3/31/2013
USPTO Announces 2013
National Inventors Hall of Fame Inductees
Sound Cloaks Enter the Third Dimension
Why I Think LinkedIn Endorsements Will Be Dead by the End of the Year
Verizon Ready for LTE Small-Cell Advance
Alchemy? Scientists Discover Method for Selectively
Creating Elements from Fissile Mass Fragments
2/29/2013
Domestic Electricity Meters Also Delivering
Municipal Wi-Fi Coverage (your house will be a wi-fi hot spot whether you
like it or not)
Engineers Enable 'Bulk'
Silicon to Emit Visible Light for the First Time
Egypt Arrests as Undersea Internet
Cable Cut off Alexandria
NZ Telecom Cuts Jobs, Restructures
to Improve Competitiveness
Northrop
Grumman Joins DARPA Sensor-Fusion Program to Reduce Military Reliance on GPS
DARPA Envisions the Future of Machine Learning
Chinese
Regulator Calls for Tighter Supervision of Apple
Theorists Find Junctions in Polycrystalline Graphene Sap Its Strength
SPIE Urges Congress to Boost Jobs, Economy Through Photonics Support (yeah,
like with solar - we pay development, China produces, we lose)
Nearly Half of U.S. Commuters Admit
to Texting While Driving
Adults Text More Than Teens While Driving
Russian RFID Tag Company Reaches for
Worldwide Audience
Light May
Recast Copper as Chemical Industry 'Holy Grail'
Green Peak's Radio Chip
Touts Wi-Fi, ZigBee Coexistence
SiLabs Aims for Chinese Radio Makers
Google
Decision Going into Local Delivery Business
Can Small Reactors Ignite a Nuclear Renaissance?
2/28/2013
Google Leads 'White-Space' Trial in South Africa
Why
IBM Made a Liquid Transistor
Automatic Backup for GPS Successfully
Demonstrated in Jamming Trial
Two Hams Scheduled
to Head to ISS This Week
Semiconductor
'Shish Kabob' Nanostructures Combine Properties from Different Dimensions
Where in the World Are Windows Phones Outselling iPhones?
Learning Causes Physical Damage to the Brain
Open Radio Competition
Produces New Harris Model
HTC Receives 'Several Hundred Thousand' U.S. Pre-Orders for One Smartphone
How Hard Is It to 'De-Anonymize' Cellphone
Data?
Privacy 'Impossible' With Google Glass
Warn Campaigners
U.S. Law to Restrict Government Purchases of Chinese IT Equipment
2014 Will See 500m NFC Devices in Use
UK Smart Grid Trial Generates Positive Consumer Feedback (who needs privacy
when the gov't can decide everything for you?)
TI Claims Chip Will Cut Smartphone Charge Time in Half
Calif. Administrator Receives $423,664 a Year Pension
3/27/2013
Web Slows Under 'Biggest Attack Ever'
Laser
Empties Atoms from the Inside Out
New Process to Make
Nanospheres
Night Owls Are Both Brighter and Wealthier Than Early Risers (Poor
Richard's not too happy about this)
Seamless Wi-Fi
Offload Offers Promise for Capacity, Cost
LinkedIn Lets Users Cast Wider Search Net
New 3-D Display Could Let Phones and Tablets Produce Holograms
Gang Who Targeted Mobile Phone Stores
Sentenced (homies in UK know shop owners can't even keep a baseball bat for
protection - congratulations)
Why Are TV Remotes So Terrible?
Measuring the Magnetism of Antimatter
NIST Tests
Highlight Potential Hazards of Green Laser Pointers
'Metascreen' Forms
Ultra-Thin Invisibility Cloak
U. of Central Florida Launches New Undergrad Program in Photonics
Breakthrough in Race
to Create 'Bio-Batteries'
He Has Millions and a New Job at Yahoo. Soon, He'll Be 18.
T-Mobile USA Removes Subsidies
in Bid to Shake up Wireless Market
Eagle Death at Nevada Wind Farm Brings Federal Scrutiny (this is news?)
3/26/2013
Copper-Based Screen Cloaks Objects from Microwaves
ZTE Completes World's First LTE Civil
Aviation Ground-Air Broadband Test
DARPA Looking for
Answers to Protect Wireless Defense Networks
Paint-on Plastic Electronics:
Aligning Polymers for High Performance
Study Shows How Easy It Is to
Determine Someone's Identity with Cellphone Data
Nanowires Suck up Light from Around Them
Luring Young Cyberwarriors Is a U.S. Priority.
Open That
iPad Before You Buy It
FCC to Auction 1695-1710 MHz and 1755-1780 MHz Bands as Early as 2014
Student Loan Write-Offs Hit $3B in First 2 Months of 2013 (those <Fill
in the blank> Studies degrees net burger flipping - or government if lucky - jobs)
FCC Grants ARRL's Request for Temporary Waiver for TDMA Systems
Classic Bluetooth Devices to See Fastest
Growth Outside of Mobile Handsets
Info Superhighway Reaches Light Speed
Google Makes 'Ungoogleable' Unusable in Sweden
Mind-Bending Optical Illusions
EU Savings Accounts Open to Raiding to Save the € (assumption is you
are 'rich' if you have savings even if due to frugalness and self-sacrifice - like with me)
3/25/2013
Study Warns on Mobile Location
Data Privacy
Low-Noise Amplifier Can Detect Radiation Traces
Observing Electrons
in Real-Time Could Lead to Faster Computing
FAA May Loosen Curbs on Fliers' Use of Electronics
Particle Research Could Lead to Controllable Nuclear Batteries
FCC Stays Neutral on Whether Wireless Market is Competitive
Microchip
Adapts to Severe Damage
Amateur Radio at the National Association of Broadcasters Convention
What
Is Nothing? Physicists Debate (a very good question, since cosmologists say
that is what the universe came from)
MIDS JTRS Now Fielding
Its First Airborne Platform
Apple Facing European Investigation
over iPhone Pricing
InfoChip Adds Sniper Device for Reading Tiny Tags with NFC Phones
Nanowire Solar
Cells Raise Efficiency Limit
China 'to Overtake America by 2016'
Apple Can Now Track You Indoors
$500M Aid for Palestinians,
While Closing 150 FAA Control Towers in U.S. &
Furloughing
U.S. Workers
3/24/2013
Pentagon Shoots Down Dump-BlackBerry Rumor
Estonia's Student Cubesat Satellite Ready for Next Vega Launch
North American Semi Equipment Industry Posts February 2013 Book-to-Bill 1:1.1
Mexico Lower House Passes Telco
Reform Bill
New Chinese President to the West: Don't Meddle in Foreign Affairs (while
their
lobbyists buy off our politicians)
3/22/2013
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski Says He Will Step Down
China to Create Home-Grown Operating
System (COS or Chinux?)
Nanotube Vibration Could Act as Data Storage
International RFID Institute Prepares
Certification Program
A Strange Computer Promises Great Speed
BlackBerry Z10 Comes to Carriers
EU Regulator Monitors Apple iPad and iPhone Distribution
Nokia Boss Throws Away an Apple iPhone
on TV
Want Your Company to Grow? Fire Your Managers!
Fantastic Flash Memory
Combines Graphene and Molybdenite
LTE Broadcast Technology Prepares to Shine
VOA Radiogram
Officially Launches This Weekend
No Map? No
GPS? No Problem
Pew: "We Stand by Our
Research on HD Radio"
Microsoft Opens up on Law Enforcement Requests
Personality Clue
to 'Wind Turbine Syndrome'
3/21/2013
USA Tech Firm Outsourcing to Reach Record
Levels in 2013 (our citizens don't need those jobs, right?)
TSA Tested, Scrapped Program That Tracked Bluetooth Devices
China's ZTE Ranked Top in Patent Applications
for2nd Year
Foxconn International Posts Biggest-Ever Loss in 2012 (those suicide nets
on buildings are darned expensive)
Your Next Smartphone Screen May Be Made of Sapphire
Thuraya SatSleeve
Brings Satellite Connectivity to the iPhone
Variable-Property Metamaterial Has Optical Application Potential
Fantastic Flash Memory
Combines Graphene and Molybdenite
Planck's Most Detailed
Map Ever Reveals an Almost Perfect Universe
Time to Market: A Tale of 2 Products
>
Billion/2 Connected Devices in U.S. Homes
Wireless Dongle Transfers 40 Mbyte/s Without Wi-Fi
LTE Broadcast Technology Prepares to Shine
Copyright Law Needs Broad Digital Overhaul
Whole Internet Probed for Insecure
Devices
DHS to Let Saudi Passengers Skip Normal Passport Controls (while cavity-searching
your grandmother)
3/20/2013
India to Emerge As the Electronics Manufacturing
Services Hub in Asia
Hughes Demonstrates
Satcom Through Rotor Blades on Military Helicopters (circular polarization?)
Nanofabrication Technique Doubles Hard Drive Capacity
Walmart Adds iPhone Scan-and-Checkout Feature to 12 More Markets
German Student Creates Device That Harvests Energy from Air
Research Shows Potential
for Quasicrystals
Quantum Computer Could Tackle Prime Number Mystery
ARRL Announces
a Campaign for Its Second Century
LTE Availableby 156 Carriers, 67 Countries, 1.8 GHz Band Dominates
DARPA
to Brief Industry on Network Security to Operate Through Bad Wireless Nodes
Math Careers Just Don't Add up For Women
Alloy Has Potential
for Electronics in Oil, Gas and Geothermal Wells
U.S. Said to Look into Microsoft Bribery Allegations
Hong Kong Regulator Announces Winners
of Radio Spectrum Auction
S. Korean Banks and Media Suspect N. Korea in Massive Computer Network Crash
Survey: Apple Brand Less 'Inspiring'
(I never bit on the Apple apple, iTunes movies download severely slowly)
3/19/2013
Unwanted Electronic Gear Rising in Toxic Piles
Samsung Confirms Smart Watch as Apple War Moves to Wrist
Negative-Charge Carrying
Molecular Structures Created
China, India Outspending U.S. in Semiconductors
'Sandwich' Effect Unlocks Low-Cost Laser Material
Successful Test Production of Graphene Paper Announced
Inside Secure Introduces Dual Interface NFC Tag
Operators Increasingly Abolishing Handset
Subsidies, Turning to Financing
ARRL Executive Committee Focused on FCC and Regulatory Items at March Meeting
DARPA Seeks More Robust Military
Wireless Networks
New Microscope Measures
Nanomagnet Property Vital to 'Spintronics'
Why Low PIM Is Critical for High-Performance DAS
Cambridge-Based Smartphone
Chip Designer Boss to Retire
36% of U.S. Subscribers Might Ditch Their Carrier in Next 12 Months
Here's Where They Make China's Cheap Android Smartphones
FBI Arrests NASA Contractor Employee Trying to Flee to China (what did they
expect; why was he there in the first place? morons)
3/18/2013
1,600 Jobs at Stake As ST-Ericsson to
Be Split Up
FCC Cracks
Down on Cell Phone Robocalls
Army Eyes
VHF Aircraft Radar Able to Detect Hidden IEDs from Altitudes as High as 25,000 Feet
Internet Pioneers Win Engineering
Prize (notice how same people win all the different prizes)
Self-Assembled Nanostructures
Enable a Low-Power Phase-Change Memory for Mobile Electronic Devices
Handset Replacement Cycles Haven't Changed in 2 Years
Mobile Phone Use While Driving More Prevalent in U.S.
London School of Fashion Tackles Fabric Sensors
How Not to Launch Your Biggest Tech Product Ever
Who Made That Cellphone?
Internet's 'Bad Neighborhoods' Identified
U.S. Mobile Data Revenues Exceeded $20
Billion in Last 3 Months of 2012
Intel Leads Surprise Inventory Decline
For Investors, Mobile Startup Boom Gives Way to Caution
Helium-3 and Lunar Power for Earth Reactors
Verizon Looks to Turn TV Fee Rules on Their Heads
3/17/2013
Google
Glass: The Opposition Grows
U.S. to Deploy More Ground-Based Missile Interceptors as North Korea Steps up Threats
(this is 'Star Wars' technology lampooned in 1980s by many on Capitol Hill today)
NIST Mechanical Micro-Drum Used as Quantum Memory
$14 Trillion Opportunity in Internet of Things
'Metasurfaces' to Usher
in New Optical Technologies
Mystery Motorola-Google Phone Dials up Web Speculation
3/15/2013
Qualcomm Expected to Ignite CMOS PA Market
Army Unit Bound for Afghanistan to Use First on-the-Move Comms Network
4G Interference Organization Founded
Samsung Galaxy S4 Eye-Tracking Smartphone
Unveiled
Nanoscale Spinning
Magnetic Droplets Created
Power Sensor First to
Measure DC to 110 GHz Range
Quantum Teleportation
Performed with Light from a Quantum Dot Embedded in an LED
Mexico's Telecom Reform Clears First Hurdle in Congress
Smallest Vibration Sensor in the Quantum World
13 New
Solutions Found to Newtonian 3-Body Orbit Problem
Voice of America to Test Digital Transmissions This Weekend
Here's Where They Make China's Cheap Android Smartphones
Teen Sexting, the Gender Gap
Lack of Bandwidth, Interoperability Slow Video Collaboration Adoption
NPL Takes Lab Metrology out to the Smart Grid
Electrons Behaving
Like a Particle and a Wave
3/14/2013
Mystery Customer Places Order for 1,000,000
BlackBerry Smartphones
CERN Physicists
Say New Particle is Higgs Boson (they really mean it this time)
Average UK Broadband Speeds Hit Double
Figures
'RFduino' Joins Open-Source RF Movement
10,000 NFC Ad Panels Go Live Across the UK
Consumers Want Radio
in the Dash
37% of U.S. Teens Now Have a Smartphone
Developing Nations Put Nuclear on Fast-Forward (while we erect windmills
- literally Quixotic)
Overheard Phone Calls More Memorable,
Rated More Distracting Than Other Background Talking
Rechargeable Metal-Air Batteries Head to Market
NASA
Starts Making Plutonium Again
'Serendipitous Interaction' Key To Tech Firms' Workplace Design
Overheating Caused Outlook and Hotmail
Shutdown
How to Transmit Light Instead of Electricity on PC Boards
Researchers Find 25 Countries Using Surveillance Software
3/13/2013
Global Military Comms and COTS Market Valued at $17.4 Billion
Flexible,
Semitransparent Power Source Made with Novel Comb-Teeth Structure
Taking Transistors
into a New Dimension
Bulk of India's Mobile Internet Access
Takes Place in the Evening
Coherent Propagation of Single Spin Impurity in Chain of Ultracold Atoms
The Real Tech Action is in Emerging Markets
Increasing Electronics Reliability with Conformal Coatings
SAIC, Vadum
Join DARPA EW Initiative to Counter Programmable Adaptive Radar
Marvell Ordered to Pay $1.2 Billion in Patent Case
Radio Dropping Rates
to Get the Buy
New International Safety Requirements for Lab Equipment
FCC Approves T-Mobile/MetroPCS Merger
Valley of Death Blocks Start-ups, Says Commons.
Colombia Plans 4G License Auction in
June
Google Hit by $7 Million Street View
Fine
46.6 Million U.S. Residents on Food Stamps
in 2012 (up from 28.2 M in 2008 - definitely change, little hope)
3/12/2013
China's Lenovo Mulls Takeover Bid for
BlackBerry Manufacturer (what!?!)
French Team Unveils 3D Nano-Transistor
Shining a Spotlight on Female Engineers
Creating Indestructible
Self-Healing Circuits
Room-Temperature Electrically Powered Nanolasers
GM and Ford Committed
to In-Dash Radio
LTE Finally
Launches in Chile
6.6% Semi Growth for 2013
Yahoo's
Mayer Gets Internal Flak for Snubbing Job Candidates Not from Prestigious Schools
Super Nanowire
Composite Solves 'Valley of Death' Riddle
Air Force Scours
Industry for Replacement Part to B-2 Bomber Communications System
Mexico to Revamp Telecoms Regulator
to Break up Monopoly Markets
China Working
with U.S. For New-Type Relations
Will Wireless Compete with Broadband?
On the Ball in Sports with Electronics Sensor and Wireless Charging Technology
Jimmy Kimmel Man-on-the-Street Interview
Video Re the Sequester (yep, these people vote)
3/11/2013
Public Rebuke for Noisy Mobile Phone
User on Train
New Samsung Galaxy Could Be Controlled by the Eyes
Chip
Wars Could Drive Mobile Customers Nuts
Electronic Sensors Printed Directly on the Skin
New Player in Electron
Field Emitter Technology Makes for Better Communications
Graphene
Researchers Create 'Superheated' Water That Can Corrode Diamonds
Scammers'
New Target: Your Cell Phone
Harvard Search of E-Mail Stuns Its Faculty Members
MTS Sole Bidder for Indian 800 MHz
Spectrum Auction
AT&T to Begin Taking Preorders of BlackBerry Z10 Phone
Celebrating Women in the Electrical Industry
UK's Future Depends on Engineers
Google's Star
Rises as Apple Fades
Solved: Riddle of What Has Been Holding Two Unlikely Materials Together
A Cold, Harsh Reality
For Radio
Building a Better Battery
3/10/2013
Mediatek Trumps Qualcomm in RF with World’s Smallest Transceiver
Czech Telco Regulator Suspends
Spectrum Auction
Laser-Processed
Sapphire Allows Increased Thickness of HVPE GaN
Long Predicted Atomic Collapse State Observed in Graphene
Army Suspends Tuition Assistance for Troops --
Colorado to Lower Tuition for Illegals (anyone else see something wrong w/this
picture?)
3/8/2013
U.S. Seeks More Manufacturing Tech Centers
Gates, Zuckerberg to Kids: Learn to Code
Most Brits Are 'Mobile-Phobic' Abroad
Canada to Auction 700 MHz Spectrum November 19
Apple Could Ditch Samsung for Intel in Chip Production
Microchip Markets RFID Technology
that Transmits via the Human Body
Motorola Mobility to Cut 1,200 Jobs Amid
More Restructuring
DARPA
Releases Solicitation for Program to Reuse Parts from Orbiting Dead Satellites
Method to Avoid Decoherence
in a Quantum System
Reding Fights U.S. to Protect Europeans' Data Rights
Government Takes Legal Action Over Phone Spam
A Shrinking Garmin Navigates the Smartphone Storm
Metamaterial Brings Extra Clarity to Ultrasound Images
Look for Comet
Pan-STARRS in Western Sky Tonight
80% of NTC High School Grads Can't Read (only
$19k spent per pupil there - more taxes needed!)
Bees Get a Buzz from Caffeine
3/7/2013
Century-Old Mystery Solved: Source of Low-Frequency Electronic 1/f Noise
Wireless Service Spending Increases
Among Customers on Faster Networks
Samsung Ranked Top Filer of Patents in Europe
A Startup That Scores Job Seekers, Whether They Know It or Not
Scientists
Zero in on Identifying 'God Particle' (media has been acting like Higgs was
a done deal)
Thales to Assess Future Military Communications Needs for EU
Record Complaints About Mobile Phone Insurance
3D Smartphones: The Quick Death of a Nascent Technology
IEEE USA: 'We Are
a Nation of Immigrants, Not Guest Workers'
Apple Targets Cut as Brokers See Slowdown
Florida Ham Issued $25k Fine for Operating Unlicensed Radio Transmitter, Interfering with Licensed Communications
Searching For
a Twist in Neutron Spin Axis, Physicists Find Nothing
SEMI Spending Flat This Year; Up 24% Next Year
Radio Concerned About
Losing the Dashboard
U.S. President 'Has Authority to Use Drone Strikes to Kill Americans on U.S. Soil'
(no problem)
North Korea Says It Will Launch Nuclear Attack on America (world supposed
to love us now that we have the right pres)
3/6/2013
Florida Hams Prove that Ham Radio Works When Cell Phones Don't
Telecoms Operators Gain Right to Disclose
Deceased Person's Digital Estate to Heirs
Why the Library of Congress Has a Lock on Your Phone
BlackBerry Shares
Rise 5%
Researcher Finds Moore's Law and
Wright's Law Best Predict How Tech Improves
Google Accused of Dominating Chinese
Smartphone Market
You May Now Kiss the Computer Screen (this is weird)
EU Fines Microsoft $730 Million over Browser
What Does the Internet Look Like? There's an App for That
Carbon Nanowires Obtained by Tempering Diamantane Dicarboxylic Acid Inside Carbon Nanotubes
(yeah, I was wondering if that would work)
Microsoft Caves to Office 2013 Licensing Backlash
HTC's Sales Drop 44% as Windows Phone Does Little to Slow Decline
GSMA Reports on NFC Experience at MWC
Man Cuts Neighbor's Internet, Phone Lines to Relieve Pressure on His Brain
Radio for Medical Wireless Sensors
Vodafone
Boosts U.K. Stocks to 2013 High
3/5/2013
Graphene Antennas Would Enable Terabit Wireless Downloads
A Cellphone That Can Be Implanted into
the Brain (probably no SAR issues there)
$5.5 Million Worth of Copper
Stolen from Rail Cars
UCLA Graphene Supercapitors Could Revolutionize Storage
T-Mobile Might Ditch 2-Year Contract Requirement
Vortex Loops Could
Untie Knotty Physics Problems
Dow Fuels Strong Tech Gains; Qualcomm Jumps
DARPA Issues Presolicitation Notice for Satellite Recycling Project
Montana Governor Signs Legislation to Protect Mobile Amateur Radio Operations from Distracted Driving Regulations
RFID Scores High at Australian Open
Micro 3-D Printer Creates Tiny Structures in Seconds
What Unlocked Phones Mean For Businesses
OPEL Announces
RF & Microwave Test Results for Both n- and p-Channel Transistors Fabricated in POET GaAs Process
Qualcomm to Buy Back $5 Billion Of its
Own Shares
Physicists Make
Discovery in the Quantum Realm by Manipulating Light
DARPA Program
Seeks to Operate Long-Endurance UAVs from Fleets of Small Ships
3/4/2013
Getting Around Heisenberg's
Uncertainty Principle
Where Apps Meet Work, Secret Data Is at Risk
LHC Team
Observes First Instance of D-Mesons Oscillating Between Matter and Antimatter
FCC Issues $10,000 Fine to Missouri Man for Unlicensed Operation on 14.312 MHz
Judge Cuts Damages in Apple/Samsung Patent Case by $450M
Global
Chip Sales Start Brightly in 2013
Turbulence in a Crystal
Next-Gen Rad-Hard Space Microprocessor to Be Defined by Air Force and NASA
AT&T Notches 2.7B Wi-Fi Connections in 2012
MWC
2013: Putting White Space to Work
Canadian Regulators Agree on New Rules
for Base Station Deployments
Magnetoelectrics Could Advance Computer Memory, Ending Reliance on 1s and 0s
When Should You Integrate ZigBee Radio with Your Micro?
Solar Cycle Update: Twin Peaks?
(we called them Dolly Parton waveforms in the USAF)
Malware Is Moving from PCs to Mobile Devices
Denmark Wants $1 Billion in Back-Taxes from Microsoft
3/3/2013
USPTO and NIST Release
New Version of IP Awareness Assessment Tool
Van
Allen Radiation Belt Study Reveals Surprises
Logitech Reorganizes to Focus
on Mobile Products
Is Your Smartphone Making You Stupid?
Americans See
Biggest Monthly Income Drop in 20 Years (as prices go up, up ,up)
High Taxation Causing Americans to Renounce Citizenship, Become British (Canada's
looking pretty good to me these days)
3/1/2013
5-Year Old Boy Spends $2,600 Bill on
iPad Games
Sergey
Brin: Smartphones Are 'Emasculating'.(...but Google Glasses will make you
a real man?)
DARPA
to Brief Industry 18 March on Program to Create RF Phased Array Building Blocks
U.S.
Wireless Carriers Move to New Technology—for Voice
Third Radiation Belt Can
Wrap Around Earth
Sequester
Cuts Could Hit Scientists Hard (but you can bet the oPhones will continue
unabated)
Verizon Again Raises Possibility of
$100 Billion Vodafone Buy-Out
ITT Exelis Wins International Battlefield Radio Deal
U.S. Teen Designs
Compact Nuclear Reactor
Manufacturing Survey Shows Fall in Activity
iPhone
5 with Scratch Resistant Sapphire Screen Demoed
India Hikes Taxes on Premium Mobile
Phones
4D Printed Objects 'Make Themselves'
China Accuses U.S. of Hacking Military Sites
West Virginia Taken to the Cleaners by Cisco (yet another Stimulus payola
scam)
SpaceX Rocket Heads for ISS