7/31/2013
Is The Way to Tech Workers' Loyalty Through Their Stomachs? (that pig is
disgusting)
Adapting Old-Style Phone Wires for Superfast Internet
Moscow
Subway to Use Devices to Read Data on Phones
What Not to Say When Negotiating Your Salary
Wearable Tech That Will Turn Man into Machine by 2015
NEC to Stop Production of
Smartphones
Warrantless Cellphone Tracking Is Upheld
Software Engineering Is Changing the Design Workflow
Light Lives 1 Quintillion Years, Physicists Suggest
The
Future of Online Education Is on Campus
Germany's Largest Offshore Wind Farm Hits a Snag
Data Centers in U.S. Double Since 2011
UK Completes 4G Airwave Clearance
for Mobile Networks
New Zealand Takes Action to Avoid 4G
Spectrum Auction Delays
Apple Facing Lawsuit over Unpaid
Wages
IARPA
Releases Solicitation for Superconducting Research in High-Performance Computing
7/30/2013
AMSAT Wants Amateur Satellites off U.S. Munitions List
Car Key Immobiliser Hack
Revelations Blocked by UK Court (ha!, like that will stop it)
Speed Limit Set for
Ultrafast Electrical Switch
UK Set to Release 4G Spectrum
Earlier Than Planned
U.S. Tech Firms
Losing Business over PRISM
NPL Moots Silver for Wearable Electronics
U. Pitt Team Finds Water
'Likeability' Plays Role in Battery-Powered Objects
Apple's New iPhone 'Has Fingerprint Sensor'
Chip Market Projected to
Grow 7%
Nokia to Offer NFC and Bluetooth Treasure Tags?
Low-Cost iPhone Report Details Poor Labor Conditions at Apple Supplier
China Gumshoes Uncover Top Secret Plastic iPhone
Canadian Union Attacks Possible
Verizon Investment in Mobile Network
Marine Corps Mobile Device Strategy Looks to Cut Costs
Saudi Arabia PC Market Plummets in
Q2 2013
Can You Hear 'The Hum?'
7/29/2013
Software Experts to Release Car Attack Code at Meeting
Crowdfunding Method Launched to Buy
Canadian Mobile Network
Hacker Who Made ATMs Spit out Cash Dies Mysteriously in California
Quantum Wave Functions Come Alive
Research
Helps Make Advance in "Programmable Matter" Using Nanocrystals
Nanotechnology Breakthrough is Big
Deal for Electronics
The Paradox of Wearable Technologies
Marine Corps Mobile Device Strategy Looks to Cut Costs
Gold Layer Improves Light Sensor Performance (definitely not applicable
to solar panels)
Spacecraft Sees Giant 'Hole' in Sun
Scientists
Realize Quantum Bit with a Bent Nanotube
Apple Faces New China Worker Abuse
Claims
Samsung 33%; Apple 13.6%, in Q2
Trials of White-Space Spectrum for
Rural Broadband Services in South Africa
Largest Magnetic
Fields in the Universe
Coffee Reduces Suicide Risk (must be so - I'm not suicidal)
7/28/2013
Data Centers in U.S. Double Since 2011
Flawless Launch of Alphasat, Europe's Largest and Most Sophisticated Telecom Satellite
Spain Levies Consumption Tax on Sunlight
4 in
5 Adults in U.S. Face Near-Poverty, No Work (are we officially a banana
republic yet?)
7/26/2013
Fab Lite, Design Lite
Huawei Working to Develop 5G Technology
Feds Tell Web Firms to Turn over User Account Passwords
More on Alphasat, the Largest European Comms Satellite
Silicon Valley Fights for Immigrant Talent (CEOs want cheap maids &
gardeners for their estates)
Samsung Boosts Capital Spending as High-End Phone Demand Slows
Vodafone Calls for Smaller Blocks of
Radio Spectrum in Indian Spectrum Auction
Base Stations Disguised As a Palm
Tree
Wall Street's Exposure to Hacking Laid Bare
Google, FTC Finalize Settlement over Motorola Patents
Scientists
Test Material Solution to Nuclear Plant Explosions
NASA Van Allen Probes Discover Particle Accelerator in Earth's Radiation Belts
China
Won't Be a Chip Manufacturing Power
Army Tests Technology
Supporting Mobile Troops
Apple's Market Share Dips As
Smartphone Shipments Hit Record Levels
Former U.S. Spy
Chief Says Huawei Spied for Chinese Government
7/25/2013
Patents 101: A Prelude to
Unpredictability
ARRL Reiterates Call to Evaluate Interference Potential of 5 GHz U-NII Devices
Google Launches Chromecast Low-Cost TV Dongle
Reputation: You Are
Who Google Says You Are
Cellphone Gray Market Goes Legit, As
Sales Continue to Decline
Quantum Entanglement Made
Visible
Blackbody Radiation
Induces Attractive Force Stronger Than Gravity
NextGen GPS III Testbed Delivered to USAF
Foreign IC Companies to Represent 70% of China's IC Production in 2017
Citizen Scientist Detects Britain's First 'Lightning into Space'
3GPP Standardization of LTE in 450 MHz Good News for Brazilian Operators
How Google AdWords Accidentally Uncovered a Chinese Ring of Car Thieves
In-Car Wireless Rises
NASA Copies Star Trek, Wants to Build Faster-than-Light Warp Engine
RFID Users Help Themselves with
Beer Server
Gov't Motors 2Q Profit Falls 16% (still
losing >$40k on each Volt sale)
7/24/2013
Pentagon Signals It Would Be Willing to Move Off 1755-1780 MHz Band
Receiver Immunity Standards Unnecessary, Impractical for Amateur Service, ARRL Says
Car's Black Box Data Used as Evidence in Speeding Death Case
Scientists Find Strange, Shape-Shifting Particles
Retailer PACs Increase Lobbying Ahead of Internet Sales Tax Vote
Growth Could Be on the Way for Lithium-Ion Battery Market
New Hydrogen-Making Method Could Give a Boost to Fuel-Cell Vehicles
DARPA
Chooses Sparton to Develop Hidden Weapons and Sensors That Pop up from the Ocean
Iranian Mobile Provider Under Fire
for Insulting Sunnis
UK Manufacturers Love a High Mix
Analog Comparator Recognizes 3 Signal Relations
LG Ships Record Number of
Smartphones in Q2 of This Year
Unlimited Lifetime Data Storage Using Nanostructured Glass
10 States with the Fastest Internet Connections
76% of Mobile Developers Want to Use NFC in Apps
Straight Talk on
Self-Driving Cars
7/23/3013
Drunk Texts Costs the UK Around $800
Million Each Year
ZTE
Shares Rise 20%, Trading 15x Higher Than Average Daily Volume
Oxford
Questions Seek to Pull Back Curtain on Foundations of Quantum Physics
Google Serves
25% of North American Internet Traffic
UK
Space Agency's First CubeSat Could Launch This Fall
China Launches 3 Experimental Satellites
LinkedIn Names Silicon Valley's Most In-Demand Start-Ups
Utilities
Not Replacing Landlines after Hurricane Sandy
Germany
Caught Nuzzling with NSA
U.S. Court Rules Web Patent Claim Invalid
Self-Terminating
Recess Etch Produces Nitride Transistor with +3V Threshold
OEM Chip Spending Returns to Growth in 2013
The
Bell Labs of Quantum Computing
Light-Emitting Nanotubes Get Brighter with 0-D States
All-Male Physics Departments
Are Not Proof of Bias Against Hiring Women
CIA Co-Sponsoring Geoengineering Global Warming Study (this is how billion$
get diverted for PC causes - smoke & mirrors on low-information public)
7/22/2013
Rush to Find Gold Rush-Era Discards That Could Fuel Cellphones, TVs
Amazon
CEO Says Discovery is Apollo 11 Rocket Engines
European Networks Warn That Roaming
Cuts Could Curb Infrastructure Investment
Microsoft
Sinks 11% on Earnings Miss and Huge Surface Write-Down
Intel Partners with Verizon, Universities to Research Next-Gen Wireless Technology
Smartphone Processor Market May Have Peaked for Now
Researchers Develop Electricity-Conducting Yarn for Smart Clothing
Millions of Phones Susceptible to 'Massive SIM Security Flaw'
Adapt or
Die: The New Technology Landscape
Military
and Aerospace Circuit Board Sales Outpace Other Markets
Asymmetry – the Answer to Spectrum Pressures?
Phone Anti-Theft Put Through Paces
in NY and San Francisco
Electronic 'Skin' Emits Light When Pressed
Apple's Developer Portal Has Been Hacked
Author: Think twice About 'the Internet'
NSA Revelations Could Provide Ideal
Cover for Authoritarian Governments
7/21/2013
Hybrid Memory Cube Nears Engineering Sample Milestone
San Jose State Suspends Online For-Credit Courses
Wobbly Magnetic Reconnection Speeds up Electrons
World's Cheapest Computer Gets Millions Tinkering
7/19/2013
Conductivity Gain for Stretchable Electronics
Graphene Said to Pose Health
Hazard (nanotech death is old news)
The Pink Noise Tangent Principle
Ferromagnetic and
Antiferromagnetic – at the Same Time
FCC Announces Plans for 1900 MHz Radio
Spectrum Auction
Women Overtake Men in UK Tablet Ownership
Stakes
Google's Profit
Squeezed by Mobile Woes
Top UK Engineering Prize Goes to Software Success Story
NJ Supreme Court Restricts Police Searches of Phone Data
Graphene 'Onion Rings' Have Delicious Potential
CERN Experiments Put Standard
Model to Stringent Test
Stock
Futures Mixed after Tech Sector Results Disappoint
Ghost Particles: New
Limits on Extremely Rare Decay
Silicon
Valley to Feds: Disclose Your Data Requests (CYA time for companies that
are complicit in the whole scheme - check WH guest list)
Huawei Spied for Chinese Government per ex-CIA Boss
'Comet of the Century' Nears Earth (I'm ready with the
Celestron CPC800)
7/18/2013
Samsung Phone Adapted to Run on Urine
Power (it should run forever in the subways)
China Leads As World Experiences Steady
M2M Growth
NEC Quits Smartphone Business
PayPal 'Credits' U.S. Man $92
Quadrillion in Error (dang, why couldn't that have been me?)
Researchers Find Security Cracks in Google Glass
Improved Ground
Moving Target-Indicating (GMTI) Aircraft Radar Is Aim of Army Survey
Impossible
Material with World Record Breaking Surface Area
UK Government Departments Still Charging
Extra for Phone Calls (hey, just like the U.S. gov't waste!)
Broadband Photodetector
for Polarized Light
Stretchable Gold Conductor Grows Its Own Wires
Intel
Profit Tumbles 29% on PC Sales Slump
Apple Delaying iPhone 5S to Add 4.3" Screen
Scouts Planning for Fun During Jamboree on the Air 2013
Imaging Electron Pairing
in a Simple Magnetic Superconductor
How
to Survive the Series A Crunch (VC advice)
The Pros and Cons of a Surveillance Society
7/17/2013
Uncertainty over the Uncertainty Principle
FCC to Auction H Block Spectrum as Soon as January
Ham Radio Provides Reliable Link for Solo-Circumnavigating Grandmother
Patent Trolls: Inventive, at Least in Court
Graphene Makes a
Magnetic Switch
Making
Entrepreneurship the Norm
Canadian Regulator Blocks Payphone Rate
Increase
New Form of Carbon:
Grossly Warped 'Nanographene'
Battery Seen as Way to Cut Heat-Related Power Losses
An Insight into Layout Versus Schematic
U.S.
Industry Groups Say China Jeopardizing New Technology Trade Pact
Scientists Stipulate Requirements for New Nuclear
Indian Researcher
Helps Prove Math Conjecture from the 1950s
Google Android
Support Completes Bluetooth Low Energy Picture
The Family That Tweets Together Stays Together
Laser Expert Wins Royal Academy of Engineering Medal
Over 5 Million Smart Watches Estimated
to Ship in 2014
7/16/2013
New Motorola Phone Always Listening
to Your Conversations
ISS
Crew Member Chats with Scouts in Canada via Ham Radio
Sound Waves Could Help Transport Delicate Electronics
Forget Battery Swapping: Tesla Aims to Charge Electric Cars in 5 Minutes
Experts Say
U.S. Spy Alliance Will Survive Snowden (the guy should be neutralized, IMHO)
Mobile Interconnect Standards
on the Move
Australia Election Threatens Shape of $34B Broadband Plan
How Hackers Tapped into My Cellphone for Less Than $300
DARPA
to Define Manufacturing Process for Molecules in Sensors, Chemicals, and Materials
'Do Not Track' Rules Come a Step Closer (doesn't apply to U.S. Gov't, though)
Regional Operators Disappearing in Wake of Industry Consolidation
Sprint Adds Clearwire's 2.5 GHz Band to LTE Coverage Area
HAARP Facility Shuts Down
Local Icosahedral
Order in Metallic Glasses
Apple Having Production Problems with
New iPhone (employees keep getting
electrocuted?)
Microsoft and Blackberry Cut Surface
and Z10 Prices
7/15/2013
Researchers
Hack Verizon Device, Turn It into Mobile Spy Station
Apple Probes Chinese Woman's Death from 'Massive Electric Shock' While Answering Her iPhone 5
South Korea to Add 10,000 Municipal
Wi-Fi Hotspots by 2017
Attention, Shoppers: Store Is Tracking Your Cell
Get
Ready for Spectrum Warfare Program to Cover EW, Optics, GPS, and Cyber Operations
Microsoft Sues to Block Imports of Motorola
Phones into USA
It's Up
to You, Entrepreneurs
Samsung Opens Innovation Center in Silicon Valley
German Chancellor Merkel Urges Better
Data Protection Rules
Small, Cheap Satellites May One Day Do Your Bidding
What
Makes a Workaholic: Passion or Impulse?
Teardown: What's Inside Google Glass?
DARPA Unveils ATLAS
Robot
Why the Smart Grid Might Be a Dumb Idea
Tap For Message Adds NFC to Gifts and Greeting Cards
AT&T
Snaps up Leap Wireless for $1.2B
7/14/2013
Climb Mt. Fuji for the Views, Stay for the 4G
EU Closely Watching Italy Telecoms
pricing
Link Between Quantum Physics and Game Theory Found
Continued Strength of Taiwan's Semiconductor Market on Display
Scientists Track Solar 'Tsunami' to Measure Sun's Magnetic Field
7/12/2013
Being Glued to Your
Cell Phone May Reduce Physical Activity and Fitness
Imperfect
Graphene Renders 'Electrical Highways'
New Way to Trap Light
Could Lead to New Types of Lasers and Sensors
Microsoft Taught NSA How to Crack Encrypted E-mails
New Atom-Smashing Magnet Passes First Tests
3D Printers Can Now Print Liquid Metal into Thin Air
Radio Can Compete in
the Connected Car
Big Presentation? 5 Rookie Mistakes to Avoid
NIST Shows How to
Make Compact Frequency Comb in Minutes
Apple
Colluded on e-Book Prices, Judge Finds
The Man Who Predicted Google Glass Forecasts the Near Future
Graphene on Its Way
to Conquer Silicon Valley
Chipmakers Focus on Software Talent
Google Reportedly Planning to Spend $500M in Moto X Marketing
Time
Base for Reliable System Time Even in Loss of GPS or Network Time
PC Sales See 'Longest Decline' in History
7/11/2013
Snowden Scandal Brings Back The Typewriter
(NSA can decipher that by listening to key clicks)
When GPS fails, This
Speck of an Electronic Device Could Step In (very cool)
Scientists
Investigate How Electric Current Flows in Multilayer 2-D Materials
Phone Companies Paid by Government for Data
India 'Ready to Use' Blackberry Message
Intercept System
New Phenomenon Could
Lead to Novel Types of Lasers and Sensors
Counterfeit Detection Service Combats Fraudulent Components
Lasers Take Welding to New Levels of Precision
EU and Industry Commit over €22B to Innovative Projects
DARPA
Picks 6 Companies to Define Enabling Technologies for U.S. Cyber Warfare Strategy
Researchers Develop Flexible Metal for 3-D Printers
Nokia Betting on High-Powered Camera to Differentiate New Smartphone
Did Upside-Down Sensors Cause
Rocket Crash?
Sell Your Business for More Than It's Worth
Tech-Savvy
Cities May Be 'Smart,' But Are They Wise?
U.S. Naval
Academy to Use Lego Kits for Robotics Education (my, how far we've fallen)
7/10/2013
Nation's First Campus 'Super Wi-Fi' Launches at West Virginia U.
Emergency Broadcasts Can Be Hacked
ARRL Urges Denial of Petition to Permit Encryption of Some Emergency Communications
Graphene MEMS Outperforms
Silicon
Indian Mobile Phone Shipments Rise 11%
over Previous Year
TDK Intros World's Smallest
Multilayer Power Inductor
Cars are Fast Becoming Smartphones on Wheels
Raytheon Wins U.S. Navy
Next Generation Jammer Competition
Heat Radiation of Small
Objects: Beyond Planck's Equations
Cable Companies to Deploy 250,000 Wi-Fi Hotspots by Mid-2014
Huge Tracking
Dish to Become Available for EME
New Material
for LEDs Developed
Huawei Warns the UK Needs to Plan for
More Spectrum Auctions
DOD Mobile Pilot
Programs Take Shape to Fit into Department-Wide Policies
PCs Attacked After Google Engineer
Revealed Windows Bug
Pentland Firth Tidal Energy Predictions Downgraded
7/9/2013
Cable Companies Will Deploy 250,000 Wi-Fi Hotspots by Mid-2014
How Hackers Can Take Control
of Your Car
Canada Seeks New 472-479 kHz
Ham Band
UK Networks Get Permission to Refarm
GSM Spectrum for LTE Services
Photos of Plastic Budget iPhone Allegedly Leak
Straining Barriers
Towards Low-Noise High-Breakdown pHEMTs
Metallic Bubble Wrap Offers 'Better Protection for Products'
Plug-and-Play Smart Antenna FEMs Key for Unperturbed Connectivity
New EW System
Needed to Protect Ships from Recently Discovered Threat
Radio Last When It
Comes to News
Soaring Fab Equipment Sales Next Year
Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry:
Using the Sun to Illuminate a Basic Mystery of Matter
Particles Defy Gravity, Float Upstream
Organic CMOS Image Sensor Outperforms Conventional Solutions
Malware Hunts for South Korean Military
Secrets
Google Interns Terrorizing Their Neighbors at San Jose Apartment Complex
7/8/7013
UK Launches
Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence Research Network
Kickstarting Tiny Satellites into Interplanetary Space
Governments to Target Tech Giants' Tax Avoidance
India Flooding Renews Community Interest in Amateur Radio for Emergencies
How Driverless Cars Could Reshape Cities
Device Physics: Simulating
Electronic Smog
Radically Better Smartphones
May Be Possible Using System Inspired by Bird Migration
An Unlikely
Competitor for Diamond as the Best Thermal Conductor
Future Smartphones to Rival Games Consoles
Google Runs NFC Campaign in Australian Airports
LTE Manufacturers
Increase by 50%
New Curriculum Brings 3D Printers to Technology Lessons
A Trip to Camp to Break a Tech Addiction
Next
Hot Trend: Mini Smartphones
How to
Get Everything You Want. Seriously
Solar Impulse Plane Completes
Journey in New York
7/7/2013
Global Semi Sales Jump by Largest Margin in 3 Years
Samsung Warns Operating Profit
Will Miss Analysts' Consensus
Europeans Fire Broadsides at Google over Privacy
Issues with Satellite Knocked out Channels to 117M Russians
Snowden
Says Western Countries 'In Bed with NSA' (per Newsweek "We
Are All Socialists [and Nazis] Now")
7/5/2013
Boston University Sues Apple over Patented Blue Lasers in iPhone, iPad, and MacBook Air
MIT Researchers Build
an All-Optical Transistor
European
Firms 'Could Quit U.S. Internet Providers over NSA Scandal' (all these scandals
and nobody has gone to jail)
'Master Key' to Android Phones Uncovered
A Simple Rule to Eliminate Useless Meetings
Straining Barriers
Towards Low-Noise High-Breakdown pHEMTs
EU and Japan Join Forces to Build the
100Gbps Internet
Energy, Effort & Flow
Army Chooses
Sotera for EW Planner to Jam Enemy RF, Safeguard Friendly Systems
Why Toyota and GM Are Pushing Fuel-Cell Cars to Market
Flexible
Tin Dioxide Cloth Self-Powered Photo Detector
Secondary Schools "failing" GCSE Students, Ofsted Warns of "Culture of Low Expectations"
Ecuador, Possible Snowden Haven, Is High on Beauty but Low on Tech
World's Largest Wind Farm Officially Opened
Molecular
Chains Hypersensitive to Magnetic Fields
Employer Mandate? Never Mind
7/4/2013
Doug Engelbart, Inventor of the Computer Mouse, Dies at 88
Your Snail Mail
Being Recorded, Too
Critical Security Flaw Discovered in
Android Smartphones
How to Pitch
to a VC
NFC Needs Open Standard
Americans Spend 23 Hours Per Week Online, Texting
The Kinds of Facebook Posts That Unfairly Cost Workers Jobs
5 Carriers Receive LTE Licenses in Colombia
FCC Approves SoftBank's $21.6B Offer for Sprint
Material
Scientists Reveal Organizing Principles for Design of Nanoscopic Materials
Made in America: 6
Veteran-Owned Businesses to Watch
French
Agency Spies on Phone Calls, E-mail, Web Use
Germany's HAM RADIO
2013 Draws 15,300 Visitors
Navy Considers
Meggitt for MEMS Retard Sensors (I'm not touching that one)
A Battery and a Bionic Ear: Hint of 3-D Printing's Promise
Reddit Used
by 6% of Adult Internet Users (I've never even been tot he website)
7/3/2013
140 Characters Spell Charges and Jail Time
Lithuania
Looks to Launch Amateur Radio CubeSats
Graphene
Provides Efficient Electronics Cooling
IEEE-USA Petitions
FCC for Spectrum Ruling to Spur New Technologies
AT&T Prepping Sale of Customers' Anonymous Location Information and Web, App Usage Data
(time to switch carriers?)
Hearing Aids Made Affordable with Bluetooth
Big Rise for Semi Sales in May
Canada's Networks to Challenge Regulatory
Changes
Silicon
Valley Can't Be Copied (don't bet on it)
Toward Tinier Transistors
Yageo Capacitor's Copper Inner Electrode Suit It for Impedance Matching
Mass Protests Planned over NSA Web
Spying Revelations
Fermi Team
Releases Catalog of γ-ray Sources at
Energies Above 10 GeV
NexGen MUOS-2 Military Satellite
Communication to Launch in July
Flexible Glass Could Make Tablets Lighter and Solar Power Cheaper
China Surpasses U.S. as Largest Smartphone
Market in 2013 (does MaoPhone surpass ObamaPhone?)
7/2/2013
Firefox Gets
into the Smartphone Business
White Space Radio Standard Demonstrated at Cambridge Event
Canada Outlines Plans for Radio Spectrum
Transfers
USAF Awards
9 Contracts to Build Advanced Components for Electronic Warfare
Thin-Film Diamond Coatings
at Lower Temps Expands Options for Electronic Devices
Nanoparticles, Made to
Order—Inside and Out
Startup Uses Novel Materials Based on Plasmonic Effects
MIT Researchers Create THz
Graphene Chips
Building Out the Internet of Things with Printed Electronic Smart Labels
Laser Guided Codes
Advance Single Pixel Terahertz Imaging
U. Michigan Activates Antimatter 'Gun'
Contact Lenses Bestow Telescopic Vision
Shrinking 'Gorilla' Phone Glass and Interatomic Forces
Infidel Gym
Equipment Replaced at Gitmo (the only religion in America approved and funded
by U.S. gov't)
World's Largest Building Opens in China
Horrified Birdwatchers See Rare White-Throated Needletail Fly into Wind Turbine
(golden
eagles are slaughtered all the time by them)
7/1/2013
Large-Scale
Quantum Chip Validated
Strong Geomagnetic
Storm in Progress
LTE Advanced is Next Competitive Battleground for Operators
HP Plans a Return to the Smartphone
Market
Europeans Furious over U.S. Spying on Them (better check that returned Churchill
bust for a bug)
Stealth Wear Aims to Make a Tech Statement
Student's Flashlight
Works by Body Heat
BA Testing Luggage Tags Made of Electronic
Paper
3D Printing & Printed 3D Electronics
Engineering the Perfect Crime
Apple Applies to Register 'iWatch' Trademark in Japan
Belgium Outlines 4G Spectrum Auction
Details
End May Be Near for Blackberry
Sprint Starts Shutting-Down its Legacy
IDEN Network Today
Nottingham University to Lead Power Electronics Research
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