3/31/2016
Communication Link with X-Ray Telescope Satellite Lost
Politician Wants
Texting While Walking to Be Banned
Cracked iPhone: Should You
Be Worried?
UK's National Graphene Institute Kerfuffle Gets the PR Treatment
Wireless Charging Already a Maturing Market
Huawei to Boost
Training of Saudis Ahead of Foreign Staff Ban
Volkswagen Recall is 3rd Electric
Car Call-back in a Month
3/30/2016
The Consumer Tablet is Dying; Long Live the Business Tablet
Electronic
Counterpart to Ecological Models Revealed
Differences Between Receiver Types, Part 2
Physicists Upend Conventional Wisdom of How Paint Dries
Silicon Lacks Clear
Metrics
More Education Won't
Necessarily Make You Richer per New Research (that Ph.D. in Frisbee
Studies is just not paying off as expected)
3/29/2016
Swisscom and Ericsson
Plant LTE Small Cells Underground
Nanomotors Act As Tiny Repair Kits for Self-Healing Electronics
Reliability and Physics of Failure in eGaN Devices
The Dark Web Is Too Slow and Annoying for Terrorists
Japan's NTT Data to Buy Dell
Systems Unit for $3B
Efficient
Methane C-H Bond Activation Achieved for 1st Time
Immigrant Population >15% in 16, >25% in 6 States
(politician-led invasion - vote 'em out!)
3/28/2016
U.S. Leads Growing global Industrial Semiconductor Market
New Catalyst
is 3x Better at Splitting Water
FCC Invades
the NAB Show
3/27/2016
The Next Big Thing in Phones May Not Be a Phone
Marines Scrounge Yorktown Museum F-18 for Spare Parts
New DARPA Challenge Takes Aim at Spectrum Sharing
3/25/2016
Saudi Arabia Bans
Foreigners from Selling Mobile Phones
SBE Urges FCC to Improve Medium-Wave Noise Environment
World's Thinnest Lens to Revolutionize Cameras
Portugal Telecom Selling off
Its Copper
Facebook Drops Support for
Blackberry (a major slap to Canadians IMO)
Confusion as Outcome
of Thai 4G Spectrum Auction in Doubt
3/24/2016
No Joke: Blondes Aren't Dumb
U.S. Says It May Not Need Apple's Help to Unlock iPhone
Cobham & RFHIC to Develop New GaN Solid State Radar
Fuel Cell Design Powered by Graphene-Wrapped Nanocrystals
Ampleon and Midea Collaborate on Solid State RF Oven
Bump in
Large Hadron Collider Data Has Physicists Electrified
3/23/2016
Andreessen Horowitz Exec Explains How the VC Firm Works
Ericsson and Vodafone
Deploy Cloud-based VoLTE and Wi-Fi Calling
Last
MEMS Oscillator Maker Standing
Army Electronic Warfare Investment Lags Russian Threat
U.S. to Temporarily
Relax Restrictions on ZTE
Navy Orders More Radar Jammers to Protect Hornet Fighters
3/22/2016
Drone Uses Beam-Forming Antenna to Test Small Cell Sites
Comments on Lifetime Amateur Radio Licenses Sought by FCC
FBI Warns on Risks of Car Hacking
Mobile Data Traffic
Fuels Growth as India Moves Towards 4G
Chip Market Will Fall in 2016, Says Another Analyst
Automatic Braking Systems to Be Standard on Most U.S. Vehicles
3/21/2016
FCC Seeks Assistance on Pirate Radio Enforcement
China Mobile Starts
Shutting down 3G Base Stations
Carrier Workers See Costs, Not Benefits, of Global Trade
3/20/2016
Reminder Regarding EMC Testing for FCC Certification
ARRL Is Now on Instagram!
English Professor Won $700k for Solving a 379-Year-Old Math Problem
3/18/2016
MEMS Roadmaps,
a Moore's Law of MEMS
Russian "Inventors of Telecommunications" Stations on the Air
China, Russia Planning Space Attacks on U.S. Satellites
JavaScript Most Popular Language
Ericsson and China
Mobile Extend 5G Cooperation
Fox-1C and Fox-1D Satellites Ready for Payload Integration
3/17/2016
Majorana 'Zero Modes' Spotted in Superconducting Nanowires
Nanomotors
Could Help Electronics Fix Themselves
Mathematician Pair Find Prime Numbers Aren't as Random as Thought
Human Go Champ Scores Surprise Victory over Google AI
Fermionic Microscope Watches Individual Atoms in Transition
Data Explosion Makes Storage Tech Exciting
3/16/2016
Engineers Design
Next-Generation Non-Reciprocal Antenna
Smartphone Market to Slow
to Single-Digit Growth in 2016
The Ukrainian Blackout and the Future of War
2015 Global Semiconductor Equipment Sales of $36.5B
On Trade, Angry Voters Have a Point
New Model to Decode What Invisible Dark Matter Is
3/15/2016
Fuel Cell Design Powered by Graphene-Wrapped Nanocrystals
ZTE Facing U.S. Export
Ban for Selling to Iran
BT Announces New G.fast
Trials as MPs Blast Openreach
How DoD Can Manage the Great Bow Wave
NCVEC Announces 3rd Release of 2016-2020 Amateur Extra Question Pool
124 IAs Released from Jail Since 2010 Charged in 138 Murder Cases
3/14/2016
FCC Proposes Broadband
Privacy Rules
ISRO Launches India's 6th Navigation Satellite IRNSS-1F
Man Arrested for Using Cellphone Jammer on Train
Disney Redux at Abbott Labs: Pink-Slipped IT Staff to Train Their H1B Replacements
3/13/2016
Nations Ranked
on Vulnerability to Cyberattacks
50% of Americans Listen to Online Radio
Manchester University Engineering Grads Most Sought After
3/11/2016
Light Helps Transistor Laser Switch Faster
Creation of 1st Practical Silicon-Based Laser
Apple Tells U.S. Judge iPhones
'Impossible' to Unlock
III-V FET Transconductance Record
Orbital Eyes 1st Customer for In-Space Satellite Servicing
Quantum Computer Comes Closer to Cracking RSA Encryption
3/10/2016
75% of U.S. Drivers Fear Self-Driving Cars
Check out 10 Equations That Changed the World
Adoption of Smart Home Devices Slowed by Complexity, Cost
'Bending Current' Opens Way for New Type of Magnetic Memory
UK Increases Number of Patents Filed
NT Times Experiments with Ways to Fight Ad Blocking
3/9/2016
E-mail Inventor Ray Tomlinson Dies at 74
Semiconductor Shipments to Exceed 1T Devices in 2018
Apple Macs Hit by Ransomware
'For 1st Time'
Non-Alloyed Contacts for GaN Devices
Li-Ion Battery Shipments to Be Banned from Passenger Aircraft
3/8/2016
Mexico Confirms AWS
Spectrum Auction Results
Graphene Goes Ultra-Thin,
Absorbent
Cryptography Pioneers Win Million-Dollar Turing Award
Electricity Throughs Graphene at High Frequencies Without Energy Loss
3/7/2016
Taiwan Passes South Korea in IC Wafer Fab Capacity
The FCC is About to Ruin AM Radio
Wearable Caffeinated Bracelet Keeps You Energized All Day Long
(I'll stick with the liquid form)
242,000 Jobs Added in February: 304,000 Were Part-Time (net
loss of full-time)
3/6/2016
India's Telcos Challenge
Call Drop Compensation in Supreme Court
Warwick University Receives £4.8M ($6.7M) to Support 66 PhDs
Man Finds Cache of Century-Old Baseball Cards in Paper Bag
3/4/2016
Explosive Start Not Needed for Fast Radio Bursts
Study Links Mobile
Device Addiction to Depression and Anxiety
Chip
Makers Need New Business Models
Big in Japan! Geomagnetic Indoor Positioning
BAE to Demonstrate Next-Gen EW Detection for the Navy
1,000-Pixel Headlights Could Offer Improved Vision at Night
3/3/2016
The End of the Smartphone? (it's been a long time since I
last read a Robert Lucky piece)
USB-C Power Cords May Be Hazardous to Your Device
First Mobile Trader
Sentenced Following Commission's Mobile Trader Report
13 Women Who Changed
Science
McDonald's Turns Happy Meal Boxes into Virtual Reality Viewers
Eerie Math Could Predict Terrorist Attacks (a job for Charlie
Epps in
NUMB3RS)
3/2/2016
New Tracking Antenna to Communicate with Rockets & Satellites
A Major
Flaw in AM Revitalization?
Plans for Europe's Biggest Onshore Wind Project
To Get Wind Power You Need Oil
Is Your Smartphone Listening
to You?
Armed Forces Day 2016 Communication Test to Include Direct Military-Ham Contact on 60
Meters
3/1/2016
How We Got Here:
Advice from Women Engineers
Raspberry Pi 3 Adds Wi-Fi and
Bluetooth
Stuff Keeps Getting Cheaper (interesting charts)
Anadigics Chooses II-VI's Final Matching Bid over Chinese Firm's Offer
4 Ways Engineering Resources Have Changed
China's New Radar Installation Raises Stakes in Pacific
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