| 4/30/2009 |
| Worldwide
Mobile Phone Shipments Down 15.8% in First Quarter |
| Demand Decreases for U.S. Work Visas (just walk across the U.S.-Mexico border - it's easier) |
|
ISA Approves First Standard for Industrial Wireless Applications
|
| IBM to Add up to 5,000 Jobs Worldwide |
|
ZigBee Alliance Adds Global IT Standards to Its Growing Portfolio
|
|
Molex Buys Motorola's EMC Lab in Denmark |
| World's Fastest
Camera Relies on An Entirely New Type of Imaging |
| Are Internet Users
Ditching Print Altogether? |
| Qualcomm
and ST-Ericsson Shine, Even As Wireless Chip Market Tanks |
|
ST's Q1 Loss Widens; Wireless JV to Cut 1,200 Jobs |
|
Anadigics' Revenue Falls by 1/3, Driven by WLAN and Cable Shortfall
|
|
Apple Snapping up Chip Designers |
| Pushing
Plastic Solar Cells |
|
CEA Will Set Specs for 3-D Glasses |
| Iron-Arsenic
Superconductors in Class of Their Own |
|
Harris to Deliver Tactical Radios to Polish Ministry of National Defense
|
| Microsoft
Chugs Toward Windows 7 Release |
| NASA:
Quarantine Will Keep Astronauts from Catching Swine Flu |
|
Firefox 3.5 Beta 4, Beta 5 Gets Under Way |
| Half a Glass
of Wine a Day May Boost Life Expectancy by 5 Years (license to imbibe?) |
| 4/29/2009 |
| Study of 'Persistent
Currents' Finally Verifies Theory |
|
UK VC Investment Falters |
| ARRL Foundation Announces 2009 Scholarship Recipients |
|
Ex-EPA Official Calls for New Agency to Oversee Nanotech |
|
ARPA-Energy Launches First Research Project |
| Carpet
Cloaks Bring Invisibility to the Optical World |
| Pizza Tossing Art Unlocks Secrets of Tiny Motors |
|
Research May Yield New Z Boson and Fifth Force of Nature |
|
Microsoft in Cellphone Talks with Verizon |
| Nano-Mechanical Sensors 'Wired' by Photonics |
| Sun Micro Loss Deepens Prior to Acquisition |
|
Panel Predicts DOD Contracting Workforce to Expand |
| USPTO Takes 1st in NAGC's Blue Pencil & Gold Screen Awards Competition
|
| European
Economic Confidence Bounces Back |
|
Office 2007 SP2 Released, Can Save ODF by Default |
|
Clear Channel Cutting 590 Radio Jobs |
|
Florida Teen Finds Rocks in Nintendo DS Box |
|
Economy Shrinks at 6.1% Pace in 1Q |
| Top Lawmaker
Wants Mileage-Based Tax on Vehicles |
|
Brits Back Away from 'Big Brother' Data Storage Plan |
|
Space Junk Forcing More Evasive Maneuvers |
| 4/28/2009 |
| Qualcomm to Pay Broadcom $891M in Settlement
(chump change in Bailout terms) |
| Mobile
Application Revenues to Reach $25B by 2014 As Apps Stores Hit Mass Market
|
|
Norwegian Air Shuttle to Provide High-Speed Broadband |
| Alcatel-Lucent
Wins Chinese Contracts Worth $1.7B |
|
Chips Supporting Bluetooth 3.0 Announced |
| Nokia Cuts
450 Jobs in Mobile Services Division |
| New 'Green' Power Cables on the Horizon |
|
Small Satellites Grow in Popularity |
|
Humans May Be Hardwired to Work 8 Hours/Day
(well, except the Welfare class, who seem to have
their wires crossed) |
| Cablevision Has Fastest Internet Speeds for Cable |
|
WSJ Radio Network Thrives as Paper's Circulation Rises |
| Touch Screens with Pop-Up Buttons |
|
Analog Devices, Infineon Link for Next-Gen Auto Airbags |
|
IBM Boosts Quarterly Dividend 10% |
| People with
Higher IQs Make Wiser Economic Choices |
|
Electronics Cooling Depends on Innovative Approaches to Thermal Management
|
|
New Blow for Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Theory |
|
Corot Space Telescope Finds New Planet with UK Technology
|
|
Nuclear Power Plant Construction Urged in U.S. |
| Fast Color-Changing Material May Lead to Improved Sunglasses
|
| Scientists
Make First Observation of Unique Rydberg Molecule |
| Pranksters
Rig Time Magazine's "Most Influential" Poll |
|
Swine Flu Fears May Hammer Travel Industry |
| 4/27/2009 |
|
G.E.'s Breakthrough Can Put 100 DVDs on a Disc |
|
Renesas and NEC Electronics to Combine |
|
Electronics Industry Urges U.S. Military to Buy Only American-Made
PCBs. |
| Computer Program to Take On 'Jeopardy!' |
| Obama
Pledges Big Boost in Scientific Research, 3% of GDP |
|
EU Recommends Against Travel to U.S. & Mexico |
| The Spectrum and
the Stimulus |
| 'Instant-On' Computing by Putting the Squeeze on an Old Material
|
|
'Deep Packet Inspection' Could Become the Target of Legislation
|
|
Giant Electrical Tornadoes in Space Drive the Northern Lights
|
| Verizon
Communications Quarterly Profit Up 5.3% |
| New Wireless Sensor First for Instant Monitoring of Brain Oxygen
|
| New Hubble Mission to Launch Around May 11 |
| Qualcomm
Slips into Second-Quarter Loss on Broadcom Settlement |
| Catching the
Lightwave: Nano-Mechanical Sensors 'Wired' by Photonics |
| Japan's Sharp
Reports $1.3B Annual Loss |
| A New E-Paper Competitor |
|
Windows 7 to Include 'XP Mode' Virtualization |
| In a Dead Job Market, Unemployed Hit the Gym |
|
Print Media Continues Steep Decline |
| 4/26/2009 |
|
U.S., China to Sign Billion$ in Busine$$ Deal$ Monday |
|
Hackers: the China Syndrome (we'll
overlook the hacking for a few $B in contracts) |
| GM to Pull the Plug on Pontiac |
| Discovery of An Unexpected Boost for Solar Water-Splitting Cells
|
|
Super-Rich Ravaged by Recession |
|
Italy's Mafia Thrives in Global Financial Meltdown |
| 4/24/2009 |
|
Universities Irrelevant by 2020? |
| ROHS Changes Keep Design Engineers Vigilant |
|
Bluetooth 3.0 Will Be 8x Faster |
| Eight
States Consider Adopting New York's Problematic "Amazon Nexus" Law |
| Europe
Tops Global Open Source Survey |
| Finland
Awards Radio Spectrum for LTE Networks |
|
Apple Lays off 1,600 'Geniuses' |
|
Space Deterrence Concept Critical to U.S. Space Asset Security
|
|
Cell Phone Coverage on the World's Highest Peak, Mount Everest
|
| WiMax Subbing for DSL in Vietnam |
|
Freescale Abandons Sale of Cellular Handset Unit |
| Night
Owls Have More Staying Power |
|
Moody's Downgrades Nokia on Worries That Market Saturation May Have
Set In |
| Reversals
of Earth's Magnetic Field Explained by Small Core Fluctuations |
|
Harris Wins $600M to Modernize U.S. Military SatCom Terminals
|
|
Microsoft Net Income Tumbles over 30% |
| Time For a New Theory of Gravitation? (well, the old one defies Unification, so I'd say so) |
| Boom Times
Ahead for Mobile Web Access |
|
Cars Gone Wireless |
| New 167-Processor Chip Is Super-Fast, Ultra Energy-Efficient
|
| Spaceport America Education Launch Information |
| 4/23/2009 |
|
Intel Makes Its Top 10 Technology Predictions for Next Decade
|
| China's Capacity Utilization Hit New Low in 09Q1 |
|
Chipset Enables WCDMA/UMTS Access Points and Gateways |
| Researchers
Unzip Carbon Nanotubes to Make Ribbons of Graphene |
| Electricity
Meters to Transmit Usage Data over T-Mobile Network (see latest
Kirt's Cogitation) |
|
China's Second Navigation Satellite Functioning Well in Planned Orbit
|
|
NIST Nudges Quantum Computers Toward Commercial Viability
|
| New Research
Promises Better Atomic Clocks |
| A Biological
Basis for the 8-Hour Workday? |
| Students Find Jupiter-sized Oddball Planet |
| Flexible, Printable
Supercapacitor Built |
|
Nokia CEO: Too Early to Call Bottom of Phone Demand |
|
Spansion Puts Wireless Business up for Sale |
|
Faster Bluetooth Chips Coming Early Next Year |
|
Drumbeat Gets Louder for White House Control of Cybersecurity
|
| UK Privacy Watchdog Clears Google Street View |
|
TriQuint Sees Demand Return as Handset Inventory Burns Off
|
| NYPD:
Hackers Try to Access Force's Computers 70,000 Times a Day |
| Apple Pulls
Plug on 'Baby Shaker' iPhone Program |
|
New Firefox 3.0.9 Patches Mucked-up Memory and Other Holes
|
| Do Good Looks Get High School Students Good Grades? (finally... an excuse for my dismal HS performance!) |
|
CBS: Obama Earth Day Flights Burned More than 9,000 Gallons of Fuel
|
| 4/22/2009 |
| New Features
Found in Einstein's Brain |
|
'Covered Campus' Looks to Be the First Logical Use of WiMAX
|
|
Record Attempt Reaps 217k Texts, $26k Phone Bill |
| AT&T
First-Quarter Profit Down 9.7% - Landline Revenues Decline |
|
Joint Strike Fighter Data Stolen in Pentagon Cyber Attack
|
|
Ferroelectric Gates Make Transistors Nonvolatile |
|
Oxford Team Put Shrödinger's Cat to Work in Sensor Design
|
| EU Parliament
Votes to Approve Cuts on Roaming Charges |
|
Counterfeit Parts and Trusted Sources at Military & Aerospace
Electronics Forum |
|
Budget Reveals £2.5B for High Tech Industries |
| Stephen Hawking
on 'Road to Recovery' |
| Telecom
Policy Makers Urged to Focus on Rural Connectivity |
| New Technique that Scrambles Light May Lead to Sharper Images
|
|
Bee.One Electric Car to be Tiny, Cheap, and Cute (and unpurchased) |
| Turkish
Operator Deploys Wind-Powered Base Station |
|
Need for Speed: Bluetooth 3.0 Is Official |
| New
Military Command Planned to Improve U.S. Cybersecurity |
| Server Glitch Crashes T-Mobile Network |
|
Sensational Images of Saturn Show the Ringed Planet in Incredible
Detail (sensational is truly an understatement) |
|
Google Debuts Even More Unbelievably Helpful Labs |
|
UK Hikes Top Income Tax Rate to 50% (a mere pittance - U.S. senators threatened 100% tax on
some executive bonuses) |
| 4/21/2009 |
|
Here Comes the Internet Sales Tax Grab |
| 2010 to See 17% Jump in Semiconductor Industry Revenue |
|
French Workers Lock Up More Bosses over Job Cuts |
| Fractal Antenna Demonstrate
Working "See-Thru" Wideband Invisibility Cloak |
| Shortages
of Ammo and Gun Accessories Cropping up Nationwide |
| World's Largest Model Rocket to Lift Off Saturday |
|
China's Fab Utilization Sinks to 43% |
| RFID Sensor
Detects Radiation Threats in Shipping Containers Using Modified Cell Phone Tech
|
| Shrinking Size of Nanotechnology Circuitry with Novel Technology
|
|
EU States, Lawmakers on Internet Collision Course |
|
Budget Must Not Undermine Us, Say Manufacturers |
| Mixed Feelings About Sun Setting in Silicon Valley |
| EarthLink Blocking ARRL
E-Mail Forwarding Service Traffic |
|
TI Takes Q1 Profit Hit, Slashes Inventory Levels |
|
Oil Falls to Near $45 as Stock Markets Sink |
|
Boeing to Develop Free Electron Laser for U.S. Navy |
|
Safety Panel Endorses Ending Shuttle Ops |
|
Starbucks Wi-Fi Déjà Vu, Now in British Isles |
|
Broadcom Makes Unsolicited $764M Bid for Emulex |
| Spies Breach
Pentagon Fighter-Jet Project |
|
First Solar Secures Financing for 53 MW German Plant |
| 4/20/2009 |
|
80% of U.S. Jobs Lost by Men (how
about some equality here!) |
| Stephen Hawking
Hospitalized, Reported Very Ill |
|
Washington to Get First Crack at Free Mobile TV |
|
€14M Paid to NXP Bosses |
|
Russia to 'Track' Its Nanotech, Aims for 3% of Market |
|
Oracle to Buy Sun for $9.50 a Share ($7.4B US) |
| Record
Result in Q4 for India - but Q1 09 Looks Set to Beat It |
| Bluetooth Replacing
Movie Posters in Belgium |
|
Obama Names Relative Unknown as U.S. CTO |
|
Nano-Enabled Battery Maker A123 Gets $100M in Tax Credits
(they certainly don't seem to be sharing the benefit
with customers via lower prices) |
|
Duke Physicists See the Cosmos in a Coffee Cup |
| European
Incumbent Telecom Operators at Risk from Cable Broadband Upgrades |
|
Nordic Semi to Make µBlue Bluetooth Low Energy Chips |
|
Venus to Disappear During Meteor Shower |
| Swedish
University Researches Mesh Wireless Networks |
|
Kepler Telescope Beams Back Its First Images |
| Spectrum Front and Center for Wireless Industry |
| Measuring the Immeasurable: Bond Strength of Materials Linked to Heat
Transfer |
|
Green IT and Green Computing Slideshow |
| Navy
Working on Missile-Killing Laser Weapons |
|
New IPhone Ad Targets Small Business |
| How to Deflect Asteroids and Save Earth |
| 4/19/2009 |
| TSMC Plans R&D Hiring |
|
Agilent, Maury Microwave Support Nonlinear Component Measurement and
Simulation |
|
Revealed: Antarctic Ice Growing, Not Shrinking |
| Tracking Down the Effect of Nanoparticles |
| Sharp Decline in North America Equipment Bookings Abated |
| |
| 4/17/2009 |
| Sony Ericsson
to Cut a Further 2,000 Jobs |
|
Founders Fund Opens Nominations for $50,000 TechFellow Awards
|
|
Nokia Says Handset Market to Fall More |
|
SEMI Book-to-Bill Trending Upwards Again |
| Tyco Electronics
to Sell Wireless Unit to Harris |
|
Time Warner Retreats from Plan to Test Capping Subscriber Bandwidth
|
| A Step Closer
to an Ultra Precise Atomic Clock |
| Hijacking Mobile-Phone Connections |
| Veterans a Focus of FBI Extremist Probe
(thanks for your service - by the way you're a threat
to the USA) |
|
Internet Radio Popularity Continues to Rise |
|
TSMC to Spend up to T$5.5B on New Equipment |
|
TriQuint Retains GaAs Foundry Lead |
| Spam's
Carbon Footprint: Could Power 2.4 Million Homes Per Year |
| Top 20
Handsets Represent 43% of Mobile Advertising Inventory |
| Newly Discovered Iron-Breathing Species in Cold Isolation for Millions
of Years |
|
New Asteroid-Deflecting Method Devised |
|
Glasgow Shrinks Diamond Transistor to 50nm |
| Laughter Remains
Good Medicine |
|
DOD Websites Scheduled for Upgrade |
|
Pirate Bay Verdict: Founders Sentenced to Jail, Fined |
| 4/16/2009 |
|
IEEE Recognizes HP 35 Calculator as a Milestone |
|
Flying Laptop Kills Driver |
| Portable High-Power
Microwave (HPM) Bomb to be Tested |
| Nokia 1st-Quarter
Profit Plunges by 90% |
| Unzipping Graphene's Potential |
| Telecom Market Spotlight: Europe |
| NEC Electronics,
Renesas Near Merger |
| Space-Based
Solar Power Coming to California in 2016 |
| X Marks the Spot: Ions Coldly Go Through NIST Trap Junction
|
| Internet Providers
Want to Meter Usage |
|
UK Taxpayers Subsidize Electric Car Purchases with £5,000
|
| Green Light
from Silicon |
|
China Shoots 2nd GPS Satellite into Orbit |
| Nanoribbons from Sliced Open Nanotubes |
| Pressure
Group Calls for 5-Year Freeze in US Cellphone Taxes |
|
Patent Prosecution Highway Pilot Program Between U.S. PTO & German
PTO |
|
IBM, Samsung, Others Team Up on Next-Gen Chips |
|
Russians Say They'll Invest in Canadian Nanotech |
|
Yahoo Partners w/Top Universities for Cloud Research |
|
United Airlines to Charge Obese People Double |
| 4/15/2009 |
| Rifleman Radio Offers Combat Lifeline |
| Recession
or Not, Wireless Backhaul Expansion Continues Strongly |
|
MEMS Maker Reports 2008 Revenue Growth |
| Intel: Worst Over for the Tech Sector? |
|
Synthetic Diamond Firm Produces Material for Quantum Computing
|
|
Continuation of the Patent Prosecution Highway Pilot Program Between
the USPTO and IP Australia |
| Physicists
See the Cosmos in a Coffee Cup |
|
Digital Radio Growth is Music to Ears of IC Makers |
| Study Finds
Large Cost Savings for Migrating Heavy Data Users to Femtocells |
| California Teen is 2009 Goldfarb Scholarship Recipient |
| EBay Confirms
Skype Disposal - Via Stock Market Floatation |
| RFID Consortium Readies to Launch First Licenses |
|
Antenna Maker Sees Stronger Mobile Sales |
| Yahoo Plans First
Major Layoffs Under New CEO |
|
Inlustra Starts GaN Production for LEDs |
|
Office 2007 SP2 Arrives in 2 Weeks - Includes PDF Format |
|
Office 2010: First Technical Previews Due in Q3 |
| Laws
of Physics Persist: In Crashes, Big Cars Win |
| Ten
High-Tech Weapons to Repel Pirates (aka terrorists) |
| 4/14/2009 |
|
NYC Considering Blocking Chatty Cabbies' Phones |
|
Warren Buffett Invests in Chinese Electric Car Company |
|
Rebound Predicted for Semiconductor Market |
| Spectrum
Auctions in Latin America Will Trigger Massive Broadband Subscription Growth
|
| New 'Near-Field' Radiation Therapy Promises Relief for Overheating
Laptops |
| U.S. Government
Lifts Export Restrictions on Telecoms Equipment to Cuba |
|
Obama to Let U.S. Telecoms Bid for Cuba Licenses |
| Harnessing
Direct Solar Power for Propulsion |
|
2008 Equipment Spending Down 31.7% |
| Nano Changes Rise to Macro Importance in a Key Electronics Material
|
|
Experiment Shows Molecules Can Walk, but Can They Dance? |
|
EU Urges Tougher Internet Privacy Rules |
| Femtocells
to Dominate Market for Indoor Cell Coverage |
|
Muslim Group Issues Fatwa on Mobile Phone Etiquette |
|
NASA Selects Material for Orion Spacecraft Heat Shield |
| Life Expectancy
on the Rise -- Even for Quantum States |
|
Research Team Reports Breakthrough in Optical Silicon Communication
|
|
CEA/Leti, IBM Collaborate on Nanoelectronics |
|
Mars' Spirit Healthy but Computer Reboots Raise Concerns |
| Bilingual
Babies Get an Early Edge |
| 4/13/2009 |
|
NY Adds Up to 33% to Cell Phone Bills |
| Scientists
Demonstrate Laser with Controlled Polarization |
|
Big Bro in a Pill - RFID Tells if You Are Taking Your Meds |
|
Bluetooth Over Wi-Fi Launches on April 21 |
|
Net Radio Grows, but Terrestrial Radio Holds Steady |
|
Google's Street View Vehicle Trounced by Law of Physics |
| Electronics: Keeping the Heat Down |
| Demand Surge Expected in Second Half, IC Insights Says |
|
Europe Sets May 6 for Launch of Herschel, Planck Telescopes
|
| Peering into Nanowires to Measure Dopant Properties |
|
China Reveals New Super Rocket |
| New ARRL Advanced Emergency Communications Course in the Works
|
| Next-Gen Atom Smashers: Smaller, Cheaper and Super Powerful
|
|
Coating Plane Wings in Feathers Could Reduce Drag |
|
Palm Pre Smartphone, WebOS Looking Like iPhone Killers |
| Cell Phone Recycling:
Delete, then Dispose |
| Harnessing
Direct Solar Power for Propulsion |
|
Volunteers Recover Lunar Orbiter 1 Photographs |
|
Is eBay Selling Skype Back to Its Creators? |
| 4/12/2009 |
|
Bluetooth Hits Speed Bump |
| New York - The Tax Capital of the World (why does anybody still live there?) |
| New Technology to Secure Integrated Systems and Circuits |
| Conficker
Worm Hits University of Utah Computers |
|
Microhoo Rumours Back as 'Talks' Resume |
| New Method Could Lead to Narrower IC Patterns |
| Microsoft Set to Release Excel Patch |
| 4/10/2009 |
| Father
Takes Hammer to Cell Phone of Teen Who Ran Up $5k Cell Phone Bill |
| Counterfeit Components Find New Markets |
| Motorola
Calls Former CFO "Treacherous Officer" |
| Sabotage Caused Phone, Internet Outage in Silicon Valley |
| Chicago Installs
Solar Powered Charging Station for Electric Vehicles |
|
Bluetooth SIG Set to Unveil Version 3.0 This Month |
| NYC Church Tweeting the Passion of Christ - 140 Characters at
a Time |
|
Strong IC Rebound to Start in Second Half |
|
Northrop Grumman Settles $325M False Claims Lawsuit Concerning Defective
Satellite HBTs |
| 2009 Iditarod Race Tracked Via Satellite-Based Transponders and Sensors
|
|
Army Orders More Portable Satellite Radios |
| Why Chrysler
Chose A123 Batteries |
|
Thousands in Line for New IP Address Anonymity Service |
| World's First Nanofluidic Device with Complex 3-D Surfaces
|
| Sharp Forecasts
Bigger Loss Amid Global Slowdown |
| High-Tech Weights for Space Workout
(probably makes the
ROM machine look inexpensive) |
|
NASA: Clean-Air Regs, Not CO2, Are Melting the Ice Cap |
| Scientists
Find the Edge of Space |
|
MA Public Schools to Send Home BMI Reports for Students (I wonder if they will also disclose the BMI of school
administrators?) |
| 4/9/2009 |
| Faster,
Better Patent Processing |
|
3GPP Passes Femto Standard |
|
U.S. Takes Step Toward Smart Grid Standards |
|
FCC's McDowell: Careful That "National Broadband' Isn't Just
for Cable" |
|
Southampton University Gets £6M for Meta Materials |
|
Northrop Grumman Settles $325m False Claims Lawsuit Concerning Defective
Satellite HBTs |
| French Lawmakers Reject Internet Piracy Bill |
|
Obama Administration Backs Spy Satellite Modernization |
|
Intel, Qualcomm Led a Declining Semiconductor Market in 2008
|
| Georgia Tech Researchers Create an RFID-Sensor Medical Patch
|
| Nine in
10 Brits Do Not Care About "Green" Mobile Phones |
|
Credit Crunch: Semiconductor Light Amid Economic Gloom |
| College Too Expensive? Try YouTube |
| Adult Brain Processes Fractions 'Effortlessly' |
| Entangled
Light in Bose-Einstein Condensates |
|
Market for Embedded Pico-Projector Modules to exceed $1B |
| A Hybrid
Nano-Energy Harvester |
| UFO Hoax Draws
Fines, Community Service |
| Quantum Computers
Will Require Complex Software to Manage Errors |
| Microsoft Loses Patent Case, Ordered to Pay $388M |
|
Apple Sued Over TouchScreen Patent Infringement |
|
Just 53% U.S. Adults Say Capitalism Better Than Socialism
(that is about the same % of people who pay $0.00
of income taxes - a coincidence?) |
| 4/8/2009 |
| Electricity Grid in U.S. Penetrated by Spies |
|
Defense Cuts Prompt Protests from Lawmakers Concerned About Job Losses
|
|
Air Force Lab to Study Electronic Warfare |
| FCC Gets Going on National Broadband Plan |
| Worldwide
Semiconductor Revenue Down in 2008 - Qualcomm Bucks the Trend |
|
Samsung Stresses Need to Seed WiMax Market with Devices Early
|
| Evolving
Landscape of Mobile Broadband in Asia |
|
Cellphone Features Outrun Battery Technology |
| Carbon Nanotubes
Toughen a Common Plastic |
| New ARRL Advanced Emergency Communications Course in the Works
|
| Pentagonal Ice Discovered: Could Be Used to Modify Weather
|
|
RFMD's Fab Utilization Rebounding as Orders Improve |
|
New Obama DOJ Claims Sovereign Immunity in Wiretap Case |
| Cheap, Efficient
White Light LEDs New Design |
| Engineers Supporting Local Community Activities |
| Better Way to Manufacture Fast Computer Chips Developed |
|
Spybot Search & Destroy Competitors Trying to Force Its Removal
|
|
Former Microsoft Executive Charles Simonyi Returns to Earth
|
| 4/7/2009 |
| World's
First Femtocell Standard Published by 3GPP |
|
Gates Calls for Cuts to High-Tech Weapons Programs
(no more F-22s, they must send the wrong message to
the world) |
|
Unemployment Among EEs Jumped in Q1 |
| Wall Street
Rocket Scientists Crash to Earth |
| Australia
to Build $30B Broadband Network |
| Electrosmog on the Circuit Board |
|
Spec-Compliant RF Remote Controls Emerge |
|
Slot Radio: The Future of Digital Music? |
|
Electronics Cooling Depends on Innovative Thermal Management
|
| Recession
to Cut Mobile Entertainment Growth by Nearly $13B over Next 5 Years |
| Engineers are
Working on Ways to Disable Contraband Cellphones |
|
New Way of Breaking Up Water Molecules Devised |
| Supercomputing
Gets its Own Superhero |
|
Unmanned Aircraft Get Smarter |
|
Israel Successfully Tests Anti-Missile System |
|
NOAA to Conduct Major Tornado Experiments in May |
|
Segway, GM, Develop Not-Quite Electric Car |
| From Three to Four: A Quantum Leap in Few-body Physics |
|
Tense Minutes as N. Korea Rocket Flew over Japan |
| 4/6/2009 |
|
What's 'Broadband'? Billions in Stimulus Funds Are at Stake
|
| Electronics: Keeping the Heat Down |
|
DNI, DOD Launch Secret Spy Satellite Program |
|
Russia Will Unveil New Space Plans Today |
| Flexible, Transparent Super Capacitors Could Pave Way to E-Paper
|
| Telenor
Served with $1.7B Demand by Norwegian Bailiff |
|
University of Oklahoma Unveils New Weather Radar |
|
Apple Puts DRM on New iPod Shuffle Hardware - Headphones Are the Guardian |
| Wooden-Flooring Companies Embed RFID Tags Beneath Parquet (this is rather strange) |
|
Physicists Show "Antigravity" Mystery Spots Are Optical
Illusions |
|
Unmanned Aircraft Get Smarter |
|
February Chip Sales Down 30%, Gradual Recovery Expected - SIA
|
|
North Korea Failed to Put Satellite into Orbit (of course that was not the objective) |
| There is
a Role for Challengers in the European Mobile Communications Market |
|
The Future of Education is Wireless |
|
Blackberry Success with Consumers Defies Recession |
|
Wall Street Stocks Sink on Banks, Tech |
| Italy Muzzled Scientist Who Foresaw Quake |
|
Can GM's Volt Save the Company? |
| 4/5/2009 |
|
Tech Weathering Employment Storm Better than Most Sectors
|
| Computer Derives Natural Laws from Raw Data |
|
Nanowires Reveal Their Dopant Properties |
| February Chip Sales Down 30%, Gradual Recovery Expected, SIA Says
|
|
Al Gore Challenges Wireless Industry to Think Beyond Profits (what a hypocrite this fool is!) |
| Living Alone? If So, You Are an Eco Criminal |
|
Doing Math Made Easy with Chocolate - M&Ms Brain Food |
| 4/3/2009 |
|
'Tuned' Graphene Points to Faster Chips |
| RIM Posts
Higher 20% 4Q Profit Increase |
| On New Cell Phones, QWERTY Eases out 1-2-3 |
| Semiconductor Materials Post Record Revenues for 4th Straight Year |
|
EU Invests £2M into PETEC Printable Electronics Centre |
|
Tesla Rakes in Over $2.6M from Model S Reservations |
|
Nanowires Reveal Their Dopant Properties |
| Computer Program Self-Discovers Laws of Physics |
| 3-D Equals Two Generations of IC Scaling |
|
Sweden: Internet Use Down Sharply after File-Sharing Law |
| A
Catalyst for Cheaper Fuel Cells |
|
Raytheon Wins USAF Laser-Guided Maverick Missile Contract
|
| Microsoft Warns of Active Attacks on PowerPoint Flaw |
|
Take Time to Donate Your Phone to Verizon Wireless' HopeLine Program
Next Week |
| Optical Illusions: Variety Makes Us Perceive Smaller Quantities
|
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New Commercial Airline Landing Method Reduces CO2 |
| Self-Healing:
Sunlight Helps Scratches on Cars, Electronics and Furniture Disappear |
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Honda's Thought-Controlled Robot |
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Jobless Rate Bolts to 8.5%, 663k Jobs Lost |
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Star Parties this Weekend During "100 Hours of Astronomy" Celebration
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| Internet Calling Companies Ask EU to Ensure Free Access |
| 4/2/2009 |
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Verizon Chief Envisions Hyper-Connected Mobile World |
| Virus Battery
Could Power Cars, Electronic Devices (the Andromeda
battery?) |
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How Bad Are Things in Silicon Valley? CEOs Differ |
| Verizon
Wireless Downplays Linux Phones |
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NASA - Deep Solar Minimum (a global
cooling precursor?) |
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ITT Corp Upbeat on Outlook for Defense Business |
| Nokia Dismisses
WiMAX As a "Wireless Betamax" |
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The Debut of "Space As a Contested Environment"
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Recession Drove 15% Drop in Compound Semiconductor Revenues in Q4/08
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| TynTec
Working on Mobile Phone Based Airline Boarding Passes |
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The Cost of SMS Will Soon Go Higher, But By How Much? |
| Peering into Nanowires to Measure Dopant Properties |
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Navy Gets More Support for Surface Electronic Warfare |
| Implantable
Telescope for the Eye |
| Keep on Spinning:
A Persistent Spin State That Could Revolutionize Spintronics |
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World's Largest Laser Built in California |
| Cable Industry Still Looking for Right Wireless Strategy |
| Hidden Exoplanet Found in Hubble Archival Data |
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Super-Strong Glass |
| Chinese Banks Track Assets, Cash and VIP Customers |
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Internet Hoaxes Launched for April Fools' Gags |
| Web
Use at Work Makes for Better Employees |
| 4/1/2009 |
| FCC Delays SSB and AM
Change |
| EDN Names Winners of 19th Annual Innovation Awards |
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Internet Ad Revenue at Record High in 2008, Passes Radio |
| Flexible,
Transparent Supercapacitors - Bend and Twist Them Like a Poker Card |
| All
Quiet on the Conficker Dront. Now What? |
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Cobham Divests M/A-COM Technology Solutions to GaAs Labs |
| Scientists
Produce First Movie of Individual Carbon Atoms in Action |
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Handset Sales Decline of 8% in 2009 to Level Out in 2010 |
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Sun to Lay Off Another 1,500 Employees |
| New Way to Produce Electronic Components Can Lead to Cheap and Flexible
Electronics |
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Space Radar Plans Stay in Flux |
| Nuclear Fusion Becoming an Energy Buzzword |
| Ericsson
Pushes HSPA to Offer 56Mbps Mobile Download Speeds |
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L-Mart Establishes New Space Vehicle Integration Laboratory
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| A Step Toward Superfast Carbon Memory |
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Few Disagreements on 4G Licensing, Says Qualcomm |
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Graphene Will Be Used in Next-Gen Computer Chips |
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EU Consumer Commissioner Calls for User Profile Security Standards
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Obama Orders Chevrolet and Dodge Out of NASCAR - Car News
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