12/31/2013
Analyst 2014 Predictions:
Educated Guessing Game
Counterfeit Threats for Electronic Parts (gray market)
RCR Wireless News Top 100 Stories of 2013
NSA Able to Hack into iPhones
Report Details NSA's Alleged High-Tech Tricks for Snaring Data
Rockwell
Collins to Manufacture VLF Communications System for Stealth Bomber
The World Braces for
Retirement Crisis
App Downloads Spiked 91% on
Christmas
A Terahertz
Generator with the Highest Signal Quality
14 Kickstarter Projects We're Excited for in 2014
U.S. Announces 6 Drone Test
Sites (Alpena didn't make the cut)
U.S. Cracks Open Skies to Testing, Use of Aerial Drones
Viewing Where the Internet Goes
Google
Heads to Court to Defend Android
Livermore Scientists Discover How Explosives Respond to Shockwaves
12/30/2013
Phone Chargers Top List of Unsafe
Electrical Goods
Top
10 Tech 'Fails' of 2013
Internet Archive Puts Classic 70s
and 80s Video Games Online
Top Radio Stories
of 2013
Federal Judge Rules NSA
Phone Surveillance Legal
Former HTC Executive Alleged to Have
Leaked Company Secrets
U.S. Struggles to Keep Pace in Delivering Broadband Service (mine is 34
Mb/s Dn, 4 Mb/s Up in Alpena, MI)
Tokyo Hy-Power Files
for Bankruptcy
China's Beidou Navigation System to Cover World by 2020 with 30 Satellites
Dutch Regulator Permits Traffic
Throttling on Public Wi-Fi Networks
Intel Ends 2013
with a Bang
4
Unsettling Prospects for 2014
Resistance Makes
Waves
BBC Computer Server 'Was
Controlled' by Russian Hacker
Low-Resistivity N-Type AlGaN for More Efficient LEDs
Vanadium Micro-Muscles Developed at Berkeley Lab
12/29/2013
2014
R&D Magazine Global Funding Forecast
Councils Waste Million$ on Wind Turbines with 190 Year Breakeven
Want to Succeed? Don't Check Your Email - And Work Out at Lunch
2013 a Year of Epic Proportions for e-Commerce in China
DIY Apps and "Bot to Bot" Marketing
12/27/2013
Intel Hires High School Prodigy
The
Return of the Theremin
Wearable Tech Market Boosted by Health, Fitness Devices
No Math Gene: Learning
Mathematics Takes Practice (Teen
Talking Barbie relieved to hear this)
Graphene Flakes May Spin
Gold into Quantum Computing
Academia's Engineering Skills Shortage
Researchers Find What Really Happens in a Battery
UK to Build Space-Weather Forecasting System
South
Sudan Radio Amateurs off the Air Due to Unrest
King of PCs, Lenovo Sets Smartphone Ambitions
China Approves Pilot to Open Mobile Telecoms Market, Boost Competition
Raytheon Receives $16M Contract for Miniaturized Airborne GPS Receivers
Kids Grasp Large Numbers
Remarkably Young
Dog-to-English Translator Funded on Indiegogo
12/26/2013
Forecast
for Semiconductors and Things in 2014
Walmart Contributes $25M to Settle ESD-Triggered Gas Can Explosion Lawsuits
Start-Up Spirit Emerges in Japan
New Twist in International Relations: The Corporate Keep-My-Data-Out-of-the-U.S. Clause
(note to world: you asked for this government in 2008)
China Approves Pilot to Open Mobile Telecoms Market, Boost Competition
5G Dials up Global Efforts
It's a Negative
on Negative Absolute Temperatures
ARRL Files
Comments on Its "Symbol Rate" Petition
Electronics
That Drive You Safely Home
Ion-Selective Membrane for Ultra-Stable Lithium Sulfur Batteries (smells
like rotten eggs when exploding?)
Wireless SD Card Connects Any Digital Camera to a Smart Device
Metamaterials to
Bend Tsunami Waves Around Towns?
Cryptolocker Ransomware Has Infected
About 250,000 PCs
Renewable
Energy Subsidies Not a Good Deal for Taxpayers
Feig Expands U.S. Operations, with
an Eye Toward NFC
12/25/2013
Toy News for Christmas Day:
Santa's Elves Know Toy Assembly Isn't Child's Play
The Golden Age of Toy Manufacturing
Toys That Launched
Careers
NIST Achieves Chip-Scale Bidirectional Optical Frequency Conversion
World's First Photonic Integrated Circuit for Manipulating Atoms
NIST Programs for Undergraduates, Teachers, Precision
Measurements Announced
Record Low Yen Leaves Japan's PCB Fabs Pessimistic
Whom Do You Trust More with Your Free Speech: The Government or Tech Companies?
(I trust the U.S. Constitution, a stranger to either of aforementioned)
TechNewsWorld: Was 2013 the Run-Up to 1984?
Embedded Electronics Become Even More Pervasive
Chinese Lander Captures First Panorama on the Moon
New Salt Compounds
Challenge the Foundation of Chemistry
12/24/2013
Army
PC Police: Don't Say 'Christmas'
U.S. Airlines
Want to Stay Cellphone-Free
1st 'Earthrise' Photo from Apollo 8 on Christmas Eve 1968
Headphones, Speakers Top Electronics Gift Lists
Counterfeit Component Chaos (gray market)
Laser Demonstration
Reveals Bright Future for Space Communication
U.S. Mobile Internet Traffic Nearly Doubled This Year
Gorgeous, Futuristic Tech Company Headquarters (beauty in eye of beholder)
Take Note, Students:
Mice That 'Cram' for Exams Remember Less
New Data Compression Method Outperforms, Enhances JPEG
Why Older Technology Companies May Attempt Desperate Deals
AT&T Plans Small Cell Push for 2014 That Is Actually Quite Large
Startup Designs 75%
Smaller Laptop Charger
Google's Schaft Robot Wins DARPA Rescue
Challenge
Engineers Produce First 3D Printed Consumer Electronic
Tektronix Communications
Acquires Newfield Wireless
12/23/2013
California to Introduce First 'Smartphone Killswitch' Bill
Apple Signs iPhone Deal with China Mobile
A Breakthrough for Speeding Satellite Feeds
Br/N-Based Dopants Open Band-Gap
in Graphene Nanoplatelets
UPS Expects 15% Jump in Returns of Online Purchases (1/3 of online buys returned)
Will a Computer Decide Whether You Get Your Next Job?
Studies Would Lead to Lighter,
Cheaper Magnets
In Tech Buying, U.S. Still Stuck in Last Century (huh? with all the deficit
spending in the last few years?)
2013: A Year of Reinvention – from Phone Subsidies to Smartphone Leadership
BlackBerry Steps Back on Handset Business, Shares Jump
Two Ham-Astronauts to Repair Faulty Pump During Multiple Spacewalks
A Micro-Muscular
Breakthrough
Chips Are Going Vertical with FinFETs and TSV
Indian Lobby Group Calls for CDMA and
GSM Spectrum Auctions to Be Combined
Space Flight Revs
Up in 2014
Former Apollo 8 Astronaut to Mark Anniversary of 1968 Christmas Eve Broadcast to Earth
(NASA
transcript)
12/22/2013
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Ranks
#1 in Best Places to Work in the Federal Government
'Universal Ripple' Could Hold the Secret to High-Temperature Superconductivity
(not
Fred Sanford's kind of Ripple)
Total Telecom: Predictions for
2014
Just What is a Data Scientist Anyway?
2013 Will Finish One of the Ten Coldest Years in U.S. History (inconvenient
reality: Gore predicted "ice-free"
arctic by 2013)
12/20/2013
Graphene-Based FET
with Semiconducting Nature Opens up Practical Use in Electronics
Technique
Measure the Intrinsic Properties of Quantum Dot Transistors
BlackBerry Bleeds Red Ink As It Posts
$4.4B Loss
Ham Radio Santa is
On the Air at OF9X
5G Could Incorporate New WAM Modulation
Electron 'Antenna' Tunes in to Physics Beyond Higgs
Gloves off As Mobile Game Developers Wage Christmas War
Canada to Curb the Cost of Domestic
Roaming Rates
Evanescent
Wave Coupling to Increase Light Extraction Efficiency
Inspirational Young Engineer Recognised by the IET
New Magnetic Behavior
in Nanoparticles Could Lead to Even Smaller Digital Memories
Spain Fines
Google for Breaking Data Law
£1B Helicopter Deal Safeguards over 3,000 Jobs (good news)
Outdated Magnetic Strips: How U.S. Credit Card Security Lags
Crowd-Funded Lego Car Powered by Air
Sun Looks Like a Rainbow in New SDO Collage
12/19/2013
USA Based CDMA Network to Shut Down
Experimenter to Honor Early Wireless Pioneers with Longwave Transmissions
Loudspeaker Is First-Ever
3-D-Printed Consumer Electronic
2013: The Web's
Year of the Hoax (here come the year-end stories)
5G Work Officially Begins
in Europe
Tech Leaders
Seek Borderless World, Now (for cheap domestic help - maids, gardeners, etc.)
Decades-Old
Ultra-Relativistic Electron Mystery in Earth's Upper Atmosphere Solved
EU Reaches Deal on Common Mobile Phone Battery Charger
RSA Encryption Keys
Cracked by Listening to Computer Noise
Scientists Send Message Made from Molecules (I did years ago that with my
ink pen and paper)
China Mobile Launches TD-LTE Service - iPhone Still MIA
Maxwell's Demon Can Use Quantum
Information to Generate Work
Already Down 50%, Will Bitcoin Bite the Dust?
EU
Launches Satellite That Will Map 1 Billion Star
China's Central Bank Hit in Net Attack
as Bitcoin Retribution
Facebook to Pay No Taxes Again in 2013 Per "Wastebook" Report on Gov't Waste -
Zuckerberg to Sell Facebook Shares Worth $2.3B (will Occupy Wall Streeters
boycott this 1%er - of course not)
12/18/2013
White House Names Microsoft Exec to Run Healthcare.gov
(the incest continues)
The
Block Wave Effect in PCBs
Cellulose Nanocrystals
Possible 'Green' Wonder Material
Telecommunications Data Show Civic Dividing Lines in Major Countries
Video Game for Toddlers, with a Plush Controller
Solar Scientists Say Cycle 24 is the Weakest in More than a Century
How This Bay Area Tech Boom's Different from the Last One
Sequestration
Relief, Tiltrotor Technology, and Bomber Upgrades
Cellulose Nanocrystals 'Have Strength of Steel'
Bluetooth Smart Radio Boasts Ultra-Low Power Consumption
Kickstarter Millionaires' Club: 11 Projects That Raised More Than $1M in 2013
Bitcoin Sinks after China Restricts
Yuan Exchanges
AT&T Selling Its Connecticut Landline
Operations for $2B
Vietnam Looking to Raise Cost of 3G
Services
Accidental Tax Break Saves Wealthiest Americans $100B (accidental my heinie,
pols design that for donors)
GM CEO Says "No" to Repaying $10B Bailout to Taxpayers (no surprise - suckers
backed it)
12/17/2013
62% of all Web Traffic Comes from Bots, 30% from Hackerbots
USAF to Cut 900 Civilian Jobs, Leave 7,000 Others Unfilled (need $$$ for
welfare increases)
Startup Claims Bandwidth
Breakthrough
Small Businesses Claim U.S. Government Stealing Their Ideas
Is Silicon Valley Automating Our Obsolescence?
5G Research Gets Boost from European
Public-Private Partnership
IBM Sees 5 Tech-Powered
Changes in Next 5 Years
DARPA Asks Industry to Develop Pocket-Sized Radiation Detectors to Foil Nuclear Terrorism
(while they let Iran enrich U235)
LTE Connections Expected to Reach 2
Billion in 2018
Some
Polynesian Islanders Combined Binary and Decimal Math
Thinking
in Silicon
Huawei Could Benefit as U.S. Handset Market Shifts Away from Subsidies
San Francisco Gives Its Main Street Free Wi-Fi
An Homage to Douglas Engelbart and a Critique of the State of Tech (mouse
inventor)
Liberian Regulator Raids Mobile Network
Following SIM Box Fraud
Pedestrian Dead Reckoning
Enables Indoor Navigation Without WiFi
12/16/2013
Russia Takes Lead in Tablets in Emerging
Markets (each one comes with a free Snowden-leaked secret)
DARPA Seeks
to Bring Satellite Costs Back down to Earth
Google Buys Military Robot-Maker Boston
Dynamics (wants that eeeeevil defense contracting money)
WiLAN Acquires 900 Semiconductor Patents
from Panasonic
Graphene
Nanoribbons an Ice-Melting Coat for Radar
Internet's Sad Legacy: No More Secrets
New 'Tech Levels' Backed by Industry
Unveiled (did you know UK has a 'Skills Minister'?)
What Your Wireless Carrier Knows About You
China Issues 4G Mobile Licenses; TD-LTE
Market Experiences Breakthrough
Cookie Hacking, Phone Unlocking, Year-Enders
iPhone Factory in China Underreporting Long Working Hours
Startup
Founders Get 'Prenups' for Billion Dollar Breakups
New Technician
Class Question Pool Released
Europe Doesn't Innovate, Says Frenchman
Regulating the Cloud: Genband
CTO Seeks Balance on FCC Tech Council
Electric
Vehicles out in the Cold
12/15/2013
4-Year-Old Genius Has Same IQ as Einstein
Worldwide Semiconductor Revenue Grew 5.2% in 2013
China's Autonomous
Craft Has Landed on the Moon
Google May
Be After Intel's Turf
Cybersecurity Strategy for Citizens
12/13/2013
Graphene-Based Nano-Antennas May Enable Networks of Tiny Machines
Former Google Lawyer Michelle Lee to
Run U.S. Patent Office (sounds like typical payback for services rendered)
Google Executives Got Discounts from Government on Fuel for Private Aircraft
Quantum Leap for Transistors
Lawsuit
Accuses IBM of Hiding China Risks Amid NSA Spy Scandal
Apple
Says Death of Teenager at Factory Unrelated to Working Conditions
Novel Bio-Inspired
Method to Grow High-Quality Graphene for High-End Electronic Devices
FCC Taking Sensible Path to Study Mobile Phone Use on Airliners (will this
ever be resolved?)
Chinese Official Says There is 'Substantial' Price-Fixing Evidence Against Qualcomm
Startup Puts Wireless Charging
in a Box
U.S. Networks Agree to Start Unlocking
Mobile Phones
Why Radio Is Unique
Internet of Things Installed Base Will
Grow to 26 Billion Units by 2020
How Remote Places Can Get Cellular Coverage by Doing It Themselves
New Teeth
For an Old Dog: USAF seeks to Give a Bigger Bite to B-52H Firepower (B-52
was introduced in 1955)
Africa's
Super Telescopes 'Will Inspire Science Boom'
12/12/2013
Google Bus
Stunt Reveals Tensions in San Francisco (this is interesting)
New Superconductor Found
Looking at GaN Advances in 2014
Pressure Transforms
a Semiconductor into a New State of Matter
Spotify to Offer 'Free' Mobile Service
to Android and iOS
One-Step Process Grows and Transfers Graphene onto Silicon
NASA's Juno Spacecraft
Hears Hams Say "HI"
Samueli Sees Life after Moore's
Law
Amid Cuts and Tax Hikes, Tech Companies Get Love in Ireland (wonder if there
is a lesson here?)
Proliferation of GPS-Enabled Smartphones
Spurs Growth of Location-Based Apps
Verizon Open to Swapping Spectrum for 700 MHz A Block
Engineer Designs Mug to Keep
Coffee Temperature Just Right (essential tech)
Chip Execs Lower Expectations
China Drafting Mobile Payments Regulations
AArmy Crowdsources Project to Build Mobile Command Center
Mouser Sees European Business Grow by 30%
12/11/2013
Sales of Corporate-Owned Smartphones
Surge
Capturing Wasted
Electricity with Triboelectric Generators
When Liquids Behave Like Solids
DARPA
to Brief Industry on C2E Program to Develop Jam-Resistant Communications
Medical Electronics to Grow Strongly after a 3 Year Dip
Majority of Mexico City Mobile Users
Lose Service for 80 Minutes
New York Asks Cellphone Carriers to Explain Why They Rejected Antitheft Switch
Supreme Court to Hear Patent
Case
French Firm Sues HTC and LG for NFC Patent Infringement
Researchers Find Less
is More with Adding Graphene to Nanofibers
JPMorgan Patents
Bitcoin-Like Payment System
Avoiding the
Power Grid
Reduce Electrical Noise in Projected Capacitive Touch Panel Designs
Spark Tri-Mode LTE Service Could Eventually Provide Real-World Speeds of 150-180 Mbps
Google Opens First Data Centers in
Asia
NASA Finds the Coldest Place on the Planet
12/10/2013
Voice of Russia - Former "Radio Moscow" - to End Shortwave Broadcasts
China Hackers 'Target EU Foreign Ministries'
Bluetooth May Make Digital Wallets Mainstream
USA Police Requests for Cellphone Data
Surge
Spintronics
Demystified
New Zealand Networks Start Blocking
Stolen Phones
Carriers Switch on Small Cells
Slowly
Army Graduates Its First Class of Cyber Network Defenders
Transmitter Chip Boosts Optical
Fiber Capacity 10x
Moody's: 4G License Is Credit Positive
for China Mobile
Twin Primes and Prime Bunches in Mathematicians' Crosshairs
Creation
of Entanglement Simultaneously Gives Rise to a Wormhole (time travel?)
Engineering the Future with 3D Software
New Chinese Earth-Observing Satellite Fails after Launch
12/8/2013
Mysteries
of Earth's Radiation Belts Uncovered by NASA Twin Spacecraft
Satellite Cooling System Breakthrough Developed by Lockheed Martin Space Systems
Worldwide Semiconductor Revenue Grew 5.2% in 2013
UK to Spend £10M on 'Innovative'
Rural Broadband Tech
Can iPads Help Students
Learn Science? Yes, Says Study (so can paper books, but the students must
want to learn)
12/6/2013
Tower Crew Hiring
Accelerates (these guys often get paid McDonald's wages for dangerous work)
Semi Industry on Track for Highest-Ever Annual Sales (>$300B) in 2013
How Defense Cost-Cutting Can Spur Innovation (has that ever happened w/past
cut eras?)
USB Type-C Cable Plugs to be Reversible
Finance for
Engineers: Financial Ratios
Nonlinear Light-Generating Zero-Index Metamaterial Created
Intense 2-Color Double
X-Ray Laser Pulses Measures Ultrafast Processes
Motorola Moves up to Become the 3rd-Ranked
Smartphone Manufacturer in USA
All About
Batteries, Part 1: Introduction
JILA Team Develops
'Spinning Trap' to Measure Electron Roundness
China Mobile-Apple iPhone pact 'Very Big Deal'
75W Incandescent Replacement LED Lamp Draws Only 18% Current (these I like)
For Bitcoin, a Setback in China and an Endorsement on Wall Street
Private Company Plans U.S.'s 1st Controlled Moon Landing in 40 Years
Architects of Nanoworld
Behind the Screens
Microsoft Leads Disruption of Largest Globally Infected PC Network
12/5/2013
Man Arrested for Charging His Electric Car at Son's School
Bluetooth Smart Gets Smarter
Malaysia to Offer 700 MHz Spectrum Auction
in 2018
China Formally Awards LTE Operating
Licenses
Army Opts
for Obsolete Electronic Technology to Keep Soldier and Ground Systems Running
December is YOTA Month!
European Equipment Capex to Grow 50% Next Year
Laser
Light at Useful Wavelengths from Semiconductor Nanowires
UK Government Paves Way for Driverless
Cars
Sony May Buy Renesas Fab
CCA Urges FCC to Form Task Force Focusing on Wireless Competition
Apple Completes
Key China Mobile Deal
Microsoft: NSA Hacks Were an 'Earthquake' for Tech
Hackers Steal over 2 Million Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo Passwords
Mathematical Scientist
Suggests Possible Test for Existence of Axions
Imperial Congress
Exempts Some Employees from Obamacare (all others subsidized by taxpayers)
12/4/2013
FCC Proposes AM Radio Changes to Give the Band a Boost
Stanene May Be Better Than
Graphene (this is major news)
Guide to Distributed Antenna System (DAS) Optimization
Laser Communication Mission Targets
2017 Launch
Defending Against Electromagnetic
Attacks
Trouble with Apple's Touch ID Fingerprint Reader
Explosive Smartphone Growth Stymies
Indian Feature Phone Sales
Japan's Electronics Firms Pin Hopes on Smart Appliances
High Schooler Returns to Her Elementary Alma Mater to Lead Space Station Contact
Researchers
Discover Nanoscale Shape-Memory Oxide
SpaceX Successfully Launches Commercial Satellite
FCC's Wheeler Signals Intent to Let Smaller Carriers Get More Spectrum
HTC Smartphone Banned from Sale in the
UK for Infringing Nokia Patent
Spooky Physics Phenomenon May Link Universe's Wormholes
Army
Taking 3D Electronic Printing to Next Level
Colored Plastic Doubles Solar Cell Power
12/3/2013
RF Safe-Stop Shuts Down Car Engines
with Radio Pulse
Google Filing 10 Patent Applications
Per Day
The Best Twitter Jokes About Amazon's Drones (great wit)
DARPA Aims for a Breakthrough in Field Communications
Tech Reliant
on Finite Metal Sources
Canada
Issues Short-Term 472-479 kHz Experimental License
Federal Reserve Reports on Barriers to NFC Adoption in U.S.
Startup Drives 60 GHz to
Small Cells
PC Shipments to See 'Most Severe Yearly
Fall on Record' (so what? most users do only social media, don't need a 'real'
computer)
CTIA Unveils Database to Track Stolen LTE Smartphones
Huge Drop in Equipment Sales in 2013
Better Gold Alloys for Communications
Tech
New Canadian Wireless Code of Practice
Comes into Effect Today
New FCC Chief Promises He Will Protect Competition (gov't bureaucrat promise
= opposite of claim)
New Tool Detects Electromagnetic Attacks
Volvo Planning Major Autonomous Car Test
12/2/2013
U.S. Eyes Phase-Out of Old
Telephone Network (POTS down the pot)
5G Mobile System Requirements Discussed
at ETSI Future Mobile Summit
Engineering Support Contracts Indicate the Pentagon is Sinking into the Mothball Strategy
Christmas Shopping for a Girl? Consider Science and Engineering Toys
Italian Company
to Sell Portable Cold Fusion Plant Deliverable Next Year (is this a hoax?)
TV Tuner Standards Keep Digital TV and LTE from Colliding
Challenges of Measuring Big Voltages on the Railways
New Technology Produces Electricity from Highway Traffic
Underwater Archaeologists Fight Particle Physicists on Using Ancient Roman Ingots
(nerd fight)
Drones Used to Try to Smuggle Contraband
into Jail
Google's
Growing Patent Stockpile
Nobel Prize Economist Warns of U.S. Stock Market Bubble (no prob - Fed just
dilutes my $$$ even more)
Iron Complexes Replace Precious Metals in Alcohol and Amine Synthesis
A Step Closer to Composite-Based
Electronics
China Launches
Its 1st Moon Rover
ISON, Thought Dead but Found Alive, Is Now Fading Away
12/1/2013
Potential for Abuse Stalls Cellphone Kill Switch Debate
Physicists Study Coldest
Objects in Universe
End of the Public University? (broke from taxpayer funding of worthless degrees
that qualify for burger flipping jobs)
LTE to Launch in Greenland
Semi Releases October Book-to-Bill Ratio
