4/30/2013
CERN Re-Creating First Web Page to Revere Early Ideals
Europeans Demonstrate Unmanned Systems Inserted into Civil Space Using SatCom
Inexpensive Ways to Test Radiated Immunity
China Became Biggest PC Market in 2012
Mid-Sized Firms 'Could Return More Manufacturing to UK' (bring it home)
Google's Motorola Purchase Comes Under Pressure on the Patent Front
Samsung Spanking Apple in Earnings, Sales
Micrometeorite Punches Hole in International Space Station
TriQuint Produces First GaN-On-Diamond HEMT Results
When It Comes to Productivity, Technology Can Hurt and Help
Graphene's High-Speed Seesaw
MasterCard Blames Carriers for NFC Payments Delays
A QWERTY Keyboard for Your Wrist
Smart Meter Spec for IP Rolls Out
Boston Terrorist Family Received $100000 in Welfare (typical)
4/29/2013
Morphing Materials Could Create Shape-Shifting Mobiles
Chat App Messaging Overtakes SMS Texts
Speed of Light May Not Be Constant
World-Record mmWave Output Power from Nanoscale CMOS
The Evolution of E-Band
Universities Join UK Skills Initiative
Court Ruling Takes a Stand on Essential High-Tech Patents
Blazing the Trail for Female Programmers
DARPA to Create App Store of Military Mobile Apps That Run on Rugged Smartphones and Tablets
Youth@HamRadio.Fun: Dayton on Radar
Man Arrested for Biggest Cyberattack in Internet History
AT&T Accuses DOJ of Favoring T-Mobile, Sprint for 600 MHz Auction
Nanometer-Scale Material That Can Speed up, Squeeze Light
FCC Stands Firm Against Mt. Rushmore (will rescind if O added next to Lincoln)
DOD's Satellite Control Networks are Fragmented
Quarterly Smartphone Shipments Exceed Feature Phones for First Time
4/28/2013
Job Picture Looks Bleak for 2013 College Grads
Iter Project Makes Breakthrough in Quest for Nuclear Fusion
Google Glass Gets Hacked
Facebook CEO Reaped $2.3B Gain on Stock Options
Fingerprint-Recognition Flubs May Be Foiling iPhone Production
4/26/2013
BYOD Lawsuits Loom as Work Gets Personal
North Korea Embraces 3G Service (while proletariat class will still be eating tree bark soup)
World's First Braille Smartphone in Development
Postage Stamps to Celebrate the Touchscreen Smartphone (this is cool, speaking as an erstwhile philatelist)
Bluetooth Chip Shipments Driven by Demand for Integrated Parts in Mobile Devices
Fisker Automotive, 'The Largest VC-Backed Debacle in U.S. History' ($½ billion in taxpayer money - political payola)
New Atomic Magnetometer Doesn't Need to Be Shielded from Earth's Magnetic Field
How Humble USB Turned Engineer into Tech 'Rock Star' (a bit late - see video)
T-Mobile Could Be First to Offer '5G' LTE Advanced Read
Nanowires Grown on Graphene Have Surprising Structure
Sprint's Multi-Mode Network, Smart Antennas and Wi-Fi
Piezoelectric 'Taxel' Arrays Convert Motion to Electronic Signals for Tactile Imaging
Clear Channel Promotes NFC with Prizes
Underground Cellphone Service Expands, but Some Call for Quiet
Microsoft Gets Upper Hand in First Google Patent Trial
What Happened When One Man Pinged the Whole Internet
4/25/2013
Alexander Graham Bell's Voice Heard for First Time
USAF to Turn over 0.14-micron MMIC Technology to Industry for Advanced Radar
Zinc-Based Semiconductors Point to New Lasers and LEDs
Semiconductor Spray Paint Could Be a Game Changer for Organic Electronics
3M Cuts 2013 Outlook on Falling Electronics Demand
Antennalyzer Inventor Wendell C. Morrison, W7LLX, Passes
U.S. Army Seeks New Technology to Replace GPS
ACE Awards 2013: Celebrating the Art of Engineering
Verizon Mulls Hostile Attempt to Force $100B Vodafone Deal
Simple Way to Turn Any LCD into a Touch Screen
3-D Print Your Next Headphones
New Battery Design Could Help Solar and Wind Power the Grid
NFC Payments Are Too Complex and Offer Too Few Benefits
Apple Maintains 48% Share of Global Branded Tablet Shipments in Q1 2013
LG Ships Record 10.3M Smartphones in Q1
IRS Issued Billion$ in Improper Refunds (earned income tax cred is another form of welfare)
4/24/2013
Fraunhofer IFF Develops Tracking Solution Using RFID, GPS and Cellular Technology
Why Amazon Supports an Online Sales-Tax Bill
Researchers Use DVD Burner to Fabricate Graphene Microcapacitors
Florida Man Cited for Causing Harmful Interference to Radio Amateurs
U.S. Employees Set to Be Forced to Give Bosses Their Facebook Passwords
Inkjet-Printed Graphene Electrodes for Possibly Foldable Devices
Mobile Privacy Fears Holding Back Growth f Mobile Apps in Latin America
CERN Scientists Find Asymmetry in Particle Decay
Judge Allows Phone Apps for Hailing Yellow Taxis
Worldwide Semiconductor Foundry Market Grew 16.2% in 2012
Discovery Yields Super Tough, Strong Nanofibers
Smartphones Under $250 to Make up 46% of Smartphone Shipments by 2018
Whatsapp Dedicated Button Built into Nokia Asha Phone
UK in Dark Mood as New Recession Looms
Boston Bomber Immigrants on Welfare (10s of millions of immigrants on welfare here while you pay thou$and$ in taxes)
4/23/2013
Internet Sales Tax Bill Gains Ground in Senate
Nanowires Grown on Graphene Have Surprising Structure
Further Delay to Bangladesh's 3G License Auction
Young Adults with Autism Can Thrive in High-Tech Jobs
Changes to FCC Radiotelegraph Operator Certificates Coming May 20
Hands-Free Texting Apps Still Dangerous for Drivers
Loophole in Spooky Quantum Entanglement Theory Closed
Mobile Devices Lead U.S. Electronics Purchases
10 Breakthrough Technologies in 2013
U.S. Trade Panel Says Apple Did Not Violate Google Patent
Nokia Wins Ban in the Netherlands on HTC One Component
Wall Street Wants Brokers' Private Facebook Posts on Stock Trades
Nanoscale Device Precisely Manipulates Light
T-Mobile Boasts of Lead in LTE Advanced
Device Points to Graphene-Based 'Smart Windows'
4/22/2013
Murata Sets Record Inductance Value in 0402 Package
Germanium Made Compatible for Lasers
Apple's Dimming Luster Roils Suppliers, Investors
Challenges for Indoor Positioning on a Smartphone
Big Data Market in Telecom Sector Expected to Grow
Small Operators Oppose Unlocked Devices
New Technique Can Detect Structure of Promising Semiconductor Material MoS2
Australian Phone Company Severely Criticized by Judge over Sales Tactics
Germany Fines Google over Data Collection
'Remarkable' Spray-on Coating Combines Carbon Nanotubes with Ceramic
Philly Turns Skyscraper into Video Game Screen for Tech Week
Electric Car Aims for 400 mph
NFC Store Launches in Hong Kong
Apple Reveals How Long Siri Keeps Your Data
Renewables Can't Keep up with Growth in Coal Use Worldwide (so why are we ignoring nuclear?)
Private Company Succeeds in Test Launch of Cargo Rocket
4/21/2013
Bluetooth Chip Shipments to Nearly Double by 2017
Chinese Amateurs Assist in Earthquake Aftermath
4 Predictions for the Next 40 Years in Mobile
Mighty Microbattery Delivers Lightning-Fast Charge
LEDs to Account for Quarter of Lighting Market by 2016
4/19/2013
FCC Again Denies ARRL's Petition in BPL Proceeding
2 Military Radios Communicate over MUOS Satellite Network for 1st Time
Impulse Radio Sets Record for Distance Measurement
ZTE Ships 500 Millionth Mobile Device
IEEE-USA Supports Green Card Provisions in Immigration Bill
U.S. Eases Export Rules on Aerospace Parts (yeah, look how well that's worked for us on other tech)
90 Million Laser Shots Bring Wind Satellite Back on Track
A New Twist for Quantum Systems
844-Page Immigration Bill Gives New Legals $3,000 Hiring Edge, Makes All Relatives Legal (we are doomed)
Battery Low? Give Your Mobile Some Water
Competition Designed to Spread Basic Technologies
Indiana Rep Urges CTIA to Support FM Chip in All Phones (idiot)
Wireless Lifts Profit at Verizon
Google Promises Motorola Phone Advancements
Windows 8 Lifts Microsoft's Profit 19%
Nokia Preps 'Hero' Lumia Handset to Reinvigorate U.S. Shipments
4/18/2013
Driving to Work Now Costs $9,100 a Year
The War for Talent Continues for Engineers in Europe
Apple Falls Below $400 as Supplier Reports iPhone Chip Glut
Lead-Acid Could Challenge Lithium-Ion in Hybrids (talk about coming full circle!)
Samsung Explains Why Galaxy S4 Doesn't Have FM Chip
Thousands Petition Verizon to Nix Wireless Contracts
Algorithms Play Matchmaker to Fight 7.7% U.S. Unemployment (headline actually says 'Joblessness,' but that is the U6 number which is 13.8%)
Military Readiness Accounts Hit Hard in Proposed 2014 DOD O&M Budget
Former CTIA Chief Wheeler Front-Runner for Top FCC Pos
Fraunhofer Opens Photonics Center in UK
Space Harpoon Could Tackle Satellite Debris Problem
Intel's Dubious Plan to Take over TV
Researchers Use Moore's Law to Calculate That Life Began Before Earth Existed (Moore's law for semis still exists today only because intelligent designers - humans, not 'nature' - perpetuate it)
Australia's Spectrum Auctions Credit Negative for Telstra, Optus
Quantum Computing Taps Nucleus of Single Atom
U.S. Domestic Bomb Prevention Budget Had Been Cut by 45% (long before the sequester)
4/17/2013
Radio Amateurs Provide Communication Support in Boston Marathon Bombings
Researchers Create Novel Optical Fibers
Tech Industry Cautiously Welcomes Senate Immigration Bill
Japanese Carriers Shuttering 3G as LTE Accelerate
Justice Department Backs Limits on Wireless Companies
Microsoft Signs Android Patent Deal with Foxconn
Small in Size, Big on Power: New Microbatteries the Most Powerful Yet
The Engineer Q&A: Laser Weapons
Verizon Wireless Puts in Bid for Clearwire Spectrum, Chaos Set to Ensue
Physicists Set New Record for Quantum Teleportation with Matter Qubits
Startupbootcamp Launches Accelerator Program for NFC Startups
U.S. Tech Companies Looking to Brazil, Mexico and Canada for Future Growth
Better Computer Models Needed for Mega Wind Farms
Slippery Material System Can Start, Stop Liquids
Scientists Pinpoint Brain's Area for Numeral Recognition
New NOAA Study Suggests 2012 Drought was Not an Outcome of Climatic Alterations
4/16/2013
If You Saw Something, Say Something
Layered '2-D Nanocrystals' Promising New Semiconductor
New iPhone Reportedly Set to Begin Production
India's Semiconductor Consumption Bucks Global Trend
'Latest and Greatest' Smartphones Drive 35% of Cell Phone Purchases
Fujitsu Unveils Device That Lets Printed Paper Become Interactive
FCC Issues Two Forfeiture Notices for Cell Phone Jamming
Redesigned Material Could Lead to Lighter, Faster Electronics
India, Long the Home of Outsourcing, Now Wants to Make Its Own Chips
Nesting Falcon Hits Vodafone Customers in Southampton
NXP Joins Car-to-Car Comms Consortium
PCB Inspection System Adds Automatic X-Ray
Laser Research Lights Way to Mini Particle Accelerators
Smarter Algorithm Could Cut Energy Use in Data Centers by 35%
Smart Grid Event Plugs in at Paris
A Second Higgs Boson?
4/15/2013
Long Commute Times Shorten Lives
Project Aims to Find Substitutes for 'Critical Raw Materials'
People Who Text Frequently Tend to Be More Racist, Shallow
Functional Germanane Could Lead to Faster Chips
Europe the Only Region with Semi Growth
Dish Network Proposes a $25 Billion Merger with Sprint Nextel
QST Announces Video Contest Winners
Apple to Shell out $53M to iPhone and iPod Owners for Water Damage
Memory Effect Now Also Found in Lithium-Ion Batteries
New Alien UHF Tags Target Challenging Retail Environments
Bitcoin Miners Generating High Energy Bills (Internet is not green)
Closing the Last Local Realistic Loophole for Systems of Entangled Photons
High-Speed Modulation in High-Power Nitride Semiconductor LEDs
Detroit Electric Unveils 'World's Fastest' Electric Sports Car
Has China's Economy Hit a 'Dead End'?
Yuan Reaches Record High Against the U.S. Dollar
4/14/2013
Telefonica Czech CEO Slams Revised Auction Rules
Cracking the Potential of the Glass Wafer Market
Upstart Company Wants to Deliver Your Stuff to the Moon
Measure Noise Without a Calibrated Source
Japanese City Accidentally Tweets About North Korean Attack
4/12/2013
Balloon Launch for Students' Prototype Satellite
Hacker Uses an Android to Remotely Attack and Hijack an Airplane
Military Spending for Communications and Electronics Down ¼ over 2 Years
Sun Unleashes Biggest Solar Flare of the Year
How Wireless Carriers Are Monetizing Your Movements
Tech Firms Push to Hire More Workers from Abroad
IEEE-USA Supports Senator's Effort to Know If H-1B Program Promotes Gender Bias
Serial Startup CEO Takes over at 'White-Space' Pioneer
New York City to Pilot NFC Parking Meters
Startup CEO Wields Small Antenna in TV Streaming Battle
BlackBerry to Ask Regulators to Probe Report on Returns
T-Mobile's 4G LTE Impresses in Real-World Tests
New Software Alleviates Wireless Traffic
Hands-Free Keyboard Uses Laser Beam
Is the FM Translator AM's Savior?
Building a Better Tech School
4/11/2013
Faster Than Silicon: Redesigned Material Could Lead to Lighter, Faster Electronics
Superconducting Qualities of Topological Insulators Demonstrated
Inventions, Practical and Oddball, Showcased at Geneva Fair
Samsung Unveils Huge Galaxy Mega Smartphone
FCC Budget Allocates $500M for Broadcasters
U.S. Chips Speed Time-to-Market for Asian Manufacturers
NFC Tags Beat QR Codes in Dutch Retail Pilot
IMEC, Radio Startup Launch Impulse-RF Location Chip
Diamond as a Building Material for Optical Circuits
Why a Robot Worker May Soon Need a Visa and W-2
Guyed Tower Legislation in Idaho to Exclude Amateur Radio Towers
PayPal Hopes to Break Shoppers' Swipe Habit in Stores
'Most Energy-Efficient' LED Light Revealed by Philips
White Colored Phones Break More Often Than Black Ones
Iranian Scientist Claims to Have Invented 'Time Machine'
Tepid Reception to Windows 8 Blamed for Drop in PC Sales (put Start button back, sales will jump)
4/10/2013
Unlicensed Spectrum: Experts Examine Use Cases from M2M to Wi-Fi
Huawei Completes World's First Advanced Active Antenna System Trial
Broadcasters Circle Wagons Against a TV Streaming Upstart
Silicon Valley Lobby Group Draws Critics
Continental Tests NFC Car Keys
A Better Single-Photon Emitter for Quantum Cryptography
Health Awareness Spurs Quadrupling in MEMS Sensor Market for Wearable Electronics
FCC Commissioners Like FM Chip Idea
JITC Gears up for Interoperable Comms Exercise in Africa
Julie Zoller, KJ4EMJ, Named to Senior State Department Telecom Post
Light Transistor Advance Demonstrated
High-Pressure Research Could Lead to New Nanomaterials
Verizon CEO: 50% of Our Wireless Traffic is Video
Thunderstorms Contain 'Dark Lightning,' Invisible Pulses of Powerful Radiation
Nanowire Ink Lifts Solar Cell Efficiency
U.S. Spy Agency Funds 8-Bit per Cell MRAM (so now we're partnering with Russia for spy tech?)
4/9/2013
Texting While Flying Linked to Commercial Crash in First
Judge Rules Using Smartphone Maps While Driving Illegal
Broadcasters Worry About 'Zero TV' Homes
Tech Upstarts Threaten TV Broadcast Model
Keeping Tabs on Students' e-Reading (if you only knew of all the data being collected on your habits...)
Flexible Electronics Could Transform the Way We Make and Use Electronic Devices
Long-Distance 3D Laser Camera Unveiled by Edinburgh Team
New Developments for IEEE's Wireless Certification Program
Millimeter Wave Market Set to Double in 2013
Old Science Might Make Better LEDs and Solar Cells
Charge Your Mobile Device via Text Message
Survey Finds Increased Use of Mobile Devices While Watching Television
Dayton Hamvention Awards Committee Withdraws 2013 Amateur of the Year Award (is nothing free of corruption?)
Legal Experts Offer Strategies for Entrepreneurs
Why Tesla Survived and Fisker Won't (Fisker just laid off 75% of workers, got $200M from taxpayers, another piece in massive green payola scam)
Ericsson Upbeat About Network Gear Market in 2013
Equal Pay Day: Think Before You Parrot Empty Rhetoric
4/8/2013
Ex-Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher Dies, Aged 87 (farewell to Briton's Iron Lady, she was in office during fall of Berlin Wall)
Huge Class-Action Suit Looms for Intel, Apple and Google
Broadcom, SK Unveil 5G Wi-Fi Hotspot Router
The Facebook Phone Is Finally Here, But Who Wants It?
ZTE Doubled Its Smartphone Sales in 2012
Where Have All the Big VC Deals Gone?
The Logic (or Lack of It) in Appraising Start-Ups
Companies Shipping American Jobs Offshore Seeking More H-1B Visas Than Law Allows
AT&T Buys Spectrum, 21,000 Customers from C Spire's Corr Subsidiary
HTC One Delay Costly: Profit Drops 98%
10 Electrical Engineers Everyone Should Follow on Twitter
Brits Skeptical That 4G Will Live Up to the Hype
N. Korea Recalls Its Workers at Factory Jointly Run with S. Korea
NATO Manual Offers 95 Rules for Cyber Warfare
Samsung Tops Leading-Edge Chip-Making Capacity
NASA Chief Says U.S. Will Not Be Returning to the Moon
Vermont Finds High-Tech Ways to Sap More Money From Maple Trees (I'm a UVM BSEE alum & love maple syrup)
4/7/2013
Implementation of NexGen Device Technology to Be Discussed at ConFab 2013
India Orders Vodafone, Idea Cellular to Stop 3G Services in Some Areas
Upstart Company Wants to Deliver Your Stuff to the Moon
Building Quantum States with Individual Silicon Atoms
15% of U.S. Receives Food Stamps (plus free lunches, education, cellphones, health care, clothes, transportation, training, pay no taxes, taught by gov't agents to hate we who pay for it all, U6 unemployment at 13.8%, 62x10^6 on disability)
4/5/2013
FCC Seeks to Reassess RF Exposure Limits
Superpower Behind Iron Oxyfluoride Battery Electrodes
Homegrown Efforts to Recruit Women in Silicon Valley (whether they want it or not)
Cisco Buying Ubiquisys for Big Move into Mobile Coverage with Femtocells, Small Cells
USA Smartphone Penetration Level Reaches 57%
Material Turns 'Schizophrenic' on Way to Superconductivity
Android ↑13%, iOS ↓7%, BlackBerry ↓81%, Windows Phone up a massive ↑↑52%
10 Things BlackBerry Z10 Does That iPhone Can't
Microsoft Threatened as Smartphones and Tablets Rise (Win 8 isn't helping - I use 3rd-party app to get Start menu back)
Harvard Medical School Develops NFC Medication Tracking System
Samsung Expects to Post 53% Jump in Quarterly Profits
Why Undersea Internet Cables Are More Vulnerable Than You Think
German Researchers Successfully Transmit a Quantum Key from Fast-Moving Object
Graphene Makes Better Supercapacitors
Radar Shows U.S. Border Security Gaps
People Not in Labor Force Soar by 663,000 to 90 Million - 1979 Levels (but hey, stock market's way up and free health care next year - no problems)
3.6% Unemployment - for Government Workers
4/4/2013
Electronic Warfare: The Ethereal Future of Battle
Connected Car Initiative Gets Technology Suppliers
2013 World Amateur Radio Day Celebrates 100 Years of Disaster Communications
Upgrade of LHC Underway Paving Way (update: a black hole was created - international $$$ getting sucked in at astronomical rate)
Wireless Sensor Network to Help Prevent Power Cuts
Fewer Domestic Televisions Than Expected Affected by LTE Interference
Local Mobile Ad Revenues to Reach $9.1 Billion by 2017
Cobra Judy Replacement Radars Almost Ready for Strategic Deployment
Hong Kong Government Reports on NFC Payments Plans
Breaking Free of the Cellphone Carrier Conspiracy
Congress to Conduct Closed-Door Cyber Bill Debates (peon public doesn't need to know)
Intel Paid Its Ceo $19 Million in 2012
Chip Design – It's Not Rocket Science
Digital Still Cameras with Wi-Fi Capabilities Gaining Grounds in Southeast Asia
North Korea Warns Military Cleared to Wage Nuclear Attack on U.S.
Anonymous Declares War on North Korea
4/3/2013
Mobile Phone Celebrates 40th Anniversary
Light Tsunami in a Superconductor
Millimeter Wave Market Set to Double in 2013, Fueled by LTE Backhaul
2014 Will See 500m NFC Devices in Use
Navy Eyes Tactical Vehicle-Mounted UAV-Killing Laser
Swisscom LTE Coverage Reaches 35% of the Population
Qualcomm: 40 Manufacturers Have Built 170 Phones Using Reference Design Program
World Radiosport Team Championship 2014 Organizers Solicit Volunteers for Station Test
There's Robust Growth in the Global Space Economy
Biological Transistors Switch Way for Biosensors
Designer Carbon Provides Longer Battery Life
Windows 8 Ekes out 3.2% of Desktop OS Market
Seeking a Market for Cheap 3-D Printers
Thrusters Powered by Ionic Wind May Be Efficient Alternative to Conventional Propulsion
Unemployment in Euro Zone Reaches a Record High
U.S. Sees Highest Poverty Spike Since the 1960s (far out man, this is what Change looks like)
4/2/2013
FCC Launches Inquiry into Cell Phone Radiation Effects
Apple Apologizes to Chinese Customers for Arrogance, per Gov't-Run Media Charge
Raspberry Pi Comes to America, Sells out in Hours
Creating Magnetic Superatoms
Scientists Stipulate Requirements for NexGen Nuclear Power Generation
FCC Looks to Clarify Indecency Rules
Solar Downturn Casts a Shadow over Innovation (must need more Stimulus, aka my tax money)
First Screenshots of Facebook Software for Android Leaked
DOD IG Says Army Has Lost Control of Its Mobile Devices
Aereo Wins Court Battle, Dismaying Broadcasters
Quarks' Spins Dictate Their Location in the Proton
3-D IC Stacks Pushed Back to 2015
Globalfoundries Claims 3D Chip Breakthrough with TSVs
FCC: New 800 MHz Band Plan for U.S.-Mexico Sharing Zone (we already had it in CA, NM, TX, NC, etc. with all the Illegals using cellphones here)
Divided Federal Appeals Court Rules in Favor of Upstart TV Service
Akamai's Plan for a Wireless Data Fast Lane
4/1/2013
Spoiler Alert! April Fool's on the Internet
Smellable Search Results and Other April Fools' Tech Pranks
IEEE-USA Opposes Expanding H-1B Visa Program
Analog Devices CEO Jerry Fishman Dies
'Petaflop' Supercomputer is Decommissioned
Russians Selectively Blocking Internet
Goodbye Apple iPhone? Wearable Tech Is Coming
Aluminum-Air Battery Capable of Fueling Electric Vehicle for 1000 Miles
IG Says Army CIO Must Improve Commercial Mobile Device Security
Panasonic Unit Draws U.S. Bribery Probe
Solid State Ultrafast Logic Gate on a Photon
Smartphone Users Check Facebook 14 Times Daily (truly pathetic)
Why You Probably Didn't Notice the 'Worst Cyberattack in History'
Brazilian Carriers Invested $12.5B in 2012
Nissan 100% Electric Car Production in UK
Apple Refused a Trademark for iPad Mini
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