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2/28/2011 How to Turn a Laser into a Tractor Beam Sweden Starts Auction of 800 MHz Spectrum Rare Earths 'Replaced' by Silicon Chip Thousands Lose Vodafone Service Following Burglary Attempt Stretched Rubber Offers Simpler Method for Assembling Nanowires Interference from Plasma Television Sets Future Horizons, IC Insights Predict 2 Good Years Austria Consults on Frequencies for Mobile Broadband Services Commercial Satellites Plug Bandwidth Gap for Military SATCOM Smartphones - the Grip of Death IEEE-USA, Others Challenge Patent Reform Radio-Guided Technique for Removing Lung Nodules Virgin Galactic Deal Will Send Scientists into Space Engineer Nobutoshi Kihara, "Wizard of Sony," Dies at 84 Google: Bug Wipes Out 150,000 Gmail Accounts January Consumer Spending Edges Up, Incomes Surge 2/27/2011 Etched, Shaped Quantum Dots Emit Single Photons U.S. Cellular Sees Smartphone Surge, Too Researchers Tapping the Potential of Radar Technologies to Advance Aeroecology Mobile Etiquette Seen Getting Worse, Not Better Junctionless Transistor? Deutsche Telekom to Begin Selling U.S. Mobile Towers in Q2 Motorist Dials 9-1-1 Over Rising Gas Prices (you'll buy a Gov't Motors Volt even if takes gas hitting $10/gal!) 2/25/2011 LinkedIn Hit as China Clamps Down on Dissident Talk FCC Fears Fast New Smartphone Network May Threaten GPS GM Falls Below IPO Price as Rising Oil Dims Truck Outlook (soon taxpayers will shell out $7.5k for each Volt delivered) Follow the Money: Tiny Transistors Track Cash Turing Papers Go to Bletchley Park Majority of U.S. Adults Wish People Practiced Better Etiquette When Using Mobile Devices Scientists Create One-Dimensional Ferroelectric Ice 802.11u: Wireless 'Superglue'? Smartphone Adoption Continues to Grow in Japan Intel Launches High Speed Cable Your Brain on Cellphones: Effects Present, Consequences Unknown How India’s Draft Cybercafe Rules Could Strangle Public Internet Access Physicists Develop Scalable Method for Making Graphene On Semi to Expand Oregon Fab Innovative SAW-Less Reconfigurable Transceiver Developed DOD to Slash Senior-Level Civilian Positions We Have Liftoff! Discovery Blasts Off One Last Time Vinyl Records Spin Back into Vogue Radio Jobs Will be Lost if Congress Cuts CPB Funding (too bad, taxpayers are broke and losing jobs) 2/24/2011 Consortium Claims SiGe Frequency Record Watch Today's Final Shuttle Launch Live (4:50 pm EST) France Telecom Profits Jump 28% on Lower Costs Researchers Entice Two Atoms to Swap Smallest Energy Units New Batteries Fix Themselves China Hits Out at EU Subsidies for Telecom Equipment Makers (Communists upset over government intrusion - go figure) 3GPP-LTE Radio Needs No SAW Filters U.S. Back on Top in IPOs Europeans Announce the First Organic Microprocessor Totally Blind Engineering Student Plays Video Game Flawlessly (check out this dude's ambitions!) Why Many Historians No Longer See Alchemy as an Occult Practice Amateur MF Band Allocation Moves a Step Closer 'Fast' Organic Transistor DAC Works at 5V Ground Troops to Get Access to Army's Smart Phone Network Broadcasters Remain Concerned About Wireless Industry's Quest for Spectrum That's Hot: Engineers to Test Boiling at Zero-Gravity New Stretchable Solar Cells Will Power Artificial Electronic 'Super Skin' People's Revolt Looms on Australian Carbon Tax Map Your Facebook Friends in a Few Clicks Crude Breaches $119/bbl in Frantic Trading (while we sit on HUGE reserves of gas & oil - contact your legislators!!!) 2/23/2011 Cellphone Radiation Increases Brain Activity Mobile Phones: How to 'Keep Your Brain Away from the Antenna' Microsoft Software Update 'Kills' Windows Mobiles 'Sister Internet' Kicked Out of Convent for Facebook Use People Urged to Restrict Cellphone Use in New Zealand Quake Zone Super-Thin Superconducting Cables 'Poisoned' Chinese Workers Turn to Apple for Help Amid 60 GHz Debate, ST Ponders WirelessHD Nanosensors to Benefit Military and Energy Sectors Uncovering the U.S. LTE 'Conspiracy' Intel Builds Smartphone Platform Around Open Source Three Yachtsmen Killed by Somali Muslim Extremist Pirates Were Hams Schools Should Teach Kids More About How Science is Done Etched Quantum Dots Shape Up as Single Photon Emitters World's Smallest Computer Created UK and Russian Bodies Study Fluid Behavior in Microgravity ITT to Break into 3 Companies Lufthansa, Deutsche Telecom Offer In-Flight Broadband Google Chief Outlines Vision for NFC Oil at 2-Year High as Libya on Edge of Civil War ($37/bbl in Dec 2008, $97/bbl now - drill baby, drill!) 2/22/2011 Engineering Atomic Interfaces for New Electronics Home Internet May Get Even Faster in South Korea (already hundreds of times faster than U.S. avg.) FBI to Announce New Internet-Wiretapping Push Verizon Wireless Homes in on Latest Landline Alternative World’s Leading Mobile Operators Commit to NFC Body Area Network Spars with Bluetooth IBM’s Watson Jeopardy Stunt Unleashes a Third Great Cycle in Computing U.S. Cities Using Tech to Cull Ideas from Citizens Component Incorporates Spin and Molecular Electronics Model Shows How Scientific Paradigms Rise and Fall First Full-Color Display with Quantum Dots Super-Stealth Sub Powered by Fuel Cell Weather Looks Good for Thursday Shuttle Launch Your Web Browsing Is Being Tracked Motorola Admits It Gets Bulk of Sales from Just One Mobile Network Customer Silicon Solar Cells Ditch the Wafers "Smart": The Next Soon-to-Be Outdated Tech Buzzword (none too soon) Batteries for Vehicle-Mounted High-Pulse-Power Weapons is Object of Army Industry Survey IBM and Black History (good works for sure, but can we drop the "diversity" crap?) Four Americans on Hijacked Yacht Killed by Somali Pirates (w/U.S. warship trailing it - radical Muslim pirates not afraid of us) 2/21/2011 Pilots, Boaters Adjust to Shift in Magnetic North Heat a Nanotube, Make a Nanolamp $200M in U.S. Broadband Census Data Now Free, Open Source Femtocell Deployments More Than Double in 12 Months with Strong Growth Beyond the Home NTIA Report: Income-Related Digital Divide is Narrowing (due to taxpayers subsidizing everyone else) Why Tech Stock Surge Is Not a Bubble. Seriously. Apple Maintains Dominance of Mobile Application Store Market in 2010 Cuban and Gilder Hurl Insults at Venture Capitalists Qualcomm Sees Drive for All-in-One Smartphone Chips Gold Reaches $1,404 CSR to Buy Zoran for $679M Targeted Attacks, IPv6 Complicate Cyber Defense Bigger 'Bottles' of Antimatter May Help Unlock Nature's Secrets Chinese Telecom Giant Calls Off U.S. Deal 2/20/2011 Scientists Warn of $2,000T Solar Flare Global Comms 'Katrina' Chinese Smartphone Makers to Push Price Barrier to $150 Nokia Seeks Jobs for Workers It Plans to Lay Off (have to respect that) Moon Race Brings 29 Teams to the Starting Line Retiring Boomers Find 401(k) Plans Fall Short Women and Tech: Focus on Female Consumers and the Founders Will Follow 2/18/2011 Spectrum Management Bill Threatens Amateur Frequencies Scientists Build the World's First Anti-Laser Solid-State Thermoelectric Technology Uses Electronics Heat to Generate Power for Wireless Apps WiMax's Fixed User Base Shifting to Mobile Switchable Metamaterial Makes Itself Invisible Why Wi-Fi Sucked at Mobile World Congress TSMC Expects to Grow 22% This Year European Telco CEOs Agree to WorkTogether on NFC Standards Solar Flare-Up Could Fry Satellites, Reroute Planes, Make Pretty Lights New Hacking Tools Pose Bigger Threats to Wi-Fi Users Gartner: 2011 Is Year of the Smartphone, Not Tablet Avago Linear PA Enables WiMAX to Coexist with Other Radios in Portable Devices $4.5B Budget Cut Won't Keep Air Force from New Ventures in 2012 Clearwire Losses Widen - May Delay Radio Spectrum Sale Pending Larger Alliance House Votes to Overturn FCC Internet Rules Businesses Waste Time on Essential But Unproductive Tasks Broadband Map shows Up to 10% in U.S. Lack Good Internet (gov't wants taxpayers to pick up tab - I say let them buy their own satellite access) Earth's Magnetic Field Can Be Mapped with Ground Lasers Obama Talks Jobs with Tech Titans in Calif. China Flexes Muscles with U.S. As Biggest Creditor: WikiLeaks 2/17/2011 Huge Solar Flare Jams Radio, Satellite Signals: NASA Engineers Unveil Particle Accelerator on a Chip Navy Honors Electronics Pioneer Howard Lorenzen, W7BI IP Theft Hits UK Electronics Biggest Solar Flare in Years Headed for Earth Army Makes Strides in Smart-Phone Security Theft Gangs Using Smartphones to Steal Bank Card Numbers Moore's Law: Life for Intel, Death for Cisco Should Investors Turn Their Backs on VC Funds? Japan May Send Chatty Humanoid Tweet-Bot to Space Paper Accelerometer Could Mean Disposable Devices On-Chip Lasers Compute with Light iSuppli Sounds Alarm on Chip Inventories Air-Stable Transistor Challenges Amorphous Silicon Researchers Predict Future of Electronic Devices, Top 10 List of Expected Breakthroughs Clearwire Scores Victory in 'Swirl' Dispute No Link Between Mobile Phones and Brain Cancer Says Study (maybe researchers' brains harmed by radiation, not thinking clearly?) Oregon Wants Health Warning on Cell Phones (see above) Cheap Phosphorescent Crystals Could Light Up TVs FCC Blasted on Net Neutrality Bias 2/16/2011 Pentagon Proposes 10% Cut in Spending for Electronics and Communications in 2012 Budget Operators Losing $150M a Year from SIM Fraud Radio Device Could Double Speed of Wireless Networks L.A. County Employee Dead in Cubicle a Day Before Being Noticed (the nightmare scenario of cube dwellers) Wireless Heart Implant Reduces Hospitalizations Periodic Table of Shapes to Give a New Dimension to Math Spain Hopes to Raise Up to €2B from Spectrum Sale Machine-to-Machine Connections to Reach 2.1B Devices by 2020 GSA Ramps Up European Operations Military Connector Market Forecasts Presented by Industry Experts in Webcast Qualcomm Gets a Boost from Nokia Move to Windows Phone 7 U.S. Broadband Speeds Improved in 2010, Still Second Rate Against EU Maxim Shows One Chip Femtocell RF Front-End Egypt Leaders Found 'Off' Switch for Internet Sun Erupts in Humongous Solar Flare, Most Powerful in 4 Years Europe's 'Kepler' Prepares for Lift-Off Apple Sacks China Supplier for Hiring Under-Age Workers W3C: HTML5 Spec Due in 2014 EchoStar to Buy Hughes for $2B Healthcare Reform Law Hires 1,054 New IRS Agents - 81 Just for Tanning Tax Enforcement 2/15/2011 Wi-Fi Moves to 5 GHz for More Channel Capacity IEEE Spec Aims to Ease Mobile Congestion Near-Field Communication: Beyond Mobile Transactions Air Force Explores Various Commercial Satellite Options Unique New Probe of Proton Spin Structure at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider Full Duplex Radio Technology Developed that Doubles Speed of Existing Wireless Networks Defiant Blackberry Boss Dismisses Nokia Jibe Light-Emitting Rubber Could Sense Structural Damage Shipboard Electronics Integrators See Good News as Navy Shipbuilding Programs Stay on Track Europe's 'Kepler' Prepares for Lift-Off ARISSat-1 Deployment Postponed Orange to Offer Samsung Wave 578 NFC Across Europe - But Not in the UK Engineering Bodies Call for Better Careers Advice Hand-Held Epidemic Coming? Experts Fear Rise in Smartphone Viruses Global Data Revenues to Reach $500B by 2015 History Sniffing, Dilbert-Style Baseband Mania Hits Mobile World Fireball Streaks Across East Coast Sky Proposed 2011 Budget Adds $2T to Deficit, 102% of GDP (we're broke and getting broker) Meanwhile... Gov't Motors to Pay More than $400M in Bonuses (your tax bailout money) 2/14/2011 A Billion Mobiles to Get Low Energy Bluetooth in a Year Broadcom's New Combo Chip Integrates 802.11n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0 + HS and FM Apple Working on Cheaper, Carrier Agnostic iPhones Freescale Files for $1.15B IPO (hmmm...maybe RF Cafe should do an IPO) LG Unveils World's First 3D Smartphone USPTO to Issue Proposal for "Track One" Accelerated Patent Examination in Flexible “Three Track” Patent Processing Program Rockers with Ham Connection Win Big at Grammys Wireless Advances Could Mean No More Cell Towers Market for Mobile Infrastructure Equipment Worth $42B by 2015 Europe Seeks Ways to Lower Data Roaming Charges Laser-Quick Data Transfer Getting a Charge Out of Solar 'Paint' 'Technology Readiness' Paramount for Defense Base, Northrop Grumman CEO Says Image Site Hits Back at Spammers Google Overtakes Apple and Sony As UK's Most Reputable Tech Firm (are you kidding me?) 2/13/2011 iPhone Attack Expose Passwords in 6 Minutes USPTO Introduces Online Tools to Solicit Public Feedback on Patent and Trademark Examining Procedures One-Time Spectrum Fee Should Not be Concern for Telcos - Indian Regulator Global Storage is Estimated at 295 Exabytes Echoes of Sputnik in Modern Rocket Race for Space? Gallup: Real Unemployment Number is 10.3% 2/11/2011 Future Satellites Could be Microchip Size Scientists Calculate the World's Total Technological Capacity Monitors Transmit Video of Unknowing Families Nokia and Microsoft Form Partnership ARISSat-1 to Be Deployed from ISS Next Week (see on NASA TV) Gentag Announces Low-Cost NFC/RFID Phone Wales to Get £10m to Boost 'Not-Spot' Broadband No-Contract Smartphone May Lure First-Time Users Snapshot of an Apple Flash Crash -$10B in 4 Minutes RFID Heats Up Production at U.K. Boiler Factory Searching for the Future of Television Printing Nanostructures Using Hard, Sharp 'Pen' Tips Floating on Soft Polymer Springs Can IE9 Stop Microsoft's Steady Browser Decline? University of California Reports on Toxic Metals in LEDs (maybe Edison's bulb is greenest after all) Ground Control to Major Smartphone? NASA Wants Phones to Pilot Spaceships International Survey of SMS Spam Finds 70% is Financial Fraud 2011 Could Be Dream Year for Tech-Toy Lovers Motorola Relaunches the RAZR Mobile Phone IMF Calls for Dollar Alternative (Operation Bankrupt America nearly complete... maybe just one more "stimulus," oh and maybe a $53B monorail project) A Rocket Built from U.S. and European Parts 2/10/2011 FCC Crackdown on Cellular/GPS Jammers Starts Today Startup Introduces RF Power Management IC Taiwan Patent Court a Concern for U.S. Tech Firms NFC Payment Technology to Dominate Mobile World Congress Navy's Souped-Up Acquisition Strategy Would Save $35B INQ Mobile Announces the Facebook Phone Nokia at Crisis Point, Warns New Boss Ultrafast Quantum Computer Closer: 10B Bits of Entanglement Achieved in Silicon Innovation Far Removed from the Lab Will Record Capex Spending Lead to Excess Capacity? Android Smartphone Sales Surged 888.8% in 2010 Orange France Tests 3G Services in the 1800 MHz Spectrum Bands Mobile Operators Need New Generation of Mobile Device Management Researchers Use 'Exfoliation' Method to Produce Nanosheets Hidden Universes Revealed Microsoft Says 'Good Riddance' to USB Autorun The Smallest Computing Systems Yet Nanonets Give Rust a Boost as Agent in Water Splitting's Hydrogen Harvest NASA Can't Find Unintended Acceleration Causes in Toyota's ETCS New Drilling Method Opens Vast Oil Fields in U.S. Heartland (more than Gulf of Mexico, but current Admin will likely prevent it) 2/9/2011 Smartphone Shipments Surpass PCs L.L. Bean Tries to Hike Sales with RFID eBay Launches Smartphone Buybacks FCC Adds New Country to CEPT Reciprocal Agreement for Amateurs Qualcomm to Demonstrate P2P Wireless Technology at MWC China Creates Rare Earth Strategic Reserves EC Outlines Tougher Laws to Deal with e-Waste College Teams Prepare for Cyber Defense Regionals Beijing Residents Sent 1B Text Messages in a Single Day Verizon Plans 4G Internet Calling Service Brain's 'Radio Stations' Have Much to Tell Scientists Ossila Begins Supplying Semiconducting Plastic Insider Trading Case Built on BlackBerry Messages New iPhone Antenna Has Same 'Death Grip' Robots to Get Their Own Internet NTT Docomo Partners with Korea’s KT to Switch to NFC at End of 2012 FCC Moves to Formalize Plan for Broadband Universal Service Program Toward a New American Ingenuity Long and Narrow, Free of Defects, and Soluble: Graphene Nanoribbons Generation Net: Youngsters Who Prefer Their Virtual Lives to the Real World 2/8/2011 FCC Paves Way for First-Ever Presidential Broadcast on Emergency Alert System (Hitlerian messaging via 21st century technology) Catholic Church Gives Blessing to iPhone Confession App Nokia Mulls Setting Up a Head Office in the USA Rediscovering WWII's Female 'Computers' Atom-Thick Sheets Unlock Future Technologies Ericsson Develops Integrated Antenna and Radio Unit Cell Phone Security Threats Rise Sharply: McAfee New Space Policy Will Take U.S. to Infinity and Beyond ARRL Board Sets Legislative Agenda at 2011 Annual Meeting Computer Pioneer Ken Olsen Dies at Age 84 The Verizon iPhone 4 is Jailbreakable Too Canada's Telus to Offer 42Mbps Download Speeds A Broadband Boom in the Boondocks Radio is Emerging from Recession But Some Are Holding Us Back 10-Petaflop IBM Supercomputer Headed for Argonne National Lab Sprint to Sell Dual-Screen 'Echo' Smartphone Will LTE Topple WiMax for 4G Crown? Unmanned Navy Stealth Bomber's Maiden Flight Foundry Spending Could Lead to Oversupply HP's Open Innovation Strategy: Leveraging Academic Labs 2/7/2011 Security Guard Convicted for Smuggling Phones into Prison Nanolasers Grown on Silicon Electronics Inside the Home of British Measurement Joint Tactical Radios Approved for Aircraft Integration FCC to Update Phone Subsidy Program for Broadband WiFi Gives U.S. Airlines an Edge Startup Boasts Better Lithium Batteries Million Cut Off by Finnish Mobile Network Fault The Key to Better Solar Cells: Bumpy Mirrors Creating a Pure Spin Current in Graphene Alcatel-Lucent: The Disappearing Mobile Masts and Towers UK is Under Cyber-Attack Hackers Penetrated Nasdaq's Network 'Death by GPS': Could It Happen to You? Extreme Networks Delivers 4G Mobile Backhaul Equipment National Security Payload Launched from Vandenberg AFB Robot X-47B Stealth Bomber Test Flight Shell Ditches Algae Biofuel AOL to Buy The Huffington Post for $315M Chocolate 'Healthier' Than Fruit Juice 2/6/2011 32% Admit Mooching Neighbor's Wi-Fi History of Science Shows Consensus Can be Mistaken Despite LTE Hype, Wi-Fi Is the Real Deal IBM's Watson Computer Beats Humans at Jeopardy Tellabs Warns Operators Will Start Losing Money on Mobile Data in 2 Years Google Bets $20,000 You Can't Hack Chrome 2/4/2011 Space So Full of Junk That Satellite Collision Could Destroy Communications on Earth Batteries That Breathe Researchers Develop Transistor with 1000x Faster Switching Ratio Boy Scouts of America and ARRL Team Up to Help Scouts Learn Communications Skills Registrar Keeps Eye on Internet Address Black Market Base Station Power Amplifier Transistor Market Expected to Exceed $1 Billion in 2014 Speculation of Alliance with Microsoft Lifts Nokia Shares IEEE Publishes 1901 BPL Standard (I thought the FCC gave up on BPL?) China Maneuvers for U.S. Defense Contracts (why not? they have all our technology - stolen or given - already) Sharing Secrets to Innovate More Profitably Paper Airplanes Launched from Space, Soar Back to Germany, Australia, Canada Apple’s Next Multi-Billion-Dollar Business: Connected Televisions Global Telecoms Industry Revenue to Top $25.6T over 5 Years 75,000 Job Applications Flood Google Last of IPv4 Addresses Assigned as Focus Turns to IPv6 A Shortage of Power in Data Centers? 90% of Americans Own a Computerized Gadget Gallup Finds U.S. Unemployment Up Slightly in January to 9.8% GE Gets Waiver from EPA Rules (CEO Immelt just happens to be WH advisor - utter corruption!) The Ways Science Is Fighting Snow 2/3/2011 Indians Bag 47% H-1B Visas Gallium Nitride Boosted into High-Power Realm Statistician Cracks Secret Code Behind Lottery Tickets Wi-Fi Grows to Over 50% of Mobile Web Connections Argon Buffer Helps GaN Devices Handle Higher Voltages Telcos Well Prepared for IPv6 Unemployment Among Doctoral Scientists and Engineers Was Lower Than Among the General Population in 2008 100 ppb Crystals Head for Femtocells RFID Systems Integrator Lets Small Businesses Try Before They Buy Herman Cain Off WSB; May Run for President (he is Godfather's Pizza founder) French Telecoms to Launch Internet Payment 900 MHz Mesh Network for UK Smart Grid? U.S. Tests E-Mail System that Bypasses Egypt-Style Internet Shutdown New Chipset Embeds GPS and GLONASS Receivers into Mobile Phones Microsoft Says Google Used Click Fraud to Orchestrate Bing Sting News Corp's Digital Newspaper The Daily Launches for iPad First Evidence for a Spherical Magnesium-32 Nucleus Technology Means Age of Dictators Over (or, it has just begun) Video Will Dominate Mobile Data Traffic by 2015 What the S | 
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