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4/29/2011
Worldwide Mobile Phone
Market Grew Nearly 20% in the First Quarter
Handset Semiconductor Market Revenues Shoot up 15%
USPTO Postpones Effective
Date of "Track One" Fast-Track Patent Processing
DOD Buyers Told to Chip Away at Contractor Prices (sure,
kill the U.S. defense industry so we buy everything from China)
3-D
Terahertz Cloaking
GPS Company TomTom Sold Drivers' Speeding Data to Dutch Police
Samsung Profits Plunge
on Low Demand and Falling Prices
On the Shuttle, A $2B Bid to Find Antimatter (watch live launch @ 3:47 pm ET)
Exploring
the Superconducting Transition in Ultra Thin Films
Why the White iPhone 4 Took So Long
U.S. Army Creates Its Own App Store
Research In Motion (RIM)
Shocks With Unexpected Profits Warning
Tweaking Environments Changes Material Conductivity
Herding
Swarms of Microrobots
3-D nanocone Solar Cell Technology Cranks Up Efficiency
Wireless Carriers Say They Get Consent to Use Location Data
4/28/2011
Panasonic Reports Loss, Plans to Cut 17,000 Jobs
EU to Build Most Powerful Laser Ever in Prague
Smartphone Units Up 13%; Revenues Up 15%
Will the Royal Wedding Break the Internet?
How One School
Redesigned Design Education
T-Rays Could Probe Materials at Unprecedented Level of Detail
Sony Faces Global
Legal Action over Data Theft
Researchers
Take a Step Toward Valleytronics
North American PCB Shipments Up, Orders Down in March Y/Y
Strong
Record of Technology Transfer at German Universities
Anchorage VEC Asks FCC to Grant Lifetime Credit for Expired Licenses
EGNOS European GPS Program to Get Upgrade from Thales Alenia Space
Modified Virus Used to Significantly Boost Solar Cell Efficiency
Silicon Clock Can Outperform Quartz
Investigation Launched
into Roaming Costs Between New Zealand and Australia
Forensics Experts Say iPhone Tracking Isn't All That Accurate
(it only needs to be close to establish a pattern of movement,
though)
Nearly 8 of Every $10 Spent on OSs Goes to Microsoft
U.S. Economic Growth Slows to 1.8%
4/27/2011
Nokia to Shed 7,000 Staff
as Part of Reorganization
Apple Blames iPhone Tracking File on 'Bug' (oh, OK then)
Replacing
Batteries May Become a Thing of the Past, Thanks to 'Soft Generators'
Smart Grid Could Fuel Telco-Utility Company Mergers
Two Graphene
Layers May be Better Than One
Bacteria May Communicate Wirelessly (Wi-Bi[o]?)
RPI Researchers Find New Method for Making Green LEDs
Ericsson Profit Surges on Mobile Broadband Demand
RadioShack Blames T-Mobile for Poor First Quarter
50% of New Smartphone Buyers Choose Android
Connected TVs Forecast to Exceed 123M Units in 2014
LG Electronics Posts 2nd Straight Quarterly Loss
American
Apparel Adding 50 More Stores in Aggressive RFID Rollout
Long After Microsoft, Allen and Gates Cast Shadows over City
Apple Says White iPhone to Arrive Thursday
NASA Invites 150 Lucky Twitter Followers to Endeavour Launch
UFO Group Seeks Funding for Telescope
4/26/2011
Egad! Coffee Prices Hit 34-Year High
Army Tests Comprehensive Plan for Wireless Services
Most Powerful mm-Scale Energy Harvester Generates Electricity from Vibrations
Queens Awards for Enterprise Led by Electronics Companies
France Telecom Employee
Sets Himself on Fire in Car Park
What Does NFC Mean for Mobile Payments?
Eight Easy Ways the FCC Can Help Fuel Broadband Deployment
New
In-Car Streaming Study: Consumers Only Want 2 FM Channels
Deutsche Telekom Tests
Rural LTE Services at 800 MHz
Freescale Sees 4G Basestations with 160 MHz Bandwidth
Mathematicians
Develop Stress Test for Global Economy
Space Weather Prediction Center to Discontinue Broadcasts on WWV and WWVH
Selective Encryption Said to Cut Wireless Power
Google Bids for Another
Batch of Mobile Phone Patents
NASA Solar Sail Is the 'Little Satellite That Could'
Search
for Alien Life Put on Hold
9 of Top 11 Worst New Cars Made by... Wait for It... Government Motors (GM)!
Airships and Aerostats Carve Niche in the U.S. Military's Persistent Surveillance
Arsenal
4/25/2011
FCC
Begins Auction This Week. 144 Frequencies Up For Grabs.
Will Science or Politics Ultimately Define Nanotechnology?
TriQuint Brings GaAs to the Masses
Vending Systems Going Wireless
Fabless Sector Under-Performs
'Cell Tower in a Suitcase' - Brought to You by AT&T
Scientists Suggest Spacetime Has No Time Dimension
The Army's First Smartphone?
Paper-Thin Graphene Material is 10x Stronger Than
Electron Ping Pong in the Nano World
Why
You Should Care About the iPhone Location-Tracking Issue
PlayStation Network Was Hacked
Iran Claims It Has Detected Second Cyber Attack
Google Fined for Infringing
Linux Patent
IMF Bombshell: Age of America Nears End (½ the country
seems to be alright with this - how about you?)
4/24/2011
World's Largest Atom Smasher May Have Detected 'God Particle'
Graphene's
Varying Conductivity Levels Pinpointed
Amazon
Still Trying to Fix Computer Problems
Lensless Microscope Can Create 3D Tomographic Images
Another Tech Bubble-About-to-Burst Prediction
LED
Efficiency Puzzle Solved by Theorists Using Quantum-Mechanical Calculations
U.S. Northwest Coast Overdue for 'Megathrust' Earthquake
Dirty Energy Behind Internet and Wireless Communications Growth
(that's because it is affordable)
4/22/2011
Apple Admits "Intermittently" Collects Location Data, Including GPS
Google Also Collecting Data About Your Phone
USA Today: Tech Jobs Boom Like It's 1999 (♫
happy days are here again ♫... must be true, right?)
Researchers Claim Replacement for Rare Material Indium Tin Oxide
Your Cell
Phone May Be Used Against You in a Court of Law
Seibersdorf Adds NFC to Textiles
Self-Healing Plastics
Could Mean an End to Scratches on Cell Phones
DOD Redoubles
Its Efforts to Lower Costs Via RFID
Has
the FCC Finally Gone Too Far?
Could Apple's iPhone
5 Be a World Phone?
Light
Can Repair New Material When Scratched
Subsea Cable Set to Improve Internet Connectivity in Africa
Next-Gen Blue Force Tracking System Gets Major Boost
173M Wi-Fi Direct-Enabled
Devices to Ship in 2011
Crackling Electric Link Joins Saturn and Its Moon
Researchers
Find Plasmonic Resonances in Semiconductor Nanocrystals
Broadcom Moves on to Top 10 List as 2010 Semi Revenue Records More Than 30% Growth
Microsoft Plans Sweeping Pay Raises
4/21/2011
iPhone Keeps Record of Everywhere You Go (iBigBrother?)
Apple Overtakes Nokia
- Becomes World's Largest Handset Vendor by Revenue
Apple Named 'Least Green' Tech Company (Al Gore on Board
of Directors)
NASA Losing Large Amounts of High-Tech Equipment
Arkansas, Mississippi top U.S. in Wireless-Only Households
Laser
Sparks Revolution in Internal Combustion Engines
“Eternal Vigilance” Is the Price We Pay for Our Spectrum
India Launches Three Satellites on Single Rocket
63% of
Wireless Traffic to Move to Fixed Networks via WiFi and Femtocells by 2015
Wireless Power System Works in Buildings
Nokia Posts Stronger
Than Expected Quarterly Profits
Amazon Fault Takes Down
Websites
Qualcomm Posts Stellar Second Quarter Results
Houston
Leads Way in Launching 'Super WiFi'
IDC Sees IC Growth in 2011
Cooling
Down Solid-Oxide Fuel Cells
GE's Q1 Profit Jumps 77% (will GE pay $0 in taxes again
in 2011?)
4/20/2011
Michigan: Police Search
Cell Phones During Traffic Stops (** do not surrender
yours w/o a warrant **)
DARPA Asks Industry for Ways to Blend Electronic, Photonic, MEMS Components on Chip
Transatlantic
Amateur Radio Balloon Launch
Dollars Flow Back into Tech
A Breakthrough on Paper That's Stronger Than Steel
The Do's and Don'ts of Job Hunting Online
Novel Cloaking Device Makes 'Larger' Objects Invisible
Integrated Chips Fuel Smartphone Growth
Manhattan’s Tech Start-Ups Settle in the Flatiron District and Chelsea
Tech History on the Auction Block
Can Silicon
Valley Culture Survive at Wal-Mart?
Smartphones with 2.5
GHz Processors Expected Late 2012
Robot to Throw Out First Pitch at Phillies Game
Smart Grid Standards Take Shape in Europe
20 Tax Facts That Will Make Your Head Explode Read
U.S. Hurries to Sell GM Stake (at big loss - taxpayers
screwed again)
Carbon Monoxide Found in Pluto's Air (OMG, our SUV exhaust
have reached even Pluto!)
4/19/2011
Internal Combustion Used to Make Thin-Film Transistors
Apple Says Samsung Copied iPhone, iPad
Europe Outspends U.S. and Japan on Consumer Electronics
Super-Small
Transistor Created: Artificial Atom Powered by Single Electrons
Sony Ericsson Quarterly
Profits Halved
Ultra-Fast
Magnetic Reversal Observed
DOD to Establish Three-Tier Process for Acquisition
Spanish City to Lend NFC Phones to Tourists
All Those Tweets, Apps, Updates May Drain Brain
Chip Has Most Transistors Ever?
Shipments of GPS-Enabled
GSM/WCDMA Handsets Grew 97% in 2010
Internet-Bbased Attacks
on Critical Systems Rise
Feds Grant $2.1B Loan Guarantee to Germany Company for California Solar Farm
Far-Sighted Space Technology Finds Practical Uses on Earth
TI Releases a Tiny Wireless Charging Chip
Texas Instruments Blames Disappointing Financials on Japan Earthquake
4/18/2011
H-1B Employees Can Stay While Visa Extensions Pending
Ka-Band Satellite Constellation to Benefit Military Forces
Huawei Full Year Profits
Up by 30% to $2.5B
Army Smart-Phone Efforts Face Uphill Battle
Cellphone Retail Sales Disappoint
RIM Studies Bid for Nortel Wireless Patents
Europe to Open Up GSM
Spectrum to LTE and WiMAX Services
Saudis Slash Oil Output; Say Market
Oversupplied (nice to have 'allies,' non?)
Microsoft Launches Office 365 Public Beta
Comcast Bests FCC’s 100 Mb/s Goal by 5 Mb/s
Gov't Motors Unveils First Model - the Baojun 630 - of China Car Brand
(ah, so this is how we keep jobs in America -
Detroit is wasteland)
4/17/2011
WLAN-Enabled
Device Shipments to Hit 1.2B in 2011
USPTO Updates Registration
Exam for Patent Practitioners
Chevy Volt May Have
Sparked Garage Fire
Limit the Dangers of Cellphone Radiation
RIM Shows Off Its Blackberry Playbook Tablet
Congressman - iPad a Job Killer
About 2,800 Shuttle Workers Will Be Laid Off in 2011
(we don't need no stinking high tech jobs -
McDonalds is Hiring)
½ of
U.S. Households Are Like GE: $0 of Income Taxes
4/15/2011
Is Your
Station Responsible If an Engineer Falls Off Your Tower and Dies?
(2 engineers fell off tower)
Graphene Steps Toward Spintronics
Telco Tupply Chain: 'Enabler' or Risk to Profitability?
FBI Closes In on Zombie
PC Gang
More Flights Allow Mobile Calls
Mercury-Containing Oxides Offer New Perspective on Mechanism of Superconductivity
White iPhone 4 Will Be Out in Weeks
More Than 1B Devices
to Have Embedded Wireless Networking Capability in 2011
Do Cellphones Cause Brain Cancer? (here we go again)
Galileo
Honored by Vatican on Telescope Anniversary
Hydrogen-Producing Catalysts Could Replace Lithium Batteries
Reprogrammable
Chips Could Enable Instant Gadget Upgrades
Russia's Largest Phone
Retailer Delays UK Stock Market Listing
Congress Approves $18.45B for NASA
Algae Could Replace 17% of U.S. Oil Imports (sounds good
to me)
Solar Junction Hits Record 43.5% Efficiency for CPV Production Cell
Comcast
Offers Faster Home Broadband in Some U.S. Cities
What the Top U.S. Companies Pay in Taxes (GE paid $0
on $14.2B in pretax income)
4/14/2011
International Patent
System Marks 2,000,000th Filing
Nordic and Asian Nations
Connected for Growth
Court Date Set for UK's Biggest E-Waste Investigation
White iPhone Coming Soon, iPhone 5 Not-So-Soon
Ofcom to Issue Special Temporary Call Signs for Royal Wedding
Free Wireless Technical Forum Heads to Oxford
Online TV is $Billion Biz (Idon't have cable or satellite
TV - Internet only)
Chile and Colombia Leading the Way for LTE in LatAm
Nokia Siemens Networks
Still Seeking Buyer for an Equity Stake
1 in 5 Smartphones Will
Have NFC by 2014, Spurred by Recent Breakthroughs
LOFAR
Takes the Pulse of the Radio Sky
Motion Detection Enhances Wireless Network Switching
Dire Cyber Scenarios May Await U.S. Infrastructure
Online Ad Revenue Continues to Rise (as unread mags hit
recycle bins - notice how thin they are anymore?)
Physicists
Create Clouds of Impenetrable Gases That Bounce Off Each Other
Map of % of People Working in the U.S. (shocking!)
There Is No Male-Female Wage Gap (post this on your cubicle
wall!)
4/13/2011
Rebels Hijack Qaddafi's Phones, Build Own Network
Northrop GaN-Based Modules Smash Records for Sustaining High Power
Fujitsu Offers UK Fast
Rural Net
World Amateur Radio Day Set for Monday, April 18
Foxconn Planning $12B
Investment in Brazil
Black Holes Make Space-Time Splash
Ultra-Fast Magnetic Reversal Observed
Ceglia Says Facebook E-Mails Show He Owns 50%
EU Parliament Calls for Free Wireless Communications
Plastic Transistor Aims at OLED Backplanes
AT&T Offering Messaging Service for Colleges
Japan Disaster Calls Capacity, Supply into Question
FCC Says TV Airwaves Needed to Counter Wireless Crunch
Israel to Get
Two New 3G Providers
Piloting UAVs is Becoming a Serious Profession with University Degree Program
Feds Charge Microsoft Staffer with Theft
4/12/2011
Are Tech Companies Becoming Unofficial Intelligence Agents?
ARISSat-1 On the Air for Gagarin Anniversary
Multitasking Takes Toll on Memory
From the Clothing of
the Dead, The Rings of Unanswered Phones
Engineers to Develop Process for Sorting Carbon Nanotubes
Russia Proudly Marks 50 Years Since Gagarin Orbit
Japanese Quake Not Expected to Affect GaAs Industry
'Noise
Thermometry' System Measures Boltzmann Constant
Sales Boom for Opto, Sensors, Discretes
Ink with Tin Nanoparticles Could Print Future Circuit Boards
FCC is Playing Hardball with AT&T
Wireless
Services Ignoring FM, Prefer Revenue from Pandora
Canadian Navy Orders Multiband Satcom Terminals
New
Research Advances Understanding of Lead Selenide Nanowires
Navy Raygun Disables Boat with New High Energy Laser
$5/gal Gas by Memorial Day (Prez says stop whining and
get a hybrid see
1:52)
Gov't Motors Recalls Cruze After a Steering Wheel Falls Off
(what a fitting metaphor for the country!)
4/11/2011
Tajikistan Fatwa Bans
SMS-Divorce (why do images of the Flintstones come to
mind?)
Research In Motion (RIM) Eyes a Rebound
GaAs Supply Chain Robust After Quake
India to Halve Telecoms
License Duration to Just 10-Years
LTE Capex to Reach $28B in 2014
Mobile Phone Users 'Overpaying
by £200' Per Year
Batteries
that Recharge in Seconds
Million$ to Be Made in the iPhone Underground €¢onom¥
Got GPS?
Maybe Not For Long!
Physicists Discover New Way to Visualize Warped Space and Time
Scientists Move Closer Towards Mainstream Use of Organic PVs
Tesla, Other Electric Vehicles Poised to Enter the Mainstream
Coffee Studies Should Warm Your Heart (woo-hoo! vindicated
again!)
4/10/2011
Superconductivity Celebrates 100 Years
AT&T, Verizon
Slam FCC's Mobile Data Roaming Rules
Mysterious Cosmic Blast Keeps on Going
Aussie Teachers Outraged Over Cut in Science Course Funding
In Texas Instruments' Acquisition, Engineers Might Avoid Job Cuts
U.S. Satellite Subscribers Get Offered Free Guns
Calif. Lawmakers Get OK for Concealed Carry (Their Lives
More Valuable Than Yours)
4/8/2011
Iron Dome
Intercepts First Rocket (amazing performance!)
FCC Votes to Force Wireless Data Roaming Agreements
Scientists Prove Youngsters Suffer Gadget 'Withdrawal'
2011's Top Tech Investors
MathWorks Adds C/C++ Compiler to Matlab
Several Japan Fabs Halted by Aftershock
Telkom South Africa Wants
900 MHz Spectrum Holders Barred from 800 MHz Auction
Speedier
Nanotube Circuits
Silicon Valley-Based Startup Unveils Hardware-Neutral NFC Platform
DOD Prepares Personnel for Government Shutdown (they
already close down effectively weeks every year for vacations, sick leave, comp
time, etc.)
Test Moves Navy Step Closer to Lasers for Ship Self-Defense
Government Shutdown Threat Paralyzes Contractors (cry
me a river - whole country's got 'skin in the game')
ARRL Frequency Measuring Test Scheduled for Tuesday, April 12
Something's Wrong with Our *@!^ Chips Today; High-Tech Warfare
Self-Cooling
Observed in Graphene Electronics
Army Deploys First GPS-Guided Mortars
Europe’s $2T of Distressed Debt Set to Outstrip U.S.
(isn't wealth redistribution great?)
4/7/2011
Georgian Woman Cuts Off Web Access to All of Armenia
(there has to be a good Armenia joke in this)
FCC Betas New Website Design
Six States Use Nearly Half of All Pirated Software in the U.S.
Replacing
Batteries May Become a Thing of the Past, Thanks to 'Soft Generators'
It's
a Wrap! Nanowire Opens Gate to New Devices
Make Your Electronics Supply Chain Green - or Else
Android to Command Nearly
Half of Smartphone OS Market by End 2012
Samsung Profit Tumbles to Near 2-Year Low, Chips to Fuel Rebound
EC to Create RFID Tag Guidelines Addressing Privacy Concerns
New Engine Sends Shock Waves Through Auto Industry
Smartphones Surging, Nokia to Tumble
Talking Shop: Eight VCs Open Up
Einstein@Home Detects Unusual Stellar Pair
British Police Speed
Up Checks for Stolen Handsets
Mystery Atom Discovery Has Physicists Abuzz
G.E. [who paid $0 in taxes in 2010] Plans to Build
Largest Solar Panel Plant in U.S.
Coffee
Drinking in Your Genes?
4/6/2011
Planned Wireless Internet Network Threatens GPS
How Safe is Safe Enough? To Engineers, It Depends
February 'Actual' Chip Sales Show 6.8% Drop
Chip Revenue Figures Revised After Japan Quake
Invisibility
Cloaks: Force of Acoustical Waves Tapped for Metamaterials
Ten Tech Stocks With Huge Cash Cushions
Net Giants Challenge
French Data Law
Judge Overturns $625M Apple Patent Award
Giving Electronic Rejects a Second Chance
Tantalizing Glimpse Has Physicists Holding Their Breaths
AT&T iPhone Drops Calls 3x That of Verizon
Hacker Group Targets Sony Executives, Children
As Costs Plummet, LED Use Soars
Graphite Nanoparticles Get Solar Power Plant Application
Google's Massive Undersea Power Spine
NASA, Roscosmos to Discuss Nuclear Powered Rocketry
Gold Hits New Record, Brent Oil Above $122 (lots of change,
little hope)
4/5/2011
Texas Instruments to
Buy National Semiconductor (wait, is this April 5th or
April 1st?)
Chip
Stocks Soar on TI Deal
Quake Makes Analyst Raise IC Market Forecast
A Lighter Apple in Revised NASDAQ Stock Index
UK and U.S. Patent Offices
to Share Research Data
Fed Launches Smartphone Privacy Investigation
Silicon Valley Experiencing New Hiring Boom
The World's 10 Most Innovative Companies, and How They Do It
Indian Chip Design Market Booming
Fake iPads Burned for Chinese Burial Ceremony
CBI to Probe Apparent
Suicide in Indian Telecoms Scandal
2009
Was a Revenue Disaster for Radio
Criminals Target Mobile
Devices and Social Networks
A New Rotary Engine
Design
Boots on the Ground, Intel in the Cloud
Google Bids $900M for Nortel Patents
Satellite-Guided Heavy Artillery Shell Able to Detect & Attack Moving Targets
World's Most Powerful Rocket Ready in 2012, SpaceX Says
4/4/2011
A Message to Congress: Keep Your Hands Off the Patent Office
European
Agencies Consider the Expansion of Spectrum for UHF RFID
Fight Brewing Over DOD Budget Cuts
Atomic Superconductor One-Ups Squid
'Nanocrystal Doping' Enhances Semiconductor Nanocrystals
Millions Caught in E-Mail
Breach
Rapid
Testing Yields High-Energy Battery Materials
West Point Cadets Gain Real-World Cybersecurity Experience
Chip Market Upbeat Despite Weak Q4
How Blind People See the Internet
Jodrell Bank Has Got a Nerve for Radio Telescope Planning
Technology's Most Blatant Design Copycats
Twitter, Zynga Threaten to Leave San Fran Over Taxes
(I would bet that the founders voted for people who always raise taxes)
WiMAX Forum Boosting
Efforts in India
NASA Delays Endeavour Launch
Windows
8 is Coming Soon
4/3/2011
Spain Seeks €1.5B-€2B
from Telcos in 4G Auctions
From Science Fiction to Research Breakthrough
Co-Founder Larry Page Returning to Google Helm (the "Page"
in PageRank)
Ancient
Greek Computer Had Surprising Sun Tracker
USPTO to Host Free 2-Day
Seminar on Protecting Against Intellectual Property Theft in China
2x Number of People Work in Government Than in Manufacturing
(no wonder we're broke!)
4/1/2011
IEEE Approves IEEE 802.16m
- Advanced Mobile Broadband Wireless Standard
April Fool's Day: Tech Companies In on the Jokes
Congress Hears Two Views on H-1B Visas
Android Will Seize 45%
of Smartphone Market by 2016 (something else always comes
along)
Mobile Phone Adds Brain to Stratosphere Research
14 Qbits: Physicists Go Beyond the Limits of Currently Possible
(if they did it, then it IS currently the limit,
not beyond limit)
Two Astronauts
Get Their Ham Ticket
'Spincasting'
Holds Promise for Creation of Nanoparticle Thin Films
U.S. Venture Capital Loses Its Momentum
How to Create and Remember Super-Secure Passwords
Sites Hit in Massive
Web Attack
Is This Tech Boom Different?
DOJ: Google is a Monopoly (Google must not be part of
Holder's "my people")
Scientists Isolate Mysterious 'Ribbon' of Energy and Particles that Wraps Around
Heliosphere
Cellular Baseband Market
Jumped 20%
A New Method for Measuring X-Ray Optics Aberrations
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