7/31/2012
CIA Partners with UK RF Firm
Engineers Unveil First Casimir Chip That Exploits the Vacuum Energy
Second India Blackout in Two Days Cuts Power to 670 Million (that means 1/10 world population w/o electricity due to mining restrictions)
Report Forecasts 8.5 Billion Mobile Subscriptions by 2017
Technique Confirms Graphene Can Be Used in Computer Chips
Qualcomm May Buy 10% of UMC
DARPA Awards $15.3M in Basic Research Grants to Spur the Next Generation of Defense Innovators
Two Companies to Tackle SIGINT Technologies to Pinpoint HF Radar and Communications Emitters Worldwide
Over 80% of Canadians Still Choose to Have a Home Phone Line (I do, too)
Raytheon's Space Fence Technology Ready to Track Space Debris
Twitter Suspends Journalist Who Was Critical of NBC
Shared Data Plans Highlight Competitiveness in Wireless Industry
7/30/2012
JCPenney to Replace Checkout Clerks with Automated RFID System by 2014
Wireless is Bright Sector in Slow Chip Market
Lockheed Martin, Raytheon Complete Preliminary Design Review for U.S. Air Force Space Fence
How to Avoid Traps in Plastic Electronics
Facebook's Zuckerberg Dismisses Idea of Building Own Phone (that means its almost a certainty)
10-Year-Old Problem in Theoretical Computer Science Solved
New Dimension of Physics Research: Cutting the Graphene Cake
Wireless System Enhances Road Safety on Congested Streets
3-D Transistors (makes me want some Chic-fil-A waffle fries)
Philippines Regulator to Auction Off Surrendered 3G Spectrum
Samsung and Apple's Patent Clash Heads to Trial by Jury (will they disqualify device owners on jury?)
In Sliding Internet Stocks, Some Hear Echo of 2000
Qubits That Never Interact Could Exhibit Past-Future Entanglement
7/29/2012
Laser Exceeds Quadrillion-Watt Power Record
Smallest Semiconductor Laser Emits CW Green Light Below 3D Diffraction Limit
USPTO Publishes Proposed Rules Governing First-Inventor-to-File
Samsung Widens Lead over Apple in Smartphone Market Share
Photovoltaics from Any Semiconductor
7/27/2012
Android Phones Hijacked via NFC
Mathematicians Encrypt Images Using Mathematics of Sudoku
Strong Demand for Smartphones Driving the Worldwide Mobile Phone Market
IEEE Forecasts 10x Data Growth by 2015
NASA X-Ray Concept Inspired from a Roll of Scotch® Tape
Semi Industry Starting New Growth Cycle
World's Smallest Semiconductor Laser Created
Comms Payload Passes On-Orbit Tests on MUOS Satellite
Google Says Fiber Will Give Kansas City Fastest Connection in Country
Huawei Completes Industry's First Simultaneous Mobile and WiFi Service
Sprint Boosts Femtocell Count to 950,000
GM Working on Wi-Fi Direct Application to Prevent Vehicle/Pedestrian Accidents
Global CO2 Emissions up 3% in 2011 (why is China still listed as a developing country?)
7/26/2012
Tin Whiskers Again Cited as Potential Problem for Toyotas
Researchers Create Working Mott Transistor Prototype
Google: Motorola's Patents Worth $5.5B
Special Event Stations in London and Wales on the Air for 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games
Alcatel-Lucent to Cut 5,000 Jobs As It Drops Back into Quarterly Losses
A Cluster of Twenty Atoms of Gold Visualized for the First Time
Terahertz Radiation Can Induce Insulator-to-Metal Change of State in Some Materials
In the USA, 62% of First-Time Smartphone Owners Buy Android
Laser Beam Finally Converted into Stream of Single Photons
Brazil Tees up Billion Dollar Telecom Bonanza
Google Announces 2012 Science Fair Winners
Amazon Launches Career Choice Program to Fund Tuition for Fulfillment Center Employees
7/25/2012
Mobile Phone Coverage Now Available in the EuroTunnel
Expert, Lawmakers at Odds over GPS Security
New Hybrid Material Simplifies Organic Transistor Design
How Swearing at Work Could Ruin Your @#*! Career
Graphene-SiC Transistor Shows Way to New Integrated Circuits
LG Posts Q2 Loss in Handset Unit as Sales Drop
Imaging the Quantum Motion of Electrons Using Light
Technology Analyst Expected to Plead Guilty in Insider Case
Court Bans Samsung Tablet from Sale in Europe
Sunspot Maximum Coming in 2013
UK Economy Contracts by 0.7%
The Most Contagious Airports in the U.S.
7/24/2012
Heathkit Declares Bankruptcy, Closes for Good -Again
Ofcom Reveals 4G Mobile Auction Plans
Cisco Systems to Shed 1,300 Jobs Amid Cost Cuts
Silicon Valley Says Step Away from the Device
House of Lords Call for Engineering Graduates (HoL - a cool, Elizabethan title)
AT&T and Verizon Shine as iPhone Sales Sink
HD Video Camera Tracks Rapidly Moving Objects in Real Time
Qualcomm, Renault Team on Wireless Electric Vehicle Charging
Renesas to Cut 5,000 Jobs (missed this one a couple weeks ago)
8.9 Million on Disability in U.S. at Average $974 per Month (> population of 39 states)
Russian Supply Ship Fails to Dock at Space Station
How Apple's Phantom Taxes Hide Billion$ in Profit
7/23/2012
Study Reveals Harmful Effects of CFL Bulbs to Skin
Chirp App Sends Smartphone Data Via 'Digital Birdsong'
Global Semiconductor Sales Up in May
Can Quantum Theory Be Improved?
Vanity Call Sign Fee to Go Up to $15
Four Companies Prep Wave of 60 GHz Chips
Not If or When, Cyber War is Happening Now
Meritocracy in Silicon Valley a Worthy Goal But Not a Reality
Printed Photonic Crystal Mirrors Shrink On-Chip Lasers Down to Size
HTML5 Work Splits into "Living" and "Snapshot" Standards
Low Frequency, 'First Light' for the Jansky Very Large Array
Poverty on Track to Reach Highest Level Since 1960s
7/22/2012
Tech Layoffs Hit 3-Year High of 51,529 in 1st Half of 2012
USPTO Expands Patent Law School Pilot Program
Fitch Downgrades Nokia Credit Rating (first Rome crumbles, then the USA, now Nokia?)
Microsoft Reports First-Ever Quarterly Loss
Syria Disappears from Internet for 40 Minutes
7/20/2012
Drop Out, Start Up
Chairman's Remarks on White Spaces for Wireless Broadband
Australian Regulator to Release 100 Million New Phone Numbers
VCs Bolstered Silicon Investments in Q2
TSMC's Chang Cuts Forecast, Sees Stall Coming
Diamond in the Rough: Half-Century Puzzle Solved
Average U.S. Mobile Subscriber Uses 450 MB per Month
Vodafone Group Revenues Fall on Weak Southern European Markets
Ultracapacitor Could Find Use As Battery Replacement in Handheld Electronics
50% of Worldwide Spam is Gone
Microsoft Fixes 'Big Boobs' Coding Gaffe
Test Decodes Dolphins' Math Skills
Apple's Change of Heart on Green Certification
7/19/2012
For the First Time, Canadians Now Richer Than Americans! (change you can believe in)
Nokia Losses Deepen to $1.87B As Sales Continue to Slide
French Government May Step in to Block Telecom Job Cuts
FCC Fines Alaska Man for Interfering with Air Traffic Using CB Radio
Rural Chinese Get Online as Mobile Overtakes Desktop
Microchips Built Using Self-Assembling Polymers
New Ultracapacitor Delivers a Jolt of Energy at Constant Voltage
Qualcomm's Smartphone Chip Shortage Continues
Mobile Ads Can Hijack Your Phone and Steal Your Contacts
Researchers Create Memory with One Bit Per Molecule
Cablevision Launches 'OMGFAST' Fixed Wireless Broadband Service in Florida (great name)
EBay Profit Soars 144% as E-Commerce Rebounds
Historic U.S. Post Office Default on August 1 (blaming it on having to actually fund their massive pensions)
7/18/2012
Noted Authority Says Women Now Have Higher IQ Than Men
Texting Overtakes Talking in UK
Mobile Data Traffic Offloaded to WiFi Networks to 16x Times from 2011 to 2016
3D Imager Shows How Particles Interact with Energy Fields
Canada Gets New Semi Company
Ericsson Profits Plunge by 63% on Flat Revenues
Graphene Transistors in High-Performance Demonstration
Contract Manufacturers Position Themselves for a Rebound
The Puzzling Problem of Proportionate Growth
New Technique Allows Production of Complex Microchip Structures in One Self-Assembling Step
Scientists Use X-Ray Imaging to Observe Running Batteries in Action
Only 6 Majors Increasing Capex This Year
DOE Hybrid Battery Program Company Loses $500k Worth of Equipment (probably sold on black market)
7/17/2012
Unique Properties of Graphene Lead to a New Paradigm for Low-Power Telecommunications
DARPA Issues Solicitation for EW Program to Counter Digitally Programmable Adaptive Radar
Samsung Buys CSR's WiFi and Bluetooth Mobile Chip Tech
Mobile Networks Stockpiling Nano-SIM Cards Ahead of New iPhone Launch
Astronaut Don Pettit, KD5MDT, Chats with ARRL
Lightest Material in the World Produced
Tektronix Opens Repair and Calibration Lab in France
Researchers Produce Silicon 'Sponge' Battery Components
DARPA: Student Competitors Sought for Cool Design Challenge
LG Charged with Stealing Advanced TV Technology from Samsung
TV Schedules Influence Kids' Waist Sizes
Universities Reshaping Education on the Web
300+ Flash Mob Ravaging Walmart (the New America)
7/16/2012
Migrant Tech Workers in China Face Competition from Robots
U.S. Astronaut's Ride to ISS Outsourced to Russia
China's ZTE Rumored to Be Laying Off Staff
Wi-Fi Hotspots to Revive NYC Payphones
Data Speed More Critical Than Voice Coverage for Smartphone Users
European Holidaymakers Demand Seamless Internet Connectivity
Shrinking Defense Budgets Force L-Mart Mission Systems & Sensors to Cut 740 Jobs
Cambridge Firm Connects Android in Cars
Rifleman Radio Moves into Higher Production
Microsoft Expected to Announce New Version of Office
France Considers Internet Tax (getting what they just voted for, that's all)
Denver Software Company Pays Employees $7,500 to Go on Vacation, Totally Unplug
Stocks Might Be 50% Lower Without Fed (devaluing your dollars via dilution)
iPhone 5 Leaked Photos Show Tall White Frame with Center Camera
7/15/2012
Russian Hacker Targets Apple’s App Store
U.S., France Mark 50th Anniversary of First TV Satellite
ZTE Expects up to 80% Fall in 1H Profit (profit is such an outdated concept anyway in our Socialist new world)
RIM Loses Patent Suit over Software
Solar Eruption Caught on Camera
7/13/2012
X-Class Solar Flare Erupts from Giant Sunspot (some radio blackouts possible)
Analyst Lowers 2012 Chip Market Growth Forecast
Lobster-Inspired Tech Helps Smartphones Navigate Indoors
University of Utah Physicists Invent 'Spintronic' LED
New Carbon Nanotube Structure Aerographite is Lightest Material Champ
Virgin Galactic Set to Offer Satellite Launch Services
Lawmaker Fumes over DOD Effort to Trim Report Length
CERN Particle Could Be a Higgs Boson Impostor
Future Horizons CEO: Europe's Decade of Shame
Vodafone and Hutchison Confirm Plans to Merge Irish Network Assets
FBI Probes ZTE Trade Deals with Iran
Synchrotrons Help Bring Superconductors out of the Cold
Car Maker Peugeot to Cut 8,000 Jobs, Close Plant (Gov't Motors bought 7% stake w/your tax money in February)
7/12/2012
New Laser Scanners Know Everything About You from 50 Meters Away (maybe I should be scared, but I think it's incredibly cool)
Researchers Create Highly Conductive and Elastic Conductors Using Silver Nanowires
O2 Suffering UK-Wide Network Outage Affecting Some Customers
2012 Semi Growth to Be 4% Says Penn
Think Hardware: Ireland’s Master Plan to Generate 20,000 New Jobs
Presidential Election Will Not Stave-off Declines in U.S. Defense Spending
China Mobile Preps NFC Payments Phone
Shoot It with a Laser and It Flies Longer
A Metamaterial That Expands Under Pressure and Contracts in Tension
AT&T to Bolster 700 MHz War Chest with New Licenses
New Executive Order Creates New Emergency Communications Bureaucracy (why even bother with a Legislative branch, aka Congress?)
Viacom Channels Blacked Out for 20 Million DirecTV Customers
U.S. Crackdown on Illegal Computer-Operated Robocalls
NASA Launches iPhone Spaceship App in 3D Space
7/11/2012
Tech's Invincible Aura Fades
Are Social Media Making the Resume Obsolete?
World Record Neutron Beam at Los Alamos National Laboratory
FDA Issues Proposed Rules for Unique RFID System for Medical Devices
Making Wiring That Doesn't Trip Up Computer Chips
Nanoparticles: Big Potential or Big Threat? (haven't heard this argument for while)
The Importance of Partnering for Continued Growth in Telecoms Wholesale Market
The Long-Shot Technologies and Services in Wireless for 2012
Graphene Transistor Method Could Enable Fast Devices
Toward Achieving 1000000x Increase in Computing Efficiency
San Francisco to Ban Officials from Buying Apple Macs After Green Exodus (whatever shall the ponytail types do?)
Android Maintains Euro Dominance
In Modern Scandal, an E-Mail Is Forever
7/10/2012
Apple Removes Green Electronics Certification from Products
TV Reality Series Finds Silicon Valley Cringing
Mobile Ads Can Hijack Your Phone and Steal Your Contacts
Graphene Repairs Holes by Knitting Itself Back Together
New Space Program to Service Satellites Proposed
Near-Field Counters Aid in Device Frequency ID
Researchers Develop Low-Cost Transparent Conducting Film
AT&T to Prevent Stolen Phones from Accessing Its Network
Three Hams Scheduled to Head to ISS This Weekend
European Semi Sales Up in May
White LEDs Lighting Directly on Paper
Seven Mobile Networks Form New M2M Alliance
Solar Flares Increasing in Record-Setting Intensity & Frequency
Researchers Develop Optically Switchable Chiral Terahertz Metamolecules (that's a mouthful)
7/9/2012
Cell Carriers See Uptick in Requests to Aid Surveillance
Android Malware Spreading Fast in China
Entanglement Study Makes a Quantum Leap
EU Set to Approve Project Oscar UK NFC Venture
FBI Internet Shutoff Has 'Limited' Impact on Victims
FCC: Supporting Calling Plan Rights for Military Service Members
60% of New Cars Will Be Connected by 2017
DARPA: Hypersonics Is the New Stealth
Global Tech Market Growth Stabilizing (stabilizing = petering out)
First Galileo Navigational Satellite Retires
A Phone That Knows Where You're Going
Sun Erupts with Strongest Summer Solar Flare Yet
Cooling Trend in Northern Europe Precisely Reconstructed for the Past 2,000 Years
7/8/2012
Man Steals 1,000' of Power Cable from Storm Ravaged Area
4 New Regional U.S. Patent Offices Opening to Speed Up Patent Process
Satellite Aims to Bridge Canada's Digital Divide
Europe Washes Hands of ACTA
China Beats Russia on Space Launches
7/6/2012
High Inventory and Low Burn Rate Stalls Femtocell Market in 2012
Why Your Wireless Service Sucks at Sports Games
No Web for Hundreds of Thousands on Monday
EU Cars Should Automatically Call for Help After Crashes
UK Team Delivers Shortest Light Pulses
Disruptions Possible as ARRL Reconfigures Internet Services
Samsung Profits Surge 79% Boosted by Smartphone Sales
China Mobile Customer Accidentally Tops Up PrePay Account with $107,000
In Silicon Valley, Chieftains Rule with Few Checks and Balances
'Fog Computing' Seeks to Snare Those Who Would Leak Classified Docs
New Nanodevice Builds Electricity from Tiny Pieces
Swedish Carriers Launch Mobile Wallet Service
Another Stimulus-Funded Alternative Energy Firm About to Go Belly-Up
7/5/2012
Patent Trawler Bids to Determine Emerging Technologies
China Starts Stockpiling Rare Earths
Online Classes Cut Costs, But Do They Dilute School Brands?
Colorado Hams Provide Disaster Communications During Wildfires
Smart Headlights Let Drivers See Between Raindrops (watch demonstration)
Chip Market Still Shrinking Versus 2011
HP Patents See-Through Screen
Printable, Electrically Conductive Gel with Unprecedented Electrical Performance
Cops Foil Would-Be Light Pole Thieves
Chinese Air Passengers Beat Would-Be Hijackers to Death (score!)
Microsoft to Offer $39.99 Upgrade to Windows 8
France Slaps 7B€ in Taxes on Rich and Big Firms (coming to the U.S. soon)
Government Motors Shares Near Record Low, Taxpayer Loss on Bailout Rises to $35 Billion
7/3/2012
Team Commandeers GPS Signals of UAV from Outside (good reason not to rely solely on it for air navigation)
Doing Apps and Start-Ups While Still in High School
3-City Patent Court Gets Nod from EU Leaders
Higher Energies for Laser-Accelerated Particles Possible
Apple Fails to Block Imports of HTC Smartphones into the USA (they build their stuff in China but don't want Chinese competition)
Team Develops Wearable Antenna for Tumor Detection
USAF Extends Airborne Comms Relay Program in Afghanistan
The IARU HF Championship Heats Up the Summer
Physicists Identify New Quantum State Allowing 3 (but not 2) Atoms to Stick Together
Manufacturing Slowdown Reaches U.S.
Navy's New "Green Fleet" Uses $26/Gallon Fuel (holy crap!!!)
RIM CEO Heins: We're Not in a 'Death Spiral'
T-Mobile USA Suffers Nationwide Mobile Data Outage
Eurozone Unemployment Hits Record High (U.S. trying its best to catch up with you)
7/2/2012
Graphene Gives Thomas Edison's Battery a New Life
FCC Announces Forum on Future of Wireless Band Plans
China, U.S. Lead Innovation, Europe Nowhere (don't get mad at me, I just report the news)
Plasma Startup Creates High-Energy Light to Make Smaller Microchips
Quantum Levitation Could Prevent Nano Systems from Crashing Together
Apple Pays $60M to Settle IPad Trademark Dispute (pocket change)
Researchers Try Vacuum Transistors at Low Voltage
Navy E-6B Airborne Command Post to Receive New Communications and Networking from Northrop Grumman
Smartphone Guides Blind People Without GPS
New Technique Controls Graphite to Graphene Transition
China Manufacturing Weakens for 8th Month
Scientists to Unveil Evidence of 'God Particle'
Coffee Consumption May Cut Skin Cancer Risk (I'm going to live forever)
7/1/2012
Hijacked WiFi Causes SWAT Team to Raid Wrong House
Higgs Boson Announcements Coming July 4th
Telefonica Takes Mexico to Arbitration for $1B
BAE Systems Develops GPS Alternative
NFC is Great, But Mobile Payments Solve a Problem That Doesn’t Exist
Kirt
