http://www.blackengineer.com Black Engineer Technology Engineering Entrepreneurs-USBE magazine provides news about black technology, black entrepreneurs, BEYA conference, black engineers and technologists from black community in US, UK, Caribbean and Africa. Tech News en-us http://www.blackengineer.com/artman/publish/article_724.shtml When big money talked, an African-American businessman had to listen. But the CEO, a serial entrepreneur, may be heard from again. en-us http://www.blackengineer.com/artman/publish/article_777.shtml With its development of technology to use cell phone text messaging in election monitoring, the National Democratic Institute (NDI) has been recognized as a pioneer in the use of the Internet to change politics. en-us Tennessee State University's proposal to develop software that can determine the number of pilots and people a cockpit will accommodate caught the attention of Boeing. Recently, Tennessee State University received an award representing the patent shared by the university and The Boeing Company. en-us http://www.blackengineer.com/artman/publish/article_581.shtml Freescale Semiconductor Inc., a spin-off of Motorola Inc., recently announced the commercial availability of a 4-megabit magnetoresistive random-access memory, or MRAM. At only a 1.26 square micron cell size in a 0.18-micron process, this tiny product will satisfy customers and industries in a big way. Consider today’s technology-savvy desires for smaller, faster, and durable, and MRAM stands competitively in the memory market. en-us In another first for this market, Africa Online Tanzania announced today that it had set up a new high speed Internet access service. Known as Afol ADSL, it is an acronym for Africa Online’s Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line and is a new technology that utilizes existing copper telephones lines to send and receive data at speeds that far exceed conventional dial-up modems. en-us