9/30/2013
FAA Panel Backs Easing Electronic Device Restrictions on Planes
Siemens Cuts 15,000 Jobs in €6B Savings Drive
U.S. Defense
and Homeland Security Spending to Increase Through 2018
The UK's Spectrum Conundrum
Researchers
Demonstrate 'Accelerator on a Chip'
Phantom Phone Vibrations: So Common They've Changed Our Brains?
Google Tweaks Search to Challenge Apple's Siri
FCC Proposal Would Require Carriers to Report Cell Tower Outages in Wake of Disasters
Technology and the College Generation
Fossil Fuel Power Plants of Future Could
Produce 0 Emissions? (interesting)
SLAC Scientists Make
Detailed Map of Current Between Insulators
For FM Radio, Mobile
is the Driver
Superfast Switching of
Quantum Light Sources
Researchers Show How Close We Are to
Fusion Power
NSA Gathers Data on Social Connections of U.S. Citizens
Giant
Balloon to Study Comet ISON
9/29/2013
Micron Ships First Samples of Hybrid Memory Cube
Ericsson's New Small Cell, the Radio Dot, Brings the Mobile Network Indoors
Making Ceramics That Bend Without
Breaking
Spirals of Light
May Lead to Better Electronics
The Developer Economy: Power to the Coders
9/27/2013
Students Find Ways to Hack School-Issued iPads Within a Week
Montreal Underground Railway to Get
Mobile Phone Coverage
Broadcom's Car Gambit:
802.11ac/Bluetooth LE Combo IC
The
Death of the Home Stereo System
Google Unveils Major Upgrade to
Search Algorithm
Agilent Creates a New and More Aggressive Test Business
U.S. #4 in LTE Penetration Survey
Intel-Backed Chinese Chip
Firm Files for IPO
Australian Prison Tests Phone
Jamming Technology
Water
Glides Freely Across 'Nanodrapes' Made from World's Thinnest Material
BlackBerry Loses Nearly $1 Billion in Quarter
New
Energy Storage Capabilities Between Layers of 2-D Materials
An AT&T Foray into Europe Carries Numerous Risks
New Metals Could Foster Phase-Change Memory Devices
Bill Gates: Control-Alt-Delete Was a Mistake
Why Are Americans Giving up Their
Citizenship?
9/26/2013
15% in U.S. Shun Internet
Nano Antennas Sense Molecules in Infrared Spectrum
Millionaire Wealth in Asia May Top North America
by 2014 (mission accomplished - the banana republicization of USA)
First Computer Made of
Carbon Nanotubes is Unveiled
UK Starts Government Funded Rollout
of Rural Phone Coverage (no such thing as government funded)
Scientists Create
Never-Before-Seen Form of Matter
Tech Giants Fear Spread of Patent Wars to Europe
SmartphoneTrade-ins Starting to Hurt Apple and Samsung
Over 16 Million Distributed Antenna System Nodes to Be Deployed Through 2018
Photoresist Technology for Organic Semiconductors Enable Submicron Patterns
Ericsson Retunes Radio
for $4B Small Cell Market
Developers Cram Their Apps into Smart Watches
U.S. Lawmakers Seek to End Bulk NSA Telephone Records Collection
New Roaming Regulations Come into
Effect for Australian Networks
White Paper Details Low Cost Option for Implementing 2-Way NFC
Scientists Directly Observe Bound States of Elementary Magnets in Ferromagnetic Quantum Crystals
9/25/2013
Samsung to Unveil Smartphone with Curved Glass in October
Federal Workers: Hand over BlackBerry During Shutdown (oPhones will still
work, though)
Thief Trades Life for $5k Worth of Copper
PSK31 Linear Transponder Wanted for Satellite Launch Opportunity
Nokia Wins Patent Infringement
Complaint Against HTC
GPS III Prototype,
Ground Station Communicate in Ground Test
Study Shows Maths
Experts Are 'Made, Not Born'
OLED Remains Lit Despite Being Stretched and Folded
NFC Wristband Developers Seek Funds on Kickstarter
Australia's Telstra to Cut 1,100
Jobs
Raytheon Joins DARPA Program to Develop New Kinds of 3D Electro-Optical Imaging Sensors
Booting Up: New NSA Data Farm Takes Root in Utah
AWS Spectrum Dominant Band for LTE in Americas
A Call for New Laws in New York to Fight High-Tech Crime
USAF School Looks
to Locata GPS Antenna Technology
Empty F-16 Jet Tested by Boeing and
U.S. Air Force
9/24/2013
Blackberry in $4.7B Takeover Deal
with Fairfax
Gold Colored iPhones Selling for
Staggering Amounts on eBay
ARISS Looks Forward to Installation of "Ham Video" on Space Station
Worldwide Semi Manufacturing Equipment Spending to Decline 8.5% in 2013
Worldwide Semi Market to Grow 3% in 2013
'Atomic Cage' Material Converts Waste Heat to Electricity
Crowd Investing New Way to Finance Technology Development
Australian Hams
May Keep 2300-2302 MHz
Telecom Italia May Raise €1B
from Towers Sale
How Can Radio Keep
at-Work Listeners?
'Terminator' Polymer That Regenerates Itself
Physicists Create
'Crystal' of Spin-Swapping Ultracold Molecules
Lock-Mart and SAIC Seek to Share RF Spectrum Among Radar and Communications
Sprint to Cut 75% of Remaining Clearwire Employees
RSA Warns Customers Off Suspected NSA-Tainted Crypto Tools
Scientists Use Balloon to Find Proof of Alien Life
9/23/2013
BlackBerry Announces $1 Billion Loss
and Cuts 4,500 Jobs
Apple Fingerprint Tech Raises
'Privacy Questions' (users' prints will go directly to 3-letter gov't
agencies)
Huawei to Hire Additional 5,500
Staff in Europe by 2018
Vitamin E Stops Static Electricity (how apropos)
GaN to
Push Microwave RF Power Semiconductor Market to $250M by 2018
Users Sue LinkedIn over Harvesting of E-Mail Addresses (trust nobody)
Testing Begins on
Third AEHF Military Satellite
Building Bridges
Between Nanowires
New UK 76 GHz
Distance Record Set
MARS Okays HF Transmission Methods Study for Propagation Failures
Water-Shedding Surfaces
Can Be Made to Last (ducks knew this already)
Densest Array of
Carbon Nanotubes Grown to Date
Broadcasters Get
Detailed Connected Car Lesson
The Promises and Pitfalls of Social Media — for Police (ooh, too many
donuts)
Google's Android Open Source Project Leader Departs for Yahoo!
Longtime Nintendo President Dies at 85
9/22/2013
Todayis the
AutumnalEquinox
How Granite Telecomm Turns Legacy Landlines into a Growth Business
USPTO to Host 18th Annual Independent
Inventor Conference
How an Engineer
Earned 1.25 Million Air Miles by Buying Pudding
9/20/2013
Agilent Spins off Electronic Measurement Business (suggested new name "ηρ")
Canada's 700 MHz Auction Generating More Attention Than Foreign Ownership Debate
Up to 15 Years in Prison for Phone Theft
in Guatemala
Spintronics for Silicon Approaching
Republic of Kosovo is Re-Establishing a Ham Radio Presence
Researchers
Make Flexible, Transparent e-Paper from Silicon
Google Makes QuickOffice Apps
Free, Adds 10GB of Storage (they'll be glad to share your docs w/Big Bro)
Huge Payday for Chief Executive Who Is Leaving Nokia
Seawater Magnesium Process Promises Cheaper Lightweight Metals
DARPA,
Boston Dynamics to Build Enhanced Legged Infantry-Support Robot (this
sight would freak out the cave dwellers)
U.S. Military Begins Rolling on Airless Tires
Molten-Air
Battery's storage Capacity Among the Highest of Any Battery Type
Disney Runs NFC Advertising Campaign in France
New iPhones
Draw Lines Around the World (that's news?)
Facebook Launches Advanced AI Effort to Find Meaning in Your Posts
100-Year-Starship Conference Warps into Houston
9/19/2013
China to Spend Over $400 Billion on
Expanding Internet Access
BlackBerry May Be About to Announce
5,000 Job Losses
IMEC Process Supports Germanium-Tin
Transistors
Spider Silk Coated
with Carbon Nanotubes Has Multiple Surprising Uses
Tech Firms, Medical Research Threatened by Helium Shortage
NTIA Pushes FCC to Mandate Free Cellphone Unlocking
Goodbye Big Bang,
Hello Black Hole? (still doesn't answer where all energy-matter came from)
Inmarsat-5 Global Xpress
Satellite on Track for Launch
Sensor Basics: Types, Functions and Applications
SLAC Scientists Create Twisted
Light
Solid-State
Battery Could Double the Range of Electric Cars
FCC Dismisses ARRL Encryption
Petition
Board Game Aims to Teach Preschoolers How to Code
FM Translators for
Everyone
'Comet of the Century' to Buzz Mars
IBM's
Massive Bet on Watson
9/18/2013
AT&T May Sell Cell Towers for as Much as $5B
LinkedIn Challenges U.S. Government
over Data Requests
DARPA Unveils Plans
for Underwater Drone Network (coming next, earth-burrowing drones)
Scientists Achieve
Highest Open-Circuit Voltage for Quantum Dot Solar Cells
LockMart Aculight to Develop 60-kW Laser to Kill UAVs, Rockets, and Mortars
True White LEDs on the Horizon
Proton Weak Charge Determined
for First Time
Invention Jet Prints
Nanostructures with Self-Assembling Material
The Serial Port: It Just Keeps Going
WH Petitions FCC to Legalize Cell Phone Unlocking
Microsoft ups Dividend, Plans $40B Share Repurchase
Packers
Fans Get NFC Merchandise
Cygnus Cargo Craft on First Space Station Run
UK Enters Global Online University Race
Auranova Bluetooth Necklace Vibrates for Incoming Calls
Combined Smartphone Data-Based Activities
Far Outpace Talking
9/17/2013
Ray Dolby Dies: EE Pioneer in Noise Reduction
Future Electric Vehicles Will Use GaN and SiC
Broadband Speed Upgrades Lead to Average
Rise in Household Incomes
Team Uses
'Wired Microbes' to Generate Electricity from Sewage (SVC - sewage-to-voltage-converter)
NFC Brings Real-Time Audio Commentary
to America's Cup
Obsolescent
Technology Needed: Navy Needs Old Computer Boards to Keep Ship Systems Running
(check your junk boxes)
Share Your Repair-Redesign Tales, Win a Tektronix Scope
Graphene is Key to Fast Light-to-Current Converter
Study
Finds High-Energy Electrons May be to Blame for Satellite Failures
Mobile Phone Emergency Alert System
to be Tested in UK
Bill Gates, Warren Buffett Again Top Forbes 400 (if only it went to 401,
I'd be there, too)
The Next Billion Users – Why India is the Next Big Smartphone Play
'Terminator' Polymer Regenerates Itself
2-D Material Could
Lead to Shaped, Wavy, Curved, and Sharply Bending Ways to Steer Light
U.S. Mobile
Web Use Has Doubled Since 2009
HTC Confirms Job Cuts at U.S. Unit
9/16/2013
Be
Careful Whom You Recommend on LinkedIn
Experts Consider Consequences of 'Leap
Second' Elimination (how about ridding us of the DST innanity?)
Airbrush Technique for Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanofibres
When Tech Turns Nouns into Verbs
Former NSA and CIA Director Says Terrorists Love Using Gmail
Massive Tidal Turbine Project Given
Consent (sensible, vs. wind turbines)
Dear Apple: Good Luck Against the Smartphone Black Market
Amateur Radio Provides Critical Communication in Colorado Flooding Response
The Electrical Grid of the Future
Even No-Tax Republicans Are Embracing Internet Sales Tax (pigs at the trough)
Taiwan Chip Industry Powers the Tech World
FCC Sets H Block Spectrum Auction for January 14
NPR Looks to Cut 10%
of Workforce
Graphene Could
Yield Cheaper Optical Chips
CCA 2013: M2M Growth, 700 MHz Interoperability Will Dominate
Japan Launches Space Telescope on New Rocket
9/15/2013
Ofcom Likely to Allocate 2.3-GHz,
3.4-GHz Bands for 4G
New Magnetic Semiconductor Material Holds Promise for 'Spintronics'
Worldwide Total Semiconductor Market to Grow 3% in 2013
Japan's New Rocket Blasts off in Laptop-Controlled Launch
Huawei Blasts U.S. for Illegal NSA Spying
9/13/2013
Gogo to Launch 60 Mbps In-Flight Wi-Fi Service in 2014
Silicon Sees Schizophrenic
Forecast
UK to Release 200 MHz of Radio Spectrum
for Mobile Broadband Services
Molex - The $7 Billion Acquisition You Haven't Heard About
Visualizing
Short-Range Charge Transfer at Interfaces (will that be Visa or Master Card?)
Microsoft Offers $200 Credit for Used iPads, Hopes You'll Be a Surface Convert
Twitter Files for IPO
Defects in 2D Semiconductors Could Lead to Multi-Colored LEDs
Radio Amateur Takes off on Transatlantic Cluster Balloon Attempt
Functioning 'Mechanical
Gears' Seen in Nature for First Time (this is cool)
Voyager
1 Becomes 1st Human-Made Object to Leave Solar System
Free Apple iWork on iOS Could Pummel Microsoft Office
Senator Asks Cellphone Carriers: What Exactly Do You Share with Government?
Mexico Close to Settlement on Reclaiming
Radio Spectrum Assets
Engineers Claim Gas-Diesel Engine Halves CO2 Output
Google Founders' Jet Fleet Loses a Pentagon Fuel Perk (did you know about
that?)
9/12/2013
Samsung Follows Apple's 64-bit Smartphone
Chip Switch
European Commission Lays out 'Ambitious Plan' for Single EU Telecom Market
Lithium Ion Beats Supercapacitors for Power
Sodium-Ion
Battery Has Highest Energy Density to Date
Apple Will Never
Make a Cheap iPhone (they don't market to poor people that can't buy all
their products)
McDonalds Starts Burger Payments by
Mobile Phone Trials
Work with Qualcomm, Network Vendors Made 700 MHz Interoperability Possible
New Twist
on RF Production Test
New Approach to Making Graphene Could Lead to Workable Transistors
Magnetic Semiconductor Opens up Silicon-Based Spintronics
Long Before Most, Intel Chased the Smart Watch
Apple's iPhone 5s and 5c Do Not Support LTE on 2.5 GHz Spectrum
World's Thinnest
Glass is Just 2 Atoms Thick
High Tech Developers Compete at Low
Tech Bluetooth Golf
Passive Stylus Design for Large Capacitive Touchscreens
Facebook Privacy Change Is Subject of FTC Inquiry
9/11/2013
Cloaking Without Metamaterials
European Telecoms Facing Merger Earthquake
Women Engineers Call for Better Career Advice
Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers Issues Call for Conference Papers
Operators Look to '4th Wave' as Voice, Messaging and Data Revenues Decline
Motorola Touts Made-in-USA Smartphone Plant
Apple iPhone 5S and 5C Handsets Unveiled
in California
No NFC for iPhone 5S
Uganda Bans Mobile Phones from Schools
Airbrushing
Could Facilitate Large-Scale Manufacture of Carbon Nanofibers
"Tamper-Proof" Chips, with Some Work, Might Give up Their Secrets
Google Faces Streetview Wi-Fi Snooping
Action
How Green Is a Tesla, Really?
iPhones
Approved for Use on China Mobile Network
U.S. Tests Layered
Missile Defense
Beijing to Crack down on Social Media 'Slanderous Rumors'
9/10/2013
Amateur Radio Goes to College
Wal-Mart Launches Smartphone Trade-in Program Ahead of New iPhone
Apple
Patent Reignites iPhone NFC Hopes
New Jersey Schools Adopt RFID to Secure
Their Facilities
Scientists
Theorize Properties of Fleeting Astatine
NASA's LADEE
Launch Holds Key to Faster, Big Data Laser Communications
New
Technique Efficiently Resolves Chemistry of Nanoparticles
Japan No Longer Gung-Ho on
Vehicle-to-Infra Alone
ICO Calls for Law Change to Help Clampdown
on Nuisance Calls
Verizon, FCC to Square off in Court over Net Neutrality
Net Neutrality in Court: Here's What You Need to Know
Jaguar Land Rover Aluminium Car Plan Good News for Electronics
ORNL-Grown Oxygen 'Sponge' Presents Path to Better Batteries, Fuel Cells
How Window Glass Is Getting Smarter
HSPA and LTE Now 52% of Mobile Connections
in USA and Canada
Strange Space
Wind Blows Through Solar System
And Now It's Global COOLING! Record Return of Arctic Ice Cap Grown by 60% in Year
9/9/2013
Formula E Racing & Qualcomm Sign
Wireless Charging Promotion Deal
Quantum MIIM Diodes Beat
Silicon
Prankster Calls NSA Asking for Help Retrieving Deleted E-Mail
Queues Already Starting Outside an Apple
Store for New iPhone (for the mentally iDle)
Are You the Next Rising Engineering Star?
Nissan Launches Nismo Smartwatch for
Drivers
Electronics Techn on Dispaly at DSEi Exhibition in London
Graphene Minds Bandgap with
Non-Boolean Logic
North
Carolina to Host 2013 USA ARDF Championships
Ghetto Tracker Site Offends, Dies and Returns (rumors says it just looks
for oPhones)
Transformer Maker Uses 3D Printing
Fab Fire Causes DRAM Price
Surge
Amazon Denies Plans to Offer a Free
Smartphone (how many times can the same card be played?)
Graphene Manufacturer to Set up Facility at Manchester University
9/8/2013
Cafes Declare War on Wi-Fi Squatters
Qualcomm Gets Serious About Low-Power Wi-Fi with New Chips
NSA OKs Itself for Spying
on Smart Phone Data (no worries, you'll probably never get punked by them)
Lost Droid Takes Stealth Seriously to Secure Your Phone
NTT DoCoMo to Offer iPhone This
Autumn
IBM
to Move Retirees off Health Plan (more Hope and Change)
9/6/2013
Man Snatches Mobile Phone After Date
Refuses to Pay for Drinks
NSA
Foils Much Internet Encryption
Inflatable
Antennae Could Give CubeSats Greater Reach
Al-Qaeda Targeting
U.S. Drones (the 'moderates' we're planning to risk American lives for in
Syria)
Silicon Valley Spawns Million-Dollar
Engineers
Despite LTE Push, Qualcomm Promises CDMA Enhancements
North American
PCB Sales and Orders Trending Upward
Japan's Kirobo Takes 'One Small Step' for Robotkind
Gold Standard for Future Electronic Devices
Intel's Laser Chips Could Make Data Centers Run Better
Apple
Tests iPhone Screens as Large as 6"
NSA Has Keys to Most Internet Encryption
Nanotubes Boost E-Nose Sensitivity
Americans Go to Great Lengths to Mask Web Surfing
Virgin
Galactic's SpaceShipTwo Completes 2nd Powered Flight
Elementary School Kids Forced to Kneel Before Admin (gov't worship - your
tax dollars at work)
9/5/2013
BlackBerry Looking for a Buyer by End
of This Year (good people at RIM)
Clay Helps to Shape High Temperature Supercapacitor
Switzerland Keeps Crown as Most Competitive Economy
Magnetic Model Offers Hope in Avoiding Rare Earths
Ham
Radio Community Invited to Say "Hi" to Juno Spacecraft
Why Bluetooth Use
Is on the Rise
Samsung's $299 Galaxy Gear Smartwatch Coming September 25
Scientists Demonstrate Leaner System for Quantum Encryption
FTC Says Webcam's Flaw Put Users' Lives on Display
Finland Suspends 800 MHz Spectrum Auction
to Review the Rules
AeroVironment Gets Order for Manpackable Killer Drones Able to Seek & Destroy
The Top 6 iPhone 5S/iPhone 5C Rumors
Lego
Releases First Female Scientist
Smart is First SE Asian Operator to
Deploy Ericsson's Antenna-Integrated Radio Solution
Microsoft Notches up Patent Victory
Against Google
Shields Are Your Friend, Except When... (Part 3)
9/4/2013
Samsung Seeks 'iPod Moment' with Smartwatch Launch
U.S. "Space Fence" Shut Down
Sellotape Solution Helps Shrink Electrical and Optical Devices (Sellotape
= Scotch tape)
NASA Moonshot Will Test Laser Communications
New Zealand Outlines 4G Spectrum Auction
Details
Is Mathematics an Effective
Way to Describe the World? (Charlie
would convulse at the question)
Shedding Handsets, Nokia Looks to the Future
Turbulent
Times for Defense Industry
5 Ways Nokia Helped Create the Modern Cell Phone
Broadcom Buys LTE Technology and Patents
from Renesas Electronics
Chip Market Growth Strengthens
in July
'Master of Science Fiction' Author Frederik Pohl Dies at Age 93
Kite Detects Pollution, Shines Light on Beijing Smog
Caffeine Could Help Combat Liver Disease
Record Cold
Strikes Alaska – 15°F in August!
Federal and Local Drug Agents Access Massive AT&T Call Database
9/3/2013
Microsoft to Buy Nokia's Mobile Phone Unit
India Smartphone Growth Accelerates
as Phablets Take Center Stage
NFL Lagging on Stadium Wi-Fi
TAPR/ARRL Digital Communications Conference to Offer Wide-Ranging Forum Schedule
Apple's
Sliding Mobile Market Share
The True Raw Material
Footprint of Nations
Advancing Graphene for Post-Silicon
Computer Logic
Radar Open Standard Does Not Cover Digital Data Networking
Online Attack Leads to Peek into Spam Den
NFC
Chip for Medical Implants
Syria Hacks Marines.com, Urges Cooperation
Against Al Qaeda
Amish Community Not Anti-Technology, Just More Thoughtful
Ultra-Low-Power Radios Key Enablers in Wireless Sensor Systems
Abundant Elements Used to Create Inexpensive Solar Cells
BlackBerry May Need to Seek to Become
a Niche Company
Brazil
Says U.S. Violated Its Sovereignty with Spying (weren't we told the world
would love us if we had the 'right' prez?)
9/2/2013
'Alien' Marketing Promotion Scares Residents in Alabama Community
Test Reveals Facebook, Twitter and Google Snoop on E-mails
Vietnam Internet Restrictions Come
into Effect (why have freedom when you can have Communism?)
PA Hospital to Open Country's First Inpatient Treatment Program for Internet Addiction
Are computer Chips on the Verge of a Quantum Leap?
1mm Lightweight Piezo Film Speaker for Thin TVs, Tablets
EU Plans to Fit All Cars with Speed Limiters (congratulations)
Raytheon
and Battelle Join DARPA Program to Create 100-Gbps Wireless Links
U.S. Judge Dismisses iPhone Lawsuit
over Faulty Power Buttons
Classified
Payload Launches into Space
Drug Agents Use Vast Phone Trove, Eclipsing NSA's
GlobalFoundries Wins Approval
for Next New York Fab
Gel-Based Speaker Also Promises Noise Cancellation
Wal-Mart
Slashes iPhone 5 and iPad Prices
AT&T Mulling Takeover Bid for Vodafone
Average Vehicle Age Hits 11 Years (time for another wonderful Cash for Clunkers
program)
9/1/2013
TSMC Largest Semiconductor Supplier in the World in 2Q13
The Newest Little Idea
for Nanosat Micro Rockets
China's
Worried Elites
Why Electrons Pass
Through Very Tiny Wires Less Smoothly Than Expected
RF Front-End Suppliers See Strong Growth in Wi-Fi
