Technical Headline News Archive - February 2006
- 2-28-2006
- Mobile Phone Sales up 21% in 2005
- Companies Devise a Way to Advertise on the Sky
- China Ready to Inve$t Billion$
- Widening the Scope of Emergency Communications
- IBM and Harvard Team up to Create Microsoft Alternative
- RIM: BlackBerry Out-of-Court Settlement Not an Option
- Apple's OS X Suddenly Not So Secure After All
- Key to Happiness Lies in Attitude
- GPS Satellites Built by Lockheed Martin Hit Milestone
- Future of the Internet Highway Debated
- Google Eyes New Ad Venues: Old Media
- Real Intent Releases Next Generation Clock Domain Verification Tool
- 2-27-2006
- Increase in Wireless Technology for Monitoring Hospital Patients
- California: New Law Proposed Ban on Toxins in Cellphones
- NTT Docomo Trialed 4G in December
- U.S. Issues Visa and Apology to Scientist
- Rural Broadband Users Closing Gap
- Microsoft Set to Unveil Secret 'Origami' Product
- USMC Awards General Dynamics $49M Contract
- San Francisco Hopes to Harness Power of Dog Poop (why am I not surprised?)
- MIT Thinks Small to Find Safer Metals: Technique Could Replace Chromium
- Robots Used to Keep Children Safe in Japan
- 2-26-2006
- Scientific Study Finds Meetings at Work Decrease Employee Well-Being
- ARRL to FCC: Order an End to Arbitrary Access Limits to BPL Database
- Decision Delayed in BlackBerry Case; RIM Wins Round in Patent Battle
- Kauffman Study Identifies Key Factors Driving Offshoring of Corporate R&D
- Helped Wanted Ads Double on IEEE Job Site
- Buff & Brainy: Exercising the Body Can Benefit the Mind
- NASA Scientist Looks at Olympic Ice in a Frozen Light
- Wireless Mesh Surges
- New Map of Milky Way Reveals Millions of Unseen Objects
- EarthLink to Ttelecom World: Watch Us Now
- 2-24-2006
- ITU Approves UWB Standard
- Final Round Begins in BlackBerry Battle
- Microsoft Revamping Initiative For Tech Education
- Fly the Cell-Free Skies ... While You Still Can
- DoCoMo Conducts World's First 2.5Gbps 4G Tests
- USAF Awards $68M Contract to Lockheed Martin for WSTs
- U.S., Britain Conduct Nuclear Experiment
- Midwest's Windmill Generators Generate Buzz
- Researchers Describe Discovery Of Pluto's New Moons
- 2-23-2006
- DoD Awards $150 Million in University Research Projects (a pittance!)
- Broadband Use Booming in U.K.
- EU Unveils Plans to Create Technology Institute
- Electronic Waste No-Dumping Zones
- MEMS Market for Defense and Aerospace to Hit $265 Million by 2009
- China Claims 400M Mobile Phone Users - World's Largest
- New Taser Technology Being Developed
- Tough Sledding Seen for Chinese Foundry Growth
- Google, EarthLink Team Up in Wi-Fi Bid
- U. of Manchester Develops Wireless 'Wear And Tear' Sensor
- Photon Physics Used to Foil Hackers
- 2-22-2006
- Canadian College Bans Wi-Fi Over Health Concerns
- London to Offer Complete Wi-Fi Coverage
- Aerospace Orders Hit Record Levels in 2005
- European Distributors See Chip Sales Turn Up
- Semico Maintains 17% Growth Forecast
- Second New Worm Targets Apple OS X: Mac Attack
- Google Signs on Do-Good Doctor to Head $1B Charity
- Outer-Space Ventures Offer Payloads to Space for <$5k
- China Cracking Down on Junk E-mail
- Alpha Networks Chooses Azimuth Test Platform to Validate its Wireless Products
- 2-21-2006
- Adapt4's XG1 Receives Certification as World's First Commercial Cognitive Radio
- New U.S. Legislation Lets Unlicensed WLANs Use Empty TV Channel
- Drivers Distracted by GPS Navigation Systems
- UMC Claims Silicon Frequency Record of 192 GHz
- Explosive News: Intel to Build Semiconductor Center in Gaza
- German Foundry Offers RF Library Support
- Mitsubishi Claims first Laser-Based Rear Projection TV
- Cellphone Users Double Up
- EDA Software Being Sold by Wal-Mart
- BAE Systems Unmanned Aerial Wolfpack Sensors (flying buoy?)
- Azimuth Systems & Ray Cronin Featured in Movers & Shakers of the Month
- Agilent Technologies Announces High-Speed Packet Access Wireless Library
- 2-20-2006
- No Ill Effects Found in Hospital Cellphone Use
- Mathematical Proofs Becoming More Impossible to Verify
- RadioShack to Close Down Hundreds of Stores
- Skype Calls May Be Impossible to Wiretap
- RFID Tracking Technology for Homeland Defense
- U.S. Radio Companies May Report Low Earnings
- ST to Hire 300 More Engineers in India
- Google Denies Justice Department Request - Standing Firm
- RIM Still Open to 'Reasonable Settlement' in BlackBerry Case
- 2-18-2006
- SuitSat-1 Battery Voltage May Be on Downward Slide
- Unique RF Shielding Technology is Nanotube-Based
- Vietnam Man Has Not Slept for 33 Years (that's what I need)
- The Windy City Gears up to Be The Wireless City
- Lithium Battery Could Work in Hybrid Cars
- UAE Chosen for Sub-Orbital Tourism Spaceport
- Smallest Low Power WiFi Solution in the World
- Magnet Provides Promise for Electronics Advances
- This Is Your Brain on Money
- Lockheed Martin Built EchoStar X Satellite Launched Successfully
- 2-17-2006
- Near-Field Communications Makes a Splash at 3GSM
- Nokia Expects Rapid Growth in Blended Telephone Networks
- Israeli Scientists Produce Nanoscale Wires from Proteins
- New Videos Help Explain Mysterious Flashes Above Earth
- ESA Gives Support to Japanese Satellite
- Trojan Targets Sainted Mac OS X
- Technology "Stabilizes" Electricity from Wind Energy
- New Group to Develop Passenger Spaceship
- NIST Method May Help Optimize Light-emitting Semiconductors
- Sharp Readies 65-Inch LCD Computer Monitor
- 2-16-2006
- TIA Sees U.S., Global Telecom Growth
- Gartner Raises 2006 Chip Market Growth to 9.5%
- Mobile Phone Industry Targets the Third World
- Electronics Driving Malaysian Exports, Investment
- China Defends Right to Censor Web Content
- Rockwell Collins Gets Order for 25,000 Handheld GPS Units
- Microsoft Unveils Multiple Versions of Office 2007
- Scientists Report Spin Theory Breakthrough
- Japan's Camera Phone Craze Spreads to Funerals
- Agilent Technologies Announces Breakthrough
- 2-15-2006
- Cellphone Could Easily Crack RFID Tags, Says Cryptographer
- RFID Poised to Emerge as 'Household' Technology
- Worldwide Wi-Fi Hotspots Hits the 100,000 Mark
- Britain's Weapon Against Loitering Youths: Sonic Teenager Deterrent
- WiMAX Getting Real, but What About 802.20?
- New Report Says Women are Big Spenders in Technology
- Listen to a Lightning Storm on Saturn
- Einstein's Theory 'Improved'?
- Titania Nanotubes Create Potentially Efficient Solar Cells
- 2-14-2006
- Employees Implanted With RFID Tag
- Microsoft Mounts Challenge to BlackBerry
- TV Phone Sales to Hit $30B by 2010
- picoChip Shows 'Femtocell' Home Base Station at 3GSM
- Robots Saving American Lives in Iraq and Afghanistan
- Ford Working on 60 MPG Hybrid F150 Truck
- Bush Honors Science & Tech Achievements
- Data Security: A Problem In Search Of A Mathematical Theory
- Facial Characteristics Indicative of Personality Traits, Say Experts
- China Says Foreign Internet Companies Must Abide by Local Laws
- 2-13-2006
- 3GSM World Congress Gets Under Way
- Patent Lawsuits Hit Tech Titans
- DoCoMo to Build Core Platform for HSDPA
- Spectrum License Distribution Scrutinized
- Nokia Pushes Cellular-WiFi Convergence at 3GSM
- Microsoft Venture Adds to Blackberry’s Woes
- Development Fund Launched to Bridge Digital Divide
- U.S. Stages Massive Mock Internet Attack
- ESA Seeking to Challenge Conventional Space Systems
- NexTek Launches High Performance 12.5 GHz SurgeGuard™ Lightning Arrestors
- 2-11-2006
- Fossett Breaks Record for Nonstop Flight
- New York Ham Station Copies Complete "SuitSat-1" Telemetry
- WiMAX — Better ROI than 3G?
- Frenetic Activity Seen in Batteries, Fuel Cells
- FTC to Hold High-Tech Issue Hearings
- Wireless Pager Teams up with GPS to Perform Multiple Surveillance Tasks
- M/A-COM Announces 20W X-Band High Power Amplifier
- Yahoo Accused of Selling Out Chinese Dissident
- 2-10-2006
- Fractal Antenna Firm to Demo Wireless Package
- Super 3G Could Arrive Within 3 Years
- Single-Chip RF Circuits Coming
- U.K. Survey: Consumers Disenchanted with 3G
- NASA's Centennial Challenges Offer Big Rewards for New Technology
- RIM Unveils Plan to Keep BlackBerrys Alive
- GEO Market Worth $28B over Next Decade
- Car Companies See Internet Purchase Increase
- SpaceX Launch Scrubbed for a Third Time
- New Georgia Tech Probe Revolutionizes Nano Imaging
- Fossett Passes Halfway Mark
- 2-9-2006
- Military Role in Space Said Set to Expand
- Satellite Phone Firms Get Spectrum Windfall
- RIM Unveils Blackberry Workaround Plan (hoorah for them)
- Mobile TV Chip Group Raises $25 Million
- Export Controls Killed China Deal, Says Transmeta
- Analysts Forecast 176 New Satellites by 2015
- Astronomers Spot Two Huge Solar Systems
- Battery Alternative: Nanotube Structures Key to Work
- Google Offers New Search Feature
- U.S. Could Fall Behind in Global 'Brain Race' - Public Schools Failing Us
- 2-8-2006
- RFMD Unveils RF8110 IC Software-Based GPS Solution for Mobile Devices
- FCC to Start Auctioning Airwaves
- Dutch Researchers Adopt UWB for 'Body Nets'
- Radar System Spots Debris on Runway
- Dell Undergoing Tests with Google
- IP Theft Continues
- Liftoff! Fossett Tries to Beat Flight Record
- NASA Concentrates on Building New Moon Craft
- Key Challenges Loom for DHS' Efforts to Ramp up Border Technology
- 2-7-2006
- RFMD Ships 20 Millionth Polaris Total Radio(tm) Transceiver
- World's Largest Solar Photovoltaic Project to be Built in Nevada
- Record DoD Budget Request Targets Comms, Intel
- NASA Funds Research on All-Electric Aircraft
- IBM to Unveil Details of Super Fast Microprocessor
- Transistor Laser Functions as Non-linear Electronic Switch, Processor
- Google, Skype Back Effort to Link Wi-Fi Hotspots
- NASA Unveils FY 2007 Budget Request
- White House Approves Oregon Nanotech Center
- Customers Disappointed With Camera Phones
- 2-6-2006
- New Exam Measures Technical Literacy
- Philips to Present Plastic RFID Circuit
- Hitachi Advances Paper-Thin RFID Chip
- New Technology Unveiled Makes Networks Virtually "Invisible"
- NASA: SuitSat Off the Air, Hams Disagree
- Dept. of Justice Warns Against BlackBerry Shutdown
- SIA: World Chip Sales Rose 6.8% in 2005
- Gazillionaire Steve Fossett Tries to Break Aviation Distance Record
- 3G Based Mobile TV to Dominate - But Not For Long
- Government Tweaks Tornado Rating Scale
- 2-5-2006
- Welcome or Not, Cell Phones Set for NYC Subway
- "SuitSat-1" Successfully Launched from ISS
- Docomo to Evaluate WiMax
- IDC: Mobile Telephony to Continue Growing at 2 Digits
- IBM Describes 60 GHz SiGe Transceiver Chip Set
- Greek Phone-Tapping Didn't Endanger National Security
- Inventions Inc.
- IEEE-USA Applauds President’s American Competitiveness Initiative
- Internet Jihad: Tackling Terror on the Web
- 2-3-2006
- NFL Picks Motorola for Super Bowl Media Links
- ARRL Urges New York Members to Protest State Grant to Troublesome BPL Trial
- Bush to Request $439.3 Billion Defense Budget
- GM to Outsource $15B in Information Technology
- Israeli Electronics Investors Unfazed by Political Turmoil
- New Technologies Enhance Quantum Cryptography
- U.S. Seeks Free Trade Agreement with South Korea
- Vietnam to Invite Formal Bids for Satellite Project
- New Microsoft Windows Tools in the Wings
- Are Parents Ready to Give Phones to Kids?
- 2-2-2006
- U.S. Government Details Opposition to BlackBerry Ban
- RFMD's Bluetooth Enables Award-Winning Wireless Stereo Headphones
- Mini Radios Increase Efficiency of Oil Well Drilling
- Fabric Keyboard Company Raises $7.1M
- Philadelphia, EarthLink Agree on Citywide Wi-Fi
- U.S. DTV Transition in 2009, $1B Set-Top Subsidy Planned (your tax dollars at work)
- SIA: 2005 Set Semi Sales Record
- U.K. Agency Criticized for Poor RoHS Advice
- Lockheed Martin Boosts Accuracy of Air Force GPS
- Gates: Internet Censorship Won't Work
- Blue Light Makes People Alert at Night
- Rocket Racing League Issues RFPS for Race Venues and Teams (Très Cool!)
- 2-1-2006
- Computer Worm Threatens Major Destruction Friday
- Bush to Boost Research Funding
- Near Field Communications Jumps into the Patent Pool
- Worn-Out Russian Space Suit to be Released as Amateur Radio Beacon (SuitSat)
- BlackBerry Battle Spurs Secondary Spats
- Bush Outlines Advanced Energy Initiative
- Tall Men Get Better Education
- Quarterly Mobile Phone Shipments Top 200 Million Again
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