5/24/2013
Weird Science: Crystals Melt When They're Cooled
5/23/2013
Vintage Tech 'Firsts', Including Apple 1, up for Auction
Google Acquires Kite-Power Generator
New Technique May Open up Era of Atomic-Scale Semiconductor Devices
What 5G Will Be: Crazy-Fast Wireless Tested in NYC
Colour-Mixing Light Device Could Lead to Optical Computing
NIST Asks Industry for Custom Printed Circuit Boards for Laser Stabilization and Control
Model of Sun's Magnetic Field Created
Europe Launches $12B chip Support Campaign
How a Standard is Born: IEEE P1901.2 for Narrowband OFDM PLC
More Emphasis Needed on Recycling and Reuse of Li-ion Batteries
Star Trek into Darkness Gets NFC Promotion at Airports
Walmart Wants to Use Mobile to Transform Retail
Quantum or Not, New Supercomputer Is Certainly Something Else
Welcome to the World of Electric Paint
IEEE-USA Displeased with Weakening of U.S. Worker Provisions in Comprehensive Immigration Bill
Uncontrolled Immigration in Sweden Breeds Riots
5/22/2013
MobileOne to Boost Indoor 3G Coverage with Femtocells
Gloomy Forecast for Semi Industry
Did You Know? Someone Else Wrote Maxwell's Equations
Whirlpools on the Nanoscale Could Multiply Magnetic Memory
Universities "Not Providing Value for Money Study" (too much time spent indoctrinating w/social crapola)
Hypersonic Weapons Could Hit Battlefield by 2025
Robot Exoskeleton Suits That Could Make Us Superhuman
Couple's £163,000 Mobile Phone Bill Shock
Researchers Develop World's Smallest Metallic Nanorods
Milan Airport Installs 50,000 NFC Tags
Nanoscale Device Turns Light to Mechanical Action
CTIA 2013: Carrier Spending on Wi-Fi Set to Soar
Public Safety Experts Debate NextGen 911 in Wake of Oklahoma Tornado
For U.S. Companies, Money 'Offshore' Means Manhattan
Semiconductor Market Contracted in 2012 - IDC Expects 3-4% Growth in 2013
Fed Has Injected >$1 Trillion into Foreign Banks (not inc'l what has gone into U.S. banks - printed from thin air)
5/21/2013
40 Gbit/s at 240 GHz: New World Record in Wireless Data Transmission
Apple Sheltered $44 Billion from Taxes (pay little or no taxes anywhere, but chieftains donate heavily to the right pols)
Ireland Rejects Blame for Apple's Low Tax Rate
Samsung Gains on Apple in Ranking of Most Valuable Global Tech Brands
Military Vehicles in High Speed Data Connection
Method Developed to Print Highly Conductive, Bendable Layers of Graphene
Ruling Could Support FCC's Net Neutrality Defense
Guantanamo Wi-Fi Shut Down after Anonymous Threat
Below the Surface, Why Wireless Carriers Are Worrying
Physicists Develop Revolutionary Low-Power Polariton Laser
Researchers Improve Potential for Lithium-Air Batteries
Fastest Measurements Ever Made of Ion Channel Proteins
In-Flight Thieves Targeting Airline Travelers' Carry-On Bags
RFID Reduces Oxygen-Generator Waste for Delta Air Lines
1975 Newsweek: Tornado Outbreaks Blamed on Global Cooling
Chinese Hackers Gained Access To Database With Massive Files on U.S. Intelligence Targets
5/20/2013
Billion Dollar Deal Makes 26-Year-Old America's Next Tech Tycoon (I'm still waiting for a $Million deal for RF Cafe)
Thai Networks Agree to 15% Cut in 3G Tariffs
NEC Phone is Liquid-Cooled and Gender-Specific
High School Student Develops Supercapacitor, Wins Young Scientist Award
Teen Creates Gadget That Could Charge Your Cellphone in 20 Seconds (2nd place winner)
IEEE-USA Urges Senate to Reject Expanding H-1B Visa Program & Removing Safeguards for High-Skill Workers
Global Smartphone Shipments to Outstrip Feature Phones in 2013
Dayton Hamvention Saturday Roundup & Photos
Nanoantennas Improve Infrared Sensing
Millions Hit by Yahoo Japan Hack Attack
Financial Times Hit by Hackers
Attempt to Curb Bangladesh VoIP Services Backfires
Oops! The 5 Greatest Scientific Blunders
Government Agencies to Brief Industry on Upcoming Contracting Opportunities in August
Tech Industry Pushes to Amend Immigration Bill
Anchorage Sets New Record for Longest Snow Season (hmmm.... maybe I'll move to Anchorage)
5/19/2013
Google Insider Exposes 'Immoral' Tax Scam (no pro - they donate to the needed politicians)
Intel's New CEO Vows Rapid Growth in Mobile Market
NASA Says Sun Eruption Sending Billions of Tons of Particles to Earth
Watch the Biggest Explosion Ever Seen on the Moon (get the feeling we're close to being hit?)
Digital Multitasking Is Making Us Dumber
5/17/2013
Samsung to Launch 5G by 2020, Hits 1Gbps Speeds in Tests
Small Cells with Wi-Fi Set to Reshape Wireless Communications Market
Novel Material Shows Promise for Extracting Uranium from Seawater (really 'heavy water')
Imec and Renesas Collaborate on Low-Power Radio
FCC Hands out 3 Hefty Fines
Confession: I Prefer My Landline to My Cellphone (landline quality is much better - no delays or echoes)
Former QST Managing Editor Joel Kleinman, N1BKE, Inducted into CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame
Foxconn Says Needs More Time to Further Cut Workers' Overtime (maybe fewer suicide nets will be needed)
Femtosecond 'Snapshots' Reveal Dramatic Bond Tightening in Photo-Excited Gold Complexes
Nearly 75% of All Smartphones Sold in Q1 Were Android
1/3 of U.S. Smartphone Sales Were Prepaid in Q1
World's Smallest Liquid Droplets Ever Made in Lab
Google's Page Slams Focus on Competition in Tech, Draws Rebukes (of course he would discourage competition)
Whose Tech is Better: 'Star Trek' or 'Star Wars'?
'Facebook Fatigue' Stirs Investor Concern
IRS Official in Charge During Tea Party Targeting Now Runs Health Care Office (is this country screwed or what?)
5/16/2013
Smartphone Party Ending for Wireless Carriers
DARPA Seeks to Speed RF and Microwave Array Development for Radar, Comms, and SIGINT
FCC Fines Pennsylvania Man $18,000 for Failing to Allow Inspection of CB Station
Twitter Users Risk Damnation, Saudi Religious Police Say
NASA Buys into 'Quantum' Computer
Apple Deluged by Police Demands to Decrypt iPhones
New Electronics Coalition Pushes for Industry-Wide Collaboration
Smartphone Software That Automatically Enables Wi-Fi When Within Range
New insights into How Materials Transfer Heat Could Lead to Improved Electronics
Blue Bite Puts NFC Ads into 5,000 U.S. Taxis
8 Ways to Design End-of-Life into Your Products
Rarest Natural Element Study Could Enable New Radiotherapy
Windows Phone Overtakes BlackBerry in Q1 Smartphone OS Shipments
Can Samsung Overtake Apple in 2013?
Whatever Happened to the Ringtone?
Boston Reservoir Trespassed by 7 Foreign Chemical Engineer (nothing to see here folks, just move on)
5/15/2013
European Semi Sales Soar in Q1
3GPP and CDMA Certification Bodies to Align Efforts
Quantum Dot LED Approaches Theoretical Maximum Efficiency
More Good News for Radio in Phones
Creative Intros NFC Speakers
Electronics Comes to Paper
BlackBerry Shows off New Youth-Oriented Smartphone (need one w/accelerometer to autodial 911 after crash while texting)
Mathematician Proves There Are Infinitely Many Pairs of Primes <70M Units Apart
Anonymous Bidder Pays $610k for Coffee with Apple's Tim Cook
New Principle May Help Explain Why Nature is Quantum (Nov 2012 SciAm Unquantum Quantum suggests otherwise)
Even the Tech Elites Leave Gadgets Behind
Grading the Top 10 U.S. Carriers in the Q1 of 2013
Early Math and Reading Ability Linked to Job and Income in Adulthood (duh)
Warp Speed, Scotty: Faster Than Light Drives a Reality?
China Conducts Test of New Anti-Satellite Missile (last time they added about 1000s of new chunks of space debris)
May Snow in Britain (it's Global Warming!)
5/14/2013
France Mulls Smartphone and Tablet Tax to Fund Culture (c'est scandaleux!)
Telecom New Zealand Converting Payphone Booths into Wi-Fi Hotspots
2014 "I Am the ARRL" Video Contest Underway
New Payload Brings Jamming Capability to an Army UAS for the First Time
Glimpses of a World Revealed by Cell-Phone Data
The Commercial Side of Fast Wi-Fi on Flights
USAF Asks Industry for Handheld Link-16 Special Ops Networking Radios
Teens Who Text and Drive Also Don't Wear Seatbelts
Asia/Pacific Led Worldwide Mobile Phone Sales to Growth in Q1 of 2013
The Man Who Made a Majorana Particle
Verizon Wireless Surprises with $7B Dividend
Japan's Chip Vendors Slide Down Q1 Global Rankings
China Comes to Silicon Valley at One Startup Accelerator
Efficiency of Spectrum Use
Technology Strategy Board Secures Budget of £440M
New Obamacare Tax Form in 2014 Requires Your Personal Health Data (page 3, Minimum Coverage Provision)
5/13/2013
Crowdsourcing Saves Tesla Lab (the HV guy, not the car)
Qualcomm Surges 28%; World's 4th Largest IC Company.
Samsung Tips Breakthrough in '5G' Technology
Teen Girl Blocks Twitter Plot Spoilers to Win Hackathon
How to Mine Cell Phone Data Without Invading Your Privacy
Even the Tech Elites Leave Gadgets Behind
BT Branded 4G Service as Soon as Next Year
ESPN in Talks with U.S. Carrier on Toll-Free Data Plans
Chaos Could Improve Performance of Wireless Communication Systems
How to Make Light Go Faster
SheerWind Claims Its Wind Turbine Produces 600% More Power
Component Obsolescence: Is Your Process up to the Challenge?
Ohio Nonprofit to Run NASA Civilian Drone Contest
Google Kills off Physical NFC Card for Google Wallet
Bell Labs Group Aims at 90% Energy-Saving in Networks
HHS Secretary Shaking Down Private Companies to Fund [Un]Affordable Health Care (they - therefore we - are in deep doodoo)
Boom in DIY Dental Kits as Patients Cannot Afford NHS Fees
5/12/2013
Man Struck by Lightning After Answering Phone (remember what your mother told you about lightning storms and phones, plumbing)
Amazon's 3D Phone Could Simply Be a Wonder to Behold
Facebook Eyes $1B Deal for GPS App Waze
YouTube Users to Pay for Big Bird and Elmo
U. of Maryland Spins Huge Dynamo
5/10/2013
W. Va. Man Electrocuted After Shooting Down Power Line to Steal Copper (Darwin Award candidate, no Cu in power lines)
FCC Advances Plan for Faster In-Flight Wi-Fi
Why Employers Are So Reluctant to Hire New College Grads
Amazon Working on Smartphone with 3-D Display
Metamaterials Able to Control Spread of Light
Multiband LTE Will Need Better RF Design
New Comprehensive Research Confirms Power of Radio
UK Government Funds Gravel-Based Mechanical Battery
British Teenager Wins $100,000 U.S. Technology Fellowship
China Mobile Beefs up Supervision after Audit Finds Accounting Problems
New Magnetic Graphene May Revolutionize Electronics
Leak in Space Station's Radiator May Require Emergency Spacewalk
GSMA Calls for Feedback on NFC Loyalty and Coupon Proposals
AT&T Will Use Small Cells to Strengthen VoLTE Coverage
Facebook Mulling $1 Billion Investment in Location Based Mobile Services
Consumer Reports: Tesla Model S as Close to Perfect as a Car Gets
5/9/2013
FCC and GAO Release Recommendations on Receiver Performance
Breakthrough Paves Way for Graphene Sensor Applications
Silicon Valley Group's Political Effort Causes Uproar (many high tech CEOs highly political - Google their party donations)
Satellite Phones Obsolete; DISA Needs New, Secure Capability
Light Emission in 2D Semiconductors Increased by 100x
Top Smartphones May Soon Cost More Than $200
UK Public Backs Support for Aspiring Engineers
Radio Needs a Shot in the Arm
China May Not Overtake America This Century after All
Spintronics: New Magic in Magnetic Material
How Mobile App Developers Can Protect Themselves from Patent Trolls
Speed Test of Quantum Versus Conventional Computing
UK Mobile Phone Theft Rates Remain Stable at 2%
Crowdsourcing Smartphone Sensors to Build Weather Stations
Standard Model Goes PEAR-SHAPED in CERN Experiment
Bell Canada Profits Rise Despite Flat Revenue Performance
5/8/2013
Google Glass Picks up Early Signal: Keep Out
Philippine Telecom Quarterly Profits Plunge
Cold Atoms for Quantum Technology
Quantum Cloner Device Lets Hackers Hide in Background
Syrian Reports Widespread Internet Outage
2013 Global Amateur Radio Emergency Communications Conference (GAREC) June 25-27 in Zurich, Switzerland
Largest Ever Fiber-Optic Network
Study Finds Semiclassical Gravity Counterintuitive
Doorbell App Answers the Door with NFC
Comparing American and Chinese Mobile App Downloaders
Navy Looks to Repair and Rebuild Klystron Tubes for Shipboard Radar
Coming Soon: An App Explosion in China
Europe to Lose Role in Driving Global PV Market (very expensive electricity)
ST Licenses Russia-Backed Wi-Fi for SoCs
Windows 8 Update Public Preview to Be Released in June
Gun Crime Has Plunged, But Americans Think It's Up
5/7/2013
Dismal Unemployment Numbers for Electrical Engineers
Old School Pagers Cost Hospitals Billions
SAW, BAW and the Future of Wireless
In Vivo Flexible Large Scale Integrated Circuits Developed
U.S. Turns up Heat on Costly Commercial Cyber Theft in China
Los Alamos Reveals It's Been Running Quantum Network for 2½ Years
Meet the 15 Highest Paid Wireline Executives
Weakening BlackBerry Sales May Force Company into Asset Sales (media has attacked RIM unfairly over the years)
Chip Sales up 1% Through Q1
E.U. Rules Against Patent Move by Google's Motorola Unit
Nokia Investors Tell CEO Their Patience Running Thin
Scaling up Gyroscopes: From Navigation to Measuring the Earth's Rotation
Navy Shipboard Weapons Experts Look to Rochester for Hard-to-Find Electronic Parts (maybe you have a similar need)
Tsinghua Science and Technology Journal Goes Open Access
IE8 Exploit Had US Nuke Workers in Its Sights
Al Gore, Man of the People, Gets Paid >$1 Million a Day to Sit on Apple’s Board (iFool)
5/6/2013
Broadcast Video Will Soon Be Packed into Smartphone Signals
What You Need to Know About Upcoming Spectrum Auctions
Motorola Mobility Accused of Abusing Patents Licenses in Apple Lawsuit
Where Do Old Cellphones Go to Die? (see my article E-Waste... Just Don't Think About It)
DIY Invisibility with 3-D Printing
"Magicians" Reborn as Navy's 1st Squadron to Operate Manned and Unmanned Aircraft
Physicists Present a Non-Destructive Technique for Measuring at the Atomic Scale
Apple Raises Debt to Avoid $9.2 Billion Tax Bill (a company all for having gov't raising taxes on its customers)
Is Massively Open Online Education a Threat or a Blessing?
Samsung 3D Camera Gets NFC
Students Build Electric Racing Car
Baidu: China's Search Engine
NASA Chief Urges Congress to Fund Private Space Taxis
Working Gun Made with 3D Printer
Chinese Attackers Infiltrate Defense Contractor, Steal Sensitive Military Technology
Pizza Reduces Cancer Risk, Italian Researchers Say (between coffee & pizza I should live forever)
5/5/2013
New Method Joins GaN and Diamond for Better Thermal Management
'Going Negative' Pays for Nanotubes
Facebook CEO Reaped $2.3B Gain on Stock Options (yet not considered part of the "evil 1%")
More Than 1B Tablets to Be in Use by 2017
USAF's Scramjet Aircraft Hits Mach 5.1
5/3/2013
Qualcomm Proposes a Cell-Phone Network by the People, for the People
Alaska Phishing Pupils Take over Classroom Computers
Navy Launches Its First Drone Squadron (très cool)
Mystery Motorola Smartphone Photos Leaked
Fabless to Command 1/3 of IC Market by 2017
'Graphene Sandwich' Unlocks Solar Cell Properties of 2D Crystal
U.S. Wireless Network Traffic Reaches 1.468 Trillion MB in 2012
HF Radio Switch Module for Connecting 32 Transceivers and Antennas Released by DRS
New Measurement Tool for Fast-Growing MEMS Industry
Dutch Police May Get Right to Hack in Cyber Crime Fight
Hurricane Watch Net Seeks New Members for Net Control Stations
UN Report Wants Moratorium on Killer Robots (it wouldn't be fair to the terrorists who don't have any)
Huawei Won't Hang up on U.S. Smartphone Market
New Experiments Set to Detect Gravitational Waves
Corporate Jet Center Exposes Silicon Valley's Class Divide
Congressional Debate over Science Funding Draws Fire from Critics
5/2/2013
Nanowire Transistors May help Keep Moore's Law Alive
The Single Most Valuable Document in the History of the World Wide Web
Tiny Device Will Detect Nearby Domestic Drones
Cellphone Thefts Grow, but Industry Looks the Other Way
Front-Seat TV Unwelcome in U.S. Auto Market
Airbus Guides EADS Divisions' RFID Adoption
Vodafone Ireland Starts Deploying 4G Services
Samsung Eyes Windows, White House as DoD Approves Its Devices
Financier and Former Telecom Executive Tom Wheeler Nominated as FCC Chairman
Nanocrystals Able to Squeeze Through Nanotubes Without Changing
With Florida Project, the Smart Grid Has Arrived
U.S. Wireless Network Traffic Reaches 1.468 Trillion MB in 2012
Use of Laser Light Yields Versatile Manipulation of a Qbit
Apple's iPad Growth Slows as UK Tablet Market Continues to Expand
Qualcomm Rises in 2012 Analog Chip Market
Russian Space Junk Almost Destroys NASA Telescope
5/1/2013
How War on Korean Peninsula Could Affect Worldwide Electronics Production
Bistable Graphene Transistor Could Surpass Silicon's Speed
Craving Wi-Fi, Preferably Free and Really Fast
GPS Tags for Dementia Patients
Annual Armed Forces Day Crossband Test Scheduled for May 11
New Magnetic State of Bismuth Ferrite Observed
Direct Evidence of How Atoms of Antimatter Interact with Gravity
FCC Releases 2011 International Traffic Data
4 in 10 Smartphone Users Fail to Take Most Basic Security Measures
Lasers, Microwave Deployed in High-Speed Trading Arms Race (seem my Arbitrage via Microwaves article)
Scientists Develop Smart RFID-Enabled Paper
Big Companies Are Investing in Service that Listens to Phone Calls
Shattered Glass: New Theory Explains How Things Break
2014 Trips to Space by Virgin Galactic
Nearly Million Israeli Switch Mobile Networks in Six Months
Employee Benefits Fall as Firms Brace for 'Free' Healthcare (January's just around the corner - brace for it)
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