8/31/2014
• Cellphone Addiction 'An Increasingly
Realistic Possibility'
• Fuji Xerox Printer Comes to Your Desk
with Documents
• Why Some Liquids are
'Fragile' and Others Are 'Strong'
•
"Ham Video" Transmitter May Be Tested During ARISS Contact with German School
• 4G Coverage Reaches 75% of UK
Population
8/29/2014
• Growing Smartphone Usage Provides
New Testing Opportunities
•
10 Tips on Being a Consultant
•
CSR Rejects Microchip Bid, Shares Soar
• A Sad Desk Microwave
for Your Sad Desk Lunch (read comment about 'what next?')
•
UKube-1
Satellite Using FUNcube-2 For Downlink Workaround
• China Telecom 1H Mobile Revenue
Surges, Subscribers Fall
•
Vietnam Semiconductor Strategy Summit Announced
• U.S. Startups Get OK for Smartphone-Based Heart Tracking (dating apps?)
• How Harvard's 1,024 Robot Swarm Does What It Does
•
China Has Supersonic Submarine in the Works
• Nanoplasmonic and Optical
Resonators Produces Laser-Like Light Emission
• Samsung and LG Launch New Smartwatches
While Apple Waits
•
Scientists Zap Diamond with Laser to Record Quantum Behavior
•
Superabsorption of Light Beyond Limits of Classical Physics
• 4 Megatrends in China's Smartphone
Market
8/28/2014
•
Defense Spending Cuts Hitting Contractor Workforces (-70,000 since 2008)
• 3-D Printed Skeleton Keys Can
Pick High-Security Locks in Seconds
• Bell Canada Increases LTE Download
Speeds to Hit 150Mbps
• What UK Emergency Data Law Means for
You
• Lockheed Martin Seeks to Clean up Space Junk
• Duality
Principle Is 'Safe and Sound'
• Materials Other Than
Silicon for Next Generation Electronic Devices
• 10 Cheap, Mostly Android Engineering
Apps
• Army Chooses
IMSAR for Small Radars on UAVs
•
Scientists Team with IBM to Boost 'Super Microscope'
•
CTIA's Baker Pushes FCC to Streamline Cell site Deployments
•
6 Telecom Analytics White Papers Worth the Read
• Competition for Graphene
• Big Snowstorms
Will Still Occur in Northern Hemisphere Following Global Warming (pathetic CYA attempt)
•
Iranian Ayatollah: 3G Internet Is Immoral and Inhumane (he probably frequents porn
sites)
8/27/2014
• World's 1st ZigBee-Based
Inter-Satellite Comms System
• Android
App Takes Down Heart of NWS Website
• Intel Builds 'World's Smallest' 3G Modem
• What Would FCC Think
of News Outlets Charging for Coverage?
•
5 Tips for Engineering Students
• Laser Pulse Turns Glass
into a Metal
• Fairchild to Close Two Facilities,
Lay off 15%
• Efforts to Track Space Junk Continue to Expand
•
Outcome
Unpredictability of Ultracold Atomic Reactions Solved
•
BlackBerry to Target 4 Market Segments with New Smartphones
• Wearable Tech and Smartphones
Could Save Lives of Lone Workers
• Researchers
Demonstrate Ultrafast Charge Transfer in 2-D Semiconductors
•
Is Google's Free Software a Good Deal for Educators?
•
Azimuth Benchmarks U.S. Operators' Network Performance
•
'Google-Like' Search Engine Puts NSA Snooping Back in Spotlight
8/26/2014
•
Infineon to Acquire International Rectifier
•
All Governments Can Track Movements of Anyone with Cellphone
•
RF Merger Mania
• China Plans New PC OS in October
•
Hackers Force Plane Carrying Sony Exec to Land
•
Top 12 Public T&M Companies by Revenue
•
Balloons Carrying Amateur Radio Payloads Still Circling Earth
•
Imaging Gold Nanoparticles to Atomic Resolution by Electron Microscopy
• BlackBerry's Leaked Roadmap
Shows When Revamped Phone Line Arrives
• Water Splitter Runs
on Ordinary AAA Battery
•
Boeing 'Recreates Outer Space' to Fix Missile Defense System
•
NFC
Brings Statues to Life in London and Manchester
• Mobile Broadband Subscriptions Top
2.4B in Q2 2014
• Physicists 'Freeze Time' to
Manipulate Spin Information in Graphene
•
Could Diesels Be Poised for a U.S. Comeback? (didn't know they were ever 'here')
8/25/2014
•
Murata Has Agreed to Acquire Peregrine Semiconductor
• Do You Suffer from Smartphone-loss
Anxiety Disorder?
•
FCC Proposes to Fine CBer $14,000 for Not Permitting Station Inspection
•
DISA Awards $450M Deal for Top-Secret Communications System Upkeep
• Bluetooth Padlock
• Silicon Valley Builds Bridge
to Iran (nothing to worry about - just move long)
•
New Camouflage Material is a Color-Change Artist
•
10 Things You Didn't Know Your Phone Could Do
• U.S. Military to Launch Open Source
Academy
•
Big Payoffs in HP Suit - for Lawyers (as always)
8/24/2014
• Drone Drops Mobile Phones
over Prison Walls
• 3G, 4G M2M Devices to Overtake
2G in 2017
•
OS Flaw Leaves Android Wide Open for App Hack Attacks
•
Apple iPhone 6 Screen Snag Leaves Supply Chain Scrambling
• SpaceX Rocket
Explodes During Test Flight (doesn't just happen w/NASA)
8/22/2014
•
Global Amateur Radio Emergency Communications Conference 2014 Takes a Technological Tack
•
GaAs IC Market to Grow to $8B in 2017
• Roaming Regs to Impact on IoT,
M2M Markets
• Clues to
Role of Magnetism in Iron-Based Superconductors
•
Silicon Valley Venture Capital Still a Man's World
• Huawei and DoCoMo Test LTE Services
in the 5bGHz Spectrum Band
• Discovery Suggests
Surprising Uses for Common Bubbles
• Hacking Gmail with
92% Success
•
FCC Studies Spy Towers
•
Class Action Against Facebook Attracts 60,000 Users
• First Direct Evidence of
'Spin Symmetry' in Atoms
•
3 Radars are Better Than 1
• HotSpot Beacon Solution Aims to Prevent
Parking Tickets
• Telecom Penetration in Remote Areas
Creates Opportunities for Hybrid Power Systems
•
eBay
Considering PayPal Spinoff
8/21/2014
•
Intel's Rectangular Fin is "Almost a Miracle"
•
Top 3 Desired Skills on a Tower Climber's Resume
•
Metamaterials Will Partly Depend on Additive Manufacturing
•
Webinar Helps to Build Ham Community Cohesion
• India Smartphone Market 84% Growth
in Q2 Still Has Immense Potential
• Back to
School 2014: The 11 Best Smartphones
•
Measuring Money - The Beer Standard (ok not news, but it's on EDN)
• Researchers Find
Security Flaws in Backscatter X-ray Scanners
• Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
Experiments Using Earth's Magnetic Field
•
Infineon to Buy Int'l Rectifier for $3B in Cash
• The
New Generation of Entrepreneurs
• Microsoft Counters Google
Chromebook
•
Electronics Living Under the Weight of Expectation
•
App That Stops Teenagers Ignoring Their Parents
•
½
U.S. Peeps Receiving Government Check per Census Bureau (I get $0, but pay >25%
of income in taxes)
8/20/2014
•
In
drone Wars, Dogfights Won't Be in the Air But in the Spectrum
• DARPA to Network Ships, Submarines, and Planes
•
Workaholism Argued to Be the Addiction of the Century
• The Future of CubeSats
• 'Cavity Protection
Effect' Helps to Conserve Quantum Information
•
Will Your Next Hard Drive Be Liquid?
•
U.S.
to Review Rates for Telecom Special Access Lines
• Google's Driverless Cars Designed to
Exceed Speed Limit
• hitchBOT Completes Journey Across Canada
•
Promising Ferroelectric Materials Suffer from Unexpected Electric Polarizations
• Chasqui-1
Amateur Radio CubeSat Deployed from ISS
•
Emerging
Solar Plants Scorch Birds in Mid-Air
•
How Long Do CDs Last? It Depends, But Definitely Not Forever
•
8,000 Navy Chiefs Face Ax (need money for Illegals)
•
Islamic State Message to America: 'We Will Drown All of You in Blood' (they're coming
across our open southern border)
8/19/2014
•
In Silicon Valley, Mergers Must Meet the Toothbrush Test
•
Apple's Big-Screen iPhone May Be Called the iPhone 6L ('L' for laptop?)
• Laser
Makes Microscopes Way Cooler
•
UK Benefits from Stronger Chip Sales Through Distribution
• Asimov's
3 Laws of Robotics Supplemented for 21st Century Care Robots
•
Chip Technology Behind the Bitcoin Phenomenon
• Laser Sensor System Scans
Railway Tracks
•
Molecular Engineers Record Electron's Quantum Behavior
•
Australian Teen Uncovers Security Flaw in PayPal
•
Smart Equipment for Tower Climbers
•
Major 2014 T&M Acquisitions
•
Chemists Uncover Powerful New Click Chemistry Reactivity
• 5 Good Reasons
to Cancel Your Project
•
Snow Set to Blast Scotland
• U.S.'s Community Health Systems Data
Hack hits 4.5M
• 2015 Corvette Has a Video
Recording of Everything the Valet Did in Your Car
8/18/2014
• New Hacking Scenario: Wi-Fi Signal-Sniffing Drones
• World's First 'Smartphone' Celebrates
20 Years
• Semiconductor Funding Deals
Dip
•
Printed Electronics Components a Reality
• Raytheon
to Build UAV-Killing Lasers for Marines
•
Check App. Accept Job. Repeat.
•
How to Turn a Phone's Gyroscope into Microphone for Eavesdropping
•
German Intel Caught Spying Clinton and Kerry ("what difference at this point does
it make?")
• Automotive down But
Still Radio's Number One
•
Apple
Begins Storing Users' Personal Data on Servers in China
8/17/2014
•
Cell Tower News: FCC Streamlines Antenna Rules
Map Shows Google Knows Where You've Been
• SiC
to Displace Silicon in Electric Vehicle Power Electronics by 2020
Qualcomm Denies Direct Financial Links with Chinese Antitrust Expert
• Growing Semiconductor Market in India
8/15/2014
Global Semi Industry on pace for Record Sales Through First Half of 2014
• Insights into
New Class of Semiconducting Materials
Stanford Professor 1st Woman to Win Top Math Prize
• Research
Gives Further Insight into Graphene-Based Electronics
• China Fabless Go 'Private'
to Gain Public Funds
• AMSAT
Issues Call for 2014 Space Symposium Papers
•
Navy Scraps
Helicopter Laser Weapons Program
• Stability of Wonder
Material Silicene Demonstrated
• LTE and LTE-A Subscriptions
to Exceed 430M by Year-End 2014
Smartphones Overstate Their IQs
• Move over, Turing
Test. Winograd Schema Challenge in Town
• Smartphone Stress: Are You a Victim
of 'Always On' Culture?
• Kids Are Not Listening
to AM Radio
Cisco to Cut Another 6,000 Jobs
• FAA - Lithium Batteries
Pose More Danger Than Thought
8/14/2014
• Patent Examiners More Likely
to Approve Marginal Inventions When Pressed for Time
• Samsung Reveals Galaxy Alpha Metal-Framed
Smartphone (hmmm... wonder about the antenna?)
• The Limits of Moore's Law
Limits
• Ham Radio Payload
to Circle the Moon
•
Terahertz
Waves Used to Spot Graphene Contaminants
• NAB Contacts BMW
About Removing AM Radio (engine interference issues)
Rocket Scientist Designs Cookware Based on Jet Engines
• US
Technologies to Manufacture Thousands of EW Circuit Card Assemblies for Navy Targeting Drones
NIST Uses UV Laser Beams for Hydrogen-Treated Fibers
FCC Adopts E911 Text Messaging Mandate
Economic Elite Domination Dominates over Majoritarian Electoral Democracy in U.S.
(and rest of world)
RadioShack Discontinues Wireless Service
Smartphones Overstate Their Social Intelligence
• Samsung and Apple to Lose
Global Smartphone Market Share
Why Surveillance Companies Hate the iPhone
8/13/2014
Shortwave Broadcasting "of Marginal and Continuously Declining Impact"
• RFID Drafted to Track NFL Players'
Every Move During Games
•
A Sobering
Assessment on U.S. Military's Future (see
report)
• Study
Offers Insights into a New Class of Semiconducting Materials
• Purer-Than-Pure Silicon
Solves Problem for Quantum Tech
• San Francisco Airport Tests Bluetooth
Low Energy Beacons for Blind Travelers
• Passivating
Nitride Transistors Without Vacuum Processing
Current Sensor ICs with Internal Galvanic Isolation
T-Mobile Wants FCC to Reserve up to ½ of 600 MHz Spectrum for Smaller Carriers
• Google's Android TV Could Shake
up Streaming Media Player Market
Many Women Leave Engineering, Blame the Work Culture (blame someone else - it didn't
stop Marissa Mayer or
Meg Whitman)
• New Graphene Framework Bridges Gap Between Traditional Capacitors, Batteries
Average
U.S. Wages Down 23% Since 2008
• On-Chip
Topological Light
• Keeping Filler
Ingredients out of Your Cup of Coffee
8/12/2014
Patent Office Filters out Worst Telework Abuses
LTE Devices May Interfere with Cable TV
• What Wireless
Operators Are Spending on Lobbying
• Pairing Old Technologies
with New for Next Generation Electronic Devices
Personal Electronic Circuit Board Factory
How Jobs Shafted His Best Workers
ARRL
Teachers Institutes Chalk up Another Successful Summer
• Japanese Universities Develop New World's Fastest Camera
•
Grading
the Top U.S. Wireless Carriers in Q2
• Wireless Connectivity Semiconductors
Maintain Double-Digit Growth in Health and Fitness
• 40 Most Powerful
People in Radio
Which Structure Has Optimal Resistive Switching Characteristics?
CA's
Smartphone Kill Switch Bill About to Become Law
• U.S. Tech Companies Rally Behind
Facebook in Privacy Case
• 'Cash for Clunkers' Even Bigger
Lemon Than Thought (so many bad ideas ago)
8/11/2014
• Russia Bans Anonymous Access
to Wi-Fi
• Canada Ahead of U.S.
in Chip Ed
• Smart Collar Turns Your Cat into
a WiFi Hacking Weapon
• USB 'Critically Flawed' After Bug
Discovery
Blocked in U.S., Huawei Sellsl Network Gear in Canada
Device Optimizes Gain at Microwave Frequencies
Selling an Old iPhone? Here Are Things to Consider
Calculation of the Power Factor in Current Transients
Water's Reaction with Metal Oxides Opens Doors for Researchers
• SketchFactor Phone App for Unsafe
Areas in Racism Row (right, Whites being criticized for not wanting to be 'Polar
Bear Hunted')
8/10/2014
Carrier Software Flaws Imperil Smartphones
Teens Can't Get Stoner Parents to Stop Driving While Texting, Smoking Weed
U.S. Looks to Japan Space Close Pacific Communications Gap
• Electrons Moving
in Magnetic Field Exhibit Strange Quantum Behavior
• Portugal Telecom CEO Quits
in Wake of Debt Dispute
8/8/2014
DARPA Explores Next-Generation Imaging Radar
China Tightens Grip on Instant Messaging Services
NASA Announces Next Opportunity for CubeSat Space Missions
• One Million Britons to Get Superfast
Broadband
• NI Enters Semi Test
Market
• Used Cigarette
Butts Offer Energy Storage Solution (what next -
tobacco-based Ebola treatments?)
• Diamonds Are a Quantum
Computer's Best Friend
• Split Views on
Robots' Employment Role
• IBM Chip
Mimics Brain at Supercomputer Speeds
• Chinese Government Rejects
Apple's iPad
•
Smartphone
Camera Makers See Next Opportunity in Cars
Synthesis of Structurally Pure Carbon Nanotubes Using Molecular Seeds
UK
to Launch Commercial Spaceport by 2018
In-Flight Use of Wireless Devices: An Evaluation of the Risks
With Just 1.3% Share in U.S., Microsoft May Need to Abandon Smartphones
8/7/2014
Is Your Watch or Thermostat a Spy? Cybersecurity Firms Are on It
• Global Chip Sales Hit
Record in June
Top Myths About Stainless Steel (interesting)
• Robots See
Through Solid Walls with Wi-Fi
BlackBerry's New Service Wins Key Clearance from U.S. Defense Agency
ETSI NFV Initiative Gains New Leadership, Set Sights on Phase 2
Timex Launches $400 IronMan Smart Watch with AT&T Cell Connectivity
• Britons Spend More Time on Tech
Than Asleep
• Pentagon's
Lowest Price Technically Acceptable (LPTA) Guideline is Latest Attempt to Attack Costs
(truly pathetic)
ONR Demos Advanced Electronic Warfare System at RIMPAC
ESA's Rosetta Space Probe Reaches Comet After a Decade of Travel
Copper Afro Cools Your Computer (a 'natural')
• NAB: Ownership
Rules Irrational
What to Expect from the iPhone 6
• Fermi Bubbles Still Defy Explanation
8/6/2014
• Industrial Electronics
Chip Sector Rebounds
UK Team Says Graphene Could Replace Silicon in ICs
• LEDs Made from 'Wonder
Material' Perovskite
Flexible Supercapacitor Can Be Woven into Clothing
Samsung Electronics to Pass Fewer Orders to China Supplier in Child Labour Response
• LPTA: DoD's
Latest Procurement Reform
200 U.S. Shopping Malls to Use BLE Beacons for Shopper Marketing
• BlackBerry's Rebirth
• Perfect
Atom Sandwich Requires Extra Layer
Judgments About Trustworthiness Made in First Second of a Meeting
• Silicon
Carbide Bipolar Opamp Performance at 500°C
Scientist Underlines Threat of Inevitable 'Solar Super-Storms'
• MEMS Imitates Logic
• Diamond
Defect Interior Design
1.2 Billion Web Credentials Said to Be in Russian Gang's Hands (pales to NSA gang's
cache)
8/5/2014
• LinkedIn in $6M Labor Violation Settlement
• North
American Circuit Board Bookings up in June
• World's Fastest
External Phone Charger
• No-Power
Wi-Fi Connectivity Could Fuel Internet of Things
• Q1 Top 20 Semi
Earners and Growers
Xiaomi Tops Chinese Smartphone Market
• Self-Assembly
of Gold Nanoparticles into Small Clusters
• BT Launches 4G Service
Hacker Claims Passenger Jets at Risk of Cyber Attack
Sprint to Sell Parrot Mini-Drones Controlled via Smartphones
Light Pulses Control Graphene's Electrical Behavior
• Wireless Charging Startup
Taps RF
•
Gunshot
Detection Technology Fights Crime
• SpaceX's
New Rocket Facility Officially Lands in Brownsville, TX
• Iliad Offers $15B for T-Mobile
U.S.
8/4/2014
• Ofcom Lowers Proposed Spectrum
Fee Hike
• Nokia Networks Buys Panasonic's
Base Station Division
• Keysight Technologies
Opens Its Doors (what will be its next name?)
Chinese Employees at Microsoft's Nokia Arm Protest Mass Layoffs
• Thin
Diamond Films Provide New Material for Micro-Machines
Spaceflight Eyes Small-Satellite Data Communications Market
Sheffield University Spray Paints Solar Cells
Wireless Connectivity Semiconductors Maintain Strong Double-Digit Growth
• The Perils
of Social Sharing
That Innocent Little Thumb Drive Could Be Big Security Trouble (duh, ever heard of
dude named Snowden?)
8/3/2014
• Critical Communications LTE
is New and Challenging Market Opportunity
• EUV Results Bogus, Says
Analyst
• How WWI
Codebreakers Taught Your Gas Meter to Snitch on You
• Physical Link
to Strange Electronic Behavior
Quiz: Do You Know These Terms of Tech?
8/1/2014
Why Isn't TV Everywhere Ready for Prime Time?
Party Balloon Carrying Amateur Radio Payload Circles Northern Hemisphere
Hilton to Let Guests Unlock Their Doors with Smartphones
• Charging Electric
Cars Efficiently with Inductive Method
• Tiny Magnets,
Huge Fields
• China Outpaces Market As Smartphones
Grow 23% in Q2
• Next-Gen HiFi Competition
Takes Place in the Car
• 50'-Wide
Muon g-2 Electromagnet Installed at Fermilab
• Lockheed Martin to Tech-Refresh Submarine Sonar
GaN-on-Silicon Design Kit Improves Accuracy
• Is Tesla's Gigafactory a
Gigablunder for Panasonic?
Hackers Can Tap USB Devices in New Attacks
Solving the Scourge That Is Slow Hotel Wi-Fi
New Catalyst Converts Carbon Dioxide to Fuel
• Israeli Iron Dome Firms 'Infiltrated
by Chinese Hackers'
