7/31/2009 |
Welcome Home Endeavour! |
A New
Approach to Fusion |
Buffer Boost for InGaN on Silicon Solar Cell |
Graphene Has High Current Capacity, Thermal Conductivity |
Tech Smoothes Way to Cheaper Electronics |
Breakdown in Planck's Law |
iPhone Vulnerable to Hacker Attacks |
India Running
Out of 2G Radio Spectrum in Some Areas |
Discovery
About Behavior of Building Block of Nature Could Lead to Computer Revolution
|
USPTO: Notice of Reformatted Trademark Registration Certificate
|
FCC Expands ARRL's 500 kHz Experimental License |
Smoothing
the Way for Light |
Virtual Education...
for Free |
Silicon Valley, Wall Street Meet at Interconnect Event |
Laser Propulsion: Wild Idea May Finally Shine |
Serving up Buckyballs on a Silver Platter |
Google Voice Ban by Apple, AT&T Spurs Revolt Among iPhone Users
|
British Hacker Will Be Extradited to U.S. for Trial |
Government to Suspend 'Cash for Clunkers'
(who would have seen that coming? - offer people something
they didn't earn and the masses will come with their hands out) |
Firefox
Downloads to Reach 1B Today |
7/30/2009 |
Space Shuttle Endeavour to Deploy Student-Built Satellites (Castor and Pollux - très cool names) |
DoD Completes Large-Scale Tests of Mesh-Networking Tags |
Battery Technology Packs in More Features with Complex Chemistries
|
FCC Issues Part 15 Citation to Hobby Lobby
(I had considered buying one of these for my RC sailplane) |
U.K. Defence Ministry Awards Air Surveillance Deal |
Motorola
Posts Unexpected 2Q Profit |
Closing the
Terahertz Gap Could Lead to Better Nanodevices |
Glass Leaf 'Sweats' to Generate Electricity |
MIT's 'Bokode' Chip Said to Outperform Bar Codes |
VoloMedia Claims It Holds Patent on Podcasting, Drawing Howls of Protest
|
Global
Handset Shipments Fall 8% in Q2 2009 |
Component Distribution Orders Picking up in the UK |
Restart of LHC Now Set for November |
L-Mart Unveils U.S. Navy Stealth Fighter |
Floating Docks Designed to Harness Clean Energy for NYC |
Fastest Solar Boat Attempts Round-the-World Challenge |
Windows 7 Activation Cracked Already |
New Engine Technology Will Boost Fuel Mileage |
7/29/2009 |
Tektronix Aims to Teach Students Basics of Test |
DoD Helps Nurture Students' Interest in Cybersecurity |
North American NFC Payment Deployments March On |
GPS Smartphone
Shipments to Reach 77M Units in 2009 |
UK Businesses Struggling with Mobile Blind Spot |
DARPA Creates a Better "Clippy" Assistant |
Adding Meaning
to Millions of Numbers |
Nanotubes Spin As They Grow |
Mobile
Infrastructure Market Expected to Decline 10% over Next Five Years |
Physicists
Develop Multifunctional Storage Device for Light |
Astronauts Scan Shuttle Heat Shield for Dings |
Sprint
Nextel Loses 250,000 Subscribers and $384M in Q2 |
Herley New England to Provide Integrated Microwave Assemblies for
U.S. Attack Aircraft |
Woman's Tweet Draws Landlord Lawsuit |
Trial WiMAX
Networks for Chinese Cities Announced |
Solar Supply Chain Burned by Disappointing Demand, Oversupply
|
Microsoft and Yahoo Have Sealed the Deal - Bing Wins |
iPhone
Apps for the Lawbreaker in You |
New Supercomputer to Reel in Answers to Some of Earth's Problems
|
7/28/2009 |
Study Finds
Patent Systems May Discourage Innovation |
British Government Tells Civil Servants to Tweet |
WiMAX Broadband
Subscribers to Approach 50M by 2014 |
Physicists
Propose a Method to Observe Dirac Monopoles |
CSR Offers Always-On GPS Location with SiRF |
USPTO Another Step Closer to Full Electronic Patent Application Processing
|
Piezoelectric Materials Will Power Future Nanoscale Devices
|
Texting While Drive Even More Dangerous |
DoD Completes Large-Scale Tests of Mesh-Networking Tags |
Canadian
State Residents Support Ban Cell Phone Use When Driving |
Soldiers Turn a March into a Battery Charge |
Stay Tuned for Bluetooth on Your TV |
After 9-Year Cookie Ban, White House Wants to Start Tracking You Online
Again |
Cheaper
Solar Thermal Power |
ITAR Compliance: Ignorance of Defense Export Regulations Is No Excuse
|
Six Ways to Improve Broadband in the UK |
7/27/2009 |
Agilent Says It Will Pay $1.5B in Cash for Instrument Maker Varian
|
European
Regulators Approve 3G in the 900 MHz Bands |
Piezo Power on the Battlefield |
Race Is on for Space-Junk Alarm System |
Contractor Earnings Reflect Changes in Defense Spending |
Danish Dairy Farmers Adopt RFID to Improve Yield |
Transparent Metal Hints at Nature of Planets' Cores (Star Trek transparent aluminum?) |
Nortel Wireless Winner: It's Ericsson |
Long-Range Anti-Ship Cruise Missile to Be Designed by L-Mart for DARPA
|
Golf Tournament Tees Up RFID |
A Biofuel
Process to Replace All Fossil Fuels |
Verizon 2Q Profit Falls, Tops View, Plans Job Cuts |
China Web Users Outnumber Entire U.S. Population |
Qualcomm Back in the Black, But Outlook Disappoints |
Japan May Move Against Qualcomm on Anti-Trust |
Executives Receive 1/3 of All Pay in the U.S. |
Girls Game
Less Because They Have Less Free Time |
3,000 Low Temp Records Set This July! |
Germany Calls Carbon Tariffs "Eco-Imperialism" (you wanted hope & change - you're getting it) |
7/26/2009 |
Global Foundries Breaks Ground on Long-Awaited NY Fab |
Scientists Worry Machines May Outsmart Man |
Hubble Captures Rare Jupiter Collision |
GaAs Bulk Substrate Market Shrinks in 2009 |
An App for Everything |
7/24/2009 |
Silicon with
Afterburners: New Process Could Be Boon to Electronics Manufacturer |
Majority of U.S. Internet Now Accessed Wirelessly |
New Recruiting Platform for Entrepreneurial Students |
Broadcom
Profits Down by 90% |
Ruckus Wireless Unveils First Outdoor Wi-Fi System with Dynamic Beamforming |
Vodafone
Q2 Revenues Rise by 9.6% to $17.7B |
New
Military Drone Passes Vertical Takeoff Test |
Nanotechnology: Tufts Researchers Tune Molecular Motor |
Skype Singled Out As Threat to Russia's Security |
Hey Stupid! Drop the Cell Phone and Drive |
Engineer's Suicide Throws Light on iPhone Mania |
Physicists Create First Nanoscale Mass Spectrometer |
Skyworks' Revenue Rebounds by 11% from March-Quarter Dip |
Microsoft Q4 Revenue Falls for All Product Divisions |
First Flapping, Two-Winged Aircraft Takes Flight |
7/23/2009 |
Intel Appeals EC's €1B Fine |
One-Two
Punch Knocks Wireless Semiconductor Market Back to 2003 |
DoD to Launch Web 2.0-Intensive Site |
BlackBerry
Maker: UAE Partner's Update Was Spyware |
Wi-Fi Alliance Won't Tinker with 802.11n |
ITT's Advanced Integrated Defensive Electronic Warfare System Accepted
by USAF |
FCC Continues BPL Debate |
Microwave Weapon Will Rain Pain from the Sky |
'Phase Change' Materials to Replace Flash Memory |
Qualcomm
Fined $200 Million by Korean Anti-Trust Body |
End of
the World Postponed Until Christmas |
Silicon Valley Eyes Taiwan Stock Markets |
Testing Relativity, Black Holes and Strange Attractors in the Laboratory
|
Ion Engine Could One Day Power 39-Day Trips to Mars |
SEMI Reports Growth in Bookings As Book-to-Bill Ratio Improves
|
Astronauts Cut Spacewalk Short over Suit Concerns |
Quantum Measurements:
Common Sense is Not Enough |
Apple Has 91% of Market for $1,000+ PCs |
Government Motors (GM) Sales Down 22% in 2009 |
The Eclipse, as Seen by the People (with Flickr Accounts)
|
7/22/2009 |
Asians Witness 21st Century's Longest Solar Eclipse |
Chinese Worker Commits Suicide over Missing iPhone |
Intel to Cut Another 294 Irish Jobs |
Advanced Communications Satellite Passes Key Milestone |
Ammonia
Based Power Generator for Rural Base Stations
(will it smell like a wet baby diaper?) |
NAB Sets 2009 NAB Radio Show Engineering Program |
Hybrid Car Powered by Micro-Jet Turbine
(this would be cool) |
Shortage of Cyber Experts May Hinder Government |
Mobile
Technology Could Cut Europe's Annual Energy Bill |
USPTO: Clarification Regarding Annual Patent Attorney/Agent Registration
Fee |
New Technology to Make Digital Data Self-Destruct |
World's Largest
Telescope to Be Built in Hawaii |
SOI Could
Chop $800B from U.S. Power Bills |
Scientists Capitalize on Extended Solar Eclipse |
Making
Light Bulbs from DNA |
Out of Sight, Out of Mind? Security and the Home-Based Worker |
EU R&D program Nano2012 Formally Kicks Off |
Special Bonus Section Added to ARRL Ham Radio Licensing Manual
|
LHC Suffers More Leaks, and Delays |
Cell Phone Cameras Make Mobile Fluorescent Microscopes |
Algore's Hometown Breaks Record Low Set in 1877 |
7/21/2009 |
Crisis Spurs People to Work for Free to Gain Experience |
Report Attacks Post-Grant Patent Review |
Why Japan's Cellphones Haven't Gone Global |
VC Investments Plunge 51%to $3.7B in 2Q |
Chip Recovery to Outpace General Economy |
Texas Instruments
2Q Profit Falls 56% |
FCC Chairman Genachowski Announces Wireless Bureau Senior Staff
|
What Next After TSAT? |
Harris Wins $44M in Orders from USAF for JTRS Falcon III Handheld
Radios |
Sumitomo Electric Claims First Pure-Green Semiconductor Laser
|
Qwest Begins Rollout of Its Faster VDSL2 Networks |
Google Adds Moon to Online Earth Map Service |
Mobile
Broadband Fails Miserably to Live Up to Consumer Expectations |
Jupiter
Struck by Object, NASA Images Confirm |
Microsoft
Hands 20,000 Lines of Code to Linux Community |
Researchers
Set New Distance Record for Quantum Key Distribution |
Mideast, Africa Mobile Broadband to Explode (which, in those areas of the world, could mean either
literally or figuratively) |
Bailouts Could Cost U.S. $23T |
7/20/2009 |
Radars Perform Double Duty As High-Speed Data Links |
NASA Brings Total Solar Eclipse to the Masses - It Occurs on
Wednesday |
STMicro to Create 650 Jobs and Spend $1.25B at Crolles |
July 22 Eclipse is Best Chance to Look for Gravity Anomaly
|
Cafes with Cheap Wi-Fi Turn the Tables on Office Space |
Smart Fiber Takes Photos, Could Crunch Numbers Later |
High-Temperature Superconductivity Explained with String Theory
|
Italy Reports
Largest Quarterly Loss Ever Seen |
India Rebuffs U.S. Carbon Demands |
Light Repels Light |
FCC Chairman Has Broad Approach to Net Access |
Laser Technology Creates New Forms of Metal |
Military Radio Communications Contract for SINCGARS Goes to ITT
|
Denmark
Planning Auction of LTE/WiMAX Radio Spectrum |
UK Ponders Its Own Space Agency |
Invisible Flash Takes Photos Without the Glare |
Researcher
Investigates the Basis of Einstein's First Approximation in the Theory of Relativity
|
U.K. Lifts Ban on Michael Savage |
7/19/2009 |
FCC Allows AMs to Use FM Translators |
Single Molecules As Electric Conductors |
How New Technologies Will Ease Our Traffic Woes |
Boeing Signs 4-Satellite Contract with Intelsat |
Big Tech Earnings Week Will Reveal Economic Trends |
7/17/2009 |
EDA Companies Tout RF Design, Links to Test |
Battery Makers Prepare for Fast Growth in Li-Ion Batteries for Hybrids
|
RF
Industries Grabs Growth Title |
Beer 'n' Broadband |
FCC Chairman Genachowski Announces Wireless Bureau Senior Staff
|
Teradyne Touts RF Market Share, Displays Eagle Test Systems
|
What Downturn for Consumer, Wireless MEMS? |
Chinese-Born Man Convicted of Economic Espionage for China |
UK Sees
a Quarterly Loss of 600,000 Customers |
RFID
Orders Are on the Rise |
World's First Universal Mirror Created |
The Worst is Over, Says Nokia |
Microsoft Laughs off Apple Legal Request to Kill TV Ads |
House Committee Rejects Fairness Doctrine Ban (far too much free speech out there) |
Firing Charged Nanoparticles Might Allow Spaceships to Move at Near-Light
Speed |
Apollo 11 Star Chart Fetches Astronomical Price |
Video Game Sales Revenue Plummets 31% |
Solar Cycle
Linked to Global Climate (another invovenient
truth) |
7/16/2009 |
Best
Buy Calls Twitter a Job Qualification |
Device Depression for Nokia, Sony Ericsson |
Semiconductor
Equipment Sales to Plummet 52% in 2009 |
Nokia Quarterly
Profits Down by 2/3 |
NASA Awards $42M Total and Spectral Solar Irradiance Sensor Contract
to UC Boulder |
Graphene's Versatility Promises New Applications |
Veteran Chip Analyst Killed in Motorcycle Crash |
Smartphone Data Recovery Can Be Expensive |
Entry-Level
Mobile Phone Markets to Enjoy 24% Annual Growth Through 2014 |
NASA Set to Party Like It's 1969 |
USPTO Opens Exhibit of Michael Jackson's Patent and Trademarks
|
Poor in Colorado
May Get Free Phones (where does the insanity end?) |
China's Market Value Overtakes Japan as World's #2 |
Damage
Seen as Shuttle Heads to Space Station (I saw
it during the launch) |
Cisco Warns of Growing Threat from Cybercrime Collaborators, Insiders
|
10 Reasons Employment Is Worse Than You Think |
Moon Potential Goldmine of Natural Resources
(Will MoonFirst.org to stop progress?) |
U.S., China Announce Clean Energy Research Center |
Using Technology to Drop Off the Map |
7/15/2009 |
Endeavour Set for 6th Launch Attempt at 6:03 pm EST |
New Wonder
Material, One-Atom Thick, Has Scientists Abuzz |
Fliers Get Advice on Internet Etiquette (#139: The lavatory is not a conference room) |
World's
Largest Commercial Communications Satellite Unfurls Antenna |
Maxim Introduces One-Chip digital Radio Tuner for FM and DAB
|
'Cloak of Illusion' Tech Could Disguise Objects |
Researcher
Investigates the Basis of Einstein's First Approximation in the Theory of Relativity |
802.11n
Shipments Will Surge Ahead of 802.11g in the Chipset Market in 2010 |
Companion Bill to Senate Radio Spectrum Inventory Act Introduced in
House |
Catching Spammers in the Act |
RFID Lets People Talk to the Touchwall |
Lousy
Tech-Job Market May Fuel Rise in Cybercrime |
Cesium Experiment Demonstrates Quantum Superposition |
PC Market to Shrink for First Time Since DotCom Crash (see below) |
Intel's Strong Numbers Suggest PC Business on the Mend (see above) |
TiVo Lawsuit Explodes into Billion-Dollar Stakes |
Stanford Students Take Top Prize in IEEE Presidents' Change the World
Competition |
House Bill to Hit Millionaires with 5.4% Surtax
(your income level will come later) |
7/14/2009 |
Q2 Semi Revenue Grew 16% or More |
Highly Qualified Engineers Having Trouble Finding Work |
WRC-11 Is Now WRC-12
|
Design Mingles with Test Across Domains |
More Than 30 Fabs to Close in 2009 |
States Ask FCC's OK to Jam Prison Cell Phones |
New Transistors to Reduce Need for 'Wall Warts' |
DARPA Awards Wireless Technology Development Contract |
Technology Jobs Hurt by Recession in 2009 |
Physicists
Propose Scheme for Teleporting Light Beams |
Electrowetting Battery Breakthrough |
Wi-Fi Usage
by Smartphones Impacting Mobile Content Revenues |
'Repulsive' Side to Light Force Harnessed |
Mood at Semicon: What Analysts Are Saying |
Military, Rotorcraft Insulate Aviation, Avionics from Trying Economy
|
SpaceX Successfully Launches Satellite into Earth Orbit |
A Costly
and Unnecessary New Electricity Grid |
Budget Deficit Tops $1T for First Time, $2T by Fall (...and you thought Bush was bad???) |
Exxon to Make
Alternative Fuel from Algae |
7/13/2009 |
U.S. Scientists See H1-B Visas as Major Issue Against Progress
|
Swearing Makes Pain More Tolerable (a few suggested words:
^@*%!&/~) |
Oregon Congressman Pledges
Support for HR 2160 |
Mood at Semicon: What Analysts Are Saying |
Young Workers Push Employers for Wider Web Access |
Philips, LG in EC Price-Fixing Probe |
Nearly
Half of Americans Want a Single Mobile Device for All Services |
Microtune Buys Auvitek for $9M for RF-to-Bits Capability |
Consumer Broadband Demand Driving GaAs Growth for Satcom/VSAT
|
More Storms Threaten Monday Shuttle Launch Attempt |
Superconductivity:
Which One of These is Not Like the Other? |
NEC Considers
Returning to European Handset Market |
Ericsson Denies $1.5B Korean Investment |
WiMax Take-up Slow; LTE Faces Technical Challenges |
China Tools up for Asian Space Race |
Microsoft Takes on Google with Free Office Programs |
7/12/2009 |
Wireless Industry Claims Substantial Contributions to U.S. Economy
|
NYC Teen Girl Falls in Open Manhole While Texting (airhead... of course she is suing) |
RFID in Passports Easily Hacked, Owners Tracked |
ST-Ericsson Taking 3-D to Mobile Phones |
San Fran Town to Photograph Every Visitor's License Plate |
Government Motors (GM) to Try Selling New Cars on eBay
(shuttered dealership employees will love this - not) |
Lightning Strike Delays Space Shuttle Endeavour Mission |
7/10/2009 |
U.S. Slips, China Soars in Fortune Company Rankings |
EEs, Vendors Search For Their Voice, and Answers, in Social Media
|
Spectrum Control in Fortune Small Business Magazine's 100 Fastest-Growing
Small Public Companies |
Infineon Unveils
Major Capital Increase |
Zubbles: World's First Colored Bubbles |
Military Mega-Lasers Are Too Hot to Handle |
UK Phone Hacking Case Sparks Press Ethics Debate |
California: No Longer the Golden State? |
Sprint
Nextel Signs $5B Networking Deal with Ericsson |
Capacity Issues Loom, Says SEMI |
Alcatel
Lucent Planning 1,000 Job Cuts in France |
Nanopillars Promise Cheap, Efficient, Flexible Solar Cells
|
TSMC and UMC Both Have Best Month for Nearly a Year |
Airbus Issues RFID Requirements, Expands RFID Usage (maybe they can use it to monitor their airplanes' fins
so they don't fall off) |
Goldman Upgrades U.S. Hardware Sector |
Will
Internet Attacks Lead to Cyberwar? |
Galileo Discovered Neptune, New Theory Claims |
Cyberattacks Could Have Been Mitigated |
Americans Favor Science, But Less Than Before
(too busy watching 24/7 Michael Jackson coverage) |
7/9/2009 |
Revenue
from Wi-Fi-Enabled Healthcare Products to Reach Nearly $5B in 2014 |
Infineon Sells Wireline Communications Business for $347M
|
Cellphone
Site Will Track Your Enemy Down - At a Price |
Is This the Moment for Broadband Over Power Lines (BPL)? |
Recession or Not, Wireless Backhaul Expansion Continues Strongly
|
500 kHz Experimenters in North America, Europe Get Active
|
U.S. Is Serious About LEDs with $3B Traffic Signal Plan |
Pink
Silicon Is the New Black |
New Bluetooth
Application Will Let Sport Fans Share Experiences in Real Time |
NASA Selects Orbital to Build Space Science Satellite |
RFID Targets Gray Market in Europe |
Battery Makers Prepare for Fast Growth in Li-Ion Batteries for Hybrids
|
China Passes US Auto Market in First-Half Sales
(Mao Motors vs. Obama Motors - who will win!) |
Chrome OS Gets Mixed Reactions |
Recent Cyberattacks Have Little Impact on U.S. |
Physical Reality
of String Theory Demonstrated |
7/8/2009 |
Engineering Unemployment Soared in 2Q to 8.6% |
Ericsson
Wins $1.7B Worth of Chinese Network Contracts |
Infineon Shares Soar on €250M Wireless Sale |
RFID-Enabled Phone Skins for Mobile Payments |
Handset
Recycler Expands Capacity |
Near-Lightspeed Nano Spacecraft Might Be Close |
Government Web Sites Massively Attacked; N. Korea Suspected
|
Device Makes Objects Invisible in Certain Light Conditions
|
China Goes to Cambridge to Look for High-Tech Partners |
Europe Launches Study into Manned
Spacecraft Scheme |
Memristor Minds: The Future of Artificial Intelligence |
Tiny Craft Can Fly by Flapping Wings |
Internet Radio Sites, Music Industry Reach Agreement over Royalties
|
Scientists
Explore the Physics of Bumpy Roads (e.g., the
washboard pattern that develops - interesting) |
Nielsen: Kids Spending More Time Online |
Google Plans to Launch Operating System for PCs |
iPhone 3GS Comes up Short on Battery Life: Is Software to Blame?
|
Texas
Billionaire Pickens Blows Off Plans for Wind Farm |
Wall Street Hits 10-Week Low amid Talk of New Stimulus |
7/7/2009 |
DoJ to Review Cell Handset Contracts |
Interplanetary Internet Gets Permanent Home in Space |
Consumer
Location-Based Services Market Will More Than Double in 2009 |
Could a Quantum
Motor Do Work? |
IBM Bans Wafer-Etching Acids |
Goldman Sachs Software Theft: When Employees Go Greedy |
Researchers
Demonstrate Reversible Generation of a High Capacity Hydrogen Storage Material
|
IC Recovery: 10 Reasons to Be Optimistic, Pessimistic |
Modified Invisibility Cloak Could Make the Ultimate Illusion
|
Computer Giant Dell Probed over Taiwan Pricing Errors |
How the Military Is Unifying Communications and Collaboration
|
Russia Orbits Three Cosmos-Series Military Satellites |
DoCoMo Starts Afresh for LTE Backhaul |
Taiwan to Spend $1.4B on Green Technology |
Solar
Thermal Heats Up |
Windows 7 Pre-Sales Remain Strong |
CompuServe Closes after 30 Years |
Social Security
Numbers Can Be Predicted with Public Information |
7/6/2009 |
The Incandescent Bulb: Not Dead Yet |
6 New Personality Disorders Caused by the Internet |
British
Telecom Offers Staff Time Off in Exchange for Pay Cut |
Nanopillar
Solar Cells |
Fellow Students Smell Your Exam Fear
(we've joked about that smell for years, right?) |
Inexpensive Thin Printable Batteries Developed |
Carbon Chip Technology Goes Commercial |
NASA: Fuel Test a Success, July 11 Shuttle Launch Set |
New Optical Transistor Is Made of a Single Molecule |
May 'Actual' Chip Sales Show W-Shaped Trend (aka no trend) |
RFID-Enabled Phone Skins for Mobile Payments |
Embedded Electronics: Cars Get Cooperative |
Drink
Beer, Win a Trip to Space |
Casey Kasem [American Top 40] Signs Off after 39 Years |
July 2009 Revision of Patent Cooperation Treaty Procedures; Final
Rule |
Dow
Plans Algae Biofuels Pilot (this is actually one
of the better ideas IMO) |
Indonesia Launches Rocket into Space |
Computer Reveals Stone Tablet 'Handwriting' in a Flash |
Ryanair to Make Passengers Stand |
Caffeine Reverses
Memory Impairment in Alzheimer's Mice (another
case for coffee & energy drinks!) |
7/5/2009 |
Leaked: Sony Ericsson's Upcoming Android Phone |
Patent Training Academy Receives ISO 9001:2008 Certification
|
EU Rocket Hoists Biggest-ever Telecoms Satellite |
More Hotels Invest in Videoconference Rooms to Help Companies Cut
Travel Costs |
Clearwire 'Undecided' on Stimulus Bid
(comapines fear Government overbearing control) |
Lunar Probe Sends First High-Res Images |
NYC Has Coolest June Since 1958 |
7/3/2009 |
Tech Industry Girds for Tax Battle |
Hybrid Satellite Cell Phones Aren't Far Off |
Bluetooth "Big Brother" Tracks Festival-Goers |
A
Look at the Strange Ingredients that Make Fireworks Pop |
L-Mart Awarded Concept Development Contract for USAF Space Fence (space junk collection system) |
Record-Breaking Solar Cells Are Tailored to Their Location
|
May Global Chip Sales Up 5.4% on Previous Month |
Utilities Suffer from CFLs' Poor Power Factor (another unintended consequence) |
ZTE Gets
Positive Outlook from Debt Ratings Agency |
Metal Comes to the Rescue of Revolutionary Plane |
Wireless
Data Connections Cut Street Lighting Electricity Consumption |
Malware Authors Hit by Recession Too |
Japan May
Add Noise to Hybrid Cars for Safety (people can't
hear them coming) |
First U.S. Public Community College Joins Cree's LED University Program
|
National Geographic -- Sun Oddly Quiet -- Hints at Next "Little
Ice Age"? (Somebody call Algore - the Earth
doesn't have a fever after all!) |
The China REACH Surprise |
First iPhone 3GS Jailbreaking Tool Available for Download
|
Return to the Moon: First Images Kick off Mapping Mission
|
7/2/2009 |
IC Market 'Surge' at Hand in 2nd Half of 2009 |
Satellite
for U.S. Cell Phone Service Launched |
Blackest Black Ever: Ultra-Thin Material Absorbs Almost 100% of Light
|
Nano-Wizard Takes the Prize |
How
to Reduce Cellphone Radiation Exposure |
Printed Battery Could Power Bank Cards |
Vietnam to Operate Its First Satellite Image Receiving Station
|
Researches Turn Nanocrystals into Electronic Glue |
Latin America's
Smartphone Market to Grow to 150M Handset Units Through 2014 |
New Fluorescent Silicon Nanoparticles Discovered |
Lockheed Martin Wins Role on U.S. Air Forces Europe Advisory and Assistance
Contract |
Swedish Armed Forces Select Harris's Falcon III Secure Personal Radio
(SPR) |
Apple to Patch Serious iPhone Vulnerability |
Microsoft Bing Dings Google, Searches Twitter Tweets |
Georgia Tech: Better Nanomeasurements with New Stats Analysis
|
Unexpectedly
Long-Range Effects in Advanced Magnetic Devices |
467K Jobs Cut
in June; Jobless Rate at 9.5% (wait, the $2T TARP
bill was supposed to cap it at 8%!) |
Space
Shuttle to Launch July 11 after Successful Leak Test |
Airbus Could Be Asked to Ground All Long-Range Airliners |
7/1/2009 |
Trendy Science Findings More Likely to Be Wrong |
New
iPhones May Be Prone to Overheating |
Death Threat
SMS Spreads in Australia |
UK, China Link on Spintronics R&D |
New Legislation Would Enforce Defense Acquisition Reform |
Lockheed Martin to Begin Concept Development for USAF Space Fence
|
On the Road to 4G |
Real-Time
Traffic Service Revenue to Boom Over the Next Five Years |
Engineers Investigate Lead-Free Soldering |
Phone-Tracking Pilot Down Under Points to Big Benefits |
Leading Universities Deploy Secure Unified Communications |
Laser Weapon Dazzles But Doesn't Blind |
ARRL: Support HR 2160! |
Retrofit Kit Said to Transform Cars into Hybrids |
Brandenburg and Eutelsat Partner to Deliver Broadband to Rural Homes
|
Nazi
Stealth Jet Could Have Won War for Hitler |
Oshkosh Corp. Gains $1.05B to Deliver M-ATV, Invites Input from Manufacturers
|
A 'Quantum
of Sol' -- How Nanotechnology Could Hold the Key to Solar-Powered Future
|
Triple-Engined Car Could Smash Land-Speed Record |