11/29/2013
'Bunny
Boiler' Spy App Lets You Track Cellphone, Listen to Calls, Lock Phone
New Effect Couples
Electricity and Magnetism in Materials
World's 5 Largest Intellectual
Property Offices Release Annual IP5 Statistics Report
Chips Meet Tubes: World's 1st Terahertz Vacuum Amplifier
Smartphones to Cost Average of Just $265 by 2017
RFMD Antenna Control Solutions
with New Impedance Tuners for Smartphones and Mobile Devices
Austrian Operators Appeal
Against 'Exorbitant' LTE Spectrum Fees
Using Lasers and Sensors to Catch Film Bootleggers in Action
Dawning of the Age of Quantum Information Teleportation
11/28/2013
Comet
ISON Approaches Sun for Thanksgiving Flyby
Third of Mobile Phones Cut off in
Niger
Making a Gem of a
Tiny Crystal
The Drive for SSDs: What's Holding Back NAND Flash? (a great summary)
Flash Shortages Drive SSD
Shifts
Internet Radio
Fairness Act Quietly Fizzles Out
Dish Could Spend up to $10.7B on LightSquared, H Block, AWS-3 and 600 MHz Spectrum
Judge Drops SIM Cards Case Against ex-Telecom Italia Managers
Most Common Smartphone Complaints
Revealed
11/27/2013
Thanksgiving
Cooking Resources for Engineers
The Importance of Mentors
Software Mines Science Papers to Make New Discoveries
60% of CE Christmas Shoppers Plan to
Purchase at Least One Device on Black Friday
2/3 of U.S. Consumers Prefer Wi-Fi over Cellular
Tablets to Make up Half
of 2014 PC Market
Amateur Radio Remains a Communication Mainstay in Storm-Stricken Philippines
Ex-Nokia Employees Launch
Smartphone
No Tech Bubble Here
GPS
III Passes Compatibility Test
Raytheon Moves Toward Full Production of Multispectral Avionics Targeting Sensor
Takeover Rumors are Back in South
Africa Mobile
Best Buy Accounts for 13% of All Mobile Retail Sales, Apple Follows at 11%
Axed Wind Farm Puts Gov't Subsidy Levels in Spotlight (they're
horrendously expensive per kWh)
Much
Anticipated Comet May Be in Trouble
Europe Threatens to Freeze U.S. Data-Sharing Arrangements
11/26/2013
Qualcomm Faces China Antitrust Probe
The Physics of Beer Tapping
(video)
IBM Wins Gordon Bell Prize
Researchers
Discover Roots of Superfluorescent Bursts from Quantum Wells
1 in 10
Say They Have an NFC Phone
X-Rays Reveal New Feature of High-Temperature Superconductivity
Wireless Recharging on the Move
NSA May Have Hit Internet Companies at a Weak Spot
U.S. Regulator Bans Firm from Using
Mobile Phone Bills to Charge Consumers
Are Electric Vehicles a Fire Hazard?
'Quantum
Cheshire Cats' Added to List of Quantum Paradoxes
Home Depot #1 Radio
Advertiser
SpaceX Delays First Satellite Launch Due to Technical Glitch
BlackBerry Shakes up Management, Ousts Top Execs
Nanotubes
Can Solder Themselves
Apple May Be Delaying New Product Launches
Until Later in 2014
11/25/2013
Manufacturing Is Officially Coming Home
Foxconn to Build
Plant in Pennsylvania (will facilities include
suicide nets?)
Novel X-Ray Device Developed
Night Vision Coming to Smartphones
Backlash by the Bay: Tech Riches Alter a City (morons protest 'technorati')
India Cuts Spectrum Reserve Fees Ahead
of January's Auction
Tactical Bat Drone Wages
Electronic Warfare
NI, University of Edinburgh Collaborate on Massive MIMO Visible Light Comms to Advance 5G
Printing LiIon Batteries
NY Troopers in Gas Guzzling SUVs Peer in on Texting Drivers
FCC's Mobile Speed Test App Has Been Installed 30,000 Times So Far
Sci-Fi Museum Coming to D.C.
Why Would You Risk
Storing Your Company Docs in 'the Cloud?" (nothing is 'free')
NSA 'Infected' 50,000 Networks with
Malware
China Tests
Stealth Drone
Inside
a Twitter Robot Factory (don't believe the 'Follower' numbers)
11/24/2013
When Graphene Meets
a Semiconductor
Samsung Ordered to Pay Apple $290 Million
Electrostatic
Protection for Gallium Nitride Circuits
World's
Largest Particle Detector IceCube Detects First High-Energy Neutrinos (or
not)
Experimental 'Cubesats' Designed for Range of National Security, Science Missions
Price of Electricity Hit Record for October; Up 42% in Decade ("Under my
plan of a cap and trade system, electricity
rates would necessarily skyrocket")
11/22/2013
Speaking
out Against Cell Service on Planes
Finding Occam's Razor
in an Era of Information Overload (new data suggests Occam used a
Lady Gillette, not a Schick
)
Qualcomm Wants LTE Deployed on Unlicensed Spectrum
IR Vision Can See Through - and into -Multiple Layers of Graphene
Will 2-D Tin Be the Next Super
Material?
FCC, FAA Considers Allowing Cellphones Above 10,000'
Uptick in the Hiring of Women for Tech Jobs
Software Troll Patent Reform Died in U.S. House, Thanks to IBM, Microsoft
12% Semi Insustry Growth in 2014
Air Force Seeks Laser Weapons for Next Generation Fighters
LG Promises Update for 'Spying' Smart
TV
AMSAT-UK FUNcube-1
Satellite in Orbit
First High School Satellite Among November Ham Satellite Bonanza
GPS
III Passes Compatibility Test
Engineering
Is Much More Than 'Engineering Decisions'
Qualcomm Collaborates with Samsung to
Support Chinese GPS Service
Google's Billionaire Execs Vacationing on Taxpayer Dime? (do you really think
they hand over your personal data for free?)
11/21/2013
The Battle over a Smartphone Kill Switch
DOD Gradually
Embracing Open Source (suggestion: call it Snowden-Source)
ARRL Files "Symbol
Rate" Petition with FCC
USAF
Launches Spectrum Warfare Program Covering EW, Optical, GPS, and Cyber Warfare
BlackBerry and Porsche Show off Luxury
Smartphones
'Most Waterproof Material' Invented at MIT
Join NFC World For a Free Webinar on NFC in Toys and Games
Trick for Making Batteries Safer Could Also Make EVs Affordable
International Space Station Celebrates 15th Birthday
Physicists
Break Theoretical Time Barrier on Bouncing Droplets
Adding Smarts and Wireless Connectivity to LED Lighting
FCC Sets Workshop Date for 3.5 GHz Band Spectrum Use
Researchers
Integrate Single-Crystal BFO onto Silicon chip, Open Door to Smart Devices
Radio Needs to Become
Digital Leader
Phantom Voltage Dividers on Your PCB
Australia Sites Hacked Amid Spying
Row with Indonesia
11/20/2013
1st Satellite Built by High School Students Blasts into Space
The Revenge
of COTS: An Ageing Commercial Tech Base Complicates Military Supply Chain
(I've always been dubious about COTS mania)
U.S. Opens Tesla Battery
Fire Probe
ARRL Helps Manufacturer to Resolve Arc Fault Circuit Interrupter RFI Problems
Availability of LTE Is Key to Growth
of the Connected Car in the USA
FCC Chairman Calls for Transforming the Technology Used by Phone Systems
New
Glimpses of Apple's 'Spaceship' Campus
Bristol Shows off Drone to Make Radiation Mapping Safer
Google to Pay $17M to Settle Safari Privacy Case
Czech Republic Sells Radio Spectrum
to Incumbent Mobile Networks
Pressure Cooker Method Helps Produce Better Batteries
IBM Broadens Access to Ask
Watson Apps
Low-Band Frequency Spectrum - A Must-Have or Nice-to-Have?
Tech Toys for Aspiring Engineers
Researchers Grow Graphene on Silver
Census 'Faked' 2012 Election
Jobs Report (Jack
Welch [GE] was right)
11/19/2013
Is It the End of the Line for the Landline?
Graphene: Minor Rotation
of 'Chicken Wire' Has Major Consequences
Whiz-Kid, 13, Teaches Technology Class
to MIT Graduates
A Superconductor-Surrogate
Earns Its Stripes
Side-Effect
of Larger Smartphones: More Data Usage
China Retains Lead in Supercomputers
Chaotic
Physics in Ferroelectrics Hints at Brain-Like Computing
Google to Pay $17M to States in Apple Cookies Case
German Component Distribution Market Grows
FCC's Wheeler Presses CTIA on Device Unlocking
Is the Internet Domain Land Rush a Land Rush at All?
Internet Engineers Plan a Fully Encrypted Internet
Sprint, Best Buy Give Students Free Talk, Text and 1 GB of Data for a Year
(actually, you are paying for it if you are their customer)
DOD Looks
to Innovate Despite Budget Woes
Cheating Students More Likely to Want Government Jobs, Study Finds
Icahn Warns Stock Market Could Face 'Big Drop'
11/18/2013
Engineers Make
World's Smallest FM Radio Transmitter
Qualcomm to Start Smartwatch Sales Next
Month
Lawmakers
Assert Army Will Broaden Next-Gen Radio Competition
USAF Eyes
Modeling Software to Understand How Wind Farms Create Radar Dead Spots
Industrial Internet Group
Debuts Soon
Road Safety Group Calls for Ban on Driving
While Using Mobile Phones
Gooey Cure for Crack-Prone High-Capacity Batteries
Star Trek
Tech (I just watched episode #3 and it had James 'R.' Kirk instead
of 'T.')
Sprint, T-Mobile, Dish and Others Urge FCC's Wheeler to Let Them Get 600 MHz Spectrum
Self-Healing NexGen Battery
Capacitive Tactile Sensors Solve Myriad Challenges
University of Cambridge Investigates Side Channel Attacks on Android Phones
Cheap Hydrogen from Sunlight and Water
Sony Responds to PS4 to Glitch Reports
with Guide
NASA to Launch Robotic Explorer to Mars
USPTO Applauds Pro Bono Programs and
Newly Formed Advisory Council (read it - yet another mandated hand-out)
11/17/2015
Russian GPS Using U.S. Soil Stirs Spy Fears (yeah, only our agencies can
spy on us!)
Europe Gives Green Light for
In-Flight 3G, LTE
Graphene: Have Strength and Conductivity, Will Transform
IBM's Watson
Coming to a Mobile App Near You
More Moon
Missions for China
11/15/2013
Lockheed
Martin to Cut 4,000 Jobs (30,000 since 2008)
Electronics Researchers to Develop Iridium Alternative
FCC Smartphone App Gauges Speed of User's Network
Parents Show Positive Shift Towards Apprenticeships
Quantum Memory 'World Record'
Smashed
Clean Those Connectors (ironically, I just wrote about this to someone yesterday)
Viruses
Make Cathodes
New Hologram
Technology Created with Tiny Nanoantennas
Samsung Working on Phone with 3-Sided
Display Screen
Quantum Bits Hold Data for 39 Minutes, Smash World Record
Parents Show Positive Shift Towards Apprenticeships
Team Grows
Large Graphene Crystals That Have Exceptional Electrical Properties
Facebook Is Now in the GSMA - Will Google, Amazon, Twitter and Yahoo Be Next?
TechInsights Analyzes Smartphone
Display Tech
4G Rollout Raises Pressure on Chinese
Telcos
CIA Collecting Data on International Money Transfers
11/14/2013
Accidental Improves
Electrical Conductivity 400x
Europe Allows Gadgets Use from Take-off
to Landing
Smartphone Accelerometers Distinguish
Between Different Transport Modes
Smartphones Now Account for over Half
of Overall Mobile Phone Sales
Rare Earth Metals
Found in Microbes
Home Wireless Network Keeps the Snoops Away
Rare,
Brief 6 Meter F2 Opening Makes for Plentiful DX
Researchers Boost Lithium-Air Battery Performance with Help of Modified Viruses
Wooshping Provides 22,000 NFC Wristbands for Nokia Promotion
Fantastic Phonons: Blocking Sound, Channeling Heat with 'Unprecedented Precision'
MACOM Announce Agreement
to Acquire Mindspeed Wireless
Will Google Docs Kill off Microsoft Office?
Google Now Bigger Than Both Magazine and Newspaper Industries
Cisco Warns U.S. Spying Fallout Hitting Revenue in China
Plug Pulled on Rural Broadband Projects
in Favor of BT
Computers and Phones in Children's Bedrooms 'Can Cause Anxiety and Sleep Loss'
11/13/2013
Smartphone Bills Driving More People
into Debt
Europe to Relax Restrictions on Use
of Personal Electronic Devices in Aircraft
How Coffee Is Driving Economic Growth
In Europe, Thousands of Requests for Facebook Data (by EU governments)
Thin, Active Invisibility
Cloak Demonstrated for First Time
Google Patenting an Electronic 'Throat Tattoo'
Should Battery Fires Drive Electric Cars off the Road?
Taking a New Look at
Carbon Nanotubes
Teardown: Google's Nexus 5 Deconstructed
Researchers Look to Silicon Semiconductor Alternative
Software Developers' Salaries
Rise in 2013
Next Opportunity for Developers: the Internet of Things
Android Tops 80% Global Smartphone Market Share – Windows Phone up 156% YoY
Giant
X-Rays Reveal Innards of Guns, Cars, Robots
Russian Proton Rocket
Delivers Military Satellite
Accident at Russian Launch Pad Kills 2 Officers
11/12/2013
"There
Is No Scientist Alive Who Has Seen a Solar Cycle as Weak as This One"
Spectrum Challenge Preliminary
Event Showcases Robust Radio Techniques
Era
of Hot Consumer Tech IPOs is Over
Engineers Open up Satellite Superhighway for UAVs
Microsoft Pushes for TV White Space
Statistician Suggests Raising Statistical Standards to Reduce Amount of Non-Reproducible Studies
(getting rid of politics-driven bias would be a good start)
FUNcube-1 Set for Launch Next Week
Stores Sniff out Smartphones to Follow Shoppers
Physicists
'Uncollapse' a Partially Collapsed Qubit
FCC Releases Order Combating Rural Call Completion Problems
Sub-Saharan Africa Mobile Industry Supported
3.3 Million Jobs in 2012
Few Places Where Government Tech Procurement Works
DARPA Announces Cyber Grand
Challenge
Prescription Lenses
for Google Glass Coming in January
Making Money from
LTE
Gravity Maps Reveal Why the Moon's Far Side Is Covered with Craters
11/11/2013
Inkjet-Based Circuits
Created at Fraction of Time and Cost
Smartphone PIN Revealed by Camera and
Microphone
The 'Ferrari of Space' Succumbs
to Gravity
Hams in Philippines Support Critical Communication in Typhoon's Wake
Motorola
Proposes Voice Input Patch with NFC
Facebook Joins GSMA, Will Be 'Active' Member of Wireless Trade Group
Postal Service to Make Sunday Deliveries for Amazon
Ambri Liquid
Metal Battery: Prototype Deployment Set for 2014
Apple, Samsung, Foundries
Key to 3D ICs
EM Simulation Tools Only Go So Far
Deutsche Telekom Boosts Landline Capabilities
in Eastern Europe (don't read about this very often)
MEADS Hits Two Targets
in Flight Test
UK Needs More Female Engineering Students, Says Recruiter (a PC definition
of 'needs')
YouTube Faces Backlash for Google+ Integration
UK Government Offices Still Charging
Higher Rates for Phone Calls
U.S. Troops Sent to Philippines for Typhoon Aid (remember they
kicked
us out of Subic Naval Base and Clark AFB in the 1990s, then Al Qaeda moved in)
11/10/2013
Invention 'Harvests' Electricity from Background Radiation
Number of LTE Devices More Than
Doubles in 12 Months
Advertisers Scared as Internet Giants Look to Cut Cookies
North Korea Gets Its Hands on EMP Weaponry
Photon-Plasmon
Nanowire Laser Offers New Opportunities in Light Manipulation
11/8/2013
Satellite Will Fall to Earth, but No One Is Sure Where
260 LTE Networks by Christmas (only
46 shopping days 'till Christmas, BTW)
III-V FinFET Fabed on Silicon
3-Dimensional
Carbon Goes Metallic
Sound Quality Set to Soar in Smartphones
Tesla Shares Hit by 3rd Fire in 5 Weeks
'Freakish' Space Object Sighted by Hubble telescope
#WOW!
Twitter Soars 73% in IPO
ARRL Frequency
Measuring Test is November 13
High-Energy
Physicists Predict New Family of 4-Quark Objects
Qualcomm's Revenues Jump 33%, Warns of Coming Slowdown
Wireless Receiving Coil Works with 7-V Charging Circuitry
DoE Supercomputer Does Big
Data
Internet Kills the Video Store
Exploring Public Perceptions of Future
Wearable Computing
FAA Releases Civil Drone
Roadmap with Privacy Focus
11/7/2013
Synaptic Transistor Adapts as It Computes
Massive Satellite "Cluster"
Launch Set for November 21
Internet Archive Building Damaged by
Fire
Vanguard NFC Bag Tag Texts Its Location to the Owner (pretty cool)
Inventor of the WWW Criticizes NSA over Privacy Breaches (isn't that like
R. Oppenheimer criticizing for countries having nuclear bombs?)
Determining the Quantum
Geometry of a Crystal
Building Circuit Boards with an Inkjet Printer
Northrop
Grumman to Build SATCOM Capability for E-6B Strategic Airborne Command Post
Apple's Decision to Make Glass in Arizona Will Create Hundreds of Jobs (making
clones of Steves - get it?)
Twitter's Market Valuation Suggests Wall St. Sees Huge Growth Potential
Internet Addiction: A Real Problem in America?
British Firms Eye Nuclear Manufacturing Contracts (amazing how popular nuclear
has become now that
the
right people want it)
EE Times Community Weighs
in on Toyota Case
Deutsche Telekom Profits Decline As
Revenues Rose
FCC Proposes $33M in Penalties Against 3 Lifeline Providers (aka Obamaphones)
Microsoft and Facebook Offer Bounties
to Hackers
11/6/2013
NFC Jewelry
to Share Contacts
September Semiconductor Sales
Set New Records
Smart Headlights Focus on the Context of the Road
Microsoft Warns Users of Hacker Attacks
LG Shows Off the Bend in Its Flex
Engineers 'Must Act' to Address Skills Gap
Cheaper Fuel
Cell Could Provide Affordable Power for Microgrids.
Nokia's Stephen Elop or Ford's Alan Mulally Could Be Next Microsoft CEO
A Quarter of a Billion Smart Phones
Ship in Q3 2013
Find Next Silicon Valley
Idol at NVidia's Annual GPU Event
'Son of Blackbird': Plan for New Spy Plane
All I Really Need to Know About Engineering, I Learned from Star Trek
Mystery Grows About Google Barges Moored
off U.S. Coast
Arecibo
Radio Observatory 50th Anniversary Special Event Set
Obamacare Enrollee Data Easily
Downloaded onto USB Flash Drives, IG Finds (no safeguards built into software)
>34%
of Americans over 16 Don't Want a Job
11/5/2013
Woman on Phone Drives Jeep into Herd of Cows (this is what stupid looks like)
Blackberry Shares Plunge After Sell-Off
Plan Abandoned
Graphene Laser to Probe Superconductivity
New Report Urges FCC to Avoid Bidding Restrictions for Broadcast Incentive Auctions
International Linear Collider Will Search for 'Unifying Theory of Everything'
(need funding for anything? say you're searching for Dark Matter)
Apple Announces Solar-Powered Manufacturing Plant in Arizona
Over 4,000 Aircraft to Offer In-Flight
Wi-Fi by Year-End
Electron Microscopy Gives New Insight into Metal Nanoparticle Oxidation
Britain's Secret Listening Post in Heart of Berlin (busted)
Record Semi Sales for September and Q3
North Korea Developing Electromagnetic Pulse Weapons
DOD Offers Glimpse
at Its 'Black' Budget
Chinese Smartphone Consumers Reluctant
to Pay for 4G Network
Utah Man Builds Largest Amateur Telescope Ever
Security Fears in China as Smog Disrupts Surveillance Cameras
New AdWords Ad Ranking Formula: What Does It Mean?
11/4/2013
FCC
Seeking to Preempt Local Wireless Regulations (wouldn't want citizens to
retain contol)
Qualcomm May Join Consortium Bidding
to Buy BlackBerry
First Helium-Filled
Hard Disk Drive
Important Mechanism
Behind Nanoparticle Reactivity Discovered
How to Program Unreliable μprocessors
Nokia Places
4th in U.S. Smartphone Market Share, Apple, Samsung Almost Even
New Zealand's 2degrees Seeks Delay in
Radio Spectrum Sale
Why Warm Water Freezes Faster Than
Cooler Water
USAF
Approaches Industry for COTS-Based Targeting System for Forward Air Controllers
Fewer Female Engineering in UK Than Rest of Europe
E-Commerce an
Idea Whose Time Has Come and Gone
India Vies for Role in Space with Mars Trip
Sony & Panasonic: Out
of the Woods?
UK's Role in World's Largest Radio Telescope Revealed
Google's
Schmidt 'Outraged' by NSA Snooping (but not outraged by the favors they get
in return)
Experts Say Nuclear Power
Needed to Slow Warming
11/3/2013
Steer Clear of Google, Yahoo, German Journalists Advised
Hands Off
That iPad, Flyers, for Just a Bit Longer
U.S. Telco Has Its Eye on U.K.
Operator EE
LED Applications to be Key Drivers for Bulk GaN Market
India Reaches for Mars on Prestige Space Mission
11/1/2013
U.S. Airlines to Relax Rules Banning
the Use of Consumer Electronics During Flights
DOD Seeks Agility
After Spectrum Shift
Samsung Profit Rises 26% on Smartphone
Boost
Google Gets Around Carriers with Host Card Emulation for NFC Payments
Huge Patent Lawsuit Filed Against Google
and Android Phone Manufacturers
Freeze, Glasshole! California Polizei Bust Google Glass Driver
For the Tablet Generation, A Lesson in Digital Citizenship
Qualcomm Buys Arteris Tech &
Employees
3D Gestural Interface for Smart Watches
European Operators See LTE Broadcast in Their Future
Can an Oil Bath Solve
the Mysteries of the Quantum World?
How
to Verify Control Loop Design
Google, Oracle Workers Enlisted for Obamacare 'Tech Surge'
RFID Antenna for Noisy Industrial Work
Volvo's Structural Battery Saves Space and Weight in Electric Car
It's Official: I Am One with "Many Unearned Advantages of Social Privilege"
(my taxes pay for this shite and lots more like it - had enough yet?)