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8/31/2011
Woman Buys a Block of Wood with an Apple Logo Thinking It’s an iPad
Military Strives to Lighten the Load of Comms Gear
Graphene 'Could Help Boost Broadband Internet Speeds'
Russian LTE Plan Hits Stumbling Block
Freescale Joins Small-Cell Base Station Race
Networks to Fight for London's Underground Wi-Fi
Cable Customers Turn to Smartphones for Internet
Father of Java Exits Google
Tablets and Smartphones Spur Record MEMS Revenue Growth in 2011
Ex-Tech Worker in Mass. Pleads Guilty in Spy Case
NIST Achievesr Record-Low Error Rate for Quantum Information Processing
with 1 Qubit
Military Can Make Free Calls to U.S. Using Gmail
Lasers Could Be Used to Control Rain
AT&T Pledges to Hire 5,000 Call Centre Staff - If T-Mobile Merger
is Approved
U.S. Government Moves to Block AT&T/T-Mobile Merger
Google Explores Re-Ranking Search Results Using +1 Button Data
NASA Warns 'Risk of Losing' Int'l Space Station Rising
(U.S. investment $100B down the drain)
Supernova Seen 12 Hours After Explosion, 21M Years Later
8/30/2011
High-Tech Demand Sparks Return of Cobalt Mines
(to open in Idaho in 2010 - will EPA
Nazis stop?)
Touchscreen-Only Smartphone Shipments to Surpass 700M in 2016
First Noise Assessment of AlN/GaN HEMTs on Silicon
ESA Demonstrates New In-Orbit Satellite Refueling Technology
Nokia Siemens Projects a 5x Increase in Spectral Efficiency Beyond 4G
Company Considers Nanowire to be Used in Photovoltaic Cells
Tiny Wires Change Behavior at Nanoscale
Reality Check: Is It an Antenna Evolution Or is There More?
Microsoft to 'Ribbonise' Win 8 File Manager
(even though most people hate the ribbon)
Flexible Electronics Hold Promise for Consumer Applications
Indian Telco Proposes Single Wholesale Mobile Network for Rural Areas
Tony Sale, Colossus Computer Conservationist, Dies
FCC Restarts 180-Day Clock on T-Mobile USA Deal Approval Process
Why the LHC (Still) Won’t Destroy the Earth
The Next iPhone May Be Kind of Boring, Unless You're a Carrier
GlobalFoundries Fabs 20-nm Test Chip
Age of Robots: Future USAF Bomber Escorts Could Be UAVs.
NASA: ISS May be Evacuated by Late November
(we need to Un-Retire the Shuttle fleet
NOW!)
Parts of Britain Suffer Coldest Summer for Nearly Two Decades
(AlGore won't want to hear this)
Concern Over Global Warming is Cooling
8/29/2011
Wi-Fi Hotspots Are a Growing Threat to 3G Data Revenues
Smartphone Users Making More Mobile Purchases
Communications Disrupting Solar Flares Detected
Flexible Electronics Hold Promise for Consumer Applications
Irene Takes out Some East Coast Cellphone Service
So How Did Broadcast Radio Perform During Storm?
Wireless Phone Networks Stood Up Well to Hurricane
Finland and Russia Coordinate 800 MHz Spectrum Use
LHC Results Put Supersymmetry Theory 'On the Spot'
Industry Leaders Predict a 'White Space Economy'
Qualcomm's CEO Says Sci-Fi Future Already Here
South Korean Networks Bidding for Additional Radio Spectrum
Flying on Sunshine
Apple Gives Tim Cook $384M Stock Grant
(a rich guy - tax him at
94% per FDR in 1944/45?)
Google Boss 'Knew About' Unlicensed Pharmacy Adverts per Judge
(OK
to be evil since 2009)
Windows 8: What We Know So Far
8/28/2011
NASA to Test Laser Communications System in Space
Google Brings Ultra-Fast Internet to Homes Near Stanford
USPTO and Taiwan Intellectual Property Office Establish a Patent Prosecution
Highway Pilot
Bluetooth Sunglasses Keep You Connected
Samsung Can Sell Its Tablet in Most of Europe for Now
8/26/2011
UK's Atomic Clock is World's Most Accurate
13-Year-Old Designs Super-Efficient Solar Array Based on the Fibonacci
Sequence
New X-Ray Technique for Electronic Structures
Pentagon Operates Smoothly Through 5.9 Earthquake
IBM Builds Biggest Data Drive Ever
Russia May Delay Manned Space Launch after Crash
(no U.S. manned vehicles anymore, but
as of 8/18/2011 we do have a new
Office of Diversity & Inclusion)
Patent Wars Could Dull Tech's Cutting Edge
New Depiction of Light Could Boost Telecommunications Channels
Is the Cell Tower Industry Set for Second-Half Uptick?
BT Taskforce Tackles Cable Theft
Brittle Silicon Shows Exceptional Plasticity on the Nanoscale
Nano Bundles Pack a Powerful Punch: Solid-State Energy Storage Takes
a Leap Forward
Solar Cells Could Get Quantum Boost
HTC to Open Over 1,300 Retail Stores in China by Year-End
Protect Your Electronics from Power Outage Damage
Scientists Discover 'Diamond Planet'
Increased Concern About Health Risks of Mobile Phones
Fed Raids Gibson Guitar Factory over Wood Origins Concerns
(trees more important than jobs)
Economic
Growth Slows to Crawl, GDP Increase at 1%
Marines in Afghanistan Admonished Not to Fart
(sadly, not a joke)
8/25/2011
Steve Jobs: iResign
Timeline of Steve Jobs' Work at Apple
Apple Stock Down, But Up from Overnight Lows
ARRL HQ Emergency Response Team Gears Up for Hurricane Irene
Women Snap Up e-Readers as Men Dominate Tablets
3/4 of Australian Business Website Fail to Render on Mobile Phones
New Method for Studying Electronic Structures Developed
'God Particle' Out of Hiding Places: CERN Chief
(OK, so where is it?)
BBC Creates 3G Coverage Map
Unexpected Adhesion Properties of Graphene May Lead to New Nanotechnology
Devices
Smartphones to Account for Majority of Cellphone Shipments by 2015
Canadian NFC Developer Wins $50,000 Evernote Prize
German Court Upholds Injunction on Samsung Tablet Imports
SMS Invaluable During Emergencies
CBI Report Indicates Economic Boost to UK Manufacturing
Beams to Order from Table-Top Accelerators
Power-Scavenging Batteries
Entanglement Between Macroscopic Objects Generated by Dissipation
RIM Throws Smartphone Newbies a Curve
Pentagon Report: China Closer to Matching Modern Militaries
(duh, we've sold them all the tech
we've got)
8/24/2011
Euro Ban for Samsung Galaxy Phone
Unexpected Adhesion Properties of Graphene May Lead to New Nanotech
Devices
4G to Trigger Huge Investments
PCB Production Grew 19% in 2010
Experiments Show Gravity Is Not an Emergent Phenomenon
(confusion is emerging, though)
Micro-Explosion Reveals New Super-Dense Aluminum
$25 Toy Radio Used to Knock out Feds
Physicists Build First Single-Photon Router
China Says Google Has Not Sought Approval on Motorola
Nano Bundles Pack a Powerful Punch: Solid-State Energy Storage Takes
a Leap Forward
300-mm (12") Wafer Manufacturing Set to Double
East Coast Earthquake Brings Cell Networks Down
(due to traffic, not equipment failure)
Science Major? You'll Want These Awesome Apps
Human Gait Could Soon Power Portable Electronics
Russian Spaceship Fails to Reach Orbit
United Pilots to Use iPad for Navigation
Sprint Nextel Inks Deal to Sell iPhone 5
U.S. Cost in Libya Up to $1B So Far
(only 50% of our citizens are paying
for it)
GE Moving More Jobs to China
What Happens to All the Bullets Fired into the Air?
(I encourage it amongst the morons)
8/23/2011
Static Electricity from Hair Combing Could Kill Teen
Antennas Can Be Embedded Directly into Military Clothing
Rare Particle Decay Could Mean New Physics
The Death of the Text Message
China Surpasses U.S. as World's Biggest PC Market for First Time
(congrats to our politicians - another
lead lost)
Young Entrepreneur Has a Better Idea. Now What?
Smart Grids Gain Traction Worldwide
Reducing Noise in Quantum Operation at Room Temperature
Study Shows Radical Response to Volatile Material Prices
College Students Need to Check Digital Security
Nokia Shipping Gold-Plated Feature Phone
Is a 4G LTE iPhone on the Way?
RIM Announces 3 New BlackBerry Curve Smartphones
Breakthrough in Controlling Defects Could Lead to New Generation of
Electronic Devices
'Smart' CCTV Could Track Rioters
FCC Deletes Fairness Doctrine for Good
(watch the other hand with this guy)
Antenna Clothes Help Phone Signal
In Libya, the Cellphone as a Weapon
California Bar Police from Searching Mobile Phones Without a Court Warrant
Google Gets 18 Key Patents from $12.5B Motorola Deal
8/22/2011
Antennas in Your Clothes? New Design Could Pave the Way
Intel Recruits Sci-Fi Writers to Dream Up Future Tech
Better 'Photon Loops' May Be Key to Computer and Physics Advances
Commercial Satcom Remains Vital to Military Ops
After Cellphone Action, BART Faces Escalating Protests
X-Ray Microscope Enables Nanovision
SMOS Team Receives Prestigious IEEE Award
Mobile Infrastructure Market Grows at Its Fastest Rate Since 2004
Nanowires Get into the Groove
Chinese Propose Method for Deflecting Asteroid Apophis
Blocking and Reflecting to Increase Nitride LED Light Output
Neutrons May Adopt Cubic Symmetry
(no more orphaned cubic symmetry)
Advanced Electrodes for Better Li-Ion Batteries
Verizon Workers Return to Work Without a Deal
China Ready to Ditch Its Green Car Efforts?
("garbage technology" - thier words)
Street Slams Hewlett-Packard Shares
Citing a Lack of Usage, Costco Removes EV Chargers
8/21/2011
USPTO Issues 8,000,000th Patent
Size of Indian Mobile Market Overstated
Cars Vulnerable to Theft by Hacking
EPA Prepping for a Wave of Coal-Fired Plant Shutdowns
("under my plan...
electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket")
GM Says Bankruptcy Excuses It from Impala Repairs
(pre-existing conditions not covered
at Gov't Motors)
€ Rallies, $/¥en Plunges to All-Time Low
8/19/2011
Android, iPhone User Stereotypes Revealed
Engineers Welcome Rise in A-Level Students Taking Science
Thousands of S. Koreans Join Suit Against Apple over Location Tracking
When Looking for Love, Women Spurn Science
Aliens Could Attack Earth to End Global Warming, NASA Frets
(no time to worry about manned flight
missions - I'm sleeping better)
Everybody Covets That Clearwire Spectrum
Avoiding the Next Dotcom Bomb
New Energy Storage Device Could Recharge Electric Vehicles in Minutes
HP Considering PC Biz Spinoff: Is This the Return of Compaq?
New Images Reveal Structures of the Solar Wind as It Travels Toward
and Impacts Earth
Nokia Chief Warns Android Phone Makers Should "Watch Out"
Wasting Time Online Boosts Worker Productivity
(brought to you by the anthropogenic
global warming folks?)
How Euro Hazardous Substance Laws Affect You
RIM Launching BlackBerry Music Service
China's Experimental Satellite Fails to Reach Orbit
James Webb Telescope Moves Further Towards Completion
Telecom New Zealand Profits Plunge on Write-Down Costs
Study Shows Powerful Corporations Really Do Control the World's Finances
Gold Hits New Record High of $1,881.40
World Stocks Plunge on Growing Recession Fears (+300,
-500, +400, -600, +300, -400, ugh, my stomach!)
8/18/2011
HTC Says Everything Apple Makes Infringes on Three of Its Patents
When Silicon Valley Fights, Patents Are the Deadliest Weapon
Google Will Pay $510,204.08 for Each of Motorola's Patents
Narian Unveils Suite of NFC Apps for Retailers
NIST Questions Carbon Nanotube Reliability
London History Museum Adopts Technology of Future (NFC)
Air Force Eyes Micromachine Bugs That Can Spy
Diamond Particles Found in Candle Flames, Scottish Scientists Say
Characterize the Behavior of Individual Electrons
AT&T Sues Its Own Customers over T-Mobile U.S. Merger
Electroindustry Business Confidence Index Down in July
What Makes Space Blobs Glow?
Looking to Advance Your Radio Career?
(lots of radio & TV broadcast engineers visit RF Cafe)
IBM Produces First 'Brain Chips'
Nigeria Launches Two New Satellites
Microwaves to Improve Drug Delivery
Apple Should Delay the iPhone 5 Until 2012
Cadillac to Produce Electric Car
(hope they sell more than Chevy Volts)
Supercar Maker Ferrari Says No to Making Electric Cars
Coffee's Anti-Skin Cancer Link Explained
(the wonder elixir keeps surprising!)
8/17/2011
Thieves Strip Copper Ground Plates from Cell Towers
Researchers Improving GPS Accuracy for Reporting on Users Altitude
DARPA to Develop GPS-Free Microship Navigation
EU Scientists Plan Mission to Blow Up an Asteroid 'Hurtling Towards
Earth'
iPhones Are For the Rich, Androids For the Rest of Us
(tax the iPhone rich!!!)
What Google is Buying: Motorola's 83-Year History of Invention
Radar Spending Continues to Be a Bright Spot in Pentagon Budget Forecasts
Reliability Issues for Carbon Nanotubes in Future Electronics Uncovered
(ruh-roh)
A Bull Market in Tech Patents
Researchers Find Way to Align Gold Nanorods on a Large Scale
Man Steals $57K from Neighbors Using Their Facebook Info
Russia's Orbital Technologies Reveals Plans for Space Hotel
SETI Plans to Resume Listening for Aliens
IPhone App Developer Fined $50,000 for Privacy Violations
Russia Unveils Its First Stealth Fighter
(more Russian innovation - wait, it
looks awfully familiar)
HTC Sues Apple over Patent Infringement Allegations
$25 Toy Radio Used to Knock out Feds
Are Keyboards on Laptops the Next Thing to Go?
Latest Patent Fallout: Could Verizon’s FiOSTV be Affected?
Deutsche Economic Growth Grinds to a Halt
8/16/2011
Driver Using 2 Cellphones Gets 12 Month Driving Ban
IEEE 'Surprising' Smart Grid Findings Won’t Surprise Rural Readers
Rural Broadband Funding Ready for England and Scotland
LinkedIn's New Mobile App Loosens Its Tie
German Mobile Operators to Launch Joint NFC Payments Service
Ferreting Out the Fakes in the Chip Supply Chain
Carriers' Lofty Claims of 4G Speed Put to the Test
Mozilla Wants a Browser to Control Your Phone
Google Takes Action Following Wi-Fi Sniffing Complaints
How Americans Really Use Cell Phones
Lightweight Solar Panels Can Be Worn by Soldiers in Combat
Cell Service Shutdown Raises Free Speech Questions
Ions Control Shape of Nanofibers Grown on Clear Substrate
UK Mobile Phone Users Spend up to 2 Weeks a Year Browsing Retail Sites
Public-Safety Segment Predicted to Reach $22.3B in 2015
China Puts the Squeeze on Taiwan
Glass Computer Memory Could Reduce Cost of Medical Imaging
NASA Readies Mars Rover for Launch
Evergreen Solar Files for Bankruptcy, Plans Asset Sale
(a few hundred million more tax $$$
down the drain, big deal)
Euro Zone
Second Quarter GDP Growth Slows to 0.2%
8/15/2011
Day 5 Continues for Man on Radio Tower
San Fran Shuts Down Cell Service to Thwart Flash Mob
BART Mobile Shutdown Provokes Anonymous Hackers
Google Buys Motorola Mobility - Pays $12.5B, Gains Huge Patent Portfolio
Global Mobile Connections to Hit 7.4B in 2015
The Patent World War
Bilayer Graphene: Another Step Towards Graphene Electronics
Graphene May Help Explain the Big Bang
Combination IC Shipments Aim High, Thanks to Wi-Fi
Characterizing Behavior of Individual Electrons During Chemical Reactions
Half of U.S. Mobile Consumers Use Cell Phones for Realtime Info Retrieval
China GaN Epi Production to Grow 300% in 2 Years
ARRL Teachers Institute on Wireless Technology Opens Horizon of Learning
Opportunities
'Fluid-Flow Cloak' Said to Help Ships Move More Efficiently
Rapper's Tweet Jams Emergency Phone System
Shape-Shifting Materials Are Packages of Future
AT&T May Sell $8B Worth of Assets to Acquire T-Mobile USA
Short Latencies Shown for Cancer in Young Workers with Exposures to
EM Fields
Tweet Here Often? Pick-up Lines for the Technorati
Pakistan Lets China See U.S. Helicopter
(high price to pay for not just bombing
Obama's HQ)
8/14/2011
California Bay Area Mansions Are in High Demand, Due to Tech Boom
(huh?)
RIM ‘Colt’ Superphone Rumored to Lack BES Support
Chinese Space Lab Set to Soar
Verizon Site Mischief Cuts Police Phone Service
LinkedIn Claims it Informed Users of Opted-In Ad Scheme
8/12/2011
Indian Man Suffers Burns to Eyes After Nokia Phone Battery Explodes
LinkedIn Sells Info for 100M Members to Advertisers
(becoming FaceBook)
Perseid Meteor Shower: Shooting Stars After Midnight
Asian Contract Manufacturers Eye Design Services
(more local engineering jobs going
overseas)
British PM Proposes Social Media Ban for Rioters
New Architecture Promises Better Battery
Graphene Could Underpin Carbon-Based Electronics
Codebreaker Karsten Nohl: Why Your Phone is Insecure by Design
Android Takes 20% Media Tablet Market Share from iPad in Last 12 Months
New Production Process Could Cut Cost of NFC Tags to "Just a Few Cents"
Cellphone Market Share Shifting
Settlement Affords Affected Cell Phone Users up to $100 for Unsolicited
Text Messages
Is Your ISP Cheating You Out of Bandwidth?
Bend Breakthrough Sends Light Around a Corner
UAV Purchases to Double, Despite Deep Defense Cuts
Panasonic Avionics Sees 'Massive' Demand for In-Flight Connectivity
Chinese Authorities Find 22 Fake Apple Stores
Stick-On Electronic Tattoos
U.S. Consumer Confidence Drops to 3-Decade Low Amid Economic Headwinds
8/11/2011
Broadcom: We're Not Confident About WiMAX in the U.S. Anymore
Physicists 'Entangle' Two Atoms Using Microwaves for the First Time
911 Will Soon Accept Texts, Photos, Video
38% of College Students Can't Go 10 Minutes w/o Tech
Researcher Shows How Easy Hack Is on Some Phones
EU's Top Corporate Investors 'Will Increase R&D Spend'
Dark Matter May Be an Illusion Caused by the Quantum Vacuum
New Tool May Yield Smaller, Faster Optoelectronics
Vanity Call Sign Fee to Go Up in September
FCC Joint Qualcomm, T-Mobile Review Could Put Brakes on AT&T Growth
Plans
DARPA Launches Hypersonic Aircraft on Mach 20 Test
Flexible Displays Could Push Graphene into the Commercial Limelight
HTC Calls on Taiwan to Build National Mobile Payments Platform
Escaping Gravity's Clutches: Information Could Escape from Black Holes
After All
Sales of Mobile Devices in Second Quarter of 2011 Grew 16.5% Year-on-Year
1,000 Shuttle Workers Will Be Let Go in August
(...making sure "everybody that wants
a job finds a job)
Two Charged in Missing iPhone Prototype Case
Mars Rover Reaches Giant Crater After 3-Year Trek
Researchers Set up Decentralized Smart Grid
Venture Capitalists Back Away from Clean Energy
(they know it's a losing proposition
- production will go to China a la GE)
8/10/2011
Smartphone Displays Can Double-Up As a Solar Panel to Recharge the Battery
(I proposed that 6-7 years ago)
FCC Rules Unleash up to 650 MHz for Mobile Backhaul
Ford Investigates Creating a Mobile Data Network Using the Cars Themselves
Solar Explosions Could Impact Earth
Introducing the China "HiPhone 5"; Apple Knock-Off Sells for $35
Firm Predicts 1B Smart Meters by 2020
Indonesian Tech Frenzy Tantalizes Venture Capital
Allocating Spectrum for Mobile Broadband Will Have a Huge Impact on
India's GDP
Technology Investors Turn Wary on Ventures
New Options for Starbucks Wi-Fi Squatters
(what - capitalism over socialism from
Seattle?)
Mobile Apps Frequently Disclose Sensitive User Data
Researchers Face Budget Bind (meanwhile,
politicians live like kings)
Gartner Expands Semi Technology 'Hype' Curve in 2011
Anadigics’ Revenue Falls 18% in Q2
New Technique Scales up Nanofiber Production
Longstanding Problem in Photonic Chip Technology Solved
Toshiba Introduces First Glasses-Free 3-D Notebook
NASA Invests in Far-Out Space Tech for Future Missions
Phones Stolen in London Riots Worthless, Claim Networks
8/9/2011
RIM Assisting UK Police Investigations into BlackBerry Use During London
Riots (media trying to smear RIM
for)
Alleged 'Patent Troll' Hit with Large Fine in Appeals Court
Rare Earths Get Rarer (U.S. has
deposits, but EPA regs hinder mining - anyone surprised?)
Mobiles Become Emergency Data Network
Radio-over-Fiber (RoF): The Existing Alternative to Femtocells
Si Chip with Integrated Laser Offers New Possibilities for Telecommunications
Recent Solar Flare May Disrupt Your GPS
Improved Electrical Conductivity in Polymeric Composites
UK Payments Council to Build Mobile Payments Platform
Wireless Charging Market is on 85% CAGR
30th Annual ARRL/TAPR Digital Communications Conference
Hackers Take Aim at Prison Locks and Other Real-World Targets
Scientists Pioneer New Method for Nanoribbon Production
Will the Smart Grid Outsmart Itself?
Global Installed Base of Smart Meters to Near 1B Units by 2020
Prospect of Automatic Pentagon Budget-Cut Triggers Just Another Empty
Threat
With New Funding, Quest for Alien Life Is Back On
Siemens Wins 6th Offshore Wind Plant Order in Germany
Is Sept. 17 America's Own Tahrir Square-Style 'Facebook Revolution?'
(a violent take-over of Wall St. -
will we stand for it?)
London in Flames Reminiscent of Blitzkrieg
(the dying days of an empire? self-inflicted
by PC pols)
8/8/2011
Latest Crisis: Solar Storms Set to Hit the Earth
Child Finds Exploitable Flaws in Mobile Games
Your Smartphone: A New Frontier for Hackers
Recruiters Increasingly Turn to Facebook to Look for New Employees
NASA Seeks Proposals for CubeSat Nanosatellite Space Missions, Payloads
Radar Monitors Runways for Debris at Ground Level
(FOD)
US Cellular Revenues Rise Despite Shrinking Customer Base
Van Allen Radiation Belt Confirmed Around Earth
(pretty sure it was discovered in
1958)
Nanoscale Secret to Stronger Alloys
Google to Fund Bletchley Wartime 'Search Engine'
Verizon Shares Slump as 45,000 Workers Strike
Why Isn't America Innovating Like It Used To?
Army to Trim Civilian Workforce in Efficiency Move
(the only gov't jobs to be eliminated)
Creating a Remarkable Aluminum Alloy
NFC Phones to Get Biometric Security Support
Why is Amazon Supporting a Proposed Federal Sales Tax Law?
Comcast Offers $10 a Month Internet Option For Low-Income Families
(you pay the difference)
A Photon’s Point of View
Underwater 'Windmills' May Feed Power Grid
(this, I like)
Post S&P U.S. Debt Downgrade, Tech Stocks in a Rapid Sell Off
8/7/2011
Designing Diamond Circuits for Extreme Environments
Google Blames Human for Robot Car Crash
Hackers Strike at 70 U.S. Law Enforcement Websites
Software to Un-Hang Hung Programs
U.S. Credit Rating Downgraded below AAA for 1st Time EVER!
(we were told ↑
debt limit would prevent this *@#^%&!)
Tax Cheat Timmy Geithner Says "No Risk" We'll Lose Our AAA Rating
(3 months ago)
8/5/2011
DIY Spy Drone Sniffs Wi-Fi, Intercepts Phone Calls
FCC Promises 100,000 Jobs (call
centers)
Pentagon’s Lightning Gun Sold for Scraps on eBay
Graphene from Girl Scout Cookies
(box of shortbread cookies = $15B in
nanomaterials)
Homemade Drone Snoops on Wireless Networks
A Guiding Light for Silicon Photonics
LinkedIn Posts Surprise Profit as Sales Double
Researchers Create “Antimagnet” Cloaking Device
Apple Rises to the Top As Worldwide Smartphone Market Grows 65.4%
Investors Flee Bad Telecom Smartphone Bets
Patent Battles Proliferate in Mobile Industry
Engineers Solve Longstanding Problem in Photonic Chip Technology
1/3 of Adults Use Smartphone Says Ofcom
Dream Screens from Graphene: Indium-Free Transparent, Flexible Electrodes
Developed
North-South Divide in USA Smartphone Preferences
Worldwide Cyber Espionage Revealed
Tesla Motors Advances Work on S-Model Electric Sports Saloon
U.S. Military Scrambles to Catch up with the Cloud
Google's Patent Half-Truths Come Home to Roost
Here's the Problem with This Market Crash...
8/4/2011
UK Student Wins Microsoft Excel World Championship
Solar Storm Heading Our Way
Agilent and UC Davis Form Sub-Millimeterwave Research Center
Hitachi, Mitsubishi Edge Towards Groundbreaking Merger
Spacewalkers Release Amateur Satellite with Missing Rx Antenna
(basically space junk now)
Plagiarism Plague Hinders China's Scientific Ambition
Are Smart People Really Getting Smarter?
Antiproton Radiation Belt Discovered Around Earth
(no wonder my protons have been feeling
annihilated)
The Connected Planet ‘4G Scorecard’
Mobile Data Revenue Seen Up 23% in Year
Germany Faces a Shortage of Engineers
Nokia Sues Chinese Firm over Cameraphone Lens Patent
Volkswagen Demonstrates Production-Level Automotive Autopilot
There's a Lot at Stake with Military Modernization Programs
Massive Cyberspying Operation Targeted U.S., U.N., Others
Australian Fixed Wireless Network Outlines Rural Coverage Plans
OM Sells Whopping 125 Volts in July!
Phone Hacking: Piers Morgan Has Qs to A
(what goes around comes around)
Governments, IOC and UN Hit by Massive Cyber Attack
U.S. Borrowing Now Tops 100% of GDP w/Debt Ceiling Increase
8/3/2011
Free Cellphones Now a Civil Right in Penn.
(more like a Civil Blight - my taxes
paying for welfare phones)
Defense Spending Bears Heavy Burden from Debt Default Deal
(anyone surprised? money needed for
bum's cellphones)
Mobile Broadband to Drive Backhaul Market to $9B by 2015
ARRL Official Observers Work with Collegiate Researchers to Investigate
Interference on 60 Meters
Swedish Man Builds Nuclear Reactor in His Kitchen
Interference Unlocks Faster Mobile Data
Apple Fined for Collecting Location Data from IPhones
LabVIEW
2011 Released
Android Malware Can Record and Upload Phone Conversations
Atheros: 5, Not 60 GHz is Real Future of Wi-Fi
Battle Damage Increases from Widespread Cyberattacks
(I didn't know that - serious)
Low IQ IE User Story Was Bogus
(duh, really?)
Li-Ion Battery Silicon Anode Developer Wins £40M Series C Investment
Research Could Help Replace Electronic Components with Optical Technology
Nanoscale Pillars Could Have a Big Role in Future Batteries
RIM Announces New, More Powerful BlackBerry Torch
Juno to Show Jupiter's Magnetic Field in High-Def
U.S. Job Cut Announcements Hit 16-Month High
Europe
on Brink of 'Major Financial Collapse'
8/2/2011
Budding Scientists Encouraged to Develop Nanosatellite Apps
'Web 2.0' Will Die on October 1, 2012
Progress Hits Snag: Tiny Chips Use Outsize Power
Global Q2 Chip Sales Confirm Falling Market
Android Closes on 50% of Global Smartphone Market
China Aims to Renew Status as Scientific Superpower
FCC Seeks More Channel Choices in Cable Lineups
A Hot Bath for Gold Nanoparticles
SK Telecom: All New Smartphones Must Come with NFC
Nanocircuits That Adhere to Any Substrate
Foxconn to Boost Use of Robots in Manufacturing
(iPhone CM)
Scientists Build Battery in a Nanowire
M/A-COM Technology Solutions Files for IPO
Broadband Services Approach Advertised Speeds
Oxygen Finally Spotted in Space
Inmarsat Selects ILS Proton Launch Vehicle for Inmarsat-5 satellite
Activity in 2013, 2014
Vecima Networks Announces Sale of Radio Spectrum to Canadian Service
Provider
Intense Solar Flare Erupts from the Sun
Americans Cut Spending for First Time in 20 Months
Putin Says U.S. is "Parasite" on Global Economy
(thanks to !*$% politicians - and stupid people who elect them)
8/1/2011
Boston Scientific to Lay Off 1,200 - Moving to China
Study Calls for Reassignment of Radio Spectrum to Mobile Broadband
Fugitive Caught after Taunting Cops via Facebook
Are Cellphone Towers Hazardous to Your Health?
China’s Low Roaming Fees Won’t Be Matched Soon
Global Q2 Chip Sales Confirm Falling Market
Indian Chip Market to Grow 15% in 2011
U.S. Cybersecurity is a Revolving Door of Exiting Officials
Battle Damage Increases from Widespread Cyberattacks
LightSquared Sees No Obstacles Left Blocking LTE Network
(damn the GPS, full-speed ahead!)
AT&T to Throttle Speed for Users of Unlimited Plan
Manipulating Light at Will
NXP Cuts NFC Mobile Phone Production Forecast
ARISS Excited by New Proposal Process
Israel Finally Able to Award 5th Mobile Operator License
A New Way Around Internet Censorship?
Making Capacitive Touch Sensors Water Tolerant
Shetland
Teen Charged over Computer Hacking Claims
Weakest Rating Since 2009 for Markit/CIPS UK Manufacturing PMI
U.S. Manufacturing Growth Hits Lowest Level in 2 Years
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