Technology 2005

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2005

• Bush Spy Program?: NSA Caught Serving Cookies Illegally on White House Website - Red Herring 29dec2005

• Scientific Fraud: Under a Microscope: High-Profile Cases Bring New Scrutiny to Science's Superstars New York Times (and others) 24dec2005

• From 2006 Britain to Monitor Every Journey by Every Car  - The Independent (UK) 22dec2005

• Polar Bears Drown as Ice Shelf Melts -  The Times (UK) 18dec2005

• Stem-Cell Scientist Asks for Retraction: US Partner Urges Korean Cloner to Retract Landmark Paper -  Nature 14dec2005

• Trusted Platform Module: Let’s See Some ID, Please: The End of Anonymity on the Internet? -  MSNBC 13dec2005

• IT, Consumer-Electronics Sectors Face Collision With Trade Laws - Wall Street Journal 13dec2005

• Laser: Airborne Laser Completes Laser Ground Tests - Boeing Press Release 12dec2005

• Cellphone Tracking: Live Tracking of Mobile Phones Prompts Court Fights on Privacy -  New York Times 10dec2005
  • Cellphone Tracking: In Re Application for Pen Register and Trap/Trace Device with Cell Site Location Authority - United States District Court, Southern District of Texas 14oct2005
• Taipei 101: Skyscraper That May Cause Earthquakes: World's tallest building may have reopened fault - The Guardian (UK) 2dec2005
• The Real Death of Print  - Nature 1dec2005
• Trip Into Moon Orbit May Cost Tourists $100 Million - RIA Novosti (Russia) 30nov2005
• Digital Dental X-Rays: Lead Apron Still Required - Wall Street Journal 29nov2005
• Will the R&D Tax Credit Grow? Business Lobbies for Expansion, but Bill May Get Too Pricey - Wall Street Journal 26nov2005
• Bush's Space Plan In Danger As Budget Crisis Grows At NASA - UPI 24nov2005
• Boston to Use Cameras in Bid to Fight Crime - Boston Globe 19nov2005
• UN Summit Nears Deal On Internet Oversight - Dow Jones Newswires 15nov2005
• FasTrak: Toll Device in Stolen Car Aids in Arrest: Fastrak Transponder Details Bridge Trips -  Knight Ridder 4nov2005
• Robots May Allow Surgery in Space: But Will Bush Allow People on Earth to Eat ? -  AP 26oct2005
• Photovoltaic Films: Berkeley Scientists Synthesize Cheap, Easy-to-Make Ultra-thin Photovoltaic Films - SPX 24oct05
• Skycar: Up, Up and Out of That Traffic Jam - Sacramento Bee 22oct2005
• Kodak Swings to $1.03 Billion Loss - Wall Street Journal 20oct2005
• Cellphone Tracking: In Re Application for Pen Register and Trap/Trace Device with Cell Site Location Authority - United States District Court, Southern District of Texas 14oct2005
• US, India To Sign Science, Technology Pact - Agence France-Presse (France) 13oct2005
• Jon Lech Johansen: Repro Man - Wall Street Journal 15oct2005
• FasTrak Automated Toll Collector: FasTrak Bill Error Could Cause a Car to be Charged Big-Rig Truck Rates -  San Francisco Chronicle 11oct2005
• QR codes: In Japan, Billboards Take Code-Crazy Ads to New Heights - Wall Street Journal 10oct2005
• Global Hawk - US AIR FORCE / Fact Sheet 1oct2005
• Shi Tao: Yahoo Aided China In Jailing Reporter -  Wall Street Journal 7sep2005
• Hi-Tech No Panacea for ID Theft Woes - The Register (UK) 5sep2005
• The Ghost Dances: Half the World is Rushing Toward the Future and the Other Toward the Past Both Have Weapons - California Monthly 1sep2005
• Intelsat to Buy PanAmSat for $3.2 Billion in Cash -  Bloomberg News (plus other articles) 30aug2005
• RFID: Continuing Cost of RFID Technology - Commentary / Berkeley Daily Planet 26aug2005
• Small Satellites: Pentagon Envisions Operations With Small Satellites -  Wall Street Journal 26aug2005
• Air filters for your Car: Common But Come at a High Price -  Wall Street Journal 25aug2005
• Small Satellites: Planners Eye Standard Interfaces for Small Sats -  Defense News 22aug2005
• Surveillance in the Workplace - an overview of issues of privacy, monitoring, and ethics - Briefing Paper for GMB September 2005
• Pay By Touch: Give This Machine The Finger: Getting Really Personal at the Checkout Counter -  SANfrancisco 1sep2005
• Taser has made a stunning impact but How Safe Is It? -  Guardian Weekly (UK) 19aug2
• A New Arms Race to Build the World's Mightiest Computer -  New York Times 19aug2005
• M.R.I.'s Strong Magnets Cited in Accidents -  New York Times 19aug2005
• Pentagon's Bid to Militarize Space -  PINR 17aug2005
• Technological Coin Flip: Heads, We Progress, Tails We Egg-On Terrorism -  San Francisco Chronicle (with commentary) 14aug2005
• Cellphone Lines Draw Scrutiny: Authorities Weigh Network Shutdowns To Prevent Terror Attacks -  Wall Street Journal 12aug2005
• The State Of Surveillance -  Business Week 8aug2005
• RFID: Library Workers, Patrons Denounce RFID System - Berkeley Daily Planet 5aug2005
• Carlyle Group Agrees To Buy SS&C Technologies -  Dow Jones Newswires 28jul2005
• RFID is a Slippery Slope -  Commentary / Berkeley Daily Planet 26jul2005
• Information Security: Where the Dangers Are -  Wall Street Journal 18jul2005
• NanoWater: The Evolution of Frankenfoods? - AlterNet 18jul2005
• Even If Cell Phones Are Allowed on Airplanes, Is It a Good Idea? - Chicago Tribune 15jul2005
• I, Roommate: The Robot Housekeeper Arrives -  New York Times 14jul2005
• Tracking Cookies Fit My Spyware Definition -  Wall Street Journal 14jul2005
• Cellphone Numbers Overtake Land Lines -  Los Angeles Times 9jul2005
  • Semi-Annual Wireless Industry Survey - CTIA Jan2005
• Bill Gates Gives Millions - The Times (UK) (and others) 28jun2005
• Alcohol Auditor: Mike Zic, Bevinco, Portland, Oregon - Fortune 27jun2005
• MasterCard Statement on Security Breach Exposing 40 Million Cards -  MasterCard Press Release / Business Wire 17jun2005
• Victims of ID Theft Will Forever Remain Vulnerable -  Knight Ridder Newspapers 16jun2005
• Nano: Environmentalists and Industry "Working Together" -  (a collaborative opinion article) Wall Street Journal 14jun2005
• Ocado Gets Big Brother Tag: Never mind the chickens, what about the 'battery workers' - The Guardian (UK) 11jun2005
  • Firms Tag Workers to Improve Efficiency -  The Guardian (and more) 7jun2005
• A Better Robot, With Help From Roaches -  New York Times 7jun2005
• Personal Data for 3.9 Million Lost in Transit by UPS  - New York Times 7jun2005
• Perfecting the Human: Picture a future in which your children won't need sleep or food and will be able to stop pain at will. -  Fortune 30may2005
• Finding the Fountain of Youth: Where will UCSF biochemist Cynthia Kenyon's age-bending experiments with worms lead us? - San Francisco Chronicle Magazine 29may2005
• Napa Valley Uses Satellite Technology To Aid School Bus Safety Efforts - SPX 25may2005
• Mobile Phone Sales Rose 17 Percent in Q1 2005: Gartner raises forecast for 2005 Worldwide Sales as Q1 results set record - Softpedia 25may2005
• Many Companies Monitoring, Recording, Videotaping - And Firing - Employees - SPX 23may2005
• Death Could Be Averted By 'Downloaded Brains', British Futurologist Says - Agence France-Presse 22may2005
• Faking Babies: The First Synthetic Human - The Guardian (UK) 19may2005
• General Lance Lord: Air Force Seeks Bush's Approval for Space Weapons Programs -  New York Times 18may2005
• Battle Lines Rumsfeld's Push For Speed Fuels Pentagon Dissent - Wall Street Journal 16may2005
• RFID: Industry’s Gain, Library’s Pain -  Berkeley Daily Planet 10may2005
• Computers Grade Students' Writing -  Globe and Mail (Toronto) 9may2005
• Web Spy: Yahoo Web Beacons May Not Shine With Users - Your Guide to Antivirus Software 8may2005
• USDA Proposes System To Track Individual Cattle -  Wall Street Journal 6may2005
• Now That Chimeras Exist, What if Some Turn Out Too Human? - Wall Street Journal 6may2005
• I.B.M. to Lay Off Over 10,000 in Struggle to Keep Up Profits - New York Times 5may2005
• Bomb-Sniffing Rats: Dolittle's Raiders - Fortune 2may2005
• Cell Phone and Microwave Wake Up Call -  Columns 1mar2005
• Who's Going to Win The Living-Room Wars? -  Wall Street Journal 25apr2005
• Changing World Technologies: Innovative Turkey-To-Oil Plant Eats Money, Spits Out Fowl Odor - Kansas City Star 12apr2005
• Changing World Technologies: Comments by a Chemist on 'Changing World Technologies' Plan to Turn Garbage into Oil - Paul Palmer, Chemist 9apr2005
• RFID: Many Problems, Little Public Discussion - Berkeley Daily Planet 8apr2005
• Chip Reads Mind of Paralysed Man -  The Guardian (plus many other articles) 31mar2005
• US Passports: Passport Chip Criticism Grows - Wired 31mar2005
• US Passports: RFID Cards Get Spin Treatment - Wired 29mar2005
• AN/GAU-8 30mm Avenger Seven-Barrel Gatling Gun - From various sources 17mar2005
  • GAU-8 Avenger
• Rumsfeld Details Big Military Shift In New Document: Drive for Pre-emptive Force, Wider Influence Will Trigger Changes in Strategy, Budget - Wall Street Journal 11mar2005
• $7 Million Panamax Cranes Clear Bay Bridge by 5 Feet on Trip to Oakland -  SF Chronicle 6mar2005
• RFID: Library’s New Technology Sparks Controversy -  Berkeley Daily Planet 4mar2005
  • RFID Should be Canceled Immediately  - Commentary / Berkeley Daily Planet 4mar2005

• Surveillance Towed Array Sensor System (SURTASS) Low Frequency Active (LFA) sonar: Defending the Silence of the Seas -  Berkeley Daily Planet 4mar2005

• CSS Skywalker: The Five-Billion-Star Hotel -  Popular Science 1mar2005
• Land Mine Detection: Gene-Altered Plant Blushes When Roots Sense Explosives -  National Geographic 1mar2005
• Wi-Fi: Stratospheric Airships For Communications -  Scientific American 1mar2005
• Biosphere 2 Might Not Have a Future -  SF Chronicle 20feb2005
• Robots: A New Model Army Soldier Rolls Closer to Battle -  NY Times 16feb2005
• Real ID Act: National Identity Cards: House Backs Major Shift to Electronic IDs -  CNET News.com 10feb2005
• Lockheed, the King of Warfare -  Socialist Action 1feb2005
  • Lockheed Martin to Build New Presidential Helicopter - U.S. Department of Defense 28jan2005
• Piggly Wiggly Fingerprint Scanners - News.com 11feb2005
• ATM-Style Drug Kiosks Spark Debate -  Marin Independent Journal 6feb2005
• A Turkey In Your Tank: Could Poultry Scraps Be the Next Big Source of Fuel Oil? - Fortune Small Business 1feb2005
• X-rays Added to Cancer List: 11th Report on Carcinogens by National Institute- SF Chronicle 1feb2005
• Lockheed Martin to Build New Presidential Helicopter - U.S. Department of Defense 28jan2005
• A Plane as Big as the Globe: The A380, the largest airliner ever built - LA Times 17jan2005
• Cell Phones: Mobile Phones Tumour Risk to Young Children -  The Times (UK) 12jan05
• 10 Tech Trends to Watch in 2005 - Fortune 10jan2005
  • Iraq's Robot Invasion
• Nano: Infrared-Sensitive Plastic Five Times More Efficient Converter of Solar Energy - University of Toronto 10jan05
• Sperm Magnet to Help Infertile Men -  New Scientist 8jan05

   

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