1/30/2015
FCC
More Than Quintuples Legal Definition of 'Broadband' (this is sure to be
challenged in court)
Belichick's 'DeflateGate' Explanation Falls Flat on Technical Details (who
really cares?)
FCC: Hotels That Block Personal Wi-Fi Hotspots Will Get Busted
Global Public Wi-Fi Network
Grows to 50M Worldwide Wi-Fi Hotspots
Office Puts Chips Under Staff's Skin
(IF
I were to ever to voluntarily get chipped, don't think I'd have that guy do it)
SSTV Transmissions Scheduled from the International Space Station
Sniffing RF Emissions to Secure the Internet of Things
FCC's AWS-3 spectrum Auction Ends at Record $44.9B in Bids
Insiders Pose Top Threat to DOD Networks
Space Probe Launched to Study Aurora Borealis
Software Firms Resist Giving China
Source Code So They Can Insert 'Back Door' Capability
Intel 5th Gen vPro Goes
60 GHz Wireless
1/29/2015
Apple Reports Largest Profit in History of Mankind (thanks in part to
OWS types who love Apple products - I'm just say'n)
Black Hawk Helicopters, Truck-Sized X-Ray Machines to Secure Super Bowl...
FCC "Paperless" Amateur Radio License Policy Goes into Effect on February 17
(that's why my General Class license arrived
as a crappy piece of white paper)
Samsung and Apple Continue to
Lead as Top Global Semiconductor Customers in 2014
How to Handle Design Disagreements
USB3 Interferes with Wi-Fi Capabilities
Apple Supplier Foxconn to Shrink Workforce as Sales Growth Stalls
Tesla Model S P85D's 'Insane Mode' Lives up to Its Name
Board Calls for $125B in DOD Spending Cuts over 5 Years (be sure to leave
enough $$$ for white surrender flags)
Microsoft Research Chief: AI Will Not
Kill Us
Freescale Come Back?
Stock Market Thinks So
600-Mile Saudia Arabia = Good? U.S. and Israel Fence = Bad?
1/28/2015
Oxides Used to Flip Graphene
Conductivity
Your College May Be Banking on Your Facebook Likes
Next Week's IBM Layoff to Be 'Bloodbath'
Phone Company 'Outraged' by Fraud, Abuse in 'Obamaphone' Program
Entanglement on a Chip Promises Secure Communications, Faster Computers
Photos Show China Military Buildup Near Japan's Senkakus Island
Electronic Circuits
with Reconfigurable Pathways Closer to Reality
3-D Transistors Made with Molecular Self-Assembly
Chocolate Shop Sweet Talks Tourists with Bluetooth Beacons
In-Car Semiconductors on the Gas
Big Data Dump Threatened after Malaysia Airlines Hack
Sling
TV Could Be Cable-Cutter's Dream
1/27/2015
Edward Snowden: iPhone Secret iFeature Allows Government to Spy on You
Radio Prepares for
the Blizzard of 2015
School Rule-Breakers to Hand over Facebook and Twitter Passwords (dangerous precedent
- you're next)
Internet of Things (IoT) Market to Reach $103.6B by 2018
Stanford Researchers Stack Carbon Nanotubes
Capacitive Sensing Improves Wearable Devices
Graphene Enables All-Electrical Control of Energy Flow from Light Emitters
SIM Card Market Reaches 5.2B Units
in 2014
Australia's Privacy Commissioner Tim Pilgrim Fears Telco Metadata Breaches
2014: A Monumental Year for Cyber Attacks
Unlicensed Religious Broadcaster Useing Amateur Frequencies Ordered off the Air
Apple's Tim Cook's Salary up >40%
Silver Nanowires Demonstrate Unexpected Self-Healing Mechanism
1/26/2015
The
FCC's De-Americanization of the Internet
Scientists Slow Speed
of Light in Free Space
Italy Plans €4bn Fibre Incentives
Europe, China Issue Call for Joint Science Mission
LTE-A Testing Marches Ahead
Scientists 'Bend' Elastic Waves with New Metamaterials
Ford R&D Facility Rolls into Silicon Valley
Quantum Speed Limit
Set
Police Departments Issuing Body Cameras Discover Drawbacks (gee, who'd have guessed?)
Atoms in 2 places at Same Time
1/25/2015
Pope: Put Your iPhone Down and Start Talking
Astronomers Study Bizarre Cosmic Radio Burst of Unknown Origin
New Step Towards Using Graphene in Electronic Applications
VHF/UHF/Microwave
Conference Seeks Speakers and Papers
1,700 Private Jets Fly to Davos to Discuss Global Warming
1/23/2015
Graphene Brings Quantum
Effects to Electronic Circuits
New Method to Generate
Arbitrary Optical Pulses
Printed Electroluminescent
Light Sheets
Australian
'Pico Balloon' Piques Ham Radio Interest
Is Glass a True Solid?
(a look at old, ripply window panes shows it's not)
Windows Holographic Is Microsoft's Take on Augmented Reality
Synthetic
Diamond Development to Accelerate in 2015
Is Your Online Password on the Worst-Password List?
USAF Launches Rocket Carrying a Navy Satellite
Analysis
Shows Way to Self-Propel Subatomic Particles
AT&T, Verizon Challenge FCC's Data Roaming Ruling That Sided with T-Mobile
1/22/2015
Industry
Standards Eyed for RF and Microwave
Windows 10 Upgrade to Be 'Free' for 1
Year
Many Antennas, Multiple
Benefits
VHF/UHF/Microwave
Conference Seeks Speakers and Papers
Analysis
Yields Better Optimization Algorithms for Engineering Problems
IoT Carriers Sought by Semtech
Spreo Beacons the Way at Mall, Hospital
Apple Watch Spurs Rapid Growth of
Market for Wireless Charging in Wearable Tech
Texas May Be Ground Zero for Musk's Hyperloop Dreams
Graphene Enables All-Electrical
Control of Energy Flow from Light Emitters
Offshore Wind
Capacity in Germany Passes Gigawatt Mark
Dyson Is on Fast Electronics Trajectory
1/21/2015
New Signal Amplification
Process Set to Transform Communications, Imaging, Computing
Prolonged IC Industry Upswing Ahead
GaN Technology Will Transform the Future
Will 2015 Be the Key Year for Graphene?
World United in Concern for Our Privacy
SpaceX Lands $1B from Google and Fidelity
What to Expect from Microsoft's Next Windows 10 Event
From Wax Cylinders to Records: Saving the Sounds of History
1:3 Germans Ready to Use Mobile Payments
ARRL Executive Committee Approves Education & Technology Program Grants
Ford Self-Driving Cars on-the-Cheap
Users Becoming Hackers' Favorite Path into Networks
Ericsson Counter-Sues Apple over Patent
Infringement
11/20/2015
Elon Musk's Plan to Build a Space Internet
Man Dies After 3-Day Internet Gaming Binge
Israel's High-Tech
Boom Is Double-Edged Sword
China Telecom Mulls Mexico Investment
Need Some Espionage Done? Hackers for Hire Online
USAF's New Acquisition Plan Aims to Boost Innovation, Cut Costs
Test Sector Must Think 400G and 4G
European Space Agency to Launch 6 Navigation Satellites in 2015
Fox-1A
Satellite Launch Date Launch Set for August
Analysts Turn Negative on
Outlook for TSMC
Thieves Hijack Miles from American and United Airlines
Carbon Nanotube Finding Could Lead to Flexible Electronics
11/19/2015
Speedy Wireless Protocol Coming to Many Gadgets
50% of World's Wealth Owned by 1% (it was 44% in 2009)
Venture Capital Spending
Rises
SRI Joins
Northrop and Draper to Safeguard Military from Counterfeit Electronics
Manufacturing Expansion Slows Down, Industrial Production Dips in December
Tablet Sales Continue to Be Slow
in 2015
NY Governor Wants Statewide
100Mbps Internet by 2019
China's Shifting Sands Spell Trouble
More Signs of a Maturing Small Cell Market
11/18/2015
Inventors
Choose to Reveal Secrets Before Patent Approval
Underground Wireless Sensors Demand Powerful Solutions
Michigan Passes, Governor Signs Antenna Accommodation Legislation
'Islamist Cyber Attacks' Hit France
Posting a Lot of Selfies Doesn't
Send a Good Message
11/16/2015
BMW
Sounds Alarm over Tech Companies Seeking Connected Car Data
DARPA Doubles Down on Anti-Counterfeiting Program
Google Glass Sales Halted
FeFET to Extend Moore's Law
Congressional Proposal Offers Internet Rules of the Road
Quantum Memory Opens Door to Secure Global Comms
Water-Soluble
Silicon Leads to Dissolvable Electronics
A Day in the Life of a Foundry Engineer
Rice-Sized Laser Powered 1 Electron at a Time
Mobile Payment Volumes to Increase 1000% in 2015
Technology Has Made Life Different, but Not Necessarily More Stressful
Big
Asteroid to Zoom by Earth on January 26
11/15/2015
Tools to Improve That Christmas Present
FCC Fines Pennsylvania Ham $11,500 for Causing Intentional Interference
Samsung Offered to Buy BlackBerry for up to $7.5B
New Step Towards Using Graphene in Electronic Applications
Toyota's VR Driving
Simulator Teaches Teens to Focus on the Road
Air Force Looks to Speed Development of Modernized GPS Gear
Samsung's First Tizen OS Phones go on
Sale
China to Write $10B Check
for Chips
An
Internet of Treacherous Things
Touch Control Doesn't Mean Scopes Without Buttons
British Minister: Lack of Metadata Retention Laws Endangers Lives
Apple Expected to Reverse iPad Misfortunes
in 2015
1/14/2015
Patents Strategy Shift Predicted
Bored ... and Brilliant? A Challenge to Disconnect from Your Phone
Navy's New 'Beach Ball' Satellite Takes a Spin from ISS
Metasurface
Solves Calculus Problems as an Analog Computer
Wintrust Lets Customers Withdraw Cash with Their Mobile Phones
Can GM Go
from Volt to Bolt?
The ARRL Library Goes Live
Worldwide
Semi Market Expected to See 9.4% Revenue Growth
UK Power-Line Carrier Firm Welcomes Partners (that's still being pursued somewhere?)
Hybrid Quantum
and Molecular Modeling Reveals Why Blue LEDs Need So Much Mg Doping
Graphene Plasmons Go
Ballistic
British Prime Minister Suggests Banning Some Online Messaging Apps
First Direct Measurement of Gravity's
Curvature
1/13/2015
Smartphones Cause Drooping Jowls and 'Tech-Neck' Wrinkles in 18-39 Year-Olds
U.S. Centcom Twitter Account Hacked
by Pro-ISIS Group (that's nothing - Iran got our
TS drone with a hack)
Former U.S. Cybersecurity Director Gets 25 Years for Online Child Abuse
Australia's Internet Lags Behind Despite NBN
Student Indicted after Hacking Rival College's Calendar
Broadcom CEO: Life After LTE,
5G Cellular Exit
More Signs of a Maturing Small Cell Market
Shin'en 2 Designated
as Fuji Oscar 82
Location Platform Revenues Will
Grow to €470M Worldwide in 2020
Thieves Tried to Swipe
ATM Cards Using iPod Nano
5 Things That Will Drive
Test in 2015
Top 10 Technologies to Transform the World
Google Loses Search Share, Yahoo Rises
1/12/2015
'Dielets' to Help Detect Counterfeit Components
TV of the Future May be
a Sphere
What Killed the Amazon Fire Phone?
The End of the 'Made in
China' Era? (infographic)
In a World of Phones, Gadgets Must Adapt
New World Record Claimed
on 10 GHz
AT&T May Be Throttled by FCC over Throttling Practices
Flexible Spinal
Cord Implants Will Let Paralyzed People Walk
1/11/2015
BMW Offers Contactless Credit Card That Can Unlock and Start Hire Cars
4 Things Distracting You at the Wheel that aren't Your Phone
Short Words Predict
Academic Success
Portugal Telecom Shares Suspended
as Shareholder Vote Looms
1/9/2015
China Nabs iPhone
Thieves Who Tunneled into Warehouse
Adding Leap Second
This Summer Expected to Cause Internet Problems (not a Y2K redux, though)
Phones Vulnerable Even When Transmitters Are Off
Have You
Got iPhone Separation Anxiety?
China Grabs 9 Spots in Fabless
50
Internet of Things (IoT) is a Threat to Privacy, Says FTC (...except when the Fed
mandates it in your utility meter, appliances, automobile...)
Unexpected Geomagnetic Storm Could Disturb HF Bands, Enhance 6 Meters
Semi Market Grows 7.9 %
DoE Just Broke the World Record in Solar Cell Efficiency (nice graph)
Compact
Batteries Enhanced by Spontaneous Silver Matrix Formations
CES 2015: Intel Demos a Button-Size Wearable Computer
Average College Freshman Reads at 7th Grade Level
(which is probably have been about 3rd grade level 50 years ago)
1/8/2015
Heads-up Technology Puts Data on Car Windshields
III-V and CMOS on One Die at German Conference
NRL Demos Super-Fast Ship-to-Shore Wireless System
If the Internet Becomes a Public Utility, You'll Pay More
CES Overselling the Internet of Things (IoT)
New Tech Enables
Ultra-Fast Light Beam Steering and Shaping
CES: Superfast Cellphone Charger
Nuts and Volts Magazine Launches New Ham Radio Column by Ward Silver
3D Printing Could Revolutionise War and Foreign Policy
The Key to a 'Cool Car' Is
a Cool Key
Mysterious Smartwatch Spotted at CES
Cold Record Set in Hawaii
1/7/2015
Yale Intros Residential Deadbolt with NFC Unlocking
Top Trends Driving Content Delivery to Mobile Devices
Sleeping Near Smartphone Can Disturb Child's Rest
Quantum Dot
TVs Are the Future
Yasme
Foundation Announces Award Winners, Grant Recipients
NOAA Employee Charged with Computer Breach Met Senior Chinese Official in Beijing
LG Tries Again with Curved Smartphone
The Troll Hunters
Q1 Looks Very Active
for Radio
Toshiba Launches Wireless Charger Chip
What Ever Happened to the Working from Home Revolution?
MIT Sites Defaced in Lead-up to Anniversary of Aaron Swartz's Death
1/6/2015
Broadcom Goes Pedal-to-the-Metal
with Ethernet & NFC
RFMD and TriQuint Complete Merger
iPhone User Tries Going
Back to BlackBerry
CES 2015: Toyota Opens Hydrogen Fuel
Cell Patents
ARTSAT2: DESPATCH
(FO-81) Satellite Goes Dark
Las Vegas Airport Preps for Tech-Savvy Travelers
Who Will Be DesignNews' Gadget Freak of the Year?
Web Freedom Seen as a Growing Global Issue
IBM and PARC
to Design Sensitive Electronics for Military That Shatter to Dust on Command
Fonts Could Set IoT Devices
Apart
Canada's BCE to Sell ½ of
Phone Retailer to Rogers
Air Force Facing Critical Shortage of Drone Pilots
1/5/2015
Connected Car Tech
Overtakes Games at CES
The Most Anticipated Innovations Coming in 2015
Cities Get Smarter with Wireless Tech
A 'Swiss Army Knife' of Temperature Sensing ICs
5 Smartphone
Wishes for 2015
FCC Sets Vote on Broadband Rules for February
10 IC Firms to Make It Big in 2015
1/4/2015
Sales of Smartphones Grew 20% in
Q3 of 2014
GCHQ's 'Spook First' Programme to Train Britain's Most Talented Tech Entrepreneurs
GaN Transistors
Fabricated on Cubic SiC on Si
India Web Blocking Causes Anger
1/2/2015
Mobile Broadband Overtakes SMS as
Largest Generator of Mobile Data Revenue
Secret Underground Nazi WMD Factory Discovered
Scary IEEE Tech Predictions for 2015
#bye2014: The Year of the Hashtag (idiot fodder)
League's Centennial "the Most Extraordinary Event" for ARRL President
Mil &
Aero Top-10 Stories of 2014
Top Technology Failures of 2014
IoT in Protocol War
IoT Needs to Be More Secure to Maintain Public Confidence
Botched Environmental Predictions for 2015 (empirical vs. theoretical in real life)
Recycling Electronic Waste Responsibly
NASA to Hack Mars Rover Opportunity to
Fix 'Amnesia' Fault
1/1/2015
High-Speed Broadband and 4G Coverage
Dramatically Rises in Europe
Total Telecom Review of 2014:
New Ground
½-Light ½-Matter
Hackers
Give Touch ID the Finger
Hydrogel Dominated
by Electrostatic Repulsion
China's
Huawei 2014 Smartphone Sales Rise by 1/3
2014's Top
Stories in Spaceflight
Gallium
Nitride Transistors Fabricated on Cubic Silicon Carbide on Silicon
Qubit Candidate Shines
Brighter
O3b
Networks Plans Satellite Fleet Expansion
Sitting Too Much Is Killing You
