8/31/2012
DARPA RF-FPGA
Program Awards 6 Contracts to Develop Programmable RF Front-Ends
FCC May Review How Much Spectrum Carriers Can Hold
Android Smartphone Replaces the CPU
and OS in New Laptop Computer (essentially a "real" keyboard and monitor
add-on for people with fumbly fingers and bad eyes - like me)
New
Single-Shot X-Ray Technique Makes Magnetic Image
'Nanoresonators'
Might Improve Cell Phone Performance
Apple and Google CEOs in Talks to
Settle Patent Wars
Overseas Sales Offer Lifeline to Anxious Defense Contractors (selling to
anyone to keep stock prices high - 2011 exports 3x 2010)
Early Signs of Recovery
for North American Electronics Supply Chain
A One-Way Street for
Spinning Atoms
Stringent CAFE Standards Push Automakers (and drives up costs to consumers)
Tokyo Court Hands Samsung a Win over Apple
Apple Worked a Broken Patent System
Photonic Interactions
Measured at Atomic Level
Software Meant to Fight Crime Is Used to Spy on Dissidents
New
Technique Could Mean Super Thin, Strong Graphene-Based Circuits
Fed Chairman Makes Case for Further Monetization of Taxpayer Debt, aka QE3
(because it's worked so well thus far)
8/30/2012
Smallest Antenna Can
Increase Wi-Fi Speed 200x
New Record in Quantum Communications
Visible Light Communication Could Simplify Car Electronics
Dish Urges FCC Not to Shift Its Satellite Spectrum Holdings
'Nano Machine Shop'
Shapes Nanowires, Ultrathin Films
DOD Redoubles Joint Efforts in Budget-Challenged Times
Motorola Employee Jailed After Selling
Trade Secrets to Chinese Firm
Painful Birth for Europe's New One-Stop Patent
Strain in Silver Nanoparticles Creates Unusual 'Twinning'
Mobile Phone Users Lack Loyalty but
Rely Heavily on Services
NASA Launches Twin Probes to Explore Radiation Belt
Space: A Year on the ISS Good for Science
Windows 8 Spurs New Touchscreen
Hybrid PC Designs
Bank Worker Gets Fired for Using Fake Dime Decades Ago (Fed rules blamed -
one job not created or saved)
Chocolate May Protect the Brain from
Stroke (great news for M&Ms gluttons like myownself)
8/29/2012
IARU
Supports Proposal for .radio Domain Name
Huawei Quadruples Spending on Lobbying
U.S. Politicians
FAA to Review Rules on Use of Electronic Devices
Researchers Shed Light on Superconductor Development
Intensity of Competition Continues to
Build in German Mobile Services
Motorola's Intel Phone Set for
September Launch
Smartphones to Overtake Feature Phones in 2013, 2 Years Earlier Than Expected
Anritsu Tackles the Challenge of LTE Testing
iPhone Struggles
to Gain Ground in China
Math Ability Requires Crosstalk in the Brain
RadioShack No Contract Wireless Rate Plans Leak, $60 Gets You Everything
Sentencing Set for Software Developer Convicted of Stealing Motorola Secrets
Brits Fail to Take a 'Tech' Break This
Summer
Intel Looks at Wireless Charging
Earphones Potentially
as Dangerous as Noise from Jet Engines
8/28/2012
GM Suspending Chevy Volt Output, Retooling for Impala (GM potential = 0
volts)
GaN-on-Si
Large-Signal Performance Beyond 40 GHz
Ray of Light Could Lead to
Next Generation of Superconductors
IEEE Wireless Standards Get Faster, Simpler, More Personal
How Cell
Phone Companies Prepare for Hurricanes
Android Smartphones to Power NASA Satellites
NC Teen Named Recipient of ARRL’s 2011 Hiram Percy Maxim Award
Flat Lens Offers a Perfect Image
One-Molecule-Thick
Material Has Big Advantages
Rumor Mill: T-Mobile Reps Told to 'Sell Against' the iPhone Starting Sept. 21
4G Rollout is Good News for OEMs
Quantum IC Enables Mass-Manufacture of Quantum Technology.
Java Zero-Day Attack Threats Widening, Security Experts Warn
Physicists Create
First-Ever Mechanical Device That Measures Mass of Single Molecule
Equations Take a Bit of Working Out
8/27/2012
What
the Apple-Samsung Verdict Means for Your Smartphone
Nokia Jumps on Hopes it Can Cash in on Samsung Setback
FCC Eyes Tax on Internet Service
Low-Cost Nanosatellites, Small Launchers Would Assist Ground Troops
Verizon Wireless Bans Staff Vacations
in iPhone Launch Window
Inventor Challenges a Sweeping Revision in Patent Law
RIM Hopes for a Hit with BlackBerry 10's New User Interface
It's Time to Reap the Benefits of 4G
Mobile Networks
India Secures Delay in 2G Radio
Spectrum Auction
New Space Weather Video Shows Increased Solar Activity in Last 3 Years
Scientists Use Cobalt Catalyst to Produce Hydrogen from Water
Shaking the Electron
Has Strengthened Quantum Mechanics
Quark Matter's Connection with the
Higgs
South Africa to Launch Mini Satellite
Seagate to Buy Former Solyndra Plant ($300k under what taxpayers shelled
out for it)
8/26/2012
Neil Armstrong - Dead at 82
(the passing of an American legend - RIP)
Apple's $1 Billion Verdict May Lead to Samsung Sales Ban
Top Cities for Technology Start-Ups
No Signal? No Problem - Sat Gadgets Keep You Connected Anywhere, Any Time
GaAs Bulk
Substrates Return to Normal Demand Growth and Price Declines in 2012
8/24/2012
College
Grads Trading Caps and Gowns for Mops (or a Welfare check)
Ho Chi Minh City Plans Fab (aka Saigon, maybe they can get Hanoi Jane to cut
the ribbon at the opening ceremony)
FCC Releases Congressionally Mandated Study on Amateur Radio
Ultrathin
Wafer of Silicon and Gold Focuses Telecom Wavelengths Without Distortion
BlackBerry Dominance in UK Government
Under Threat
FCC Suspends Flexible Pricing on Coveted Broadband Lines
Apple and Samsung Get South Korea Bans
2D Materials Exposed to Light Could Transform into 3D Objects
Researchers Develop Simplified Approach for High-Power, Single-Mode Lasers
Cable-Shaped Batteries with a Twist
Cellcom and ICC-Cal to Offer NFC Payments in Israel
FCC Approves Verizon's $3.9B AWS Purchase, T-Mobile Spectrum Swap
ON Semi Cuts Jobs, Cancels Exec Bonus, Loses CFO
Will Apple Remove
Your Ads?
NASA Postpones Launch of Space Radiation Probes
8/23/2012
Sony's Mobile Arm Cuts 1,000 Jobs
Cell Phone Bans While Driving May Have
Limited Impact on Accident Rates (who would have guessed - raise alarm, pass
laws, discover data was flawed)
DOD Chooses Rockwell Collins for Tin Whisker Mitigation Research
Superconductor
'Flaws' Could Be Key to Its Abilities
Elusive Metal Discovered:
Nickel Oxide Turned into an Electricity-Conducting Metal
Research in Molybdenum Disulfide Sparks New Apps
Analyzing the World's 11 Biggest Handset Makers in Q2
New Tech
Could Mean 3D Movies with No Glasses
Making "Dumb" Phones Smarter and Faster
What Would Defense Spending Look Like with Sequestration?
Australia
Fighter Jets First to Get Hi-Tech U.S. Jammers
NASA to Launch Twin Space Probes into Earth's Radiation Belt
iPhone 5 Photos Leak as Release Date Approaches
Hewlett-Packard Takes $8.8B Loss
Microsoft
Unveils First New Logo in 25 Years
8/22/2012
Mobile Workers Report Average Monthly
Data Roaming Bill Shock of $1,089
Tech Firms Squeezing Conflict Minerals Out of Supply Chains
Netiquette:
Five Texts You Should Never Send
Smart Cars Get a Connection Test in Michigan
U.S. Seizes Android App Piracy Sites in
Copyright Crackdown
UCSB Researchers Demonstrate That 15=3x5 About Half of the Time
IEEE Smart Grid for
Practitioners Conference Seeks Technical Papers, Presentations, Panels
Imprisoned Molecules
'Quantum Rattle' in Their Cages
NTT Com Expands Asia-Oceania Backbone
Capacity to 500 Gbps
Over 2/3 of Australians Aged 15-65 Currently
Own a Smartphone
Jury To Decide Apple's Patent Case Against Samsung
Nuclear Fusion Heat Outflow Can Now Be Predicted
Is Unlimited
Data Making a Comeback?
LG Releases
'World's Largest' Ultra-Definition TV
MIT-Developed 'Microthrusters' Could Propel Small Satellites
Mars Rover Curiosity to Take 1st Martian Drive Wednesday
8/21/2012
Two New Galileo Satellites Being Prepared for Launch
Researchers Make Quantum
Processor Capable of Factoring a Composite Number into Prime Factors
Everything Everywhere Gets 4G Go-Ahead
from Ofcom
Samsung Spending $4B in Texas
35 Innovators Under 35
Japan's Smartphone Surge: 1 in 4 Mobile
Consumers Now Owns a Smartphone
High-Tech Gadgets For the Back-to-School Bound
Electronics Manufacturers Emerging from Recession
Making
Stretchable Electronics
Batteries
Made from World's Thinnest Material Could Power Tomorrow's Electric Cars
Space Elevators:
Going Up?
NY Lawmaker Wants Radio
to Pay
Triangular Quantum
Well Injection Boosts Nitride LED Efficiency by 80%
Facebook's
First Big Investor, Peter Thiel, Cashes Out (turned $M/2 into $1B)
Apple Becomes the Most Valuable Public Company Ever
8/20/2012
Cellphone Companies Can Predict Your Future Movements by Building Profile of Your Lifestyle
2/3 of American Smartphone Owners Can't
Live Without Their Smartphones (sad)
Canadians Spend Less Time on Smartphones
Than Last Year (sanity from our neighbors to the north, eh?)
Gartner Places NFC in "Trough of Disillusionment"
College Binge Drinkers Happier Than Non-Bingers (useful research funded by
World Association of Binge Drinkers))
The
Rise of the New York Startup Scene
Patterning Defect-Free Nanocrystal Films with Nanometer Resolution
Solid-State MASER Can
Operate at Room Temperature
UK Internet 'to be Fastest in Europe
by 2015'
A New Route to Dissipationless
Electronics
Cellcom and ICC-Cal to Offer NFC Payments in Israel
What You Should Know About the iPhone SMS Spoof Attack
New Group to Set Goals for NextGen Ethernet
Apps Every College Student Needs
Texas Senator Demands Answers on Russian Sub in Gulf of Mexico
8/19/2012
USPTO Seeks Comment on Possibility of Lowering Most Trademark Application Fees
Senators Press Pentagon to Freeze out Defense Contractor over China Chopper Deal
First Science Site for Curiosity Revealed
Supersmall Lab-on-a-Chip Is Superfast
8/17/2012
Judge in Apple-Samsung Case Suggested
Apple Lawyer Must Have Been Smoking Crack
Restaurant
Offers a 5% Discount to Eat Without Your Phone (sad state of society)
Not Enough Engineers, Says the IET
Tech Stocks New Dividend Leaders
Magnetic Vortices with
Electric Sense
Canadian Government Monitoring RIM Takeover
Rumors
Studying
the Sun's Electron Outflow
Dish to Launch Its Own Satellite Broadband Network
SEC Filing Triggers Speculation on iPhone 5 with NFC
Constructive Conflict in
the Superconductor
First Practical Maser Is Built
Camouflage Bendy Robot Changes
Colour for Disguise
A
Playboy Model and Nanoscale Printing
8/16/2012
FCC Authorizes Tests in Lower 1755 MHz
Bands for LTE Services
Tech Manufacturing Returning, U.S. Group Says (that would be nice, but we need
furniture, clothing, hardware, etc., too)
Maser Could Pave the Way for New Generation of Electronics
AT&T Asks
Drivers to Take No-Texting Pledge
CERN Physicists
Break Record for Hottest Manmade Material (no supermodel cracks, please)
In
China, Cheap and Cheerful Phones Outsmart Apple
Electronic Read-Out of
Quantum Bits (we are in a new atomic age)
Analog
Firms Step Up Stock Buybacks
10-Year Plan for Space Physics Put Forward
Consumers Ignoring the Value of the Phone
in Their Pockets
MPEG Hammers Out Codec That
Halves Bit Rate
Verizon's $3.9B Cable Deal Speeds Toward FCC, DOJ Approval
High-Tech Flashlights Could Turn You into a Collector
Moms at Tech Start-ups Say They Can Have It All
Facebook Shares Hit New Low as a Lockout Period Ends
8/15/2012
Transistors Made from Graphene Nanoribbons Make Efficient Magnetic Field Sensors
ARRL Teachers Institute Offers Instructors Wireless Technology Skills for the Classroom
NASA Announces
Next Opportunity for CubeSat Space Missions
U.S. Retailers Move into the Mobile Wallet Market
Radio IS Where Consumers
Discover Music
DARPA:
Ultrafast Pulsed Lasers… More Than Just a Light Show
UK Average Broadband Speed Faster per
Ofcom
Mobile Backhaul Predicted to Be Worth
$9 Billion by 2016
EE Says Apple Design Patents Invalid
RIM Ready to Take BlackBerry 10 on the Road to Carriers
Engineering Will Be the Main Beneficiary of the QE Prize
LG Sells 5 Millionth LTE Smartphone
Tech Tools to Ease the Strain of the Nomadic Life
MEADS Multifunction Fire Control Radar Completes Integration and Tests in Italy
Could the New Air Traffic Control System Be Hacked?
8/14/2012
'Texting Thumb' a Growing Health Problem
Chinese
Companies Pulling out of U.S. Stock Markets (no problem, Fed prints money &
buys stocks instead)
IBM Research in Zurich Points to Super Low Power Chips
Android Extends Market Lead While Apple
Market Share Growth Pauses
Can DARPA's Strategy Help Motorola Compete Again?
Troops Finding New
Ways to Deploy VSATs for Mission Success
China Li-ion Battery Market Growth Exploding
Scientists 'Waltz' Closer
to Using Spintronics in Computing
British Consumers Are Increasingly Influenced
by Mobile
USDA Spends $2M for One Intern
(page 2 of audit report)
Molecules
Get a Big Chill
Photos Reflect Light Like 3D
Objects with Novel Printing Technology
Verizon, AT&T Dominate as U.S. Data Revenues Surge Past $19.3B
U.S. to Lose 25 Billion
Taxpayer Dollars on Auto Bailout (that's the sound of the auto industry "roaring
back")
8/13/2012
Google to Cut 4,000 Jobs at Motorola Mobility
Tiny Transmitters That Cost a Penny to
Print Unveiled
National NFC Service to Go Live in Singapore This Month
IBM Observes
Spintronic 'Waltz'
Graphene's Behavior Depends on
Where It Sits
Unraveling Intricate
Interactions, One Molecule at a Time
Semiconductor Devices Could Lead to Smart Surgical Gloves
ARRL International
Lighthouse/Lightship Weekend 2012
India Pushing Ahead with Radio Spectrum
Refarming Plans
Korea Telecom Profits Down on LTE Subscriber
Costs
Freescale
Closes French Fab
Scientists' Gold
Discovery Sheds Light on Catalysis
M2M Customers May Feel the Pain of AT&T's 2G Shutdown
Key Test Tuesday for Hypersonic Flight
8/12/2012
Move to Mobile Has China's Sina Sweating
Full Color Images at 100,000 Dots-Per-Inch Resolution, Using Metal-Laced Nano-Structures
FBI Issues Ransom Malware Warning Following Inundation by Victims
8/10/2012
Law to Give Glimpse into Potentially Devastating Defense Cuts
Freezing Magnetic
Monopoles: How Dipoles Become Monopoles and Vice Versa
Multimillion-Dollar
Verdict Against BlackBerry Maker RIM Overturned
UAV Flies on Laser Light
Wireless Power for the
Price of a Penny
Reshapeable Plastic Remembers Original Form
Are You Liable When Interns
Get Hurt? (assuming it wasn't on purpose)
Semi Market Annual Growth Rate to Double.
Underwater Satellites and Autonomous Robots Hunt for Enemy Submarines
Pentagon Helps Build Meshworm Reconnaissance
Robot
High Performance Flexible
Solid State Battery Developed
Samsung Denies Interest in RIM, Licensing BlackBerry 10
Astronomers Release the Largest Ever 3-D Map of the Sky
8/9/2012
LTE Revenues Expected to Grow 8x by 2016
National NFC Service to Go Live in Singapore This Month
Explore the Upper Reaches of the Amateur Radio Spectrum in the ARRL 10 GHz and Up Contest
Apple Patent Trial: Samsung Scrutinized iPhone to Improve Galaxy UI (will this
set precedent for teardowns & reverse engineering efforts?)
India Can Monitor BlackBerry
Without Codes
Our Edisons are Alive and Well at NIWeek 2012
Nuclear Generator Powers Curiosity Mars Mission (no solar panels)
Discordant Bits and Single Photons Boost Quantum Power
Gov't Motors (GM) Outsources $559M Advertising Deal (imagine Dinah Shore singing
"See the UK in your Chevrolet")
8/8/2012
LTE Revenues Expected to Grow 8x by 2016
National NFC Service to Go Live in Singapore This Month
Explore the Upper Reaches of the Amateur Radio Spectrum in the ARRL 10 GHz and Up Contest
Apple Patent Trial: Samsung Scrutinized iPhone to Improve Galaxy UI (will this
set precedent for teardowns & reverse engineering efforts?)
India Can Monitor BlackBerry
Without Codes
Our Edisons are Alive and Well at NIWeek 2012
Nuclear Generator Powers Curiosity Mars Mission (no solar panels)
Discordant Bits and Single Photons Boost Quantum Power
Gov't Motors (GM) Outsources $559M Advertising Deal (imagine Dinah Shore singing
"See the UK in your Chevrolet")
8/7/2012
Congressman Proposes
"Cell Phone Right to Know Act" Requiring Cancer Notice on Phones (Nov's time
to clean House)
Startup
Demos 60-GHz Wi-Fi
Intelsat Demos Broadband Delivery to Airborne Terminal for Comms on the Move
Apple Account
Hack Raises Concern About Cloud Storage
Short-Duration
Clock Approach Thwarts RFID Attacks
Rising Usage in Consumer Electronics Drives
22% Growth for Magnetic Sensor Market
Is FM Chip Gaining Support
in Congress?
8/6/2012
Seeing Through
Walls: Laser System Reconstructs Objects
Hidden
from Sight
AT&T Continues to Hammer Away at PCAST's Shared
Spectrum Vision
In the Olympics of Software Algorithms, a Russian Keeps
Winning Gold
Organic Electronics Ready for Boom Years
'Scrapyard Challenge' to Make Nuclear Fusion More Economical
Radio Still #1 Reason
Consumers Purchase New Music
Wireless LAN Market to Expand by More
Than 50% in 2016
Forum Responds to Black Hat Presentation on NFC Vulnerabilities
Delay
in Plans for a $1B Science Ghost Town (I
wrote about it)
Wikipedia Goes Down Due to Cut Cables
8/5/2012
India Approves Starting Price
for Spectrum Auction
Boosting Transparent
Conduction in Graphene with Gold Nanoparticles
Hopes
Dim for Sharp Amid Japan's TV Industry Sunset
Best Science Photos of the Week
8/3/2012
UK Tech Start-up Scene Boosted by New
Investments
China Takes 27% of Global Smartphone Shipments
Electron-Electron Interactions
in Graphene
Component Prices Plunging on Economic Uncertainty
Can You Get a Patent on Being a Patent Troll?
Wi-Fi Traffic Wardens Police Comms at Olympics
Telecom Italia Starts to Stem
Decline in Italy
SK Telecom Profits Off by 3/4 on LTE Start-up
Costs
June Global Chip Sales Stay Soft on U.S. Weakness
Chinese Buying U.S. Business at Record Pace
Facebook Stock Crash Hoses California's Tax Revenue
8/2/2012
Is Balance of Power Shifting in Mobile Patent Disputes?
Navy Asks
Industry for Rugged, High-G Electronics and Guidance for Hyper Velocity Projectile Program
Mobile Communication is Breaking Down
the Barriers Between Work and Leisure
Extraordinarily Strong Negative Refractive Index Obtained
Direct Imaging Confirms the Importance of Electron-Electron Interactions in Graphene
$20K Fine for Failing
to Properly Light Antenna
Electromagnetic
'Swamps' Don't Always Bog Electrons Down
Sharp to
Slash 5,000 Jobs
Research in Motion Announces a 4G LTE Blackberry Playbook
NOAA Hi-Def Radar Gives You the Straight Scoop
AT&T to Acquire NextWave -and Its WCS Spectrum - for $650M
R Grammar Gaffes Ruining the Language? Maybe Not
8/1/2012
U.S. Gold Winners Owe IRS $8,986 per Medal ($5,385 per silver, $3,500 per bronze)
Telecom New Zealand Turns Off Its CDMA
Network
FCC Denies Petition Seeking to Designate Nationwide Emergency Calling Frequency
RF Test
Startup Raises Funds
Harvard Gets Closer to Invisibility Cloak
Entangled Particles Break Classical Law of Thermodynamics
Reluctant Electrons Enable 'Extraordinarily Strong' Negative Refraction
USA's Smartphone Market Topped 110 Million
Subscribers in June
Curiosity Readies for Dramatic Entrance (this will be über cool!)
Raytheon Continues
Dual Band Radar Development with $53 Million U.S. Navy Contract
U.S. Aims to Block Bid to Give
UN Control of Internet (good)
iPhone 5
to Be Unveiled September 12
