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
|
New Commercial Airline Landing Method Reduces CO2 |
Self-Healing:
Sunlight Helps Scratches on Cars, Electronics and Furniture Disappear |
Honda's Thought-Controlled Robot |
Jobless Rate Bolts to 8.5%, 663k Jobs Lost |
Star Parties this Weekend During "100 Hours of Astronomy" Celebration
|
Internet Calling Companies Ask EU to Ensure Free Access |
4/2/2009 |
Verizon Chief Envisions Hyper-Connected Mobile World |
Virus Battery
Could Power Cars, Electronic Devices (the Andromeda
battery?) |
How Bad Are Things in Silicon Valley? CEOs Differ |
Verizon
Wireless Downplays Linux Phones |
NASA - Deep Solar Minimum (a global
cooling precursor?) |
ITT Corp Upbeat on Outlook for Defense Business |
Nokia Dismisses
WiMAX As a "Wireless Betamax" |
The Debut of "Space As a Contested Environment"
|
Recession Drove 15% Drop in Compound Semiconductor Revenues in Q4/08
|
TynTec
Working on Mobile Phone Based Airline Boarding Passes |
The Cost of SMS Will Soon Go Higher, But By How Much? |
Peering into Nanowires to Measure Dopant Properties |
Navy Gets More Support for Surface Electronic Warfare |
Implantable
Telescope for the Eye |
Keep on Spinning:
A Persistent Spin State That Could Revolutionize Spintronics |
World's Largest Laser Built in California |
Cable Industry Still Looking for Right Wireless Strategy |
Hidden Exoplanet Found in Hubble Archival Data |
Super-Strong Glass |
Chinese Banks Track Assets, Cash and VIP Customers |
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 |
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? |
Cobham Divests M/A-COM Technology Solutions to GaAs Labs |
Scientists
Produce First Movie of Individual Carbon Atoms in Action |
Handset Sales Decline of 8% in 2009 to Level Out in 2010 |
Sun to Lay Off Another 1,500 Employees |
New Way to Produce Electronic Components Can Lead to Cheap and Flexible
Electronics |
Space Radar Plans Stay in Flux |
Nuclear Fusion Becoming an Energy Buzzword |
Ericsson
Pushes HSPA to Offer 56Mbps Mobile Download Speeds |
L-Mart Establishes New Space Vehicle Integration Laboratory
|
A Step Toward Superfast Carbon Memory |
Few Disagreements on 4G Licensing, Says Qualcomm |
Graphene Will Be Used in Next-Gen Computer Chips |
EU Consumer Commissioner Calls for User Profile Security Standards
|
Obama Orders Chevrolet and Dodge Out of NASCAR - Car News
|