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12/31/2010
Millions Gathering
Worldwide to Ring in New Year
How to Ring In the New Year with Apps
2010: The Year Technology Replaced Talking (an interesting way to put it)
Top Ten Scientific Breakthroughs of 2010
2010 in Review: The Fortunate Winners and the Pathetic Losers
Top Wireless Stories of 2010
Hackers Crack Open GSM Mobile Network
World's Teensiest Battery Could Drive Big Innovations
UK Government Changes Tax Rules to Promote R&D
China to Cut Crucial Rare Earths Export
Quotas
Hits and Misses in Five-Tech Forecast
Woman Charged in Tech Company Insider Trading Probe
Skype’s New iPhone App Allows Video Calls
Skype Could Be Designated
Illegal in China
11 Notable Smartphones of 2010
Boeing, Fujitsu to Offer
Holistic RFID Solution to Airlines
Boxed Software Isn't Going Away Any Time Soon
Eight Botched Environmental Forecasts
12/30/2010
ARRL Shows IBEC BPL Systems Are Interfering, Violating FCC Rules
Online Holiday Shopping: $30.8B Spent
A Common Charger for Mobile Phones Now
Expected in Early 2011
The Year in Mobile
Web-Connected TVs Already at 21% of Market
Skype Videocalls, Internet TVs, to Strain Networks in 2011
Canada Is Most Web-Addicted Nation
Next-Generation GPS Gadgets
Japan Nanotech Team Creates Palladium-Like Alloy
Artificial Intelligence to Transform Web
Intel Launches Solid-State Drive
China Defends Rare Earth Quotas
as In Line with WTO
Duh! The Most Obvious Scientific Findings of 2010
Texting Trolley Driver Admits Guilt in
MA Crash
Sony Files Phone Patent Complaints Against LG
How to Make MiFi Work with PCs and Smartphones
Raytheon Wins $52M to Retrofit U.S. Navy Radars
12/29/2010
Santa Brought Fewer Gadgets in 2010
2010's Top Science Videos Around the Web
Over 7 Trillion Text Messages to Be Sent
in 2011 (I've sent 1 [one] in my life so far)
Technology and Innovation Award Winners Revealed
Physicists Read Data
after Storing Them in Atomic Nuclei for 112 Seconds
The Year in Materials
2011 Cyberattack Targets: iPhone, Facebook, Foursquare
HTC to Open Third U.S. R&D Office, Adds 45 Jobs
Paul Allen Revises Patent Suit Against Tech Titans
Sony to Launch PlayStation Smartphone in Spring
ST Buys Powerline IC Company for SmartGrid Applications
WiFi Overload at High-Tech Meetings
Apple Sued Over iPad and iPhone App
'Sata Leaks'
UK Card Association Tries to Suppress Student Research
Technology Transfer from GE to China will Directly Compete Against the Boeing/Airbus Duopoly
Ins and Outs: Executive Changes
in 2010
12/28/2010
What is 4G? and How Does 4G Differ from
3G?
Edible iPhone Treats Selling Like Hot
Cakes
They're Spending $50B. You'll Be Paying.
Bluetooth Cooking Thermometer
The Biggest Tech Hits and Misses of 2010
Automotive MEMS Hits Record High
Santa: A Claus-et
Physicist
Comcast FCC Concessions Include $10 Broadband for Under $20k/Yr Incomes
(yet more wealth redistribution)
How Influx of iPhones, iPads Impacting Enterprises
Just 21% Want FCC to Regulate Internet
2010 Technology of the Year: Synchronization
The Year in Materials
Earth Project Aims to 'Simulate
Everything'
Alcatel-Lucent Pays $137M to Settle
Bribery Lawsuits
Gigantic Storm with
Huge Tail Erupts on Saturn
10 Things Web Users Should Fear in 2011
Cheaters Find an Adversary in Technology
Watch a Couple NYC Public "Servants" Trash
a Parked SUV with a Tow Truck (probably making $100k+/yr, - video)
YTD PCB Shipments Up in November
U.S. Changes How It Measures Long-Term Unemployment
12/27/2010
Ka-Sat Internet-Dedicated
Spacecraft Lifts Off
Man Quits Job, Makes Living
Suing E-Mail Spammers (over $1M thus far - way to go!)
Unexploded Homemade Bombs Found in
Colorado Cellphone Store
NXP Sells Off Can Tuner Operation (that's can tuner,
not canned tuna)
Straight Key Night - January 1, 2011
Amazon: Wi-Fi Kindle is
Best-Selling Product Ever (buy a
Kindle here)
Siemens Targets Electric Car Business
Tesla Shares Whacked as Post-IPO Lock-Up Expires
Gadgets Bring New Opportunities for Hackers
WiFi Breakthrough Could End Jams
Taiwan’s AWSC Wins Orders from Japan for GaAs Switch Products
Ceiling Lights in MN Send Coded Internet Data
At Dutch Festival, Visitors
Used RFID to Critique Art, Share Opinions
Christmas Comes Early for China's Electronics Supply Chain
Motorola Acquisition Boosts Android Streaming
Blizzard Paralyzes NYC, Boston
12/26/2010
Office Space is Shrinking as Firms Focus on Efficiency
First High-Temp
Spin-Field-Effect Transistor Created
Microwave Ray Gun to Stop Terrorists
Worst Security Disasters of 2010
Icicle Shape Can Be Much Stranger Than Thought
Affordable Alternative
to Mega-Laser X-FEL
Top e-Mergers & Acquisitions of
2010
12/24/2010
NORAD Tracks Santa
NextGen-Equipped Sleigh to Be Flown by Santa Claus on Christmas Eve
The Curious Evolution of Holiday Lights
IBM Predicts Holographic Calls, Air-Breathing Batteries by 2015
Orbiting Junk Rivals Weapons as Major Threat to Space Use
The Smallest Welding Job
Ever
Online Sales Rose 15% This Holiday, Beating In-Store Growth
General Motors Turns to Ham Radio to Solve Antenna Problem
Cool Military Gear Would Make You an Office Superhero
Researchers Develop First High-Temperature Spin-FET
Leaked iPad 2 Cases Show Camera, Larger
Speaker
College Students Use Cell Phones in
Class, Despite Adverse Affects
ITC: China's IP Enforcement is Still Lacking
As NFC Enters the Mass Market, So Too Should NFC Security
Wi-Fi RFID Tag Withstands
Surgical-Equipment Sterilization Processes
Ten Most Compelling Independent Telco Stories of 2010
Financial Times Names Steve Jobs as Person of the Year
Solar Eclipse to Be
Seen on January 4, 2011
Wal-Mart Invests in Chinese
e-Commerce Firm
12/23/2010
Texts, Web Really Do Allow Santa to Be
Everywhere
Smartphones Being Used for Holiday
Shopping
America's Original Startup: The Phone Company
Engineers Build Radio
Receiver out of Graphene
Electromagnetic Field Problem Delays Rollout of New Commuter Railcars
Solar Sails Could Deter Asteroids
Minnesota Man Hacked Neighbor's WiFi, Threatened VP (good reason to secure
your router)
26% Use Cellphones for Political Purposes
Softbank to Test NFC in Japan
Mobile Equipment Market to Top $270B in 2011
World's Fastest X-Ray Camera Sees Through Melting Metal
Navy Launches Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System
Skype Still Struggling after Worldwide Outage
Risk Assessment in Nanotechnology Is a Risky Business
Air Force Gets Help with Wireless Network Expansion
Smart Carpet Keeps Track of Patients When Caregivers Can't
When Was the Battery Invented?
Better Control of Building
Blocks for Quantum Computer
Tesla: Is It a Short?
'Spiral' Escalator Could Give Crowds a Lift (this is cool)
12/22/2010
ITO Coating Prevents Iced-Up Windshields, But Blocks Radio Reception
Japanese Taxis Add Wi-Fi Hotspots
For Better or Worse, Here Are the FCC's New Net Neutrality Rules
(subjective terms like "reasonable" used throughout - scary)
Do Commercial Electronics Threaten Military Security?
Raytheon Company Announces Agreement to Acquire Applied Signal Technology
LG to Spend $12B to Turn Electronics Around
Undermining China's Monopoly on
Rare Earth Elements
Investors Enter 2011 in Bullish Mood (those evil rich guys)
Nearly 1 in 4 U.S. Students Fails Military Entrance Exam
(thank your Public Schools - need more TQs on global warming and the wonders of Communism)
Ofcom Rules BT Infringed
Competition Law on Wholesale Calls Pricing
Market for Mobile Communications Gear
Nears $1/4T Mark
'World's First' Glasses-Free 3D TV Hits Stores in Japan
A Way to Make the Smart Grid
Smarter
Drive to Optimise Imaging and Optical Communications
The Physics of Christmas Wrapping
Laser Twinkles in Rare
Color
New Congress Vows to Reverse FCC's 'Internet Takeover'
Sony PlayStation Phone to Be Released in
April - Rumor
Thermoelectrics Could Harvest Car Exhaust Heat
Major Christmas Bomb Plot by Usual Suspects Disrupted in England
12/21/2010
Rare Earth Scarcity Gauged by DoE
Rare Earth Mining in the U.S. Gets a Second Chance
Researchers Discover
Möbius Symmetry in Metamaterials
2010: The Year in Space
Cell Phone Mobile Payment Market Set for Takeoff
Portable GPS Devices Head in Wrong Direction as Sales Slip
Indian Economy to Grow by $2.7B for Each
Percentage Rise in Mobile Broadband Penetration
Dear Tech Early Adopters: Manufacturers Don’t Care About You
FCC Expected to OK 'Net Neutrality' Rules Today (just like Chavez's doing -
see below)
Venezuela Lawmakers Pass Bill to
Tighten Regulation of Internet
Science Minister Announces Funding Plans
Microchip Taps Irish 3G Antenna Technology (a Blarney antenna?)
To grow 4G Coverage, AT&T Spends $1.9B on FLO TV's Wireless Licenses
RFID Inventory Tracking - Goodbye Databases
Is the Fade-Out of College Radio Bad for Engineers?
Renewed IRA Provision on Charitable Giving Makes It Easy to Support ARRL
Smallest Periodic Table Fits on Human Hair
MasterCard and AEPM Publish Interoperable NFC Specifications
LED Lighting to Reach $15.4B in 2011 as Market Share Tops 10%
Moonwatchers Treated to Total Lunar Eclipse (it was overcast & snowing
at my house - dang!)
12/20/2010
FCC's "Julius Seizure" Wants Control of the Internet
(add to takeover of financial, insurance & car companies - very
Chavezian)
Qualcomm Sells Radio Spectrum to AT&T
for $2B
U.S. Proposes Cellphone Ban for Truck Drivers
Lawmakers Pull Cybersecurity Provisions from Defense Bill
As Valuations Soar, Tech Field Starts Feeling Bubbly
Eurotunnel to Get Mobile Phone Coverage
by 2012
U.S. Naval Research Lab Launches Nano-Satellite Experimental Platforms
Fears over Crime Fuelled by Smartphone Craze
Plasmon Lasers Overcome Commercial Hurdle
China Gets Sub-$100 Android Phone Design
Finger-Powered Wireless Piezo Switch
Finland and Russia Agree on 800 MHz
Spectrum Usage for LTE Services
'Molecular Torch' Between Carbon Nanotubes Emits Electroluminescence
And the Smartest Site on
the Internet Is...
Organic Electronic
Ratchets Doing Work
Total Lunar Eclipse Monday Night
Steve Jobs Doll Sells for $2,500 on eBay (I predicted this, dang, wish I had
bought one)
UK 2000 Global Warming Shriek: Snowfalls are Now Just a Thing of the Past
12/19/2010
USPTO to Open First Ever Satellite Office
in Detroit
Student Who Conned His Way into Harvard Says Sorry
Ofcom to Make 0800 Numbers Free from Mobiles
White House Unveils Science Integrity Policy (will it apply to global
warming?)
Missing Black Holes Cause Trouble for String Theory
Mobile App Market Worth $35B?
Feds Force Local OK Bank to Remove Merry
Christmas Buttons (Fed telling private bank what it can display?)
12/17/2010
In Spain, Christmas Baskets
Come Packed with RFID
Chip Workers Charged in Insider Trading Probe
Multiphysics Simulation Enhances Electronics System Design
Nokia Apple Patent Row Escalates
RFID to Be Featured in Aircraft Maintenance Alliance Formed by Fujitsu and Boeing
Semiconductor Revenue Expands by Record
Margin in 2010
Carbon's Magnetic Personality: Persistent, But Only Skin-Deep
UN Mulls Internet Regulation (how to say this delicately?...uh, screw the UN)
10 Technologies to Watch in 2011
Joe Wooller's Attempt at a Keyless Life with Implant
Research in Motion Profit Jumps 45%
(good news for Canada, eh?)
Ofcom Wants Free Mobile Calls to Be Free
Visit the download store today.
Collider Creates No Black Holes
1/3 of U.S. Youth Have Smartphones
These Plastics Create Electricity
NSA Speaks Out on
WikiLeaks, Cybersecurity
Cloud and 4G Trigger Chip Revolution
Walden to Chair House
Communications Subcommittee
'Logic Gates' Made to
Program Bacteria as Computers
Electricity Market Reforms Could Trigger Nuclear Investment
(waaaaay overdue)
12/16/2010
NIST Launches $44M Technology Program
Startup Sector Seen Thriving on
Tech Advances (go for it)
World's Smallest Battery with Anodes Built from a Single Nanowire
New State of Matter, Laws of Physics Around the Corner
China Gray-Market Cell Phone Shipments
Slow in 2011
Home Labs on the Rise for the Fun of Science
RF and Microwave Assemblies for Aegis Shipboard Radar Systems to Be Provided by Cobham Antenna Systems
Telecommuting Finally Gets the Respect It Deserves
Senators Send Letter
Opposing FCC 'Net Neutrality' Rules
UK Firm Claims Li-Ion Cell World Record
China to Raise Duties on Some Rare Earth Element Exports
Energy Dept: U.S. Will Take 15 Years to Break Dependence on Chinese Metals
Gap Between Young and Old Web Users Shrinking
ARRL Receives $1M Gift to the ARRL Endowment
U.S. Telecom Prices Among the World’s Highest
FCC Mandates Minimum Interoperability Level for Initial Broadband Public Safety Network Deployments
Smart Meters Threaten Spectrum Overload
Smart Grid, Strong Grid – Why the Future Will Be Distributed
NTT Docomo Adds NFC Tag Reading to Wide Range of Mobile Phones
Large Uncertainty in
Carbon Footprint Calculating (but that won't stop Cap & Trade)
12/15/2010
Atomic Weights of 10 Elements to be Altered
Beamsteering Could Cut Mobile
Power Consumption by Half
Penn Predicts 6% Chip Market Growth in 2011
Elusive Spintronics
Success Could Lead to Single Chip for Processing and Memory
Broadcom Launches Embedded NFC Tags for Consumer Electronics Devices
New Rules Governing Vanity, Club Station Call Signs to Take Effect February 2011
Project to Create Antenna for Military and Rescue Operations
What Utilities Must Consider in Selecting Their Smart Grid Path
Mobile Networks Could Reach 650Mbps Data
Download Speeds
3 to Buy Swedish 4G Frequencies
from Intel
Most "Broadband" Connections Are No Such Thing
NFC Forum Unveils Device Certification Mark
Curbing Drivers' Texting Hazard
Icann Delays Web Domain Expansion Plan
DISA Moves to Eliminate Contract Redundancies
New Benchmark Ranks
Supercomputers More Thoughtfully
Hotels May Lose Repeat Business with
Poor Wi-Fi Service
Space Superfund Needed to Clean Mounting Orbital Trash
Time's Person of the Year 2010: Mark Zuckerberg
Gawker Hack Triggers Password Resets at
Major Sites
12/14/2010
USPTO Allows 12-Month Extension to the
Provisional Patent Application Period
Huawei Plans $2B Investment in India
over 5 Years
'First Light' of
Remarkable Electron Microscope
'Net Use Growing, Radio
TSL Falling
Huber+Suhner Ready for the
License-Free 60-GHz Band
IEEE Drafts Hybrid Home Net Standard
Best Buy Results Sink
Electronics Shares
Google Hides Mathematical Puzzle in Cr-48 Video
Single Quantum Dot Nanowire Photodetectors
American Internet Use Catches up with TV Use
Canada's Telus Forecasts Wireless Growth
of Up to 6.5% in 2011
RIM Poised for Strong Quarter, Could Match iPhone Shipments Read
What the Web Knows About You
RFID Makes Common People an
Uncommon Store (see today's
Cool Video)
Researchers Seek Silicon Nanowire Sensors
The Charging Conundrum: How to Feed Electric Cars?
China Handset Production to Exceed 700M
Units in 2010
Yahoo Preparing to Layoff 600 to 700 Workers
World's 5 Biggest Airlines
Now from Asia, LatAm (anti-business, social justice politicians have doomed
us)
"Dream Act" Promises $6k/yr of Taxpayer Money to
Illegal Immigrants to Attend College
12/13/2010
Magnetism Relieves Electrons of Their Resistance
Sales Growth Expected to Continue
FCC Launches Remake of Radio Spectrum Technology ("FCC has begun to overhaul
the very foundations of radio communications")
Intel Chips to Run Smartphones in Second Half of 2011
Amateur Allocation at Lower MF Gains Formal Support in the Americas
Power Grid of the
Future Saves Energy
Nortel Patents in Play, Drawing Broad Range of Suitors
Quantum-Dot LED Screens May Soon Rival OLEDs and LCDs
European Politicos Close to Interference Resolution
Group Finds 5 Main Flaws with Proposed Net Neutrality Rules
Brazil Eyes RFID in
Trees for Forest Management
£1M Semiconductor Manufacturing Plan for Nottingham
Connectors Designer Tyco Electronics to Change Its Name to TE Connectivity Ltd.
(now there's a good use of company money)
Economy Forces Big Budget Cuts for Science Fairs
The Internet and the 'End of Privacy'
Defenders of WikiLeaks Swarmed Wrong Target
Geminid Meteor Shower Peaks Tonight; Best of 2010?
12/12/2010
Wireless Execs Sound Off on 4G and Usage-Based Pricing
Pro-WikiLeaks Groups [al Queada, anti-capitalists, et al]
Using Botnet to Retaliate Against Detractors
U.S. Cable: Cuba to be Insolvent Within 2-3 Years
Sprint to Sell '4G' Tablet Next
Year
Physicists Could Create Something out of Nothing
The Mobile Device Paradox
Police Probe Stockholm Blasts As Act of
Terrorism (...by guess who?)
12/10/2010
World's Smallest
Battery from Nanowires
Mobile Tsunami Makes Landfall in 2011
4-Year-Old Goes on Shopping Spree -- on iPhone App
Climate Change Delegates Sign Petition to Ban Water (these geniuses want U.S.
to x-fer 6% of GDP to the cause)
Anticipating Collisions Between
Spacecraft and Space Junk
Hong Kong Plans Radio Spectrum Auction
in the 850MHz, 900MHz and 2GHz Bands
Government Offers Funding for High-Tech Micro Companies
Mexican Telecoms Revenues Reach $15B
FCC to Hold Forum on Teenagers and Technology (FCC now your kid's nanny?)
Military Bans Disks, Threatens Courts-Martial to Stop New Leaks
Army Faces Communications Challenges in Afghanistan
Megarad-Level Rad-Hard Solid-State Memory Introduced for Military Satellites
Debunking Ham Radio’s Urban Legends
Motorola: Buy Ahead of the Split?
U.S. Shifts $624M to California Bullet Train
Google: We're Activating 300,000 Android Phones Daily
England Has Coldest Opening Week of December Since 1659 (dang global warming
strikes again!)
Navy Goes for World Record with Incredible, Sci-Fi Weapon
Laser Incidents Worry
Aviation Officials
FAA: Key Data Missing on 119,000 Aircraft in U.S.
12/9/2010
DISA's New App Offers Smartphone Security
Latin American Operators Work to Narrow
the Broadband Gap
Exotic Transistors with Silicon Credentials
ST-Ericsson Enables 2-SIM Handsets
Net Neutrality Debate Needs a Reset, Says Former FCC Head Powell
Anonymous Recruits WikiLeaks 'Data
Army'
FCC Exploring Role in TV Programming Disputes
Telecoms Industry Calls for Swift
Adoption of European Spectrum Policy
Qualcomm Lists Challenges in IC Production
How to Effectively Manage and Monetize the Telecom 'Cloud'
Army Tests 'Smart' Rifle in Afghanistan
Phones Calls Used to Redefine UK
Regions (Big Brother tracking your behavior again)
Stretchable Silicon
Could Make Sports Apparel Smarter
Google Experiments with 'Search Without Search'
Chinese Passenger Train Hurtles Past Speed Record
Spacecraft Saw ULF Radio Emissions
Over Haiti Before January Quake
Want a White iPhone 4? It's Good to Be 'The Woz'
RFID Tag to Benefit Store Inventory Management
U.S. Treasuries Hit by Biggest Sell-Off in Two Years
Americans No Longer Think the U.S. Economy is No. 1
12/8/2010
Chemists Construct Squishy Memristors and Diodes
Wireless Capex Resumes Growth after Two Years
Teens in U.S. Rank 25th Globally on Math Test, Trail in Science, Reading
(but they know their climate change propaganda)
Thin Film Packaged MEMS
Resonator with Industry Record Q Factor and Low Bias Voltage
MasterCard 'Hit by Anonymous WikiLeaks
Revenge Attacks'
WLAN Equipment Market Up 14% in 3Q10
What Graphene Offers for Future Electronic Devices
Smart Meters and LTE Hold Key for UK Suppliers
Georgia Tech-Led Project Yields SiGe Prototype for Space Electronics
Google Android Phones Biggest Network Hogs
Samsung Signs Carbon Nanotube Deals
Radiated Efficiency: A True Measure of Antenna Performance
Saddle Up for ARRL's
2010 CW Rookie Roundup!
X Particle Could Explain the Universe (I personally explain it with a Y
particle)
TV Screens May Be Produced on Plastic Rolls
Physicists Demonstrate Teleportation-Based Optical Quantum Entangling Gate
(beam me up, Scotty)
NASA Sold Computers with Sensitive Data
Internet Explorer 9 Will Feature "Do Not Track" Functionality
UK Slipping Behind the Pack in Broadband Technology
Lowest Pay Raise for Military in Nearly 50 Years? (that will help drive out
existing troops, to be replaced with more compliant genre)
12/7/2010
Study Links Cell
Phones to Child Misbehavior
Indian Parliament Paralyzed for Month by
Scandal
MilTube Brings Secure Video-Sharing into Army Fold
Apple's Communication
Gap Irks Business Buyers
Nanosatellite
Successfully Ejected from Free-Flying Microsatellite in Space
Sprint Aims to Phase Out iDEN over Next Two Years
Backpackers Trek the Globe with
Tech Toys
The Technological Ups and Downs of a Korean Reunification
Man Arrested for Smuggling ICs to China
Quantum Dot Displays
Start to Shine
Bad Virus Put to Good Use: Breakthrough Batteries
Google Phone Set Up for E-Payments
Intel Advances Quantum Well FETs
What Exactly Is a 'Sputnik Moment?'
UK Firms Offered Funding Support for Space Technology
NASA's Arsenic Microbe Science Slammed
Research in Motion Had Solid 3rd Quarter
Sales
Man Has Camera Implanted in His Head for Exhibit
AT&T Ranks at the Bottom in Consumer Satisfaction
Immense Plasma Blast
Erupts from Sun
12/6/2010
Charles Manson Busted for Having a "Cell" Phone
Internet Addresses to be Used Up in January
Radio-Controlled Airplane Videos Ney York Harbor - Creates DHS Stir
Use of Smartphones by Bargain-Hunting
Consumers is Changing the Retailer Relationship
Government Reveals Super-Fast Broadband
Plans
WikiLeaks Ready to Release Giant 'Insurance' File if Shut Down
Google Works with NXP to Put NFC in Android Phones
Rabbit Ears Perk Up for Free HDTV
Wafer Prices Dropped in Q3, Says GSA
Americans Spend Over 1B Hours Annually
on Voicemail - and They Hate It
Is VZW's 4G Network Too Fast for Its Own Good?
Pure Nanotube-Type Growth Edges Toward the Possible
Wireless Carriers Join Forces on Mobile Tap-to-Pay -- But Will It Fly?
Suit to Snuff Out 'History Sniffing' Takes Aim at Tracking Web Users
High-Tech Currency Leads to $110B Problem (now the Fed can't even print fiat
bills reliably!)
First Privately Owned Spaceship Set to Launch into Orbit Tuesday
Russian Satellites Crash into Pacific Ocean After Failed Launch
Motorists Could See $3 Gas
at Pumps by Christmas (already $3.09 here in Erie,PA)
12/5/2010
Texas Man Injured When Droid Screen Explodes
France Prepares for 1H 2011
Mobile Spectrum Allocation
Radioactive Mercury
Decays into Uneven Chunks
Verizon Wireless Dialing Up Home Phone Service
UK Computer Pioneer Wilkes Remembered
Don't Track Technology is Simple, Experts Say
Army Looks to EW Specialist Rodale Electronics for Antennas in Potential $13.5M Contract
12/3/2010
Electricity and Light
in One Chip
ARRL Strengthens the Case for Mandatory BPL Notching
NASA Engineers Develop 'Blacker Than Black' Nanotubes
BT to Trial One Gigabit Broadband
Unemployment Hits 9.8% (we were told $T bailouts would keep it below 8%)
EU to Set 2013 Limit for 4G Spectrum Release Today
Global Semiconductor Sales Flat
Month-on-Month
Science Funding for the Little Guys
Rural Small Businesses Underwhelmed by Satellite Internet
Moderate But Not Disappointing Growth Years to Follow Record 2010 Sales
The Smartphone Race Heats Up
Courts Drawing Line Against Warrantless Phone Data Searches?
Verizon's 4G LTE Network Launches Dec 5 with Plans Cheaper Than 3G
GE [owns NBC/MSNBC] Received $16B in Bailout Funds
(CEO Immelt on Economic Advisory Board)
IC Execs Upbeat About 2011
Los Alamos Linear Proton Accelerator Gets Upgrade
Unmanned U.S. Spacecraft Returns After 7-Month Trip
WikiLeaks Out for Hours after Amazon.com Pulls Plug
How the Feds Use Credit Card Companies to Conduct Instant Surveillance
China Passenger Train Hits 300 mph, Breaks Record
12/2/2010
NASA Finds New Life Form Based on
Arsenic
Man Died in Less Than 2 Hours After Being Bitten on Toe by Snake While Sitting at Home Computer
Motorola to Break into Two Companies on
January 4
Project Pioneers Use of
Silicon-Germanium for Space Electronics Applications
Plessey in Talks over Job Cuts - Up to 1/3 or Workforce
COTS: Now Maybe a Four-Letter Word
ARRL Homebrew Challenge Has New Dedicated Web Page
Dwindling Lithium Supply Could Drive Up Price of Portable Electronics
Fusion Power Reactors Brought Closer to Reality
FCC: Promoting Expanded Opportunities for Radio Experimentation and Market Trials
Verizon Wireless LTE Announcement Launches 3-Way 4G Claim Fest
October Chip Sales Were Flat
Samuel T. Cohen Inventor of the Neutron Bomb, Dies at 89
Sahara Desert Project Aims to Power Half the World by 2050
The Secret of Golf
Balls Revealed: Dimple Dynamics
FCC Backs Usage-Based Broadband Pricing (why is the FCC dictating prices?)
U.S. Proved Natural Gas, Crude Oil Reserves Soar (while we buy ours from
other countries)
Saudi King Takes Up Entire VIP Wing at New York Hospital
U.S. Now to Bail Out the EU... with More Debt?
Fed Bailout Went Beyond U.S. Banks to Industry, Foreign Firms & Banks
(I've never smoked, but I feel like I should be having a cigarette right about
now)
12/1/2010
FCC Chairman Julius [Caesar] Genachowski Pushes Net Neutrality
(a nefarious power grab)
NASA Creates Buzz with
'Extraterrestrial' Announcement
GPS Not Working? A Shoe Radar May Help
You Find Your Way
NOI: Promoting More
Efficient Use of Spectrum Through Dynamic Spectrum Use Technologies
4G Is a Myth (and a
confusing mess)
Making Graphene
Nanomachines Practical
Samsung Offers NFC Chip for Mobiles
The Rules of Digital Snooping
Wireless Firms Playing Bigger
Role in Linux
IBM Licensees to Use Photonics-on-Silicon Interconnect Next Year
Samsung Gets Serious About NFC for Smartphones
France Offers to Buy 14% of ST
FCC Proposes Steps to Open TV Spectrum to Wireless
Millions to Lose Unemployment Benefits (99 weeks not enough?)
EEF Report Notes Flaws in Britain's Supply Base
'Super
Telescope' Waiting for Technical Fix
Cracker Barrel Tests Charging Stations
Europe Threatens Inquiry into Phone and Cable Fees
Ball Lightning 'May Explain
UFOs'
How Capitalism Saved the Pilgrims (socialism nearly doomed them)
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