Technical Headline News Archive - February 2010

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2-28-2010

Engineers Tired of Being Outshined by Scientists

Near-Frictionless Diamond Material Created Using Nanotechnology

India Ups Spectrum Charges for Mobile Firms

What is Time? One Physicist Hunts for the Ultimate Theory

New Graphene 'Nanomesh' Could Change the Future of Electronics

Apple Says Children Were Used to Build iPhone, iPod

Online Gaming Sweeps China

2-26-2010

Quantum Physics Breakthrough: Scientists Find an Equation for Materials Innovation, 100,000x Faster

Raytheon Wins $886M Contract to Develop Next-Generation GPS Control Segment

NIST Announces $50M Available for New Research Facilities

23,000 Expected to Lose Jobs after Shuttle Retirement

FCC Allows Robotic Device in Amateur Band

NEC, Casio and Hitachi Delay Handset Merger Plans

Quantum Measurement Precision Approaches Heisenberg Limit

Material Traps Light on the Cheap

Electronic Problems that Can Cause Car Troubles

Researchers Say Eye Strain a Concern as 3-D TVs Debut

India's TRAI May Allow Digital Cordless Devices in Unlicensed Spectrum

New Graphene 'Nanomesh' Could Change the Future of Electronics

France Telecom Profit Down 26% on $1.35B Charge

Rocket Engine Passes Fiery Final Tests

Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down? Readers Weigh in on EVs

AT&T Tops in PCWorld’s 3G Network Testing

Caught on Tape: Selling America's Secrets

The Worst Timed Spin-Off in Semiconductor History

Tiny Ear Listens to Hidden Worlds

Group Wants More Ethnic Media in Census Efforts (translation: need to count more Illegals)

2-25-2010

Toshiba Adds 180GHz RF to 40nm CMOS in One Device

FCC Looks to Clear the Air(Waves)

Worldwide Semiconductor Revenue to Grow 20% in 2010 (that is what the "experts said last year)

The Top Ten Capex Spenders This Year

Bluetooth Group Explores Apps in Smart Grid

France Telecom Profit down 26% on $1.35B Charge

The Story Behind Google's Doodles

Water May Not Run Uphill, But Practically Flies off New Surface

British Consumers Adopt Online Shopping Habits More Than Anywhere Else in Europe

TV White Space Networks Tested

Wind Energy for Landfill Sites

No Quick Post-recession Recovery for Telecoms Operators in Western Europe

U.S. Would Lose a Cyber War, Former Intel Chief Warns (what's with "former" military people that can't keep their mouths shut?)

56% of Public Wi-Fi Users Connect with Mobile Device

Mil/Aero Group Foresees Shift to Optical in 2012

ARRL Continuing Education Online Course Registration

National Semiconductor Has Capacity for the Semi Upturn, Says CEO

Tech Talk Podcast: The Future of Cellphones

How to Spot Suspicious VoIP Signals

New Jobless Claims Rise Unexpectedly Due to Global Warming in the NE

2-24-2010

Sat-Nav Systems under Growing Threat from 'Jammers'

Chemical Element 112 Named 'Copernicium'

UN Warns Environment Could Suffer under Tidal Wave of Old Electronic Gadgets

IR Doubles Power Switcher Frequency with GaN

U.S. January Mass Layoffs Edge Up on Weak Manufacturing (so how is it we will double our exports?)

Consumer Confidence Lowest Since 1983

Turning Math into Cash

Study Quantifies Tlectron Transport Effects of Placing Metal Contacts onto Graphene

DOE Ponies Up $10B in Financing for Solar, Nuclear Plants (that won't even pay the legal costs of lawsuits filed to keep nuke plants offline)

Junctionless Transistor is Ready for 20-nm Node

Lobby Group Warns of High Smartphone SAR Levels

Carbon Life Forms to Create Like-Minded Microchips

New Photonic Material May Facilitate All-Optical Switching and Computing

ARRL DX Phone Contest Brings DX in Full Force to the HF Bands!

Sparking Interest in Engineering

Army Vows to Cut 7,000 Contractor Jobs This Year (no jobs saved or created there)

'Millennials' an Always On, Texting Generation

FCC: 1/3 of U.S. Lacks Broadband (wrong, satellite BB service available everywhere)

Qualcomn Gets Smartphone PA Support from RFMD

A $3.5B Effort Aims to Help Tech Start-Ups

2-23-2010

Metamaterials Antenna Supports Multiple Bands

FCC Will Submit Broadband Plan to Congress on March 17

Stars Can Teach Us a Thing or Two about Manufacturing Carbon Nanotubes

CERN on Trial: Could a Lawsuit Shut the LHC Down?

Silicon Wafer Revenues Fell 41% in 2009 (remember all year claims were of a pick-up... never believe an expert prediction in markets or weather)

Intel Plans $2B Fund to Invest in U.S. Companies

Top-5 Mobile Phone Vendors Lost Market Share in 2009

World's Largest Cruise Ship Launches RFID-Based Passenger-Tracking System

Scope Kit Makes Four 30 GHz Channels

USPTO: Recently Announced Changes to USPTO’s Examiner Count System Go into Effect

Many Still Leery of Web, Survey Shows

Photons Led Astray: Investigating the Random Motion of Quantum Particles

It's a Golden Year for Lasers

USC, NSF to Shoot for Science Literacy (could be good, but probably not)

Broadband Tax Condemned as 'Unfair' by MPs

AT&T, Verizon and Sprint 4G: Not So Fast

SAIC Wins $351M TO for Technical, Engineering Services to Naval Surface Warfare Center - Crane Division

Smart Neighborhood Grids on Their Way

Injured Colorado Skier Uses Amateur Radio to Summon Help

What Radioactive Plutonium Feels Like

2-22-2010

Junctionless Transistor Could Simplify Chip Making

'Mountains' of E-Waste Threaten Developing World

School Webcam Spying Holds Lessons for Businesses

Quantum Leap for Phonon Lasers

For Chip Makers, the Next Battle Is in Smartphones

Management of Wireless Services Can Save Companies 10-35% of Costs

RAB Announces 2009 Industry Earnings Down 18%

RFID Readers That Sense Distance

Space Shuttle Endeavour Lands at Night (combo IR camera and out-the-window view)

Google Can Sell Power Like a Utility

Nanotechnology Sparks Energy Storage on Paper and Cloth

Scientists to Restart World's Most Powerful Atom Smasher

Spies and Hackers Exploit World Cyber Rule Void

CU Physicists Use Ultra-Fast Lasers to Open Doors to New Technologies Unheard of a Few Years Ago

Power Naps Boost Your Brain

Broadband Plan's Working Recommendations for Key National Priorities Unveiled

PleaseRobMe.com Wants to Turn Into a Real Security Operation

Fuel Cell Financials

Climate Scientists Withdraw Journal Claims of Rising Sea Levels (hope you didn't sell your prime oceanfront property yet)

U.S. Experts Close in on Google Hackers

2-21-2010

NFC Demand is Here; Bring on the Handsets

Can the Internet Be Food for Your Brain?

Silicon-Coated Nanonets Could Build a Better Li-Ion Battery

Government Motors (GM) CEO Receives $9M Pay Package (what about that $500k cap for bailout fund CEOs that Obama promised?)

Life's Smallest Motor Moves Like a Seesaw

Motion Picture Academy Honors Nerds of Filmmaking

2-19-2010

Business Group Calls for U.S. IP Strategy Plan

Most Precise Test Yet of Einstein's Gravitational Red Shift

Semiconductor Obsolescence Leads to Gray Market Practices

Public Schools to Open Doors for After-Hours Internet Access

Hittite's 1W Power Amplifier Modules for Telecom, Test & Military Applications

New Study Shows Vacationers Not Happier after Their Break

PA School Used Webcams to Spy on Students at Home

Photosynthesis: A New Source of Electrical Energy?

Harris Wins $25M Contract for Communications Backbone of Army Battle Command System

Silicon Valley Takes Helm in Wireless World

Internet Will Drive Sales Growth, Says Digi-Key (people not reading print magazines)

Police Push for Warrantless Searches of Cell Phones

Hollywood Movies Follow a Mathematical Formula

Google Leverages Wireless Supply Chain to Reshape Mobile Business

2 Chinese Schools Said to Be Tied to Online Attacks

Broadband Stimulus Update: RUS Sends out Rejection Notices

GSA, DISA Launch Commercial Satellite Solicitation

Silicon-on-Sapphire RF Switch from Peregrine

U.K. Government Unveils Secret 'X-Files'

Pollution Problem Looms from Discarded CRTs

2-18-2010

U.S.: Fake Parts Threaten Electronic Market

Wireless Operators Facing Data Capacity Issues

Can Graphene Nanoribbons Replace Silicon?

A Step Towards Germanium Nanoelectronics

Nokia Remains Top Gog in Handsets, Despite Growing Smartphone Competition

RFID System Tracks Trips, Fringe Benefits, for Bike Commuters

More Than 75,000 Computer Systems Hacked in One of Largest Cyber Attacks

Get On the Air for the ARRL Rookie Roundup

Agilent's New LTE Applications Target 4G System-Level Designers

How Does the Proton Get Its Spin?

MegaPhase Introduces "Cash for Cables" Trade-in Program

More Than 1B Mobile Workers Worldwide by Year's End

1-Step Graphene Doping Could Enable CMOS Graphene Transistors

Scientist Finds PageRank-Type Algorithm from the 1940s

Distributed Energy Development

How to Make the Internet a Lot Faster

Tech Industry Catches Its Breath

HP Profit Jumps 25% (helped by the 2 new computers I bought)

Stimulus Plan Home Weatherizing Program Cost Taxpayers $57,362 Each (Cash for Clunkers "only" cost $24,000 per car)

Top UN Climate Official Resigning

2-17-2010

Feds Allow Prison Phone Jamming Test

Military Could Lose Its Technological Edge

Gold and Silver Nanowires Bond Naturally, Stay Strong

Sony Ericsson Censured Over "Misleading" Television Advert

Smartphones Under Growing Threat from Hackers

EU Project to Define Next Gen Design Methodologies

Near-Threshold Computing Could Enable up to 100x Reduction in Power Consumption

Internet Addiction: A Mental Illness?

Verizon Will Let Users Make Free Skype Calls

MIT Researchers Simplify Energy Harvesting Circuits

Astronauts Bask in Spectacular Views from New Space Windows

ISO Releases New RFID Standard for Supply Chain Applications

First Signs of Broadband Plan Scale-Back Include Dig at FCC Predecessor

QEX -- the March/April 2010 Issue Coming Soon

New Results Confirm Standard Neutrino Theory

Sights and Sounds of the 2010 Toy Fair

U.S. Officials Rehearse Fending Off Cyberattack

Bill Gates and the 'Nuclear Renaissance'

Obama Announces $8 Billion for New Nuclear Power Plants (don't be fooled by sudden interest in nuclear - they will spend 'Stimulus' tax money to build, but will never commission plants)

GE Hitachi's Answer to Nuclear Waste

2-16-2010

French Government Offers €3M Funding for NFC and RFID Innovations

Smartphones a Growing Problem for Networks

FCC - Broadband: Our Enduring Engine for Prosperity and Opportunity

Vodafone Debuts Cheapest Mobile Phone Ever

Turning to Video to Help You Land a Dream Job

The Hottest Science Experiment on the Planet

ITU Sees 5B Mobile Subscriptions Globally in 2010

Silicon-Coated Nanonets Could Build a Better Li-Ion Battery

RIM Debuts New BlackBerry Browser to Challenge iPhone

Diamonds Could Advance Quantum Science, Technology

A Billion Consumer Devices to Be Powered Wirelessly by 2019

FCC to Propose Higher Broadband Speeds

Space Industry Key to UK Economy

GM Scientists Create Remarkable Releasable Adhesives

Failure to Address Women Loses Mobile Operators $13B a Year

Astronauts Move Old ISS Docking Port

Testing Times for LTE Systems

Qwest Profit Falls 39%

Google and Yahoo Raise Doubts over Australia's Planned Net Filters

Lake Erie Frozen Over for First Time in 14 Years (I live in Erie, PA - dang global warming!)

2-15-2010

Single-Step Technique Produces Both P-Type and N-Type Doping for Future Graphene Devices

Intel's Gargini Pushes III-V-on-Silicon as 2015 Transistor Option

Scientists Turn Light into Electrical Current Using a Golden Nanoscale System

Wireless Carriers Unite on Mobile Apps Project

Teardown: Falling Costs to Make Femtocells Soar in 2010

MWC2010: RF Transceiver Tackles Cost of Femtocells

ITU Sees 5B Mobile Subscriptions Globally in 2010

Metal Oxide 'Can Transform'

Diamond-Based Nanowire Devices Now Possible

TNT Express Says RFID Keeps Its Cages Rolling Across Europe

FBI Knows Where You Are, Thanks to Your Cell Phone

Ericsson's CEO Foresees Industry Shift

Trouble in Space Station Construction

Laser Weapon Knocks Down Missile in Test

Photographing the Invisible

Cities Prepare for Life With the Electric Car (lawyers looking forward to electrocution lawsuits)

Microsoft Launches Windows 7 for Mobile

The Great Climate Change Retreat

Court Finds Constitutional Significance in Defendant's Failure to Password-Protect Home Wireless Network

2-14-2010

U.S. Successfully Tests Airborne Laser on Missile

Breakthrough for Mobile Television

Recovery Expected to Continue in Electronics Supply Chain

Agilent and Silicon Hive to Demonstrate Programmable Digital RF Processing at 2010 Mobile World Congress

RFMD to Present Innovative New Products and Technologies at 2010 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona

New UK Tax Bombshell: 20% VAT (time for Brits to have a Tea Party of their own?)

2/12/2010

International Patent Filing Declines

Coil in Wall Could Wirelessly Power Multiple Electronic Devices

Motorola Says Will Split in Two in Early 2011

Sparse U.S. Listings Prompt Rush on China I.P.O.s

FCC May Pay Broadcasters for Airwaves

Stanford Finds Computer Science Students Cheat More Than Others

U.S. Ranked 2nd on Useful Connectivity Scorecard

Endeavor Astronauts Install Node on Space Station

Wireless Eliminates Ground Loop Noise

Microwave Update 2010 Comes to Southern California

Frisbee Inventor Fred Morrison Dies at 90

Mobile World Congress Preview: Netbooks to Soar, Femtocell Gadgets May Flop

Rethinking Networking

Home Computers Around the World Unite to Map the Milky Way (MilkyWay@Home)

Printable Electronics PETEC to Develop Flexible Displays with AZ U.

Feds Push for Tracking Cell Phones

Poor Plastic Selection Caused Toyota Gas Pedal Failures

Ultra Hybrid Gets 500 Miles Per Tank

Russia Nabs Meteorite Smuggling Ring

Rare Snowfall in Rome as Cold Snap Grips Italy

2/11/2010

First CMOS 3G Power Amp Heads for Mobile World Congress

Report Warns Silicon Valley Could Lose Its Edge

ITU Digitizes Historical Archives

Artech House Announces "Discrete Oscillator Design..."

Nitride Semiconductor Illumination Through Sapphire Pyramids

Wi-Fi at the Speed of Light

Google to Offer 'Ultra High-Speed' Broadband in U.S.

California Water Utility Uses RFID to Reduce Terrorism Risk

Smartphone Market Gaining Momentum

Efficient Solar Cells from Cheaper Materials

MIT: Unraveling Black Hole Spin

France Falls Under Internet Censorship

Iran Shuts Down Gmail, Announces National E-Mail Service

Government Calls for Action on Mobile Phone Crime

Porsche Has Flywheel Generator

Cyber-Attack Strikes Washington to Test Government Response

Sweden Beats U.S. to Top Tech Usage Ranking

Top Efficiency: Solid State Lighting

Tracking the Sun

Physicists Discover How to Entangle At High Temperature (there's a double entendre in there somewhere)

2/10/2010

Extra Large Carbon with Heaviest Halo Nucleus Discovered

GSA, DISA Ready $5B Satellite Opportunity

Wafers to Get Bigger

Toyota Recalls: Deeper Engineering Implications

Technology Forces Career Change on Burglars

Hittite's New January 2010 Selection Guide Released

Ericsson: We Have Nothing Against Femtos

High-Performance Microring Resonator Developed

Wireless Control in the Process Industries: Blasphemy or Common Sense?

A 50-Watt Cellular Network from India

Perfectly Shaped Solid Components

Mobile Broadband Investment Set to Soar As HSPA Connections Pass 200M

Science Wins in U.S. 2011 Budget

China Confirmed as World’s Top Exporter

Your Cell Phone Company's Dirty Little Secret

Hybrid Opportunities for Suppliers of Automotive Electronics

A Short Video History of Negative Tech Ads

Space Shuttle Endeavour Docks at Space Station

Win 7 Battery Life Issue: What's Making Notebook Batteries Die?

New Solar Observatory to Unlock Sun's Mysteries

2/9/2010

Motorola Retains Top Spot in U.S. Handset Market

Smartphone Keys Get Quantum Trick

BT Confirms One Millionth Wi-Fi Hotspot

Certifications No Substitute for Technical Acumen (who'd have guessed)

Fractal Patterns May Be Key to Semiconductor Magnetism

ULP Bluetooth Module Aims at Watches

Streaming Video Drove 72% Global Increase in Mobile Data Consumption

Micro Solar Cells Handle More Intense Sunlight

Azimuth Systems Launches New Field-to-Lab Solution with the ACE MX MIMO Channel Emulator

Sapphire Faces Shortage in Second-Half of 2010

Security Chip That Does Encryption in PCs Hacked

Reboot.FCC.com (sounds nefarious)

Get Ready for the ARRL DX CW Contest

ISSCC - Solid State Circuits Take Center Stage

An Engineer's Quest to Caption the Web

Beer Is a Rich Source of Silicon and May Help Prevent Osteoporosis (missed the obvious... beer-based ICs)

Astronauts Inspect Shuttle on Way to Space Station

2/8/2010

Nokia to Cut 285 Jobs in Finland

An Analyst's 10 Reasons to Be Cheerful

Second 'Quantum Logic Clock' Based on Aluminum Ion Is Now World's Most Precise Clock

ZTE Takes Top Spot in Chinese Patents Rankings

Rockwell Collins Advances Next-Gen GPS by Tracking New Military Signal

U.S. Solar Market to Double in the Next Year

Graphene Transistors that Can Work at Blistering Speeds

Meshing of U.S. and Allied Defense Sensors Gaining Importance

2010 ARRL Field Day Packets Now Available

Cree Breaks 200 lm/W Barrier, Demos 208 lm/W in Lab

Wireless Control in the Factory: In Search of a Standard

Swiss Farm Store Tries RFID-Enabled Self-Serve Shopping

IBM Unveils Eco-Friendly Chips

Endeavour Lifts Off on Two-Week Mission

Australia to Become "The Science Country"

Wolfram|Alpha Makes a Strong Argument for Virtual Keyboards

Army Needs Radar Fire Control to Help Defend against Rockets, Artillery, and Mortar Rounds

Freezing Point of Supercooled Water Varies with Electric Charge

20 Essential Things to Know About HTML5

China Shuts Down Training Website for Hackers

2/7/2010

Corning Sheds Light on FTTH Optical Trends

Universities Log On to Hand-Held Mobile Apps

USPTO Announces Interim Procedure for Patentees to Request Patent Term Adjustment Recalculation

Quantum Computing Leap Forward: Altering a Lone Electron Without Disturbing Its Neighbors

Warning: Your Cell Phone May Be Hazardous to Your Health

Agilent's Collaboration with CMC Microsystems Provides EDA Tools to Universities and Colleges Across Canada

Your Job Really Can Bore You to Death

2/5/2010

High-Tech to Keep Super Bowl on Track

IBM Demos 100-GHz Graphene Transistor

EU Says Chip Industry Is Second Highest R&D Spender

High, Not Flat: Nanowires for a New Chip Architecture

Prius Problems Put Spotlight on Car Electronics

Record-Breaking LHC Collisions Offer First Glimpse of Physics at New Energy Frontier

Micronetics Introduces Our ROHS Compliant MW500-1840 VCO

Key Milestone Reached on Road to Graphene-Based Electronic Devices

ZigBee Firm Signs Ismosys for European Metering Move

NEDA Targets Counterfeit Components with Return Guidelines

Highways Agency Evaluating Mobile Phone-Based Driver Monitoring

NASA Invites Public to Tweet Questions to the ISS

Scientists to Exhume Remains of Danish Astronomer Tycho Brahe

iPhone Apps Could Spy on You

Optus Buys Australian 3G Radio Spectrum from Qualcomm

Net Neutrality Objections Fade, Congress to Pass NBCU + Comcast

How Legal Wiretaps Could Let Hackers In

U.S. Teens Lose Interest in Blogging

Pluto's Dynamic Surface Revealed by Hubble Images

Microsoft to Patch 17-Year-Old Computer Bug

2/4/2010

FCC May Redraw Spectrum Allocations in Broadband Plan

Army Developers Envision Radios with Smarts

Panel: Outsourcing is 'Cruel' But Necessary

Smartphone Market Grew 39% in Q4 2009

First Germanium Laser Brings Us Closer to 'Optical Computers'

S. Korean, U.S. Firms Embroiled in Chip Espionage Case

EU Blasts Sweden over Failure to Store Data on People's Phone Calls, Email

Hitachi Returns to Profit, Replacing CEO

Crane Completes Tender Offer to Acquire Merrimac Industries

Sun’s Chief Executive Tweets His Resignation

Scientists Hope LHC Will Answer Big Questions

China, U.S. Vie for Mantle of World's Biggest Hacking Victim

Russia Plans to Promote Technology Innovations

Hittite's New SMT Mixer Targets 7 to 43 GHz Up/Downconversion Applications

Google to Enlist NSA to Help it Ward off Cyberattacks

Growth at Qualcomm and Broadcom

Obama's 2011 Budget Could Revive the Nuclear Energy Industry (Hurrah for that!)

Woman Accused of Rigging Radio Contest, Pocketing Winnings

A Look at the Weird Places We've Stuck Tetris

Phishing Attack Nets €3M of Carbon Permits

Is U.S. Bullying Toyota on Recall to Help Government Motors (GM)?

2/3/2010

100 mm Graphene Wafer Grown

Irish Government and Alcatel-Lucent to Expand Bell Labs

Physicist Discovers How to Teleport Energy

NIST Shrinks Antennas 50x with Metamaterials

Japanese Regulator Approves First LTE Device for Sale

Google Shuts Down Airport Wi-Fi Promotion

High-Security Chip Cracked

Dot-Com Crash Catches Up with Venture Capitalists

New 'Underwater Plane' to Explore Ocean Depths

Leaner Defense Budget Aims for Realistic Reform

Robins AFB Airmen in 5th Mob Deploy to Haiti (that is my old group)

UK Monopoly Watchdog Seeks to Intervene in Orange-T-Mobile Joint Venture

MEMS Sectors Suffer, Thrive in Tumultuous 2009

Study Links Excessive Internet Use to Depression

Flying Radio Station Broadcasts Help to Haiti

Is This a Bluetooth 3.0 Phone or What?

If a Meteor Strikes Your House, Is It Yours?

1 MW Tidal Power Project

New Spider-Man Device Could Let Humans Walk on Walls

Passengers Laid Bare as Full Body Scanners are Introduced at UK Airports (what more must we endure in the name of political correctiness?)

2/2/2010

Graphene Wafers Ready to Fab Carbon Chips

Defense Contractors Must Adapt to Survive

First Windows Mobile 6.5.3 Device Announced by Sony Ericsson

Revenue Gain Expected in 2010 Consumer Electronics Market

Spray-On Liquid Glass is About to Revolutionize Almost Everything

NCVEC Releases Second Technician Question Pool

Budget Charts a New Course for NASA (new mission is to boldly go where no Earth climate monitoring satellite has gone before)

Superconducting Hydrogen... Maybe

Cree LED to Hit 1,500 Lumens

More Studying 'On Home Computers'

73% of People Use Blank Password Everywhere

Marine Aviators Test Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System, Begin Operational Assessment

Hubble, Sky Survey Catch Rare Asteroid Crash

Leaked Climate Change Emails Scientist 'Hid' Data Flaws

U.S. 'Severely Threatened' by Cyber Attacks

2/1/2010

Physicists Discover How to Grow Graphene

Global Chip Sales Declined in 2009 (see below)

2009 Sales Above Expectations (see above)

FCC: "The Best Broadband Plan for America: First, Do No Harm"

AT&T to Invest $2B in Mobile Network

New EU Battery Recycling Rules

Navy Commissions Cyber Defense Command

Samsung Jumps Back to Profit in Q4

Chevy Volt to Hit the Roads (quietly) Soon

DirecTV Explores Wi-Fi, G.hn Networks

December European Semi Sales Grow Y-o-Y

Saudi Issues First Private FM Radio Licence

DARPA Pushes Submarine Laser Communications Technology for ASW Operations

Intel, Micron to Announce World's Densest Flash Memory

ARRL It Seems to Us: Where Are the Spots?

Is Calling E.T. a Smart Move?

Roll-to-Roll Printed Plastic Displays

Results of Study on Cellphone Use Surprise Researchers

Google's Next Step in Hardwiring the Internet

Reinventing the Power Grid

Supercomputer Shares Universe Simulations