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
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