7/31/2014
U.S. Cellphone Users Frequent Victims of 'Bill Cramming'
Massive Job Cuts: Dark
Clouds over Lighting Business
Navy Planning to Put Laser Weapons on Helicopters
Spin-Based Electronics
K2 Energy Batteries to Power Railgun Capacitors
Cellphones Kill Switch
Could Save Consumers >$3.4B Annually
Mapping the Optimal
Route Between 2 Quantum States
Autonomous Cars Headed for Massive Sales by 2035
Stanford Researchers Build a Better Battery
A Start-up Incubator
for Veterans
U.S.
'Neighborhood Watch' Spy Satellites Launched
Building the Ideal Rest Stop for
Protons
Smart Home Kit Proves Easy to Hack
Does Legalization of Cellphone Unlocking Really Benefit Consumers?
Paying Ransoms, Europe Bankrolls Qaeda Terror (but it's a peaceful religion)
7/3012014
Transistor-Like
Amplifier for Single Photons
Building out the LTE Network
Measuring the
Smallest Magnets
SpaceJam 8 Will Feature
ARISS Contact
U.S.
Says China Conducted Secret Anti-Satellite Weapons Test
Flexible Metamaterial
Absorbers Developed
Superconductivity
Could Form at High Temperatures in Layered 2D Crystals
NFC Secure Elements Will Continue to See Strong Demand
Apple and Samsung Represent 68% of
Smartphones Owned in the USA
Printing the Metals of the Future
Powerful Laser
Weapons
Average Price of Electricity Climbs to All-Time Record (it'll get a lot higher
as fossil fuel generation shut down)
BlackBerryIndicates More Enterprise-Focused Devices in the Pipeline
Infrastructure News: Carrier Spending Update
35% in U.S. Facing Debt Collectors (gov't solution: amnesty for 30 million
Illegals)
7/29/2014
Apple iPhones Allow Extraction of Deep Personal Data (a dangerous sort of Easter
Egg)
Nature of High-Temperature Superconductivity Unlocked
French Regulator to Consult on
Use of Unlicensed Radio Spectrum
Tesla Taking Huge Trade Secret and Investment Risk in China
Cell Phone Unlocking Bill Appears Set to Become Law
China May Revolutionize Mobile IP
Russia Offers $110,000 to Crack Tor Anonymous
Network
Could Your Product Be Exempt from EMC Testing?
Theory Predicts
Magnets May Act as Wireless Cooling Agents
DARPA
Takes Next Step on Protecting Military Wireless Networks
Space Business Rising
Laser Experiment Reveals
Liquid-Like Motion of Atoms in Ultra-Cold Cluster
High-Temperature Superconductor
Sets World Record for Electrical Current
Google, IEEE Launch $1M 'Little Box Challenge' to Create Smaller Power Inverter
BMW's
Fast Electric Car Charger Rolls in the U.S.
7/28/2014
Electronics Firms Recruiting, Graduates in Demand
Why Streaming Could Be Local Radio's Salvation
Small Cell Opportunity Sees as Big as Cell Towers in Early 2000s
China to Declare
Qualcomm a Monopoly
Specifying
Well Beyond the Numbers
Teardown.com: Amazon Brings Fire
to Phone Market
U.S. Database Glitch Delays Passport, Visa Processing
Highly Charged Ions
An EDA
View of Semiconductor Manufacturing
Solar Cells Cool Themselves
to Produce More Power
Magnets for Fusion Energy
7/27/2014
Bluetooth-Enabled Smart Shoes Vibrate to Give Directions
AMSAT
Announces Fox-1C Launch Opportunity and Fund Drive
India's Mobile Services Market to
Reach $19.2B in 2014
DOD Falls Short in Measuring SBIR Effectiveness (an FOI purge of contract data
would probably reveal massive fraud to 'underrepresented' groups)
Unleashing the Power
of Quantum Dot Triplets
7/25/2014
Mobile Network Security Will Be Laid
Bare by Attacks on Small Cells
Cell Towers and the 'Silent Majority'
Radio Amateurs Named
to Order of Canada
Discovery is Key to Metal Wear in Sliding Parts
Smartphone
Apps Claim to Repel Mosquitoes with High Frequencies (some of what comes from
smartphones repels me)
FCC Sets Rules for $10.5B AWS-3 Auction
Brazil 4G Auction Could Spur Telecom Merger
Nano-Supercapacitors
for Electric Cars
Nike Krypton Laser
Achieves Spot in Guinness World Records (who knew GWR had a spot for lasers?)
Qualcomm Accuses Chinese Firms of Misrepresenting
Sales
Tailored Golf Balls Might
Improve Golfing Performance
Facebook Gain Makes Zuckerberg Wealthier Than Google Guys (OWS crowd on Facebook
protesting his wealth)
The Physics of Lead Guitar Playing
60 GHz Startup Targets Mobile
Quantum Entanglement
in Amplified Signals
7/24/2014
20 Engineers from the World of Sports
New Multi-Bit 'Spin' for MRAM
Storage
First Direct-Diode
Laser Bright Enough to Cut and Weld Metal (waiting for diode laser soldering
irons)
Air Force Launching First 2 'Space Neighborhood Watch' Satellites
Student-Built Aausat4 Satellite Undergoes Harsh Testing
Air Force Mulls
New IRST for Combat Aircraft
'Comb on a Chip' Powers New NIST/Caltech Atomic Clock Design
A Plan to Untangle Our Digital Lives After We're Gone
GM Scraps European Version of Chevy Volt (high electricity prices in EU make
EVs bad deal)
Cincinnati BPL Internet Service Provider Pulls Plug on Its System
Working Toward
Lasers for On-Chip Global Interconnects
China's
Terrifying Debt Ratios Poised to Breeze Past U.S. Levels (entire world subsisting
off unserviceable debt)
DARPA's Chip Office Reboots
to Tackle Cost & Complexity
Apple Gets Smartwatch Patent
Windows Development Set to Be 'Unified'
7/23/2014
'System on a Chip' a Boost for Next-Gen RF Communications
Share Your Invention & Win Big $$$
Broadcom Cuts 2,500 Jobs
Technology, Aided by Recession, Is Polarizing the Work World
FCC Alleges Deliberate Interference, Failure to Identify in Proposing Substantial Fines for 2 Radio Amateurs
Unlock Your Motorola
Phone with a 'Digital Tattoo'
Quantum Leap in Lasers
Brightens Future for Quantum Computing
Ultrasonically Propelled
Nanorods Spin Dizzyingly Fast
FCC May Soon Mandate Text-to-911 Capabilities for All Carriers
Creating
Optical Cables out of Thin Air
Verizon Wireless Reports Strong Q2 Growth
Digital
'Bandage' Checks Vital Signs
Briefcase
Receiver for Military, Aerospace, and Government Uses Introduced by IMT
Digi-Key to Launch Downloadable PCB Design Tool
Law of Physics Governs Airplane Evolution
7/22/2014
Cellphone-Free
Sidewalks Being Tested
Understanding Graphene's
Electrical Properties on an Atomic Level
5G Calling: U.S. Answers, Sorta
Bluetooth Beacons Used to Track Shopping
Carts, Baskets
India's VO-52 Satellite
Goes Dark
Selling
Your Smartphone Safely
Device Optimises Gain at Microwave Frequencies
Mexico's America Movil Says 2nd-¼ Profit up 32.7%
Army Building Marketplace for Tactical Comms Equipment
Calculations
Show Carbon-Atom Chain Would Go Metal to Semiconductor
Italy
Gives Google 18 Months to Change Data Use Practices
Huawei's 1st-½ Revenue Jumps 19% Thanks to LTE, Smartphones
South Korea's Video Game Addicts May Be Exempt from Military Service
4×2 MIMO Shows Significant Promise Across Commercial LTE Networks
7/21/2014
Woman Grazed by Bullet After Refusing to Give up Cellphone
China State TV Says iPhone Creates Security Concern
No Evidence That California Cellphone
Ban Decreased Accidents
Startup GoTenna Aims to Enable Off-the-Grid Communications
'Super Black' Material Developed the Human
Eye Can't See
$1T to Be Spent on Telecom and Datacom
Equipment and Software over Next 5 Years
Google's 'Smart' Contact Lens Might Actually Happen
Gionee's Next Smartphone Promises
to Be Thinnest Ever
Mass Surveillance 'Dangerous Habit', Says
UN Rights Body (how long 'till we find out UN has been doing it, too?)
7/20/2016
Future Electronics
May Depend on Lasers, Not Quartz
Intel Readies Super-Resist
for EUV
Microsoft's Nokia 18,000 Job Cuts Reflect Shift Away from Devices
UAE Plans1st Arab Spaceship to Mars in 7 Years
Now It Really Is Meg Whitman's HP
7/18/2014
Extending Moore's Law:
Shrinking Transistor Size
Bloodshed Adds Electric Muscle to Vintage Performance Cars (Charles finds a
lot of interesting stuff)
Molecular
Clock to Expose New Physics Proposed
Google Street View Catches Robbery Suspects in the Act 3 Years Later
5G Calling: Asia Rising
Don't Fire the Comcast Guy, Says Caller Who Tried to Cancel (did you hear this?)
ARRL President Issues Call to Action to Gain Support for HR.4969 Amateur Radio Parity Act!
FBI: Google's Driverless Cars Could Be
Lethal Weapons
LTE to Represent >1:5 Active Mobile
Connections by 2019
GE to Lead $500M,
5-Year State-Funded NY Power Electronics Manufacturing Consortium
Great Film & TV Robots from the 50s & 60s
Test of Equivalence Principle Searches for Effects of Spin-Gravity Coupling
Sun Has Gone Quiet - Cycle 24 One of the Weakest in Century
Stress-Induced Transformations
in World's Thinnest Materials
The Unpaid Intern Dilemma.
What's Your Risk?
7/17/2014
An Engineer's
Field Day
Why Smartphone Breaks at Work Aren't Such a Bad Idea
Ferromagnetism at 230 K Found in Diluted Magnetic Semiconductor (hadn't heard
it was missing)
Apple Joins with IBM on Business Software
Consumer Electronics Industry Revenues
to Reach All-Time High in 2014
Large Round of Layoffs Expected at Microsoft (many at Nokia unit)
Scientists Develop Phase-Changing Robot Material
New Materials for Future
Green Tech Devices
Turkcell Launches Connected Car
Platform
Ex-Apple Engineers Find Life After
Jobs
Japan Airlines Combines Beacons and Smartwatches to Improve Customer Service at Airports
Directly Visualizing
Hydrogen Bonds (I'm still trying to
visualize world peace)
ZTE Lifts Profits Forecast for the
First 6 Months of This Year
3
Companies Get Contracts for Satellite-Launching Space Plane
Smallest Swiss Cross Made of 20 Single Atoms
7/16/2014
Introducing the iPhone 6: Made in China by a Robot (robots don't suffer from
nickel allergies or
jump out windows)
UK's GCHQ Manipulated Online Traffic, Facebook, Messaging, More
FCC Unveils $100M 'Experiment' to Expand Broadband Reach
The Revolt
Against Google 'Glassholes'
Tesla's $35,000 Car Will Be Called
the Model 3 (only $27.5k after
taxpayer subsidy)
Show-Down Looms in Tech vs. Government Struggle
NZ Mobile Phone Recycling Scheme
Secures Government Support
Global Demand for Flexible Electronics to Hit $13.2B by 2020
Germany to Counter NSA with Classical Music, Manual Typewriters (audio software
can easily discern keystrokes & cancel deterministic background noise)
Researchers Develop Quick-Charging Li Battery Architecture
Flashes of Light on a
Superconductor
Intel's Mobile Losses Mount
Air Force Mulls Secretive Sensor Research Center
Pumping Efficiency into
Electrical Motors
Scientists
Characterize Carbon for Batteries
People Who Claim to Worry About Climate Change Use More Electricity (like überhypocrite
Al Gore)
7/15/2014
Novel, Tunable Nanoantennas
Demonstrated
IBM Preps for Post-Silicon
Era
Mobile Phone Recycling Scheme Secures
NZ Government Support
Enabling the Next Internet Wave in China
China Mobile Ditches Wi-Fi Rollout Efforts Amid TD-LTE Push
UK Broadband 'Not Fit for Purpose'
FCC Creates New Opportunity for Wi-Fi Providers
Researchers
Discover Boron 'Buckyball'
World's First Photonic Router
Tech Giants Make Net Neutrality Case as Deadline Nears
Electric Vehicles to Get Gears, Says Bosch
U.S. Arrests Chinese Aerospace Exec in Hacking Conspiracy
Radio's Most Powerful
Headed to Radio Show
Learn More About Bluetooth Low Energy
Tech Scene in Myanmar Hinges on Cellphone Grid
7/14/2014
DARPA Unveils Wireless Guided Bullets
Fast, Cheap, Stretchable Electronics Made with Sewing Machine
Scholarly Engineering Journal Retracts 60 Articles, Smashes 'Peer Review Ring'
Cambridge Start-up Brings NFC to Raspberry Pi
Uncertainty Gives Scientists New Confidence in Search for Novel Materials
FCC Data Shows 9:10 Cellphone Calls to 911 in D.C. Had Bad Location Info (most
info in D.C. is bad)
New Ham Radio Regulations in Place in Thailand, Germany Gets 4 Meters Briefly
3D Tetrapod Quantum Dots Outperform
Giant
Rubik's Cube Floats on Hudson to Celebrate Creator's B-Day
Brits Turn to Mobile for Purchase Decision Making
Second Batch of O3B Comms Satellites Successfully Launched
7/13/2014
TSA Allowing Illegals to Fly Without Verifiable ID (glad I'm not flying)
Company Wants You to Experiment on Facebook - By Quitting
Your Abandoned Smartphone May Betray You
FTC Sues Amazon over In-App Purchases
Satellite Operators Make the Case For Smart Future Networks
7/11/2014
Elon Musk Promises $1M for Tesla Museum
Speeding up Data Storage
by 1,000x with 'Spin Current'
Giant Rollable TVs on the Horizon, Says
LG
Carlos Slim,
World's 2nd-Richest Person, Forced to Break up Telecom Empire
NPL and Universities to Reshape UK Science Agenda
Nanotubes May Put IBM Watson in
a Pocket
EU selects CGI to Support Galileo Commercial Service Initiative
Radio Needs to Be Cool
Again
Highway for Ultracold
Atoms in Light Crystals
New Wireless Device Lets You Track Your Preschooler ... and Listen In
$10k
Prize Offered to Hack a Tesla Car
Artificial Spacetime Experiment Could Show Tantalizing Effects of Gravitational Waves
Dish Signals It Will Bid in 600 MHz Spectrum Auction
Ultra-Cold
Atom Transport Made Simple
Solid State Technology and SEMI Announce 2014 "Best of West" Winner
Microsoft Says Cybercrime Bust Frees 4.7M Infected PCs
7/10/2014
Bell Labs Celebrates Net Speed Record over
Copper Lines
Campaign to Push the
FM Chip Rolls Out
Inductive Charging Takes Shape
at BMW & Daimler
Projecting a 3-D future
Based on Nanoantennas
>40%
of U.S. Households Are Now Wireless-Only
The Old Man: Rotten
Damped Spark Stuff
Nation's Wireless Leadership Threatened by Spectrum Shortage
IBM to Bet $3B over 5 Years Hoping for Breakthrough in Chips (I prefer Ruffle's
original)
Google, Dropbox, Canon and
Others Team up to Disarm Future Patent Trolls
Gallium
Nitride Thin-Film Transistors Produced at <250°C
Soitec Sees 1.4B 4G RF Devices in Production
Liquid Crystals
Controlled by Magnetic Fields
The Speed of Information
in a Spin Network
LG Launches Wearable Mobile Device
for Young Children
Self-Repairing
Jets and Laser Guns
7/9/2014
Engineering Summer School Inspires New Generation
Intel, Qualcomm and Others Compete for 'Internet of Things' Standard
Canada to Consult on Plans for
Radio Spectrum Auction
Apple Patents Method for All Glass iPhones & iPads
NASA Equips Space Robots with Smartphones
Unsustainable
Military Acquisition Planning for the Future
Sand-Based
Li-Ion Batteries Outperform Standard by 3x
Nanoscale
Cooling Element Works in Electrical Insulators
Police Use Dog to Find Memory and Hard Drives in Search (what do 1s and 0s
smell like?)
Easyjet Pilots Bluetooth Beacons at 3 European Airports
Verizon Claims 72,500 Subpoenas for Customer Data in 6 Months
Sprint Testing Shared Data Plans in Select Markets
What You Need to Know About DARPA,
the Pentagon's Mad Science Division
Medical Devices Require Radiation-Tolerant
Memory
Taking a Short Smartphone Break Improves
Employee Well-Being
Autonomous Vessel for Tracking Silent Subs is Under Construction
7/8/2014
Some U.S. Bound Air Travelers Required to Power up Cellphones to Get Past Security
UKube-1 Set
to Launch on July 8 from Kazakhstan
FCC's 3.5 GHz Plans Spark Debate over Spectrum Sharing, Unlicensed Use
Samsung Forecasts 25% Drop in Profit
Penn
Researchers Consider the 'Anticrystal'
India Mulls Additional 3G Radio
Spectrum Auction
Google Glass Wearers Can Steal Your Password
Police Scoop up Data on Thousands in Mobile Phone 'Tower Dumps'
New Push to Get Girls Interested in Tech Work
Bluetooth Module Enables Easy Implementation of Low-Power Wireless
Mystery
of the Printed Diode Solved
Comms, LEDS and Imaging Drives Car Electronics
Higgs Quest Deepens
into Realm of 'New Physics'
The Quantum Dance of Oxygen
Apple's iPhone Generates Nearly ½
of UK Mobile Data Traffic
802.11ac Test
Challenges Take Off
7/7/2014
Europe is Tops for Chip Sales
Test Gets
No Respect
Microsoft's Threshold: Low Expectations But High Stakes (aka Windows 9)
Florida Boy Scouts Make (Radio)
Waves
They Have Seen the Future of the Internet, and It Is Dark
Big Data
(Snooping) Comes to College
Enter EE Times'
July Cartoon Caption Contest
Optimizing R&D in the Changing Semi Landscape
Pushing Deep
Ultraviolet Diodes to Higher Efficiency
Study Helps Unlock
Mystery of High-Temp Superconductors
SK Telecom Launches 225 Mbps Mobile
Data Download Service
Chipset M&A Heating up This Year, $11B Already
How Today's Technology is Closing in on Star Trek
Survey Finds American Cardholders Ready for EMV
Qualcomm Briefly
Takes Down Android Code for CyanogenMod, Sony and Itself
Beers Are Inspired by, Even Named after Planets
7/6/2014
Laser
Technology Lights up 4th of July Skies
Stolen Tesla Split in Half after Fiery Pursuit Wreck (½ of it wedged
between buildings)
Israel Publishes 4G License Documents
China Unicom Trials Hybrid LTE
Network
Google
Aims to Defrag Android Universe
7/4/2014
How to Photograph
Fireworks
A New Way to Keep Electronics
from Overheating
'Smart'
Luggage Will Text You When It Gets Lost
FCC Seeks
to Raise Vanity Call Sign Fee to $21.60
Narrow Graphene Width
Transforms into Semiconductor
1 in 3 German Consumers Ready for Mobile Payments
Brits Find Mobile Working More Productive
Than Office-Based Jobs
Norway to Auction 1800 MHz Spectrum
Next Year
Tunable Quantum Behavior Observed in Bilayer Graphene
Swear off Social Media, for Good or Just for Now
Plasma TVs Are Just
About Dead
Some Prominent Hedge Funds Hurt by Tech Are Back with Gains
Qualcomm Buys Wilocity to Dominate
60 GHz
Japanese Gold Leaf Artists Early Nanoscale Workers
The Digital Revenue Revolution
Through 2018
Soapy Tails Self-Assemble Bucky Balls
7/3/2014
Ericsson's 5G Test Network Delivers
5Gbps Download Speeds
When Engineers
Say One Thing But Do Another
FCC Hear Class A FM Radio
Engineering Proposal
'Meta Mirror'
Helps Advance Nonlinear Optical Systems
Small Stores in Norway See Payback from
RFID
Even in Communications Exercises, the Cyberattacks Are Real
With Less Financial Security, Older Workers Stay on the Job
Nokia Scoops up Infrastructure Deployment Firm SAC Wireless
The Science That Stumped
Einstein
Russia
Attacks U.S. Oil and Gas Companies in Massive Hack (they know we're soft &
vulnerable)
Project at IBM Looks to
Carbon Nanotube Future
U.S. Privacy Panel Backs NSA's Internet Tapping
Novel Audio Topology Aims to Increase Efficiency
FCC Invokes "Red Light Rule" in Denying K1MAN License Renewal Application
Why Your Next Phone Will Be a Phablet
Pentagon: 7 in 10 Youths
Would Fail to Qualify for Military Service (drug use, tattoos, stupidity, criminality
- we're sunk)
7/2/2014
FTC Accuses T-Mobile of Knowingly Billing Customers for Hundred$ of Million$ in Bogus Charges
DARPA
Wants More Efficient, Jam-Resistant RF Communications
Qualcomm Grabs 2/3 of Cellular Baseband
Revenue Share in Q1 2014
Study
Helps Unlock Mystery of High-Temp Superconductors
New Metamaterial Gives
Light a 1-Way Ticket
Canadian Antispam Law Whips up a Storm of Last-Minute Messages
NASA Astronaut's ISS Field Day Operation Puts Smiles on Several Faces
An Electronic Switch
Just 3 Atoms Thick
NAB Announces 2014 Marconi
Finalists
Silicon Highway Narrows, Twists
The Risks
They Ran for a New Way of Life (someone else remembers!)
NASA Explores a New World: Crowdsourcing Ideas
Reigning in Chaos in
Particle Colliders Yields Big Results
Microsoft
Testing a Fix for Windows 8.1 Upgrade Woes
Euro-Team to Develop Semiconductor-Based DC Circuit Breaker
Census Shows White Deaths Outpace Births 2nd Year in a Row (white race eradicating
itself)
7/1/2014
Record-Breaking
Magnet Crams 3 Tons of Force into Size of Golf Ball
Wi-Fi and Broadband
Solutions for Aircraft
UK Making 500 MHz of Spectrum Available by 2020
Canada Day Ham Contest
is Tuesday, July 1
Anger Builds over Facebook's Emotion-Manipulation Study (doesn't matter - masses
easily controlled with 'free' stuff)
BlackBerry CEO Knocks Android's Beefed up Security
Magnetic RAM Remains Niche
Memory
1/5 of Japan's Internet Users Say
New Technology is a Bit Beyond Them
House of Lords Check National Research Priorities
NRL
Reports Breakthrough in Quantum Dots
Tesla
- Connecting the Dots
Google Strikes Back Big Screen
with Android TV
Pentagon Eyes
Incentives for Top Suppliers
$11 Spectrum Analyzer and SDR
Gears in Motion Control Systems
Chinese Teens
Trafficked into U.S. Through Central America (we're sunk- thanks to the
51% that voted for it)
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