums Compete to Build World's Biggest Telescope |
2-4-2008 |
Researchers Report Breakthrough for Inkjet Printed Circuits |
Government
Crackdown on Staff BlackBerry Usage |
Campaign Coffers Light on Tech Contributions |
NTIA Report on Broadband in America 2007 Inflates BPL Figures |
Energy-Efficient Microchip Could Result in Cell Phones Staying Charged
10x as Long, Self-Charging Electronics |
Freescale to Pay $100M for SigmaTel |
Price Wars Cost the Semiconductor Industry $23B in Lost Revenues |
Industry Could Pay in Advance for University IP |
Iran Launches Research Rocket, Unveils Space Center |
Scientists Stabilize Platinum Electrocatalysts for Use in Fuel Cells |
4th Telecom Cable Taken Out in the Middle East |
Mobile Phones, Coffee Found Unlikely to Cause Cancer |
2-3-2008 |
Researchers Create Gold Aluminum, Black Platinum, Blue Silver Using
Tabletop Laser |
Wireless Phone Headsets Insecure |
Third Undersea Internet Cable Damaged in Mideast |
Daytime Nap Can Benefit a Person's Memory Performance |
Whale-Shaped Floating Hotel Set for Flight |
2-1-2008 |
Ericsson
May Lay Off up to 4,000 Workers |
India Internet Capacity at 80% After Cables Break |
Repair
Ship to Start Work on Severed Undersea Cables Next Week |
Motorola
Considering Separation of Mobile Devices Unit |
With a Jolt, 'Nanonails' Go from Repellent to Wettable |
MEMS Mix up the Silicon |
RFMD Loss Follows Dip in China GSM/GPRS Demand |
Bids Top Minimum Set in U.S. Auction of Key Airwaves |
Airwaves Auction Collects Record $15.6B |
Microsoft Offers $44.6B for Yahoo |
Asustek
Pushes 'Eee' Linux Desktop PCs |
Dell Closes Edmonton Call Center, 900 Jobs Lost |
Navy Tests High-Powered Electromagnetic Railgun |
Norsat Awarded $1.1M in Irish Department of Defence Contracts |
Columbus Set for February 7 Launch Aboard Atlantis Shuttle |
This is Your Pilot Speaking... and Crying and Swearing, and Demanding
to Talk to God! |
French Army Chief Raps Equipment Cuts |
Winter Freeze Sends Shockwaves Through China as Cash and More Run
Short |