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 |