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9/30/2011
As America's Top Atom Smasher Closes, Fermilab Searches for New Relevance
(another American legacy gone)
'Darker-Than-Black' Metamaterial Could Lead to More Efficient Solar
Cells
Geniuses Needed, Says Amadeus
In-Flight Wi-Fi to Grow over 600% by 2015
London Needs 70,000 Small Cells to Deliver 4G Phone Services
Sprint to Launch Enhanced CDMA Push-to-Talk Service Oct. 2
Nokia Offers Developers Low-Cost NFC Device Kit
Engineers Investigate Wireless Architecture Improvements
IBM Beats Microsoft in Tech Giants Ranking
Age of Silicon Startups is Over
Mobile Hot Buttons: Spectrum, Small-Cell Networks and Wi-Fi Offload
Internet Firms Co-opted for Surveillance
(Big Bro)
Attention Techs: 10 Meters is Hot!
Scientists and Engineers Create the 'Perfect Plastic'
Italian Government Raises $5.4B from 4G License Auction
Indian Telecom Sector Needs $149B Investment by 2017
Hitachi Maxell Announces 'Air Voltage' Wireless Charger for iPad2
Best in Class Will Thrive in New Defense Spending Environment
Amazon Silk is the First Step in Giving Mobiles Unlimited Computing
Power
Researchers Hack Voting Machine for $26
(why hack when DoJ's OK w/posting
thugs w/clubs)
9/29/2011
Graphene to Redefine the Amp and Kilogram?
FCC Sued over New Internet Rules
Nokia to Cut 3,500 Jobs - More Cuts Expected in 2012
Accel-RF Announces University Collaboration Program for GaN RF Reliability
Test
Kindle Touch's Secret Weapon: Lasers
Broadband Wireless Makes Quiet Gains in Rural Broadband Market
Tougher Rules for UK Broadband Advertising
Engineers 'Cook' Promising New Heat-Harvesting Nanomaterials in Microwave
Oven
Radiation Hazards May rise for Air Travelers, Astronauts
'Ig Nobel Prizes' to Honor Year's Funniest Scientific Research
Score One for Microsoft in Patent Wars
Eurostar Trains to Get On-Board Wi-Fi Service
Wireless Network Can Watch Your Breathing
Copper Film Could Lower Touch Screen, LED and Solar Cell Costs
Experimental Computer Memory Could Supersede Flash
This Season of Sesame Street Will Focus on Math and Science
NFC Handsets to Power $71B of Transactions by 2015
Raytheon Radar Electronics Cleared for Production
Lawmakers Want Facebook FTC Probe
Stagnant U.S. Jobs Market Bodes Ill for World Economy
9/28/2011
Couple Steals Copper to Pay for Wedding
Copper Bandit Targets NYC Subways
Boy Scouts to Take to the Airwaves for the 54th Jamboree on the Air
Strong Bonds Between Rare Earth Metals and Graphene
Rocket Launches from Alaska with Navy Satellite
GM's OnStar Reverses Course on Tracking
Intel, IBM to Lead $4.4B Chip R&D Hub in NY
(how can they afford doing business
in NY?)
Radio Listening on the Rise Again
U.S. Trade Body to Investigate Apple for Infringing HTC Patents
Navy Looks to Ultra-Endurance UAV for Critical Comms Link
ARRL Spectrum Defense Newsletter Online Now
UK Process Could Cut Li-Ion Production Cost
NIST Polishes Method for Creating Tiny Diamond Machines
Apple Confirm iPhone 5 Event on October 4th
New Battery Could Be Just What the Grid Ordered
FCC to Take Action on Rural Call Completion Problems
BAE Systems Confirms up to 3,000 Job Cuts
Amazon to Take on Apple iPad with 'Kindle Fire' Tablet
BrightSource Energy Receives $1.6B Taxpayer Loan
(wait for news of bankruptcy)
Scientists Want Publisher to Refreeze Greenland
9/27/2011
Broadcom Targets 2012 as Big Year for NFC
Stars Align at Last for Galileo’s Deployment
Australia's Telstra Switches on LTE Network
Copper-Oxide Wires Used to Create Flexible Memory Fabric
BlackBerry Torch 9850, 9860: RIM Goes All-Touch
Research In Motion Spikes (in spite
of unfriendly media)
Three Pleads for Fair Sharing of Airwaves
White House Petition to End Software Patents Is a Hit
(people who want someone else's work
for free and never give their own away)
Is New York’s Tech Boom Sustainable?
Senate confirms Carter to serve in DOD's No. 2 post
(not 'Jimmah,' thank god)
Huge Sun Storm May Super-Charge Northern Lights Tonight
China to Launch First Space Lab This Week
Wireless Backhaul via Satellite Shifts from Fixed Towers to Mobility
Platforms
Leading Handset Makers Announce Support for Isis
New Broadcom Components Target Higher-Speed Carrier Ethernet Aggregation
More Bad News for Solar: Oversupply Havoc
(it's just my tax money/political graft
at stake)
Few Consumers are Cracking the QR Code
New 'FeTRAM' is Promising Computer Memory Technology
NASA Moves Forward on Space and Aviation Research Projects, Despite
Bleak Funding Prospects
Caffeine's Buzz Chases Away Women's Depression
(must be why Melanie is never depressed)
9/26/2011
'Antimagnet' Joins List of Invisibility Approaches
Army Must Balance Tech Upgrades with Shrinking Budgets
Employees Want Their Own Choice of Mobile Phone and Computer Equipment
(that's never happened before so it's
news?)
Wireless Device Firm Says UK Manufacturers Can Compete
Small Business Economy Struggling, Few Plan to Hire
(oh, and neither is big business)
Network Sharing Key to Impact of French Spectrum Auction
Activists Threaten Industry Shutdown in Indian Tech Town
Rohde & Schwarz to Offer Wireless Test Certification
Morning Show in Iraq Signs Off
Shape Memory Materials Ready for Mass Production
AT&T Expands Mobile Broadband Wireless Capacity in Morgantown, WV
(using smoke signals and semaphore
flags, nyuk, nyuk)
How Could NASA Lose a 6.5-Ton Satellite?
Is Another Disabled Satellite Headed for Earth?
Solyndra Haunts Other Government-Backed Solar Firms
Physicists Discover 'Magnetotoroidic Effect'
Better Lithium-Ion Batteries Are on the Way
Intel Chooses Ireland over Israel
(Palestinian rockets can't reach Ireland)
European Supergrid Could Create 'Thousands of Jobs'
(when have these predictions ever been wrong...?)
Google Launches the Ultimate Jobs Killer
Pole Flips Tied to Plate Tectonics
9/25/2011
 RFCafe.com
Hacked (no damage, no virus)
Senator Says OnStar Invades Privacy
Italy 4G Auction Attracts €3.7B So Far
Scientists Question Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos
Cellular South Renames Itself C Spire
(a waste of subscribers' money)
9/23/2011
'Stingray' Phone Tracker Fuels Constitutional Clash
Wireless Increasingly Popular, but Fixed Lines Dominate Downloads
FCC to Explore Emergency Communications Based on Aircraft, Balloons
and Other Aerial Vehicles
Updates on Predicted Re-entry Times for UARS Satellite
Signs of China Slowdown Add to Dim Global Outlook
Cellphone Service Coming to 6 NYC Subway Stations
Neil Armstrong Says U.S. Space Program 'Embarrassing'
New Holographic Radar System Can Track High Speed Shells
Small Cell Backhaul to Shift Away from Copper and Fiber Toward Wireless
Backhaul
Materials for Solar Cells Could Power Instruments in Space
NASA to Demonstrate Communications Via Laser Beam
Indians Taking Qualcomm for $1B
Tech Spending to Grow 11.5% in 2011, but Slow in 2012
Julius Blank, Who Built First Chip Maker, Dies at 86
Controlling Silicon Evaporation Allows Scientists to Boost Graphene
Quality
Apple Sued by Via over Chips in Gadgets
Faster than Light Neutrinos? Don't Bet on It.
FCC, FEMA Offer New Tech Tips for Emergencies
TI Closes $6.5B Acquisition of National Semiconductor
Former eBay Chief Whitman Picked to Head HP
9/22/2011
Woman Hit by Space Junk, Lives to Tell the Tale
LightSquared's Proposals Not Viable, General Says
Proton-Based Transistor Could Let Machines Communicate with Living Things
Latin America Could Gain $15B from Digital Dividend
Electron Movements Can Now Be Controlled
BT Planning 500,000 Wi-Fi Hotpsots in London by 2012 Olympics
Rural Telco Operating Margins Declined Again
FEMA and FCC Unveil Tips on Communicating During Disasters
Texting Preferred over Verbal Conversation
Orange Aims to Rollout Europe-Wide NFC 'Ecosystem' by 2012
Your Guide to Spotting a Falling Satellite
Electron Tennis Bodes Well for Quantum Computing
FCC Upholds $17,000 Forfeiture Order to Tennessee Ham
MCU Vendors Tackle Electronic Safety
Texting Gets Untethered from Cellphones
Collis Launches One-Stop NFC Testing Shop
MEMS-in-Mobile Market to Reach $1.5B
NFC Companies Prepare for Windows 8
European Supergrid Could Create 'Thousands of Jobs'
Gore's Loose Lips Let New iPhones Slip
(what a buffoon - Mr. Earth's core
"several
million degrees")
9/21/2011
OnStar Tracks Your Car Even When You Cancel Service
(hello, Big Brother)
America’s Internet Service Slips to #25 Worldwide
Scientists Get First Detailed Look at Nitrogen Doping in Single-Layer
Graphene
Smartphones and Tablets Surpass Laptops as Most Frequently Carried Wi-Fi
Devices in Airports
LTE Sales Overtake WiMax, Says Analyst
Microwave Ovens a Key to Energy Production from Wasted Heat
Babbage Analytical Engine Designs to Be Digitized
China to Put 'Heavenly Palace' in Space Next Week
(booming Walmart sales helped finance
it)
Hays Affinity Group Provides ARRL Members with Equipment Protection,
Club Liability Insurance Plans
Semiconductor Growth Forecast for 2011 Reduced as Economy Turns for
the Worse
Google Spurns Oracle $2.2B Android Damage Claim
WEEE: What are Firms' Legal Responsibilities on Waste
Number Portability Overhyped in Latin America
NAB Produces Killer Video Highlighting Broadcasters
(warning: sound plays on page load)
Semiconductor Market to Slow Due to Economy
2 Billion PC's in the World by 2014
Google Is Not Making You Stupid
FEMA Prepared for Dead NASA Satellite's Plunge to Earth in Mere Days
(ground
track map)
Apple Granted 40 Patents in China
UK's First Hydrogen Refueling Station Unveiled at Honda Plant
9/20/2011
IBM to Report 2-GHz Graphene IC
Funding Given for Project to Replace Rare Earth Magnets
Petri Rebuts LightSquared Ad in Letter to CEO
Graphene Can be Strengthened by Folding
Survey: Average UK Engineer Earns £44k ($70k)
Falling Patent Quality Hits Innovation, Says OECD
Military Grilled on Defense Against N. Korean GPS Jamming
Will Super Wi-Fi Live up to Its Name?
Driverless Car Navigates Berlin Streets
Is Radio Listening Up or Down?
Scientists on Trial for Manslaughter After Failing to Predict Earthquake
(can farmers sue weathermen for not
predicting drought?)
Is It Time for Home and Away Pricing for Telecom?
TSMC May Cut 2012 Capex 19%
iPads to Provide Backup for Marines in Afghanistan
Salt Water Can Unlock ‘Inexhaustible’ Source of Hydrogen
Google Wallet is Now Live
IEEE Announces Milestone for Smart Grid Interoperability Standard-2030
Fact Check: Are Rich Taxed Less Than Secretaries?
(only ones like Buffett, who still
owes
>$1B
in back taxes)
Here's
an Interesting Political Donor List
Italy Downgraded, IMF Says Europe Behind the Curve
9/19/2011
Father and Daughter Burned in Alleged Electrical Theft
iPhone 5 Has a Big Problem
U.S. Research Seeks Transistor Replacement
Nanotube Cables Hit a Milestone: As Good as Copper
Quantum Behavior of Large Objects Revealed
High-Tech Industry Poised for Further Consolidation
Secret Cold War Spy Satellite Program Declassified
Tiny Wires a Step Towards Photonic Chip
Cell Companies Woo App Makers with Offices, Lattes
Samsung Exec: We’re Coming After the iPhone 5 as Soon as It Lands in
Korea
Snoozing Technique Could Help Keep Smartphone Batteries Fresh
Researchers Slam Studies Claiming Video Games Make Us Smarter
Small Business Optimism Falls for 6th Straight Month
Japan's Defense Industry Hit by First Cyberattack
Chrome 14 Contains Many Security Fixes
Berlin Hopes Growing Tech Community Will Lift City’s Economy
NASA Mobile Launch Platform Gets New Lease on Life
Retiree Benefits for the Military Could Face Cuts
(while Stimulus money pads accounts
of state & fed retirements)
Gov't Motor (GM) Handing Out Big Raises and Bonuses
9/18/2011
AT&T to Launch LTE Sunday
Dutch Gov't Reserves 1/3 of New Telco Spectrum for New Players
NASA: Satellite Pieces to Hit Earth in a Week
LTE Infrastructure Spending Overtook WiMAX in Second Quarter
San Francisco Turns to China for New Bay Bridge
(stimulus for China)
9/16/2011
Pentagon Orders More High-Capacity Satellites
3GPP Wireless Technologies Pass 5B Global Connections
New Naval Radar Could Help Crew React More Quickly to Attacks
SK Telecom Embeds NFC in SIM Card
2010 ARRL Technical Excellence Award Winners Announced
Political Payback Suspected in LigthSquared / GPS Row
LightSquared Says Finds Fix for GPS Interference
Could Silicon Be Ideal in Quantum Computing?
German Networks Meet 800 MHz Rollout Obligations
Cobham to Enhance Its UHF SATCOM Technologies Offerings with Acquisition
of Trivec-Avant Corp.
Chip Sales Slowing Rapidly
New Device Generates Energy from Small Vibrations
Israel Links Up with CERN "Big Bang" Physics Research Center
Satellite Spy Office Turns 50
Chemists Figure Out a Way to Force Apart Click Chemistry Bonds
Apple Granted Design Patents in China
Net Neutrality Debate Set to Re-Heat
'Star Wars' Gets Real as Scientists Find Planet with Two Suns
Billions in Unemployment Benefits Paid in Error
U.S. Oil Imports by Nation in 2011
(could be reduced to 0 within 5 years
with known deposits of gas, oil, coal)
9/15/2011
Mobile Phone Emissions Affects Local Glucose Metabolism in the Human
Brain (that can't be good)
Carter Pledges to Prevent 'Devastating' Defense Cuts, if Confirmed
Heathkit's Amateur Radio Plans Taking Shape
DSEi: GaN Chips Make Multi-Beam Radar Affordable
IPC Report Reveals Electronics Industry Slowdown
Android to Overtake the iPhone in the USA by the End of 2011
Are We Addicted to Our Smartphones?
LinkedIn: Busting 8 Damaging Myths About What It Can Do for Your Career
An Electronic Bucket Brigade Could Boost Solar Cell Voltages
SK Telecom Launches SIM Cards That Add NFC to Existing Phones
Carbon Nanotubes Braided into Macroscale Wires Challenge Copper
France Telecom Brand to Disappear by Summer 2012
Graphene Nanoribbons Grow Due to Domino-Like Effect
Europeans Reignite Fusion Energy Project
BlackBerry Phones to Act as Door Keys
Tokyo Game Show Turns to Cell Phones
Meteor Seen in Skies over Arizona, Nevada and Southern California
Smartphones' Downward Push Going Over Top
Multicolored Fireball in Sky Dazzles Southwest
USA Income Slides to 1996 Levels
9/14/2011
DSEi: Salaries Rise in Defense Electronics
BAE Systems plc Files Patent Application for Improvements in or Relating
to Waveguides
Mobile Networks Need to Spend $840B Over 5 Years to Meet Data Demand
How Congress Just Failed to Fix America's Broken Patent System
Board Urges Cellphone Ban for All Commercial Drivers
Smartphone 'Digital Keys' Coming to Campuses, Offices, Homes
NASA Unveils Giant New Rocket Design
(cool - looks like
Saturn V w/SRBs)
FCC Stops LightSquared Rollout Pending GPS Interference Tests
Professional Mobile Radio Market Jumped 15% in 2010
Researchers Begin Testing Promising New Nanomaterial for Hydrogen Storage
Qualcomm Facing New Threats to Its Mobile Silicon Dominance
Homeland Security Seeks to Use ZigBee for Tracking Firefighters
Wireless System Enables UAVs to Communicate with Operators
(they finally got rid of the wires
on those UAVs, eh?)
MIT Experts Develop Advanced 3D Printer
FCC: Deceptive Marketing of Prepaid Calling Cards
Researchers Develop Algorithm to Predict New Superhard Crystals
Best Buy Reports 5% Decline in Comparable Store Mobile Phone Sales
Microsoft Unveils Radically Redesigned Windows 8
Beautiful Blasts from Solar Storms
U.S. in Criminal Probe of eBay Employees
9/13/2011
A New and Improved Moore's Law
Samsung, Fujitsu, Panasonic, NEC, DoCoMo Combine to Challenge Qualcomm
Sprint App Shuts Down Driver’s Phone
Ramsey Calls Ford Exec Comments on HD Radio Patronizing
Skynet Seeks to Crowdsource the Stars
Is Smartphone Technology the Future of U.S. Elections?
Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope Confirms Puzzling Preponderance of Positrons
(yeah, that one has been bothering
me)
Body Wearable Antennas to Help Lighten the Load for Soldiers
Qualcomm Eyes Up Business Market with Femtocell Chipset
QR Tags Can Be Rigged to Attack Smartphones
New Breed of Mission Partners Will Support Flexible Field Comms
BT Unhappy as Ofcom Bans Automatic Contract Renewal
Slowest Crystal Growth Ever Measured
National Safety Council Videos Educate Public on Cell Phone Use While
Driving (don't view it while driving)
Compromise Between LightSquared and GPS Industry Possible?
PayPal Founders: Innovation Is Dead
Astrium Builds First Two Galileo In-Orbit Validation Satellites
FCC's Internet Rules Clear a Review Hurdle
Census: U.S. Poverty Rate Swells to Nearly 1 in 6
(that Stimulus stuff is great!)
9/12/2011
Experimental Electron Effect Detected in Practice
Destocking Hit August Chip Sales
Europe's Galileo Sat-Nav Spacecraft Ready to Fly
Jelly Batteries: Safer, Cheaper, Smaller,More Powerful
UK Telecoms Sector Predicts More Government Bureaucracy over Next Decade
(that's a given)
Is Thorium the Biggest Energy Breakthrough Since Fire?
Innovation Is Step Toward Digital Graphene Transistors
Compact Fluorescent Bulbs May Carry Fire Danger
French Carriers Launch Second NFC City
Research Team Develops Mathematical Model to Explain Harmony in Music
More Mobile Internet Users Than Wireline Users in the USA by 2015
DSEi: Military Technology on Parade
NASA Launches Twin Grail A&B Probes
RIM, Dolby Set Licensing Deal; Lawsuits Dropped
Unmanned Aerostats Furnish Vital Geospatial Intelligence
Ferroelectrics Could Pave Way for Ultra-low Power Computing
What It Takes to Power Google
La Nina Coming Back For Another Season
NASA's Smaller Programs Could Be at Risk
Windows 8 Could Make Or Break Microsoft (they've
been saying that since Win XP)
9/11/2011
BMW Developing Laser Headlights
TV Needs a Female Engineer (evidently
not as many women as men want to be engineers)
NASA: Satellite Could Scatter Debris over 500 Miles
DoCoMo Set to Add LTE Tablets, New LTE Plans
Royal Observatory’s Astronomy Photo Winners
Obama, Bush Join Together for a First at 9/11 Ceremony
9/9/2011
U.S. AWACS Plane Forced Down by N. Korean EW Attack
Colossal Change to U.S. Patent System Nears with Today's 'America Invents'
Vote
How the iPhone Isn't Saving America
Body Wearable Antennas Could Lighten a Soldier's Load
Nanoscale Spin Waves Can Replace Microwaves
Harman to Add NFC to Car Audio
Google Uses More Power Than Salt Lake City
(while preaching green to us)
Broadband-Enabled Rural Call Center Trend Gains Another Supporter
NEC, Ericsson Get Top Marks from Carriers in Microwave Survey
UK Imprinted Electronics Prototypes Light Up
Mitsubishi Boosts Electric Vehicle Price
(that'll really help sales of cars
nobody wants)
Twin Spacecraft to Map the Moon's Gravity
Copps: It's Time to Discuss FM Chips in Cell Phones
(BTW, you must be using ear buds to
pick up signal)
E-Mail Typos Result in 20 GB of Stolen Data
Nuclear Reactions in Space Produce the Heaviest Elements
Thanks for the Memory - Digital Amnesia
(sage advice)
UK Joins Laser Nuclear Fusion Project
MS Restores Services After Crash Affects Millions Worldwide
Seaweed Makes Batteries Better
FBI Raids Solyndra HQ (high-level
scandal)
9/8/2011
14-Year-Old Girl Uses Stun Gun to Steal Phone from HS Student
NASA Space Laser to Make Radio Obsolete
French Court Rejects Request to Block 4G Spectrum Auction
Stanford University Researchers Announce Sunspot Breakthrough
UK Government Plans Biggest Review of Electronics for a Decade
Iridium Launches New Handset Line
NFC Marketers Form Global Alliance
Innovation Is Step Toward Digital Graphene Transistors
HTC Buys Patents from Google - Sues Apple for Infringement
UK Interest in American GPS Row
DOD Must Balance, Accept Risks to Maintain Military Edge
Introducing The Zen of Steve Jobs: A Graphic Novel
(weird idol worship)
Tweens and Cell Phones: What Parents Need to Know
UMC's August Sales Down 24.7% on 2010
Study Shows That Vehicle-to-Vehicle Navigation Systems Really Work
Motion Sensor Market for Smartphones and Tablets Set to Double by 2015
Twin Spacecraft to Map the Moon's Gravity
ST Offers Dual-Port EEPROM and App for NFC
New Deal Will Double U.S. Rooftop Solar Power
(gov't buying for military housing - more tax money down the drain!)
U.S. Falls to 5th in Global Competitiveness
(fundamental change?)
9/7/2011
Air Passenger Arrested for Not Turning Off Phone
Breakthrough Could Double Wireless Capacity with No New Towers
The Next Wave of Botnets Could Descend from the Skies
Sun Unleashes Two Massive X-Class Solar Flares
The Way Carriers Manage Networks Can Hurt Phone Performance
STMicro Shows Potential of NFC in Electronic Devices
Lightweight Optics is Good for the Military
SEMI Sees Fabs Capital Increasing for Now
Get SET for the 2011 ARRL Simulated Emergency Test
Wireless Temperature Sensors Can Be Interrogated Remotely
Innovative Superconductor Fibers Carry 40x More Electricity
High-Energy Laser Weapons Likely to Replace Shipboard Machine Guns?
Global Cybercrimes Cost $114B Annually
Sprint Sues AT&T Claiming Its Buyout of T-Mobile USA is Illegal
Americans Seeking Work Find Mobile Broadband Effective in Assessing
Labor Market Prospects
Car-to-Car Communication System to Get a Massive Road Test
WEF Report: U.S. Economy on Comparative Downturn
How to Succeed in College: New Advice and Insights
New Camouflage Technology from BAE Hides War Machines
Astronauts' Tracks and Trash Show up in New Moon Photos
9/6/2011
UK May Delay 4G Radio Spectrum Auction
Room Temperature Superconductivity Claimed for Cuprates
British Team Plans to Reestablish Contact with 1970’s Era Satellite
Panetta Warns DOD Small-Biz Contracting Goal is Impending
Smart Phones and Pads Fuel Wireless LAN Growth
Smartphone Makers Urged to Target Over 45s
Passivated AlInN/GaN HEMT Pushes Beyond 200 GHz Cut-offs
Without AT&T, T-Mobile is a Wireless White Elephant
(racist reference)
Isobar to Host NFC Hackathon
China's Fabless Turn to Taiwan
¼ of U.S. Adults Use Mobile and Social Location-Based Services
M2M Market Set for Broad, Deep Growth
GPS Receivers Now Small Enough to Attach to Literally Anything
Internet Archive Shows Sept. 11 Coverage
German Court Bans Sales of Samsung's New 7.7-inch Tablet
Tanks Test Infrared Invisibility Cloak
Is Apple Engaging in Innovation by Intimidation?
NASA Launching Twin Moon Probes to Measure Gravity
Gold Climbs Above $1,903/oz on World Economic Unrest
9/5/2011
Novel Magnetic, Superconducting Material Opens New Possibilities in
Electronics
Electric Motor Made from a Single Molecule
RIM's BBM Music Starts Beta in UK, USA, Canada
Semico Cuts IC Forecast, Sees Decline for Year
Apple iPhone Prototype Loss Prompts Security Job Listings
Turkish Net Hijack Hits Big Name Websites
Higgs May Be Detected as Early as Christmas
(we're we told that last X-mas?)
Three UK Wants Legislation to Force Through Spectrum Auctions
Humankind's Most Ambitious Science Projects
Italy's KITEnergy Converts High Altitude Winds to Electricity
Hybrid Spaceplane Engine Tests Under Way
Hydrogenation Technique Triples Transistor Performance in Epitaxial
Graphene
Super Wi-Fi or White Spaces, What's Up with Unlicensed Broadband?
Internet to Bring Down the Sky-High Cost of Higher Education
Police Assisted Apple in Search of Man's Home
Many U.S. Schools Adding iPads, Trimming Textbooks
(no wonder Apple stock soaring)
Labor Secretary's "American Built" Car Actually Built in Canada
(what a bunch of freak'n morons - all
symbolism, no substance)
9/4/2011
Ofcom Approves Use of White Space Spectrum
HP's Trusty 12c Financial Calculator Turns 30
NASA Plans to Clear Space Junk
(article idiotically calls it vacuuming, but space is a vacuum, so really
it is sweeping)
TV in the Cloud
Illegal Workers Got Billion$ from Tax Credits
(taxes you and I paid)
Investigators Probe WH Role in $1/2B Loan to Bankrupt Solyndra
(more insider corporate welfare)
9/2/2011
Man Caught Using 2 Mobile Phones and Steering His Car with His Knees
Next-Generation Electronic Devices: Smallest Atomic Displacements Ever
TI Offers 'Qi' Inductive Power Transfer IC
NFC Isn't Just About Mobile Payments, Nokia Says
RFID Keeps Engine Noise in Check at Racecourse
Quantum Processor Hooks Up with Quantum Memory
Pakistani Recreates Newton's Telescope
(amateur astronomers in U.S. have been doing this for 100 years)
Canada's Shaw Ditches Cellular for Wi-Fi
Hams from NC to Maine Provided Communications Support for Hurricane
Irene
Microspiders: Polymerization Reaction Drives Micromotors
Air Force, Boeing Sign New WGS Satellite Contract
2 Men Charged with Selling iPhone Prototype
Apple Defends Itself After Pollution Allegations
(says it controls Chinese plants -
yeah, right)
Chinese Researchers Look at Possibility of Capturing Asteroids in Earth
Orbit
'Iron Veins' Could Be Key to Hydrogen Storage in Vehicles
(H power, not batteries, will make
e-vehicles attractive. 10 Volts per day sell now)
Volt Production to Be at 5,000/month by January
(that's only 167/day - Gov't doing
most of the buying)
Tech Blogger to Invest in Start-Ups
U.S. DoE Devises Security Fence to Thwart Rampant Copper Thefts
(how about putting these on the U.S./Mex
border?)
Stocks Fall as Lame U.S. Jobs Report Hits
(creating & saving jobs by raiding
Gibson Guitar)
9/1/2011
Man Accused of Assault with a Live Power Line
Again? Apple Loses Another iPhone Prototype in Another Bar
UK Plans for White-Space Radio by 2013
Mosaid Buys 2,000 Nokia Wireless Patents
Cash Hoards Destroying Value in the Tech Sector
(many
businesses waiting for new gov't in U.S.)
NFC Mobile Payment Still Not Prime Time
Mobile Internet Use Nearing 50%
Building Chips from Collapsing Nanopillars
Transceivers to Conquer the Terahertz Frontier
Manufacturing Conditions in UK 'Deteriorated Further' in August
Analyst Sees Upside in 2H11 Chip Market
DoJ Files Lawsuit to Block AT&T/T-Mobile USA Deal
Why Smartphones Still Haven't Taken over the U.S. Market
Atom-Smashing Hype Faces Reality
Consumer Goods Manufacturers Help Drive Up Robot Orders
Manufacturing Method Paves Way for Commercially Viable Quantum Dot-Based
LEDs
Military Continues to Struggle with Wartime Contracting
China's Solar Rise Seen in Solyndra's Fall
Another Green Jobs Company Gone and 1,100 Laid Off
(after spending $1/2 Billion in tax
dollars - where'd it go?)
U.S. Government Now Your "Federal Family"
(nanny state for pathetic people)
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