Technical Headline News Archive - April 2014

Technology Headline News Archives - RF Cafe

If you came to RF Cafe looking for a certain news item you remember seeing or found on a search engine, there is a good chance it is no longer on the homepage. Headlines change daily (except Saturdays). Here are links to all the headline archives.

All the News Fit to Link™

2024: Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec

2023: Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec

2022: Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec

2021: Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec

2020: Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec

2019: Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec

2018: Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec

2017: Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec

2016: Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec

2015: Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec

2014: Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec

2013: Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec

2012: Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec

 Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec

2011: Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec

2010: Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec

2009: Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec

2008: Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec

2007: Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec

2006: Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec

2005: Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec

2004: Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec

2003: Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec

2002: Sep |Oct | Nov | Dec

4/30/2014

The Cubicle Turns 50

Man Arrested for Taping Arrest with Cell Phone

Rare-Earth-Like Magnetic Properties in Iron

Microsoft Says Nokia Brand Won't Be Used on Future Smartphones

Space Terrorism, Floating Debris Pose Threats to U.S.

Amateur Radio Propagation Guru Says Extended Solar Ebb May Lie Ahead

Circuit Board Modeled on the Human Brain

Army Gets Tactical Comm Closer to Smartphone Experience

As Kickstarter Evolves, Investors Watch for Next $1B Idea

LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner's Compensation Soars

Payphone Booth Turned into Public Library

How to Create Nanowires Only 3 Atoms Wide with an Electron Beam

Not Just Golden Eagles Anymore: 4 Die in SD Wind Farm Crash

Flexible Battery, No Lithium Required

Unfolding the Mystery About '5G'

BLS: 20% of U.S. Household Have No Working Members (why bother working when handouts keep getting better each election cycle?)

4/29/2014

DHS Tells Users to Stop Using Internet Explorer for Now

Slow-But-Steady Growth Expected in GNSS Market

Rubik's Cube Still Turning Our Logic at 40

Novel Gold-Based Superconductor Discovered

The Difference Between Coders, Programmers and Engineers (funny... or sad)

ACLU Argues Against Warrantless Cell Phone Tracking Before Appeals Court

Skyworks and Panasonic Form 66:34 Joint Venture for High-Performance Filters

Samsung Confirms Serious Software Bug in Galaxy S5 Smartphone

FCC Set to Limit Sub-1 GHz Heavy License Owners in 600 MHz Spectrum Auction (FCC meddling in the free market)

5 Top Emerging Technology Trends of 2014

Magnetic Materials Make Micro-Robots with Grippers

Carbonite CEO: Talk Radio Doubled My Business (I've used it for many years)

A Student-Data Collector Drops Out

Microsoft and Nokia Complete Mobile Phone Unit Deal

Only 1 in 7 Japanese Scientists are Women (here we go)

You Love 'The Cloud,' But It May Not Be As Secure As You Think

Cybersquatters Prepare for Mischief

4/28/2014

Increased Coffee Consumption May Reduce Risk of Type 2 Diabetes (more good news)

A New Twist in Properties of Light

E.T. Atari Games Uncovered in NM Landfill

Massive Solar Storm Caused Radio Blackout on Earth

Russian Official Under U.S. Sanction Plays Key Role in DoD Space Program (we x-fer big $$$ and technology to Russia & Red China since Space Shuttle shut down)

China Takes Lead in Carbon Nanotubes & Graphene

Google Documents Hint at Wi-Fi Component to Fiber Buildout

Supreme Court to Look at Privacy Cases Involving Police Searches of Cellphones

AMSAT-NA Moving Due to Condemned Building

SpaceX to File Official Protest Against USAF over Military-Related Launches

iPhone Sales Lead to Record Quarter

New Quantum Theory Could Explain Flow of Time

4/27/2014

Your T-shirt's Ringing: Telecommunications in the Spaser Age

FCC Cites Washington Resident for Causing Interference on Amateur Frequencies

DoCoMo to Exit India

Phase Transiting to a New Quantum Universe

Google Rolls out Time-Traveling Maps

4/25/2014

Silicon Valley Giants Settle Employee Poaching Case

Motorola Solutions Adds RFID-Enabled Knobs to Radios

France Mulls Car-Sharing GPS App Ban

U.S. Emergency Services Report Low Accuracy Levels for Mobile Location Services

Researchers Use Graphene for 'Super' Audio Headphones

Semiconductor Capital Equipment Spending Set to Increase 12.2% in 2014 (how do the 'wizards of smart' calculate predictions to 3 significant figures?)

FCC Continues Push to Free up Spectrum in 3.5 GHz Band

Navy Orders New Batch of Radar-Killing Missiles

Breakthrough Harnesses Light for Controlled Chemical Reaction

Growing InGaAs MOSCAPs Directly on (100) Silicon Substrates

Ericsson Bounces Back to Stronger Q1 Profit, But N. American Sales Plunge 23%

Startups Wary of FCC's Internet Traffic Plan

When Will PAM4 Take Over from NRZ?

Mapping the Road to Quantum Gravity

Superconducting Qubit Array Points Way to Quantum Computers

Electronics Flea Market Has More Than Electronics

4/24/2014

Critical Military Satellite Systems Are Vulnerable to Hacking

FCC, in Net Neutrality Turnaround, Plans to Allow Fast Lane

What to Do When Your Phone is Stolen

Global Chip Revenue Rises in 2013 - Memory and Wireless Lead the Way

Forget Silicon Valley, Meet Silicon Bali

Ultracapacitor Breakthrough May Recharge Energy Storage

Hemihelix: Scientists Discover New Shape Using Rubber Bands (nothing new - my phone cord used to get like that!)

Amazon Phone is Close

Smulyan Pushes FM Phone Chip on Wall Street

HAARP-Like Ionospheric Research Project Underway at Arecibo Observatory (that's where Contact was filmed)

FCC to Propose Pay-for-Priority Internet Standards

CTIA Names Former FCC Commissioner as New CEO (incestuous old boy's - girl's - club alive and well)

AIG Cyber Insurance Covers Bodily Harm

Google Tops League of Spending on Lobbying U.S. Politicians

First-Gen Apple TV Back from the Dead

Biofuels Less Green Than Gasoline (per $M/2 gov't-funded study)

4/23/2014

iPhone Thief Steals Fake Phone, Drops His Own Real Model During Chase

Silicon Valley Firms Accused of Hiring Conspiracy

The Richer You Are the Older You'll Get (looks like I'm in trouble)

Bluetooth LE Promises Fewer Cables, Less Weight in Cars

AT&T Eyes High-Speed Internet in 100 Cities (U.S. shamefully behind)

Google Creates Algorithm That Fools CAPTCHA

Supreme Court Case Could Change How You Watch TV

Nike Drops Development of Wearable Technology

Progress Made in Developing Nanoscale Electronics

Signal Amplifier Design Cuts Load on Mobile Phone Masts

If a Bubble Bursts in Palo Alto, Does It Make a Sound? (that's Silicon Valley)

Biggest Cyber Threats: Spies, Criminals or Co-workers?

Over 3 Million Smartphones Stolen in the USA During 2013

No One's Ready for the Next Super Weapon

OpenSSL Shows Cost of 'Free'

The American Middle Class Is No Longer the World's Richest (success! the U.S. '5th column' in gov't and media has finally achieved its dream)

4/22/2014

Vodafone Sued for $1.8B by Greek Businessman

KickSat Has Been Deployed in Low-Earth Orbit

Femtocell Boom Predicted as Prices Fall

Should College Dropouts Be Honored by Their Alma Maters?

Analysts Share High Expectations for Bigger iPhones

Nike Layoffs Add Fuel to Apple iWatch Rumours

Smartphone Innovation Has Stalled

Civilians Not Ready for EMP-Caused Blackout

'Dressed' Laser Aimed at Clouds May Be Key to Inducing Rain, Lightning

Nokia 3D-Printed in Chocolate

Patent Owner Intellectual Ventures Cleared for Trial vs. Investor

For Many Americans, 'Temp' Work Becomes Permanent Way of Life (so this is what Fundamental Change looks like)

Moving in with Parents Becoming Common for Middle-Aged

Facebook's Existential Crisis

Deadline is May 1 to Apply for ARRL Teachers Institute

SpaceX launch to International Space Station Successful

4/21/2014

National Research Labs Decline - "New System Costs More to Perform Less Science"

World's 1st Carbon-Based 'Spaser' Could Lead to Printed Cellphones

Making Graphene in Your Kitchen

Ultrafast Snapshots of Light-Driven Superconductivity

'Exotic' Material is Like a Switch When Super Thin

After 8 Years FCC Shuts Down Pirate in Boston (perp using racism as an excuse yet again)

NASA: Engineer Vital to 1969 Moon Landing Dies

Impurity Size Affects Performance of Emerging Superconductive Material

Google Still Top Pick for Wall Street, Despite Mobile Ad Challenges

Dream Office of the Future: No Email

SEMI Announces 2nd Vietnam Semiconductor Strategy Summit

4/20/2014

Top-down InGaAs Nanowire Fabrication Enabled by Novel Etch Processing

Zain Wins Jordan 4G Spectrum

Beam on Target

NASA and Google Do the Tango

China on Course to Become 'World's Most Christian Nation' (an Easter Sunday story for you)

4/18/2014

Device Turns Flat Surface into Spherical Antenna

Nokia Issues Safety Recall for 30,000 Chargers

LTE Investment Set to Accelerate Throughout Latin America in 2014

NFC Forum Updates Specs with Support for Pairing at a Distance

Micro-Macro Entangled 'Cat States' Could One Day Test Quantum Gravity

Samsung Grows Good Quality Graphene

Samsung Patent Leaks Point to Google Glass Competitor

Wireless Power Transfer Achieved at 5-Meter Distance

Billion-Dollar BS Degrees

Twitter-Like Weibo and Other Chinese Shares Surge on First Day of Trading

Google Under Fire from European Media Tycoon

NASA Hands over Historic Apollo-Era Launch Pad to SpaceX (heavy sigh)

Canadians Arrest a Heartbleed Hacker

Smartphone Kill Switch Gets Breath of Life

Burger King Expands In-Store Wi-Fi Coverage with AT&T

Electricity Price Surged to All-Time Record for March ("under my plan... electricity rates will necessarily skyrocket" - promise kept)

4/17/2014

Google Courts Developers for Modular Smartphone Project

BlackBerry's Meltdown Sparks Start-up Boom in Canada's Silicon Valley

New Type of Particle Discovered Using Large Hadron Collider (LHC)

LTE, Chinese Growth to Drive Smartphones to 1.24B Sales in 2014 (holy Toledo Batman!)

U.S. Mobile Operators, Handset Makers Tackle Smartphone Theft

Security Holes in Power Grid Have Federal Officials Scrambling

All the Passwords You Need to Change Right Now Because of Heartbleed

Thales Shows off Airline Seat with NFC

Army Plans Its Largest Solar Array to Date (more funneling of defense $$$ into unrelated eco projects)

The Next Generation of Plastic Computers

Google, IBM Results Raise Questions About OtherTtech-Sector Companies

The Case for Rigid-Flex PCB Technology

66% of U.S. Mobile Broadband Connections by End of 2015 Will Be Tablets

Finding a Battery That Will Power the Future

Minimize Unknowns in ESD Tests

Iranian Cleric Says Unhealthy Satellite Jamming Un-Islamic (but cutting the infidel's throat isn't)

4/16/2014

Google to Buy Titan Aerospace as Web Giants Battle for Air Superiority

My Ideas, My Boss's Property

Journalist Wearing Google Glass Attacked

NSA Leaker Snowden Stories Win Pulitzer Prize

World Amateur Radio Day is Friday, April 18

China's President Xi Urges Greater Military Use of Space

DARPA Calls for New Cutting-Edge Technologies

York, UK to Get 1Gbps Internet Services Next Year

New Corporate Structure Created for RF Micro, TriQuint Deal

Seeing SDR in Action

Teardown: Dismantling the Samsung Galaxy S5 (Avago front-end,

Yahoo Surges Following Q1 Results

Google Patents Smart Contact Lens System with Built-in Camera

Pakistan Disappoints with Just 4 Bidders for 3G Licenses

Glow-in-the-Dark Roads Make Debut in Netherlands

U.S. Postal Service Announces Giant Ammo Purchase (hundreds of millions of rounds bought by gov't agencies in last few years - why?)

4/15/2014

As Internet Shares Break Down, Investors See Value in Old Tech

SU Professors Test Boundaries of 'New Physics' with Discovery of 4-Quark Hadron

Gigabit Wireless Communications

Faster Wi-Fi on Flights Leads to Battle in the Sky

HAARP Facility in Danger of Being Dismantled

Samsung Looks to Life Beyond the Smartphone

Apple iWatch to Ship with NFC This Year?

Nearly $67M Salary for CBS' Moonves (another 1%er who feigns support for OWS types while exploiting their stupidity)

Optical Diode Reverses Time, Making Photo-Based IC Possible

U.S. Government Says Hackers Trying to Exploit 'Heartbleed' Bug

Researchers Develop ErSb Nanostructures with Applications in IR and THz Ranges

The College Faculty Crisis (colleges get million$ of tax $$$ to waste on useless social degrees & programs)

Improving Electrically Pumped External-Cavity Mode-Locking

Samsung's Galaxy S5 Splashes into the Smartphone Market

BLOODHOUND Team Predict Impact of 1,000 mph Supersonic Car

"World Must Triple Nuclear and Renewable Energy" – United Nations

4/14/2014

Millions of Android Devices Vulnerable to Heartbleed Bug

Obokata Scandal Puts All Science Research in Peril

NSA Monitors WiFi on U.S. Planes 'in Violation' of Privacy Laws

LinkedIn Offers Integration with the Samsung Galaxy S5

Individuals Targeted as San Francisco Tech Money Protests Intensify

Live Amateur Radio Digital TV Test Transmits Astronaut’s Image from ISS

Heartbleed Bug Affects Gadgets Everywhere

Google Glass Goes on Sale for 1 Day

NASA Orders Spacewalk to Repair Serious Computer Malfunction at ISS

Bend It, Charge It, Dunk It: Graphene, the Material of Tomorrow

SEAKR to Build Space Lasercom Digital Processor

Criminal Gang Jailed for £1 Million Fraud Against Vodafone

Sprint Revives Market for Kid-Focused Phones with New WeGo

Army Awards Exelis 5-Year Deal for Battlefield Radios

Jet-Lagged? New Math-Using App May Help

Intel, SGI and 3M Create 2-Phase Liquid-Cooled Supercomputer

4/13/2014

Hard Disk Pioneer Stuart Parkin Wins Millennium Prize

French Government Says Will Pursue Telecom Market Consolidation

Improving Electrically Pumped External-Cavity Mode Locking

Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Team Announces Beginning of Restart

Tech Firms Challenged over Hiring Practices

4/11/2014

Public Urged to Reset All Passwords

ROHM Semiconductor and imec Join Forces for Ultra-Low-Power Radio R&D

Across the Atlantic, Glimpse an Alternate Internet Universe

U.S. Top in the World for Entrepreneurship

AMSAT-NA Names New Vice President of Engineering

BlackBerry May Consider Exiting Handsets, Eyes Investments

Space Superiority Remains Vital to National Security

U.S. Cellular to Add 1,200 LTE Markets

Pushing High-Power, High-Frequency Performance of GaN HEMTs on Silicon

Forget Wearable Tech, Embeddable Implants Are Already Here

Photovoltaic Cells Turn 60 This Month

New 'Switch' Could Power Quantum Computing

Future Computers That Are Normally Off

Competition FundsDevelopment of Graphene in Commercial Products

Flexible Plastics That Turn Mechanical Vibrations into Electrical Energy

New Paradigm for 'Unconventional Superconductors'

4/10/2014

UK Amateurs Losing Access to Part of 2.3 and 3.4 GHz Bands

Retailer Prosecuted for Downloading Photos from Repaired Mobile Phones

Navy to Deploy Laser Weapon Aboard Amphibious Assault Ship This Summer

In an Online World, Are Brick and Mortar Colleges Obsolete?

Amino-Acid Semiconductors Promise Fast Phone Charging

Wooing TV Broadcasters is FCC's Next Big Job for 600 MHz Incentive Auction

Comcast Said to Be Concocting Wireless Mobile Phone Plan

WiFi Alliance Adds Support for NFC

Japanese Blamed for Italian Sackings

Flaw Discovered in One Internet's Key Security Methods

L-3, Intelsat Demonstrate Anti-Jam Technology for Military Satellites

Bacterial 'FM Radio' Developed

One Kind of Supersymmetry Shown to Emerge Naturally

Ultra-Fast Electrical Circuits Use Light-Generated Tunneling

Ensuring Safety in Electrical Engineering Design

Man Accused in Plotting to Use Drone for Bomb in Connecticut

4/9/2014

Silicon Valley Buying Spree: A Tech Bubble, or Strategy at Play?

Being Piggy (strange statements by author)

Recharge Your Smartphone Battery in Just 30 Seconds

BlackBerry Defeats NXP in U.S. Trial over Patents

$299 3D Printer Achieves Kickstarter Goal in Minutes

Samsung Looking to Open 4,000 Phone Stores Across India

Anti Tech Industry Protesters Target Google Exec

SEMI Reports 2013 Global Semiconductor Materials Sales of $43.5B

Quantum Cryptography for Mobile Phones

Does America Need a National Broadcast Plan? (...about as much as we need nationalized medicine)

Self-Assembled Superlattices Create Molecular Machines with 'Hinges' and 'Gears'

Sprint to Shutter WiMAX Network by End of 2015, Turn off at 6,000 Towers

USA Targets Telecoms Trade Barriers in China, Pakistan and India

Internet Choice Will Be Crucial Battlefield in Big Cable Merger

Microsoft to Dig up Millions of Failed 1980s Video Game Cartridges

What Could Go Wrong When Outsourcing Product Development?

4/8/2014

DAS Drives Demand for RF Engineers

DARPA to Spend >$100M to Reinvent the RF Phased Array Antenna

World's Most Powerful VHF Radar to Be Overhauled in Russia

How Electrodes Charge and Discharge

WWV's 25 MHz Signal Back on the Air

Internet Companies' Growing Ambitions Spook 51% of Americans (about the same % as believe Elvis is still alive)

Navy's New Airborne Command and Control Post Arrives

China Eyes 'Global Monitoring Network' of Surveillance Satellites

Thousands of Deutsche Telekom Staff to Strike

Simplifying InGaAs Growth on GaAs Substrate

Philosopher Untangles Einstein Senility Controversy (or not)

What Silicon Valley's Cast Thinks About Silicon Valley Culture

Color Pixels Made of Nanowires Offer New Paradigm for Digital Cameras

Researchers Probe Next Generation of 2-D Materials

Digital Spending to Increase 14.8% in 2014

Windows XP Users Face End to Microsoft Support

4/7/2014

Wi-Fi Speeds Are About to Triple

FCC Drops the First Shoe in 5 GHz U-NII Devices Proceeding

U.S. Knocks Plans for European Communication Network

First Look Inside Fairphone's Fair-Trade Smartphone (RFMD & Skyworks inside)

Sprint Might Pass on FCC's Spectrum Auctions

Robot Repairmen Would Fix Satellites in Space

Quantum Key Distribution and Ultra-High Security for Mobile Phones

Tiny Power Generator Runs on Spit

Why the 'Internet of Things' Is Still Fragile

As Moore's Law Slows, Open Hardware Rises

Power Plants Put at Risk by Security Bugs

4/6/2014

E.U. Lawmakers Approve Tough Net Neutrality Rules

DoD Switches to NIST Security Standards

FireChat Gives smartphone Users Ability to Text Without Service or Internet

Google Talked to Sprint, Verizon About Offering Its Own Wireless Service

Chips Face Tough Times

4/4/2014

Teenage Girl Gets Trapped in a Drain Trying to Retrieve Her Phone

U.S. Gets New, Hyper-Accurate Atomic Clock

NASA Breaks Most Contact with Russia

Worldwide Semiconductor Revenue Grew 5% in 2013

Microsoft Unveils Cortana Assistant for Windows Phone (a name only Haloites will know)

USAF Awards Lockheed Martin Full Production Contracts for Next Two GPS 3 Satellites

How to Wean Yourself from Your Smartphone

New Insights into Quantum Dynamics and Quantum Chaos

Microsoft Makes Windows 8.1 Mouse-Friendly

ICANN Chief: Russia, China Will Not Hijack Internet Oversight

Researchers Open Path to Finding Rare, Polarized Metals

Lithuania's President Relays Greetings via Amateur Radio CubeSat

Reversible USB Cable Design Shown for First Time

First Sentinel Satellite Ready for Launch Tomorrow (ready to attack the Nebuchadnezzar)

The Science of Champagne Fizz

New Field of "Strain Engineering" Could Open up Areas of Materials Research

4/3/2014

Pentagon Gives Weight to Electronic Warfare

Ericsson Accused of Paying Bribes to Win Greek Contracts

Johnson Space Center Seeks Partners to Market NASA-Developed RFID Technologies

Amazon Launches TV Streaming and Gaming Device

Carbon Nanotubes Grow in Combustion Flames

MEMS Mics Pass $1B Milestone

Nanosheets and Nanowires

Shop and Charge: Stores Offer Cellphone Charging (they'll read its contents while you shop)

Washington Aeronautic Safety Law Exempts Amateur Radio "Guyed Towers"

GaN-on-Diamond HEMT with 3x Increase in Power Density over GaN-on-SiC

April Schools' Day: School Canceled Thanks to IT System Hack

A&T Looking to Hire 3,000 Sales Staff

Pentagon Wants Teamwork out of Drones

India to Have Own Satellite Navigation System by 2015

BlackBerry Ends T-Mobile US Partnership

"Bin Laden is Dead and General Motors is Alive" (not so much... to wit: al quaeda, ignition switch)

4/2/2014

The Internet's Best April Fools Gags

Tesla Motors Model S Highly Vulnerable to Hacking

LinkedIn Email Addresses Exposed by Plug-in Software

Tektronix TBS1000B-EDU DSO Designed with Students in Mind

BlackBerry 10 Passes DISA's 'Full Operational' Tests

ARRL Calls for Timely, Visible FCC Amateur Radio Enforcement

Major Solar Flare on March 29 Caused Radio Blackout for Several Minutes

Cell Tower Worker Deaths Prompt OSHA to Scrutinize Industry More Closely

Top 20 IC Vendors 2013

25 CEOs Who Started as Engineers

German Regulator to Claw Back Radio Spectrum from Merged Mobile Networks

Political Unrest and Economic Slowdown Fail to Dampen Thailand's Appetite for Mobile Phones

Microsoft Expected to Unveil Windows 8 Updates at San Fran Conference

Intel to Pump $100M into Chinese Mobile Device Developers

Datacenters Drive 100G Race

Feds to Require Rearview Cameras on Vehicles in 2018 (more cost added unnecessarily - like Bluetooth tire pressure sensors)

4/1/2014

High-Altitude Balloon Flight to Carry APRS and Crossband Repeater

Biggest Source of DOD's Cyber Threats: Inept Co-workers

IPO Fever Running into Trouble as Deals Struggle

Bluetooth Smart's Rise from Obscurity to Mainstream

Tesla to Add Triple Underbody Shield and Better Fire Protection to Model S

Heat-Conducting Polymer Cools Hot Electronic Devices at 200° C

BlackBerry Reports $5.9B Annual Loss (the mass media did this to them IMO)

BlackBerry Wins Sales Ban Against Copycat Keyboard for Apple's iPhone

A Tax Break to Anchor Tech Growth in San Francisco

Return to Historic Growth Rates for OSD Semis

L.A. TV Stations Show Broadcast Channel Sharing for 600 MHz Auction is Possible

Google Says Government Requests 'up 120%' in 4 Years (faux outrage, it's a trade for perks like cheap jet fuel)

Fabricating Nanostructures with Silk Could Make Clean Rooms Green Rooms

Wireless Electricity? It's Here

Apple Files Patent for Transparent Display Screen

Scientists Watch Nanoparticles Grow