5/31/2015
Motorcyclist Using Mobile Phone Smashes into Car, Keeps on Using
Smartphone Use While Driving
Grows Beyond Texting
Google Gives 1st Peek at Android M
Navy Awards $479M Deal for Joint Tactical Radios
LightSail CubeSat Stops
Transmitting
5/29/2015
Explosive
Growth in China Drives RF Power Semi Device Sales for Wireless Infrastructure to >$1B
Is Radio Ready for
Wi-Fi on the Dash?
Spiraling Laser Pulses
Could Change Nature of Graphene
New Tax for Hiring Foreign Workers Instead of Young Brits
NXP Agrees to RF Power Business Selloff
Lenovo Phone Projects Virtual Keyboard
Magnetics Able to Control Heat and Sound
Keeping Your Classic Tech Devices Running
U.S. Military Wants to Mount Laser Weapons on Drones, Fighter Jets
Team Invents
Microscopic Sonic Screwdriver
14 U.S. Schools/Groups on List to Host Ham Contacts with ISS
Developer Turns Arduino into Frequency Synthesizer
5/28/2015
Airman's 'Frankenphone' Connects Ground Forces, Drone Pilots
AMS Chips Allow Cars to Be Unlocked and Started with NFC Phones
Physicists Solve Quantum
Tunneling Mystery
New Maze-Like Beamsplitter Is World's Smallest
Samsung
Patent Details Dual-OS Phone-Docking Hybrid Device
When
Will ZigBee RF4CE Land in Europe?
Queen's Speech: New Monitoring Powers
'to Tackle Terrorism' (...and whatever else)
SpaceX
Cleared for US Military Launches
Experiment Confirms
Quantum Theory Weirdness
Murky Road Ahead for Android, Despite Market Dominance
Phones' Accelerometers Allow You to Be Tracked on the Metro
X-Ray Sensor Startup Raises Funds
5/27/2015
Researchers Create 1st Single-Molecule Diode
China Set to Launch Several Amateur Radio Satellites This Summer
Internet Used by 3.2B People in 2015
Rohde & Schwarz Oscilloscope Competition
Spin Currents Endure at Room Temperature in Germanium
High-Power Laser Weapon Advances to Field Testing
In Busy Silicon Valley, Protein Powder Is in Demand
Denmark Radio Station
Kills Rabbit on Air
Mobile Call Quality Gets a Long-Overdue Upgrade
Biodegradable Computer
Chips Made from Wood
Google & 15 Companies
Trying to Kill Passwords
Do Atoms Going Through a Double Slit 'Know' If They Are Being Observed?
5/26/2015
FCC
Eliminates Amateur Radio Vanity Call Sign Regulatory Fee
'A Beautiful Mind' Mathematician John Nash & Wife Killed in Car Crash
(movie
w/Russel Crowe)
Working to Death in Japan
Nanowire Transistors Favourite to Succeed FinFETs
European Regulators Tackle Facebook over Privacy
Supermarket LED Lights Talk to Smartphone
App
Each Job in Wireless Tech Supports
More Than 6 Jobs Elsewhere (and probably 3 non-working people)
Smart Factories Meet AI
Worldwide IoT Market Growth
to Be Led by Digital Signage
Premium Phone Costs 'Will Fall on Bill
Changes'
High Schooler Allegedly Hired 3rd Party to DDoS His School District
Microsoft's HoloLens Will Put Realistic 3-D People in Your Living Room
5/25/2015
Europe Approves More Radio
Spectrum for Mobile Broadband Services
U.S.
Naval Academy PSK31 CubeSat Transponders Active
Top 10 U.S. Military Aircraft in Honor of Memorial Day
Teardown: Moto 360 Smart Watch
Industrial Semi Market Grows 18%
UK Sells off Unused Net Addresses
Flexible OLED Display Peels off the Wall
5/24/2015
11-Year-Old College Graduate with 3 Degrees
Extraordinary Magnetic Shield Could Reveal Neutron's Electric Dipole Moment
Vertical
GaN Transistors with Buried P-Type Current Blocking
Radio Freedom Act Support
Nears 200 in House
Target Announces Nationwide RFID Rollout
5/22/2015
Mobile Device User Interfaces
Will Evolve Beyond Touchscreens
NRL Patents Small, Orbital Space Junk Sensor
Spin Currents Endure at Room Temperature in Germanium
Designing Microwave
Devices from Scratch Using Computer Simulations
Precision Nanobatteries
by the Billions
NSA Planned to Hijack Google App Store to Hack Smartphones
Cutting E-Waste: Device
Self-Destructs When Heated
SEMI April 2015 Book-to-Bill Shows Continued Improvements
Mao Zedong &
Little Red Internet (remember,
Mao murdered tens of millions)
Simulate
Digital Filters with PSpice
Failure Not an Option for Russian Space Industry
5/21/2015
1-26 MHz MEMS Oscillator Challenges Quartz on All Fronts
South Korea Mandates Spyware on Teens' Phones (빅 브라더)
Debate:
Is Smart Technology Making Us Dumb?
Startup Beams the Web’s Most Important Content from Space, Free (surely RFCafe.com
is included)
DISA Releasing Heavy-Duty Suite for Mobile Classified Comms
FCC Fines iHeartMedia
$1M for EAS Violation
New Class of Swelling Magnets Have Potential to Energize the World (ironic
that
magnetostriction
is mentioned)
A Tech Boom Aimed at the Few, Instead of the World
GloFo Offers 28nm SLP-RF Process
Crown Castle Sells 1,800 Towers
in Australia for US$1.6B
5/20/2015
Liquid Metal Antennas Promise Larger Tuning Range
China's Smartphone Market Shrinks
YoY for 1st Time in 6 Years
Radio Amateur Sworn In as New NASA Deputy Administrator
Fujitsu Ships 1st Phone with Eyeball-Scanning Authentication
Gadget Masters Scoop Prizes at Intel International Science and Engineering Fair
Magic Wavelengths
Polariton Refrigerator Could Chill Tiny semiconductor devices
Brain's Unique Reaction
to Words Could Sign People into Devices (by telling fingers to push keys)
Woman Jailed for Google Executive's
Overdose Death
6 Chinese Men Indicted in Theft of Code from U.S. Tech Companies
5/19/2015
Nanosatellites
Could Provide Future Battlefield Communications
Low Cost RF Antenna
Printed with Graphene Ink
Microsoft Study
Shows Tech Is Shortening Your Attention Span
EU Patent Fees Should Be Set Low, Say Patent Attorneys (right, and I'm sure they're
lowering their own fees as an example)
Turkey Confirms 3-Month 4G Auction
Delay
ITU to Study the Network
Standardization Requirements for 5G Networks (don't forget about the new
6G standard)
Polariton Refrigerator Could Chill Tiny Semiconductor Devices
Tech Froth Has Some Investors Talking Bubble (how long have we been hearing this?)
SpaceX Gets Certified to Launch NASA Science Missions
Silicon Chips That See Are Going to Make Your Smartphone Brilliant
Google's Driverless Cars to Leave the Nest
B-1 Bomber
Radar Set for Big System Upgrades
5/18/2015
ICANN Says Control of Internet to Pass from U.S. by Year's End (more change &
no hope)
Ofcom Aims to Make BT Open Dark
Fibre up to Rivals by April 2017
Dayton Hamvention 2015: Day 2 - Aisle-Jamming Attendance
Russian Rocket with Mexican Satellite Destroyed over Siberia
ORNL Demonstrates 1st Large-Scale Graphene Fabrication
Facebook 'Tramples on European Law'
(amazing how tech founder's anti-capitalist views change once $$$ starts flowing)
TowerJazz
and UCSD Demo 1st 256-Element 60 GHz Silicon Wafer-Scale Phased-Array Transmitter
5/17/2015
Researcher
Arrested for Commandeering Jetliner Via Inflight Entertainment Port
U.S. Telcos Petition for Partial
Stay on Net Neutrality Rules
Carrier Wi-Fi Market Holds Strong
Before Unlicensed-LTE Launch
Sodium-Ion Batteries 'Set to Challenge' Lithium-Ion Technology
Military Pushes for Emergency Robots as Skeptics Worry About Lethal Uses
5/15/2015
Organic transistors Drive Flexible and Conformable Electronics
China's Baidu Outsmarts American AI
2 Large Hadron Collider
Experiments 1st to Observe Rare Subatomic Process
Woman Blames Verizon Customer Service
Call for Heart Attack
Canadian Regulator to Cap
Wholesale Roaming Rates
The Internet of Things (IoT) Isn’t Waiting for Standards
China Reveals Ambitious Broadband Plan
ARRL Recognizing Amateur Radio Service to Scouting Award Winners with Certificate
Physicists Observe
Attosecond Real-Time Restructuring of Electron Cloud
DoD Report Cites China's Focus on Cyber as a Weapon of Wartime
TI Takes 18% of Analogue Market
Complaints About Mobile Phone
Services on the Rise Again
5/14/2015
RadioShack Brand Lives
to See Another Day
China Imposes Smartwatch and Wearable
Tech Army Ban
U.S.
Army Shopping for Wrist-Worn GPS Receivers
Android Overtakes Apple IOS
for Mobile Ad Revenue Share
FCC Chairman: Why I'm
Closing Field Offices
Moore’s Law to Keep
on 28 nm
Woman Sues Employer for Firing Her After She Disabled 24x7 Monitoring App
Atomic-Scale
Hardware Implements Natural Computing
What Stands in Way of DOD-Silicon Valley Partnership?
China Smartphone Sales Shrink, Market 'Increasingly Saturated'
'Supercool' Material Glows When You Write on It
Big Jump in Carrier WiFi Gear
Expected in 2015 As 802.11ac, Hotspot 2.0 Accelerate
Super-Fast Wi-Fi Developer in Wireless Charging Move
5/13/2015
Experts Urge Cautious Use of Wireless Devices as Health Effects Reassessed
Consumer Electronics Market Shifts as Media Habits Change
Verizon to Buy AOL for $4.4B in Cash
When an Electron Splits in Two
High-Performance 3-D
Microbattery Suitable for Large-Scale On-Chip Integration
Q1 Semiconductor Sales up 6% YoY
ARRL Will
Mark 100 Years of QST at Hamvention® (here are some vintage
QST articles)
Out with Heavy Metal
Reducing
Wavelengths of Interband Cascade Lasers
Things You Need to Know About Designing with Micro-Miniature Connectors
Solar Impulse 2 Takes Renewable Energy to New Heights
Staff-Tracking App Faces Legal Scrutiny
in U.S.
5/12/2015
Plastic Waveguides for Future Communication Networks
China Launches ‘Mystery Object’ into Space
LA's Newer
Cell Towers Will Keep Working after Earthquakes
Why
We Should Beware of the Number 2,147,483,647
EU, Korea to Collaborate on Qualcomm Probe
Vietnam Could Permit 4G Services
by Year-End
Tiny CHIP Computer, at $9, to Challenge Raspberry Pi
Chinese Smartphone Makers Try to Make Inroads in India
LTE-WiFi Debate Exposes Spectrum Land Grab
What
You Need to Know About the Laws of Space
China's Smartphone Market Slows in Q1
Self-Driving Cars Getting Dinged in California
5/11/2015
"Old-School" Tech Still Does the Trick
Next-Generation GPS Satellite Ready for Testing
Space-Based Airplane Tracking Demonstrated by ESA Satellite (no more 'losing' airplanes
in mid-flight)
Tuned "Nano-Vibrations" Could Yield Comms Advances
Hutch to Sell 33% of UK Mobile
Op for £3.1B
New Model for Thermo-Elasto-Plasticity Deformation of Crystals
Amazon Details Drone Delivery Plans
5/10/2015
DoD
to Show off Latest Tech at Lab Day
Microsoft to Stop Producing Windows Versions
Qualcomm, Broadcom at Odds
over LTE-Unlicensed
USAF Accelerates
Program to Provide M-Code GPS Receivers to Warfighters
Spiders Ingest Nanotubes, Then Weave Silk Reinforced with Carbon (has PETA hard
about this?)
5/8/2015
Woman Cuts Family off from WiFi over Health Concerns
'Email Epidemic' Is Damaging UK Productivity
US Naval Academy CubeSat Launch to Include Next APRS Satellite
Some Tesla Owners Pimp Their Rides with Code
13 Engineering Truths Proved by NASA's Curiosity Rover
Not So Hot: Japan's Entrepreneur Shortage
Reducing
On-Resistance in Vertical GaN MOSFETs
Police Can Access Phone Location Data Without a Warrant in U.S.
India's Devices Shipments to
Grow 4.5% in 2015
Cosmic Rays Illuminate Electric FieldsThat Cause Lightning
Electrons Corralled
Using New Quantum Tool
Laser Navigation for UAVs Developed by ADSYS
5/7/2015
Enhanced Thermal Management Solutions for RF Power Amplifiers
Researchers Find 'Massive Security Risk'
with Lenovo
USAF
to Boost High-Power Electromagnetics
New State of Matter Found in Crystal Made from Buckyballs
Giant Phones Finally
a Big Deal in U.S.
Ultrasounds and Plastic in Place of Complex Electronics
Mobile Purchases to Account
for 1/3 of UK Retail Ecommerce Sales
Channeling Valleytronics
in Graphene
Scientists
X-Ray Chocolate
Edison's Talking Dolls Can Now Provide the Soundtrack to Your Nightmares
A Better Way to Build Brain-Inspired ICs
Does Mom's
Cellphone Startle the Fetus? (fetuses have a 'mom'? ruh-ro)
5/6/2015
New GPS Technology Identifies Locations Within Centimetres
Albert Einstein Font Would Turn You into a Physics Genius, Sort Of
Highly Charged Ions Could Measure Changes in Fine-Structure Constant
Warrantless Cellphone Tracking Not Illegal Search
Self-Destructing Virus Kills off PCs
FETs on Hybrid Perovskites Fabricated for 1st Time
Chip Market Growth Strong Q1 in US, China
Improving Transistors
That Drive Flexible Electronics
2-D Material Seems
to Disappear, But Doesn't
UK Tech Sector Has Election Jitters
Sun Virtually Blank During Weakest Solar Cycle in More Than Century
Red Lasers
from III-Nitride Nanowire Forests on Silicon
5/5/2015
Wireless Power Transfer
Enhanced by Metamaterials
Space Radiation May Harm Astronauts' Brains (will they sue NASA like football players
sue NFL?)
FCC's Designated Entity Program Needs Reform
Joseph Lechleider, Father of the DSL, Dies at 82
LTE Basebands Accounted for
Over 50% of Cellular Baseband Revenue in 2014
Increase Range in 2-Port Impedance Measurements
New 2 Meter Transatlantic Propagation on the Air from Ireland
Intel and the DST Launch “Innovate for Digital India Challenge”
Future Soldiers Could Be Part of the IoT
Is Internet on Brink of Collapse? (same type geniuses who predicted depletion of
oil supply and no polar ice caps by now)
Why Radio Loses the
Mobile Listening Battle
High-Performance Analog and RF Circuit Simulation
5/4/2015
Antisatellite
Race Heats up with China, Russia
Japan's Mobile Operators Gear
up for 3.5GHz Rollouts
Not Your Grandfather’s ADC: RF Sampling ADCs
Sony Makes
It Easier to Put New OSs on Its Phones
40 Busy Years Later, Microsoft's Paul Allen Considers His Creation
Tablet Shipments
Tumble
Engineer Building Google
for Chips
5/3/2015
Elon Musk Unveils Tesla's World-Changing Powerwall
Australian Networks Could
Face Cap on Spectrum Holdings
Arabsat Contracts Go to Lockheed Martin, Arianespace and SpaceX
Emotional Anxiety No Reason to Regulate Net, Experts Say
U.S. Governement Probes Dish's
AWS-3 Tactics
5/1/2015
Analyst: 'No Discernable Patterns' in Long-Term Value of Spectrum
Reshoring Nets 10,000 New Jobs in 2014
iPad Crash Grounds Dozens of American Airlines Flights
AMSAT to Roll out Updated Edition of Getting Started with Amateur Satellites
Norway Plans Additional Spectrum
Auction
Microsoft Goes Big on Arduino Boards
IBM Shows off Quantum Computing Chip
Can We Secure the 'Internet of Other People's Things'?
Windows 10 'On Track' for Summer on PCs, Other Platforms Later
How the 3 Cs Drive IC Consumption
Army Awards $3.9B Deal for Rifleman Radios
Windows 'Open' for Apple and Android
