Technology 
2007 - 2008

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2008

• Spy Cells: Phones Will Soon Tell Where You Are - Wall Street Journal 28mar2008
• Growing Number of Companies Use Scanners to Track Employees - AP 26mar2008
• Death of the Bees: GMO Crops and the Decline of Bee Colonies in North America - Global Research 25mar2008
• Bum Bot Robot Reports for Security Duty in Atlanta: Bar owner Rufus Terrill built it - Los Angeles Times 23mar2008
• NSA's Domestic Spying Grows As Agency Sweeps Up Data - Wall Street Journal 10mar2008
• Has Earth Entered a New Epoch? - Christian Science Monitor 7feb2008
  • Are We Now Living in the Anthropocene? - Zalasiewicz / GSA Today 1feb 2008
• Real ID Act a Real Intrusion on Rights, Privacy - Atlanta Journal-Constitution 6feb2008
• Internet Failure Hits Two Continents: Asia, Middle East and North Africa Crippled: Businesses Struggling to Cope - CNN 31jan2008
• Spy Satellite Falling From Orbit - AP 26jan2008
• Entire Synthetic Genome Created: DNA of the smallest known free-living bacterium, Mycoplasma genitalium, stitched together - National Geographic News 25jan2008
• Collapse: WalMart and Waiting for the Shoe to Drop - Culture Change 20jan2008
• World's Most Powerful Microscope Arrives at Berkeley Lab: $27 Million for Half of an Angstrom - San Jose Mercury News 13jan2008
• Military Use of Unmanned Aircraft Soars - AP 1jan2008

2007

• First Direct Images of Carbon Nanotubes Entering Cells - Physorg.com 15nov2007
• BP at UC Berkeley: It’s a Deal-Breaker - Editorial / The Daily Californian 16nov2007
• Devices Enforce Cellular Silence, Sweet but Illegal - New York Times 4nov2007
• US Air Safety So Bad That NASA Won't Disclose Survey - AP 22oct2007
• Active Millimeter Wave: New Airport Body Scanners Troubling to ACLU Privacy Expert - ACLU Press Release 11oct2007
• ADS: "Silent Guardian" Active Denial System - Now on Offer in London: Crowd Control, War of the Worlds-Style - The Times (UK) 10sep2007
• RFID: Report of Cancer: VeriChip and FDA Ignored or Overlooked Animal Studies - New York Times 11sep2007
• Possible Energy Source: Burning Seawater: Hydrogen From Salt Water Can Be "Burned" By Radio Frequencies - AP 10sep2007
• Wi-Fi: Germany Warns Citizens to Avoid Using Wi-Fi Wireless, Technologies: German Environment Ministry - The Independent (UK) 9sep2007
• All UK Must Be on DNA Database: Judge - BBC News 5sep2007
• Cellphones Send Mixed Message for Hutterite Colony - Wall Street Journal 4sep2007
• Federal Court Says Navy's Sonar Testing More Important Than Whales: Whales Get Blown Off - San Francisco Chronicle 1sep2007
• 99% of All Electromagnetic Fields From Transmitting Stations and Towers Go Into the Clouds - Dichtes Wasser (Dense Water) 29aug2007
• German Regulator Roils Auto-Emissions Debate:  Low Tech Touted Over Alternative Fuels - Wall Street Journal 23aug2007
• Artificial Life Likely in 3 to 10 Years: Synthetic life made from the basic chemicals in DNA - AP / San Jose Mercury News 19aug2007
• In Defense of Gadgetry: Forget Critiques of Our Love of Tech Toys: The Truth Is That Technology's a Lot of Fun - Wall Street Journal 13aug2007
• DARPA Announces 36 Semi-Finalists For Urban Challenge: Autonomous Vehicle Competition to be Held in Victorville, CA - Press Release / DARPA 9aug2007
• Apple's Q3 Profit Posts Record: Macs Rose 33% to 1.8 million and iPods climbed 21% to 9.8 million - Forbes / AP 25jul2007
• Astronaut Tosses Junk From Space Station - AP 23jul2007
• MQ-9 Reaper: Robot Air Attack Squadron Bound for Iraq - AP 15jul2007
• iPhone: Hackers Bypass Limits - Wall Street Journal 6jul2007
• Boeing-led Airborne Laser Team Actively Tracks Airborne Target, Compensates for Atmospheric Turbulence and Fires Surrogate High-Energy Laser - Boeing Press Release 16jun2007
• "Environmentally Friendly" New Jet Planned - LiveScience 15jun2007
• RFID: Berkeley Library Budget Raises RFID Questions - Berkeley Daily Planet 18may2007
• NeuroSky's New Toys Read Your Brain Waves - AP / Sci-Tech Today 30apr2007
• Are Mobile Phones Wiping Out Our Bees? - The Independent (UK) 30apr2007
• Apple's Q2 Profit Soars 88%: 10.5 Million iPods Sold in Quarter -  Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal 25apr2007
• Google's Net Surged 69% to $1 Billion - Wall Street Journal 20apr2007
• Solar Capitalism? Consume Like There's No Tomorrow - Don Fitz 14apr2007
• Charles Simonyi: Microsoft Word Creator Paid More Than US $20 M For 13-Day Space Trip - PC World 8apr2007
• Big Oil's Vendetta Against the Electric Car - The Independent (UK) 5apr2007
• The Hydrogen Economy – Energy and Economic Black Hole - Culture Change 28mar2007
• Laser: Boeing-led Airborne Laser Team Fires Tracking Laser at Airborne Target - Boeing Press Release 16mar2007
• With Graffiti on the Rise, Southland Police use "High Technology" to track and catch taggers - Los Angeles Times 5mar2007
• Japan Launches Its 4th Spy Satellite - New York Times 25feb2007
• "New Age" of Satellite Broadcasting Shapes Communication in Middle East - MENAFN Press (Amman, Jordan) - 25feb2007
• Iran Announces Rocket Launch: Part of Commercial Satellite Project - AP 25feb2007
• 2000 Hours of Cellphone Use Increases Risk of Brain Tumor 270% - NewsTarget 22feb2007
• After Slump, Satellites Get Back on the Beam: Palo Alto's Loral continues to be among the industry's leaders -  San Francisco Chronicle 18feb2007
• Cell Phones for the SpongeBob Set - Time Magazine 16feb2007
• Mind Games: People believe the government is beaming voices into their minds. The Pentagon has pursued a weapon that can do just that. - Washington Post 14jan2007
• Navy Rejects Calif. Sonar Limits Protecting Marine Mammals - AP 13feb2007
• Fertility Treatment Raises Birth-Defect Risk - AP 9feb2007
• DNA Sampling: U.S. Set to Begin a Vast Expansion of DNA Sampling - New York Times 5feb2007
• Google Stock Drops Despite 4Q Triple Earnings - AP 1feb2007
• US Plans to 'Fight the Net' Revealed -  BBC 27jan2007
• IBM Leads Field as U.S. Issues Record Number of Patents - Wall Street Journal 10jan2007
• Apple Renames Itself, Unveils iPhone and Cisco Sues - AP 9jan2007

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