9/30/2012
OMB Implores Defense Contractors Not to Issue Layoff Notice While Sequestration is Uncertain (there's an election coming)
Telecom New Zealand Reiterates Tepid Fiscal 2013 Outlook
College Students Defaulting at Record Rate
Etching of Semiconductor Can Now Be Monitored in Real Time
9/28/2012
NFC Enabled Business Cards Being Tested (great idea for those who don't do phone bump NFC)
Japanese Banks Stake $6 Billion on Electronics Bailouts
'Melt in the Body' Electronics Devised
University of Utah Awarded Cosmic Rays Study Contract
GaAs Device Revenue to Grow from Record $5.2B in 2011 to $6.1B in 2016
Wi-Fi chip Maker Celeno Attracts More Investors
Is AM Revitalization Possible? (it's already thriving with talk, but not with music)
T-Mobile USA to Sell Tower Rights to Crown Castle for $2.4B
RIM Shows off BlackBerry 10
RIM Developer Faithful Find Hope in BlackBerry 10 Revival
Novel Materials Become Multifunctional at Ultimate Quantum Limit
The Military Smartphone Malware Designed to Steal Your Life
Bioengineers Introduce 'Bi-Fi' - The Biological 'Internet'
Apple is 'Extremely Sorry' for Its Much-Maligned Maps
Gates: New Windows 8 is 'Very Exciting' (whoa, time really is a cruel master - see Bill pic)
9/27/2012
What if Google Were Run by Replacement Engineers? (frustrated gridiron fans will appreciate this)
ARRL HQ Seeks Applicants for the Position of QST Technical Editor
The Crisis in Higher Education
FCC Kicks off $300M Mobility Fund Auction for Rural Mobile Broadband
Global Competitors Threaten U.S. Lead in Mobile Broadband
Optical Waveguide Connects Semiconductor Chips
USAF to Base First 'Space Fence' Facility in Pacific
Beyond Wall St., Curbs on High-Speed Trades Proceed (see my article Arbitrage via Microwaves)
How Your Job Is Like a Marriage
Chinese Internet Users to Overtake English Language Users by 2015
TI Gives up on Smartphone and Tablet Markets
LG Accuses Samsung of Infringing Patents
Morse Code on Earth (see Morse Code on Mars)
D/A Converter Module for Radar and Beamformed Communications Introduced by Pentek
Durable Goods Drop Worst Since Recession (flash - we never got out of the recession)
Q2 GDP Slashed to 1.3% (typical - release good numbers then revise down to reality after news cycle ends)
9/26/2012
Man Arrested for Holding iPhone Hostage for $40
Microfabrication Methods to Help Navigate a Day Without GPS
Engineers Change Jobs Often to Fast-Track Career Progress
Magician to Risk Electrocution in Truly Shocking New Stunt
Search for Element 113 Concluded at Last (I suggest rfcafenium for a name)
New Limits Considered in Airwaves
RIM Expects to Add 2 Million New BlackBerry Subscribers
RIM Stands a Chance at Comeback If It Targets Microsoft, Not Apple
Nokia and Samsung Step up Handset Recycling Efforts in Kenya (I initially thought, "who cares," but it is to stop counterfeits)
TI Intros World's First Programmable Differential Amplifiers
Piezo Wireless Switch: No Battery, No Cable, No Wear
How the Chinese Smartphone Market Shapes the Battle for Global Dominance
Self-Driving Cars Now Legal in California (which cannot be said of the "undocumented" human drivers)
Italy's Slow Internet Set for Reboot
Tesla's Big Gamble: Can the Electric Car Go Mainstream?
China Spacesat Gets $18 Million from U.S. Government (why???)
9/25/2012
iPhone, iPad Theft up 70% y/y in NYC (11,447 thefts of Apple products - amazing)
Tape Recorders and Fax Machines Top LinkedIn's List of Office Endangered Species (some people are still using those???)
Foxconn Factory Reopens after Brawl
Riot at Foxconn Factory Underscores Rift in China
Army MARS Adopts New Leadership System
Kemet Tackles Arcing in High Voltage Chip Capacitors
Novel Materials Become Multifunctional at Ultimate Quantum Limit
Tesla's Big Gamble: Can the Electric Car Go Mainstream?
A Clock That Will Last Forever: The First Space-Time Crystal
Toys-R-Us Sued over Android Tablet Copies
Wirelessly Charged, All-Electric Bus Route is First for UK
Northrop Wins Air Force Contract for Airborne Comms Node
Lawmakers Grill FCC Officials on LightSquared's Fate
Nokia Excels Where Apple Blundered
Vietnam Delays 4G Licenses Until 2015
Russia's First Private Satellite to Be Launched in 2013
Government Spending Can Save UK Manufacturing (same idiotic thinking everywhere - tax workers to death, distribute to your cronies)
9/24/2012
Apple Sells 5 Million iPhones in Opening Weekend
Riots Break Out at Foxconn Factory in China (iPhones made there)
Teardown: Inside the Apple iPhone 5 (Skyworks has 2 PAMs inside)
Employee Shopping: 'Acqui-Hire' is the New Normal in Silicon Valley
Chip Firm Sets Up RFIC Design Centre in UK
USPTO Encourages Third Parties to Participate in Review of Pending Patent Applications
NAB's FM Chip Push is Disturbing and Wrong
Will Mobile Kill Digital Advertising?
Chinese to Overtake English As Largest Single Internet Userbase by 2015
Nanotubes Used to Create Smallest Ever Hologram Pixels
Erbium on Silicon Chip Speeds Up Light
Proposed Bill Could Change Royalty Rates for Internet Radio
Google Search and Gmail Censored in Iran
World's First Spaceport Nearly Ready in New Mexico
GM Offers Big Discounts to Boost Volt Sales ($10k from Gov't Motors + $7k refund from IRS = $17k per car from taxpayers: costs GM $75k to build)
Siemens to Lay Off 400+ Iowa Wind Turbine Plant (million$ more ha$tily-i$$ued tax dollar$ down the crapper)
9/23/2012
Hilarious Examples of How Awful Apple's New Maps App Is
How to Instantly Get Google Maps Back on Your iPhone
Apple Loses Latest Patent Round Against Samsung
Radar Measurements of Highest Precision
The Plan to Message Aliens with Twitter (could help protect planet since no perceived threat from being conquered... or signal an easy meal)
9/21/2012
Why You Should Care About the FM Chip in Cellphones
Intel's Tiny Wi-Fi Chip Could Have a Big Impact
Physicists Squeeze Light on Quantum Scale
M2M Connections Lags Behind Industry Expectations
Arsenide Nanowires on Graphite and Graphene
High Durability of Nanotube Transistors in Harsh Space Environment Demonstrated
Experiment Corrects Prediction in Quantum Theory
Researchers Devise New Subtractive Type of Nanoscale Printing
How the Chinese Smartphone Market Shapes the Battle for Global Dominance
USA Environment Agency to Promote Recycling of Consumer Electronics
RIM Restores Service After BlackBerry Outage in Europe
Cubic Global Tracking Gets Approval for RF Sensors on Planes
Navy Asks Industry About Link 11 and Link 22 Radio Data Links for Shipboard Communications
LCD Maker Hit with $500 Million Antitrust Fine
iPhone 5 Draws Big Crowds as Sales Begin in Asia-Pacific
9/20/2012
Engineers Seek to Extract Rare Earth Metals from Scrap
Blackberry Inventor Re-Creates Bell Labs
Optical Waveguide Connects Semiconductor Chips
Massive Demand Awaits Friday's iPhone 5 Sale
Army Sees Smart Phone Strategy As "Continuing Process"
Samsung Fails to Overturn Sales Ban on Galaxy Tablet in the USA
Thailand to Offer Free Wi-Fi in Tourist Destinations
Find Out What’s In Store at the 2012 ARRL National Convention
Single-Atom Writer a Landmark for Quantum Computing
"Brain Circulation" Replacing "Brain Drain" in Global Research (text shifts down page)
Researchers Develop Printable Lasers
Making the Most of Today's Spectrum Resources
Viewing Hydrogen Atoms with Neutron Protein Crystallography
UK Cities Divide Up Fast Broadband Cash
New Material Could Make Thermoelectric Power Practical
AT&T Chief Speaks Out on Texting at the Wheel
9/19/2012
Rohm Develops Hydrogen Cells for Smartphones (cool!, now we need a nuke supply)
Water Doped Graphite Flakes Exhibit Superconductive Properties at High Temperature (300K - true RT)
Radio Meets in Secret to Discuss Future of Digital
Mobile Phone Interference with Plane Instruments: Myth or Reality?
ZTE to Launch Mozilla Based Smartphone by End of the Year
Sprint, Dish Clash over 5 MHz Satellite Spectrum Shift
IAU Votes to Redefine the Astronomical Unit – Giving It a Constant Value (same folks who say Pluto isn't a planet)
Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Method Could Lead to Plastic Electronics
Looking Ahead to WRC-15
RIM Takes NFC to Film Festival
Fab Lite, Fewer Startups Could Fuel IC Growth Rate
Apple's iPhone 5 Hardware Components Costs Less Than $200
Turning Waste Heat into Electrical Energy
Lockheed Martin to Solidify Long Range Radar Requirement for 3DELRR
Microsoft Warns on Previously Unseen IE Bug
Building Cheap Batteries to Circumvent the Grid
Median Income Worse Now Than It Was During Great Recession (we could be booming if Gov't would get out of the way)
9/18/2012
Apple Stock Hits $700 in Wake of iPhone 5 Debut
Singapore's Rising Tech Industry Draws Expat Innovators And Investors
Commercial Mobile Advancing for Secure Use
CERN's Higgs Boson Discovery Needed Fast Electronics (Higgs has not been positively ID'ed yet, BTW)
Motorola's First Intel-Powered Handset Launches in UK
'Warp Drive' May Be More Feasible Than Thought
'Memristors' Based on Transparent Electronics Offer Technology of the Future
Freestanding Carbon Nanotubes May Be Thinner Than Previously Thought Possible
Renesas Launches NFC and Wireless Charging Combo
Sean Smith, KG4WSS, Killed in Consulate Attack (don't buy the crap about it being due to a video)
House to Hold Hearing on FCC's Role in Granting LightSquared Waiver
Job Losses, Reduced Government Incomes Loom as Primary Threats of Defense Sequestration
Enormous Roman Mosaic Found Under Farmer's Field (amazing)
Uncertainty Not So Certain After All
Compound Semiconductor Component Sales to Grow at 11.9%
GM Wants to Get the "Government" out of Government Motors - Government Says No (it has hurt the brand significantly)
9/17/2012
Will Next 'Solar Max' Fry Electronics?
High-Temperature Superconductivity Induced in a Semiconductor with Scotch Tape (maybe Scotch tape itself is the magic elixir - it gave us graphene in production quantities)
What Technologies Will Crowdfunding Create?
Mobile Phones and Wireless Networks: No Evidence of Health Risk Found
Federal Employees Can Help Support ARRL Through the 2012 Combined Federal Campaign
HP's Whitman Vows to Get Back into Smartphone Business
USAF to Establish Center of Excellence for Laser Remote Sensing and Communications
Vodafone Considers $2.2 Billion Accounting Provision Due to Indian Tax Demand
Memory vs. Math: Same Brain Areas Show Inverse Responses to Recall and Arithmetic
Startup Samples 60 GHz Transceiver
Smartphones Let Work Win Out
China Protests: Japanese Firms Suspend Some Operations
Rohde & Schwarz Intros World's Fastest EMI Test Receiver
Golden Goose Awards Honor 'Silly' Science
Satellite Operators Stand Ready to Assist DOD
Android Reaping Significant Gain in Canadian Marketplace
9/16/2012
Canada Competition Watchdog Sues Bell, Rogers, Telus
USPTO Connects Innovators to Key Patent and Trademark Resources
Motorola Loses German Patent Battle Against Apple
NASA Offers Opportunity to Use Communications Testbed on Space Station
Chinese Vendors Face Skeptical U.S. Lawmakers
9/14/2012
Microchip's Nixie Tubes Light up DESIGN East
BAE, EADS Would Create European Defense Giant
Vanadium Oxide Bronze: A Replacement for Silicon in Microchips?
How Your Wireless Carrier Overcharges You
Radio Q2 Revenue Sputters
Becky Schoenfeld, W1BXY, is New QST Managing Editor
Radio-Over-Fiber Promises to Spread the Web
Hitachi Chemical Markets Tiny UHF Tag
T-Mobile: Broadcast Spectrum Isn't Enough
Compound Semiconductor Component Sales to Grow at 11.9% from $27B in 2012 to $47.5B in 2017
Can Crowdsourcing Bring Unused Patents Back from the Dead?
President May Issue Executive Order on Cybersecurity (one branch of government is enough anymore - don't need no stinking congress anymore)
iPhone 5 vs. iPhone 4S
Acer Cancels Chinese Smartphone Launch Following Pressure from Google
Google Motorola Faces German Ban After Apple Victory
Apple Snubs Emerging Mobile Payment Standard
Google Blocks Access to Inflammatory Video (aka censorship - would they block access to an anti-Semitic video?)
9/13/2012
LHC Collides Protons with Lead Ions for First Time
4G iPhone 5 Sounds Death Knell for 3G
iPhone 5 Bill of Materials Estimate is $167.50
No More Bubbles When Boiling Water (interesting!)
Hard Coating Extends the Life of New Ultrahigh-Density Storage Device
USPTO to Implement New Patent Quality Process
Laser Nanofabrication for Mass Production at the Nanoscale
Japan to Establish Cyber Defense Force in 2013
Pocket Radar: Thumbtack-Sized Distance and Motion Sensor Developed
First Ammonia MBE Nitride Semi HEMTs on Silicon (wonder if it smells like a Queens subway station when it overheats?)
HYLAS 2 Communications Satellite Completes In-Orbit Testing
Number of Commercial LTE Networks Reaches 96
Ingenico Enables NFC Mobile Payment Pilot in the Czech Republic
Asteroid to Fly by Earth Thursday
Mammoth Fragments from Siberia Raise Cloning Hopes (that would be cool)
9/12/2012
Physicists Devise Means for Observing Single Atom Interference over Coherence Length
Where RF Meets Analog and Digital—the New Embedded Reality
Intel Research Team Develops Electronic Probe Storage Device (this is amazing)
Huawei Commits to $2 Billion Investment in the UK
Trading in Your Old iPhone? Here's What It's Worth
The Computer That Beat 2 Million Humans at Fantasy Football
British Motorists are Using Their Mobile Phones in Cars for More Than Talking
Wireless Charging—Has Its Time Finally Arrived? (not green though - lower efficiency than the best wall warts)
Chip and PIN 'Weakness' Exposed by Cambridge Researchers
Tech Firms Harnessing the Power of Intellectual Property
X-Fab MEMS Foundry Goes 3-D
Three Hams Return to Earth This Weekend
Amazon, Forced to Collect a Tax, Is Adding Roots
Sheryl Crow Blames Her Brain Tumor on Her Cellphone
Using iPads Before Bed Can Lead to a Poor Night's Sleep
U.S. Ambassador to Libya Killed (so This is what democracy looks like?!?!)
9/11/2012
9/11 Lawsuit "Bigger Than Your Wildest Imagination" (endless cost to U.S. citizens from the terrorist attack)
Satellites and Secure Wireless Evolve to Meet New Demands
The World's Most Stable Laser Also Promises Heightened Test Precision
LTE Based 4G Services Coming to the UK by This Christmas
Euro Consortium Rolls Auto Radar Sensor
Surge in UK High-Tech Investment
Electron Magnetic Moment Calculated Precisely
Norway Researchers Grow Semiconductors on Graphene
South Korean Networks Warned They Could Be Barred from Signing Up New Customers
China Contractor Again Faces Labor Issue on iPhones
Northrop Grumman to Help Develop RF Seeker for Future Rocket-Propelled Bunker-Busting Bomb
Moneto to Bring NFC Payments to Europe
Hacker Claims Responsibility for GoDaddy Outage
Researchers Study Best Use of Whitespace Spectrum
AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile Execs Rally Behind Microsoft's Windows Phone 8
With Smartphone Sales, Samsung is Already Pulling Ahead of Apple
9/10/2012
GM Losing $49k per Volt Sold (GM still owes taxpayers $50B, pays $0 in federal taxes)
UK Laptop Designer Bill Moggridge Dies
Tech Companies Rank High in Work-Life Balance
ARRL Plans Centennial Celebration in Hartford in 2014
Researchers Make First All-Optical Nanowire Switch
TSMC to Expand 2013 Capex to $10 Billion
Fury 1500 Tactical Unmanned Aerial System Achieves SATCOM Video Downlink
First Africa-Designed Smartphone Unveiled in Republic of Congo
The Tech Buyer's Dilemma: Timing the Plunge
World Record Set for Highest Surface Area Material
Vodafone Australia Suffers Major Network Failure
Kodak to Chop Another 1,000 Jobs
UK Skills Initiative Goes to Scotland
FCC to Set Rules for Spectrum Auctions That Could Occur in 2014
Physicist Derives Laws of Thermodynamics for Life Itself
9/9/2012
Towards Computing with Water Droplets: Superhydrophobic Droplet Logic
USPTO Seeks Comment on Proposed Fee Schedule as Mandated by America Invents Act
Scientists uncertain About Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle
Mobile Subs Reach 1 Billion in the Americas, Broadband Up
Astronaut 'Touches' the Sun in Spacewalk Photo
9/7/2012
Air Force Kicks off ACE Project to Build Advanced Components for Tomorrow's Electronic Warfare
UK Broadband Aided by Planning Permission Rule Changes
Crews Complete First Block of North America's Most Advanced Neutrino Experiment
Nokia to Start Selling Make-or-Break Smartphone in November
Why Your Cellphone Could Be Called a 'Tracker'
Mathematicians Offer Unified Theory of Dark Matter, Dark Energy, Altering Einstein Field Equations (here we go again - stay tuned for retraction)
High-Performance Gyros to Reach $1.66B in 2017
Needle Beam Could Eliminate Signal Loss in On-Chip Optics
Quantum World Only Partially Melts: Ultracold Atoms Reveal Surprising New Quantum Effects
2013 to Be Golden Year for Fab Capex, Says SEMI
Moody's Outlook for U.S. Wireless Industry Now Positive as Cash Flow Grows
Intel Slashes Outlook as PC Demand Weakens
Semiconductor R&D Spend to Grow 10% This Year
Apple Plans Web Radio Challenge to Pandora
Motorola Goes for Bleeding Edge with New RAZR Line
Here Is a Video Showing What the U.S. Taxpayer Bought with GM
9/6/2012
143 km: Physicists Break Quantum Teleportation Distance
Nokia Apologizes for 'Faked' Lumia Smartphone Advert (stupid)
Distributors Advisory Group Addresses Counterfeit Electronics
Unified Theory of Dark Matter and Dark Energy Proposed
FCC to Measure Mobile Broadband Performance
Motorola Shows off First Smartphones Under Google
Next-Gen GPS III Satellites Undergo First Readiness Test
South Korea Probes Samsung over Apple Antitrust Complaints
MacGyveresque Toothbrush Improvisation Used to Fix Space Station
Samsung's Galaxy S3 Retains Top Spot in UK Handset Charts
In Quest of the Cosmic Origins of Silver
iPhone 5 Sales Could Hit 10M Within Days of Launch
Microsoft to Hire 1,000 in China over Next Year
Navy Surveys Industry for High-Power Energy Storage Called Hybrid Energy Storage Module (HESM)
IEEE 2011 Annnual Report Now Available
The Sad Truth About the American Dream (this is the biggest load of crap I've seen on a "science" site in a long time - it belongs on a haters of American history political website. Update: Fabian Pfeffer, German immigrant or on visa-to U.S., Ph.D. at U. of Mich. where average full prof salary is $148.8k)
9/5/2012
TV Makers Join Forces Against Smartphone Giants
Sweden Tops Tim Berners-Lee's Web Index
Carriers Get Green Light to Launch NFC in the UK
Median Income of Electrotechnology Professionals Rises to Nearly $120k IEEE-USA Salary Survey Reveals
IBM, ST Go Back to the Future with Nanorelay Logic
Smartphone Makers Risking Customer Satisfaction Through Poor Reporting of Battery Performance
How RIM Will Win Back Developers for BlackBerry 10
Interfaces are Key in Metal Oxide Superlattices
Pulse NFC Antenna Has 4cm Range
Russia Delays 2012 Military Launches After Satellite Failure
FBI Denies Collecting iPhone Tracking IDs
Waste Silicon Gets New Life in Lithium-Ion Batteries
67-Attosecond Extreme Ultraviolet Laser Pulse is the World's Shortest
'Virtually All' New Mobile Malware Directed at Android
U.S. Slips Down the Ranks of Global Competitiveness
Food-Stamp Use Climbs to Record
9/4/2012
Cellphone Malware Attacks on the Rise
Multinationals Stake a Claim in Venture Capital
Researchers Find Ordinary Pen Ink Useful for Building a Supercapacitor
LTE Will Be Launched by 60% of Operators in Latin America by 2013
China, Due to Cheap Androids, Will Be Largest Smartphone Market
Defense Budget Sequestration Creates Friction Between Congress and OMB (Senate hasn't passed a budget in 3 years)
Samsung Dominates Western European Phone Market, Apple Hurt by New iPhone Rumors
When a Kickstarter Campaign Fails, Does Anyone Get the Money Back?
Nano Tech Mission to Germany and Austria
Researchers Move Quantum Computing to Silicon
Hackers Leak 1 Million Apple Device IDs
Hitachi Cable Demos First GaN Vertical Diode with 3000V Breakdown
Cheaper Nanolithography Technique Developed
Unmanned Sub Hunter to Quell a Silent Threat
Effect of Gravitational Waves Finally Detected
9/3/2012
India Limits Foreign Visitors Using SIM Cards to Just 3 Months
Wireless Internet Successes Due to Entrepreneurs, Not Government
Is Mil-Aero Industry Under Attack?
The Counterintuitive Physics of Tarzan Swings
We Never Talk Any More: The Problem with Text Messaging
Online Universities Blossom in Asia
U.S. Regulator to Review Radio Spectrum Holdings Rules
5 Easy Tricks to Boost Your Home Wi-Fi (#1: stop stealing it from your neighbor)
Multilayer Organic RF Inductors for RF Power Amplifiers Introduced by AVX
Rivals Jostle Before Apple Announces New iPhone
Samsung Announces WP8 Phone, Win8 Tablet and Galaxy Note II with NFC
Russia Unveils Own 'Almost Android' System
Devices Could Help Improve Mobile Phone Performance
30,000 Dead North Carolinians Registered to Vote (nothing to see here folks, just move along)
9/2/2012
Smartphone Storm May Climax with iPhone 5
Chinese Counterfeiters Get the Jump on iPhone 5
Young Scientists Make the Cut
Microsemi Launches GaN-on-SiC RF Transistor for Secondary Surveillance Radar Aviation Applications
Los Alamos Provides Hope for Radiation Belt Storm Probes
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