| 12-31-2007 |
|
Top 10 Wireless Trends for 2008 |
| Tech
Predictions for 2008 |
| Integrated Receiver for High Frequency Applications on a Tiny Chip |
|
Tech Companies Clean up by Lobbying |
| Personal Data Theft Reaches Unprecedented Levels in 2007 |
| Students' Cell Phone Texting After Classmate's Suicide Sparks Panic
in Arkansas Town |
| Universities Worldwide Offer Free Open Courseware |
|
iBiquity Asks FCC to Require HD in Satellite Receivers |
|
Aspiring Radio Talk Show Hosts Need Only a Computer & Phone |
|
CommScope Completes $2.65B Acquisition of Andrew Corporation |
|
BAE Systems Enters Agreement to Acquire MTC Technologies |
| Vodafone
CEO in Line for $90 Million Bonus Payout |
|
Semi Sales up 2.3% in November, Says SIA |
| Poor
Outlook for UMB, but Qualcomm's Future Still Secure |
|
China Tweaks Rules on Foreign Brokerage Joint Ventures |
| 12-29-2007 |
|
USPTO Looking for Prior Art on IBM Patent Application |
|
Beijing Air Pollution 'As Bad As It Can Get' (good thing China is exempt from Kyoto) |
| World's Only Ultrafast Electron Microscope Takes 4-D 'Movies' of
Molecules |
|
US Shuttle Atlantis Won't Fly on January 10 |
| 12-28-2007 |
|
A 'Frightening' Mountain of Used Handsets |
|
In 2008, Trust but Verify |
| Boston
Underground Railway Gets Cellphone Coverage |
|
India Preps Nanotechnology Policy |
| In-Stat
Says UWB Beginning to Take Off |
|
Apple Seeks Patent for Wireless Order Processing for Cafes |
|
Daredevil Professor Tops iTunes Chart After Making Physics Cool |
|
Americans More Wired |
|
Huawei Sells First U.S. Phone to MetroPCS |
|
RIM Patents Crazy-Paving Keyboard |
| Think Twice Before Clicking on Holiday E-mails |
|
Amtech Systems Receives $3.9 Million Solar Order |
|
My Aching Back! Ergonomics Targets Worker Health |
| Can a Vibrating Mouse Prevent Computer-Related Injuries? |
|
NASA Delays Mars Scout Mission to 2013 |
| 12-27-2007 |
| New Book Claims
Bell Stole Key Telephone Idea |
| Woman
Jailed for Using Cameraphone in Court |
| In-Flight Internet Might Mean More Turbulence |
|
Nasdaq Gives Watkins Johnson Six Months to Recover to $1 Share Price |
| Looking for
Cool Tech When Buying a Car |
|
Japanese Lunar Probe Begins Full Operation |
| Metal Foam Has a Good 'Memory' |
| Apple Posts Record Breaking Year |
|
FCC Votes to Allow Newspaper-Broadcast Cross Ownership |
|
API Nanotronics Wins Order from U.S. Defense Contractor |
|
Electricity Costs Attacked Through XML |
| U.S. Aims to Edge Out Russia in Big Arms Sales to India |
|
Middle East Governments Step up Net Censorship |
| IBM Reveals Crystal Ball For Next Five Years |
|
A Good Year for Missile Defense |
| 12-26-2007 |
| Sanyo
Threatened with Delisting after Understating Losses |
|
Russia Launches Final Satellites for Its Own GPS (GLONASS) |
| Electronics
Manufacturing Capacity to See Global Rebalancing |
| Microsoft Sues Domain Name Registrar for Cybersquatting |
|
Ford: Hydrogen Fuel Feasible |
|
Japan's Raytheon-Built Standard Missile-3 Successfully Hits Satellite |
| New NASA Contracts to Boost New Orleans Katrina Recovery |
| E-Greetings
Traffic up 9% in 2007 |
|
IEEE Fellow up for Next Challenge |
|
Taiwan Handheld Device Shipments to Surge |
|
Electric Warship - Navy's Nautilus |
|
Researcher: Info Overload Costs Economy |
| 12-25-2007 |
|
Russian Rocket Delivers Christmas Presents to Space Station |
| Towards Cloaking Visible Light: Three-Dimensional Metamaterials
for the Optical Wavelength Range |
| World's Largest Silicon Tracking Detector Installed at CERN |
| Cincinnati Diocese Collects Tithe Online |
|
Messenger Zeros in on Mercury |
| 12-24-2007 |
| Student
Gets Inflamed Thumb from Excessive Texting |
| Dynamic Spectrum Access Could Allow Regulators to Take a New Approach
to Spectrum Allocation |
| USPTO and JPO to Implement Patent Prosecution Highway on Full-Time
Basis |
| Explosives on a Chip: Unique Structure Enables New Generation of
Military Micro-Detonators |
|
Ariane Rocket Launches African, N. American Satellites |
| Mobile
Handsets Top Tech Executives Holiday Wish Lists |
|
Department of Defense Acquisition Reform Holds Promise, Threat
Acquisition |
| EDN Hot
100 Products of 2007 |
|
Arizona State Wins DARPA Grant for Green Lasers |
| Microsoft Shares Secret Data on How Windows Works |
| U.S. Eases Rules for Foreign Firms That Get U.S. Technology (another nail in our coffin) |
|
FBI Aims for World's Largest Biometrics Database |
| High-Brightness
LEDs Usher in New Applications and Standards |
| Protons Extracted into New Transfer Beamline from ISIS Accelerator |
| 12-22-2007 |
| Astronomers Monitor Asteroid to Pass Near (or hit) Mars on January
30 |
|
Ariane 5 Rocket Puts Africa's First Satellite into Space |
|
China's Rolls out First Home-Made Commercial Jet |
| 12-21-2007 |
| Website
Eases Phone Memory Transfers This Christmas |
| Congress Bans Incandescent Bulbs by 2014 |
|
NXP Buys U.S. GPS Semiconductor Company GloNav |
|
Weapons Guidance GPS Satellite Launched |
| MIT Students Claim Record by Running Supercomputer on Bicycle Power |
| Blackberry
Maker Hit with Patent Lawsuit |
|
FCC Votes to Allow Newspaper-Broadcast Cross Ownership |
|
HelioVolt Plans Thin Film Solar Factory |
|
Mathematicians Show Randomly Guessing NCAA Outcome Is Extremely
Improbable |
| SIA Maintains
Rosy 2008 Semiconductor Forecast, Others Expect Recession |
|
Apple Forces Shutdown of 'Think Secret' Site |
|
Over 400 Prominent Scientists Disputed Man-Made Global Warming Claims
in 2007 |
|
Dutch Cops to Ditch Helicopters for Airships in Green Bid (I want to see a blimp chase a speeding
car) |
| White House May Shift Most Wartime Funding into Base Budget |
| Family Crisis Forces Red Hat CEO to Resign |
| Christmas Eve Sky Show |
| Active Computer Games No Substitute for Playing Real Sports |
| 12-20-2007 |
| 'Tis
the Season for Electronic Greetings, but Don't Text Your Boss |
|
RFMD to Acquire Filtronic Compound Semiconductors |
|
UK Drivers Who Use Mobile Phones Face Jail |
|
NY Emergency Radio Network Fails First Major Test |
| Chicago's Law Banning Cellphone Use While Driving Challenged in
Court |
| Semi Capital
Equipment Spending to Drop 10% in 2008 |
|
Sandia's Synthetic-Fuel Recipe: Mix CO2 , H2O; Heat with Sun |
|
RFID to Converge with Other Wireless Techs |
| Safety
Trumps Fun When Kids Receive Mobile Phones as Holiday Gifts |
| U.S. Delays Troop Drawdown in Europe |
|
IE 8 and the New Browser War |
| Free
Wi-Fi in Mecca for the Hajj |
|
Evidence of China's Rise Everywhere in 2007 |
| Budget Bill
Puts the Brakes on Spaceship Contest |
|
Two Years in Space for Galileo Satellite |
|
TV Viewers Turn to Web for Entertainment |
|
Interactive Computing Experts Design New Devices for Everyday Uses |
|
Lockheed Martin Awarded Contract for GOES-R Geostationary Lightning
Mapper |
| 12-19-2007 |
|
New Phone Device Allows You to 'Speak' Through Your Ear |
| New Li-Ion
Battery Holds 10x the Charge of Existing Batteries |
|
U.S. R&D Funding Faces Shortfall |
|
UK Researchers Win Lion's Share of European Grants |
|
InGaAs Emerging as Material for Future NMOS Channels |
|
Paul Allen Applies to Bid in U.S. Wireless Auction |
|
'Routine Maintenance' Leads to Virgin Broadband Outage |
|
Google's Wireless Head Departs to Launch VC Fund |
| EADS May Buy Saab Space |
|
Britain 'To Have Complete 3G Coverage by End of 2008' |
|
FCC Chairman is Owned by Media Conglomerates (per John Oram,
anyway) |
| India Installs Antennas for Planned Robotic Moon Mission |
|
Norway Parking Sticker Shock: $148,000 |
|
FCC Imposes 30% National Ownership Cap on Cable |
|
Norsat Secures $750k U.S. DoD Contract
Morgan Stanley Getting $5B Investment from China Investment |
| 12-18-2007 |
| Tricycle
Driver Climbs Cellphone Tower in Apparent Suicide Bid |
| Cell Phone Spending Surpasses Land Lines |
| Small
Businesses Expect to Increase Technology Spending in 2008 |
| European
3G Penetration Passes 10% |
| Senate Pulls Telco Immunity Vote |
|
Qualcomm Buys Firm to Reduce Phone Noise |
|
Nellis Air Force Base Powers Up 72000 Solar Panels |
| Japan to Introduce Vehicles with New Accident Prevention System |
|
NIST Aims at 32 nm |
|
Astronauts Hook Up Huge Module to Space Station |
| Japan Intercepts Missile in Milestone Test |
| New Property Found in Ancient Mineral Lodestone (natural magnets) |
|
Superspeed USB 3.0 Arrives |
|
Army Knife Innovates to Stay Swiss-Made |
|
Relume to Supply 1000 LED Lights to Ann Arbor |
|
Russian General Says Missiles Could Target U.S. Shield |
| Japan's Top Government Spokesman: UFOs 'Definitely' Exist |
| 12-17-2007 |
|
UK Shoppers Terrified by Christmas Shopping |
|
Atheros Enters GPS Arena with $54M Purchase of u-Nav |
|
Wanted: Indian EE Professors |
| FISA
Bill with Telco Immunity to Be Debated Monday |
| The Human Factor Could Be Derailing RFID |
|
Call to Divide, Conquer Unlicensed Bands |
| iPod Speaker Angering Animal Rights Whackos |
| One in Five IBM Employees Now in India |
|
LEDs Set to Light up Cars in Daylight |
|
Frustrated Saudi Youth Take a Shine to YouTube |
|
Alltel Feature Turns Voicemail to Text |
|
Obama, Kerry Threaten FCC Funding over Ownership Vote |
| 5 Wireless
Trends to Watch in 2008 |
| Explosives at the Microscopic Scale Produce Shocking Results |
|
Trimble Introduces Mobile Software Solution for Field Service Technicians |
| 12-15-2007 |
| Motorola to Be Taken Over by RIM, HP or Dell: CNBC |
|
Astronauts Deck the Halls with Boughs of Nylon |
|
Russia Soon to View Two Space Transport Projects |
| 12-14-2007 |
|
Carve up Unlicensed Bands, Says WiMedia Chief |
| Free Wi-Fi Takes Off in U.S. Airports |
|
Decreasing Technology Skills Worries MoD |
|
Panasonic Unveils GaN Power Transistor with 10 kV Breakdown Voltage |
| Brazil:
Mobile Market to Grow 10-12% in 2008 |
|
Icahn Renews Pressure to Break up Motorola |
|
Optical Supercontinua Finally Explained |
|
Micronetics Wins Development Order for Airborne Electronic Warfare
Subassembly |
|
Lovers Turn to Text Message to Say It's Over |
|
Lightning Protection for the Next Generation Spacecraft |
| Microfuel
Cell Enables Ubiquitous Computing |
| Bangladeshi
Operator Testing Solar Powered Base Stations |
| Students Who Pull All-Nighters Have Lower GPAs |
|
NASA Targets Space Shuttle Atlantis Launch for January 10 |
|
Microsoft Starts Public Test of Rival to VMware |
|
Closing of the USPTO on Monday, December 24, 2007 |
| 12-13-2007 |
| Canadian
Gets $85,000 Phone Bill for Internet Access |
|
Electric Eel Powers Christmas Lights at Japanese Aquarium |
| Palm Confirms 500 Layoffs Amid Falling Profits |
|
Revised EU Patent Convention Takes Effect |
| Powerline
Battles WiFi to Network the Broadband Home |
| Wireless
E-Mail Set for Prime Growth in Europe |
|
Elektra European Electronics Industry Awards 2007 Winners |
|
Ten of Millions will be Tracked by Mobile Phone within Years |
| Navteq Investors Approve Nokia Deal |
| Best Meteor Shower (Geminids) of 2007 Peaks Tonight |
|
FCC Commish Martin Responds to Dingell on FCC Practices |
|
U.S. Trade Judge Rules for Nokia over Qualcomm |
| China Chip
Market to Grow 15% in 2007, 12% in 2008 |
|
Bandwidth Semi Renamed to Spire Semiconductor |
|
Brain Stem Cells Sensitive to Space Radiation |
|
The Hi-Tech Football that Tells Referees When It Has Crossed the
Line |
| Researchers Clone Fluorescent Cats (greener than the old incandescent
cats) |
| 12-12-2007 |
| Merriam-Webster's
Word of the Year: 'w00t' |
|
UK Electronics Graduate Numbers Plummet |
|
Ownership on Agenda at FCC December Meeting |
|
Wireless Network System Links Car to Traffic Flow |
| Ice Storm Brings Down Illinois Tower |
|
Ford Sees Rollout of Next-Generation Hybrid Battery |
| Plastic
Computer Memory's Secret is Gold Nanoparticles |
|
India Still Leads as Preferred Offshore Destination |
|
Northrop Grumman Develops World's Fastest Transistor to Support
Military's Need for Higher Frequency and Bandwidth |
|
34% of Saudi Users Use WiFi |
| Google Now Handles 65% of All U.S. Search Requests |
|
U.S. Lacks Plan for Digital TV Switch |
|
In-Flight Internet Too Tempting for Some |
| Scientists Find Energy Source of Northern Lights |
|
Russia and France Developing New Satellite Platform |
| 12-11-2007 |
| 22% of
Companies to Add Jobs in Next 3 Months, According to Survey of 14,000 |
| Young, Poor Choose Cell Phones over Landlines |
|
Sony to Cut Jobs, Sell Plant in France |
|
Wireless Network System Links Car to Traffic Flow |
|
Boeing Installs High-Energy Laser on Laser Gunship Aircraft |
|
Sony Says U.S. Electronics Unaffected by Economy |
|
Femtocell Industry Plans Push on Problem Issues |
| Beijing Olympics Will Use IBM High-Tech Surveillance System |
|
Asian Outfits to Enter Scrap for 700 MHz Spectrum |
| Nanotube-Producing Bacteria Show Manufacturing Promise |
| Unprecedented View of Mysterious 'Night-Shining' Clouds |
|
Backup Power Boom Expected after FCC Ruling |
|
Researchers Aren't Resistant to Properties of 'Supersolid' |
| Is Human Evolution
Speeding Up? |
|
RADAR: Radio Reaches 233 Million Listeners Weekly |
| Microsoft Offers Ads on MSN Mobile in U.S. |
| 12-10-2007 |
|
Google Conducts Its "White Space" Device Testing |
| Four of Ten Cell Phones Worldwide Made in China |
|
IEDM Group Examines the Impact of Electronic Devices |
|
Satellite Firm Demonstrates the Power of Galileo |
| U.S. Authorizers Approve $692.3B for 2008 |
| Hackers Blamed for Cyber Attacks on U.S. Military Research Facility |
|
Swedish Space Takes Major Role in Galileo Satellite Navigation Project |
| Nobel Laureates
Predict Science's Future
Vodafone
India Unveils Cost Cuts, IBM Deal |
|
Tech Executives Upbeat Despite Slower U.S. Economy |
|
FCC Releases 2007 EAS Handbooks |
| Poll: Nationwide WiMax Unlikely in 2008 |
| Scientists Snap Images of Solar Wind Sweeping Past Earth |
|
LED's Help Queen Cut Energy Bills |
|
Wikipidiots are Not Nazis After All |
|
Shuttle Launch Now Targeted for 2nd January |
| Sunshine-to-Petrol Project Seeks Fuel From Thin Air |
| Microsoft's 27 MHz Wireless Keyboard Hacked 12-9-2007 |
|
Israeli Study Says Regular Mobile Use Increases Tumor Risk |
| Car Prototype Generates Electricity, and Cash |
| 12-7-2007 |
|
Low-Defect GaN Nanowires Could Replace Quartz-Crystal Resonators |
|
Some Airlines to Offer In-Flight Internet Service |
| Jet Blue to Test Restricted In-Flight Internet Service |
|
Free Wi-Fi Coming to Trains, Planes and Automobiles |
| Using
GPS Handsets to Monitor Network Performance |
| AIA Expects U.S. Aerospace, Defense to Roll up Record $211B in 2008 |
| 2007 Disappointing
for Semi, 2008 to be More Respectable |
|
Shrinking Manufacturing Threatens Supply Chain |
|
Analyst: Radio a 'No Growth Medium' |
|
Cellular Nets Must Get Smarter, Says CTO |
| Hackers Break into Top Government Research Lab |
|
RFMD Completes Qualification of First Generation GaN Process Technology |
|
India Rolls out Nanotech Initiative |
| Over 70% of Households in Hong Kong Connected to Internet |
| Science Getting an Orbital Boost |
|
Glitch Delays Shuttle Launch Until at Least Saturday |
|
Political Power and Economic Wealth go Together in China |
| 12-6-2007 |
| Hams Assist in Pacific Northwest Disaster (looks like New Orleans
- without the looting) |
| Microsoft Pulls Plug on 'Naughty' Santa Interactive Program |
|
Smartpen Aids Blind Engineering Students |
| House Vote on Illegal Images Sweeps in Wi-Fi, Web Sites |
| Move to Allocate 'Spectrum' Without Auction Challenged |
|
IBM Says Breakthrough Speeds Supercomputer on Chip |
|
IBM Unveils Smallest Silicon Modulator (they've been busy) |
| EDRI Statement on RFID Usage and Informed Consent |
| Wi-Fi Hits Milestone at 300 Million Chipsets in 2007 |
| U.S. Army Tests Wireless Sensors for Future Combat Systems |
|
Global Tech Spending Growth to Slow in 2008 (aren't these predictions
always wrong?) |
| Japan to Launch High-Speed Internet Satellite on Feb. 15 |
| Cooler, Faster, Cheaper: Researchers Advance Process to Manufacture
Silicon Chips |
| BSEF Turns
Tables on Greenpeace over BFRs in iPhone |
|
BAE Systems' Infrared Seeker Guides THAAD Interceptor to Target |
| AMD Phenom, Barcelona Chips Hit by Lock-up Bug |
|
Technical Problem Delays Atlantis Shuttle Launch |
| 12-5-2007 |
| Companies Prepare for Young, High-tech Employees |
|
Wi-Fi More Addictive than Coffee? |
|
DoD Manufacturing Program to Fund Chip Packaging Effort |
| 2008 Capital Spending to Shake IC Industry Foundation |
|
Japan Tops World Semiconductor Equipment Spend |
|
U.S. Jet Intercepts Ballistic Missile for 1st Time |
| Electronic Business' Top 100 Chinese Electronics Companies |
| MRI Gearing up to Test RFID for Tracking Magazine Usage |
|
Cisco Hires Former Motorola Technology Chief |
|
Huawei Ramps RFMD RF3161 PAs in Multi-mode Handsets, Skyworks RF
in Base Stations |
| Federal
Judge Confirms $134M Award Against Samsung |
| 700 MHz Deadline Looms |
| Shuttle Atlantis Launch Set for Thursday |
| New Fuel Cell Cleans up Pollution and Produces Electricity |
|
The Unexpected Temperature Profile of Venus's Atmosphere |
| 12-4-2007 |
|
BSEF Responds to Greenpeace Greener Electronics Report |
|
Mobile and Wireless - 2007's Biggest Emerging Technology Disappointments |
|
IEEE Members Select John Vig 2008 IEEE President-Elect |
|
BBC Exaggerated Wi-Fi Dangers |
| FCC Commissioner Adelstein to be Re-nominated for Third Term |
| Identity
Crisis in the Grey Market |
| More Than Half of Europeans Online |
|
Saints on Cellphones Spark Controversy in Italy |
| WiFi Chip Sales Soar |
| Nokia
Expects 4 Billion Mobile Phone Subscribers in 2009 |
| Britain's Navy 'Would Struggle to Fight a Major War': Report |
| German Court Allows IPhone Exclusivity |
|
RFMD Appoints Sirenza's Ocampo and Skrzypczak to Board |
| S. Korea to Buy Swedish Artillery Radar System |
|
China Defends Space Program as Peaceful (even the tests where
it blows target satellites to smithereens, creating millions of
pieces of floating debris) |
|
Pilots' 'Out-of-Body Experiences' Responsible for 1/4 of Fatal Air
Crashes |
| Girls Sweep
Prizes at Science Contest |
| Researcher: Divorce Bad for Environment |
| 12-3-2007 |
| Woman
Gives Birth by the Light of a Mobile Phone |
| Toshiba Installs First Tubeless Weather Radar |
| British Hams Mark
Longest-Ever Bicycle-to-Backpack Transmission |
| AT&T to Drop Pay Phones by End of 2008 |
| Fabless Semiconductor Association Changes Its Name |
|
Filtronic Finds Buyer for Newton Aycliffe Chip Fab |
|
Energy Harvesting Matures |
| Blue Dye Could Hold the Key to Super Processing Power |
|
EU Rallies Spain to Clinch Unanimous Galileo Deal |
|
U.S. Slump Casts Pall over Media, Entertainment |
| Dell Sues Three Domain Names for Typo Squatting |
|
October Chip Sales Beat Expectations, PC Sales Help |
|
First Crack in Mobile Carriers' Fortress? |
| Helium Isotopes Point to New Sources of Geothermal Energy |
|
Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Achieves Record Flight Time with Protonex
Fuel Cell System |
| Young Chimp Beats College Students |
|
Personal Wind Turbines Could Do More Environmental Harm than Good |
