3/31/2014
LTE Devices Explode, 1800 MHz Band Dominates
UK Government Boosts PhD Training
Semiconductor Material Can Be Magnetized with Light
Strange Materials Cropping up in Condensed Matter Labs
BlackBerry Sees Hope for Future in Security
Turning
Graphite into Diamond
Aviation Test Gear Market to Hit $7.15B
Distributed Bragg Reflectors for InGaN LEDs on Silicon
Physicists Propose Explanation for Metals Behaving Badly
A
Majority Prefers Letting Computers Decide
U.S. Judge OKs Class Action in e-Book Suit Against Apple
3/30/2014
Leti to Demonstrate Wireless High Data rate Li-Fi Prototype
Apple Patent Addresses Texting-Walking Risk
C-Bird Solution Sets Industry Standard for VSAT Communications at Sea
Math Wizards Ready to Join Malaysia Airlines Search
(Charlie Epps of
NUMB3RS?)
Sprint
Offers to Help Smaller Telcos Deploy LTE Networks
3/28/2014
1:4 Car Crashes Involve Cellphone Use
Marlan Bourns, Inventor of Trimpot®, Dies at 93
After Blocking Twitter, Turkey Moves to Stop YouTube
Amateur Radio, Federal Government Engaged in Joint 5 MHz Communication Exercise
Controlling Electron Spins by Light
RFMD Awarded
$9.7M USAF Contract to Produce First 6" mm-wave GaN-on-SiC ICs
Computing with Slime
Europe to Drop
Anti-Dumping Investigation Against Chinese Telecoms Vendors
Covert Electronic Ambushes at Sea Take Shape
Internet 'Bill of Rights' Approved in Key Vote
Facebook to Build Drones and Satellites to Beam Internet Around the World
Consortium Wants Standards for 'Internet of Things'
Battery Dissolves in Water, Holds Promise for Biomedical Implants
Consumers Outpaced
by Enterprise in the $4B Femtocell Market
EE
Degree Destinations: 10 More You Should Check Out
System
Could Provide First Method for Filtering Light Waves Based on AoA
3/27/2014
Dish and DirecTV Surge on Merger Reports (new company name:
MonopolyTV)
Bletchley Park Code-Breaker
Jerry Roberts Dies, Aged 93
TV Broadcasters Remain Wary of 600 MHz Incentive Auction
Russian Officials Dump iPads over Spy Fears ("reset" button
not working)
Man Jumps on Subway Tracks to Get Phone, Walks Away after Being Run over by Train
BlackBerry Approved
for New Cryptography Certification (a Canadian phone -
no NSA spy embbeding)
FCC Still Eyeing Caps for 2015 Spectrum Auction
From the Birth of the iPhone to An Era of Lawsuits
Grading the Curve in Consumer Electronics
UK Should Look to France for Tech Policy
Micron Italian
Job Cuts Get Global Criticism
Small Cells Market
Healthy as 2014 Deployments Reach $1.8B
Generator Uses the Human Body as Electrode to Power Portable Electronics
Scientists
Track 3-D Nanoscale Changes in Rechargeable Battery Material
Mint 1969 Shelby GT500 Found Under 40 Years of Dust (wouldn't
you love to own this?)
Newton's
Law of Gravity Unchanged over Cosmic Time
3/26/2014
Texting for Long Periods 'Could Lower Life Expectancy'
(especially if you torque someone off badly)
FCC's Wheeler Lays out Vision for 3.5 GHz Band, Incentive Auctions
Transistor-Cost
Declines Slowing, Synopsys Says
Could
Diamonds Be a Computer's Best Friend?
HTC One (M8) Set to Challenge Galaxy S5
Qatar's Geostationary Es'hailSat 2 Satellite to Carry Amateur Radio Transponder
Wearable
Electronics Driving Battery Revenue Growth
Messaging Services Bypass the Old SMS Route
Researchers See Kelvin Wave on Quantum 'Tornado' for 1st Time
Facebook to Acquire Virtual Reality Company for $2B
U.S. Police Force Probed
on Stingray Tracking Technology
Mexican Government
Outlines Second Phase of Telecoms Reforms
IRS Says Bitcoin is Taxable as Property, Not Cash
GaN-on-Si Enables GaN Power Electronics
With Robots Like These, Who Needs Humans?
China to Blow
$10B a Year on Chips
3/25/2014
E-Thread Provides
Discrete Anti-Counterfeiting or Tracking Solutions
Artist Takes Photos
of People Texting While Driving and Puts Them on Billboards
Magnetic Behavior Discovery Could Advance Nuclear Fusion
(hard to believe we still don't have fusion power)
Radio Amateur Facing Substantial Fine for CB Violation
Experiment Opens Door to Multi-Party Quantum Communication
10 Simple Tips to Double your LinkedIn Connections
EE Job Titles
of the Future
Carrier Wi-Fi Trends: Analytics, Homespots and the Real Impact of LTE
FCC
Finds "Broad Pattern of Contest Misconduct"
Boeing to Help DARPA Develop Satellite Launching from Aircraft
Mexican Government
Outlines Second Phase of Telecoms Reforms
Graphene Cardboard Has Highly Tunable Properties
T-Mobile's Free International Roaming is Reason Enough to Switch
Mathematical
Equation That Explains Behavior of Nanofoams
WiFi
in Your Car. Soon.
NASA
Budgets $6M for Your Asteroid Redirect Ideas
3/24/2014
Au Revoir, Entrepreneurs (freedom vs. oppressive control)
The Future of Satellites: What Are the Options?
Semi Companies Feel R&D Squeeze
ARRL Announces Centennial Station Giveaway!
Graphene Phototransistor Covers Visible Light, UV and IR
There Must Be Particles out There Smaller Than Higgs (Mini-Me
God particle)
BlackBerry to Sell
its Canadian Property Portfolio
Microsoft Defends Its Right to Read Your Email
European
Hackers Test Their Skills in Geneva
Sprint Cuts at Least 1,400 Jobs
5 Tips for PCB Schematic File Management
3/23/2014
Linux Goes to the Head of the Class
Gates Foundation Lobbies for Feds to Collect Data on College Graduates' Lives
NSA Hacks Chinese Servers
Nokia Says
New India Tax Claim is 'Absurd'
Britons Rate Russia More Positively Than EU (nationalism
vs. oneworldism - people love their countries & language)
3/21/2014
WPA2 Wireless Security
Cracked
LTE Devices Explode, 1800 MHz Band Dominates
NASA Funding Social Studies Rather Than Space Studies (our
'leaders' doing to America what terrorists could only dream of)
New Semiconductor Holds Promise for 2-D Physics and Electronics
USAF Wants to Toughen up Aerial Layer Communications
Google Ordered to
Pay $85M for Infringing Android Patent
Thermal
Conductance Can Be Controlled Like Waves Using Nanostructures
LightSquared Could Get FCC Approval to Use Spectrum by Year-End
Pseudogap Theory Puts Physicists Closer to High Temperature Superconductors
China Mobile Posts
First Profits Decline in 14 Years
Volvo Road
Magnets Tell Autonomous Cars Where to Go (what could possibly
go wrong with that?)
Potential
Way to Make Graphene Superconducting
New
Best Value For Top Quark's Mass
Tiny Transistors for Extreme Environs
SDR Development Kits for Military Comms Intro'd by Analog Devices
Hack Attacks Battled
by Net's Timekeepers
3/20/2014
Embedding Components Within PCB Substrates
Titanium
Clubs Can Cause Golf Course Fires (this is not an early
4/1 joke)
Lockheed Martin Develops Nanotechnology Solution to Tin Whiskers
Magnetic Behavior Discovery Could Advance Nuclear Fusion
Technology to Extend Internet Connectivity to the Front Lines
Van Allen Probes Spacecraft Reveal 'Zebra Stripe' in Inner Radiation Belt
Smartphones are Fading, Wearables are Next
Industry-Funded Academic Inventions Spur Innovation
Driven by Facebook
and Google, Mobile Ad Market Doubled in 2013
Toyota Pays
$1.2B to Settle DOJ Software Glitch Probe
Pro Sports' Public Relations Going High-Tech, Real Time
Tesla's Gigafactory Would Bring Us Closer to Reality
Pentagon Budgets $2.45B Next Year on UAVs for Surveillance and Attack
FCC Consent Decree Requires Radio Amateur to Relinquish His License
Premo Intros Compact NFC Antenna
Is the U.S. Really Giving up Control of the Internet
3/19/2014
ZigBee Gets a x7 Range Boost from TI Chip
Wireless Electricity? It's Here (after decades of people
fretting over HV power line fields)
Patent
Expert Sees No Simple Answers
Reviving Einstein's Spooky Action at a Distance
New Window into Quantum Physics with Superconductivity in LEDs
Motorola Shows off
Early Design for SmartWatch
Google Introduces 'Android Wear' Software for Smartwatches
NSA Surveillance Program Reaches 'Into the Past' to Retrieve, Replay Calls
Special Event Stations to Mark International Marconi Day
Who's Afraid of Math? Genetics or Environment the Key
Inductive Scanner Maps Objects
Study Shows Why Innovation
Takes a Nosedive
FCC
AM Revitalization Comments Due Tomorrow
Malaysian ARES Calls on Hams to Help in Missing Aircraft Search
Memory Closes
in on Single Photons
Sony Unveils Virtual
Reality Headset for PlayStation 4
3/18/2014
U.S. Trade Optimism
at All-Time High - Dominance in Technology Exports to Remain Strong
U.S. Navy to Beam Power from Space Using Giant Orbiting Solar Panels
Start-Ups Aim to Conquer Space Market
CCA Show: Expect Spectrum, Roaming, VoLTE and Wi-Fi Offloading to Dominate Discussions
FCC Invites Public Comment on Petition Affecting 10-10.5 GHz Band
U.S. Branded an 'Enemy of the Internet' by Reporters Without Borders
Apple Quietly Slips
out a Cheaper iPhone
Clothing with a Mind of Its Own
High-Tech Goods to Lead Trade Growth over Next 15 Years
Nokia Takes a Million
Pre-Orders for Its Android Smartphone
Scientists Announce a Big-Bang Breakthrough
Compressed Natural Gas Vehicles Picking up Steam
Is
Nationalizing Radio a Bad Thing?
Murata Claims Surface Mount Ultrasonic Sensor First
Secrets Inside an Airplane's Black Box
Robot Solves
Rubik's Cube in 3 Seconds
3/17/2014
ARRL to FCC: 'Grow Light' Ballast Causes HF Interference, Violates Rules
U.S. to Give up Oversight of Web Domain Manager (yet another
loss for the U.S. in era of change-hope)
Slicing up the Spectrum: DoD's Tough Task
Europe Backs Call for
Universal Smartphone Charger
Patent
Debate Spawns Stanford Study
Bipolar Diffusion Injection into InGaN Quantum Wells
NATO Websites Hit in Cyber Attack Linked to Crimea Tension
Analyst Angle: A Japanese reality check
A Battery That 'Breathes' Could Power Next-Gen Electric Vehicles
Silicon Valley's Youth Problem
2 Transistors Make Flash Power Efficient
An Amazing All-Robot Band
Quantum Physics Secures New Cryptography Scheme
3/16/2014
Researchers Develop New Kind of Internal Combustion Microengine
iPhone Update Angers Users
NSA Deploys Botnet Armies, Spoofs Facebook
Suri to be
Named Nokia CEO (should change 'u' to 'i' and work for
Apple instead)
Alibaba Picks U.S. for IPO in Blow to Hong Kong Exchange
3/14/2014
Rubik's Cube Solving
Robot Powered by Samsung Smartphone Aims for World Record
H-1B Visa Demand Spike Predicted
Creating a Graphene-Metal Sandwich to Improve Electronics
United Airlines Offers Free Streaming TV and Movies
Wireless Charging
Revenue to Rise by Nearly 40x by 2018
Signal
Control with Light Frequencies
Direct Growth of Graphene on Aluminum Nitride on Silicon
Spectrum Economics – Fueling Innovation and Growth Across the Wireless Industry
Nanoscale Optical Switch Breaks Miniaturization Barrier
Pew Study: Many Technophiles Also Love Libraries
Satellite Batteries Pose Significant Space Debris Risks
Zuzance Seeks Funding for NFC Clothing Range
Army Aims to Make Mobile Tactical Network iPhone-Easy
Engineering Shows up at Big Bang Science Fair
How to Estimate Ground Bounce in a Connector
Microsoft to Waive Windows Phone License Fees for Indian Vendors
3/13/2014
Supergenius HS Student Wins Intel Science Talent Search
(why do I suddenly feel inadequate?)
NSA Using Facebook to Hack into Your Computer
UK Leapfrogs
to Top of Europe's Superfast Broadband Rankings
Material
Rivaling Graphene May Be Mined out of Rocks
3rd Law of Thermodynamics Restored in Thin Films of Spin Ice
FCC Cites Ham's "History of Compliance" in Reducing Fine for Unlicensed Broadcasting
(inexcusable - he knew better - hang him)
Groups Protest Chemicals Used in Apple's iPhone
Silicon Valley's Youth Problem
Quantum
Chaos in Ultracold Gas Discovered (shiver me atoms - arrr)
UK's 4G Spectrum Auction
May Not Have Been Economically Efficient
Grading the Top U.S. Wireless Carriers in Q4 of 2013
NSA Has 'Industrial Scale' Malware for Spying (51% voted
for the change)
'Ultracold' Molecules Promising for Quantum Computing, Simulation
Ham TV Debuts on ISS
NASA Finds
Big Ideas from Small Businesses
Norway Takes Lead in Electric Cars (with generous subsidies)
3/12/2014
Can Software-Defined Radios Defeat Jamming?
5 Predictions for the Web That Were WAY Off
NPR's "All Things Considered" Segment to Include Spark Gap Morse from ARRL
Navy Lets Contracts for Radar Power Amplifiers
Russia to Launch New Glonass Satellite on March 24
SoftBank CEO Vows Broadband Speeds of 200 Mbps, More Competition in U.S. Marke
Chip Manufacturing Equipment Sales Fall
The Internet in 2025: Dark and Ubiquitous
Acoustic Cloaking Device Hides Objects from Sound
Researchers
Describe Microbe That 'Eats' Electricity
Vietnam Says No 4G
Licenses Until 2015 at the Earliest
NASA Seeks Coders to
Hunt Asteroids
E Ink Phone Can Last on 2 Charges a Month
Squeezing Light into Metals
CIA Searched Senate Intelligence Committee Computers (it's
only OK if yours gets violated, not that of royalty)
Web Founder Berners-Lee Calls for Online 'Magna Carta' to Protect Users
3/11/2014
KickSat CubeSat to Deploy Smallest Earth-Orbiting Satellites
Bending Light with
a Tiny Chip
Orbiting Space Debris to be Destroyed with Lasers Fired from Australia
(what could possibly go wrong?)
The 'Deep Web' You Don't Know About
Radio
Reach Rises by More Than a Million
Electrically Insulating Epoxy Adhesive That Resists Water and Oils
Radiation Environment Around Earth Modeled with New Data
Smart Ripple Canceller Offers Near-Zero Dropout (Fred Sanford
is my favorite Ripple canceller -
video clip)
Chinese Phone Manufacturers Expected
to Take ½ the Market in 2015
ISS to Beam Video via Laser Back to Earth
High Risk Has Its Rewards with DoD R&D Budgets,
North America Closes
2013 with 101M LTE Subscribers
Smartphones Become
'Eye-Phones' with Low-Cost Devices Developed by Stanford
Scientists Build Thinnest-Possible LEDs to Be Stronger, Energy Efficient
Ukraine Computers Targeted by Aggressive 'Snake' Virus
AT&T Mobility Gives Smaller Families Price Break
3/10/2014
Freescale
Semiconductor Has 20 Employees on Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight
EMphobes Move to Greenbank, WV, Radiotelescope Town to Escape Radiation
(those nuts will probably ruin the radio silence of the area)
Industry Canada Rolls out Updated Ham Radio Question Pool
World Wide
Web Turns 25 Years Old
FCC Looks to 5 GHz Band, 600 MHz Guard Bands for Unlicensed Wireless
Here's Why Bitcoin Matters
Excalibur Brings High-Energy Lasers Closer to the Field
Free Wi-Fi Hotspots
Pose Data Risk, Europol Warns
Spin Waves
Cut Logic Power
Out of the Shadows, a Tech Hub in Luxembourg
IBM Factory Strike Shows Shifting China Labor Landscape (harder to
oppress & exploit with world's eyes on you)
Considering the History of Electric Cars...
Pentagon Drone Spending to Reach $2.45B
3/9/2014
Daylight Saving Time Can Be a Danger to Your Health
(time to do away with it)
EU's 5G Plans 'Falling
Far Short'
Fed Ruling May Bring Flocks of Buzzing Drones to U.S. Skies
By 2020, There Will Be 10 Web-Connected Devices per Human
Facebook out to Buy Solar Drone Maker (empire building)
3/7/2014
Future
Electronics with Super-Efficient Hard Drives
Novel Transistors Make Robust Thin-Film Logic
U.S. Internet Speed Ranks 31st in World
Fab Equipment Spending to Increase 20-30% in 2014
Wearable
Ring for Gesture Control (your personal "Precious")
Pentagon to Spend $6B on C4I in 2015
Rough Surface Could Keep Small Electronic Parts from Sticking Together
Mexico Regulator Decides on Dominant Players in Telecoms, TV
GPS III Program Faces Cuts, More Delays in 2015 Budget
Colored
Diamonds Are a Superconductor's Best Friend
Einstein's WWII-Era Letter to U.S. Soldier on Sale for $40k
Withdrawing Money
at Cash Machines with Google Glass (while it records your
PIN)
New EMV Framework to Support NFC, QR, Bluetooth LE and More
Crystals Ripple in Response to Light
1.8-mm Thin Speaker Delivers 80 dB
Apple Security Rules
Leave Inherited iPad Useless
3/6/2014
New DARPA
Program Targets Bootleg Components
Ultra Sensitive Detection of Radio Waves with Lasers
New Mini Gets NFC Key Cap Option
'The Monuments of Tech' Slideshow
Automakers Eye Laser Lights to Let Drivers See Farther at Night
Qualcomm & Sprint
Conduct Live Trial of Hyper-Dense Small Cell Network
Online
Audio Listening is Booming (me included)
Extraordinary Momentum and Spin Discovered in Evanescent Light Waves
Researchers
Propose a New Way to Detect the Elusive Graviton
When Will Wireless Operators Matter in Consumer Broadband Access battle?
Deutsche Telekom Open to U.S. Mobile Market Consolidation
Bill Gates Did Not
Agree with Microsoft Plans to Buy Nokia's Handset Division
Wide Use of More Flexible Metallic Glass Coming Your Way
Machines Can't Do What Engineers Do So Well
Student Fined $100k over Twitter Defamation of Teacher
Bitcoin Firm CEO Found Dead in Suspected Suicide
3/5/2014
Procurement, RDT&E, Hit Hard in 2015 DOD Budget
Drones Seen Driving Spectrum Sharing Technologies
Enormous
Asteroid to Zip Between Earth and Moon Wednesday
Ham Radio Will Play Role in "HI-SEAS" Simulated Mars Mission
SpaceX Gets Closer to Launching Military, Spy Satellites
RadioShack Shuttering
20% of Its Outlets - 1,100 Stores to Close (another American
tech icon going down)
Radio Shack:
Still Relevant for Neighborhood Engineers?
Frustrated Cities Take High-Speed Internet into Their Own Hands
'Triboelectric,'
the Buzzword of the Future?
Vodafone Qatar Opens Zone for Women
Smartphone
Adoption Up 500%
Novel Quantum Dot Laser Paves Way for Lower Cost Photonics
Yahoo to Stop User Access of Services with Facebook, Google IDs
Waterloo Physicists Solve 20-Year-Old Debate on Glassy Surfaces
0-D: Zero-Dimensional Quantum Dots Identified by Researchers
U.S. Telecoms Push
Back on Proposed NSA Plan
3/4/2014
Global Semiconductor Industry Posts Highest-Ever January Sales
Northrop's Modular Space Vehicle Gives USAF Faster Satellite Capability --- (PIC)
Kickstarter Hits $1B in Pledges
Stable 2-D Electron Gas in Strontium Titanate Opens Door to New Kind of Electronics
Hackers Take Control
of 300,000 Home Routers
Radar Helps UAVs Sense and Avoid Other Aircraft
India Looks to Increase
Surveillance of Telecoms Traffic (following NSA's lead)
Ultra-Fast
Laser Spectroscopy Lights Way to Understanding New Materials
Relativity
Shakes a Magnet
College Student's Facebook Folly Could Cost Her $80k
Harvard Professor to Sell oPhone Scent-Messaging Tool (send
your bad breath while talking from afar)
X-Ray
Laser Takes Images of Free Molecules
Linearize Thermistors with New Formula
Bill Gates Overtakes
Carlos Slim As World's Richest Man
New York Joins California
in Calling for Smartphone Kill Switch
When Start-Ups Don't Lock the Doors
3/3/2014
Engineers Allege Hiring Collusion in Silicon Valley
Will Windows 9 be the New Windows 7?
NFC-Enabled Cellphone
Shipments Expected to Soar 4x in Next 5 Years
DARPA 'Open Catalog' Makes Agency-Sponsored Software and Publications Available
California to Allow Limited Phone Use for Drivers
Foundation for Amateur Radio Invites Scholarship Applications
Early Successes Pave Way for More Mobile in DOD's Future
IPCom Loses $2.2B
Patent Lawsuit Against Apple
Promise
and Peril in an Ultra-Connected World
Why You Might Wear Your Next Computer on Your Ear
Chile Awards Three
700 MHz Spectrum Licenses
'Godfather' of Helvetica Font Dies at 84
H Block Auction Ends at $1.564B, with Dish Network as Likely Winner
3/2/2014
Computer-Generated Fake Papers Flooding Academia
NASA Building 4 Spacecraft to Study Magnetic Reconnection
Young Wall Street Heads to Silicon Valley
Thieves Break into Cars Using Mysterious Black Box
Big Mechanism Seeks the "Whys" Hidden in Big Data
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