2/28/2013
FCC Proposes More Spectrum at 5 GHz for Unlicensed Broadband
Deutsche Telekom Posts Full Year Loss
of $6.9 Billion ("Ach, du liebe!" as the Red Baron would say)
Physicists Demonstrate
Acceleration of Electrons by Laser in Vacuum
Body's Electric Near-Field Confirms User ID
More Mobile Phones Than People in Four
of the World's Six Regions
Atoms with Quantum Memory
Tech Spending Still Strong, Despite Economic Volatility
Mobile Phones Take Back Seat as Gadget Show Goes Soft on Hardware
Radio's Challenge Is
in the Home
Lockheed Wins Air Force Contracts for Next Set of GPS III Satellites
What Is Killing
Smartphones?
NASA Deciphering the Mysterious Math of the Solar Wind
Samsung Electronics Loses a Japan Patent Lawsuit to Apple
Experts Boil Telecommuting Decisions Down to Flexibility vs. Serendipity
The Most Shocking Photo of Beijing Air Pollution [He's] Ever Seen
Giant Comet May Crash into Mars (did the Mayartian calendar predict this?)
2/27/2013
Japan's DoCoMo Tests 10Gbps Upload from
Mobile Phones
Pentagon Unveils Plan to Tap Potential of Mobile Devices
Wireless Connections Creep into
Everyday Things
3
of 10 Smartphone Owners Don't Use Passwords
Stanford Researchers Build Complex Circuits Made of Carbon Nanotubes
South Korea Warns of 4G Curse
USA Market for Small Cells to Exceed
21 Million Units by 2017
First Viable High-Speed
Quantum Computer Moves Closer
4G Auction Could Trigger Patent Disputes
National Copyright Alert System to Go Online
Smartphone Bacteria 'Art Project': THIS Lives on Your Phone
Ford Reiterates Opposition to Embedded Wireless
Nokia Shows Wireless Charging Car Cradle with NFC
General Dynamics Develops Security Platform for Samsung Mobile Device
Yahoo! Boss Builds Nursery Next to Office, Tells employees They Can't Work from Home
Windmills at Sea Can Break Like Matches
ICE Commanded to Release Hundreds of Illegal Alien Prisoners Ahead of Sequestration
(holy crap!)
2/26/2013
Public Access Small Cell Market to Hit
$16 Billion in 2016
Seeking a 'Field of Dreams' for a Rising Drone Industry
Rise of Smartphone Reshapes Cellphone IC Rankings
GAO: Options to Improve Receiver Performance Necessary for Greater Spectrum Efficiency
Mozilla Reveals Firefox Smartphone
Launch Partners
LG Shows off Smallest Wireless Charger
GM, AT&T Plan WiFi-Enabled Vehicles Using LTE Network
Nujira Payday as Qualcomm Enters RF Market
White
Space: The First Frontier for the “Internet of Things”
Marissa
Mayer: Yahoos Can No Longer Work from Home (hmmm... less green, non?)
Stretchable Li-Ion
Battery Can Twist, Bend, Return to Normal Shape
Graphene's Solar Cell Potential Revealed by Photon Absorption
Study Suggests
Generating Capacity of Wind Farms at Large Scales Has Been Overestimated
GSMA Staff Get NFC Hotel Keys for Mobile World Congress
One of Pluto's Newly Discovered Moons to be Named Vulcan, per Mr. Spock's Home Planet
U.S.
Oil Imports from Middle East Increase (yet we have more reserves than they
do)
2/25/2013
Bulk of Smartphone Data Transfers Taking
Place over Wi-Fi
Scientists Increase Lithium-Sulfur Battery Lifetime by 10x
New Look at High-Temperature
Superconductors
Quantum Algorithm
Breakthrough
Mobile Data to Overtake Voice by 2018
New Imaging Device
Is Flexible, Flat, and Transparent
Fleeting
Electron Waves to Uncover Elusive Mechanism Behind High-Temperature Superconductivity
Is Radio as Strong
as You Think?
Semi industry Is Now Sole-Sourced
As Police Drones Take off, Washington State Pushes Back
Scientists Plan Mission to Smash into Asteroid
Intersil to Cut 18% of Workforce
China
Admits Pollution-Linked 'Cancer Villages'
Hollyweird 1% Get MultiM$$$ Tax Credits (while telling us we need to pay
more)
2/24/2013
Risk Management for Rapid Technology Adoption
Microsoft to Publish Patent
Catalogue to Deter Litigation
Coffee
Can Help People Live Longer
Radio Telescope, GPS Use Ionosphere to Detect Nuclear Tests
China
Admits Pollution-Linked 'Cancer Villages'
2/22/2013
Particle Physics Research
Sheds New Light on Possible 'Fifth Force of Nature' (I've long said the known
4 weren't alone and 'dark matter' was a desperate construction)
Qualcomm Has 86% Share of LTE Modem Market
Qualcomm Pushes Chip It Says Will Solve LTE Fragmentation
Smarter Networks
for Smarter Phones
North Korea to Offer Mobile Internet
Access (not for citizens, though - Dear Leader Jr. needs to roam)
Bumblebees Sense Electric Fields in Flowers
Army Chooses
Body-Worn Radios for Nett Warrior Program
NBC.com News Portal Blocked by Google After Malware Detected
Apple Patent Hints at Something for Your Wrist
FCC Upholds Man's $24k Fine for Unlicensed Radio Operations, Refusing Inspection of Radio Equipment
RFID and ZigBee Protect
Fine Art in Hong Kong
Researchers Discover Way to Generate
Electron Airy Beam
50 Disruptive Companies 2013
(RF Cafe would probably have made the list if it went to 51)
Cyber-Criminals
Targeting Phones and Bank Info
Google Unveils Its First Touchscreen
Chromebook Pixel
Companies
Dropping Health Coverage for Spouses (2014 and ACA is just around the corner)
2/21/2013
Fiat Investigates
NFC Car Keys
Amateur-Created
“Varicode” Adopted as ITU Recommendation
Technology IPOs - Increased Options
for UK Companies
FCC Boosts Signal Boosters; Proposes More 5 GHz Unlicensed Spectrum
Thieves Swipe Copper from Sandy-Damaged Homes
From 3D Graphics to Biometric Scans: How Your Smartphone Will Get Smarter
More Top Universities
to Offer Free Online Courses
Petition to Legalize Phone Unlocking Reaches 100,000 Signatures
Efficient Distributed Quantum
Computing
Cassini Sheds Light on Cosmic Particle Accelerators
Google Glass Features Unveiled in Preview
Video
The Next MultiM$ Opportunity in Wearable Devices, Connected Cars and M2M
800,000 DoD Civilians
Face Furloughs if Sequestration Kicks In (how about no more multiM$ CIC vacations)
SpotterRF Demos Harbor Security Radar for Navy
White Britons Now in Minority in the Capital
Scientists Explain Why Women Talk More Than Men
2/20/2013
College Degree Becoming the New High School Diploma
Ofcom Raises Less Than Forecast in 4G
Auction,
Law Change Makes It Harder to Unlock Cellphones
Air Force Begins First Wave of Mobile Device Distribution
New Technique to Scale up Production of Graphene Micro-Supercapacitors
Record 300 GHz
fco for InAlGaN HEMT
France Telecom Full Year Profits Fall
by Nearly 80%
NASA Loses Space Station Contact (America sinking deeper into the abyss)
New Light Source for Quantum Computers
Microsoft's Initial Mobile Strategy 'Clearly a Mistake,' Per Gates
Exploring Supercapacitors
to Improve Their Structure
Wake up, America! China is Attacking Your Computers
iPhone 5 Becomes World's Best Selling Smartphone
Man Arrested for Stealing $160k of Bronze from Mausoleums, Graves at Bronx Cemetery
Hackers Hit Apple in Cyberassault (Macs getting the PC dissing now that Job's
gone)
USDA Spends $200k to Propagandize Federal
Employees (while your paycheck shrunk last month - YouTube)
2/19/2013
Professor
Brings Access to Previously Untapped Higher Frequency Bandwidth
China Military Unit 'Behind Prolific Hacking'
MEMS Firm to Show 'Refocus' Lens at MWC
Australian Amateurs
May Lose 2300–2302 MHz
Development of Graphene
Transistor with New Operating Principle
New Process Give Flexibility to Strained Silicon
Material That Slows
Light Opens New Possibilities in Solar Energy, Other Fields
Engineering Education Starts at an Early Age
Massive, Orbital Laser Blaster Could Defend Against Asteroid Threats
SpaceJustin Robot Will Fix Your Satellites, Look Cool Doing It
Orange to Start Selling Phones Aimed
at Older Consumers
5 Things
to Watch for at 2013's Biggest Mobile-Tech Show
'Internet of Things' Explained
Dark Matter Possibly Discovered by ISS Experiment
New Material Interface Improves Functioning of Non-Silicon-Based Electronic Devices
Russian
Lawmaker's Body Found Cemented in Barrel (hmmmm... a useful politician)
2/18/2013
Dopants Dramatically
Alter Electronic Structure of Superconductor
Diamond
Idea for Quantum Computer
UN Reviewing
Asteroid Impact Threat
'Fireballs' Light up Florida Sky
Organic
Electronics—How to Make Contact Between Carbon Compounds and Metal
NASA Seeking iPad App for Use in Space
Stations
Tech Predictions for 2013: It's All About Mobile (a little late; my list
will be out in November)
First Photo of T-Mobile USA's LTE Wi-Fi
Router
Light from Silicon Nanocrystal
LEDs
Skype Makes up 1/3 of All International Phone Traffic
Bionic Eye Implant Approved for U.S. Patients (we have the
technology; we can rebuild him)
LTE Drove 2012 Baseband IC Growth, Ranking
'Wearable' Polymer Could Charge Phones from body Heat
Huawei Denies Work in Field Linked to U.S. Death in Singapore
Nujira Makes CMOS Amplifiers Work for 4G
Singapore
Coffee Chain Adds NFC
32 Days of Higher Gas Prices
(↑ 13%... good thing prices on everything else are ↓)
2/17/2013
Copper Thieves Rob Detroit Freeways of Light
USPTO Publishes
Final Rules and Guidelines Governing First-Inventor-to-File
'Organic Topological
Insulators' for Quantum Computing
2013 Payroll Tax Increase Hitting Retailers Hard
Odds of Death by Asteroid?
Lower Than Plane Crash, Higher Than Lightning
Facebook Gets a Multibillion-Dollar Tax Break (paying $0 in taxes AND
getting $400M refund, but YOU are paying more this year)
2/15/2013
Researchers
Demonstrate Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle at Macro Level
Google Files Patent-Infringement Lawsuit vs. British Telecom (there's a switch
- Google doing the suing)
Hewlett-Packard Faces $500 Million Lawsuit
Over Insulting Mobile App
Android Dominated Smartphone Sales in 2012
Etch Stop
Structure Opens up Gate Recess Improvement for GaN MISFET
Hams Across New England and the Maritimes Respond to Blizzard
Semiconductor Interfaces:
Big Opportunities for Tiny Insulators
Electronic Innovation Will Drive Medical Design
Quantum Cryptography
Put to Work for Electric Grid Security
Orange Switzerland Announces 140 Staff
to Go in Redundancies (new layoff term: 'rebalancing resources')
System Would Destroy Asteroids
that Threaten Earth
A Cooler Way to Protect
Silicon Surfaces
U.S. Cellular to Expand LTE Coverage to 87% of Its Customers in 2013
Spanish Scientists Develop More Accurate
Sat-Nav System
ST-Ericsson Sets up Job Fair for Its Engineers
Big Hedge Funds Fueled Q4 Dive in Apple Shares
2/14/2013
Engineering is Crucial to the Economy, Says Government Minister (no wonder
bureaucrats make the big bucks)
Densest Array
of Carbon Nanotubes Paves Way Toward Post-Silicon Technology
Mobile Industry Faces $9.2 Billion Shortfall
in Backhaul Investment
Asteroid 2012 DA14: 5 Interesting Facts About Friday's Earth Flyby
Porous Silicon Particle Anode 'Triples Capacity' of Lithium-Ion Battery
Security
Flaw Allows Snoopers to Access Locked iPhones
Nanotube Pencil 'Draws' Sensors
Mobile Dominates List of Most Innovative Companies
Combining Quantum Information
Communication and Storage
Google App Developer Discovers 'Flaw' That Puts Users' Details on Display
Tesla Releases Logs on disputed NYTimes Car Review (looks like the reporter
lied - surprise)
Slot Antenna Gives WiFi a 200x Boost
Music Radio Is Far
from Dead
In High-Tech Japan, the Fax Machines Roll On
Boeing to Continue Helping Air Force with GPS Satellite Modernization
Illegal Immigrant Tells Congress Not to Call Him Illegal (this nation is
over - stick a fork in it, it's done)
2/13/2013
'Sleep Texting' Is Growing Problem Among Teens
Mobile Phone Sales Fell 1.7% in 2012
UK Explores TV
Transmitter Option to Track Aircraft (this is cool)
Pentagon Stands by Use of Li-Ion Batteries on F-35 Fighters
IEEE Launches Exhibits Program for Science Museums
Zigbee Alliance Gears up for China, Smart Meters
Pepco Customers Claim Smart
Meters Make Them Sick
Glass Smartphones Coming This Year
3G connections to surpass 2G by 2015/16 in Latin America
Electric Car Review Dust-up May Put Brakes on Tesla Profits
Welcome to the Malware Industrial Complex
U.S. Navy
Chooses Mixed-Signal Digital Receivers from Mercury for Advanced EW Research
Broadcom Challenges Qualcomm, Samsung in LTE Modem Market
Ancient Languages Reconstructed
by Computer Program
Google Payments to Apple Could Top $1
Billion in 2014
European
Stock Markets Boom as GDP Growth Remains Elusive
2/12/2013
FCC
Adopts Sweeping Changes to Experimental Radio Service
Tesla Says New York Times Electric
Car Review 'Fake' (probably running the heater at full blast)
New Synthetic Biology
Circuits That Combine Memory and Logic
German Photonics Representatives Unify
Nokia's First Dual-SIM Smartphone with
Wi-Fi
Lockheed to Perform Work on Additional GPS III Satellites
Vodaphone Warning iPhone OS Upgrade
Kills Batteries
German Student Builds Electromagnetic Harvester to Recharge Battery
Waste Seen in Program to Give Internet Access to Rural U.S. (rampant waste
in government programs, who'd have thought?)
USA's Dish Network to Sell Radio Spectrum
if Unable to Develop Own Network
NTSB: Short Circuit Caused 787 Battery Fire
Delphi Stays with NXP for Car Radios
Silicon Valley Event Promotes Women in Engineering
iPhones, Windows Tablets to Dominate Enterprise Device Purchases
TracFone Defends Its FCC Lifeline Pilot Program to Expand Mobile Broadband Access
(aka
Obamaphones)
North
Korea Goes Nuclear
2/11/2013
China Eclipses U.S. as Biggest Trading Nation (forward!)
4G to Affect TV Reception in 2 Million
Homes
Solar Industry Grapples with Hazardous Wastes (not so clean after all, but
we knew that)
U.S. Congress Fighting for Semi R&D Budgets
Renesas to Show Quad, Octo 'Big-Little' Chips at MWC
Brazil's Anatel Gets Green Light to Debate 700 MHz for LTE
Ericsson Wins $1 Billion Indian Managed
Services Contract
Invisible
Tool Enables Quantum Experiments with Atoms, Molecules, and Nanoparticles
Australia to Grill Apple, Others on Pricing
Raising Personable Children, Even if They're Glued to Phones
Why Companies Are Outsourcing to Kickstarter
USAF to Brief
Industry on Infrared Surveillance Sensor for Commercial Satellite
Chile Outlines 4G Spectrum and Wi-Fi
Expansion Plans
LinkedIn
Proves It's No Facebook
Is the Ozone Layer on
the Road to Recovery?
Gema Debuts Multichip NFC Super Tag with Built-in Keyboard
2/10/2013
Hedge Fund Manager Sues Apple
over Cash Hoard
Asteroid to Narrowly Miss Earth on February 15
Samsung & Amazon Beat out Apple in Customer Loyalty for First Time
Alcatel-Lucent Could Buy into
Nokia Siemens
Trail
of Fugitive Ex-Cop Turns Cold in Big Bear (time for anti-gun folks out there
to set example and turn in their self-defense firearms)
2/8/2013
GaN
Device Market to Grow at 18% Annually Through 2016
Routes Towards Defect-Free
Graphene
Android Smartphone to Be Sent into Space
Researchers Create
Reusable Adhesive That Liquefies Under UV Light
Captain Kirk Talks to Fellow Canadian ISS Astronaut Chris Hadfield
New Classes of Magnetoelectric
Materials Promise Advances in Computing Technology
A Cheap and Easy Plan to Stop Global Warming (ha, creating aerosols to reflect
sunlight - after banning aerosols in the 1970s for causing global cooling!)
Navy 4G LTE Network Operational on Two Ships Headed to Persian Gulf
Flow Control
of Single Quantum Dot Enables Measurements with Nanoscale Accuracy at Lower Cost
Semiconductor R&D Spending Rises 7% Despite Weak Market
For Kids: Engineering: The Route to Problem-Solving
HP to
Limit Student Labor in China
Kids 'Using Coding Skills to Hack'
Friends on Games
1978 Blizzard Makes a Comeback, This Time It's Called Nemo
4G and Tablets to Drive Growth As Britain
Becomes a Digital Music Nation (keep the masses occupied)
Nano-Antenna Arrays May Yield Ultra-Efficient Solar Devices
2/7/2013
Flomio
Launches 3D Printed NFC Objects
Dad Pays Daughter $200 to Quit Facebook
Will Broadcast Radio
Come to a Sudden Stop?
A Solar 'Superstorm' is Coming and We'll Only Get 30-Minute Warning (or,
it won't happen)
Semiconductor Physics:
Taking Control of Spin
Vodafone Revenues Fell in Last 3 Months
of 2012 on Weak European Markets
ITU Offering Free Download of 2012 International Radio Regulations
Army
Develops Pair of Software-Programmable Radios for Rotary Wing Aircraft (aka
helicopters)
Europe's Plan for GPS Limps to Crossroads
Scientists
Build First Bendable Battery
IT Managers Worried About Rising Mobile
Data Costs
Researchers
Find Soap Film Micro-Channel Size Tunable with Electric Charge
Test & Measurement Financial Results
FCC Holds Hearings on Hurricane Sandy's Damage to Wireless Networks
Hong Kong's Poor Living in Wire Cages
Blizzard to Bury New England Tomorrow
2/6/2013
Samsung Announces $100 Million Fund to Inspire Gadget Breakthroughs
NASA Brainstorms over Ex-Spy Satellites
Viral Story About Free Wi-Fi Spotlights Mostly Hidden Policy War
World's Largest Prime Number Discovered: 257,885,161-1
'Invisible'
Particles Could Enhance Thermoelectric Devices
FCC Seeks Ways to Keep Phones Alive in a Storm
Project Looks at Use of Fibre Lasers in Particle Accelerators
Comprehensive Look at Fundamentals of Most Desirable Nanotubes
In App-Crazy World, What Developers Should Know About Privacy and Consent
Odd Mac Mountain Lion Crashing Bug Brings Down Nearly Any App (don't type
File:///)
Twitter Says Government Requests for User Information are Rising
Fund to Turn Scientific Advances into Useable Products
Capify
Debuts NFC Baseball Caps
Federal Reserve Confirms Hack Attack
Led to Data Leak
U.S. Post Office Cites 'Crushing Economy" as Reason for Cutting Saturday Delivery in August
(you can be sure that will be gone soon -
screen capture)
Americans on Disability Hits New Record for 192nd Straight Month
2/5/2013
Semi R&D at Record Levels Despite Flat Market
How
to Build a Nanotube Computer
Dell Computers to Be Bought Back by Founder
Michael Dell (maybe they'll be decent again)
Fujifilm Shows
off Bendable 'Beat' Diaphragm Speaker
Using Single Quantum
Dots to Probe Nanowires
Tech-Savvy Baruch College Students Seek an Edge in Registration
Manufacturing Output Expands Rapidly in Early 2013
U.S. Draws up Battle Plan to Stave off Digital Attack Cyberstrikes
DoJ Memo Reveals Legal Case for Drone Strikes on Americans (by the people
who used to screech like banshees at this kind of thing)
Photonic
PCBs Inching Closer
A Union Vote For Chinese Workers Who Assemble iPhones (so both union and
gov't can exploit them)
BlackBerry 10 off to Strong Start in the UK
Wireless LAN Market to Expand Nearly
50% in Five Years
How to Protect Your Digital Data from a Vengeful Ex (a public service link)
Increasing Levels of SMS Spam Complaints
in New Zealand
Experts Aren't Deities (many not even credible within their field of expertise)
2/4/2013
Super Bowl Loses Power for 35 Minutes
$20 to Dispose of Fluorescent Tubes in Erie (my city of residence)
December Dip Ends Weak Year for Global Chip Sales
DOD Sequestration Plans Sent to White House
Against the Odds, Starting a Tech Business in France
First Light
from the First High-Energy Superconducting Undulator (the opposite of a superconducting
dulator)
Oxford Technique Opens Door to Sheets of Good Graphene
UK's EE Heading for $16B Stock Market
Listing
Swedish
Tech Start-Ups Outdoing European Rivals
iPhone Grabs Top U.S. Handset Spot in Q4
FTC Issues Guidelines for Mobile Software
Into the Quantum Internet at the
Speed of Light
Manufacturing Output Expands Rapidly in Early 2013
Geeks Are the New Guardians of Our Civil Liberties
Tech Employers - Apply Now for Canada Summer Jobs 2013 Funding
Are Your Daughters Ready to Register for the Draft? (blown-off limbs, blindness,
brain damage, etc. = TRUE equality, anything less is gender discrimination, right?)
2/3/2013
'Apple Pickers' Gang Terrorizing Women for iPhones
Phone Unlocking Ban Could Hit You in the Wallet
South Korean Satellite Makes First Contact with Ground
EV Sales off to Slow Start in 2013
'Paycheck Fairness Act' Would Allow Employees to Discuss Salaries (comment
withheld)
2/1/2013
5 Tech Tips
for Enjoying the Super Bowl
Russian Rocket Carrying U.S. Satellite Plunges into Pacific Ocean 40 Seconds after Launch
(solution: transfer more technology and $$$ so it won't happen again)
European Semi CEOs See Improving 2013
Samsung
Electronics Chairman Wins $4B Court Feud over Family Fortune
NASA Launches New Tracking and Communication Satellite
Quantum
Strategies Fail to Improve Capacity of Quantum Optical Communication Channels
Ofcom to Open up Airwaves for 4G Mobile
Services
Scheme Targets Engineering Students from Disadvantaged Backgrounds (that
includes just about everyone these days)
Tiny Computer Attracts a Million Tinkerers
Thinnest
Graphene Sheets React Strongly with Hydrogen Atoms
Giant Carbon Molecules
for Sustainable Technologies
Motorola Working on High-End Android
Smartphone: The X-Phone
Silicon Valley Nation: The Silicon Generation
What's Next, a Patent for the Lines Around Apple Stores?
App Feeds Scientists Atmospheric Data from Thousands of Smartphones
Two Tech Icons to Keynote
Convergence
