5/31/2011
FCC:
Seventh Broadband Progress Report
Switzerland Planning
Radio Spectrum Auction in Early 2012
DoCoMo Demonstrates Spoken Language Translator for Smartphones
LinkedIn Opens Asia Headquarters in Singapore
Defect
in Graphene May Present Bouquet of Possibilities
Personal Mobile Devices Create Security Headaches for Biz
House Panel to Debate Spectrum Policy
France Télécom Plans Fiber Broadband to 10M Homes
Pairing
Quantum Dots with Fullerenes for Nanoscale Photovoltaics
President Names Telecom Advisors from Tech World
European EMS Firm Broken in Three
India's BSNL Tendering
for $1.1B GSM Network Contract
The
Future of Radio. Don't Be Scared.
Robot Wars Prepare Kids for Manufacturing Jobs
IEEE-USA
Sponsors 'Engineering Our Future' Panel for Hollyweird Directors
Rare 'Midnight' Solar Eclipse Coming Tomorrow
PayPal : Google Stole Our Employees and Secrets
Chinese Prisoners Forced into WoW "Goldmining" Scheme
Eurozone Crisis Risks 'Systemic' Fallout
5/30/2011
Lockheed Cyberattack Raises Concerns Over Online Espionage
Service Providers Face Surging Broadcast Retransmission Fees
Nokia Wins Review of
Dismissal of Patent Claims Against Apple
Samsung Demands to See Apple's Next iPhone, iPad
Ability
to Switch Magnets 'On' or 'Off' Could Revolutionize Computing
NFC Warranty Tags Could End Proof of Purchase Headache
Vodafone to Outsource
Irish Call Centre Work
Tactical Laser Weapons Technology Demonstrates Its Readiness for Deployment
PBS Hacked After Critical WikiLeaks Show (lesson: don't
screw with the hackers)
Research Shows Ways to Make iPad Apps More User-Friendly
Built-In Charge Boosts Quantum Dot Solar Cell Efficiency
'Nanowire'
Measurements Could Improve Computer Memory
Wave
of Superfluous New Startups Is Surest Sign We're in a Bubble
Jetpack Soars a Mile High
As RIM Struggles, Talk of a Change at Top Surfaces
5/29/2011
D.C. Copper Thieves May
be Posing as Road Crews
Aussie Student Finds Universe's 'Missing Mass'
ISS Ranks as an Engineering Marvel
Giant
Deep-Sea Detector Hunts for Elusive Particles
Average Family Spending $168/mo. More on Gas than Last Memorial Day
Inflation Increases Your Memorial Day BBQ up by 29% (change
you can believe in?)
5/27/2011
53% of Youngsters Would Give up Sense of Smell to Stay Connected
Motorist Caught Using
Two Mobile Phones While Driving
NASA
Is Making Hot 'Way Cool'
Shuttle Astronauts Make History on Their Final Spacewalk
Bill Would Keep Big Brother's Mitts Off Your GPS Data
Matter-Matter Entanglement at a Distance (had that problem
with my fishing line)
Freescale Semiconductor Launches IPO, Misses $1B Target
Europe Sees 40% Growth
in Mobile Banking Through Smartphones
IR Satellite Images Reveal 17 Buried Pyramids (cool!)
Scientists
Detect Earth-Equivalent Amount of Water Within the Moon
Smart Meters Wait for Home Net Spec
$690B 2012 Defense Budget Clears House
Fitch Cuts Japan Credit Rating Outlook to Negative
PayPal Sues After Google Unveils Smartphone Pay Service
UK Rural Broadband Plans
Move On
Thieves Dismantle Railroad Track to Sell as Scrap
Global Economic Rebound Weakens on Quake, Oil Price, European Debt Crisis
Heavy Snows Spoil Weekend Holiday Plans in West
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Only Eats Meat He Kills Himself
(ha, this is great - sounds like a bubba)
5/26/2011
Cost of Mobile Broadband up to 1333x Fixed Services (no
surprise there)
FEMA Administrator Calls Amateur Radio “The Last Line of Defense”
AT&T's Spectrum Buying Spree Continues
Tesla Motors Plans Stock Offer (someone please donate
a Roadster to RF Cafe!)
A Car Battery
at Half the Price
Nearly Half of Canadian
Mobile Phone Users Aged 18 to 34 Own a Smartphone
The Hopi Nation Climbs Toward Wireless in Arizona
LinkedIn Eyes Business Opportunities in China
Vacation
Tips on How to Truly Unplug
Antimatter Breakthrough - Electron is Stunningly Spherical
O2 Comes in Tops in
Broadband Study
Budget Cuts Will Degrade U.S. Power, Gates Says (that's
the plan, silly)
Google VP Confirms NFC Mobile Commerce Launch Tomorrow
Wind Forecasts Could Improve National Grid's Efficiency
GE Gobbles Up More of the Smart Grid (another Immelt/Prez
sweet deal?)
GaN Power Devices Made on 200mm Silicon Wafers
Energy-Efficient Lights to Gain from Incandescent Ban
(BTW, another floor lamp CFL just died at RF Cafe HQ after 1 yr)
$67B in Vacation Days, Out the Window
Cookie Law Deferred
for One Year
Fine-Tuning Mechanical, Electrical, Thermal, Other Properties of Composites
5/25/2011
Umpire Strikes Back over 'Stolen' iPhone (just one problem...)
Foxconn Explosion to
Delay 400,000 iPad Shipments
Is Silicon Alley Here to Stay?
Volunteers Sought for
4G LTE Trial in Cornwall
Project Evaluates Viability of Inductive Power Transfer
Yandex’s Surge on Debut Stirs More Talk of Tech Bubble
Army Field Evaluations to Include Battle Phones
Wipro Helps IMEC Open Up in India
Global Telecom Spending
Rising for First Time Since Financial Crash
D-Wave Sells Quantum Computer to Lockheed Martin
Laser
Modules in Matchbox Size
Report: Smart Grid Could Cost $476B (no problem - just
charge rate payers for it)
ST Ramps Production of Smartphone MEMS Sensors
ARRL to Testify on Interoperable Public Safety Network
76% of Young Adults Prepared to Pay £5 ($8) a Month for Mobile Banking
Lithium-Ion
Battery Keeps Its Cool
Three Starts 3G Services
at 900 MHz in Sweden
We Can Run Android Apps in Windows, Says Newly-Funded BlueStacks
NASA Gives up on Mars Spirit Rover (farewell and adieu)
Microsoft Announces Windows 8 Release
5/24/2011
Outsourcing Goes Full Circle as Indian Firms Look to the U.S. for Cheap Labour
Smartphone Users Checking
Emails As Soon As They Wake Up
World
Record in Ultra-Rapid Data Transmission
UK VC Investment Up in Q1
DOD Awards Satellite Deal for Armed Forces Radio
Why
is America the 'No-Vacation Nation'?
Three Dead in Foxconn iPad Factory Blast - Dust Blamed
Senate “Companion” Bill to HR 607 Avoids Impacting Amateur Spectrum
Novel
Artificial Material Could Facilitate Wireless Power
Cisco Sued for Helping China Spy on Dissidents
Payments and the Disappearing Cash Register: Your Phone is Your Wallet
(yeah, but Lowes will probably still annoyingly
ask to see your CC)
T-Mobile Doubles 4G Network Speeds
Greek Government to Sell
Remaining 16% Stake in OTE
The Invisible
iPhone
Army Unit Synchronizing Complex Technology Now Essential for War
LHC Sets New Collisions Record
DoCoMo Invests in LTE
Antenna Developer
Telecom New Zealand
to Separate for $2.8B Broadband Build
Kepler's Astounding Haul of Multiple-Planet Systems
5/23/2011
NI Set to Pay $58M for Major RF EDA Firm
Microsoft
Wants to Rule the White Spaces
Laser Puts
Record Data Rate Through Fiber
Deadly Explosion at iPad Factory Won't Affect Gadget Supply
Russia Now Permits Reciprocal Licensing Through CEPT
Poland Set to Roll out Commercial NFC Payments "Within 4 Months"
UK Government Recognises Importance of University IP
Radio
Should Pay to Have FM Chips Installed
Norway Hit by Cyberattack After Libya F-16 Strike
Apple's iPhone 5 Might
Come with a Curved Glass Screen
Silicon Valley's New Religion: "Apple'ism"
No Letup in Supply Chain Disruptions
Single Molecule Performs Multiple Logic Operations Simultaneously
Verizon to Eliminate Unlimited Data, Add Shared Data Plans
Qualcomm Adds Support
for Russian GPS Service to Snapdragon Chipset
Sony to Post $3.2B Annual Loss on Tax Writeoffs (ouch!)
Aboard the Space Station, It's a Beautiful World
Study Reveals Changing Role of iPads, Tablet PCs
Pile of U.S. Debt Would Stretch Beyond Stratosphere (sheeple
have been conditioned to not care)
5/22/2011
New Nanolens Breaks
Resolution Record
Up to 20 Million Americans 'Overcharged' by AT&T for Data Usage
Telcos Love LinkedIn
Spacewalking Astronauts Encounter Bolt Trouble (hope
they have some WD40)
5/20/2011
Number of Phones
Exceeds Population of World
LinkedIn Hits $10B Market Cap; Valuation Ethereal
USPTO Announces U.S. Government-Wide
Intellectual Property Training Database
Verizon to Offload 3G/4G Data Through Free Wi-Fi Hotspots
Amazon E-Books Now Outselling Print Books
Nearly a Third of Brits
Now Own a Smartphone
Post-Rapture Entrepreneur Ready to Deliver on Mail Promise
Landis+Gyr to be Acquired by Toshiba for US$2.3B - Smart Grid Mania
The
Atom and Its Quantum Mirror Image
51% of iPad Use Is in Bed or in Front of TV
Mobile Wallet Offered
to UK Shoppers
How
50-Mile-High Jets of Lightning Shoot Toward Space
RFID Tracks
Clean-Room Laundry for High-Tech Companies
Simplifying the Process of Detecting Genuine Multiparticle Entanglement
The Hackathon Almost
Here. Root for Your Favorite Hackers This Sunday!
Radio
Still Not Representing Itself Well
Galileo Node Station Brought Online in the Arctic
Galactic Census Confirms Existence of Mysterious 'Dark Energy'
EU to End Plastic
Grocery Bags (remember we had to dump paper bags to save
the Earth?)
5/19/2011
Inventories to Cap Phone Market Growth
Meet the Woman Allergic to Electricity
Is
U.S. Losing Its R&D Edge?
Europe to Built Gravitational Wave Detector
NFC Indoor Navigation System Proposed by Turkish Scientists
Class-Action Suit Accuses Major Tech Firms of Pay Collusion
Amazon Expands Trade-In Plan to Electronics
BlackBerry PlayBook Beats Xoom Sales in First Month
Record
Efficiency of 18.7% for Flexible Solar Cells on Plastics
Electric Car Goes over 200 Miles on One Charge
LinkedIn's IPO Leads to $352.8M Payday
CSR Co-Founders Form M2M Wireless Startup
Video: Virgin Atlantic's Commercial Space Plane Flight
3-D
TV Boom Times Ahead
Unemployed People in U.S. Have Personal Data Stolen
Army Radio Program Sparks Nunn-McCurdy Breach
Astronauts Install Big Magnet on Space Station
RoHS to Adopt REACH Approach?
Electronic
Warfare Linked up with Space Communications
Designer of Chinese Web Controls Hit by Shoe
5/18/2011
Skyworks to Pay Up to $275M for SiGe
Woman's Cell Phone Use Halts Train
New
Evidence That Cell Phones Stress Bee Colonies (that explains
the buzz in the line)
Will LinkedIn's IPO Open the Floodgates?
Rad-Hardened Electronics Designers Face Increasing Difficulty with Shrinking Chip
Geometries
App Developers Facing
Patent Lawsuits
Karlsruhe Invisibility Cloak: Disappearing Visibly
Youth@HamRadio.Fun: The Status of Youth in Amateur Radio
Helium-4 Doesn't Turn Supersolid at Low Temperatures
(whoda guessed?)
'God Particle' Mystery Could Be Solved Next Year
1 in 5 UK Consumers "Eagerly Awaiting" Arrival of NFC
Does
Radio Have a Strategy For Smart Phones?
Israeli Electric Car Pioneer Unveils Price Plans
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance with No Magnets
Over 2 Billion People
to Own a Smartphone by 2015 (probably not me)
Reality Check: Why Wireline Matters to Wireless
The Bulletproof Gog That Stormed Bin Laden's Lair (are
GSDs cool or what?)
Microsoft: 1 Out
of 14 Downloads Is Malware
How GE's Green Lobbying is Killing U.S. Factory Jobs
20% of New Obamacare Waivers in Architect Pelosi's District
(Reed got waiver for all of NV - don't want to live in the
world they created)
Harvard Researchers Discover Caffeine Wards off Prostrate Cancer
(gotta love it)
5/17/2011
Growing Threat from Solar Storms
Navy Calling on Gamers to Help with Security
HP Discovers Memristor Mechanism
Special Ops Wants Radios to Hook into Smart Phones
Scientists Cast Doubt on TSA Tests of Full-Body Scanners
Rumor: Nokia May Sell Handset Division to Microsoft
Sponge-Like Carbon Can Be Used as a Supercapacitor
Army Believes Rewards Outweigh Risks with Smart Phones
Photo of Space Shuttle Endeavour Becomes Internet Hit
Physical Phenomenon Could Lead to Clock Speed Increases
Wireless Service Customer
Satisfaction in the USA Declining
New Laser Will Facilitate Optical Communications
FCC Upholds $4000 Fine to Penn. Amateur
PayPal Tops List of Most Trusted Mobile Payments Brands
(RF Cafe uses PayPal)
LinkedIn Raises I.P.O. Goal to More Than $405M
U.S. Lays out Priorities for Future of Cyberspace
Australian Beer Hopes to Boldly Go Where No Beer Has Gone Before
Couple Names Baby After Facebook 'Like' Feature (pity
the kid w/parents that stupid)
Endeavour's Last Mission Could Help Unravel Dark Matter Mystery
5/16/2011
Copper Thieves Steal Overhead Phone Lines, Knock Out Service
LTE Networks Rolling
out at 2.6 GHz Pending Lower Spectrum Availability
Euro Body Calls for Schools Wi-Fi Ban
France Wants $3.5B for Its 4G Frequencies
Memristors'
Current Carves Protected Channels
Graphene Could Reveal the Grain of Space-Time
Germanium Takes the Strain out of GaN-on-Silicon Epi
IHS Raises Outlook for NFC-Enabled Handsets
New Ways to Exploit Raw Data May Bring Surge of Innovation
VCSEL Achieves 92W Output Record
Motorola Launches Retro
GSM Only Mobile Phone
Nanosatellite
Will Look for Alien Worlds
Super-Accurate Atomic Clocks Emerge from 'Heat Haze'
Germany Hopes to Develop Electric Car Industry
LHC to Reveal Dimensions Beyond Our Own
Space Shuttle Endeavour Blasts Off on Final Flight
Are Leaked iPhone
5G Cases a Sign Apple is 'iPad-izing' the iPhone?
Wirelessly Add 500GB to Your Cellphone or Tablet
Solar-Powered Airplane Makes Historic Flight
5/15/2011
Dutch to Boost DECT Guard Band for License-Free Use
Indian Government Plans Spectrum Legislation
Why DoD Wants Cloud Computing
Today’s
Hottest Wi-Fi Radio Devices
NASA Clears Space Shuttle for 8:56 am Monday Launch
New Yorkers Under 30 Fleeing State Due to High Taxes
Theory of
Recycled Universe Called into Question
5/13/2011
Activated Graphene Makes Superior Supercapacitors for Energy Storage
Quantum
Calculations Can Make Atomic Clocks of the Future Far More Accurate
Universal Charger Specification Within Two Months
Ofcom Talks Up
Spectral Efficiency Benefits of LTE
NASA Looking for Good Ideas for a 100-Year Starship Project
Tiny Iron Spheres Are Oldest Fossilized Space Dust
Tablet Sales Poised to
Overtake e-Reader Sales in Canada
Verizon Races
to Bolster LTE Capacity
OSCAR I and Amateur Radio Satellites: Celebrating 50 Years
NASA Airplane Tests New LIDAR Technology
World's Largest Particle Accelerator Offers Window into Laws of Nature
Proton
Dripping Tests a Fundamental Force in Nature
U.S. Government
Backs Concentrated Photovoltaics
Ericsson Planning to
Hire 1,500 Staff for Indian Managed Services Centre
Did Facebook Hire a PR Firm to Tarnish Google's Name?
NYSE: You Are Witnessing A “Complete Crushing” of the Nasdaq
For-Profit Colleges: Targeting People Who Can't Pay
Google Unveils First
Chrome Powered Laptops
'Mobile Miracle' Continues
to Transform Lives in the World's Poorest Nations (just
remember who's paying for it)
5/12/2011
Achtung! Foreign Workers Wanted for Germany's Job Boom
LED-Based 100W Bulb Replacement Has High CRI (look at
the heatsink on that sucker!)
PayPal Is Top Brand for Mobile Payments
Malaysian WiMAX Network
Seeking Additional Radio Spectrum
4G Will Solve Mobile Capacity Problem in 2013
Video to Trigger
33x Growth in Mobile Traffic by 2020
Websites Told to Ensure
Cookies Comply with UK Law
Optical
Control of Magnetic Effects at the Nanoscale
German, U.K. Domain Names See Strong Sales Outside Home Markets
High School Radio Club to Offer Free Foxhunting Transmitter Kits
Wi-Fi Offload
Set to Boom in India
FCC Commissioner Leaving to Join Comcast
Super-Stable Laser Fired Up in Cramped Minivan
EHF Satcom Antenna for B-2 Bomber to be Developed by Northrop Grumman
Bell Canada Profits Jump
on Flat Revenues
Flash Crash: Unhappy Anniversary
ZeroTouch: New kind of Infrared Touch Computer Interface
(this is kinda cool)
10 Years After They Broke up Microsoft
$$$ in Graver Danger Than the €€€
Amateur Photographer Links 37,000 Pics in Night-Sky Panorama
5/11/2011
New Technology Integrates Phone Antennas into Decorative Films
More Frequencies for
Europe's Mobile Internet by 2013
Smarter Atomic Clock on a Chip Debuts
TSMC Sees 2% Growth for 2011 Chip Market
NASA Considers Lasers to Battle Space Junk
2011 ARRL/TAPR Digital Communications Conference Call for Papers
Google Raises Concerns over Viability of NFC Card Emulation Mode for Mobile Payments
Canadians Annoyed with
Increasing Cell Phone Bills
Avionics and Electronic Warfare Test System Ordered by U.S. Air Force
Graphene Enables Speedy Data Pipe
Bringing
a Whole New Meaning to "High-Speed Internet"
FBI's Controversial Tracking Device No MacGyver Special
Energy Harvesting for Automotive Applications
Google Threatens to Shut Down Swiss Street View
Pairing
Quantum Dots with Fullerenes for Nanoscale Photovoltaics
World Could Be Powered with Renewable Energy by 2050
(more contradicting expert predictions)
JetMan Quietly Makes Historic Flight Over Grand Canyon
Facebook Profile Access
'Leaked' Claims Symantec
Forget Engineering - Be a Calif. Lifeguard @ $200k/yr.
Drinking >5 Cups of Coffee
per Day Reduces Risk of Breast Cancer (the miracle drug!)
5/10/2011
Phones Required to Get IC to Receive DHS Broadcasts (ha,
you think it won't grab info about your location, etc.? just shut up and bend over)
Internet
Revenue for Radio is Soaring
LinkedIn
Pushes for $3B Valuation in IPO
Annual Armed Forces Day Crossband Test Scheduled for May 14
Pairing Quantum Dots with Fullerenes for Nanoscale Photovoltaics
High
Temperature Milestone Achieved in Silicon Spintronics
Microsoft Confirms $8.5B
Takeover of Skype
Carbon Nanotubes - a New Interconnection Technology
Skyrocketing
Rare Earth Prices and Harnessing Heat
Graphene Modulator Tackles Optics
Extreme-Sensitivity Sensor Developed at MIT
Is 2011 the Year of Prepaid?
Ban on 3-Year Contracts
Pushes Up UK's Average Monthly Tariff
Last Launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour Set for May 16
Foxconn Denies Asking
Staff to Sign Anti-Suicide Pledges
Google's Stealth Multi-Billion-Dollar Business
Even Affluent Women May No Longer Be Eligible for Credit Cards
Electric
Cars Take Off in Norway
Global Warming Could Disrupt WiFi and Hit Power Supply
(whacko news for the day)
5/9/2011
Cellphone Crackdown as N. Korea Prepares for Leadership Shift
Nvidia to Buy Cellphone Radio Maker for $367M
Maine Honors Hams on World Amateur Radio Day
White iPhone 4
Launch Turns Violent at Beijing Store
Spintronics Achieved in Plastic-GaAs Hybrid Circuit
Ill. Gov. Offers $100M in Tax Breaks to Keep Motorola Mobility in State
(corporate welfare from those who preach against it)
Slow Economic Recovery Dampens Demand for H-1B Visas
Congress Bans Scientific Collaboration with China, Cites High Espionage Risks
Android Wins 35% of Q1 Smartphone Market
Universal Phone Charger
Standards Widened to Other Portable Devices
World's Best Inventors Compete at the Concours Lepine
Satellite Terminals Slim Down for Battlefield Missions
Scientists
Discover the Edge States of Graphene Nanoribbons
Google and Apple Gain
Ground in USA Smartphone Market
Internet Boom 2.0 Is Here, Starts to Look Bubbly
Mobile Phones Could be Charged by the Power of Speech
First SBIRS Satellite Launched
$1B Debt Relief for Egypt (are you kidding me?)
5/8/2011
Happy
Mother's Day!
City Takes Unique Approach to Deter Copper Thieves
Smartphone Market Grew 79.7% in Last Year
Brightly Colored Bird Feathers Inspire New Kind of Laser
USPTO Announces 2011 National
Trademark Expo
Fewer Jobs for Aspiring Astronauts
Sony Loses Account Info for 24.6M Customers
5/6/2011
Semi Equipment Spend Up 148%; China's Spend Up 287%
Flexible Phone Made
from Electronic Paper to Debut
Pirate
Station Operator Threatens to Shoot FCC Inspector.
Seeing Is Believing When Cloaks Disappear
Mother's Day in Space: Astronaut Mom Connects with Son from Orbit
Pentagonal
Tiles Pave the Way Towards Organic Electronics
New
Way to Control Conductivity: Reversible Control of Electrical and Thermal Properties
TSMC Waiting Till 20nm to Introduce 3D Transistors
Nokia Siemens-Motorola Integration Begins
Almost Half of Latest Smartphones Boast a 1 GHz or Faster Processor
Apple Leapfrogs ZTE to 4th Position in Handset Shipments
ETH Solves InP/GaAsSb Maximum Oscillation Bipolar Disorder
(finally!)
Chest Movement Radar Could Help Prevent Crib, Sleepy Driver Death
NXP: Up to 100M NFC Phones Could Be Produced this Year
Mobile Action Lab Trains Young People to Design, Develop and Market Apps
U.S. City Clamps Down
on Delivery of Yellow Pages Directories (a sanctuary
city that accepts unbridled deliveries of illegal aliens)
52
Years and $750 Million Prove Einstein Was Right
IPv6: A Reality Check from Brocade
LastPass Says Hackers May Have Stolen Password Data (maybe
they need LifeLock)
The Best Password is a Sentence, Says Expert
Scots Wind Farms Paid
Cash to Stop Producing Energy
Stocks Rally as Job Growth Surprises Wall Street (they
are evidently surprised every day by everything)
5/5/2011
3D Chips to 'Transform'
Devices
Higher Wages Costs in
China Driving Manufacturers Back to the USA
Service Providers, Equipment Vendors Weigh Impact of Going 'Green'
Your Ethical Legal Duties When Using Wireless (Wi-Fi) Networks
Commercializing Stretchable
Silicon Electronics
NRL Scientists Achieve High Temperature Milestone in Silicon Spintronics
TSMC, UMC Prepare for Water Rationing
Flexible Paper Computer 'Does Everything a Smartphone Can'
Chinese Tech Giants Fight over 4G Phones
Proposal
for Optical Transistor Uses Light to Control Light
Single-Molecule Magnet Created from Depleted Uranium
European Payments Council Launches Public Consultation on Mobile Contactless Payments
Japan Earthquake Rattles Key Components Delivery
Quantum Simulation with Light: Frustrations Between Photon Pairs
Apple Sending Out iPhone
Location Tracking Bug Fixes
A Tool to Harvest iPhone Location Data
How America's First Astronaut 'Got It Done' in 1961
After 52 Years, NASA Gravity Probe Confirms Einstein Theories
19% of U.S. Companies Hiring, 25% Laying Off
Jobless Claims in U.S. Unexpectedly Jump ("in-the-know"
experts always caught by surprise)
5/4/2011
Celebrating Engineering: EDN Names 2010 Innovation Award Winners
4G Initiatives By Operators Benefit Tower Firms
For Sale: World's Smallest Atomic Clock
Wireless Carriers Scale Down Scope of Mobile Payment System
Ultracapacitors
to Boost the Range of Electric Cars
'Woz' Says Schools, Corporations 'Tamp Down Creativity'
(not Apple, of course)
Auto Manufacturers' Drive to Simplify Electronics
Stealth Unmanned Combat Vehicle Makes First Flight
Federal
Judge: Open WiFi Doesn't Make You Liable for Your Neighbors' Misdeeds
FCC Seeks to Raise the Fee for Vanity Call Signs
Tiny
Tech Gains in Stature
NC Senate Approves Heightening Hurdles for Muni-Broadband
Android Increases Smart
Phone Market Leadership with 35% Share
Security Concerns
Rise in Korea over Wi-Fi Networks
Scientists Create CMOS Sensors to Capture X-Rays
General Dynamics Development of Satellite-Guided 120 mm Smart Mortar Shell Moves
Ahead withTests
Amazon Tablet Appears Set for Late 2011 Release
Better Glasses-Free 3-D: A Fundamentally New Approach
About 1 in 7 in U.S. Receive Food Stamps
5/3/2011
How the U.S. Tracked Down bin Laden (no thanks to POS
Pakistan - can we leave the 5th century now?)
The Internet: One Big Power Suck
RIM Phones Aim to Rival Apple’s
RIM, Microsoft
Ally in Smartphone Wars
Improved
Electrical Conductivity in Polymeric Composites
Salty Solution
for Energy Generation
Researchers Raise Conductivity in Polymeric Composites
Graphene's
Varying Conductivity Levels Pinpointed
College Students Attempt High Altitude Balloon Launch
Multitasking Creates Distractions for Most People
James Donald Smith Named
Chief Administrative Patent Judge at USPTO
New Theory Shows 1-Way Transmission Materials Possible for Sound and Light Waves
France Telecom Quarterly
Revenues Down on Regulatory Changes
Ownership of TV Sets Falls in U.S.
Nokia Looking for New Chairman to Start 2012
Meteor Shower Spawned by Halley's Comet Peaks Friday
TriQuint's Quarterly Revenue Falls 11%
New Mac OS Malware Threat Masquerades as Antivirus Software
Seoul Police Raid Google
Offices Over Personal Data Collection
Google Named Most Reputable Company in U.S.
5/2/2011
Verizon Wireless Is Labeling Phones as Tracking Threats
Reliable Military and Aerospace Comm Depend on Advanced Military Antenna Technologies
Leaked Emails Highlights
Importance of Android Location Data to Google
How bin Laden News Spread on Twitter
U.N. to Track U.S. Recycled Cellphones, TVs
Startup Recruiting: Adventure vs Job
BP Oil Pumps
Up High School Hams
Smartphone Boom Lifts Phone Market in First Quarter
Global Averaged Chip Sales Growth Slows in March
Sagem Wireless Files
for Bankruptcy
Physicists
Create Quantum Twin Atoms
Keyboards First. Then Grenades.
Analyst Comments on 11 Vendors' LTE Chips
Huawei Sues ZTE
for Patent, Trademark Infringement
Hydrogen Fuel Tech Gets Boost from Low-Cost, Efficient Catalyst
Solar-Powered Plane Ready for First International Flight
5/1/2011
Apple Juggernaut Sends Ripples Through Tech World
Apple's Chinese Workers Treated 'Inhumanely, Like Machines'
(best ignore this report if you want cheap gadgets)
Bank Lets Customers Pay Friends by Bumping Phones (NFC)
Extending WiFi to 1 Mile, Thanks to Empty TV Channels
Verizon Wireless
Says 4G Network Up and Running
Gold Hits All-Time Record of $1569
Who's Killing Children Now? (Was It Hope or Change?)
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