6-30-2006 |
Study
Calls Phone Use Risky as Driving Drunk |
Appeals
Court Won't Postpone August FCC Wireless Auction |
New Microwave Licenses for the Olympics? |
VoIP
Over Wi-Fi is an Added Threat to Roaming Revenues |
Polysilicon Shortages Seen Curbing Semi Growth |
Silicon Laser Harnessed |
Microsoft Pushes Back Office 2007 Release |
Rotten to the Core: Apple Uncovers Stock Options Irregularities |
Light Generated by Sawdust (I can
do it with a Bic lighter!) |
Saturday Launch Marks Quarter Century For Shuttle |
Man Sues Creator of Web Site That Lets Women Post Dirt on Exes |
6-29-2006 |
Asteroid Near-Miss Set to Happen July 3 |
Senate Panel Backs Telco Bill, No Net Neutrality |
EU Adopts
New Telecom Rules That Anger Incumbents |
Breakthrough in Silicon Photonics Devices |
Mobile
Advertising Worth $10 Billion by 2010 |
Korea Seeks to Bolster Economic Status |
Google
Debuts Checkout Online Payment System (RF Cafe
might offer as an alternative to PayPal) |
Feds Recover Stolen Laptop With Veterans' Personal Info |
Coffee Intake Linked to Lower Diabetes Risk (vindicated again!) |
NASA Engineer Angrily Quits 5 Days Before Launch |
Providing In-Flight Wi-Fi Still a Struggle |
6-28-2006 |
U.K. Sticks to RoHS Deadline |
Silicon Valley Start-Ups Want to Resurrect Electric Cars |
No Royalty Cut, Qualcomm Says |
Nokia Sues Two Chinese Rivals for Product Copying |
Fuel Cell Developer Raises $16.2 Million in London IPO |
EU Readies Controversial Telecoms Regulation Plans |
Scientists Precisely Track Short Term Earth Wobbles |
NASA Aims for
Quick Hubble Fix |
Google Online Payment System Could Take on PayPal |
Dell Says Investigating Exploding Laptop Incident |
Study Shows In-Building Wireless a Great Investment |
6-27-2006 |
USPTO to Give Patent Filers Accelerated Review Option |
Stealth Radar System is Developed |
Printable Chips Make Their Debut |
High-Tech Thieves
Use Laptops to RFID Steal Codes for Cars |
DoD Funds Neah's Fuel Cell Technology |
Criminals Follow Ordinary Citizens onto Internet |
Vitesse Says Stock will be Delisted - Options Scandal |
Chinese, English Speakers Use Brains Differently to Tackle Math |
Today's Computers Break Down Less Often |
Visa and MasterCard Plan RFID/NFC Tests in the UK |
Shuttle Countdown Begins Wednesday |
6-26-2006 |
Data Brokers and Buyers Anger Congress |
EE Times Extends its Reach in Europe |
Cell Phone Signals Excite Brain |
600,000 High Tech Jobs to Be Created |
Startup Develops Optical Magnifying Sheets |
Wi-Fi Company to Sell Routers for Five Dollars |
French Unveil Own Answer to Google Earth; Site Quickly Swamped |
Device Burns Fuel with Almost Zero Emissions |
Scientists Work
on Mind-Reading Computers |
One Wireless Laptop per Child |
Iridium Expects Threefold Increase in Alaska-Based Traffic This
Summer |
Azimuth
Systems Announces Industry's First Power Consumption Tester For Mobile Wi-Fi Devices |
6-25-2006 |
Reports of Death of Dial-Up Internet Greatly Exaggerated |
GAO Finds that H-1B Visa Program Undercuts U.S. Workers |
Cyber Yearbooks Gaining Popularity in U.S. |
Hubble Telescope's Main Camera has Stopped Working |
Canadian RFID Privacy Guidelines Issued |
IEEE-USA President says Permanent Immigration Better than Expanding
H-1B Program |
Help
Philips Electronics Rename its Company |
Feds Hit by
Rash of Data Breaches |
6-23-2006 |
CEOs Earn 262 Times the Pay of Workers (yow!) |
Mobile Phone Users Warned of Lightning Strike Risk |
WiFi User Charged for Not Buying Coffee |
Boeing May Dump In-Flight Internet |
Wireless USB Finally Coming Out of the Labs |
HSDPA
to Take 65% of Mobile Broadband Market |
France Unveils National Rival to Google Earth |
Xilinx Receives SEC Inquiry on Stock Options |
Magnetic Fields Could Make Computers 500 Times Faster |
U.S. Army Contracts DRS Technologies for Thermal Weapon Sights |
Simulators Help Train Power Grid Operators |
6-22-2006 |
China Still Leads Pack in IP Theft |
VoIP Internet Phones Must Pay into Subsidy Fund |
Altera to Restate 10 Years of Earnings Due to Stock Option Issues |
RoHS, WEEE Leave Casualties |
Motorola Leads Bluetooth Headset Market |
One-Third of Europeans Found to Be Computer Illiterate |
Startup for Aims Solar-Cell Plant in California |
More
Than Half a Billion Mobile TV Subscribers by 2011 |
Pluto's Newly Discovered Moons Finally Named |
Webb Telescope Mirror Backplane Prototype Delivered for Testing |
Top 100 Sweatiest Cities in America |
6-21-2006 |
Robo-Cop Takes to the Skies |
Samsung Launches Ultra-RAZR-Thin Phones |
Riken Builds 1-Petaflops Supercomputer |
Preemptive Spark Helps Find Intermittent Electrical Short Circuits
in Airplanes |
AMD to Build $3.5B Fab in NY |
17-Year-Old Entrepreneur Develops GPS Teen Driving Monitor |
Putin Calls for Russian Tech Investment (to better outfit terrorists worldwide) |
ZigBee-Based Home Automation Lags Industrial and Commercial Adoption |
Microsoft Sees Future in Robots |
U.S., French Power Companies Sign MoU for Evolutionary Power Reactor |
China Wants Man on Moon by 2024 |
6-20-2006 |
IBM, Georgia Tech Processor Breaks Moore's Law |
Engineering Groups Allege 'U.S. Workers Need Not Apply' |
House approves $32 billion for Department of Homeland Security in
2007 |
Spatial Abilities Key to Engineering (men/women actually different!) |
First Pilot Project in Europe for NFC Mobile Payments |
Chinese Students Riot Over Diploma Changes (Communist Party officials mum) |
DSL to Overtake Cable Internet |
Alaska GPS Project Devoted to Reducing Moose-Vehicle Collisions |
Cellphone Start-Ups Struggle in U.S. |
Digital Camera Blocking Technology Created (bad news for spies) |
Looming Energy Crisis Requires New Manhattan Project |
N. Korean Threat Activates Missile Defense Shield |
Peregrine 50Ω RF Switch Offers Ultra-linear DC–6GHz Operation |
6-19-2006 |
Review of IEEE Qualcomm-Favored Technology on Hold |
Nokia, Siemens to Merge Equipment Units |
Two Words to Remember About Bill Gates: He Won |
Neah Extends Patented Fuel Cell Technology to Military Sensor Market |
Northwestern Team Develops 'MRI' For Fuel Cells |
Governments Accounted for Over Half of New Satellite Business in
2005 |
New Form of Living Protection for Copper and Other Metallic Surfaces |
Molecule-Sized Switch Could Control DNA Machines |
The Phone Booth Returns - Sans Phone |
North Korea Fuels ICBM for Test Firing |
Web Auctions, the New Jackpot for Middle Americans |
6-16-2006 |
IEEE 802.20 Working Group Declares 'Cooling Off' Period |
U.S. Trade Deficit Posts Surprising Improvement |
3rd Consecutive
Month on Top for Motorola Razr |
China Reportedly Calls for Chip Cooperation With U.S. |
Bill Gates to Leave Microsoft in 2 Years |
HSDPA
to Take Off in 2008 |
Quantum Dot Device Counts Single Electrons |
Blu-Ray Disc Hits Stores Next Week |
Covering Your Tracks: Fail-Safe Techniques for Erasing Magnetic
Storage Media |
Boost Phase Blues Impact Missile Shield Developments |
Microsoft Readying Apple iPod Rival |
6-15-2006 |
Handset
Theft Amongst Adolescents Reaches New Heights |
Semtech Comes Under Stock Option Fire |
450-mm Shift Will Disrupt Industry |
Lockheed Martin, EADS to Cooperate on Satellite Navigation Standards |
China Applies for World Semiconductor Council Membership |
BAE Delivers F-22 Digital Electronic Warfare System to Lockheed
Martin |
Giant Camera Ready to Take World's Largest Photo |
In-Car Electronic System Warns Drivers They're Speeding |
Compact Tidal Generator Could Reduce Cost of Producing Electricity
from Flowing Water |
Researchers Use Laser Beams to Pluck Nanowires |
U.S. to Respond if North Korea Tests Missile |
6-14-2006 |
VHF Communications
Magazine Q2/2006 Edition Due End of June |
RFMD Announces LNA Product Family for Cellular Infrastructure and
WiMAX |
EBay Signs up 200 Millionth Member
(it's a great place for TE & accessories) |
State
Regulation Leading to Increased Costs for Wireless Users |
Pressure Builds to Crack Down on Stock Options (see my
options) |
RoHS Directive Turmoil as Loophole Stays Open |
Rohde & Schwarz Combines Spectrum Analyzer and Phase Noise Tester
in FSUP |
Corporate R&D Cuts: Bad News for the Nation |
Google Building Its Own Supercomputer Network |
Stephen Hawking Urges Human Colonization of Other Planets |
Labs Compete
to Make New Nuclear Bomb |
Coffee Drinking Associated with Lower Risk for Alcohol-Related Liver
Disease |
6-13-2006 |
USPTO: Conference on Intellectual Property in the Global Marketplace |
China, India Aren't Far Ahead in Engineering After All |
RFMD Introduces GaN High-Power Transistor Product Family |
Bullpen Phones Go Wireless at Chicago's Wrigley Field |
National Semi Rewards Employees with iPods as "Employee Communications"
Tool (yeah, right!) |
NASA Detector Sees Infrared Light in Colors |
Saab Acquires Ericsson Microwave Systems |
Wisconsin Law Bans Forced RFID Implants |
Motorola
RAZR Tops the List of Most Researched Wireless Phones |
Sharp Broadband Growth Seen as Dial-Up Shrinks |
Google Expands Satellite Imagery |
6-12-2006 |
IEEE Starts Work on Low-Frequency "RuBee" Standard |
Qualcomm and Nokia Fight Over Patents Again |
100 Million
3G Users |
Cellphones
Lead to al-Zarqawi Hiding Place |
New York Schoolkids Use Cell-Phone Ring Tone Teachers Can't Hear (clever!) |
Japan Quake Causes Little Damage at Fabs |
SEC Looks at Broadcom Re Stock Options |
Chinese Delegation Storms Out of Wireless Encryption Standards Meeting |
General Dynamics to Design first Segment of U.S. Nationwide Integrated
Wireless Network |
NASA Firm on Discovery Launch in July |
Famed Microsoft Blogger Leaves for Start-Up |
6-10-2006 |
Sensus Metering Systems Acquires Assets of AMDS |
EchoStar, DirecTV to Resell Broadband |
High-Tech Cheating in Asia's High-Stakes Exams |
Windmill Projects Stilled for Now |
Wi-Fi Set to Reshape France Phone Market |
6-9-2006 |
U.S. Drops Plan to Restrict Foreign Researchers |
Record Meteorite Hit Norway |
Wireless Boom Gets Gadget Makers Buzzing |
RIM Targeting
Consumer Market, Expanding Internationally |
Physicists Probe
the 5th Dimension (cool animation) |
Circuit Board Materials May Like It Hot (or Not) |
Maxim Targeted by SEC for Stock Options Scheme |
Physicists: Glass May Have No Liquid-Solid Transition Point |
Engineers in
Alabama to Build Next Lunar Rocket |
"Expect an Explosion of Connectivity" |
6-8-2006 |
RFID to Be Woven into Euro Notes? |
Scientists Resolve 60-Year-Old Plutonium Questions |
Vermont Governor Signs Amateur Radio Antenna Bill |
Study: Web is the No. 1 Media |
U.S. Lawmakers' Ire Grows Over Lax Chinese Copyright Rules |
FCC Chairman Believes Net Neutrality is Too Soon |
What’s Next for Solder? |
Gartner Sees IC Slowdown, Consolidation |
IEEE-USA President Says Permanent Immigration Better for U.S. Work
Force than Expanding H-1B Program |
Do Angry Men Get Noticed? |
6-7-2006 |
Fuel Expenses Fuel Increasing Interest in Telecommuting |
NFC Forum Unveils Technology Architecture |
New Nanofabrication Technique Developed |
first CloudSat Images Wowing Scientists |
China's Military
Space Power Growing |
Chip Market Growth in Europe to Lag Other Regions |
PC Makers Bet on Super-Sized Laptops |
Griffin Welcomes Russian Help in Future Space Missions |
U.S. Astronauts to Fly New Space Ship by 2014 (finally) |
Data Theft Hit
80% of Active Military |
Study: Daily Alcohol Helps Men, Not Women (by the W.C. Fields Health Center) |
6-6-2006 |
Matsushita Touts Air-Gap Interconnects for Ics |
LCDs to Finally Dethrone CRTs |
Google Tests Web-Based Spreadsheet |
Boeing Tests Active RFID Tags on MD-10 |
Wind Energy Research Reaps Rewards |
Poor 'PC Posture' Can Cause Bodily Harm, Experts Warn |
NASA Shifts Mission Work to Ohio, Alabama Space Centers |
Self-Mutilation
Rampant at 2 Ivy League Schools |
Griffin Defends NASA Space Exploration Vision |
22 Million Phones Sold in China in Q1 |
6-5-2006 |
Copper Prices Spike as Shortage Looms |
Samsung SDI Unveils New 3D Display Technology |
Cellphones Drive Semiconductor Sales Rise |
MicroTEC Offers New Chip-Cooling Heat Pipes Solution |
Microsoft to
Boot Acrobat Out of Office |
Your Scrapped Hard Drive Could End up in Someone Else's Computer |
Galileo Spacecraft Picks up GPS Satellite Signals |
Publish Your Technical Works With Print-on-Demand |
Semiconductor Brain: Nerve Tissue Interfaced With a Computer Chip |
China to Publish RFID Development Plan This Month |
Team Invents Way to Mass Produce Microscopic Plastic Components |
6-4-2006 |
Revealed: Robot Spy Planes to Guard Europe's Borders |
WiFi Distance Record Inspires Rural Venezuelans |
China to Build Nuclear Fusion Device |
WLAN Equipment Sales Expected to Top $2.5 Billion This Year |
New Cruise Missile Successful in First Flight Test |
JetBlue Wins Air-Ground Wireless License |
QinetiQ Joins Galileo Development Team |
GPS-Guided Parachutes Increase Safety in Resupply |
6-2-2006 |
High-Tech Visa Cap was Reached in Late May (hint: just sneak across
the Rio Grande) |
Cellphone
Companies Beefing up Systems for Hurricane Season |
Kansas Cell Phone Ban Would Be Strictest |
Penn State Great Valley Offers Systems Engineering Degree at Philadelphia
Navy Yard |
Physicists Persevere in Quest for Inexhaustible Energy Source |
April Chip Sales up Year-to-Year, Flat Sequentially |
University of FL Makes Electronic Liquid Crystal Lens |
New Horizons Crosses the Asteroid Belt |
Where in the World Am I? Your Phone Might Know |
6-1-2006 |
Taking Work Home a Huge Security Risk |
Boeing to Develop New ICs for Extreme Space Environments |
U.S. Army Orders $9.2 Million of Comtech Satcom Transceivers |
Online Jobs Index Rises to Record High |
Sun Microsystems to Cut up to 5,000 Jobs |
Ofcom Studies Ways to Advance License Exempt Spectrum |
China Goes High-Tech to Stop Exam Cheats |
New Orleans Is
Sinking - And Fast! |
North Pole Was Hot 55,000,000 Years Ago - Did Alien SUVs Cause It? |
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