Engineering & Technical Headline News Archive - April 2006

• 4-30-2006
• Tiny Discrete Schottky and ESD Diodes Unveiled
• Rhode Island Embarks on Statewide Wireless
• Software May Help RF ICs Keep Pace with Moore's Law
• Robot Shatters Mechanical Speed-Walking Record
• American Express: Beware Phony Log-In Screen
• Microsoft Shares Tumble After Earnings Miss Expectations
• Q1 Chip Inventory Surge No Cause for Alarm
• General Dynamics to Offer Capabilities Integration Services to USAF Simulation and Analysis
• Double-Duty Phones
• Return of the Web Mob - Cybercrime
• Have Constants of Nature Changed Since Dawn Universe?
• 4-28-2006
• California Agency OKs Broadband-over-Power-Lines (BPL) Test
• Yet Another Cellphone Health Issue Report
• Electronics Industry Winners & Losers
• Internet2 Fiber-Optic Line Sets Bandwidth Record
• FTTH (Fibre-to-the-Premises ) Boom Ahead?
• Nearly 150 Million Adult Americans Use Internet
• British Engineers Show Off Two-Seat, 100-MPG Commuter Car
• LED Proto Achieves 15% of Power of Standard 65 W Incandescent Lamp
• NASA Says Comet Fragments Won't Hit Earth
• Software Allows Neighbors to Improve Internet Access at No Extra Cost
• 4-27-2006
• Cell Phones Becoming New Prison "Cash"
• Experts to Examine Roles for Nanotechnology in National Security
• Purdue Engineers Pursue Cool Idea for Chips
• EE Times Updates List of Emerging Startups
• Internet2 Fiber-Optic Line Sets Bandwidth Record
• Mini Satellites Rocketing to Space Station
• Soaring Copper Price Weighs Heavily on Andrew
• Internet Use at All-Time High
• European Scientists Claim to Have Developed NanoSwitch
• 4-26-2006
• FCC Tightens Wireless Auction Discount Rules
• RFMD Delivers Record Revenue and Exceeds Earnings Guidance
• China, Expecting "BlackBerry," Already Has "Redberry"
• Phone Employees Killed in Iraq
• U.S. Investments in Israel Growing
• Scientists Devise Means to Test for Phony Technical Papers
• Chinese VC Activity Grows, Good Deals Remain Rare
• Microsoft to Harass Users of Pirated Software
• New Math: Two Plus Two Equals Three
• World's Digital Divide is Narrowing
• Girls Have Big Advantage Over Boys on Timed Tests
• 4-25-2006
• Developing Smart, Flexible Radios
• Consumer Confidence Highest in 4 Years
• Infrared Light Detector Built with Nanotubes
• Electronically Programmable Walls and Ceilings
• British Government Unveils 007-Inspired Spy Center
• Delft Mathematician Enhances Protectiveness of Military Uniform
• Microsoft Attacked Over China Piracy Rates
• Internet TV Coming of Age
• 4-24-2006
• Northrop Grumman to Help DARPA Develop Flexible Scanned Array Radar
• Second-Hand Phones for Iraq
• Enzyme-Powered Fuel Cell Developed
• Azimuth Systems Announces Industry's First Commercial Wi-Fi Mesh Testing Solution
• Judge: Web-Surfing Worker Can't Be Fired
• Curious Geeks Jam Into 'Dorkbot' Meetings Worldwide
• Cellphones Cited in Car Accident Survey
• Tongue Being Tested as Tech-Brain Interface
• Bill Gates Gets Rock Star Welcome in Vietnam
• Scientist Shuts out Baseball Myths
• Low Cost Internet Access at Sea
• Simple Alternative for Harvesting Daylight and Saving Energy
• Deflecting Asteroids Difficult But Possible
• 4-22-2006
• DoD Unifying RF Efforts
• ARRL Documents Flaws in Manassas BPL Interference Report
• IEEE-USA H-1B Position Garners National Media Coverage
• Expense Holds Back Electronics Recycling
• Computer Technician Charged With Hacking into USC
• iSuppli Lists China's Top Fabless IC Rankings
• Nokia Fight Looms for Qualcomm
• Vision Goes Wireless
• 4-21-2006
• Mobile Handsets Generated $117 Billion in Revenue in 2005
• New Chip Delivers Better Performance, Longer Battery Life for Cell Phones, WiFi, Wireless
• Global Mobile Phone Shipments Will Reach 1 Billion Units in 2006
• 802.11n Draft Technologies Out of the Gate
• Microsoft's Legal Fight in Europe Seen as Vista Threat
• Consumer Electronics Growth Slowing
• DARPA Funds Next-Generation Power Lasers
• LG Laptop Stays Cool with Carbon Nanotubes
• Company Offers Web-Based Escape From Bad Date
• Google Rings Up Strong Gains
• Museum Opens Exhibit on Robert Goddard, Father of Rocketry
• 4-20-2006
• New Technology May Force TV Ad Viewing
• 'Very Rich' List Grows at Fastest Pace in a Decade (why can't I be one of them?!?!)
• Report: Mobile Phones Becoming 'Wallets'
• Internet Access From Cell Phones, PDAs Surging
• HP Recalls 15,700 Notebook Computer Batteries
• Samsung Announces 2GB Cell Phone Memory Card
• Stocks Soar on Strong Earnings
• Engineers Creating Small Wireless Device To Improve Cancer Treatment
• Robot Hall of Fame Adds 5 Inductees
• Chinese Software Piracy Rampant Despite Government Promises
• China's Growing Market Beckons Tech Firms
• Incentia Leads in Nanometer Design Timing Analysis Technology
• 4-19-2006
• Cellphone Forensics at Crime Scenes?
• "Paint-On" Laser Seeks to Free Chip Bottlenecks
• Motorola Narrows Gap with Rival Nokia
• Stackpole Introduces Resistors Arrays to 0.1% Tolerance
• China Stamping out Rampant Software Piracy
• Mobile Phones to Rival the PC as Dominant Internet Platform
• Raw Code Generated at Record Speed
• Bytes by the Quintillion for Today and Tomorrow
• Injuries from Lawn Mowing Increase Nationwide
• Thomson Readies U.S. Digital TV Broadcast Solutions
• 4-18-2006
• Patents That Kill Background Noise on Phone Calls
• Academics to Advise Wafer-Scale Antenna Company
• Pentagon Studying Effect of Internet on Military
• TurboTax Web Site Goes Dark on Tax-Deadline Day
• Scientists Tout CMOS Technology for Making Optical Devices
• Chinese President to Visit Bill Gates' Home
• Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Track Pollutants
• Chinese Battery Maker Disputes U.S. Safety Claims
• Graphene Provides Foundation for New Electronics
• Donate Your Unused Computing Power to Aid Medical Research
• 4-16-2006
• Sand Storm, Pollution Envelop Beijing
• U.S. Military Buys Back Stolen Flash Drives in Afghan Shops
• Gold Storms to New 25-yr High, Silver Surges
• Motorola Eyes Siemens' Telecoms Unit
• Body Movement Generates Electricity in Miniature Device
• Graphite May Be Basis of New Electronics
• China Students Use Internet to Prep for Study Abroad
• Austrian Highways to Get Wireless Internet
• 4-15-2006
• Field Engineers Proliferate
• Is the Internet out of Room?
• World's First RFID-Enabled Arcade Games
• Plastic Electronics Group Reforms, Prints Memory
• Videogame Sector Not Playing Games
• NASA Says Details on DART Mission Failure "Classified"
• Three European Consultations on License Exempt Radio
• Where Can You Find the Best Music on Campus?
• 4-14-2006
• RFID Supplier Plans $120 Million IPO
• Semiconductor Industry had Record Revenue in 2005
• Robots to Perform Military Action
• Manassas BPL System Still Interfering Despite Claims to the Contrary
• Regulators Worry About Nano Safety
• High Efficiency Flat Light Source Invented
• Israeli Security Companies Attracting VC Investment
• Nanogenerators Convert Motion Into Power
• Russia, Ukraine, Launch US Communications Satellite
• Even Terrorists Worry About Internet Security
• 4-13-2006
• Iceland Tops the World in Broadband Use
• Sprint Unveils Mobile Child Locator Service
• End Times Near for Many Non-RoHS-Compliant Parts
• Off the Grid or On, Solar and Wind Power
• Free Wireless Spawns More Laptop Thefts in San Francisco
• Andrew Acquires U.K.'s Precision Antennas Ltd.
• Best Buy's 'Geek Squad' Accused of Pirating Software
• Town Named Nokia Abandons Landlines
• Rice Scientists Attach Motor to Single-Molecule Car
• Boeing Demonstrates Apache Controlling a UAV Weapon Payload
• DARPA Linked to Rocket Prizes
• 4-12-2006
• SDR Forum Announces Smart Radio Challenge
• Firm Ups Solar Cell Forecast for 2006, 2007
• Hubble Telescope Uncovers True Size of Xena aka "10th Planet"
• Panasonic Triples Engineers at Singapore Center
• Motorola to Explain Exploding Batteries
• NASA Considers Allowing Space Golf
• Consumers Still Not Enthused About Multimedia Handsets
• Cybercrime More Widespread, Skillful, Dangerous Than Ever
• Google Defends Cooperation with China
• 4-11-2006
• Fire at Indian Electronics Show - Over 50 Feared Dead
• U.K. to Receive Free Broadband Access
• Paper Battery Firm Links Up with U.S. Printer
• Hybrid Autos: Are They Really Greener?
• Most North Americans Are "Podcastingly" Challenged
• JPL Scientists Process First Color Mars Photo
• Semiconductors Fashioned into Flexible Membranes
• European Space Probe Goes Into Orbit Around Venus
• Hidden Structure Revealed in Characteristics of Transistor Laser
• 4-10-2006
• Wireless Markets Will Drive GaAs Device Growth
• Viruses Help in the Development of Tiny Batteries
• Malaysian Man Gets $218 Trillion Phone Bill
• Subscriber Growth Breaks Record - Again
• Internet Advertising Effects On Business Budgets
• Transceiver Promises to Improve Reception for CDMA2000
• Europe Dominates Analog ASSP Market
• Europeans Rush to Register .eu Domain Names
• Marine Corps Awards Contract for 60,000 Infantry Handheld Radios
• NASA Prepares for Sea Change in Manned Space Program
• Satellite Navigation Finds Its Way to Phones
• Device Only Atoms Across May Allow Infinitesimal but Powerful Computers
• 4-9-2006
• WiFi: The Great Disrupter
• National Instruments Joins ZigBee Alliance
• Four Factors Critical to Near Field Communications Markets in 2006
• Motorola May Outperform Market by 20%
• Google Wins Bid to Offer Wi-Fi in San Francisco
• Handsets Strong, Wireless Equipment On-Track
• 4-7-2006
• Freescale, Motorola pull out of UWB Forum
• FDA to Probe Cell Phone-Cancer Link
• CellAntenna Files RF Jamming Action Against FCC
• Consultant Reaps $1.4M from Patent Auction Payday
• Billboard to Start Ranking 'Master' Cell-Phone Ringtones
• Battery Manufacturing Goes Genetic
• Chinese Telco Wants to Block VoIP Calls
• Collaboration Improves Solar Storm Forecasting
• Airline Passengers Face Lie Detectors at Moscow Airport
• Chaos=Order: Physicists Make Baffling Discovery
• 4-6-2006
• Monkeys Steal Cellphones at Zoo
• Washington DC is the "Best City for Teleworking"
• Wi-Fi Alliance, CTIA Team to Certify Wi-Fi Handsets
• More Pressure for License Exempt Use of Empty TV Channels
• Japanese Companies Checking Employee PC Use
• 1000s of Lawsuits Brought Against Illegal File-Sharers in Europe
• 'Hands Free' Isn't Mind Free: Performing Even Easy Tasks Impairs Driving
• Student Rocket Test Successful
• 4-5-2006
• Most Companies Fear Cell-Phone Security Breach
• Electronic Eyeglasses Can Instantly Change Lens Prescriptions
• Merrimac Granted Chinese Patent for Microtechnology
• Lockheed Martin to Operate and Maintain Massive DOD Communications System
• Hidden Cost of Illegal Immigration
• Samsung to Offer Slimmest Cell Phone
• EE Times Fetes Innovators
• RFMD's New Wireless Connectivity Platform Eases Integration of Wireless Technologies in Mobile Phones
• Qualcomm Korea Under Investigation
• World's first Dedicated Optical SETI Telescope Search for ET Intelligence to Begin
• U.K. Partnership Plans to Offer Small Low-Cost Satellites to U.S. Agencies
• 4-4-2006
• High-Speed Net Service in U.S. up by 1/3
• Poll: Young People Love Their Cell Phones
• China Surpasses U.S. in Internet Use
• Dual-Path Control Device Enables 3-Chip Radar Front-End
• EE Times Set to Launch European Edition
• RFMD to Showcase Industry-Leading Wireless Solutions at CTIA Wireless 2006
• Google and Baidu Dominate Chinese Market
• Anadigics Claims RFIC Design Gains After Patent Awards
• New Orleans Fights to Keep City Wi-Fi Network Running Fast
• Have Everything? How about a Gold-Plated Phone?
• Device Only Atoms Across May Allow Infinitesimal But Powerful Computers
• 4-3-2006
• Poll: Cellphones Irritating, Invaluable
• Nortel and Qualcomm Achieve Industry's Fastest HSDPA Data Call
• Mobile Digital TV Service Kicks off in Japan
• Standards for Sale at IEEE?
• Tech Companies' Ties to China Worry Government
• South Korea Will Begin Mass Producing Networked Robots by 2007
• U.K. Super Computer Gets Government Boost
• Ball Aerospace Wins Space Test Satellite Contract
• Google Trying to Patent Advertising "Based on Wireless Access Points
• Sandia-Designed Supercomputer Ranked World's Most Efficient in 2 of 6 Categories
• Soyuz Docks With Space Station in Perfect Maneuver
• 4-1-2006
• It’s Daylight Science Time Again - 2:00 am Sunday
• Long-Term Mobile Phone Use Raises Brain Tumor Risk
• Bullying Via Internet, Text Messages on the Rise
• 'Kosher’ Cellphone Rings up Growth
• Plans for Massive Blast in Nevada Draw Fire
• Researchers Develop New Method for Synthesis of Nanomaterials
• How Scientists Used Last Week's Total Eclipse
• ARRL Sponsoring Five Free Education and Technology Teachers Institutes in 2006
• Reports Vary About Possible Mobile Phone, Cancer Link
• Europe's Satellite Industry Braced for Major Shake-Up