2/27/2015
Net Neutrality Rules Passed by FCC
(code named 'Ben Dover')
DARPA
Awards Contract for Development of New Radio Chip
Research Signals Big
Future for Quantum Radar
Wireless Communication Standards for the IoT
Radar Can't Spot Mystery
Drones over Paris
Warming up the World of Superconductors
India Shows 74% Increase in
Mobile Data Traffic in 2014
Pebble Smart Watch Took Just 2 Days to Beat Its Crowdfunding Record
Caltech
Scientist Creates Tiny Lattices with Enormous Potential
The Best Podcasts Every Engineer Should Be Listening To
New X-Ray
Microscope for Nanoscale Imaging
Non-Stop Innovation in
Chip Packaging
2/26/2015
FCC Pirate Radio Enforcement
Down
5G Researchers Set Record Connection
Speed
German Radio Amateurs Breathe New Life into “Orphaned” Shortwave Channel
China Drops Leading Technology Brands for National Brands (gee, who would have
guessed?)
New Display Technology Lets LCDs Produce Princess Leia-Style Holograms
Study Demonstrates
Electronic Switch Based on Stereoisomerism
LTE-A Coverage Reaches 100M People,
to Cross 1B Mark by 2018
NFC Technology: Changing Consumer Preferences Create Opportunities for Retailers
What Net Neutrality Rules Could Mean for Your Wireless Carrier
China's Model for a Censored
Internet
NFC Forum Survey Shows Strong Consumer
Interest in NFC Applications
Rapid Data Transfer Thanks
to Quantum Physics
2/25/2015
Battery Power Alone Can Be Used to Track
Android Phones
From
Internet to Obamanet on Friday (if you like your Internet, you can keep your Internet)
Losing 1 Electron
Switches Magnetism on in Dichromium
NASA Announces University CubeSat Space Mission Candidates
Mobile Commerce Poised to Eclipse
Traditional Online Spend
Frequency Combs in
Molecular Fingerprint Region
Developing World Is Hot on Connectivity (sure, they're not paying for it)
Three Engineers Receiving
NAB Awards
5 Trends to Watch at Mobile World Congress
Japan Clocks Keep Time
for 16 Billion Years
Higgs Mode in Superconducting
Materials
Simulating Superconducting Materials with Ultracold Atoms
2/24/2015
Car-to-Car
Communication
U.S. and UK Accused of Hacking Sim Card
Firm to Steal Codes
Radio Chip
for the 'Internet of Things'
Tech Sector Outperformed UK Economy in Q4
Top 15 Cities for High-Paying STEM Jobs
LinkedIn Settles Class-Action Suit over Weak Password Security
What to Expect
in Wireless Test
Could Classical
Theory Be Just as Weird as Quantum Theory?
Now You Can Sign up to Keep Drones Away from Your Property
Boeing Upgrading Airborne Command Post Comm Gear
Military Becoming Immersed in Virtual Training
Programmable Chips for a More Powerful Web and Smarter Phones
2/23/2015
New NIST Tools to Help Boost
Wireless Channel Frequencies and Capacity
Tesla, Google,
Apple: Is Silicon Valley the Future of the U.S. Car?
How Much Is Impedance Affected by an Adjacent Trace?: Rule of Thumb #25
Will the Next 'MacGyver' Be an Indian Woman?
French Firm Develops Eco-Friendly Mobile Networks
U.S. Lends Comm Equipment to Fight Against Boko Haram
Spacewalks Will Interrupt ISS Amateur Radio SSTV, School Contact Schedules
Get Ready for the Internet-Enabled, Speech Recognizing, Joke-Telling Barbie
2/22/2015
Cost-Effective and
Efficient Rival for Platinum
Boeing to Improve Laser Beam Weapon Accuracy
Google Rails Against Proposal to Give Feds Remote Hacking Authority
House Oversight Committee Demands FCC Turn over Unredacted Net Neutrality E-mails
Telecom Italia Hikes Infrastructure
Capex
2/20/2015
U.S. Navy Again Tops Patent Power Rankings
Strongest Biological
Material Known to Man
New HTTP/2 Protocol to Speed up the Web
China Mobile Forges Ahead to
4G Dominance
Ulrich
Rohde, N1UL, Wins Second Prestigious IEEE Award
China’s Space Program Catching up with U.S. (but we're still leading in food stamp
recipients and pot heads)
French Firm Develops Eco-Friendly Mobile Networks
WhatsApp Spy Tool Lets AnyoneTrack When You're Online
Microsoft Has Suddenly Gotten Serious with Mobile
Magnetic
Field Laboratory Being Readied for Launch
Spyware Linked to NSA Discovered In Hard Drives Across the World (inc'l, probably,
yours)
Dutch Windwheel Draws Energy
Innovations
2/19/2015
IEEE Wades Through
Controversial Patent Policy
U.S. Wireless Carriers Now Legally Have to Unlock Our Phones
New Solder for Semiconductors
Creates Technological Possibilities
Novel Solid-State Nanomaterial Platform Enables THz Photonics
AFSPC
Thinks Outside the Box
Bluetooth Beacons to Generate New Revenue Stream For Mobile Banking Apps
Smartphone
Sales Grow 23% to >1.2B Units in 2014
Novel Crumpling Method Takes Flat Graphene from 2-D to 3-D
Manufacturing Growth Threatened by Lack of Interest from Millennial-Age Workers
(why work when gov't bennies are so good?)
A New Spin on Spintronics
You Might Want to Take Another Pass at Your Passwords
U.S. Drone Rules Impact Amazon Plans
2/18/2015
Barbie Doll to Be Internet Connected
to Chat to Kids
Self-Directing Antennas Prep
for 5G
Cellphone Start-ups Use Wi-Fi First to Handle Calls and Take on Rivals
U.S.
to Propose Additional Sharing of 10 GHz Band at WRC-15
Want to Live in a Wind Turbine?
7 Communications
Technologies to Watch in 2015
Sony SmartEyeglass Developer
Edition on Sale Now
FCC
“Paperless” Amateur Radio License Policy Now in Effect
Verizon Claims 40 MHz of AWS Spectrum in 92 of Top 100 Markets
Save Face with Component Checklists
Army Looks to 'Transform the Force' with Integrated Missile Defense
IBM, G.E. and Others Create Big Data Alliance
2/17/2015
A Formula for Predicting Innovation
(uh-oh, keep it away from project managers)
Finding a 'Radio That Is Just a Radio' in the Digital Age
5 Years Video of Solar Activity That Affects Our Radio Communications: Video (utterly
awesome)
Smartphones Need 'Dark Lens' Colour Sensors
Android to Become 'Workhorse'
of Cybercrime
The Future of Electronics,
Now in 2-D
ARRL Warns Experimental Licensee to Avoid Interference to HF Ham Activity
Nearly 4:5 Canadians Say Internet
and Technology Skills Make Workers More Productive
Stride Made
in Explaining 30-Year-Old 'Hidden Order' Physics Mystery
'6 Million Dollar
Man' Contact Lenses Zoom with Wink of an Eye
Electrochromic Polymers Create Broad Color Palette
Predator Demos Sense-and-Avoid System with 1st Air-to-Air Radar
Bill Gates Meets with China Technology Minister
2/16/2015
The
Power of Light-Matter Coupling
Survey Shows Strong Consumer Interest
in NFC Applications
Boosting
Swing and Transconductance in Tri-Gate InGaAs MOSFET
América Móvil Creates New Tower Company
Apple
Working on Electric Car
What Happens to Heat-Treated
Diamonds (T & P created them to begin with)
Turing
Patterns Also Present at the Nanoscale
2/15/2015
'Digital Dark Age' Imminent Warns 'Father of the Internet'
Net
Neutrality: Careful What You Wish For
Bug Bounties Entice Researchers to Don White Hats
Virgin Media to Invest £3B in
UK Broadband over 5 Years
Octopus Robot Makes Waves with Ultra-Fast Propulsion
White House Website Security Fumbles
2/13/2015
Apple Bans 'bonded Servitude' for Factory
Workers (what took so long?)
Connected Car Hacking
Fears Surface
Extreme-Temperature
Electronics
Ofcom Gives Green Light for
Use of White Spaces
Sprint Looking to Double Retail
Outlets in RadioShack Grab
Generation Z: Born in the Digital Age (aka 'the mutants')
Porsche Uses RFID to Track Prototype
Testing, Improve Security
Big
U.S. Defense Blimp Stirs Privacy Jitters
Boosting
Swing and Transconductance in Tri-Gate InGaAs MOSFET
Netherlands Government Website Outage Caused by Cyber Attack
Samsung Smart TV Owners Fume over Sneaky Pop-up Ads
Senator
Takes Active Role in Telecom Policy
2/12/2015
A Robot That Just Won't Quit Even When It's Kicked (spooky but cool)
Kill switches 'Cut Thefts' in London,
NYC and San Fran
Electronics You Can Wrap Around Your Finger
Apple
Becomes First $700B Company
Samsung
to Mandate NFC in S6 Accessories?
Michelson-Morley Experiment for Electrons
Google's Time at the Top May Be Nearing Its End
Tesla Built 35,000 Cars Last
Year, Preps for Model X Launch
Experimental Website Offers HF Band Conditions at a Glance
Nanorobots Must Self Repair
Checklists:
Do Or Die
Japanese Mobile Device Sales Slumped
in Q3 of 2014
2/11/2015
Pick up Your Smartphone Less Often. You Might Think Better
Inside RadioShack's Slow-Motion Collapse
Microsoft Patches Bug 'Used by Chinese
Hackers'
Apple Doesn't Need to Make Cheap iPhone to Be Successful
More Than 40% of Organizations Expect
IoT to Have Significant Impact
Why We Don't Have Battery Breakthroughs
Army Preparing HEL Laser Gun for Live-Fire Test
"Gray Radio Gang" Reactivates Vintage Battleship Iowa HF Transmitter
Facebook's Internet.org
Project Brings Free Web Access to India
New Anti-Ship Missile Conducts Precision Strikes Without GPS
Software Radio Debuts at
MWC
DARPA
Cuts Standby Power of Unattended Sensors
2/10/2015
Qualcomm to Pay China Record Qualcomm $975M
Antitrust Fine (bend over world, or you don't play in China's sandbox)
2015 James Dyson Award Invites Innovation from Student Engineers
DOD Puts Emphasis on Navigation Warfare, Accurate GPS Signals
12-Way RF MEMS Switch
FCC Seeks Comment on Radar Sharing Schemes That Could Displace Amateur Radio at 76-81 GHz
Apple Grabs 93% of Handset Industry's Profit
FCC's Estimated Opening Bids for 600 MHz Auction 'Grossly' Undervalues Licenses'
(ugh - the amount of money gov't sucks from the marketplace...)
Microsoft
and Samsung Settle Fight over Android Royalties
Bringing Texture to Your Flat
Touchscreen
Thermoelectric Nanowires
to Cool Chips
Image Compression Overview
Our Amazingly Plastic Brains
2/9/2015
Lighter, Mesh Antennas Can Help Cut Satellite Costs
Investors Hot on Drones
Singtel and Ericsson Partner to
Explore Future of 5G
TSMC to Build $16B Mega-Fab
Manufacturing Employment Holds Firm in January Jobs Report (lots of
Illegals taking mfg jobs
from legal citizens)
Precision Growth of Light-Emitting Nanowires
Why
You Might Not Have Broadband Anymore
UK Government Reveals Its Hacking Guidelines
5.5M Illegal Work Permits Issued to Illegals
2/8/2015
300M/Day
Cyberattacks in Utah Aimed at NSA Facility
Denying Permission for FCC Station Inspection Nets Florida CBer a $3000 Fine
First Ubuntu Smartphone to Arrive in Europe Next Week
Massive Anthem Hack Renews Calls for Laws to Better Prevent Breaches
Google to 'Start Again' with Glass Project
2/6/2015
Dark Silicon - Heard of It?
2016 DOD
Budget for Comms, Electronics, and Intel Headed up After 2 Flat Years
Who Knew Schrödinger's
Cat Had a Waveform?
Silicon Valley Expands Unevenly
RadioShack's
Long, Slow Downward Slide Nears the End (another iconic U.S. company bites the
dust)
Budget Requests Reveal Military's R&D Priorities
Cesium Atoms Shaken, Not Stirred, to Create Elusive Excitation in Superfluid
FCC Plans Strong Hand to Regulate the Internet
Android Passes a Billion Yearly Shipments
Verizon Offloads Towers to American Tower for $5B
Intel Maintains Top Spot in Non-Apple
Tablet Applications Processors
2014's 'Worst Passwords' Revealed
2/5/2015
Heady Days for Tech
Sector 15 Years after Bubble Burst (in April of 2000)
Lost Chunk of Pioneering Edsac Computer
Found
Smart Sensors for Power Grid Could Ease Disruptions (while collecting data on you)
FCC Wants to Regulate Internet Like a Utility
London's Big Problem
with Thieves Targeting Wireless Key Cars
Networking Automotive Aftermarket Radios
Research Team Succeeds
in Building Transistors Using Silicene
DOD
to Boost Cyber Spending by $400M
Amateur Radio Payloads Share Ride into Space with Soil Moisture Monitoring Satellite
Toyota Tests Silicon Carbide Tech
in Near-Series Designs
Would FCC Plan Harm Telecom Investment?
Does Public Radio Sound
Too White? (it's OK to denigrate Whites these days, right?)
2/4/2015
GaN RF Device Market to Grow at 20% CAAGR to Nearly $560M in 2019
Spectrum
Auction Set for May, June in Germany
Ofcom Commits UK Mobile Operators
to 90% Coverage Pledge
Pentagon Unveils $585B Budget Request
NASA Outlines
FY 2016 Budget Request
Quest for Efficiency
in Thermoelectric Nanowires
Russia Launches British Comms Satellite into Space
The FAA:
Regulating Business on the Moon
New Method Allows for Greater Variation in Band Gap Tunability
Wireless Baby Monitor Hijacked
The Future of Holographic
Video
The Big Lie:
5.6% Unemployment
2/3/2015
Smart Phones Are the New Cigarettes
Phablets to Flood Smartphone Market,
Claiming over 20% of Devices Shipped by 2019
How Will Data Retention Laws Cope with IoT? (simple, Govs collect all regardless
of what we're told)
China Clouds Chip Outlook
Atom-Thick Silicon Makes Crazy-Fast Transistors
Smartphones, iPads Hurt Toddlers' Ability to
Learn, Socialize (I've seen many baby zombies staring at phones while sitting in
shopping carts)
10 Most-TweetedSuper
Bowl XLIX Commercials
AMSAT-NA Board Approves Seed Money for Technology Development
Ratings Now Cut Both Ways, So Don't Sass Your Uber Driver
How Increased TV
Watching Impacts E-Commerce
Strategic Command Adds Germany to Its Space Surveillance Network
Raspberry Pi 2 Unveiled
2/2/2015
Generating
Möbius Strips of Light
Cell
Tower News: 2 Injured in Tower Collapse
Seminar on Component Test at High Frequencies
Verizon Wireless to Allow Complete Opt out of Mobile 'Supercookies'
Apple iPhone 6 Plus: How Steve Jobs Got It Wrong
Massive DEA License Plate Reader Program Tracks Millions of Americans
Should You Purchase
an FM Translator?
2/1/2015
Invisibility Cloaks Now Shield
People from Sight
Amid
Cuts, DOD Focuses on Next 'Offset Strategy'
5G WiFi and Smart Test Equipment Will Change the Tech World
March Issue of The American Legion Magazine to Feature Amateur Radio
Planck: Gravitational
Waves Remain Elusive
