5/31/2010 Semis on Longest Quarterly Growth Streak Since '04 It's "Quit Facebook Day," Are You Leaving? FCC Reminds Consumers of June 12, 2010, Transition for 700 MHz Wireless Microphones China Aims to be Become Supercomputer Superpower Panasonic Aims to be Japan's #1 in Solar Business 4G Wireless: It's Fast, But Outstripped by Hype ITU Guidelines for DTV Released at World Telecommunication Development Conference Wi-Fi IC Shipments Set to Grow 33% in 2010 Era of Anonymous Prepaid Cell Phones May End 'Space Laser Tech Needed' to Measure Volcanic Ash Location-Based Service Revenues in Europe to Reach $515M by 2015 Liquid Method: Pure Graphene Production Google Has Mapped Every WiFi Network in Britain Rural Broadband Passes Space Test Radiation-Hardened Electronics Technology Remains Stable amid Steady Demand in the Space Market World Science Festival Explores 'Humans as Holograms' Landline Loss Leads to Layoffs at SureWest "Top Kill" Procedure Fails - BP in Trouble Japan Plans a Moon Base by 2020, Built by Robots for Robots 5/30/2010 China Telecom Launches 3G Tablet PC 'LifePad' to Boost User Growth iPhone 4G Coming to AT&T in June Comparing Income with Peers Causes Unhappiness (comparing to mine would make you feel pretty good) Long Lines in Europe, Asia to Buy iPad Electric Ash Found in Eyjafjallajokull's Plume Invention Regulates Nerve Cells Electronically 5/28/2010 Fastest Integrated Circuit Doubles the Previous Record, Getting Close to 1 THz Foxconn to Raise Workers' Wages by 20% (trying to reduce suicides) Ofcom Unveils Anti-Piracy Policy Mobile Data: A Gold Mine for Telcos Telecom Carriers Weathering Storm Better Than Many Expected: Capex Down 5.9% in 2009 Deutsche Telekom Joins Rush to WiFi Offload Smart Grid Standards Expected by Mid-2011 Protecting the Smartphone from Malware Electron Spin in Silicon Will Lead to Revolutionary Quantum Chips Up to 5 More French Cities to Launch NFC Services within a Year Applied Physicists Create Building Blocks for a New Class of Optical Circuits European Micro Robots Win at IEEE Games Radiation-Hardened Electronics Technology Remains Stable Amid Steady Demand in the Space Market Don't Count on a Verizon iPhone Samsung on Pace for at Least $30B Semiconductor Sales in 2010 Air Force Launches First Next-Gen GPS Satellite Scientists Detect Huge Carbon 'Burp' That Helped End Last Ice Age (what, not anthropogenic?) NASA Revives Voyager 2 Probe at Solar System's Edge If You Rent, Census Workers Can Enter Your Home in Your Absence (freakin Nazis) 5/27/2010 IP Addresses in Short Supply Short-Range Gigabit Radio Poised for Rapid Growth New Zealand’s Radio Spectrum Management Cites Ham for Transmitting 3100 W More British Children Own Mobile Phones Than Own Books Cisco Makes Opening Play in Major Smart Grid Push Ink-Jet Printable Nanotube Transistors Made Easy Mobile Internet Usage Booms in South Africa Fujitsu Claims C-Ku Band Power Record Professor Blasts Research on H-1B Visa Workers Earning Higher Wages Analyst Sees chip Market Uptick over Next Decade (well duh!) Apple Passes Microsoft as #1 in Tech CEA-Leti and Nokia Develop RF Front-End for Remotely Powered Memory Tag Massive GPS Upgrade Under Way Nokia Uses UWB for High Speed Wireless Tags Air Force 'Hypersonic' Jet Sets New Speed Records Cobham to Provide AN/ALQ-99 EW Systems for Navy and Marine Corps EA-6B and E/A-18G Scientists Prove Even the Thought of Money Spoils Enjoyment (not for anyone I know) Vienna Tops 'Quality of Living' List U.S. Money Supply Plunges at 1930s Pace as Obama Eyes Fresh Stimulus Macho Men a Liability on Roads (huh, study done by a woman - on a whopping sample of 22 men - will likely earn Ph.D) 5/26/2010 RFID Chip Implanted into Man Gets Computer Virus (audio will play) OK Legislature OKs Reduction in Wireless Tax SShuttle Atlantis Makes Final Touchdown at Kennedy Space Center 6 Million to Flee AT&T for Verizon iPhone? /a> Researchers Print FETs with Nano-Infused Ink UUK-Japan Push for Spintronics Widespread Outage for AT&T's Digital Phone Lines /a> Location-Based Services Poised for Rapid Growth Powerline Backers Spar over Smart Grid Market Analysis: The Not-So-Smart American Grid /a> Why Using Your Phone in Another Country Costs so Darn Much FCC Begins Review of Regulations on Media Ownership (Genachowski is a long-time Fairness Doctrine advocate) EU Digital Agenda Delivers a Timely Boost to the Broadband Economy Despite Challenges, Heady Growth Seen for 3-D TV Quantum Communication in Random Networks FCC Upholds Decision to Revoke Amateur License of Convicted Indiana Ham Breaking the Logjam: Improving Data Download from Outer Space China Tech Campus in Damage Control after Suicides Researchers Cast Graphene into Quantum Dots Ford Makes Electric Investment 5/25/2010 Private Pay Shrinks to Historic Lows, Gov't to Highs Inventor Proposes New Language for Cell Phone Messaging -- Using Hieroglyphics Congress Prepares to Completely Overhaul Telecom Law Yankee Stadium Bans the iPad Amateur Community Needed to Assist Japanese Amateur Interplanetary Satellite ITU Calls for Broadband Internet Access for Half the World's Population by 2015 (guess who will pay for it?) Wireless Industry Goes Prospecting for Spectrum Physicists Build Quantum Amplifier with Single Artificial Atom Web Science Institute Funding Halted by New Government Nextgen Laser Weapons Present Formidable Thermal Management and Cooling Issues Soldiers Need Better Communications Training Nuclear Reactor Aims for Self-Sustaining Fusion Mistakes in Silicon Chips to Help Boost Computer Power Researchers Claim Quantum Teleportation Record Microchip Sells Back Some SST Product Lines Wal-Mart Cuts iPhone 3GS Price in Half Chemists Report Promising Advance in Fuel-Cell Technology U.S. Cable Service Unhurt by Rogue Satellite World Stocks Sink on Renewed Europe Fears, DOW Sinks 225 at Opening Bell Australia's Broadband Minister Describes Google as 'Creepy' 5/24/2010 Integrated Baluns Shrink Bluetooth Antenna Connection Seven Atom Transistor Sets the Pace for Future PCs Nokia and Yahoo Confirm Mobile Internet Services Partnership Fastest Ever 12-bit ADC UNITEC-1 on the Way to Venus Potential Threat for Wireless Networks Discovered Visible Light Illuminates a New Approach for Wireless Comms U.S. Appoints First Cyber Warfare General China Presses U.S. to End Tech Export Controls Small Miracle as Australian Experts Make Atom-Sized Switch Homo Interneticus? (great new term!) Semiconductor Manufacturing Technique Holds Promise for Solar Energy TriQuint Wins USAF Contract to Design, Build GaN Modules for New Drone Aircraft (hmmm... drones are meant to be shot down by friendlies) FCC Creates 'Casino Environment,' Former Commissioner Charges Google Rolls Out Encrypted Web Search Option Instant Messaging Losing Ground Cable & Wireless to Boost Submarine Cable Links Between Caribbean Networks Skydiver Preparing for 120,000-foot Supersonic Fall (human body re-entry) U.S. Military Told to Get Ready in Korea Standoff Climate Change Wiped Out Woolly Mammoths (damn those Flintmobiles!) 5/23/2010 Industry Study Shows Brain Tumor Link to Heavy Mobile Phone Usage Google TV Could Be in UK by 2011 Cisco Takes Wraps off Home TelePresence AT&T Early-Termination Fee Nearly 2x for iPhone, Smartphones USPTO Expands Green Technology Pilot Program to More Inventions Invention Regulates Nerve Cells Electronically 5/21/2010 9th Foxconn Worker Commits Suicide in China Venture Capitalists Fight a Tax Increase (great, another penalty on productivity) Why Smart Phones Might Become the Army's Secret Weapon Lasers Make Measurement Einstein Called 'Impossible' India 3G Auction Nabs $15B, But No National Carrier High-Performance Electronics Without the High Price FCC Finds Less Wireless Industry Competition Paper Supercapacitor Could Power Future Paper Electronics Seeing Moire in Graphene UK 'Radio Amnesty' Promotes Digital April IC Shipments Weaker Than Expected Naples Police Break Up Phony iPhone Ring Nano-Patterned Silicon Substrate Gives Higher Output Power Nitride LEDs Japan Launches Venus Probe and Solar Sail 2011 Mars Launch Date Driven by Geometry Google Hit with Class-Action Lawsuit over Wi-Fi Snooping Laser Steam-Cleaning for Buildings Possible Internet Blockade in Pakistan Continues (Neanderthals) With Patent Chaos and Financial Crisis, Can the EU Pursue its 'Digital Agenda?' Google Unveils Its 'Multimillion-Channel' TV (sounds like failed Microsoft TV redux) 5/20/2010 Samsung Invests $22.6B in R&D, Capex, to Add 10,000 Jobs HP Developing a 'Dick Tracy' Wristwatch EU Fines Chip Makers $403M German Spectrum Auction Tops €4B Wednesday Quantum Teleportation Achieved Over 16 km India's 3G Auction Concludes - Totaled at $14.6B Annoyed by Cellphones Chats? Scientists Explain Why New Transistor Bridges Human-Machine Gap Findings About Helium Could Lead to More Accurate Temperature Asian Moms Hooked on Internet for Children, Selves New Method to Make GaAs Solar Cells How to Build an Atomtronic Computer FTC to Look into Copy Machine Privacy Breakdown Ofcom Leaves People in the Dark on Future of Open WiFi German High Court Declares All Software Patentable BBC License Fee 'To Fund Superfast Broadband' Roll-out New Nanoscale Electrical Phenomenon Discovered Mobile VoIP Poised to Become the Principal Transport for Various Technologies U.S. 'Congresscritters' [LOL] Lists Worst P2P Offenders Mysterious Ball Lightning: Illusion or Reality? 5/19/2010 NASCAR Keeps Races Safe with RFID Firms Urge EU to Restrict Hazardous Substances in Electronic Products by 2015 Intellectual Property Shifts Hands with Move to 4G Quantum Method Generates Faster Random Numbers Worldwide Mobile Phone Sales Grew 17% in Q1 2010 EDS Points to Good Economic Times FCC Again Denies Amateur’s Petition Regarding Station Identification Nanotech Discovery Could Lead to Breakthrough in Infrared Satellite Imaging Technology Search-and-Rescue Dogs Fitted with GNSS Google Scrambling Our Perception of Science Reality One in Five U.S. Adult Consumers Now Using Mobile Commerce Using Ice to Cool Down the Grid WiMAX Forum Initiative Should Boost Consumer Electronics Products Britons Spend More Than 'One Day a Month Online' Verizon Dismisses $18k Cell Phone Bill Spacewalking 'Superhero' Untangles Cable on Boom Giant Solar-Powered Yacht to Circle Globe Award for Developing High-Speed Wi-Fi Scientists Find Evidence for Significant Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry Google Beats Microsoft in Smartphones, Catching Apple 5/18/2010 The 9-Year-Old Microsoft Genius Will 4G Fix Wireless Voice Quality? Vodafone Quarterly Profits Jump 180% Despite Indian Impairment Charge The Top 10 Awfully Bad Passwords People Use Survey Highlights Jobs Concerns Can Wi-Fi Smash the Data Dam? Japan to Launch Solar-Powered Spacecraft 5 Ways to Reduce Cellphone Radiation RFID to be a $Billion Market in Health Care STMicro, Micropelt Demo 'Perpetual Energy' Thermoharvesting Power Supply Looking for Critical Behavior in Graphene Air Force: Tests Didn't Include Troubled GPS Unit 60 GHz Groups Face Off in Beijing Over Wi-Fi's Future DOT Wants Cell Phone Limits on Railroad Operators Experts Say New Broadband Minister 'Urgently Needed' The Telepresence Robots are Coming Maker Faire to Feature Amateur Radio Again in 2010 Air Force Wants Its Rockets Back YouTube Now Streams 2 Billion Videos Every Day Caffeine May Slow Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias, Restore Cognitive Function (at this rate, I'll live forever) 5/17/2010 WHO Study Has No Clear Answer on Phones and Cancer /a> New British PM Bans Mobile Phones at Cabinet Meetings GPS Glitch Hit Some Military Systems in January FCC Seeks Comments on Newly Proposed Rules for Amateur Radio Operators Using Spread Spectrum Communications Changing of the Guard in Cell Phones: RIM and Apple Displace Motorola Hack Attacks Mounted on Car Control Systems Astronauts Begin Spacewalk to Install Antenna Why Universities Should Hate the iPad The Second Coming of Bluetooth Samsung Starts Building $11B GigaFab GCS Announces THz Diode Foundry Process for mm-Wave Transceivers Top U.S. Carriers Plot Faster Gadgets, Services Silicon Wafer Shipments Up Cell Phones Could Double as Night Vision Devices FCC Gives Go-Ahead on Piecemeal Public Safety Network Construction Top 25 LTE Operators Will Reach over 200M Subscribers by 2015 Study Fails to End Debate on Cancer, Cell Phone Link Teens Learn Dangers of Texting While Driving Trouble Sleeping? Maybe It's Your iPad Scientists Forecast Decades of Icelandic Ash Clouds 5/16/2010 New Energy-Efficient Insulation for Electrical Wires Google Says It Mistakenly Collected Data on Web Usage Students Win Big at Intel ISEF 2010 Apple’s Jobs Asked Gizmodo to Return ‘Stolen’ IPhone Prototype Google Grabs Personal Info off of Wi-Fi Networks 5/14/2010 5 Cell Phone Tower Workers Killed in 5 Russia's Dagestan Transistor-Laser Breaks Kirchhoff's Law, Rewrites Textbooks Armageddon, Brought to You by the FCC Defense Industry Needs Standards for COTS Component Obsolescence Samsung Tipped to Reveal $18B Chip Capex Mathematicians Solve 140-Year-Old Boltzmann Equation Wireless Users Opt for Service Without Commitment Wanted: Technology to Curb Mobile Phone Use in Prison Cellphones Now Used More for Data Than for Calls Will Net Neutrality Drive Up Internet Access Prices? (only for people like us that pay for everything) DOD Struggles to Define Cyber War Researchers Hijack a Car's Brakes and Engines Four Nerds and a Cry to Arms Against Facebook How Radiations Promote Cancer Development T-Mobile Signs on 3G Customers, but Starts Losing Them in 2G Cadence to Buy Denali for $315M Technology CFOs Sound Optimistic About Economy, Hiring University Students Give Kindle E-Reader an F 'Star Wars' meets reality? Military testing laser weapons 5/13/2010 Technology Linked to Happiness More U.S. Homes Going Mobile Only Sales of Smartphones to Total 2.5B During 2010 to 2015 Peregrine and IBM Co-Develop 180 nm RF CMOS Redefining Electrical Current Law with the Transistor Laser Clearwire's New 4G Handsets May Have a VoIP Twist Emergency LTE Broadband Networks Approved for Construction in 21 Markets New Material Can Keep Electronics Cool: Few Atomic Layers of Graphene Reveal Unique Thermal Properties Android Outsells iPhones, Opens Processor Market Quantum Move Toward Next Generation Computing Flying 12-Gauge Shotgun Enables Soldier-Carried Small UAVs to Find and Destroy Enemy Snipers Sony's Annual Loss Shrinks to $439M (oh, well that's better) Navy Plans Preferred Contractor Program Secure Your Wi-Fi, or Face a Fine - Germany IEEE Hosts Maxim Resource Library Qualcomm Joins Venture to Provide Wireless Alerts for the Elderly Revamped Microsoft Office Will Be Free on the Web Good Heavens! Jupiter Has Lost a Stripe (climate change on Jupiter?! damn those SUVs!) For Sale: Thousands of Hacked Twitter Accounts FCC Forum at Dayton Hamvention to Feature FCC Emergency Communications Expert BP Says Oil Spill Costs $450M So Far (real cost is ∞ due to new restrictions & regulations that will now be imposed for everyone!) Artificial Gravity Could Solve Space Problems Neil Armstrong Renews Attack on Obama Space Vision 5/12/2010 Another 'iPhone 4G' Leaked in Vietnam New Way to Calculate the Effects of Casimir Forces First MEMS Gyro Smartphone to Ship in June Additional Orders for AMS JTRS SDRs for MMUMA received by LM ;-) European Chip Sales Index Continues Rise Moscow Fusion Reactor Agreement Counterfeit Electronics Trade is Killing the Industry Messy Standards Fight Looms for Wireless Video Canadian Hams Make Use of New Privileges T-Mobile USA Loses 77,000 Subscribers in Q1 2010 Navy Gets Help with Integrated Communications MEMS Startup Sand 9 Lands Additional $12M in Funding U.S. Fixed-Line Market Stabilizing Despite Moves to Mobile 10% of Operator Roaming Revenues at Risk From Poor Network Quality Caffeine Reduces Mistakes Made by Shift Workers Hamburg's Rail Operator Continues to Roll Out RFID Lack of Customers Killed Office 2010 Upgrade Pricing Drifting Satellite Threatens U.S. Cable Programming Gold Tops $1245 per Ounce 5/11/2010 Internet Approaches Addressing Limit Automotive Project Shows a Single RFID Tag Can Carry Data Encoded by Multiple Users IC Foundry Industry to Grow Nearly 40% in 2010 WiGig Publishes 7 Gbps Wireless Home Networking Spec Infineon Passes Freescale in Automotive ICs Graphene Transistor Could Advance Nanodevices Nokia Shakes up Leadership to Tackle Rivals Verizon Customers Suffer from iPhone Jealousy ARRL Foundation Awards 66 Scholarships in 2010 Telecom Watchdog Wants Operators to Pay for Unused Spectrum (it's the end user - you - who always pays, not the middle man) Anti-Tamper Technologies Seek to Keep Critical Military Systems Data in the Right Hands Samsung Outlines $20.6B Investment Plan DOE Funds Solar-Power Development New Broadband Stimulus Funding Targets Satellite Service USB 3.0 Falls Short in New Laptop Tests Euro, Stocks, Commodities Wipe Out Gains as Bailout Optimism Ebbs Lining Up "Nanodot" Memory People Refusing Job Offers to Collect Unemployment (no surprise - people love their welfare) Atlantis Shuttle to Soar for Final Time Friday Mandatory Insurance Coverage for 26-year-old Children Will Raise Company Premiums 5/10/2010 Wi-Fi to Come in a Much Faster, Short-Range Flavor MEMS Oscillators Cracking Mass Market Wireless Infrastructure Sharing Saves Operators 30% in Capex and 15% in Opex Delphi Uses RFID to Link Phones and Cars FCC Study Estimates $23.5B Needed to Bring Broadband to Unserved Areas (no problem - just raise taxes) EU to Evict Broadcasters from Upper End of Spectrum Nokia Sues Apple for 'Patent Infringement' Electricity-Generating Shock Absorbers WiGig Group Teams up with SiBeam, Wi-Fi Alliance Declining Benefits Keep Older Men in Workforce Messy Standards Fight Looms for Wireless Video FCC Proposes Additions, Changes to Amateur 5 MHz Allocation Wi-Fi Groups Say 60 GHz Can Conquer Data Congestion Silicon Nanohole Solar Cells Aim to Make Photovoltaics Cost-Competitive Sizing up the Indie Telcos Electrically-Charged Water Found in Dust Cloud Raytheon BBN to Provide Precise Timing for Surgical EW Jamming System Some Examples of Internet "Hjackings" Tell-All Generation Learns to Keep Things Offline Obama Bemoans 'Diversions' of IPod, Xbox Era ("none of which I know how to work" - hmmm) 5/9/2010 Italian Telcos Launch €2.5B Broadband Plan FCC Allows Blocking of Set-Top Box Outputs Trapping Giant Rydberg Atoms for Faster Quantum Computers Secretary Gates to Slash Pentagon Budget in Search of $10B in Savings Australian Research: Not Bad, But Not Stellar 5/7/2010 FCC Attempts Strange 'Title 1.5' Broadband Reclassification Computer Tech Pioneer Max Palevsky Dies at 85 Smartphone Market Grows 56.7% Y-o-Y in Q1 of 2010 FCC Chairman Wants Broadband Transmission Regulated as Telecom Service (smells like another way to tax the Internet - look at the surcharges on your phone bill) M/A-Com Buys Mimix Broadband Pioneer of the CMOS Image Sensor Dies at Age 56 America's Behind the World's Mobile Calling Curve New Recycling Bins with RFID Tracking Chips Coming to Virginia USAF Starts Full-Scale Development of MALD Air-Defense Decoy and EW System A Look at Cable, Satellite TV Earnings for 1Q U.S. Regulators Maps 'Third Way' for Net Access For All Chip CEOs Join European Competitiveness Committee Sprint Announces $25 Unlimited Data Plan, New Pay-By-the-Minute Network Telstra Role Uncertain in Australia Broadband Plan Wireless Hold-Up Stunts GaN Microelectronics Market Growth 'Underwater Kite' Aims to Turn Energy Tide (kinda cool) Telecom New Zealand Profits Down 39% U.S. Jobless Rate Rises to 9.9% UK Budget Deficit 'To Surpass Greece's as Worst in EU' DOW Plunge: Algorithms or Human Error to Blame? NASA Tries to Unscramble Voyager 2 Signals (V'ger to Trekkies) | 
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