12/31/2012
The Real Hazards of E-Devices on Planes
Mobile Networks Braced for 'Busiest
Ever' New Year Surge
China Expected to Add 100 Million 3G
Subscribers in 2013 (that's a huge increase in China's
carbon footprint)
Brit Convicted of Mobile Phone
Insurance Fraud
Nobel Scientist Rita Levi-Montalcini Dies at Age 103
FCC Wants
to Lower Sky-High Prison Phone Call Rates (if you can't drop the dime, don't
do the crime)
Army
Eyes All-Digital SATCOM Terminal to Augment Today's Analog SATCOM Earth Stations
Qualcomm Eyes Semiconductor Battle
Researchers Told to Ward off Navigation System Interference
Worms Make Semiconductors
(calling names is not necessary)
Low-Cost MEMS Fabrication Using Injection Molding
The Mobile Business Got Tougher This Year
NC Man Arrested for Stealing Meteorites (big $$$ in meteorites these days)
Boeing Puts
Vision to Work in Hybrid Electric Aircraft
Obama Signs Foreign Surveillance Law
12/30/2012
Battery Operated Unit Detects PIM in Remote Locations
Metal Thieves Plundering Areas Hardest Hit by Hurricane Sandy
3 Reasons You Should Quit Social Media in 2013
Wired Science's
Top Image Galleries of the Year
Tesla CEO Buys $17 Million Mansion (Tesla received a $465 M Government Loan)
12/28/2012
NYC's Crime
Rate Is Up for First Time in 20 Years Because of Apple Thefts (at least they're
not stealing junk food)
FCC Approves
Smartwatch
Europe is Still Strong in Design
China Requires Internet Users to Register Names (big deal - NSA knows what
everyone's doing here)
Like Math? Thank Your Motivation, Not IQ
Russian Rocket Will Launch Scotland's First Satellite
Apple Hit with Copyright Fine in China
First 'Alien Earth' Is to Be Found in 2013 (right after the Higgs boson is
confirmed)
VMK Launch 'First African-Designed' Smartphone
and Tablet
100-Year-Old Deathbed Dreams of Mathematician Proved True
U.S. Readers Turn Increasingly
to Digital Books
China Expected to Add 100 Million 3G Subscribers
in 2013
TV Broadcasters Amp up the 'Second Screen' Experience
Liquid
Crystal Research, Future Applications Advance
12/27/2012
Nomophobia Grips Canadian Smartphone Users
(smartphone separation anxiety)
China's Beidou GPS-Substitute Opens to
Public in Asia
Wireless Communication’s
Crystal Ball
Magnetically
Levitating Graphite Can Be Moved with Laser
Ison 'Brighter Than a Full Moon' Could Be Comet of the Century
U.S. Colleges
Help Students Polish Online Reputation
Graphene Research Gets GBP 21.5M (article incorrectly uses 'GDP')
A Banner
Year for Mobile Devices
MIT Researchers
Make Smallest Working III-V Transistors Yet
China Boom Savages
Coral Reefs
More-Than-Moore Memory Grows Up
Smartphones Boost Semiconductor Sales
Is This the Start of an Internet Cold War?
Blogger Created Google Map of Employees of Newspaper That Did Map of Legal Gun Owners
(about time they got some of what they dish out)
Lifting the Veil on Silicon Interposer Pricing
Thousands
of Mistakes Made in Surgery Every Year (keep in mind before your 2013 operations)
12/26/2012
UK Inventor Internet Is Leaving Children Brain-Dead
Suicide Bombers Attack Nigerian Phone
Networks (d**n infidel cell towers)
How to Protect the Tech Gadgets You Got for Christmas
Setting up
the Christmas Tree for 4D Electronics
Time Running out on Defense Industry Efforts to Avoid Sequester
How to Sell or Get Rid of Your Old Gadgets
The Numbers Behind Some of 2012's Biggest Technology Stories
Google Apps Challenging Microsoft in Business (MS's attitude has doomed them)
Nokia Siemens Networks Wins UK LTE Network
Contract
Samsung
Seeks Sales Ban on Some Ericsson Products in U.S. (here we go again)
Physicists Take Photonic
Topological Insulators to the Next Level
SBA Jumps into
Brazilian Tower Market
Ultrasound Method Could Lead to Non-Invasive Surgical Knife (this is very cool)
World's Longest Bullet
Train Service Launched in China
U.S. Retailers Report Weakest Holiday Sales Since 2008 (must be Bush's fault)
12/25/2012
Queen's Christmas Message Broadcast in 3D for
1st Time
How Excess Holiday Eating
Disturbs Your 'Food Clock'
New Form of Quantum
Computation Promises Showdown with Ordinary Computers
USPTO Announces New Patent Prosecution Highway Partnership (PPH) with Taiwan Intellectual Property Office
Space
Fence Program Moving Forward
12/24/2012
NORAD Tracks Santa for 57th Year
Russians Prepare to Bring First-of-Its-Kind Dual-Screen Smartphone to Market
2012: Tech People
of the Year
Cloud-Powered GPS Chip Slashes Smartphone Power Consumption
China
to Curtail Trademark Trolls
Solidoodle 3 Provides High-Quality 3D Printing on the Cheap ($799)
On-Demand Synaptic Electronics:
Circuits That Learn and Forget
The Amateur
Amateur: HO-HO-Handheld Transceiver!
The 500 Phases of Matter:
New System Successfully Classifies Symmetry-Protected Phases
EC Investigates Samsung for Patent Abuse
Over 5 Billion Wireless Connectivity Chips
to Ship in 2013
More Kids Learn to Tinker with Growth of 'Hacker Scouting' (desperately needed,
see this article)
California Meteorite a Scientific Gold Mine
British
Museum Restores Early 1900's Domestic Phonograph Wax Recordings
USA Moves Closer to Banning So-Called
Stalking Apps
Russian Rocket Docks at Space Station with Fresh Crew
12/23/2012
U.S.
Alarm at Foreign State Acquisitions (bankruptcy liquidation sale - all offers
considered)
When 2 Visions of the Internet Collide
Boeing Test Breakthrough Means More Reliable Connectivity on Airplanes
Telecoms in 2013: What's in Store?
GM
Workers Score Big Bonuses This Year (taxpayers
losing $13B)
12/21/2012
FCC Fines New Jersey Ham $16k for Operating in Federal Band
2013: It's Time to Tackle Fake Components
Study Shows a Hit of Caffeine Can Boost Your Information-Processing Skills
Photons
Emitted by Quantum Dots Can Be Made Indistinguishable Through Quantum Frequency Conversion
Scut Farkus Suing 'A Christmas Story' Producer over Royalties ("what
a rotten name!")
MIT Advances
Quantum Magnetism
Canadian Experiment to
Track Space Radiation and Its Risks
Are Automotive 'Black Boxes' Secure?
Graphene
Could Enable Fast All-Carbon ICs
Nokia and RIM Settle Wi-Fi Patent Dispute
Boson Samplers Offering
Promise for New Kinds of Computing Devices (BS detectors?)
New Experiment
Helps Explain Extraordinary Optical Transmission
China
Makes Its Own 22-nm Transistor
7
Set for UK’s LTE Auction
UK to Remotely Monitor the Unemployed
Steve Jobs'
Yacht Impounded
12/20/2012
Fearful 'End of World' Callers Flood NASA (this helps explain why we have the
government we have)
How to
Cope with Impending Doomsday (6e6 American residents believe it - pathetic)
Wireless Phone Charging in Cars Planned
by Toyota
Ericsson Hit by $1.2 Billion Write Down
of Subsidiary Company
FAA Pressured to Give E-Readers a Pass During Takeoff, Landing
The End of the Public Phone Network
New York City Agrees with Local Ham Regarding Tower Installation
Ofcom Names 4G Auction Bidders
Boeing Uses Potatoes to Improve WiFi Connectivity
USAF Looks for Companies to Design Replacement Modem for GPS Antenna Ground Station
Cellphone,
GPS Data Suggest New Strategy for Alleviating Traffic Tie-Ups
For Newly
Discovered 'Quantum Spin Liquid', the Beauty Is in Its Simplicity
Australian University to Hand out 11,000
iPads to Students
USPTO Patent Agency Rejects Apple Pinch-to-Zoom Patent in Initial Ruling
Why China's Homemade Microchips Will Struggle to Displace Western Giants
Treasury Announces Gov't Motors (GM) Exit Strategy - Taxpayers to Lose >$13 Billion
12/19/2012
10 Tech Gifts to Buy Your Engineer for Christmas (better hurry)
What Do Smartphone Sensors Sense All Day?
Hearing Explores Challenge
of Forced Technology Transfer to U.S. Competitiveness
Liquid Metal Used to
Create Wires That Stretch 8x Their Original Length (pretty cool)
Army Tests BAE’s Phoenix
Radios in Advance of Mid-Tier Network Radio Competition
DARPA to
Announce 100G Program to Build 100-Gbps Air-to-Air Data Links
Dutch Railway Expands In-Train Wi-Fi Service
Photonic Crystals Reinvent Tungsten Light Bulbs
NASA to Launch Upgraded Comms Satellites
Physicist's Research May Lead to
More Precise Measurements of Time
Kodak Sells Imagine Patents for $525 Million
Chipmakers
Fight for China's Smartphone Market
Distributed
Bragg Reflection in Epitaxial Nitride Layers
IEEE-USA Tells Engineering Stories
Through Its Hollywood Connection
Synthetic and Biological
Nanoparticles Combined to Produce New Metamaterials
China's State-Run
Newspaper Calls for American Citizen Disarming (huh, just like our state-run
media)
12/18/2012
Top 10 Automotive Electronics Stories of 2012 (and so top year-end Top 10 lists
begin...)
Dutch 4G Auction Raises €3.8B
Semiconductor Sales Top $25
Billion for First Time in 2012
China is Largest Single Android Market
with the USA in 2nd Place
German Research Could Be a Route to Faster Computer Chips
PayPal: "NFC Will Fail to Gain Mass Adoption" (another visionary quote, "You
could put in this room, de Forest, all the radiotelephone
apparatus that the country will ever need.")
Judge Rejects Apple Plea for Sales Ban
FT-817 Satellite
Interface Available As a Kit
New Insight into
an Intriguing State of Magnetism
World's
Largest Atom Smasher Gets Faster
EU Pushes for Higher Phone Fees
FCC Says Dish Must Build 40% of Its Wireless Network in 4 years
HTML5: The Future of the
Web is Finally Here
Local Radio Down 1.3%
Superconductors That Work by Themselves
Sprint to Be Largest U.S. Spectrum Holder if Clearwire Deal Approved
12/17/2012
Smart TVs Can Spy on Their Owners
Ministry of Defence (MoD) to Sell Part
of Its Radio Spectrum
European Mobile Stocks Fall After Costly Spectrum Auction
Researchers
Use Quantum Properties to Create Jammer-Proof Radar (right up until someone
figures out how to defeat it)
Sprint to Buy
Clearwire for $2.2B
New Energy-Efficient
Computer Memory Using Magnetic Materials
ARRL Headquarters to Close in Observance of Christmas, New Year's Day
Engineers Roll up Their
Sleeves -- And Then Do Same with Inductors
Chip Market Rebound Coming (my favorite is
Wegmans Wavy)
Nextel Quietly Launches 3G Data Plans in Brazil
Electron Spin Transport Demonstrated
for First Time in an Organic Device
KPN Debt Ratings Downgraded Following
Radio Spectrum Auction
Sierra Nevada
Will Provide Counter IED Jammers to Be Worn by Individual Soldiers
Who Needs College? Young Entrepreneur Bets on Bright Idea for Solar Energy
(interesting story)
Severe Weather and the Grid
Google
Working to End Errant Clicks on Mobile Ads
12/16/2012
Higgs Hiccup: Contradictory
Results Show up at LHC (physicists still haven't found god)
FCC Finds New Jersey Ham Violated Communication Act
India Expects at Least $3.7B from
Next Bandwidth Auction (all gov'ts taken in unfathomable amounts from private
sector, but it's never enough)
Patent Offices of U.S., Europe, and Japan Approve Trilateral Cooperation Declaration to Further Advance Patent Systems
Worldwide
Test Could Reveal Which Side of the Looking Glass We're On
12/14/2012
U.S. and UK Refuse to Sign UN's Communications
Treaty (I'm amazed, but quite pleased)
Engineering Faculty Debates Generalists vs. Specialists
FCC Approves Dish Network's Wireless Plans
Sprint
Would Be Spectrum King with Clearwire Deal
CIA Fund Backs Tyfone for NFC Transactions and Cloud Security (guess who will
be monitoring your NFC transactions)
China Warns Europe Against Imposing Sanctions
on Huawei and ZTE
Android Malware Creeps
into Cellphone Bills
Wireless LAN Gear, Star of the Networking
Industry, Tops $1 Billion per Quarter
FCC Proposes Action to Accelerate the Availability of Nationwide Text-to-911 Service
The Startups That Want to Bring E-Mail Back to the Future
RIM's Comeback May Rest on UI Design from The Astonishing Tribe
Dazzle Laser Reflector Transmits Drone Data
Barcode Co-Inventor Norman Joseph Woodland
Dies Aged 91
Foundries Not Dead, Just Evolving
NASA to
Crash Two Probes into the Moon
Army
Handbook Blames U.S. Soldiers for Own Troop Deaths at Hands of Taliban (this
crap has been going on for many years)
12/13/2012
Man-Portable
Military Electronics Market Worth $2.77 Billion in 2013
Semiconductor Sales to Reach $311 Billion
in 2013, a 4.5% Increase from 2012
North Korean Satellite 'Tumbling out of Control'
Graphene Sheets' Growing
Attractions
Apple, Ericsson, RIM and Other Tech Firms Lobby Congress for More Spectrum
Google Maps Returns to Apple's iPhone
Talks on Telecommunications Treaty Falter
Checkerboard
Surface Put to Flexible Electronics test
Intel's FinFETs Approach Draws Fire from Rivals
Fed Projects High Unemployment for Next 3 Years (what fixes it after 3 years?)
Cities Across Country Installing Listening Devices on Public Buses
iPhone 5S with
NFC "Likely"
The Man Looking to Turn Samsung into a Silicon Valley Trendsetter
Inside
the Air Force's Secret Space Plane
Google Calls Offshore Tax Avoidance 'Capitalism' (Google very cozy with pols
who demonize this when non-donors do it)
Coffee
May Lower Risk of Dying from Oral Cancers
Stunning Geminid Meteor Shower to Peak Tonight
12/12/2012
MIT Fabs Smallest GaAs Transistor
New FCC Airwave-Sharing Scheme Will Launch a Wireless Revolution
Engineering Students Show Off Interdisciplinary Problem-Solving Skills
Dish Network Gets Approval to Use Satellite
Spectrum for Mobile Broadband Services
New Diploma Welcomed by Royal Academy of Engineering
Micron Ships Phase-Change Memory for Nokia Phones
Europe Reaches Agreement on System for Patents
Self-Rolled
Tubes Make Miniature Electronics
Hitachi Deal Could Put UK Civil Nuclear Industry Back on Map
Ultra-Miniature Chip
Capacitors for RF and Microwave Communications Introduced by AVX
Broadcom Sets Its Sights on a Billion NFC Devices
Netflix Ranks Fastest Internet Providers: Google Fiber #1
IEEE: The Pursuit of Corporate Happiness
History Made When X-47B
UCAS Taxis for First Time on an Aircraft Carrier
Bedroom TVs Linked to Childhood Obesity
GE CEO Immelt Envies China's Communist State-Run
Government (well yeah, if you ignore the human tragedy)
12/11/2012
FITSAT-1
Satellite to Flash LEDs over the US and Europe (I'll try to capture it in my
CPC 800 HD telescope)
Hurricane Sandy's Historic Effect on IEEE
Government Investigating Makers of Cellphone Apps
Free Online Courses Could Change Engineering Education
Hot Technologies: Looking Ahead to 2013
2013 - Hope Springs Eternal Across the Mobile Ecosystem
Beijing and Shanghai Each Have More Multi-Millionaires
Than Los Angeles
UK 4G Auction Process Starts Today
Stores Use Mobile to Make Sales on the Spot
Black
Boxes in Cars Raise Privacy Concerns
Device Could Mass-Produce Nano-Patterned Materials
China's ZTE to Invest $30 Million More
in the USA Market
Smartphones
Prices to Continue Falling
BlackBerry Phones Get Free Calls over Wi-Fi
Google Revenues Sheltered in No-Tax Bermuda Soar to $10 Billion (they are BIG
supporters of the "raise our taxes" crowd - hypocrites)
Bankrupt California to Hand Out Free o-Phones, 250 Free Minutes Talk + 250 Texts per Month
Sales
of American Eagle Gold Coins Soar
12/10/2012
Even FCC
Thinks in-Flight Gadget Bans Are Dumb
Self-Assembled Monolayers Create p-n Junctions in Graphene Films
Uncertain Future for ST-Ericsson as 50%
Shareholder Looks to Sell Stake
Take on GaN Measurement Challenges
ARRL Files Petition for Rulemaking with FCC to Create New MF Band at 472-479 kHz
Big Brother Is in Your Pocket, But You Get a Discount
New Atomic-Layer Electrodeposition
Method Yields Surprising Results
Method Could Increase Bandwidth of Optical Communications
Extraterrestrial Chorus Heard in Radiation Belts
Apple Maps 'Is Life-Threatening' to Motorists
Lost in Australia Heat
Telecom New Zealand Starts LTE Trials
IBM Chips to Use Silicon Nanophotonics to Wrangle Big Data
Juniper
Scales Back NFC Forecast
Magnetic Bubbles
Behave Differently Than Other Magnetic Defects
Broadcom to Take on Qualcomm with LTE Chips Next Year
Europe's Carbon Trading Problems May Influence U.S. Climate Policy
12/9/2012
Text Messages Directly to Your Contact Lens
How
Corruption Is Strangling U.S. Innovation
Machines with Built-in
Copy Protection
73% of Jobs Created in Last 5 Months Are in Government (what a scam)
Iran Uses Huawei Gear to Snoop on Citizens (U.S. uses anybody's gear to snoop
on citizens)
The World's
Best - and Worst - Places to Live (U.S. doesn't make either list)
12/7/2012
Visit the
U.S. Navy's Pearl Harbor History Page on This 71st Anniversary (rare footage
of Japanese aircraft leaving carriers)
Treegonometry Solves
Christmas Decoration Dilemma
FCC Asks FAA to Relax Gadget Restrictions
U.S.
Small Business Hiring Plans Evaporate (no confidence in government's oppressive
policies)
£9 Million Manufacturing Facility to be Built in Scotland
Apple May Fall Another 20% on 'Panic Selling'
After Apple,
Foxconn Eyes U.S. Expansion
The #1 Career Mistake Capable People Make
Google's Nexus 4 Smartphone Selling out
Due to Unexpectedly High Demand
Here’s
How BYOD Turns into a Monster
Apollo
17, Last Lunar Landing, Launched 40 Years Ago Today
Social Media Benefit to Police Investigations
(your boldness can be self-incriminating)
Broadcom Sees Rising 20 nm Costs Amid Handset Push
Metamaterials Could Lead to Better Large-Area Energy Absorbers (metamaterials
have negative refraction index)
Apple's Market Cap Falls Below $500 Billion as Shares Keep Falling
Major
Quake Strikes off Japan, Setting off Small Tsunami
12/6/2012
Racy Photo Shoot Lands Russian Telecom Retailer in Trouble (done to punish
poor sales performance)
Europe Fines Electronics Makers $1.92 Billion
Wafer-Free
Semiconductors a Step Closer
Intel to
Detail Tri-Gate Advances at IEDM
Apple
Will Make Computers in the U.S. Next Year (I guarantee it will be in a Right
to Work state - hypocrites)
Syria
Outage Sheds Light on U.S. 'Kill Switch' Concerns
Flexible Silicon Solar-Cell
Fabrics May Soon Become Possible
Stanford Engineers Invent All-Carbon Solar Cell
Disappearing Light: Precision
Measurement of an Atomic Transition
Curved LCD Can Be Embedded in Contact Lenses
Physicists Extend
Entanglement in Einstein Experiment
Researchers Discover Fastest
Light-Driven Process
Court Quashes
Verizon's Objections to Data Roaming Rule
A Thin Line: Economic Development or Corporate Welfare?
Kodak May Accept Just $500 Million for
Patents Portfolio (a pittance for a century of accomplishment)
Fugitive John McAfee Arrested
in Guatemala (the anti-virus guy)
12/5/2012
Staples
to Offer 3-D Printing (this will be cool)
A Shape-Shifting Smartphone Touch Screen
New '4-D' Transistor
is Preview of Future Computers
Research Could Lead to More Efficient Integrated Circuits
NASA Now Accepting Applications for Hosting a Real-Time Conversation with ISS Crewmembers
Court Upholds FCC Rule on Use of Data Networks
Raytheon Wins First Contract
for New Lightweight GPS Anti-Jam Capability for Land Systems
Juniper
Scales Back NFC Forecast
Dish Relents, Says It Will Accept 5 MHz Guard Band
Apps Redirect Text Messages, and Profits, from Cellular Providers
EU
Imposes Record $1.9B Cartel Fine on Philips, 5 Others
Rockwell Collins Receives Production Order for 1/2 of U.S. Army 2-channel AN/PRC-155 Manpack Radios
Mysterious Gravity Waves May Explain Clear-Skies Turbulence
Why Automakers Are Rolling Out Electric Cars
Chevy Volt Sales Plunge After Election (stick a fork in that thing - it's done)
Geminid Meteor Shower Due December 13–14
12/4/2012
Black Friday Consumer Electronics Sales Fall Nearly 6% (we were told record
highs a week ago)
FM Radio Signals Could Track All Space Debris
Nokia Sells Its Head Office Building
(this is not so unusual)
Swiss Spy Agency Warns U.S., Britain About Huge Data Leak
Internet Hangs in Balance as World Leaders Meet in Secret (no end to what we
allow to be taken away by UN)
EngineeringUK Report Highlights Need to Double Recruit Numbers
China Unicom Expects to Sell 140 Million
3G Phones in 2013
Scientists Develop Indium-Free
Organic Light-Emitting Diodes
Many Cars Have a Hundred Million Lines of Code
Cork the Key to Unlocking
the Potential of Graphene
Border Agents' Power to Search e-Devices Is Facing Increasing Challenges in Court
(rights not conveyed by the U.S. constitution on Illegals)
Globalfoundries Cuts Jobs in Singapore Due to Softening Global Demand
Virgin Spaceship Aims to Be
Science Lab
Tiny Changes in Energy Use Could Mean Your Computer Is Under Attack
Mobile Comms Equipment Poised for Double-Digit Growth
Cloud Radio Access and Small Cell Networks Based on RapidIO
12/3/2012
Plastic Bulb Could Replace Traditional Fluorescent Lights (this would be great
if it works out)
Checking Your Phone 60/Day Drives Away Friends
The Next Workplace? Behind the Wheel (owning a Bentley Mulssane helps)
Korean Operators Warned Not to Subsidize
Apple's iPhone 5
NASA Responds to "December 21st End of World" Scare (NASA)
World's Smallest
Wrench Puts a New Twist on Microscopic Manipulation
Printed Electronics Pilot Line Starts Production
DNA
Directly Photographed for First Time (hey, it really is a double helix!)
Narrower Nanoribbons Give Graphene the Bends
Pet Owners
Log Dog Walks with NFC
Raytheon
to Help Develop Small Satellites to Give Persistent-Surveillance Data to the Front Lines
High Heat Helps 'Heal' Flash Memory Chips
Time Warner Cable Taps WeFi for Additional Wi-Fi Hotspots
British Police Use Twitter to Track iPad
Owner 6,000 Miles Away
Lines Blur as Texas Gives Industries a Bonanza (no personal income tax, low
regulations, watch for huge ingress in next few years)
Costco Borrowing $3.5B to Avoid Tax Increase in 2013 (CEO a huge contributor
to the "tax us more" crowd)
12/2/2012
Europe
Joins Free Internet Chorus
iPhone 5 to Hit Shelves in China
on 14 December
WSTS Trims Chip Sales Outlook for 2012, 2013
The Biggest Breakthrough in Propulsion Since the Jet Engine
Congressman Wants to Amend U.S. Constitution to Control "So-Called" Free Speech
(the genius who thought island of
Guam would tip over if too many Marines
were stationed there)
