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4/29/2011 Worldwide Mobile Phone Market Grew Nearly 20% in the First Quarter Handset Semiconductor Market Revenues Shoot up 15% USPTO Postpones Effective Date of "Track One" Fast-Track Patent Processing DOD Buyers Told to Chip Away at Contractor Prices (sure, kill the U.S. defense industry so we buy everything from China) 3-D Terahertz Cloaking GPS Company TomTom Sold Drivers' Speeding Data to Dutch Police Samsung Profits Plunge on Low Demand and Falling Prices On the Shuttle, A $2B Bid to Find Antimatter (watch live launch @ 3:47 pm ET) Exploring the Superconducting Transition in Ultra Thin Films Why the White iPhone 4 Took So Long U.S. Army Creates Its Own App Store Research In Motion (RIM) Shocks With Unexpected Profits Warning Tweaking Environments Changes Material Conductivity Herding Swarms of Microrobots 3-D nanocone Solar Cell Technology Cranks Up Efficiency Wireless Carriers Say They Get Consent to Use Location Data 4/28/2011 Panasonic Reports Loss, Plans to Cut 17,000 Jobs EU to Build Most Powerful Laser Ever in Prague Smartphone Units Up 13%; Revenues Up 15% Will the Royal Wedding Break the Internet? How One School Redesigned Design Education T-Rays Could Probe Materials at Unprecedented Level of Detail Sony Faces Global Legal Action over Data Theft Researchers Take a Step Toward Valleytronics North American PCB Shipments Up, Orders Down in March Y/Y Strong Record of Technology Transfer at German Universities Anchorage VEC Asks FCC to Grant Lifetime Credit for Expired Licenses EGNOS European GPS Program to Get Upgrade from Thales Alenia Space Modified Virus Used to Significantly Boost Solar Cell Efficiency Silicon Clock Can Outperform Quartz Investigation Launched into Roaming Costs Between New Zealand and Australia Forensics Experts Say iPhone Tracking Isn't All That Accurate (it only needs to be close to establish a pattern of movement, though) Nearly 8 of Every $10 Spent on OSs Goes to Microsoft U.S. Economic Growth Slows to 1.8% 4/27/2011 Nokia to Shed 7,000 Staff as Part of Reorganization Apple Blames iPhone Tracking File on 'Bug' (oh, OK then) Replacing Batteries May Become a Thing of the Past, Thanks to 'Soft Generators' Smart Grid Could Fuel Telco-Utility Company Mergers Two Graphene Layers May be Better Than One Bacteria May Communicate Wirelessly (Wi-Bi[o]?) RPI Researchers Find New Method for Making Green LEDs Ericsson Profit Surges on Mobile Broadband Demand RadioShack Blames T-Mobile for Poor First Quarter 50% of New Smartphone Buyers Choose Android Connected TVs Forecast to Exceed 123M Units in 2014 LG Electronics Posts 2nd Straight Quarterly Loss American Apparel Adding 50 More Stores in Aggressive RFID Rollout Long After Microsoft, Allen and Gates Cast Shadows over City Apple Says White iPhone to Arrive Thursday NASA Invites 150 Lucky Twitter Followers to Endeavour Launch UFO Group Seeks Funding for Telescope 4/26/2011 Egad! Coffee Prices Hit 34-Year High Army Tests Comprehensive Plan for Wireless Services Most Powerful mm-Scale Energy Harvester Generates Electricity from Vibrations Queens Awards for Enterprise Led by Electronics Companies France Telecom Employee Sets Himself on Fire in Car Park What Does NFC Mean for Mobile Payments? Eight Easy Ways the FCC Can Help Fuel Broadband Deployment New In-Car Streaming Study: Consumers Only Want 2 FM Channels Deutsche Telekom Tests Rural LTE Services at 800 MHz Freescale Sees 4G Basestations with 160 MHz Bandwidth Mathematicians Develop Stress Test for Global Economy Space Weather Prediction Center to Discontinue Broadcasts on WWV and WWVH Selective Encryption Said to Cut Wireless Power Google Bids for Another Batch of Mobile Phone Patents NASA Solar Sail Is the 'Little Satellite That Could' Search for Alien Life Put on Hold 9 of Top 11 Worst New Cars Made by... Wait for It... Government Motors (GM)! Airships and Aerostats Carve Niche in the U.S. Military's Persistent Surveillance Arsenal 4/25/2011 FCC Begins Auction This Week. 144 Frequencies Up For Grabs. Will Science or Politics Ultimately Define Nanotechnology? TriQuint Brings GaAs to the Masses Vending Systems Going Wireless Fabless Sector Under-Performs 'Cell Tower in a Suitcase' - Brought to You by AT&T Scientists Suggest Spacetime Has No Time Dimension The Army's First Smartphone? Paper-Thin Graphene Material is 10x Stronger Than Electron Ping Pong in the Nano World Why You Should Care About the iPhone Location-Tracking Issue PlayStation Network Was Hacked Iran Claims It Has Detected Second Cyber Attack Google Fined for Infringing Linux Patent IMF Bombshell: Age of America Nears End (½ the country seems to be alright with this - how about you?) 4/24/2011 World's Largest Atom Smasher May Have Detected 'God Particle' Graphene's Varying Conductivity Levels Pinpointed Amazon Still Trying to Fix Computer Problems Lensless Microscope Can Create 3D Tomographic Images Another Tech Bubble-About-to-Burst Prediction LED Efficiency Puzzle Solved by Theorists Using Quantum-Mechanical Calculations U.S. Northwest Coast Overdue for 'Megathrust' Earthquake Dirty Energy Behind Internet and Wireless Communications Growth (that's because it is affordable) 4/22/2011 Apple Admits "Intermittently" Collects Location Data, Including GPS Google Also Collecting Data About Your Phone USA Today: Tech Jobs Boom Like It's 1999 (♫ happy days are here again ♫... must be true, right?) Researchers Claim Replacement for Rare Material Indium Tin Oxide Your Cell Phone May Be Used Against You in a Court of Law Seibersdorf Adds NFC to Textiles Self-Healing Plastics Could Mean an End to Scratches on Cell Phones DOD Redoubles Its Efforts to Lower Costs Via RFID Has the FCC Finally Gone Too Far? Could Apple's iPhone 5 Be a World Phone? Light Can Repair New Material When Scratched Subsea Cable Set to Improve Internet Connectivity in Africa Next-Gen Blue Force Tracking System Gets Major Boost 173M Wi-Fi Direct-Enabled Devices to Ship in 2011 Crackling Electric Link Joins Saturn and Its Moon Researchers Find Plasmonic Resonances in Semiconductor Nanocrystals Broadcom Moves on to Top 10 List as 2010 Semi Revenue Records More Than 30% Growth Microsoft Plans Sweeping Pay Raises 4/21/2011 iPhone Keeps Record of Everywhere You Go (iBigBrother?) Apple Overtakes Nokia - Becomes World's Largest Handset Vendor by Revenue Apple Named 'Least Green' Tech Company (Al Gore on Board of Directors) NASA Losing Large Amounts of High-Tech Equipment Arkansas, Mississippi top U.S. in Wireless-Only Households Laser Sparks Revolution in Internal Combustion Engines “Eternal Vigilance” Is the Price We Pay for Our Spectrum India Launches Three Satellites on Single Rocket 63% of Wireless Traffic to Move to Fixed Networks via WiFi and Femtocells by 2015 Wireless Power System Works in Buildings Nokia Posts Stronger Than Expected Quarterly Profits Amazon Fault Takes Down Websites Qualcomm Posts Stellar Second Quarter Results Houston Leads Way in Launching 'Super WiFi' IDC Sees IC Growth in 2011 Cooling Down Solid-Oxide Fuel Cells GE's Q1 Profit Jumps 77% (will GE pay $0 in taxes again in 2011?) 4/20/2011 Michigan: Police Search Cell Phones During Traffic Stops (** do not surrender yours w/o a warrant **) DARPA Asks Industry for Ways to Blend Electronic, Photonic, MEMS Components on Chip Transatlantic Amateur Radio Balloon Launch Dollars Flow Back into Tech A Breakthrough on Paper That's Stronger Than Steel The Do's and Don'ts of Job Hunting Online Novel Cloaking Device Makes 'Larger' Objects Invisible Integrated Chips Fuel Smartphone Growth Manhattan’s Tech Start-Ups Settle in the Flatiron District and Chelsea Tech History on the Auction Block Can Silicon Valley Culture Survive at Wal-Mart? Smartphones with 2.5 GHz Processors Expected Late 2012 Robot to Throw Out First Pitch at Phillies Game Smart Grid Standards Take Shape in Europe 20 Tax Facts That Will Make Your Head Explode Read U.S. Hurries to Sell GM Stake (at big loss - taxpayers screwed again) Carbon Monoxide Found in Pluto's Air (OMG, our SUV exhaust have reached even Pluto!) 4/19/2011 Internal Combustion Used to Make Thin-Film Transistors Apple Says Samsung Copied iPhone, iPad Europe Outspends U.S. and Japan on Consumer Electronics Super-Small Transistor Created: Artificial Atom Powered by Single Electrons Sony Ericsson Quarterly Profits Halved Ultra-Fast Magnetic Reversal Observed DOD to Establish Three-Tier Process for Acquisition Spanish City to Lend NFC Phones to Tourists All Those Tweets, Apps, Updates May Drain Brain Chip Has Most Transistors Ever? Shipments of GPS-Enabled GSM/WCDMA Handsets Grew 97% in 2010 Internet-Bbased Attacks on Critical Systems Rise Feds Grant $2.1B Loan Guarantee to Germany Company for California Solar Farm Far-Sighted Space Technology Finds Practical Uses on Earth TI Releases a Tiny Wireless Charging Chip Texas Instruments Blames Disappointing Financials on Japan Earthquake 4/18/2011 H-1B Employees Can Stay While Visa Extensions Pending Ka-Band Satellite Constellation to Benefit Military Forces Huawei Full Year Profits Up by 30% to $2.5B Army Smart-Phone Efforts Face Uphill Battle Cellphone Retail Sales Disappoint RIM Studies Bid for Nortel Wireless Patents Europe to Open Up GSM Spectrum to LTE and WiMAX Services Saudis Slash Oil Output; Say Market Oversupplied (nice to have 'allies,' non?) Microsoft Launches Office 365 Public Beta Comcast Bests FCC’s 100 Mb/s Goal by 5 Mb/s Gov't Motors Unveils First Model - the Baojun 630 - of China Car Brand (ah, so this is how we keep jobs in America - Detroit is wasteland) 4/17/2011 WLAN-Enabled Device Shipments to Hit 1.2B in 2011 USPTO Updates Registration Exam for Patent Practitioners Chevy Volt May Have Sparked Garage Fire Limit the Dangers of Cellphone Radiation RIM Shows Off Its Blackberry Playbook Tablet Congressman - iPad a Job Killer About 2,800 Shuttle Workers Will Be Laid Off in 2011 (we don't need no stinking high tech jobs - McDonalds is Hiring) ½ of U.S. Households Are Like GE: $0 of Income Taxes 4/15/2011 Is Your Station Responsible If an Engineer Falls Off Your Tower and Dies? (2 engineers fell off tower) Graphene Steps Toward Spintronics Telco Tupply Chain: 'Enabler' or Risk to Profitability? FBI Closes In on Zombie PC Gang More Flights Allow Mobile Calls Mercury-Containing Oxides Offer New Perspective on Mechanism of Superconductivity White iPhone 4 Will Be Out in Weeks More Than 1B Devices to Have Embedded Wireless Networking Capability in 2011 Do Cellphones Cause Brain Cancer? (here we go again) Galileo Honored by Vatican on Telescope Anniversary Hydrogen-Producing Catalysts Could Replace Lithium Batteries Reprogrammable Chips Could Enable Instant Gadget Upgrades Russia's Largest Phone Retailer Delays UK Stock Market Listing Congress Approves $18.45B for NASA Algae Could Replace 17% of U.S. Oil Imports (sounds good to me) Solar Junction Hits Record 43.5% Efficiency for CPV Production Cell Comcast Offers Faster Home Broadband in Some U.S. Cities What the Top U.S. Companies Pay in Taxes (GE paid $0 on $14.2B in pretax income) 4/14/2011 International Patent System Marks 2,000,000th Filing Nordic and Asian Nations Connected for Growth Court Date Set for UK's Biggest E-Waste Investigation White iPhone Coming Soon, iPhone 5 Not-So-Soon Ofcom to Issue Special Temporary Call Signs for Royal Wedding Free Wireless Technical Forum Heads to Oxford Online TV is $Billion Biz (Idon't have cable or satellite TV - Internet only) Chile and Colombia Leading the Way for LTE in LatAm Nokia Siemens Networks Still Seeking Buyer for an Equity Stake 1 in 5 Smartphones Will Have NFC by 2014, Spurred by Recent Breakthroughs LOFAR Takes the Pulse of the Radio Sky Motion Detection Enhances Wireless Network Switching Dire Cyber Scenarios May Await U.S. Infrastructure Online Ad Revenue Continues to Rise (as unread mags hit recycle bins - notice how thin they are anymore?) Physicists Create Clouds of Impenetrable Gases That Bounce Off Each Other Map of % of People Working in the U.S. (shocking!) There Is No Male-Female Wage Gap (post this on your cubicle wall!) 4/13/2011 Rebels Hijack Qaddafi's Phones, Build Own Network Northrop GaN-Based Modules Smash Records for Sustaining High Power Fujitsu Offers UK Fast Rural Net World Amateur Radio Day Set for Monday, April 18 Foxconn Planning $12B Investment in Brazil Black Holes Make Space-Time Splash Ultra-Fast Magnetic Reversal Observed Ceglia Says Facebook E-Mails Show He Owns 50% EU Parliament Calls for Free Wireless Communications Plastic Transistor Aims at OLED Backplanes AT&T Offering Messaging Service for Colleges Japan Disaster Calls Capacity, Supply into Question FCC Says TV Airwaves Needed to Counter Wireless Crunch Israel to Get Two New 3G Providers Piloting UAVs is Becoming a Serious Profession with University Degree Program Feds Charge Microsoft Staffer with Theft 4/12/2011 Are Tech Companies Becoming Unofficial Intelligence Agents? ARISSat-1 On the Air for Gagarin Anniversary Multitasking Takes Toll on Memory From the Clothing of the Dead, The Rings of Unanswered Phones Engineers to Develop Process for Sorting Carbon Nanotubes Russia Proudly Marks 50 Years Since Gagarin Orbit Japanese Quake Not Expected to Affect GaAs Industry 'Noise Thermometry' System Measures Boltzmann Constant Sales Boom for Opto, Sensors, Discretes Ink with Tin Nanoparticles Could Print Future Circuit Boards FCC is Playing Hardball with AT&T Wireless Services Ignoring FM, Prefer Revenue from Pandora Canadian Navy Orders Multiband Satcom Terminals New Research Advances Understanding of Lead Selenide Nanowires Navy Raygun Disables Boat with New High Energy Laser $5/gal Gas by Memorial Day (Prez says stop whining and get a hybrid see 1:52) Gov't Motors Recalls Cruze After a Steering Wheel Falls Off (what a fitting metaphor for the country!) 4/11/2011 Tajikistan Fatwa Bans SMS-Divorce (why do images of the Flintstones come to mind?) Research In Motion (RIM) Eyes a Rebound GaAs Supply Chain Robust After Quake India to Halve Telecoms License Duration to Just 10-Years LTE Capex to Reach $28B in 2014 Mobile Phone Users 'Overpaying by £200' Per Year Batteries that Recharge in Seconds Million$ to Be Made in the iPhone Underground €¢onom¥ Got GPS? Maybe Not For Long! Physicists Discover New Way to Visualize Warped Space and Time Scientists Move Closer Towards Mainstream Use of Organic PVs Tesla, Other Electric Vehicles Poised to Enter the Mainstream Coffee Studies Should Warm Your Heart (woo-hoo! vindicated again!) 4/10/2011 Superconductivity Celebrates 100 Years AT&T, Verizon Slam FCC's Mobile Data Roaming Rules Mysterious Cosmic Blast Keeps on Going Aussie Teachers Outraged Over Cut in Science Course Funding In Texas Instruments' Acquisition, Engineers Might Avoid Job Cuts U.S. Satellite Subscribers Get Offered Free Guns Calif. Lawmakers Get OK for Concealed Carry (Their Lives More Valuable Than Yours) 4/8/2011 Iron Dome Intercepts First Rocket (amazing performance!) FCC Votes to Force Wireless Data Roaming Agreements Scientists Prove Youngsters Suffer Gadget 'Withdrawal' 2011's Top Tech Investors (don't forget Legend Investment Enterprises) MathWorks Adds C/C++ Compiler to Matlab Several Japan Fabs Halted by Aftershock Telkom South Africa Wants 900 MHz Spectrum Holders Barred from 800 MHz Auction Speedier Nanotube Circuits Silicon Valley-Based Startup Unveils Hardware-Neutral NFC Platform DOD Prepares Personnel for Government Shutdown (they already close down effectively weeks every year for vacations, sick leave, comp time, etc.) Test Moves Navy Step Closer to Lasers for Ship Self-Defense Government Shutdown Threat Paralyzes Contractors (cry me a river - whole country's got 'skin in the game') ARRL Frequency Measuring Test Scheduled for Tuesday, April 12 Something's Wrong with Our *@!^ Chips Today; High-Tech Warfare Self-Cooling Observed in Graphene Electronics Army Deploys First GPS-Guided Mortars Europe’s $2T of Distressed Debt Set to Outstrip U.S. (isn't wealth redistribution great?) 4/7/2011 Georgian Woman Cuts Off Web Access to All of Armenia (there has to be a good Armenia joke in this) FCC Betas New Website Design Six States Use Nearly Half of All Pirated Software in the U.S. Replacing Batteries May Become a Thing of the Past, Thanks to 'Soft Generators' It's a Wrap! Nanowire Opens Gate to New Devices Make Your Electronics Supply Chain Green - or Else Android to Command Nearly Half of Smartphone OS Market by End 2012 Samsung Profit Tumbles to Near 2-Year Low, Chips to Fuel Rebound EC to Create RFID Tag Guidelines Addressing Privacy Concerns New Engine Sends Shock Waves Through Auto Industry Smartphones Surging, Nokia to Tumble Talking Shop: Eight VCs Open Up Einstein@Home Detects Unusual Stellar Pair British Police Speed Up Checks for Stolen Handsets Mystery Atom Discovery Has Physicists Abuzz G.E. [who paid $0 in taxes in 2010] Plans to Build Largest Solar Panel Plant in U.S. Coffee Drinking in Your Genes? 4/6/2011 Planned Wireless Internet Network Threatens GPS How Safe is Safe Enough? To Engineers, It Depends February 'Actual' Chip Sales Show 6.8% Drop Chip Revenue Figures Revised After Japan Quake Invisibility Cloaks: Force of Acoustical Waves Tapped for Metamaterials Ten Tech Stocks With Huge Cash Cushions Net Giants Challenge French Data Law Judge Overturns $625M Apple Patent Award Giving Electronic Rejects a Second Chance Tantalizing Glimpse Has Physicists Holding Their Breaths AT&T iPhone Drops Calls 3x That of Verizon Hacker Group Targets Sony Executives, Children As Costs Plummet, LED Use Soars Graphite Nanoparticles Get Solar Power Plant Application Google's Massive Undersea Power Spine NASA, Roscosmos to Discuss Nuclear Powered Rocketry Gold Hits New Record, Brent Oil Above $122 (lots of change, little hope) 4/5/2011 Texas Instruments to Buy National Semiconductor (wait, is this April 5th or April 1st?) Chip Stocks Soar on TI Deal Quake Makes Analyst Raise IC Market Forecast A Lighter Apple in Revised NASDAQ Stock Index UK and U.S. Patent Offices to Share Research Data Fed Launches Smartphone Privacy Investigation Silicon Valley Experiencing New Hiring Boom The World's 10 Most Innovative Companies, and How They Do It Indian Chip Design Market Booming Fake iPads Burned for Chinese Burial Ceremony CBI to Probe Apparent Suicide in Indian Telecoms Scandal 2009 Was a Revenue Disaster for Radio Criminals Target Mobile Devices and Social Networks A New Rotary Engine Design Boots on the Ground, Intel in the Cloud Google Bids $900M for Nortel Patents Satellite-Guided Heavy Artillery Shell Able to Detect & Attack Moving Targets World's Most Powerful Rocket Ready in 2012, SpaceX Says 4/4/2011 A Message to Congress: Keep Your Hands Off the Patent Office European Agencies Consider the Expansion of Spectrum for UHF RFID Fight Brewing Over DOD Budget Cuts Atomic Superconductor One-Ups Squid 'Nanocrystal Doping' Enhances Semiconductor Nanocrystals Millions Caught in E-Mail Breach Rapid Testing Yields High-Energy Battery Materials West Point Cadets Gain Real-World Cybersecurity Experience Chip Market Upbeat Despite Weak Q4 How Blind People See the Internet Jodrell Bank Has Got a Nerve for Radio Telescope Planning Technology's Most Blatant Design Copycats Twitter, Zynga Threaten to Leave San Fran Over Taxes (I would bet that the founders voted for people who always raise taxes) WiMAX Forum Boosting Efforts in India NASA Delays Endeavour Launch Windows 8 is Coming Soon 4/3/2011 Spain Seeks €1.5B-€2B from Telcos in 4G Auctions From Science Fiction to Research Breakthrough Co-Founder Larry Page Returning to Google Helm (the "Page" in PageRank) Ancient Greek Computer Had Surprising Sun Tracker USPTO to Host Free 2-Day Seminar on Protecting Against Intellectual Property Theft in China 2x Number of People Work in Government Than in Manufacturing (no wonder we're broke!) 4/1/2011 IEEE Approves IEEE 802.16m - Advanced Mobile Broadband Wireless Standard April Fool's Day: Tech Companies In on the Jokes Congress Hears Two Views on H-1B Visas Android Will Seize 45% of Smartphone Market by 2016 (something else always comes along) Mobile Phone Adds Brain to Stratosphere Research 14 Qbits: Physicists Go Beyond the Limits of Currently Possible (if they did it, then it IS currently the limit, not beyond limit) Two Astronauts Get Their Ham Ticket 'Spincasting' Holds Promise for Creation of Nanoparticle Thin Films U.S. Venture Capital Loses Its Momentum How to Create and Remember Super-Secure Passwords Sites Hit in Massive Web Attack Is This Tech Boom Different? DOJ: Google is a Monopoly (Google must not be part of Holder's "my people") Scientists Isolate Mysterious 'Ribbon' of Energy and Particles that Wraps Around Heliosphere Cellular Baseband Market Jumped 20% A New Method for Measuring X-Ray Optics Aberrations | 
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