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6/30/2014
UK Bids to
Create IoT Standard
Harley Hopes an Electric Hog Will Appeal to Young, Urban Riders
5
Online Privacy Tips from an Ex-FBI Agent
10 Free Math Analysis and Design Tools for Engineers
Navy's Carbon-Fiber Clouds Could Make Incoming Missiles Miss Their Target
YouTube Announces Slew of New Features at Vidcon (YT owned by Google)
NASA's Mars 'Flying Saucer' Splashes Down
Electric Cars 'to Cost More to Run Than
Petrol Vehicles'
Future Cars May Give
Themselves Dimples to Reduce Drag
Pioneering Architect of
Soviet-Era Computing
6/29/2014
Germany Ditches Verizon in Wake
of Spy Scandal
Time-Traveling Photons Connect General Relativity to Quantum Mechanics (WWED?)
Chicago's Mayor Plans to Drive up Phone Surcharge by 56% (need money for outrageous
pensions)
Russia Abruptly Aborts Launch of New-Generation Rocket
Scientists Solve Mysteries of Electric Fish
6/27/2014
Tracking Space
Junk
House Bill Would Require FCC to Extend PRB-1 Coverage to Restrictive Covenants
(it would negate prohibition against erecting Ham radio antennas)
Network Congestion Could See 30%
Failure Rate for M2M Applications
Cambridge Team
Breaks Superconductor World Record
50 Years of TTL
DIA
Reveals New Gateway for Disruptive Technologies
Berkeley Researchers Detect Smallest Force Ever Measured
The Tech-Savvy Supreme Court
Physicist Suggests Speed
of Light Might Be Slower Than Thought (another Einstein denier)
Google Unveils Cardboard VR Headset with NFC
Smartphone Shipments Account For over ½
Thailand's Phone Market for 1st Time
Chemists Develop Magnetically Responsive Liquid Crystals
Startup Successfully Tests Space Tourism Balloon
Facebook is
69% Male and Mostly White (why should we care?)
Aussie Scientists' Time Travel Breakthrough
U.S. Economy Shrinks by Most in 5 Years (no prob, e-print money)
6/26/2014
Rediscovered Plans Aid Edsac Reconstruction
Interest Increasing
in Electronic Warfare
U.S. Conflict Minerals Legislation Has No Exceptions
Army Seeks
Drastic Reductions in Size, Power Consumption of Embedded GPS Modules
USAF Awards $1.86B Contract for Next Two SBIRS Satellites
Australian 'Mozart of Maths' Among 5 Winners of New $3M Breakthrough Prize
Phablet Sized Smartphones Generating
Strong Consumer Interest Worldwide
McDonald's Tests Mobile Ordering and Payments in U.S.
72 Fabs Closed in 4 Years
Supreme
Court Rules Against Aereo's Antenna-to-DVR-to-Consumer Service
New Math Technique Improves Atomic Property Predictions to Historic Accuracy
Watch Hacks Around the World in
Real Time
China Smartphones: Hot for
Sensor Hubs
Tech Startup Cruise Offers Autonomous Driving Package for $10k
Research Finds That Cell Phones Reflect
Our Personal Microbiome (our what?)
Advanced Light Source Provides
New Look at Skyrmions (never heard of a skyrmion)
6/25/2014
4G LTE and Other High-Speed Tools Ready for Battlefield
ConFab
2014: Do We Still Need Moore's Law? (Mr.
Moore already made his Billion$ on the fame)
Experimental 36-Core
chip Unveiled
Measuring the Mass of 'Massless'
Electrons
Tech-Savvy Investors Want Digital Solutions
NASA's Science Mission Directorate CubeSat Initiative
European Bank 'Hit by Sophisticated Cyber-Thefts'
Australian Mobile Phone Market Hit
Seasonal Low in Q1 2014
Entrepreneur Barbie Introduced by Mattel (get her on
Amazon)
Sprint Rolls out 30-Day Trial, Expands LTE, Spark, HD Voice
Elon Musk Plans to Take People to Mars Within 10 Years (NASA can't even get
astronauts to the ISS anymore)
Manufacturing Is Coming Back. Well, Mostly...
Electrostatics:
Simple Model Describes Organic Semiconductors Interaction with Metals
Hover Cars to be built in Tel Aviv
(very cool - hope they have anti-missile tech onboard)
Ti-V
Alloys' Superconductivity: Inherent, Not Accidental
Sharper Imaging Using
X-rays
6/24/2014
Wi-Fi Represents the Bulk of LTE Subscriber
Mobile Data Traffic
RadioShack Trading for <$1,
Could Be Delisted from NYSE
China's Tianhe-2 Tops Supercomputer Chart
Again
Europe's Big Push in Graphene Research
Microsoft Makes Bet Quantum Computing Will Be Next Big Leap
Shooting
Carbon Nanotubes out of High-Speed Gun
States, Counties, Communities Recognize the Value of Amateur Radio
U.S. LTE subscribers Use About 1.6 GB of Data Per Month
IBM Fabs at the Crossroads:
Employees Talk
Evidence Found for Higgs Boson Direct Decay into Fermions
Young Women Raise Big Bucks for Startups
Digital Detox, Step 1: Step Away from the Phone
Globalstar Sat-Fi Satellite Hotspot
Available Now for $999 (buy it at
Amazon.com)
Army Adding to Its Supply of Manpack Radios
10 Free Math Analysis & Design
Tools for Engineers
Private Mars Mission Could Return Samples by 2020
6/23/2014
Emergency Services Sent to Rescue Crashed
Google Balloon (lucky for them it didn't kill anyone)
The Military Now Has X-Ray Guns
Redefining What It Means to Talk in the Age of Smartphones
Russia to Get Its First Private Satellite Constellation
Electronics Manufacturer Says Europe is Competitive Again
Vietnam Regulator Says Reshuffle
Will Boost Competition
Kevlar Inventor Stephanie Kwolek Dies at Age 90
Marine Vehicles Could Soon Have Anti-Drone Laser Guns (country boys use shotguns
to kill drones)
Rare Materials Perform
at Near-Room Temperature
Amateur Radio Payload Beacons Heard Following June 19 Launch
6/22/2014
Android Security Weaknesses
Caused by Performance Design Identified
Lego to Introduce
Mixed Digital-Physical Blocks
GS Nanotech Pioneers 3D Packaging Technology in Russia
GigOptix
to Acquire Tahoe RF
Cutting a Round
Cake with Knife, Elastic Bands and Principles
6/20/2014
U.S. Supreme Court Reaches Landmark Patent
Ruling
Researchers Finds Thousands of Secret
Keys in Android Apps
Air Force Considers Switching Vendors on GPS III Program
Radios Give IoT New Channels
Making Smartphones Smarter with
See-Through Sensors
Harley-Davidson Invites Public to Test
Its Electric Bike (what would Fonzie say to this?)
Sheet Resistance of Copper Foil: Rule of Thumb #13
UK Universities Discover New Quantum Wells
Strange Physics
Turns off Laser
Newly Minted Ham Hopes His Celestial Concert is Not HAARP's Final Opus
Superconducting Refrigerator Cools via Tunneling Cascade
'Kill
Switch' Coming to Google, Microsoft Phones
Neighborhood Small Cells and Smarter Cities
CTIA's Baker: Unlicensed Spectrum Is Important Too
American Airlines Pilots Bluetooth LE Beacons in Dallas
54,200 Newspaper, Magazine Jobs Axed Since 2003 (people sick of 'old media')
6/19/2014
DOD
Looks to Accelerate Commercialization of Military Tech
Amazon Finally Shows off Its 3D Display
Smartphone
Move Over, Silicon, There's a New Circuit in Town
New Model for Quantum Noise
56-Year-Old
Prototype of 1st Microchip up for Auction
Pepper Spray Bullet Firing Drones
Graphene Quantum
Dot Flash Memories Look Promising for Data Storage
Is China the World's Leading
Cyberspy?
Consumers Spend Half
Their Audio Time with Radio
NIST Technique Could Make Sub-Wavelength Images at RF
Smartphones to Drive Double-Digit
Growth of Smart Connected Devices in 2014
Faster
Path to Optical Circuits
From Lab to Boardroom: Tech Launch Lifts Startups
Navy Researchers
Try to Kick-Start Industry Development and Prototyping Non-Lethal Weapons
Government Seeks to Regulate Maps Apps
Rio
Grande Valley a Seemingly Endless Surge of Illegals (&*!%^*@)
6/18/2014
Cops Can Access
Your Connected Home Data
U.S. Lifts Restrictions on More Detailed
Satellite Images
Finally! A Decent Espresso on the International Space Station (coffee news
always get top billing on RF Cafe)
Lockheed
Martin to Provide Radar Electronics
FCC to Focus on Treating Wireless Like Wireline on Net Neutrality
British Spy Agencies Are Said to Assert Power to Intercept Web Traffic
Theorists
Propose Globally Networked Entangled Atomic Clock
EU to Team up with South Korea in Global 5G Race
India Moves Closer to Having Nationwide
Mobile Number Portability
American Tower Bets a Billion on Brazil
The Quirks of Quarks
Wireless Industry Has Sustainable Agenda
Breakthrough May Lead
to Very High Performance Spintronic Components
The Radio Industry Remembers
an Icon
In Managing Boundaries Between Work
and Home, Technology Can Be Both 'Friend' and 'Foe'
Tesla's Model
X SUV Enters Production in Early 2015 (yes, I'm accepting donations)
6/17/2014
Deutsche Telekom "Does a Vodafone"
and Dishes Dirt on Government Snooping
Tiny Particles Can Pass Through Long-Distance Barriers
IT Worker Made to Train an H-1B to Replace Him
Tech Companies Don't Just Recruit from the Ivy Leagues
F.C.C. Begins Investigation into Quality of Internet Download Speeds
Nano-Scale
Gallium Oxide High-Voltage Transistor Demo
New Tech Tracks Football
in 3-D Space
High-Quality 3-D Metal
Parts Using Additive Manufacturing
Intel
Loses Court Challenge Against $1.4B EU Fine
Fast
Ground-Penetrating Radar for IED Detection
NASA's Warp-Speed Mission Leads to Star Trek-Like Spacecraft
Canada's Top Court Says Anonymity Is Essential to Online Privacy
Einstein vs.
Quantum Mechanics, and Why He'd Be a Convert Today
Interactive Teaching
Methods Help Students Master Calculus
Talk Radio Remains a
Powerful Force in U.S. Politics
U.S. Back to Iraq (more Americans to die in Middle East - just send the bombers)
Islamist Jihadists Mass Executing Iraqis
6/16/2014
Doctors Remove Mobile Phone from Man's
Mouth (human stupidity knows no bounds)
UP Coffee: An App to Track Your Java Consumption
Brazil Drives to 4G for World Cup
Ex-Microsoft Employee Who Leaked Company Secrets Sentenced to 3 months in Prison
HackSpotter: Hot-Roding your Bluetooth headset
World's Highest-Performance
MOSFET Is III-V
Apple Recalling European iPhone Chargers
Chipset Suppliers Helping OEMs Get Other Phone Components
Indian Government Still Fighting
3G Roaming Between Networks
Aussie Government Grabs $360M from Idle Household Bank Accounts (the U.S. simply
prints more when we want it)
6/15/2014
Circuits Capable of Functioning
at Temperatures >350° C
GaN Power
Device Market to Grow at 80% During 2016-2020 to Almost $600M
Quantum Computation: Fragile
Yet Error-Free
Industry Sustainability Efforts Mount with III-Vs and Other Advanced Technologies
Chinese Military Hackers Target Space Industry
6/13/2014
Massive Solar Flare to Disrupt Communications on Friday the 13th
BlackBerry Wins NFC Provisioning Deal in Canada
Viewing Deeper into the
Quantum World
Mozilla to Sell $25 Firefox OS Smartphones
in India
American Airlines Adds In-Flight
Wi-Fi to Its Aircraft
Researchers Find Weird Magic Ingredient for Quantum Computing
Starbucks Installs Wireless Charging Pads
Developing
Terahertz Detectors with Carbon Nanotubes
How Dame Shirley Jumped over Tech's Gender Gap in the 1960s
Even Toilets Aren't Safe as Hackers Target Connected Homes
Bouygues Telecom Announces 1,500
Job Losses
Introducing the 2014 FierceWireless Fierce 15 winners
Magnetic Moment of the
Proton Measured with Unprecedented Precision
Intel Goes Wireless with Resonant
Power
SPICE Models Need Correlation to Measurements
Crumbling Iraq
Feels Like the Fall of Saigon (pathetic and unnecessary - wasted American lives
and fortune)
6/12/2014
Spies Can Listen to Your iPhone Microphone Even When Turned Off
Like It Or
Nor Your Comcast Xfinity Router May Be a WiFi Hotspot
Mini Cell Towers:
The End of Crappy Phone Service
4G LTE in Malaysia - A New Cash Cow for Telcos?
FCC Okays Changes to Amateur Radio Exam Credit, Test Administration, Emission Type Rules
Manipulating and Detecting Ultrahigh
Frequency Sound Waves
DISA Mulls Laser System for Satellite Communications
Analog Engineers: Too Few or
Too Many?
Berkeley Lab Researchers Create Nanoparticle Thin Films That Self-Assemble in 1 Minute
HP's Machine Technology Rethinks
the Basics of Computing
Mobile Apps Will Have Significant
Impact on Information Infrastructure
Size of
GPS Satellite Electronics Shrink with Signal-Generation Upgrade
Project Eavesdrop: What Passive Surveillance Collects
Magnetic Cooling Enables Efficient, 'Green' Refrigeration
Barclaycard to Introduce Contactless Payment Wristbands
Big Transformers Go Veggie
6/11/2014
FCC Decides Not to Adopt New Rules Affecting 902-928 MHz Band
5G Millimetre Comms from Bristol University
Imec Reports Record ADC for Next-Gen Software Defined Radio (SDR)
Charging Portable Electronics
in 10 Minutes
IBM Upgrades RF Foundry Efforts
UU.S. to allow First Commercial Drone Flights
over Land
How Solar Wind Can Break
Through Earth's Magnetic Field
Dress
Shirt Maker Offers NFC Bonus
Microwave
Heating May Impact Electronics Manufacture
Funky Ferroelectric Properties Probed with X-Rays
Silicon Valley Tries to Remake the Idea Machine
Internet Usage to Reach 3B But Majority
Still Not Online ((gasp! how do they survive?)
FM Radio Hurts Music
Sales
Electrical Control of
Nuclear Spin Qubits
Google
Buys Satellite Start-up Skybox Imaging
3rd Military Base Flooded with Illegal Child Immigrants (when will this lawless
!$%@* crap stop???)
6/10/2014
Analog
Devices to Buy Hittite for $2.45B
Colorado Ham Tracks down, Resolves Interference from Pot Cultivators' Grow Lights
Cellphones Negatively
Affect Male Fertility
Google 'Nearby' Will Let 'People, Places, and Things' Know When You're Around
New Way to Create Compact Light Sources
How Telecom
Leadership is Changing
Turing Test Passed by AI Computer
Cyber Crime Costs Global Economy $445B Per Year
NASA Beams Video from Space Station
Via Laser
GoDaddy Files for
$100M IPO
Digital Radio Listening
Continues to Grow
Designing Ion 'Highway Systems'
for Batteries
Google Glass Gets Makeover from Diane von Furstenberg (reminds me of
The Far Side glasses)
Automotive Electronics: A Future Road to Be Well-Traveled
Seeing How a Lithium-Ion Battery
Works
Apple Jacks
the Headphone Port
6/9/2014
NTIA Report Frees up More Broadband
Spectrum
Amateur Radio Satellite Payloads Set to Launch into Orbit This Month (hope
it goes better than
KickSat)
Tech Giants Scramble
for Lead on 'Internet of Things'
Strong Momentum in Semi Sales, Says SIA
Internet Giants Erect Barriers to Spy Agencies (so only they can exploit your
data)
Uber
Taxicab App Valued at $18.2B (unbelievable)
Shatterproof
Screens That Save Smartphones
Has Commercial Radio
Lost Its 'Cool' Factor?
BBC Report: Scientists Blame Sun
for Global Warming - Mini Ice Age Could Follow (oh, that was in 1998 before
blaming SUVs)
Bill Gates Could Buy Every House in Boston - w/$1B Left Over
Hurricanes
with Female Names More Deadly Than Male-Named Storms
6/8/2014
Wireless Infrastructure
Drives RF Power Semiconductor Market over $1B in 2013
Elon Musk Thinking of Doing Something 'Fairly Controversial' with Tesla's Patents
Vodafone Report Reveals Massive Government Snooping w/o Court Orders (U.S.
is not one of them)
Semi Fab Equipment Spending Increases 24% in 2014
6/6/2014
Radio Amateurs Are Key Players in Effort to Maneuver 36-Year-Old NASA Spacecraft
(amazing story!)
Inmarsat Plans EU-Wide 'Hybrid'
Network for In-Flight Wi-Fi
Electronic Test Equipment Sees
Strong Demand in Africa's Telecoms Sectors
Army Boosts BW with new Suitcase-Sized Satellite Terminals
Electrically
Pumped Light Emission in Ge-on-Si Substrates
Silicon
Alternatives Key to Future Computers, Consumer Electronics
Big
Changes Coming to iPhone Messaging
Using Computers to Influence
the Law
Lithium Sulfur:
A Battery Revolution on the Cheap?
How Not to Pay the Price for 'Free' Wi-Fi
Air Force
Eyes Reducing Costs of AESA Radar
Fujitsu Labs: Is Trend Open-Source
or Cloud-Labor?
New Way to Make Laser-Like
Beams Using 1,000x Less Power
Microsoft Exec Indicates <$200 Windows Phones Coming
No Evidence of Double
Nature if Neutrinos
Feedback and Impedances
6/5/2014
China
State Media Calls for 'Severe Punishment' for Google, Apple, U.S. Tech Firms
Wireless Infrastructure Drives
RF Power Semiconductor Markets to Well over $1B in 2013
Amazon Said to Be Ready to Unveil Smartphone to Vie with Apple
MEMS Clock Cuts Wearable Power in
Half
3-D silicon Shapes Fold
Themselves When Wetted by Microscopic Droplets
China Clamps Down
on Google Ahead of Tiananmen Anniversary
Mathematician
Unleashes 'A Wave of New Results' in Geometric Analysis
Smartphone Holograms on
the Way
Scientists
Find Stronger 3-D Material That Behaves Like Graphene
Top London Shopping Street Installs BT Beacons in 100 Stores
FCC Bars Package Bidding in 600 MHz Auction
Big Changes
Coming to iPhone Messaging
Quantum Criticality
Observed in New Class of Materials
Relays
Are Best in Phones, if They Are Tiny
Prototype Electrolyte
Sensor to Provide Immediate Read-Outs
59% Believe
'The American Dream' Is Dead (except for the future MS-13 members
pouring across the border)
6/4/2014
Russia to 'Restrict' U.S.-Run GPS Satellites
Air
Force Awards Deal for Space Fence to Track Orbital Debris
Success for
Scientists in Academic Job Market Highly Predictable
The AM Band is Doomed
Broadcom to Divest Cellular Baseband
Chip Business
2D Transistors
Promise a Faster Electronics future
Chinese Handset Vendors Advancing
in Mobile Content and Services
Call for
2014 AMSAT Space Symposium Papers
Scientists Probe Solar
Wind with Blue Waters Supercomputer
Google
Testing Super-Secure Email
64-Bit
Beta Chrome Web Browser Arrives for Windows
Dielectric for High-Voltage Capacitors
North America to Dominate LTE Subscriptions Through 2019
Nanotech
May Provide Power Storage in Electric Cables
Former Siemens Division to Cut
3,800 Jobs
NASA Bringing High-Speed Internet Access from the Moon?
6/3/2014
Google to Launch 180 Satellites to Blanket Earth with Internet
Man Suffers Detached Retina After Texting Girlfriend in the Dark
Broadcom Patents Multiple Antenna Solution for NFC Phones
Building 'Conflict-Free' Smartphones
Lockheed Martin Wins Space Radar Contract
Quantum Leap Made
Toward Ultra-Precise Measurement
DARPA Program Looks to Develop GPS-Level Capabilities - Without GPS
World's Best Thermometer
Made from Light
Your Car is
a Giant Computer - It Can Be Hacked
Apple Makes Play for 'Smart Homes' by Connecting Appliances
'Star Trek' Teleportation Style Works on Sub-Atomic Particles
M2M White-Space
Radio Network Application Developed
Light Source from Harmonic
Generation
Researchers
Predict Electrical Response of Metals to Extreme Pressures
Greek Regulator Opens Consultation
on Fresh Spectrum Auction
Real Time Movies of Light-to-Current Conversion in Organic Solar Cell
6/2/2014
European GPS Improves Accuracy
of Location Tracking in Early Tests
Northrop
Grumman Offering MMIC Broadband Ultra-Low-Noise Amplifiers for Commercial Use
GE Lets Retailers Send Offers to Shoppers via LED Lighting
Invisibility Cloak Physicist Shares $1M Prize for Nano-Optics
NASA Faces Identity Crisis, Funding Battle
Plan to Sue FCC over LightSquared
NFC Tap-and-Go Deception Cases Increase
Web Business Startups Increasingly Hampered by Regulations
Experiment Could Test Gravity's Effects on Quantum Entanglement
Business School, Disrupted
Weak
Password Strategies - and One That Works
6/1/2014
Creating a New Electronics Revolution for National Defense
NASA Reconnects with Wayward Spacecraft Launched in 1978
Drone
Wars: Who Owns the Air?
Cree Launches
Low-Cost, High-Power GaN RF Transistors
Google Gets 12,000 Requests
to be 'Forgotten' on 1st Day (that's all?)
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