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3-31-2008
Cell Phones Could Be More Dangerous Than Cigarettes or Asbestos
Mobile Phones 'More Dangerous than Smoking'
Why Some Electronics, and Their Component Alloys, Age More Quickly
Than Others
Mobile Broadband Subscribers Increase by 850%
Big Brother's Business is Booming
Brit Cell Phone Users Fear Losing Contact
Telecom Well Poised to Benefit from $70B Streaming Market
Researchers Explore Materials Degradation in Space
Nextreme Patents Nano-Boost to Peltier Heat Pumps
India's People Power is Also Its Problem
Asia Fuels 1.5% Rise in February Chip Sales
Vodacom Faces Lawsuit over Black Economic Empowerment Transaction
FCC Approves ORBCOMM's Next-Gen Constellation
Japan Finishes Missile Defense System Deployment
Technology Driving Motorists to Distraction
Google's Wi-Fi Dreams
Portable Hydrogen-Generating Power System Could Lighten Soldiers'
Load
Automated Jules Verne Craft Carries Cargo, Space Station Risk
Micro Chips Could Speed up Detection of Livestock Viruses
3-30-2008
Nokia Hits EU Barrier to Navteq Acquisition
Bolts of Blue Lightning Thrusting Upward and Other Weird Lightning
Explained
High Prices Spark Fresh Gold Rush in California
Bizarre Ball of Twisted Metal Space Junk Falls from the Sky
Single-Crystal Semiconductor Wire Built into an Optical Fiber
Consumer Telematics Hardware and Services Revenue Will Reach
$41B by 2013
Bill Gates May Have to Testify in Xbox Fire Case
3-28-2008
EU Opens In-Depth Probe of Nokia's Navteq Purchase
China to Start Tests of TD-SCDMA Phones
DOD Vows to Reduce Contractor Role
Tough Times to Continue for RF IC Suppliers
Keithley, Chinese Research Lab Team for RF Test Development
Foldable, Stretchable Circuits
No Double-Dipping for Copyright Infringement Damages
White House Tech Policy Called 'Magical Thinking'
Doomsday Fears Spark Lawsuit against Fermilab
(some idiots
believe an Earth-boggling black hole might be created)
Cuba Allows Unrestricted Cellular Phone Service
Research Opens Door to Manipulating Electron Spin
Japanese Researcher Discovers Method for Making Memory ICs from
Protein
Brazil - GSM Subscriber Base Passes 100 Million
Australian Farmer Finds Mysterious Ball of Space Junk
CTIA & the Invisible Handsets
Ancient Meteorite Impact Crater Found in Britain
Fingerprint Scans Replace Punch of Time Clocks
Dangerous Flaws Reported in Apple's Safari for Windows
3-27-2008
AT&T CEO Says Hard to Find Skilled U.S. Workers
Software Turns Smart Phone into Hotspot
Judge Orders Banks to Fund Clear Channel Buyout
Cellular/3G Market Forecast to decline at a CAGR of Nearly 8%
over Next Four Years
ARRL
President Appointed to Arkansas State Board
Semiconductor IP Continues Growth Path
Motorola's Breakup Provides Opportunities for Competitors
Japan Voices Concern over China Space Program
MIT’s Palacios Awarded Deshpande Innovation Grant on GaN HEMT
Japanese Scientists, Origami Masters Hope to Launch Paper Airplane
from Space
Endeavour Shuttle Crew Lands after Record-Setting Mission
Hyper-Entangled Photons Claim Bit-Encoding Record
AML Communications Wins $1 Million Order from Raytheon
More-Powerful Solar Cells
More Companies Tracking Employees' Time on the Internet
Free Web Version of Photoshop Launches
China Approves Second-Phase Lunar Probe Program
3-26-2008
Student Booted from Coffee Shop for Wi-Fi Use Gets Little Sympathy
Carbon Could Enable Fastest Chips
EU Employs SDR Technology for Wireless Public Safety Communications
Motorola Creates Independent Mobile Devices, Solutions Companies
SEMI: Global Equipment Sales Rose 6% in 2007
Cable Companies Discuss Funding Wireless Venture
AMD is "Out of Step with Moore’s Law"
Emirates Airlines Offers In-Flight Mobile Calls
Bridge From Conventional to Molecular Electronics Possible
IBM Pioneering Optical ICs for Computers
Data Centers Nearing Power-Usage, Cost Crisis
In Search of the God Particle
Merger of SIRIUS and XM Attracts Support from Far and Wide
March Madness Does Boost College Applications
Engineers Test Highly Accurate Face Recognition
Sharp Aims for 400mW Blue-Violet Laser Diode by 2010
Clear Channel, Buyers May Sue Banks if Buyout Falls Through
In Japan, Robot Babysitter Always Ready to Play
Two-Seat Space Tourism Rocket Will Fly in 2010
3-25-2008
Cornell Builds Record-Setting 4.51 GHz Silicon Resonator
India's Wireless Network Base Will Soon be World's 2nd Largest
- China #1
NSA Certifies PDA to Handle Secret, Public E-mail
Billionaire Wall Street Raider Sues Motorola
Budget Cuts Could Shut Down Mars Rover
In-Building Wireless Systems to Exceed $15 Billion by 2013
U.S. Shuttle Endeavour Heads Home After Record Mission
ARRL
Continuing Education Course Registration
Houston Turns Around IT White Elephant into Free WiFi for City's
Poor
Boeing Tests Two-Pound Imaging Radar Aboard ScanEagle Unmanned
Aircraft
Telenor Sued for $1 Billion by Russia's Altimo
Sirius & XM Satellite Radio Merger Gets Antitrust OK
U.S. Pilot Sues Boeing over F-15 Falling Apart
Excessive E-Mails and Text Are a Mental Illness
Top Scientists Warn Against Rush to Biofuel
EE Times Corrects Story on Silane as a Potential Superconductor
Too Much Information? Study Shows How Ignorance Can Be Influential
(plausible deniability?)
Windows XP SP3 Due Next Month
3-24-2008
'Metafilms' Can Shrink Radio, Radar Devices
Buyback Programs Turn Electronic Trash to Cash
Motorola Looking at UK Job Cuts
WiMax to Make Initial Flight at the Airport
Electrons Can Travel Over 100 Times Faster in Graphene Than
in Silicon, Physicists Show
Cellular Use Closing Doors on Red Phone Booths in Britain
FCC to Investigate D-Block Auction
Shuttle Crew Packs up for Trip Home
Google Lauds 700 MHz as a Consumer 'Victory'
South Africa's Big Electricity-Saving Drive to Ease Crisis
Report: New Generation Being Raised Online
China to Probe Online Text Message Spam
3-23-2008
Corona Discharge May Enable Self-Cooling ICs
US Astronauts Successfully Complete Fifth Spacewalk
IC Insights: The Sky Isn’t Falling
Iridium Satellite Selects Three Finalists to Design and Develop
Iridium NEXT
3-21-2008
Diode Professor Takes on 34 Electronics Giants in Patent Spat
Spectrum Auction May Boost Gear Makers' Future
Verizon Wireless Reveals Open-Network Strategy
Station Locator Service New for Field Day 2008
Testing Raises Concerns over 802.11-Based High-Speed Bluetooth
Verizon, AT&T Big Winners in 700 MHz Auction
Nano-Breakthrough: Dramatic Increase in Thermoelectric Efficiency
Heralds New Era
NASA 'Thrilled' by Gooey Space Repair Test
AFC Warns Sweden About Spending Cuts
Cheap, Efficient Thermoelectrics
U.S. Trade Court to Probe Sony, Nokia over LED Patent
Losing Airwaves Auction Could Be Best Outcome for Google
Japan Must Lead Way on Nuclear Energy
Dell to Buy $52B in Components from China
IMF Sees US Close to Recession
Sony Charges Customers $50 to Remove Laptop Bloatware
3-20-2008
Employers Prohibited from Filing Multiple H-1B Visa Petitions
for Same Worker
Tiny Sensor Developed to Detect Homemade Bombs
Qantas Airline to Allow In-Flight SMS and Mobile Data Services
FCC Bans Exclusive Apartment, Telco Service Contracts
Hams On-Hand as Tornados Sweep Through Georgia, Downtown Atlanta
ON Semi Confirms 200 Layoffs
Bridge from Conventional to Molecular Electronics Possible
A Billion GPS Chips Expected to Ship in 2013
Industry Worried About State of Research in India
Australian Wi-Fi Usage Doubles
FlatWire Aims to Short-Circuit WPANs
Court Refuses to Stay Qualcomm Injunction
Inside South Africa's Big Electricity-Saving Drive
Mitsubishi Boasts Record Conversion Efficiency Rate for Solar
Cells
Satellite Downed by SDI Missile Left Minimal Space Debris
New 3-D Camera Will Have 12,616 Lenses
$10M Offered for Fuel-Efficient Vehicle in Automotive X Prize
Search for Alternative Power in Military Applications Drives
Fuel Cell Development
Semi Revenue Grew Less than 4% in 2007 on Weak Memory Market
Anything That Grows 'Can Convert into Oil'
4-19-2008
FCC Closes 700 MHz Auction at $19.5B
'Metafilms' Can Shrink Radio, Radar Devices
Phone Company Retrieves Voice from the Past
Two College Students Find Asteroid
Pent-Up Demand Seen Boosting WiMax in Asia
Loopy Photons Clarify 'Spookiness' of Quantum Physics
Huge Decline in US Consumer Electronics Spending
Asian HB-LED Makers Expanding with Veeco GaN Systems
Sony Ericsson Cuts Handset Sales Forecast - Blames Component
Shortages
Science Fiction Writer Arthur C. Clarke Dead at Age 90
Garmin Named Global Leader in Portable Satellite Navigation
Big Wireless Auction Ends, Winners Still Secret
USPTO: Change in Procedure for Requests to Withdraw from Representation
in a Patent Application
Nokia Slips in Greenpeace Green Electronics Ranking
Stolen Meteorite Slice Found at Gun Show
New Report on Defense Opportunities Offers Forecasts, Analysis
of U.S. Defense IT Market
Tech Puts America on the Map
C3 Defense Enters $20B Private Military Security Market
4-18-2008
Outsourcing Giant Expands into U.S., Europe
Almost Half of Japanese Use Cellphones While Bathing
Satellite Misfire to Hurt HDTV Expansion
Credit Crunch Could Fuel Electronics Acquisitions
GPS Tracking Devices by LandAirSea System Reached Record Sales
in 2007
Long-Distance Wi-Fi
Researchers Discover a Family of Superconductors
Georgia Tech President to Lead Smithsonian
Omnifield Handheld Antenna Lets You Make EMI and RF Measurements
Audio Engineering Society Celebrates 60 Years
IQE Wins Its Largest Commercial GaN Epiwafer Order
Inventor of the Internet Warns Against 'Big Brother' Systems
that Track Sites You Visit
Vanguard I Celebrates 50 Years in Space
EU Opts for DVB-H
Australian Wi-Fi Usage Doubles
Court Upholds Firing City Employee for Excessive Web Browsing
Tech States Still Hiring for IT Jobs
Astronauts Assemble Canadian Robot on 7-Hour Walk
4-17-2008
U.S. Engineering Gap: Number of Degrees Declining
Employers Push Manufacturing up the Political Agenda
Better Graphene Transistors
USAF Details Cyber Command Organization
Deutsche Telekom to Buy 20% of Greek OTE for EUR2.5 Billion
First Wireless Video Transmission with Terahertz Waves
Physicists Demand Their Wiki Rights or Else
NextGen GPS Satellite Built by Lockheed Martin Launched from
Cape Canaveral
Will Patent Pooling and the NGMN Expose Qualcomm's 4G Royalty
Position?
Ultra-Fast, Ultra-Intense Laser Has Clean-Cut Advantage
Nokia noBounds Projects Promises Full HD Video over USB or WLAN
HP Labs Braces for Impact
Single-Crystal Semiconductor Wire Built into an Optical Fiber
Electronic Gadgets Often Full of Computer Viruses
China Shuts Down YouTube, News Access to Censor Tibet Violence
SA Manufacturing Output Declines, Industry May Cut Jobs
Astronauts Flex Arms of Space Station Robot for First Time
Russian Proton Rocket Fails to Take Satellite into Right Orbit
4-16-2008
Two-Dimensional High-Temperature Superconductor Discovered
Spacewalkers Attach Canadian Robot's Mechanical Arms
Saudis Use Bluetooth to Flirt
Israeli Town Demands Anti-Missile Laser
4-14-2008
Wireless Startups Score $515M
Gates Urges U.S. to Free up More Spectrum for Wi-Fi
Modeling How Electric Charges Move
Fear of Internet Traffic Jams Ahead
(RF Cafe pays for dedicated worldwide DNS servers to avert the
snarl)
Itron Makes Home Meters That Send Wireless Signals to Utilities
'WiFi on Steroids' Could Help Build SA's Broadband Muscle
Analyst Derides European "Super-Chip" Group Proposal
DoD Science Funding: Really an Increase?
Motorola Hopes the N Is in Sight
Continental Accomplishes First Ever Commercial ACARS Over Iridium
Communications Using satLINK
Michigan Amateurs Team Up with State
EU Moves to Catch up on Microchip Revolution
Syria Expands ‘Iron Censorship’ over Internet
Ex-STMicro Exec Proposes Pan-European Chip Company
Crude Oil Rises to Record $111
(while dollar falls and our oil in Alaska, Gulf of Mexico, and
E/W coasts goes untapped)
Dollar Hits New Low in Europe and Sinks Below 100 Yen for Second
Time This Week
Dollar Falls Below Parity vs Swiss Franc
Slicing Up Silicon for Cheaper Solar
Weather Channel Founder Wants to Sue Al Gore for Carbon Credit
Fraud
3-13-2008
Americans Panic if Disconnected from Technology
Harvard Hacker Exposes Data on 10,000 Potential Students
CIA Invests in RF Chip Startup
Nokia Court Papers Claim $1B Qualcomm Payments
EU Says "Geeky" Tech Jobs Need New Image
Hardware Needs Limit Software Radio
DOE Investing $13.7M in 11 University PV Projects
Micronetics Gains Order for Space-Qualified Microwave Components
96% of 'High-Speed' Broadband Users Get Slow Service
China Overtakes U.S. as Top Web Market
Copolymers Block out New Approaches to Microelectronics
Gates: U.S. Needs H-1B Visa, Education Reform to Stay Competitive
(translation: not enough smart Americans - time to turn the
hats around right, pull up the gansta pants, and start studying)
Endeavour Docks with Space Station
UK Defense Ministry Loses 11,000 Military ID Cards
DOD Asks Contractors to Protect Unclassified Data
(they have
to be asked?)
Hackers Report Breaking iPhone 2.0
Naval Research Laboratory to Design Lunar Telescope
3-12-2008
Bush Administration Pressured on H-1B Visa Reform
Electronic Data as Legal Evidence
Compound Semiconductor Substrate Market to Top $1B by 2009-2010
Neuron-Like Molecular Transistor Incredibly Powerful
Lead-Free Issues Continue to Plague Mil-Aero Market
1-Patent Company Snags Deal with AT&T
EU to Develop Printable RFID Tags to Bring Down Price
Bigger Computer Displays Boost Workplace Productivity
Norwegian Radar Order May Open More Doors for SA Company
Homemade Bomb Triggered by a Mobile Phone - Foiled by Philippine
Army
Interactive Execs Give the Big Picture on Radio & Digital
U.S. Army to Turn Piles of Trash Into Power in Iraq
Real and Virtual Pendulums Swing as One in Mixed Reality State
Wal-Mart Yanks Linux PC from Shelves
Stocks Boom on Fed's Bank Booster
(401k fund managers will all buy here, then sell low)
Security Danger of Wireless Defibrillators Downplayed
Maryland Rejects Ban on Texting While Driving
Thirsty Hybrid and Electric Cars Could Triple Demands on Scarce
Water Resources
Rush to Produce Corn-Based Ethanol Will Worsen 'Dead Zone' in
Gulf of Mexico
(hmmm, not looking too good)
Jules Verne on Track for Long Journey to ISS
3-11-2008
Talking on the Phone Tops Public Transport Nuisance Charts
Housing Slump Suppresses Appetite for Electronics
Motorola's Mobile Unit Head Resigns
Micro LEDs Operate from Tiny Amounts of Power
Kentucky Lawmaker Wants to Make Anonymous Internet Posting Illegal
Is Shortwave a Short-Timer?
Exhibit
Kits Now Available for ARRL Field Day
IBM to Pump $1B into Unified Communications
Space Shuttle Blasts Off into the Night
Ericsson Predicts Demise for Wi-Fi Hot Spots
Tennessee Congressman to be Honored for Science, Engineering
and Technology Leadership
U.S. Universities Join Saudis in Partnerships
Major Advance in Biofuel Technology: Trash Today, Ethanol Tomorrow
Russia Dumps Korean Astro Boy for Astro Girl in Textbook Scandal
FCC Slams Pennsylvania Ham with Forfeiture Order
NextWave's TV Eye on WiMax
Boeing to Protest Air Refueling Tanker Contract
3-10-2008
'Jihad' Study Roils Engineering
Driving Study Deals Blow to Hands-Free Phones
Municipal Wi-Fi Will Extend Its Service Area to 30,000+ Square
Miles by 2012
EDN's Worldwide Survey of Engineering Salaries
Growing Concern over Safety of Cellphones for Children
U.S. Economic Wobble Hurting Q2 Tech Outlook
Canada's Dexter Space Robot Launches Tomorrow on Endeavour Shuttle
Sprint Phone First to Use Fast Network
TriQuint Buys WJ Communications for $72M
RPI Student Develops Polarized LED
Ground Tests Confirm Satellite Communications for Battlefield
General Dynamics to Provide Satellite-Based Communications Systems,
Services to U.S. Navy
Unique Locks on Microchips Could Reduce Hardware Piracy
Northrop, EADS to Invest $600 Million in Alabama Site
China to Launch Second Olympic Satellite in May
Electronic Nose Knows Quality Coffee
Space Shuttle Endeavour Liftoff at 2.28 am on Tuesday
3-9-2008
Terror Plots by ETIM Targeting Beijing Olympics, Jetliner Foiled
in China
Invisibility Cloak: New Technique to Control Nanoparticles
The Terror Nobody Knows: Thwarted Attacks on the U.S.
European Space Freighter Ready for Lift-Off
Controlling Most Atoms Now Possible
3-7-2008
Employers Slash Jobs by Most in 5 Years
WiMax Signals Get Stronger in India
Free Train Wi-Fi Triples Usage for National Express
Freescale Semiconductor Investor Writes Down its Value
Police Raid Exhibitors at German Tech Fair
Galileo Sat-Nav Test Bird Set for April Launch
RFID SmartCard Encryption Cracked by Researchers
IBM: Atomic-Sized Graphene Has Use in Nanoelectronics
HP Labs Takes First Steps in Reorg
Forecast: Half a Billion GSM/UMTS Subscriptions in the Americas
by Year End
Study Recognizes Possible Link Between iPods and Crime Rate
Increase
Ontario Begins WEEE Directive Compliance
Sony-Ericsson Declared Most Eco-Friendly Phone
Brazilian Boy, 8, Passes Law School Entrance Exam
World-Famous Jodrell Bank Telescope Could Close to Save Government
£2.7M a Year
Russia to Launch US Communications Satellite on March 15
$ Falls to New Low Against €
Electronic Structure of DNA Revealed for First Time
3-6-2008
Texting Leads to Accidents with Lamp Posts
Germany May Take Wireless Broadband to Rural Areas
AMSAT Announces Plans for 2008
Contract Awarded for 'Fractionated' Satellites
Oil Advances to Record $105.97 as Dollar Drops to All-Time Low
Modeling, Simulation Grow Across Aerospace, Defense Markets
Ex-Broadcom Exec Charged with Stock Option Backdating
Origin of Hiss in Upper Atmosphere Finally Identified
Juicing Up Broadband Speeds Down Under
British Scientists Claim Method to Make Broadband 100x Faster
Denver Airport Wi-Fi System Blocks 'Racy' Web Sites
iSuppli to Trim Semi Forecast with Weakening Pricing, Demand
(these guys are like weather forecasters - predictions seem
about as accurate as the flip of a coin)
Study: Cell Phone Now Most Vital Device
Bangladesh Adds 2.05M Mobile Phone Users in Jan 08
Putin Signs Decree to Set up Rocket-and-Space Research Center
Genes 'Я' Us: The New Dot-Coms?
Microsoft Releases Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Windows XP
(I tried it - it sucks. Page rendering is horrible.)
Magnetic Levitation Gives Computer Users Sense of Touch
Toshiba to Open U.S. Nuclear Power Business
(why bother?)
3-5-2008
Worker Shortage Looms for Defense Companies
Thai Exam Cheat Triggers Phone-Watch Ban
Mobile Set to Become a Trillion Dollar Industry in 2008
ARRL "Antenna Expert" to Retire
Satellite and WiMax Spectrum Sharing Not Compatible Report Finds
Did iPods Cause a Crime Wave?
Gold Can Be Made Magnetic on the Nanoscale Through Oxygenation
U.S. Mobile Broadband Usage Jumps 154%
Electronics Greener, but Long Way to Go, Says Greenpeace
US Cities at High Risk for Terrorist Attacks Identified
Radio Revenues Off 4% in Q4, 2% for 2007 Overall
The Weather Channel Founder to Sue Algore for Carbon Credit
"Scam"
Reality Glooms High Over Russian GLONASS GPS Plans
STMicro Denies Bozotti Exit Rumors
(which, of course, guarantees it will happen)
Georgia Tech Tests Wireless Emergency Alert System for Visually
Impaired
Wear Your Tech Gear, Don't Schlep It
China Announces Big Rise in Military Spending
Samsung Ships 500 GB Hard Drive for Laptop
Secret Airforce One Flight Data Sent to Suffolk Tourist Website
3-4-2008
Google Earth Showed Protesters Way to Conquer Parliament
Fujitsu Makes Carbon Nanotube Breakthrough
Three-Fold Increase in Wi-Fi Use on Trains
Micron to Revamp Sensor Business
Cheaters Beware! Tool Sniffs Out Plagiarism
Pentagon Worried by China in Space and Cyberspace
January Chip Sales Beat Expectations
U.S. House Speaker Pelosi: Congress to Examine EADS Air Tanker
Deal
FCC Adopts Simplified Application Procedures for Valcom Antennas
Cell Phones Give College Students False Sense of Safety
OFCNFOEC: The Increasing Demand for Bandwidth
GM Says It Has Lithium-Ion Batteries for Hybrids Figured Out
TriQuint Launches Range of LDMOS Silicon RF Power Transistors
Filipinos Sent 1 Billion Text Messages Daily in 2007
N.M. Attracts Solar Manufacturing Plant
NASA Spacecraft Photographs Avalanches on Mars - Cool
Fuel Cells Make Power for Homes in Japan
IE8 Will Now Conform to Standards
3-3-2008
RFID Tags in Garments Worry Privacy Experts
Zarlink Unloads UK Analog Fab for 1 Euro
Mitsubishi Electric to Exit Mobile Phone Ops
UK Court Rules Nokia is Not Infringing Qualcomm Patents
Students with Cellphones May Take More Risks
Semiconductor Business Confidence Down
RFMD Delays Greensboro Fab Investment as it Completes Filtronic
Acquisition
FCC Releases 3 Studies on Spectrum Designated to Unlicensed
Operations
Daimler Brings Li Ion Battery to Hybrid Cars
Tooling Up for Tomorrow's Clever Cars
Robots Integrate Selves into Japanese Society
Workshops on ITAR and Pb-Free Issues at MAE Forum
Supercomputer Confirms Standard Model Theory of the Universe
Orbital Awarded Contract for System F6 Satellite Program by
DARPA
Five More Spacecraft Show Bizarre Speed Changes
Long Workweeks Keeping Americans up Late
One LED if by Land, Two if by Sea?
3-2-2008
No Text Messages or Calls for NJ Drivers
Boeing Loses $35 Billion KC-45 Air Tanker Contract to EADS
€ Rises to Record $1.5238
(EU citizens: Now is the time to buy RF
Cafe stuff!)
Kilogram is Losing Weight: Redefine Kilogram Based on Universal
Constants
Man Asked Friend to Shoot Him So He Could Skip Work
Inexpensive Solar Cells Made More Efficient with New Sensitizers
Oil Giant Saudi to Become Solar Power Centre
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