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8/31/2012
DARPA RF-FPGA Program Awards 6 Contracts to Develop Programmable RF Front-Ends
FCC May Review How Much Spectrum Carriers Can Hold
Android Smartphone
Replaces the CPU and OS in New Laptop Computer (essentially
a "real" keyboard and monitor add-on for people with fumbly fingers and bad eyes - like
me)
New Single-Shot X-Ray Technique Makes Magnetic Image
'Nanoresonators' Might Improve Cell Phone Performance
Apple and Google
CEOs in Talks to Settle Patent Wars
Overseas Sales Offer Lifeline to Anxious Defense Contractors
(selling to anyone to keep stock prices high - 2011
exports 3x 2010)
Early Signs of Recovery for North American Electronics Supply Chain
A
One-Way Street for Spinning Atoms
Stringent CAFE Standards Push Automakers
(and drives up costs to consumers)
Tokyo Court Hands Samsung a Win over Apple
Apple Worked a Broken Patent System
Photonic Interactions Measured at Atomic Level
Software Meant to Fight Crime Is Used to Spy on Dissidents
New Technique Could Mean Super Thin, Strong Graphene-Based Circuits
Fed Chairman Makes Case for Further Monetization of Taxpayer Debt, aka
QE3 (because it's worked so well thus far)
8/30/2012
Smallest Antenna Can Increase Wi-Fi Speed 200x
New Record in
Quantum Communications
Visible Light Communication Could Simplify Car Electronics
Dish Urges FCC Not to Shift Its Satellite Spectrum Holdings
'Nano Machine Shop' Shapes Nanowires, Ultrathin Films
DOD Redoubles Joint Efforts in Budget-Challenged Times
Motorola Employee
Jailed After Selling Trade Secrets to Chinese Firm
Painful Birth for Europe's New One-Stop Patent
Strain in Silver Nanoparticles Creates Unusual 'Twinning'
Mobile Phone
Users Lack Loyalty but Rely Heavily on Services
NASA Launches Twin Probes to Explore Radiation Belt
Space: A Year on the ISS Good for Science
Windows 8
Spurs New Touchscreen Hybrid PC Designs
Bank Worker Gets Fired for Using Fake Dime Decades Ago
(Fed rules blamed - one job not created or saved)
Chocolate May
Protect the Brain from Stroke (great news for M&Ms
gluttons like myownself)
8/29/2012
IARU Supports Proposal for .radio Domain Name
Huawei Quadruples
Spending on Lobbying U.S. Politicians
FAA to Review Rules on Use of Electronic Devices
Researchers Shed Light on Superconductor Development
Intensity of
Competition Continues to Build in German Mobile Services
Motorola's Intel
Phone Set for September Launch
Smartphones to Overtake Feature Phones in 2013, 2 Years Earlier Than
Expected
Anritsu Tackles the Challenge of LTE Testing
iPhone Struggles to Gain Ground in China
Math Ability Requires Crosstalk in the Brain
RadioShack No Contract Wireless Rate Plans Leak, $60 Gets You Everything
Sentencing Set for Software Developer Convicted of Stealing Motorola
Secrets
Brits Fail
to Take a 'Tech' Break This Summer
Intel Looks at Wireless Charging
Earphones Potentially as Dangerous as Noise from Jet Engines
8/28/2012
GM Suspending Chevy Volt Output, Retooling for Impala
(GM potential = 0 volts)
GaN-on-Si Large-Signal Performance Beyond 40 GHz
Ray
of Light Could Lead to Next Generation of Superconductors
IEEE Wireless Standards Get Faster, Simpler, More Personal
How Cell Phone Companies Prepare for Hurricanes
Android Smartphones to Power NASA Satellites
NC Teen Named Recipient of ARRL’s 2011 Hiram Percy Maxim Award
Flat Lens Offers
a Perfect Image
One-Molecule-Thick Material Has Big Advantages
Rumor Mill: T-Mobile Reps Told to 'Sell Against' the iPhone Starting
Sept. 21
4G Rollout is Good News for OEMs
Quantum IC Enables Mass-Manufacture of Quantum Technology.
Java Zero-Day Attack Threats Widening, Security Experts Warn
Physicists Create First-Ever Mechanical Device That Measures Mass of
Single Molecule
Equations
Take a Bit of Working Out
8/27/2012
What the Apple-Samsung Verdict Means for Your Smartphone
Nokia Jumps on Hopes it Can Cash in on Samsung Setback
FCC Eyes Tax on Internet Service
Low-Cost Nanosatellites, Small Launchers Would Assist Ground Troops
Verizon Wireless
Bans Staff Vacations in iPhone Launch Window
Inventor Challenges a Sweeping Revision in Patent Law
RIM Hopes for a Hit with BlackBerry 10's New User Interface
It's Time to
Reap the Benefits of 4G Mobile Networks
India Secures
Delay in 2G Radio Spectrum Auction
New Space Weather Video Shows Increased Solar Activity in Last 3 Years
Scientists Use Cobalt Catalyst to Produce Hydrogen from Water
Shaking the Electron Has Strengthened Quantum Mechanics
Quark Matter's
Connection with the Higgs
South Africa to Launch Mini Satellite
Seagate to Buy Former Solyndra Plant ($300k
under what taxpayers shelled out for it)
8/26/2012
 Neil Armstrong - Dead at 82
(the passing of an American legend - RIP)
Apple's $1 Billion Verdict May Lead to Samsung Sales Ban
Top Cities for Technology Start-Ups
No Signal? No Problem - Sat Gadgets Keep You Connected Anywhere, Any
Time
GaAs Bulk Substrates Return to Normal Demand Growth and Price Declines
in 2012
8/24/2012
College Grads Trading Caps and Gowns for Mops (or a Welfare check)
Ho Chi Minh City Plans Fab (aka Saigon,
maybe they can get Hanoi Jane to cut the ribbon at the opening ceremony)
FCC Releases Congressionally Mandated Study on Amateur Radio
Ultrathin Wafer of Silicon and Gold Focuses Telecom Wavelengths Without
Distortion
BlackBerry
Dominance in UK Government Under Threat
FCC Suspends Flexible Pricing on Coveted Broadband Lines
Apple and Samsung
Get South Korea Bans
2D Materials Exposed to Light Could Transform into 3D Objects
Researchers Develop Simplified Approach for High-Power, Single-Mode Lasers
Cable-Shaped Batteries with a Twist
Cellcom and ICC-Cal to Offer NFC Payments in Israel
FCC Approves Verizon's $3.9B AWS Purchase, T-Mobile Spectrum Swap
ON Semi Cuts Jobs, Cancels Exec Bonus, Loses CFO
Will Apple Remove Your Ads?
NASA Postpones Launch of Space Radiation Probes
8/23/2012
Sony's Mobile
Arm Cuts 1,000 Jobs
Cell Phone
Bans While Driving May Have Limited Impact on Accident Rates
(who would have guessed - raise alarm, pass laws, discover
data was flawed)
DOD Chooses Rockwell Collins for Tin Whisker Mitigation Research
Superconductor 'Flaws' Could Be Key to Its Abilities
Elusive Metal Discovered: Nickel Oxide Turned into an Electricity-Conducting
Metal
Research in Molybdenum Disulfide Sparks New Apps
Analyzing the World's 11 Biggest Handset Makers in Q2
New Tech Could Mean 3D Movies with No Glasses
Making "Dumb" Phones Smarter and Faster
What Would Defense Spending Look Like with Sequestration?
Australia Fighter Jets First to Get Hi-Tech U.S. Jammers
NASA to Launch Twin Space Probes into Earth's Radiation Belt
iPhone 5 Photos Leak as Release Date Approaches
Hewlett-Packard
Takes $8.8B Loss
Microsoft Unveils First New Logo in 25 Years
8/22/2012
Mobile Workers
Report Average Monthly Data Roaming Bill Shock of $1,089
Tech Firms Squeezing Conflict Minerals Out of Supply Chains
Netiquette: Five Texts You Should Never Send
Smart Cars Get a Connection Test in Michigan
U.S. Seizes
Android App Piracy Sites in Copyright Crackdown
UCSB Researchers Demonstrate That 15=3x5 About Half of the Time
IEEE Smart Grid for Practitioners Conference Seeks Technical Papers,
Presentations, Panels
Imprisoned Molecules 'Quantum Rattle' in Their Cages
NTT
Com Expands Asia-Oceania Backbone Capacity to 500 Gbps
Over 2/3 of
Australians Aged 15-65 Currently Own a Smartphone
Jury To Decide Apple's Patent Case Against Samsung
Nuclear Fusion Heat Outflow Can Now Be Predicted
Is Unlimited Data Making a Comeback?
LG Releases 'World's Largest' Ultra-Definition TV
MIT-Developed 'Microthrusters' Could Propel Small Satellites
Mars Rover Curiosity to Take 1st Martian Drive Wednesday
8/21/2012
Two New Galileo Satellites Being Prepared for Launch
Researchers Make Quantum Processor Capable of Factoring a Composite Number
into Prime Factors
Everything Everywhere
Gets 4G Go-Ahead from Ofcom
Samsung Spending $4B in Texas
35 Innovators Under
35
Japan's Smartphone
Surge: 1 in 4 Mobile Consumers Now Owns a Smartphone
High-Tech Gadgets For the Back-to-School Bound
Electronics Manufacturers Emerging from Recession
Making Stretchable Electronics
Batteries Made from World's Thinnest Material Could Power Tomorrow's
Electric Cars
Space Elevators: Going Up?
NY Lawmaker Wants Radio to Pay
Triangular Quantum Well Injection Boosts Nitride LED Efficiency by 80%
Facebook's First Big Investor, Peter Thiel, Cashes Out
(turned $M/2 into $1B)
Apple Becomes the Most Valuable Public Company Ever
8/20/2012
Cellphone Companies Can Predict Your Future Movements by Building Profile
of Your Lifestyle
2/3 of American
Smartphone Owners Can't Live Without Their Smartphones
(sad)
Canadians Spend
Less Time on Smartphones Than Last Year (sanity from our
neighbors to the north, eh?)
Gartner Places NFC in "Trough of Disillusionment"
College Binge Drinkers Happier Than Non-Bingers
(useful research funded by World Association of Binge Drinkers))
The Rise of the New York Startup Scene
Patterning Defect-Free Nanocrystal Films with Nanometer Resolution
Solid-State MASER Can Operate at Room Temperature
UK Internet
'to be Fastest in Europe by 2015'
A New Route to Dissipationless Electronics
Cellcom and ICC-Cal to Offer NFC Payments in Israel
What You Should Know About the iPhone SMS Spoof Attack
New Group to Set Goals for NextGen Ethernet
Apps Every College Student Needs
Texas Senator Demands Answers on Russian Sub in Gulf of Mexico
8/19/2012
USPTO Seeks Comment on Possibility of Lowering Most Trademark Application Fees
Senators Press Pentagon to Freeze out Defense Contractor over China Chopper
Deal
First Science Site for Curiosity Revealed
Supersmall Lab-on-a-Chip Is Superfast
8/17/2012
Judge in Apple-Samsung
Case Suggested Apple Lawyer Must Have Been Smoking Crack
Restaurant Offers a 5% Discount to Eat Without Your Phone
(sad state of society)
Not Enough Engineers, Says the IET
Tech Stocks New Dividend Leaders
Magnetic Vortices with Electric Sense
Canadian Government
Monitoring RIM Takeover Rumors
Studying the Sun's Electron Outflow
Dish to Launch Its Own Satellite Broadband Network
SEC Filing Triggers Speculation on iPhone 5 with NFC
Constructive Conflict in the Superconductor
First Practical Maser Is Built
Camouflage
Bendy Robot Changes Colour for Disguise
A Playboy Model and Nanoscale Printing
8/16/2012
FCC Authorizes
Tests in Lower 1755 MHz Bands for LTE Services
Tech Manufacturing Returning, U.S. Group Says
(that would be nice, but we need furniture, clothing, hardware,
etc., too)
Maser Could Pave the Way for New Generation of Electronics
AT&T Asks Drivers to Take No-Texting Pledge
CERN Physicists Break Record for Hottest Manmade Material
(no supermodel cracks, please)
In China, Cheap and Cheerful Phones Outsmart Apple
Electronic Read-Out of Quantum Bits (we
are in a new atomic age)
Analog Firms Step Up Stock Buybacks
10-Year Plan for Space Physics Put Forward
Consumers Ignoring
the Value of the Phone in Their Pockets
MPEG Hammers Out Codec That Halves Bit Rate
Verizon's $3.9B Cable Deal Speeds Toward FCC, DOJ Approval
High-Tech Flashlights Could Turn You into a Collector
Moms at Tech Start-ups Say They Can Have It All
Facebook Shares Hit New Low as a Lockout Period Ends
8/15/2012
Transistors Made from Graphene Nanoribbons Make Efficient Magnetic Field
Sensors
ARRL Teachers Institute Offers Instructors Wireless Technology Skills
for the Classroom
NASA Announces Next Opportunity for CubeSat Space Missions
U.S. Retailers Move into the Mobile Wallet Market
Radio IS Where Consumers Discover Music
DARPA: Ultrafast Pulsed Lasers… More Than Just a Light Show
UK Average
Broadband Speed Faster per Ofcom
Mobile Backhaul
Predicted to Be Worth $9 Billion by 2016
EE Says Apple Design Patents Invalid
RIM Ready to Take BlackBerry 10 on the Road to Carriers
Engineering Will Be the Main Beneficiary of the QE Prize
LG Sells 5
Millionth LTE Smartphone
Tech Tools to Ease the Strain of the Nomadic Life
MEADS Multifunction Fire Control Radar Completes Integration and Tests
in Italy
Could the New Air Traffic Control System Be Hacked?
8/14/2012
'Texting Thumb' a Growing Health Problem
Chinese Companies Pulling out of U.S. Stock Markets
(no problem, Fed prints money & buys stocks instead)
IBM Research in Zurich Points to Super Low Power Chips
Android Extends
Market Lead While Apple Market Share Growth Pauses
Can DARPA's Strategy Help Motorola Compete Again?
Troops Finding New Ways to Deploy VSATs for Mission Success
China Li-ion Battery Market Growth Exploding
Scientists 'Waltz' Closer to Using Spintronics in Computing
British Consumers
Are Increasingly Influenced by Mobile
USDA Spends
$2M for One Intern (page 2 of audit report)
Molecules Get a Big Chill
Photos
Reflect Light Like 3D Objects with Novel Printing Technology
Verizon, AT&T Dominate as U.S. Data Revenues Surge Past $19.3B
U.S. to Lose 25 Billion Taxpayer Dollars on Auto Bailout
(that's the sound of the auto industry "roaring back")
8/13/2012
Google to Cut
4,000 Jobs at Motorola Mobility
Tiny Transmitters
That Cost a Penny to Print Unveiled
National NFC Service to Go Live in Singapore This Month
IBM Observes Spintronic 'Waltz'
Graphene's
Behavior Depends on Where It Sits
Unraveling Intricate Interactions, One Molecule at a Time
Semiconductor Devices Could Lead to Smart Surgical Gloves
ARRL International Lighthouse/Lightship Weekend 2012
India Pushing
Ahead with Radio Spectrum Refarming Plans
Korea Telecom
Profits Down on LTE Subscriber Costs
Freescale Closes French Fab
Scientists' Gold Discovery Sheds Light on Catalysis
M2M Customers May Feel the Pain of AT&T's 2G Shutdown
Key Test Tuesday for Hypersonic Flight
8/12/2012
Move to Mobile Has China's Sina Sweating
Full Color Images at 100,000 Dots-Per-Inch Resolution, Using Metal-Laced
Nano-Structures
FBI Issues Ransom Malware Warning Following Inundation by Victims
8/10/2012
Law to Give Glimpse into Potentially Devastating Defense Cuts
Freezing Magnetic Monopoles: How Dipoles Become Monopoles and Vice Versa
Multimillion-Dollar Verdict Against BlackBerry Maker RIM Overturned
UAV Flies on Laser Light
Wireless Power for the Price of a Penny
Reshapeable Plastic Remembers Original Form
Are You Liable When Interns Get Hurt?
(assuming it wasn't on purpose)
Semi Market Annual Growth Rate to Double.
Underwater Satellites and Autonomous Robots Hunt for Enemy Submarines
Pentagon Helps
Build Meshworm Reconnaissance Robot
High Performance Flexible Solid State Battery Developed
Samsung Denies Interest in RIM, Licensing BlackBerry 10
Astronomers Release the Largest Ever 3-D Map of the Sky
8/9/2012
LTE Revenues
Expected to Grow 8x by 2016
National NFC Service to Go Live in Singapore This Month
Explore the Upper Reaches of the Amateur Radio Spectrum in the ARRL 10
GHz and Up Contest
Apple Patent Trial: Samsung Scrutinized iPhone to Improve Galaxy UI
(will this set precedent for teardowns & reverse engineering
efforts?)
India Can Monitor BlackBerry Without Codes
Our Edisons are Alive and Well at NIWeek 2012
Nuclear Generator Powers Curiosity Mars Mission
(no solar panels)
Discordant Bits and Single Photons Boost Quantum Power
Gov't Motors (GM) Outsources $559M Advertising Deal (imagine Dinah Shore singing "See the UK in your
Chevrolet")
8/8/2012
LTE Revenues
Expected to Grow 8x by 2016
National NFC Service to Go Live in Singapore This Month
Explore the Upper Reaches of the Amateur Radio Spectrum in the ARRL 10
GHz and Up Contest
Apple Patent Trial: Samsung Scrutinized iPhone to Improve Galaxy UI
(will this set precedent for teardowns & reverse engineering
efforts?)
India Can Monitor BlackBerry Without Codes
Our Edisons are Alive and Well at NIWeek 2012
Nuclear Generator Powers Curiosity Mars Mission
(no solar panels)
Discordant Bits and Single Photons Boost Quantum Power
Gov't Motors (GM) Outsources $559M Advertising Deal (imagine Dinah Shore singing "See the UK in your
Chevrolet")
8/7/2012
Congressman Proposes "Cell Phone Right to Know Act" Requiring Cancer
Notice on Phones (Nov's time to clean House)
Startup Demos 60-GHz Wi-Fi
Intelsat Demos Broadband Delivery to Airborne Terminal for Comms on the
Move
Apple Account Hack Raises Concern About Cloud Storage
Short-Duration Clock Approach Thwarts RFID Attacks
Rising Usage
in Consumer Electronics Drives 22% Growth for Magnetic Sensor Market
Is FM Chip Gaining Support in Congress?
8/6/2012
Seeing Through Walls: Laser System Reconstructs Objects
Hidden from Sight
AT&T Continues to Hammer Away at PCAST's Shared
Spectrum Vision
In the Olympics of Software Algorithms, a Russian Keeps
Winning Gold
Organic Electronics Ready for Boom Years
'Scrapyard Challenge' to Make Nuclear Fusion More Economical
Radio Still #1 Reason Consumers Purchase New Music
Wireless LAN
Market to Expand by More Than 50% in 2016
Forum Responds to Black Hat Presentation on NFC Vulnerabilities
Delay in Plans for a $1B Science Ghost Town
(I wrote
about it)
Wikipedia
Goes Down Due to Cut Cables
8/5/2012
India
Approves Starting Price for Spectrum Auction
Boosting Transparent Conduction in Graphene with Gold Nanoparticles
Hopes Dim for Sharp Amid Japan's TV Industry Sunset
Best Science Photos of the Week
8/3/2012
UK Tech Start-up
Scene Boosted by New Investments
China Takes
27% of Global Smartphone Shipments
Electron-Electron Interactions in Graphene
Component Prices Plunging on Economic Uncertainty
Can You Get a Patent on Being a Patent Troll?
Wi-Fi Traffic Wardens Police Comms at Olympics
Telecom
Italia Starts to Stem Decline in Italy
SK Telecom
Profits Off by 3/4 on LTE Start-up Costs
June Global Chip Sales Stay Soft on U.S. Weakness
Chinese Buying U.S. Business at Record Pace
Facebook Stock Crash Hoses California's Tax Revenue
8/2/2012
Is Balance of Power Shifting in Mobile Patent Disputes?
Navy Asks Industry for Rugged, High-G Electronics and Guidance for Hyper
Velocity Projectile Program
Mobile Communication
is Breaking Down the Barriers Between Work and Leisure
Extraordinarily Strong Negative Refractive Index Obtained
Direct Imaging Confirms the Importance of Electron-Electron Interactions
in Graphene
$20K Fine for Failing to Properly Light Antenna
Electromagnetic 'Swamps' Don't Always Bog Electrons Down
Sharp to Slash 5,000 Jobs
Research in Motion Announces a 4G LTE Blackberry Playbook
NOAA Hi-Def Radar Gives You the Straight Scoop
AT&T to Acquire NextWave -and Its WCS Spectrum - for $650M
R Grammar Gaffes Ruining the Language? Maybe Not
8/1/2012
U.S. Gold Winners Owe IRS $8,986 per Medal
($5,385 per silver, $3,500 per bronze)
Telecom New
Zealand Turns Off Its CDMA Network
FCC Denies Petition Seeking to Designate Nationwide Emergency Calling
Frequency
RF Test Startup Raises Funds
Harvard Gets Closer to Invisibility Cloak
Entangled Particles Break Classical Law of Thermodynamics
Reluctant Electrons Enable 'Extraordinarily Strong' Negative Refraction
USA's Smartphone
Market Topped 110 Million Subscribers in June
Curiosity Readies for Dramatic Entrance
(this will be über cool!)
Raytheon Continues Dual Band Radar Development with $53 Million U.S.
Navy Contract
U.S.
Aims to Block Bid to Give UN Control of Internet (good)
iPhone 5 to Be Unveiled September 12
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