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8/31/2011 Woman Buys a Block of Wood with an Apple Logo Thinking It’s an iPad Military Strives to Lighten the Load of Comms Gear Graphene 'Could Help Boost Broadband Internet Speeds' Russian LTE Plan Hits Stumbling Block Freescale Joins Small-Cell Base Station Race Networks to Fight for London's Underground Wi-Fi Cable Customers Turn to Smartphones for Internet Father of Java Exits Google Tablets and Smartphones Spur Record MEMS Revenue Growth in 2011 Ex-Tech Worker in Mass. Pleads Guilty in Spy Case NIST Achievesr Record-Low Error Rate for Quantum Information Processing with 1 Qubit Military Can Make Free Calls to U.S. Using Gmail Lasers Could Be Used to Control Rain AT&T Pledges to Hire 5,000 Call Centre Staff - If T-Mobile Merger is Approved U.S. Government Moves to Block AT&T/T-Mobile Merger Google Explores Re-Ranking Search Results Using +1 Button Data NASA Warns 'Risk of Losing' Int'l Space Station Rising (U.S. investment $100B down the drain) Supernova Seen 12 Hours After Explosion, 21M Years Later 8/30/2011 High-Tech Demand Sparks Return of Cobalt Mines (to open in Idaho in 2010 - will EPA Nazis stop?) Touchscreen-Only Smartphone Shipments to Surpass 700M in 2016 First Noise Assessment of AlN/GaN HEMTs on Silicon ESA Demonstrates New In-Orbit Satellite Refueling Technology Nokia Siemens Projects a 5x Increase in Spectral Efficiency Beyond 4G Company Considers Nanowire to be Used in Photovoltaic Cells Tiny Wires Change Behavior at Nanoscale Reality Check: Is It an Antenna Evolution Or is There More? Microsoft to 'Ribbonise' Win 8 File Manager (even though most people hate the ribbon) Flexible Electronics Hold Promise for Consumer Applications Indian Telco Proposes Single Wholesale Mobile Network for Rural Areas Tony Sale, Colossus Computer Conservationist, Dies FCC Restarts 180-Day Clock on T-Mobile USA Deal Approval Process Why the LHC (Still) Won’t Destroy the Earth The Next iPhone May Be Kind of Boring, Unless You're a Carrier GlobalFoundries Fabs 20-nm Test Chip Age of Robots: Future USAF Bomber Escorts Could Be UAVs. NASA: ISS May be Evacuated by Late November (we need to Un-Retire the Shuttle fleet NOW!) Parts of Britain Suffer Coldest Summer for Nearly Two Decades (AlGore won't want to hear this) Concern Over Global Warming is Cooling 8/29/2011 Wi-Fi Hotspots Are a Growing Threat to 3G Data Revenues Smartphone Users Making More Mobile Purchases Communications Disrupting Solar Flares Detected Flexible Electronics Hold Promise for Consumer Applications Irene Takes out Some East Coast Cellphone Service So How Did Broadcast Radio Perform During Storm? Wireless Phone Networks Stood Up Well to Hurricane Finland and Russia Coordinate 800 MHz Spectrum Use LHC Results Put Supersymmetry Theory 'On the Spot' Industry Leaders Predict a 'White Space Economy' Qualcomm's CEO Says Sci-Fi Future Already Here South Korean Networks Bidding for Additional Radio Spectrum Flying on Sunshine Apple Gives Tim Cook $384M Stock Grant (a rich guy - tax him at 94% per FDR in 1944/45?) Google Boss 'Knew About' Unlicensed Pharmacy Adverts per Judge (OK to be evil since 2009) Windows 8: What We Know So Far 8/28/2011 NASA to Test Laser Communications System in Space Google Brings Ultra-Fast Internet to Homes Near Stanford USPTO and Taiwan Intellectual Property Office Establish a Patent Prosecution Highway Pilot Bluetooth Sunglasses Keep You Connected Samsung Can Sell Its Tablet in Most of Europe for Now 8/26/2011 UK's Atomic Clock is World's Most Accurate 13-Year-Old Designs Super-Efficient Solar Array Based on the Fibonacci Sequence New X-Ray Technique for Electronic Structures Pentagon Operates Smoothly Through 5.9 Earthquake IBM Builds Biggest Data Drive Ever Russia May Delay Manned Space Launch after Crash (no U.S. manned vehicles anymore, but as of 8/18/2011 we do have a new Office of Diversity & Inclusion) Patent Wars Could Dull Tech's Cutting Edge New Depiction of Light Could Boost Telecommunications Channels Is the Cell Tower Industry Set for Second-Half Uptick? BT Taskforce Tackles Cable Theft Brittle Silicon Shows Exceptional Plasticity on the Nanoscale Nano Bundles Pack a Powerful Punch: Solid-State Energy Storage Takes a Leap Forward Solar Cells Could Get Quantum Boost HTC to Open Over 1,300 Retail Stores in China by Year-End Protect Your Electronics from Power Outage Damage Scientists Discover 'Diamond Planet' Increased Concern About Health Risks of Mobile Phones Fed Raids Gibson Guitar Factory over Wood Origins Concerns (trees more important than jobs) Economic Growth Slows to Crawl, GDP Increase at 1% Marines in Afghanistan Admonished Not to Fart (sadly, not a joke) 8/25/2011 Steve Jobs: iResign Timeline of Steve Jobs' Work at Apple Apple Stock Down, But Up from Overnight Lows ARRL HQ Emergency Response Team Gears Up for Hurricane Irene Women Snap Up e-Readers as Men Dominate Tablets 3/4 of Australian Business Website Fail to Render on Mobile Phones New Method for Studying Electronic Structures Developed 'God Particle' Out of Hiding Places: CERN Chief (OK, so where is it?) BBC Creates 3G Coverage Map Unexpected Adhesion Properties of Graphene May Lead to New Nanotechnology Devices Smartphones to Account for Majority of Cellphone Shipments by 2015 Canadian NFC Developer Wins $50,000 Evernote Prize German Court Upholds Injunction on Samsung Tablet Imports SMS Invaluable During Emergencies CBI Report Indicates Economic Boost to UK Manufacturing Beams to Order from Table-Top Accelerators Power-Scavenging Batteries Entanglement Between Macroscopic Objects Generated by Dissipation RIM Throws Smartphone Newbies a Curve Pentagon Report: China Closer to Matching Modern Militaries (duh, we've sold them all the tech we've got) 8/24/2011 Euro Ban for Samsung Galaxy Phone Unexpected Adhesion Properties of Graphene May Lead to New Nanotech Devices 4G to Trigger Huge Investments PCB Production Grew 19% in 2010 Experiments Show Gravity Is Not an Emergent Phenomenon (confusion is emerging, though) Micro-Explosion Reveals New Super-Dense Aluminum $25 Toy Radio Used to Knock out Feds Physicists Build First Single-Photon Router China Says Google Has Not Sought Approval on Motorola Nano Bundles Pack a Powerful Punch: Solid-State Energy Storage Takes a Leap Forward 300-mm (12") Wafer Manufacturing Set to Double East Coast Earthquake Brings Cell Networks Down (due to traffic, not equipment failure) Science Major? You'll Want These Awesome Apps Human Gait Could Soon Power Portable Electronics Russian Spaceship Fails to Reach Orbit United Pilots to Use iPad for Navigation Sprint Nextel Inks Deal to Sell iPhone 5 U.S. Cost in Libya Up to $1B So Far (only 50% of our citizens are paying for it) GE Moving More Jobs to China What Happens to All the Bullets Fired into the Air? (I encourage it amongst the morons) 8/23/2011 Static Electricity from Hair Combing Could Kill Teen Antennas Can Be Embedded Directly into Military Clothing Rare Particle Decay Could Mean New Physics The Death of the Text Message China Surpasses U.S. as World's Biggest PC Market for First Time (congrats to our politicians - another lead lost) Young Entrepreneur Has a Better Idea. Now What? Smart Grids Gain Traction Worldwide Reducing Noise in Quantum Operation at Room Temperature Study Shows Radical Response to Volatile Material Prices College Students Need to Check Digital Security Nokia Shipping Gold-Plated Feature Phone Is a 4G LTE iPhone on the Way? RIM Announces 3 New BlackBerry Curve Smartphones Breakthrough in Controlling Defects Could Lead to New Generation of Electronic Devices 'Smart' CCTV Could Track Rioters FCC Deletes Fairness Doctrine for Good (watch the other hand with this guy) Antenna Clothes Help Phone Signal In Libya, the Cellphone as a Weapon California Bar Police from Searching Mobile Phones Without a Court Warrant Google Gets 18 Key Patents from $12.5B Motorola Deal 8/22/2011 Antennas in Your Clothes? New Design Could Pave the Way Intel Recruits Sci-Fi Writers to Dream Up Future Tech Better 'Photon Loops' May Be Key to Computer and Physics Advances Commercial Satcom Remains Vital to Military Ops After Cellphone Action, BART Faces Escalating Protests X-Ray Microscope Enables Nanovision SMOS Team Receives Prestigious IEEE Award Mobile Infrastructure Market Grows at Its Fastest Rate Since 2004 Nanowires Get into the Groove Chinese Propose Method for Deflecting Asteroid Apophis Blocking and Reflecting to Increase Nitride LED Light Output Neutrons May Adopt Cubic Symmetry (no more orphaned cubic symmetry) Advanced Electrodes for Better Li-Ion Batteries Verizon Workers Return to Work Without a Deal China Ready to Ditch Its Green Car Efforts? ("garbage technology" - thier words) Street Slams Hewlett-Packard Shares Citing a Lack of Usage, Costco Removes EV Chargers 8/21/2011 USPTO Issues 8,000,000th Patent Size of Indian Mobile Market Overstated Cars Vulnerable to Theft by Hacking EPA Prepping for a Wave of Coal-Fired Plant Shutdowns ("under my plan... electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket") GM Says Bankruptcy Excuses It from Impala Repairs (pre-existing conditions not covered at Gov't Motors) € Rallies, $/¥en Plunges to All-Time Low 8/19/2011 Android, iPhone User Stereotypes Revealed Engineers Welcome Rise in A-Level Students Taking Science Thousands of S. Koreans Join Suit Against Apple over Location Tracking When Looking for Love, Women Spurn Science Aliens Could Attack Earth to End Global Warming, NASA Frets (no time to worry about manned flight missions - I'm sleeping better) Everybody Covets That Clearwire Spectrum Avoiding the Next Dotcom Bomb New Energy Storage Device Could Recharge Electric Vehicles in Minutes HP Considering PC Biz Spinoff: Is This the Return of Compaq? New Images Reveal Structures of the Solar Wind as It Travels Toward and Impacts Earth Nokia Chief Warns Android Phone Makers Should "Watch Out" Wasting Time Online Boosts Worker Productivity (brought to you by the anthropogenic global warming folks?) How Euro Hazardous Substance Laws Affect You RIM Launching BlackBerry Music Service China's Experimental Satellite Fails to Reach Orbit James Webb Telescope Moves Further Towards Completion Telecom New Zealand Profits Plunge on Write-Down Costs Study Shows Powerful Corporations Really Do Control the World's Finances Gold Hits New Record High of $1,881.40 World Stocks Plunge on Growing Recession Fears (+300, -500, +400, -600, +300, -400, ugh, my stomach!) 8/18/2011 HTC Says Everything Apple Makes Infringes on Three of Its Patents When Silicon Valley Fights, Patents Are the Deadliest Weapon Google Will Pay $510,204.08 for Each of Motorola's Patents Narian Unveils Suite of NFC Apps for Retailers NIST Questions Carbon Nanotube Reliability London History Museum Adopts Technology of Future (NFC) Air Force Eyes Micromachine Bugs That Can Spy Diamond Particles Found in Candle Flames, Scottish Scientists Say Characterize the Behavior of Individual Electrons AT&T Sues Its Own Customers over T-Mobile U.S. Merger Electroindustry Business Confidence Index Down in July What Makes Space Blobs Glow? Looking to Advance Your Radio Career? (lots of radio & TV broadcast engineers visit RF Cafe) IBM Produces First 'Brain Chips' Nigeria Launches Two New Satellites Microwaves to Improve Drug Delivery Apple Should Delay the iPhone 5 Until 2012 Cadillac to Produce Electric Car (hope they sell more than Chevy Volts) Supercar Maker Ferrari Says No to Making Electric Cars Coffee's Anti-Skin Cancer Link Explained (the wonder elixir keeps surprising!) 8/17/2011 Thieves Strip Copper Ground Plates from Cell Towers Researchers Improving GPS Accuracy for Reporting on Users Altitude DARPA to Develop GPS-Free Microship Navigation EU Scientists Plan Mission to Blow Up an Asteroid 'Hurtling Towards Earth' iPhones Are For the Rich, Androids For the Rest of Us (tax the iPhone rich!!!) What Google is Buying: Motorola's 83-Year History of Invention Radar Spending Continues to Be a Bright Spot in Pentagon Budget Forecasts Reliability Issues for Carbon Nanotubes in Future Electronics Uncovered (ruh-roh) A Bull Market in Tech Patents Researchers Find Way to Align Gold Nanorods on a Large Scale Man Steals $57K from Neighbors Using Their Facebook Info Russia's Orbital Technologies Reveals Plans for Space Hotel SETI Plans to Resume Listening for Aliens IPhone App Developer Fined $50,000 for Privacy Violations Russia Unveils Its First Stealth Fighter (more Russian innovation - wait, it looks awfully familiar) HTC Sues Apple over Patent Infringement Allegations $25 Toy Radio Used to Knock out Feds Are Keyboards on Laptops the Next Thing to Go? Latest Patent Fallout: Could Verizon’s FiOSTV be Affected? Deutsche Economic Growth Grinds to a Halt 8/16/2011 Driver Using 2 Cellphones Gets 12 Month Driving Ban IEEE 'Surprising' Smart Grid Findings Won’t Surprise Rural Readers Rural Broadband Funding Ready for England and Scotland LinkedIn's New Mobile App Loosens Its Tie German Mobile Operators to Launch Joint NFC Payments Service Ferreting Out the Fakes in the Chip Supply Chain Carriers' Lofty Claims of 4G Speed Put to the Test Mozilla Wants a Browser to Control Your Phone Google Takes Action Following Wi-Fi Sniffing Complaints How Americans Really Use Cell Phones Lightweight Solar Panels Can Be Worn by Soldiers in Combat Cell Service Shutdown Raises Free Speech Questions Ions Control Shape of Nanofibers Grown on Clear Substrate UK Mobile Phone Users Spend up to 2 Weeks a Year Browsing Retail Sites Public-Safety Segment Predicted to Reach $22.3B in 2015 China Puts the Squeeze on Taiwan Glass Computer Memory Could Reduce Cost of Medical Imaging NASA Readies Mars Rover for Launch Evergreen Solar Files for Bankruptcy, Plans Asset Sale (a few hundred million more tax $$$ down the drain, big deal) Euro Zone Second Quarter GDP Growth Slows to 0.2% 8/15/2011 Day 5 Continues for Man on Radio Tower San Fran Shuts Down Cell Service to Thwart Flash Mob BART Mobile Shutdown Provokes Anonymous Hackers Google Buys Motorola Mobility - Pays $12.5B, Gains Huge Patent Portfolio Global Mobile Connections to Hit 7.4B in 2015 The Patent World War Bilayer Graphene: Another Step Towards Graphene Electronics Graphene May Help Explain the Big Bang Combination IC Shipments Aim High, Thanks to Wi-Fi Characterizing Behavior of Individual Electrons During Chemical Reactions Half of U.S. Mobile Consumers Use Cell Phones for Realtime Info Retrieval China GaN Epi Production to Grow 300% in 2 Years ARRL Teachers Institute on Wireless Technology Opens Horizon of Learning Opportunities 'Fluid-Flow Cloak' Said to Help Ships Move More Efficiently Rapper's Tweet Jams Emergency Phone System Shape-Shifting Materials Are Packages of Future AT&T May Sell $8B Worth of Assets to Acquire T-Mobile USA Short Latencies Shown for Cancer in Young Workers with Exposures to EM Fields Tweet Here Often? Pick-up Lines for the Technorati Pakistan Lets China See U.S. Helicopter (high price to pay for not just bombing Obama's HQ) 8/14/2011 California Bay Area Mansions Are in High Demand, Due to Tech Boom (huh?) RIM ‘Colt’ Superphone Rumored to Lack BES Support Chinese Space Lab Set to Soar Verizon Site Mischief Cuts Police Phone Service LinkedIn Claims it Informed Users of Opted-In Ad Scheme 8/12/2011 Indian Man Suffers Burns to Eyes After Nokia Phone Battery Explodes LinkedIn Sells Info for 100M Members to Advertisers (becoming FaceBook) Perseid Meteor Shower: Shooting Stars After Midnight Asian Contract Manufacturers Eye Design Services (more local engineering jobs going overseas) British PM Proposes Social Media Ban for Rioters New Architecture Promises Better Battery Graphene Could Underpin Carbon-Based Electronics Codebreaker Karsten Nohl: Why Your Phone is Insecure by Design Android Takes 20% Media Tablet Market Share from iPad in Last 12 Months New Production Process Could Cut Cost of NFC Tags to "Just a Few Cents" Cellphone Market Share Shifting Settlement Affords Affected Cell Phone Users up to $100 for Unsolicited Text Messages Is Your ISP Cheating You Out of Bandwidth? Bend Breakthrough Sends Light Around a Corner UAV Purchases to Double, Despite Deep Defense Cuts Panasonic Avionics Sees 'Massive' Demand for In-Flight Connectivity Chinese Authorities Find 22 Fake Apple Stores Stick-On Electronic Tattoos U.S. Consumer Confidence Drops to 3-Decade Low Amid Economic Headwinds 8/11/2011 Broadcom: We're Not Confident About WiMAX in the U.S. Anymore Physicists 'Entangle' Two Atoms Using Microwaves for the First Time 911 Will Soon Accept Texts, Photos, Video 38% of College Students Can't Go 10 Minutes w/o Tech Researcher Shows How Easy Hack Is on Some Phones EU's Top Corporate Investors 'Will Increase R&D Spend' Dark Matter May Be an Illusion Caused by the Quantum Vacuum New Tool May Yield Smaller, Faster Optoelectronics Vanity Call Sign Fee to Go Up in September FCC Joint Qualcomm, T-Mobile Review Could Put Brakes on AT&T Growth Plans DARPA Launches Hypersonic Aircraft on Mach 20 Test Flexible Displays Could Push Graphene into the Commercial Limelight HTC Calls on Taiwan to Build National Mobile Payments Platform Escaping Gravity's Clutches: Information Could Escape from Black Holes After All Sales of Mobile Devices in Second Quarter of 2011 Grew 16.5% Year-on-Year 1,000 Shuttle Workers Will Be Let Go in August (...making sure "everybody that wants a job finds a job) Two Charged in Missing iPhone Prototype Case Mars Rover Reaches Giant Crater After 3-Year Trek Researchers Set up Decentralized Smart Grid Venture Capitalists Back Away from Clean Energy (they know it's a losing proposition - production will go to China a la GE) 8/10/2011 Smartphone Displays Can Double-Up As a Solar Panel to Recharge the Battery (I proposed that 6-7 years ago) FCC Rules Unleash up to 650 MHz for Mobile Backhaul Ford Investigates Creating a Mobile Data Network Using the Cars Themselves Solar Explosions Could Impact Earth Introducing the China "HiPhone 5"; Apple Knock-Off Sells for $35 Firm Predicts 1B Smart Meters by 2020 Indonesian Tech Frenzy Tantalizes Venture Capital Allocating Spectrum for Mobile Broadband Will Have a Huge Impact on India's GDP Technology Investors Turn Wary on Ventures New Options for Starbucks Wi-Fi Squatters (what - capitalism over socialism from Seattle?) Mobile Apps Frequently Disclose Sensitive User Data Researchers Face Budget Bind (meanwhile, politicians live like kings) Gartner Expands Semi Technology 'Hype' Curve in 2011 Anadigics’ Revenue Falls 18% in Q2 New Technique Scales up Nanofiber Production Longstanding Problem in Photonic Chip Technology Solved Toshiba Introduces First Glasses-Free 3-D Notebook NASA Invests in Far-Out Space Tech for Future Missions Phones Stolen in London Riots Worthless, Claim Networks 8/9/2011 RIM Assisting UK Police Investigations into BlackBerry Use During London Riots (media trying to smear RIM for) Alleged 'Patent Troll' Hit with Large Fine in Appeals Court Rare Earths Get Rarer (U.S. has deposits, but EPA regs hinder mining - anyone surprised?) Mobiles Become Emergency Data Network Radio-over-Fiber (RoF): The Existing Alternative to Femtocells Si Chip with Integrated Laser Offers New Possibilities for Telecommunications Recent Solar Flare May Disrupt Your GPS Improved Electrical Conductivity in Polymeric Composites UK Payments Council to Build Mobile Payments Platform Wireless Charging Market is on 85% CAGR 30th Annual ARRL/TAPR Digital Communications Conference Hackers Take Aim at Prison Locks and Other Real-World Targets Scientists Pioneer New Method for Nanoribbon Production Will the Smart Grid Outsmart Itself? Global Installed Base of Smart Meters to Near 1B Units by 2020 Prospect of Automatic Pentagon Budget-Cut Triggers Just Another Empty Threat With New Funding, Quest for Alien Life Is Back On Siemens Wins 6th Offshore Wind Plant Order in Germany Is Sept. 17 America's Own Tahrir Square-Style 'Facebook Revolution?' (a violent take-over of Wall St. - will we stand for it?) London in Flames Reminiscent of Blitzkrieg (the dying days of an empire? self-inflicted by PC pols) 8/8/2011 Latest Crisis: Solar Storms Set to Hit the Earth Child Finds Exploitable Flaws in Mobile Games Your Smartphone: A New Frontier for Hackers Recruiters Increasingly Turn to Facebook to Look for New Employees NASA Seeks Proposals for CubeSat Nanosatellite Space Missions, Payloads Radar Monitors Runways for Debris at Ground Level (FOD) US Cellular Revenues Rise Despite Shrinking Customer Base Van Allen Radiation Belt Confirmed Around Earth (pretty sure it was discovered in 1958) Nanoscale Secret to Stronger Alloys Google to Fund Bletchley Wartime 'Search Engine' Verizon Shares Slump as 45,000 Workers Strike Why Isn't America Innovating Like It Used To? Army to Trim Civilian Workforce in Efficiency Move (the only gov't jobs to be eliminated) Creating a Remarkable Aluminum Alloy NFC Phones to Get Biometric Security Support Why is Amazon Supporting a Proposed Federal Sales Tax Law? Comcast Offers $10 a Month Internet Option For Low-Income Families (you pay the difference) A Photon’s Point of View Underwater 'Windmills' May Feed Power Grid (this, I like) Post S&P U.S. Debt Downgrade, Tech Stocks in a Rapid Sell Off 8/7/2011 Designing Diamond Circuits for Extreme Environments Google Blames Human for Robot Car Crash Hackers Strike at 70 U.S. Law Enforcement Websites Software to Un-Hang Hung Programs U.S. Credit Rating Downgraded below AAA for 1st Time EVER! (we were told ↑ debt limit would prevent this *@#^%&!) Tax Cheat Timmy Geithner Says "No Risk" We'll Lose Our AAA Rating (3 months ago) 8/5/2011 DIY Spy Drone Sniffs Wi-Fi, Intercepts Phone Calls FCC Promises 100,000 Jobs (call centers) Pentagon’s Lightning Gun Sold for Scraps on eBay Graphene from Girl Scout Cookies (box of shortbread cookies = $15B in nanomaterials) Homemade Drone Snoops on Wireless Networks A Guiding Light for Silicon Photonics LinkedIn Posts Surprise Profit as Sales Double Researchers Create “Antimagnet” Cloaking Device Apple Rises to the Top As Worldwide Smartphone Market Grows 65.4% Investors Flee Bad Telecom Smartphone Bets Patent Battles Proliferate in Mobile Industry Engineers Solve Longstanding Problem in Photonic Chip Technology 1/3 of Adults Use Smartphone Says Ofcom Dream Screens from Graphene: Indium-Free Transparent, Flexible Electrodes Developed North-South Divide in USA Smartphone Preferences Worldwide Cyber Espionage Revealed Tesla Motors Advances Work on S-Model Electric Sports Saloon U.S. Military Scrambles to Catch up with the Cloud Google's Patent Half-Truths Come Home to Roost Here's the Problem with This Market Crash... 8/4/2011 UK Student Wins Microsoft Excel World Championship Solar Storm Heading Our Way Agilent and UC Davis Form Sub-Millimeterwave Research Center Hitachi, Mitsubishi Edge Towards Groundbreaking Merger Spacewalkers Release Amateur Satellite with Missing Rx Antenna (basically space junk now) Plagiarism Plague Hinders China's Scientific Ambition Are Smart People Really Getting Smarter? Antiproton Radiation Belt Discovered Around Earth (no wonder my protons have been feeling annihilated) The Connected Planet ‘4G Scorecard’ Mobile Data Revenue Seen Up 23% in Year Germany Faces a Shortage of Engineers Nokia Sues Chinese Firm over Cameraphone Lens Patent Volkswagen Demonstrates Production-Level Automotive Autopilot There's a Lot at Stake with Military Modernization Programs Massive Cyberspying Operation Targeted U.S., U.N., Others Australian Fixed Wireless Network Outlines Rural Coverage Plans OM Sells Whopping 125 Volts in July! Phone Hacking: Piers Morgan Has Qs to A (what goes around comes around) Governments, IOC and UN Hit by Massive Cyber Attack U.S. Borrowing Now Tops 100% of GDP w/Debt Ceiling Increase 8/3/2011 Free Cellphones Now a Civil Right in Penn. (more like a Civil Blight - my taxes paying for welfare phones) Defense Spending Bears Heavy Burden from Debt Default Deal (anyone surprised? money needed for bum's cellphones) Mobile Broadband to Drive Backhaul Market to $9B by 2015 ARRL Official Observers Work with Collegiate Researchers to Investigate Interference on 60 Meters Swedish Man Builds Nuclear Reactor in His Kitchen Interference Unlocks Faster Mobile Data Apple Fined for Collecting Location Data from IPhones LabVIEW 2011 Released Android Malware Can Record and Upload Phone Conversations Atheros: 5, Not 60 GHz is Real Future of Wi-Fi Battle Damage Increases from Widespread Cyberattacks (I didn't know that - serious) Low IQ IE User Story Was Bogus (duh, really?) Li-Ion Battery Silicon Anode Developer Wins £40M Series C Investment Research Could Help Replace Electronic Components with Optical Technology Nanoscale Pillars Could Have a Big Role in Future Batteries RIM Announces New, More Powerful BlackBerry Torch Juno to Show Jupiter's Magnetic Field in High-Def U.S. Job Cut Announcements Hit 16-Month High Europe on Brink of 'Major Financial Collapse' 8/2/2011 Budding Scientists Encouraged to Develop Nanosatellite Apps 'Web 2.0' Will Die on October 1, 2012 Progress Hits Snag: Tiny Chips Use Outsize Power Global Q2 Chip Sales Confirm Falling Market Android Closes on 50% of Global Smartphone Market China Aims to Renew Status as Scientific Superpower FCC Seeks More Channel Choices in Cable Lineups A Hot Bath for Gold Nanoparticles SK Telecom: All New Smartphones Must Come with NFC Nanocircuits That Adhere to Any Substrate Foxconn to Boost Use of Robots in Manufacturing (iPhone CM) Scientists Build Battery in a Nanowire M/A-COM Technology Solutions Files for IPO Broadband Services Approach Advertised Speeds Oxygen Finally Spotted in Space Inmarsat Selects ILS Proton Launch Vehicle for Inmarsat-5 satellite Activity in 2013, 2014 Vecima Networks Announces Sale of Radio Spectrum to Canadian Service Provider Intense Solar Flare Erupts from the Sun Americans Cut Spending for First Time in 20 Months Putin Says U.S. is "Parasite" on Global Economy (thanks to !*$% politicians - and stupid people who elect them) 8/1/2011 Boston Scientific to Lay Off 1,200 - Moving to China Study Calls for Reassignment of Radio Spectrum to Mobile Broadband Fugitive Caught after Taunting Cops via Facebook Are Cellphone Towers Hazardous to Your Health? China’s Low Roaming Fees Won’t Be Matched Soon Global Q2 Chip Sales Confirm Falling Market Indian Chip Market to Grow 15% in 2011 U.S. Cybersecurity is a Revolving Door of Exiting Officials Battle Damage Increases from Widespread Cyberattacks LightSquared Sees No Obstacles Left Blocking LTE Network (damn the GPS, full-speed ahead!) AT&T to Throttle Speed for Users of Unlimited Plan Manipulating Light at Will NXP Cuts NFC Mobile Phone Production Forecast ARISS Excited by New Proposal Process Israel Finally Able to Award 5th Mobile Operator License A New Way Around Internet Censorship? Making Capacitive Touch Sensors Water Tolerant Shetland Teen Charged over Computer Hacking Claims Weakest Rating Since 2009 for Markit/CIPS UK Manufacturing PMI U.S. Manufacturing Growth Hits Lowest Level in 2 Years |