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2/28/2011
How to Turn a Laser into a Tractor Beam
Sweden Starts Auction of 800 MHz Spectrum
Rare Earths 'Replaced' by Silicon Chip
Thousands Lose Vodafone Service Following Burglary Attempt
Stretched Rubber Offers Simpler Method for Assembling Nanowires
Interference from Plasma Television Sets
Future Horizons, IC Insights Predict 2 Good Years
Austria Consults on Frequencies for Mobile Broadband Services
Commercial Satellites Plug Bandwidth Gap for Military SATCOM
Smartphones - the Grip of Death
IEEE-USA, Others Challenge Patent Reform
Radio-Guided Technique for Removing Lung Nodules
Virgin Galactic Deal Will Send Scientists into Space
Engineer Nobutoshi Kihara, "Wizard of Sony," Dies at 84
Google: Bug Wipes Out 150,000 Gmail Accounts
January Consumer Spending Edges Up, Incomes Surge
2/27/2011
Etched, Shaped Quantum Dots Emit Single Photons
U.S. Cellular Sees Smartphone Surge, Too
Researchers Tapping the Potential of Radar Technologies to Advance Aeroecology
Mobile Etiquette Seen Getting Worse, Not Better
Junctionless Transistor?
Deutsche Telekom to Begin Selling U.S. Mobile Towers in Q2
Motorist Dials 9-1-1 Over Rising Gas Prices
(you'll buy a Gov't Motors Volt even
if takes gas hitting $10/gal!)
2/25/2011
LinkedIn Hit as China Clamps Down on Dissident Talk
FCC Fears Fast New Smartphone Network May Threaten GPS
GM Falls Below IPO Price as Rising Oil Dims Truck Outlook
(soon taxpayers will shell out $7.5k
for each Volt delivered)
Follow the Money: Tiny Transistors Track Cash
Turing Papers Go to Bletchley Park
Majority of U.S. Adults Wish People Practiced Better Etiquette When
Using Mobile Devices
Scientists Create One-Dimensional Ferroelectric Ice
802.11u: Wireless 'Superglue'?
Smartphone Adoption Continues to Grow in Japan
Intel Launches High Speed Cable
Your Brain on Cellphones: Effects Present, Consequences Unknown
How India’s Draft Cybercafe Rules Could Strangle Public Internet Access
Physicists Develop Scalable Method for Making Graphene
On Semi to Expand Oregon Fab
Innovative SAW-Less Reconfigurable Transceiver Developed
DOD to Slash Senior-Level Civilian Positions
We Have Liftoff! Discovery Blasts Off One Last Time
Vinyl Records Spin Back into Vogue
Radio Jobs Will be Lost if Congress Cuts CPB Funding
(too bad, taxpayers are broke and losing
jobs)
2/24/2011
Consortium Claims SiGe Frequency Record
Watch Today's Final Shuttle Launch Live
(4:50 pm EST)
France Telecom Profits Jump 28% on Lower Costs
Researchers Entice Two Atoms to Swap Smallest Energy Units
New Batteries Fix Themselves
China Hits Out at EU Subsidies for Telecom Equipment Makers
(Communists upset over government intrusion
- go figure)
3GPP-LTE Radio Needs No SAW Filters
U.S. Back on Top in IPOs
Europeans Announce the First Organic Microprocessor
Totally Blind Engineering Student Plays Video Game Flawlessly
(check out this dude's ambitions!)
Why Many Historians No Longer See Alchemy as an Occult Practice
Amateur MF Band Allocation Moves a Step Closer
'Fast' Organic Transistor DAC Works at 5V
Ground Troops to Get Access to Army's Smart Phone Network
Broadcasters Remain Concerned About Wireless Industry's Quest for Spectrum
That's Hot: Engineers to Test Boiling at Zero-Gravity
New Stretchable Solar Cells Will Power Artificial Electronic 'Super
Skin'
People's Revolt Looms on Australian Carbon Tax
Map Your Facebook Friends in a Few Clicks
Crude Breaches $119/bbl in Frantic Trading
(while we sit on HUGE reserves of gas &
oil - contact your legislators!!!)
2/23/2011
Cellphone Radiation Increases Brain Activity
Mobile Phones: How to 'Keep Your Brain Away from the Antenna'
Microsoft Software Update 'Kills' Windows Mobiles
'Sister Internet' Kicked Out of Convent for Facebook Use
People Urged to Restrict Cellphone Use in New Zealand Quake Zone
Super-Thin Superconducting Cables
'Poisoned' Chinese Workers Turn to Apple for Help
Amid 60 GHz Debate, ST Ponders WirelessHD
Nanosensors to Benefit Military and Energy Sectors
Uncovering the U.S. LTE 'Conspiracy'
Intel Builds Smartphone Platform Around Open Source
Three Yachtsmen Killed by Somali Muslim Extremist Pirates Were Hams
Schools Should Teach Kids More About How Science is Done
Etched Quantum Dots Shape Up as Single Photon Emitters
World's Smallest Computer Created
UK and Russian Bodies Study Fluid Behavior in Microgravity
ITT to Break into 3 Companies
Lufthansa, Deutsche Telecom Offer In-Flight Broadband
Google Chief Outlines Vision for NFC
Oil at 2-Year High as Libya on Edge of Civil War
($37/bbl in Dec 2008, $97/bbl now - drill baby, drill!)
2/22/2011
Engineering Atomic Interfaces for New Electronics
Home Internet May Get Even Faster in South Korea
(already hundreds of times faster than U.S. avg.)
FBI to Announce New Internet-Wiretapping Push
Verizon Wireless Homes in on Latest Landline Alternative
World’s Leading Mobile Operators Commit to NFC
Body Area Network Spars with Bluetooth
IBM’s Watson Jeopardy Stunt Unleashes a Third Great Cycle in Computing
U.S. Cities Using Tech to Cull Ideas from Citizens
Component Incorporates Spin and Molecular Electronics
Model Shows How Scientific Paradigms Rise and Fall
First Full-Color Display with Quantum Dots
Super-Stealth Sub Powered by Fuel Cell
Weather Looks Good for Thursday Shuttle Launch
Your Web Browsing Is Being Tracked
Motorola Admits It Gets Bulk of Sales from Just One Mobile Network Customer
Silicon Solar Cells Ditch the Wafers
"Smart": The Next Soon-to-Be Outdated Tech Buzzword
(none too soon)
Batteries for Vehicle-Mounted High-Pulse-Power Weapons is Object of
Army Industry Survey
IBM and Black History (good works
for sure, but can we drop the "diversity" crap?)
Four Americans on Hijacked Yacht Killed by Somali Pirates
(w/U.S. warship trailing it - radical
Muslim pirates not afraid of us)
2/21/2011
Pilots, Boaters Adjust to Shift in Magnetic North
Heat a Nanotube, Make a Nanolamp
$200M in U.S. Broadband Census Data Now Free, Open Source
Femtocell Deployments More Than Double in 12 Months with Strong Growth
Beyond the Home
NTIA Report: Income-Related Digital Divide is Narrowing
(due to taxpayers subsidizing everyone
else)
Why Tech Stock Surge Is Not a Bubble. Seriously.
Apple Maintains Dominance of Mobile Application Store Market in 2010
Cuban and Gilder Hurl Insults at Venture Capitalists
Qualcomm Sees Drive for All-in-One Smartphone Chips
Gold Reaches $1,404
CSR to Buy Zoran for $679M
Targeted Attacks, IPv6 Complicate Cyber Defense
Bigger 'Bottles' of Antimatter May Help Unlock Nature's Secrets
Chinese Telecom Giant Calls Off U.S. Deal
2/20/2011
Scientists Warn of $2,000T Solar Flare Global Comms 'Katrina'
Chinese Smartphone Makers to Push Price Barrier to $150
Nokia Seeks Jobs for Workers It Plans to Lay Off
(have to respect that)
Moon Race Brings 29 Teams to the Starting Line
Retiring Boomers Find 401(k) Plans Fall Short
Women and Tech: Focus on Female Consumers and the Founders Will Follow
2/18/2011
Spectrum Management Bill Threatens Amateur Frequencies
Scientists Build the World's First Anti-Laser
Solid-State Thermoelectric Technology Uses Electronics Heat to Generate
Power for Wireless Apps
WiMax's Fixed User Base Shifting to Mobile
Switchable Metamaterial Makes Itself Invisible
Why Wi-Fi Sucked at Mobile World Congress
TSMC Expects to Grow 22% This Year
European Telco CEOs Agree to WorkTogether on NFC Standards
Solar Flare-Up Could Fry Satellites, Reroute Planes, Make Pretty Lights
New Hacking Tools Pose Bigger Threats to Wi-Fi Users
Gartner: 2011 Is Year of the Smartphone, Not Tablet
Avago Linear PA Enables WiMAX to Coexist with Other Radios in Portable
Devices
$4.5B Budget Cut Won't Keep Air Force from New Ventures in 2012
Clearwire Losses Widen - May Delay Radio Spectrum Sale Pending Larger
Alliance
House Votes to Overturn FCC Internet Rules
Businesses Waste Time on Essential But Unproductive Tasks
Broadband Map shows Up to 10% in U.S. Lack Good Internet
(gov't wants taxpayers to pick up tab - I say let them buy their own
satellite access)
Earth's Magnetic Field Can Be Mapped with Ground Lasers
Obama Talks Jobs with Tech Titans in Calif.
China Flexes
Muscles with U.S. As Biggest Creditor: WikiLeaks
2/17/2011
Huge Solar Flare Jams Radio, Satellite Signals: NASA
Engineers Unveil Particle Accelerator on a Chip
Navy Honors Electronics Pioneer Howard Lorenzen, W7BI
IP Theft Hits UK Electronics
Biggest Solar Flare in Years Headed for Earth
Army Makes Strides in Smart-Phone Security
Theft Gangs Using Smartphones to Steal Bank Card Numbers
Moore's Law: Life for Intel, Death for Cisco
Should Investors Turn Their Backs on VC Funds?
Japan May Send Chatty Humanoid Tweet-Bot to Space
Paper Accelerometer Could Mean Disposable Devices
On-Chip Lasers Compute with Light
iSuppli Sounds Alarm on Chip Inventories
Air-Stable Transistor Challenges Amorphous Silicon
Researchers Predict Future of Electronic Devices, Top 10 List of Expected
Breakthroughs
Clearwire Scores Victory in 'Swirl' Dispute
No Link Between Mobile Phones and Brain Cancer Says Study
(maybe researchers' brains harmed by
radiation, not thinking clearly?)
Oregon Wants Health Warning on Cell Phones
(see above)
Cheap Phosphorescent Crystals Could Light Up TVs
FCC Blasted on Net Neutrality Bias
2/16/2011
Pentagon Proposes 10% Cut in Spending for Electronics and Communications
in 2012 Budget
Operators Losing $150M a Year from SIM Fraud
Radio Device Could Double Speed of Wireless Networks
L.A. County Employee Dead in Cubicle a Day Before Being Noticed
(the nightmare scenario of cube dwellers)
Wireless Heart Implant Reduces Hospitalizations
Periodic Table of Shapes to Give a New Dimension to Math
Spain Hopes to Raise Up to €2B from Spectrum Sale
Machine-to-Machine Connections to Reach 2.1B Devices by 2020
GSA Ramps Up European Operations
Military Connector Market Forecasts Presented by Industry Experts in
Webcast
Qualcomm Gets a Boost from Nokia Move to Windows Phone 7
U.S. Broadband Speeds Improved in 2010, Still Second Rate Against EU
Maxim Shows One Chip Femtocell RF Front-End
Egypt Leaders Found 'Off' Switch for Internet
Sun Erupts in Humongous Solar Flare, Most Powerful in 4 Years
Europe's 'Kepler' Prepares for Lift-Off
Apple Sacks China Supplier for Hiring Under-Age Workers
W3C: HTML5 Spec Due in 2014
EchoStar to Buy Hughes for $2B
Healthcare Reform Law Hires 1,054 New IRS Agents - 81 Just for Tanning
Tax Enforcement
2/15/2011
Wi-Fi Moves to 5 GHz for More Channel Capacity
IEEE Spec Aims to Ease Mobile Congestion
Near-Field Communication: Beyond Mobile Transactions
Air Force Explores Various Commercial Satellite Options
Unique New Probe of Proton Spin Structure at Relativistic Heavy Ion
Collider
Full Duplex Radio Technology Developed that Doubles Speed of Existing
Wireless Networks
Defiant Blackberry Boss Dismisses Nokia Jibe
Light-Emitting Rubber Could Sense Structural Damage
Shipboard Electronics Integrators See Good News as Navy Shipbuilding
Programs Stay on Track
Europe's 'Kepler' Prepares for Lift-Off
ARISSat-1 Deployment Postponed
Orange to Offer Samsung Wave 578 NFC Across Europe - But Not in the
UK
Engineering Bodies Call for Better Careers Advice
Hand-Held Epidemic Coming? Experts Fear Rise in Smartphone Viruses
Global Data Revenues to Reach $500B by 2015
History Sniffing, Dilbert-Style
Baseband Mania Hits Mobile World
Fireball Streaks Across East Coast Sky
Proposed 2011 Budget Adds $2T to Deficit, 102% of GDP
(we're broke and getting broker)
Meanwhile... Gov't Motors to Pay More than $400M in Bonuses
(your tax bailout money)
2/14/2011
A Billion Mobiles to Get Low Energy Bluetooth in a Year
Broadcom's New Combo Chip Integrates 802.11n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0 +
HS and FM
Apple Working on Cheaper, Carrier Agnostic iPhones
Freescale Files for $1.15B IPO
(hmmm...maybe RF Cafe should do an IPO)
LG Unveils World's First 3D Smartphone
USPTO to Issue Proposal for "Track One" Accelerated Patent Examination
in Flexible “Three Track” Patent Processing Program
Rockers with Ham Connection Win Big at Grammys
Wireless Advances Could Mean No More Cell Towers
Market for Mobile Infrastructure Equipment Worth $42B by 2015
Europe Seeks Ways to Lower Data Roaming Charges
Laser-Quick Data Transfer
Getting a Charge Out of Solar 'Paint'
'Technology Readiness' Paramount for Defense Base, Northrop Grumman
CEO Says
Image Site Hits Back at Spammers
Google Overtakes Apple and Sony As UK's Most Reputable Tech Firm
(are you kidding me?)
2/13/2011
iPhone Attack Expose Passwords in 6 Minutes
USPTO Introduces Online Tools to Solicit Public Feedback on Patent and
Trademark Examining Procedures
One-Time Spectrum Fee Should Not be Concern for Telcos - Indian Regulator
Global Storage is Estimated at 295 Exabytes
Echoes of Sputnik in Modern Rocket Race for Space?
Gallup: Real Unemployment Number is 10.3%
2/11/2011
Future Satellites Could be Microchip Size
Scientists Calculate the World's Total Technological Capacity
Monitors Transmit Video of Unknowing Families
Nokia and Microsoft Form Partnership
ARISSat-1 to Be Deployed from ISS Next Week
(see on NASA TV)
Gentag Announces Low-Cost NFC/RFID Phone
Wales to Get £10m to Boost 'Not-Spot' Broadband
No-Contract Smartphone May Lure First-Time Users
Snapshot of an Apple Flash Crash -$10B in 4 Minutes
RFID Heats Up Production at U.K. Boiler Factory
Searching for the Future of Television
Printing Nanostructures Using Hard, Sharp 'Pen' Tips Floating on Soft
Polymer Springs
Can IE9 Stop Microsoft's Steady Browser Decline?
University of California Reports on Toxic Metals in LEDs
(maybe Edison's bulb is greenest after
all)
Ground Control to Major Smartphone? NASA Wants Phones to Pilot Spaceships
International Survey of SMS Spam Finds 70% is Financial Fraud
2011 Could Be Dream Year for Tech-Toy Lovers
Motorola Relaunches the RAZR Mobile Phone
IMF Calls for Dollar Alternative
(Operation Bankrupt America nearly
complete... maybe just one more "stimulus," oh and maybe a $53B monorail
project)
A Rocket Built from U.S. and European Parts
2/10/2011
FCC Crackdown on Cellular/GPS Jammers Starts Today
Startup Introduces RF Power Management IC
Taiwan Patent Court a Concern for U.S. Tech Firms
NFC Payment Technology to Dominate Mobile World Congress
Navy's Souped-Up Acquisition Strategy Would Save $35B
INQ Mobile Announces the Facebook Phone
Nokia at Crisis Point, Warns New Boss
Ultrafast Quantum Computer Closer: 10B Bits of Entanglement Achieved
in Silicon
Innovation Far Removed from the Lab
Will Record Capex Spending Lead to Excess Capacity?
Android Smartphone Sales Surged 888.8% in 2010
Orange France Tests 3G Services in the 1800 MHz Spectrum Bands
Mobile Operators Need New Generation of Mobile Device Management
Researchers Use 'Exfoliation' Method to Produce Nanosheets
Hidden Universes Revealed
Microsoft Says 'Good Riddance' to USB Autorun
The Smallest Computing Systems Yet
Nanonets Give Rust a Boost as Agent in Water Splitting's Hydrogen Harvest
NASA Can't Find Unintended Acceleration Causes in Toyota's ETCS
New Drilling Method Opens Vast Oil Fields in U.S. Heartland
(more than Gulf of Mexico, but current
Admin will likely prevent it)
2/9/2011
Smartphone Shipments Surpass PCs
L.L. Bean Tries to Hike Sales with RFID
eBay Launches Smartphone Buybacks
FCC Adds New Country to CEPT Reciprocal Agreement for Amateurs
Qualcomm to Demonstrate P2P Wireless Technology at MWC
China Creates Rare Earth Strategic Reserves
EC Outlines Tougher Laws to Deal with e-Waste
College Teams Prepare for Cyber Defense Regionals
Beijing Residents Sent 1B Text Messages in a Single Day
Verizon Plans 4G Internet Calling Service
Brain's 'Radio Stations' Have Much to Tell Scientists
Ossila Begins Supplying Semiconducting Plastic
Insider Trading Case Built on BlackBerry Messages
New iPhone Antenna Has Same 'Death Grip'
Robots to Get Their Own Internet
NTT Docomo Partners with Korea’s KT to Switch to NFC at End of 2012
FCC Moves to Formalize Plan for Broadband Universal Service Program
Toward a New American Ingenuity
Long and Narrow, Free of Defects, and Soluble: Graphene Nanoribbons
Generation Net: Youngsters Who Prefer Their Virtual Lives to the Real
World
2/8/2011
FCC Paves Way for First-Ever Presidential Broadcast on Emergency Alert
System (Hitlerian messaging via
21st century technology)
Catholic Church Gives Blessing to iPhone Confession App
Nokia Mulls Setting Up a Head Office in the USA
Rediscovering WWII's Female 'Computers'
Atom-Thick Sheets Unlock Future Technologies
Ericsson Develops Integrated Antenna and Radio Unit
Cell Phone Security Threats Rise Sharply: McAfee
New Space Policy Will Take U.S. to Infinity and Beyond
ARRL Board Sets Legislative Agenda at 2011 Annual Meeting
Computer Pioneer Ken Olsen Dies at Age 84
The Verizon iPhone 4 is Jailbreakable Too
Canada's Telus to Offer 42Mbps Download Speeds
A Broadband Boom in the Boondocks
Radio is Emerging from Recession But Some Are Holding Us Back
10-Petaflop IBM Supercomputer Headed for Argonne National Lab
Sprint to Sell Dual-Screen 'Echo' Smartphone
Will LTE Topple WiMax for 4G Crown?
Unmanned Navy Stealth Bomber's Maiden Flight
Foundry Spending Could Lead to Oversupply
HP's Open Innovation Strategy: Leveraging Academic Labs
2/7/2011
Security Guard Convicted for Smuggling Phones into Prison
Nanolasers Grown on Silicon
Electronics Inside the Home of British Measurement
Joint Tactical Radios Approved for Aircraft Integration
FCC to Update Phone Subsidy Program for Broadband
WiFi Gives U.S. Airlines an Edge
Startup Boasts Better Lithium Batteries
Million Cut Off by Finnish Mobile Network Fault
The Key to Better Solar Cells: Bumpy Mirrors
Creating a Pure Spin Current in Graphene
Alcatel-Lucent: The Disappearing Mobile Masts and Towers
UK
is Under Cyber-Attack
Hackers Penetrated Nasdaq's Network
'Death by GPS': Could It Happen to You?
Extreme Networks Delivers 4G Mobile Backhaul Equipment
National Security Payload Launched from Vandenberg AFB
Robot X-47B Stealth Bomber Test Flight
Shell Ditches Algae Biofuel
AOL to Buy The Huffington Post for $315M
Chocolate 'Healthier' Than Fruit Juice
2/6/2011
32% Admit Mooching Neighbor's Wi-Fi
History of Science Shows Consensus Can be Mistaken
Despite LTE Hype, Wi-Fi Is the Real Deal
IBM's Watson Computer Beats Humans at Jeopardy
Tellabs Warns Operators Will Start Losing Money on Mobile Data in 2
Years
Google Bets $20,000 You Can't Hack Chrome
2/4/2011
Space So Full of Junk That Satellite Collision Could Destroy Communications
on Earth
Batteries That Breathe
Researchers Develop Transistor with 1000x Faster Switching Ratio
Boy Scouts of America and ARRL Team Up to Help Scouts Learn Communications
Skills
Registrar Keeps Eye on Internet Address Black Market
Base Station Power Amplifier Transistor Market Expected to Exceed $1
Billion in 2014
Speculation of Alliance with Microsoft Lifts Nokia Shares
IEEE Publishes 1901 BPL Standard
(I thought the FCC gave up on BPL?)
China Maneuvers for U.S. Defense Contracts
(why not? they have all our technology
- stolen or given - already)
Sharing Secrets to Innovate More Profitably
Paper Airplanes Launched from Space, Soar Back to Germany, Australia,
Canada
Apple’s Next Multi-Billion-Dollar Business: Connected Televisions
Global Telecoms Industry Revenue to Top $25.6T over 5 Years
75,000 Job Applications Flood Google
Last of IPv4 Addresses Assigned as Focus Turns to IPv6
A Shortage of Power in Data Centers?
90% of Americans Own a Computerized Gadget
Gallup Finds U.S. Unemployment Up Slightly in January to 9.8%
GE Gets Waiver from EPA Rules (CEO
Immelt just happens to be WH advisor - utter corruption!)
The Ways Science Is Fighting Snow
2/3/2011
Indians Bag 47% H-1B Visas
Gallium Nitride Boosted into High-Power Realm
Statistician Cracks Secret Code Behind Lottery Tickets
Wi-Fi Grows to Over 50% of Mobile Web Connections
Argon Buffer Helps GaN Devices Handle Higher Voltages
Telcos Well Prepared for IPv6
Unemployment Among Doctoral Scientists and Engineers Was Lower Than
Among the General Population in 2008
100 ppb Crystals Head for Femtocells
RFID Systems Integrator Lets Small Businesses Try Before They Buy
Herman Cain Off WSB; May Run for President
(he is Godfather's Pizza founder)
French Telecoms to Launch Internet Payment
900 MHz Mesh Network for UK Smart Grid?
U.S. Tests E-Mail System that Bypasses Egypt-Style Internet Shutdown
New Chipset Embeds GPS and GLONASS Receivers into Mobile Phones
Microsoft Says Google Used Click Fraud to Orchestrate Bing Sting
News Corp's Digital Newspaper The Daily Launches for iPad
First Evidence for a Spherical Magnesium-32 Nucleus
Technology Means Age of Dictators Over
(or, it has just begun)
Video Will Dominate Mobile Data Traffic by 2015
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