4/30/2014
The Cubicle Turns 50
Man Arrested for Taping Arrest with Cell Phone
Rare-Earth-Like
Magnetic Properties in Iron
Microsoft Says Nokia Brand Won't Be Used on Future Smartphones
Space Terrorism, Floating Debris Pose Threats to U.S.
Amateur Radio Propagation Guru Says Extended Solar Ebb May Lie Ahead
Circuit Board Modeled on the Human Brain
Army Gets Tactical Comm Closer to Smartphone Experience
As Kickstarter Evolves, Investors Watch for Next $1B Idea
LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner's Compensation Soars
Payphone
Booth Turned into Public Library
How
to Create Nanowires Only 3 Atoms Wide with an Electron Beam
Not Just Golden Eagles Anymore: 4 Die in SD Wind Farm Crash
Flexible Battery, No Lithium Required
Unfolding the Mystery About '5G'
BLS: 20% of U.S.
Household Have No Working Members (why bother working
when handouts keep getting better each election cycle?)
4/29/2014
DHS Tells Users to Stop Using Internet Explorer for Now
Slow-But-Steady Growth Expected in GNSS Market
Rubik's Cube Still Turning Our Logic at 40
Novel Gold-Based Superconductor Discovered
The Difference Between Coders, Programmers and Engineers
(funny... or sad)
ACLU Argues
Against Warrantless Cell Phone Tracking Before Appeals Court
Skyworks and Panasonic Form 66:34 Joint Venture for High-Performance Filters
Samsung Confirms
Serious Software Bug in Galaxy S5 Smartphone
FCC Set to Limit Sub-1 GHz Heavy License Owners in 600 MHz Spectrum Auction
(FCC meddling in the free market)
5 Top Emerging Technology Trends of 2014
Magnetic Materials Make Micro-Robots with Grippers
Carbonite CEO: Talk Radio Doubled My Business (I've used
it for many years)
A Student-Data Collector Drops Out
Microsoft and Nokia Complete
Mobile Phone Unit Deal
Only
1 in 7 Japanese Scientists are Women (here we go)
You Love 'The Cloud,' But It May Not Be As Secure As You Think
Cybersquatters Prepare for Mischief
4/28/2014
Increased Coffee
Consumption May Reduce Risk of Type 2 Diabetes (more good
news)
A New Twist in Properties
of Light
E.T. Atari Games Uncovered in NM Landfill
Massive Solar Storm Caused Radio Blackout on Earth
Russian Official Under U.S. Sanction Plays Key Role in DoD Space Program
(we x-fer big $$$ and technology to Russia & Red China
since Space Shuttle shut down)
China Takes
Lead in Carbon Nanotubes & Graphene
Google Documents Hint at Wi-Fi Component to Fiber Buildout
Supreme Court to Look at Privacy Cases Involving Police Searches of Cellphones
AMSAT-NA Moving Due
to Condemned Building
SpaceX to File Official Protest Against USAF over Military-Related Launches
iPhone
Sales Lead to Record Quarter
New Quantum
Theory Could Explain Flow of Time
4/27/2014
Your T-shirt's Ringing: Telecommunications in the Spaser Age
FCC Cites Washington Resident for Causing Interference on Amateur Frequencies
DoCoMo to
Exit India
Phase Transiting to a New Quantum Universe
Google Rolls out Time-Traveling Maps
4/25/2014
Silicon Valley Giants Settle Employee Poaching Case
Motorola Solutions
Adds RFID-Enabled Knobs to Radios
France Mulls Car-Sharing
GPS App Ban
U.S. Emergency
Services Report Low Accuracy Levels for Mobile Location Services
Researchers Use Graphene for 'Super' Audio Headphones
Semiconductor
Capital Equipment Spending Set to Increase 12.2% in 2014 (how do the
'wizards of smart' calculate predictions to 3 significant figures?)
FCC Continues Push to Free up Spectrum in 3.5 GHz Band
Navy Orders New Batch of Radar-Killing Missiles
Breakthrough Harnesses Light for Controlled Chemical Reaction
Growing InGaAs MOSCAPs Directly on (100) Silicon Substrates
Ericsson Bounces Back to Stronger Q1 Profit, But N. American Sales Plunge 23%
Startups Wary of FCC's Internet Traffic Plan
When Will PAM4 Take Over from NRZ?
Mapping
the Road to Quantum Gravity
Superconducting Qubit Array Points Way to Quantum Computers
Electronics
Flea Market Has More Than Electronics
4/24/2014
Critical Military Satellite Systems Are Vulnerable to Hacking
FCC, in Net Neutrality Turnaround, Plans to Allow Fast Lane
What to Do When Your Phone is Stolen
Global Chip
Revenue Rises in 2013 - Memory and Wireless Lead the Way
Forget Silicon Valley,
Meet Silicon Bali
Ultracapacitor
Breakthrough May Recharge Energy Storage
Hemihelix: Scientists Discover New Shape Using Rubber Bands
(nothing new - my phone cord used to get like that!)
Amazon Phone is Close
Smulyan
Pushes FM Phone Chip on Wall Street
HAARP-Like Ionospheric Research Project Underway at Arecibo Observatory
(that's where
Contact was filmed)
FCC to Propose Pay-for-Priority
Internet Standards
CTIA Names
Former FCC Commissioner as New CEO (incestuous old boy's
- girl's - club alive and well)
AIG Cyber Insurance Covers Bodily Harm
Google
Tops League of Spending on Lobbying U.S. Politicians
First-Gen Apple TV Back from the Dead
Biofuels Less Green Than Gasoline (per $M/2 gov't-funded
study)
4/23/2014
iPhone Thief
Steals Fake Phone, Drops His Own Real Model During Chase
Silicon Valley Firms Accused of Hiring Conspiracy
The Richer You Are the Older You'll Get (looks like I'm
in trouble)
Bluetooth LE
Promises Fewer Cables, Less Weight in Cars
AT&T Eyes High-Speed Internet in 100 Cities (U.S. shamefully
behind)
Google Creates Algorithm That Fools CAPTCHA
Supreme Court Case Could Change How You Watch TV
Nike Drops
Development of Wearable Technology
Progress Made in Developing Nanoscale Electronics
Signal Amplifier Design Cuts Load on Mobile Phone Masts
If a Bubble Bursts in Palo Alto, Does It Make a Sound?
(that's Silicon Valley)
Biggest Cyber Threats: Spies, Criminals or Co-workers?
Over 3 Million
Smartphones Stolen in the USA During 2013
No One's Ready for the Next Super Weapon
OpenSSL Shows Cost of 'Free'
The American Middle Class Is No Longer the World's Richest
(success! the U.S. '5th column' in gov't and media has finally
achieved its dream)
4/22/2014
Vodafone
Sued for $1.8B by Greek Businessman
KickSat Has Been Deployed in Low-Earth Orbit
Femtocell Boom Predicted as Prices Fall
Should College Dropouts Be Honored by Their Alma Maters?
Analysts Share High Expectations for Bigger iPhones
Nike Layoffs Add Fuel to Apple iWatch Rumours
Smartphone Innovation Has Stalled
Civilians Not Ready
for EMP-Caused Blackout
'Dressed'
Laser Aimed at Clouds May Be Key to Inducing Rain, Lightning
Nokia 3D-Printed
in Chocolate
Patent Owner Intellectual Ventures Cleared for Trial vs. Investor
For Many Americans, 'Temp' Work
Becomes Permanent Way of Life (so this is what Fundamental
Change looks like)
Moving in with Parents Becoming Common for Middle-Aged
Facebook's Existential Crisis
Deadline is May 1 to Apply for ARRL Teachers Institute
SpaceX launch to International Space Station Successful
4/21/2014
National Research Labs Decline - "New System Costs More to Perform Less Science"
World's
1st Carbon-Based 'Spaser' Could Lead to Printed Cellphones
Making Graphene
in Your Kitchen
Ultrafast Snapshots of Light-Driven Superconductivity
'Exotic'
Material is Like a Switch When Super Thin
After
8 Years FCC Shuts Down Pirate in Boston (perp using racism
as an excuse yet again)
NASA: Engineer
Vital to 1969 Moon Landing Dies
Impurity
Size Affects Performance of Emerging Superconductive Material
Google Still Top Pick for Wall Street, Despite Mobile Ad Challenges
Dream Office of the Future: No Email
SEMI Announces 2nd Vietnam Semiconductor Strategy Summit
4/20/2014
Top-down InGaAs Nanowire Fabrication Enabled by Novel Etch Processing
Zain Wins
Jordan 4G Spectrum
Beam on Target
NASA and Google Do the Tango
China on Course to Become 'World's Most Christian Nation'
(an Easter Sunday story for you)
4/18/2014
Device Turns Flat Surface into Spherical Antenna
Nokia Issues
Safety Recall for 30,000 Chargers
LTE Investment
Set to Accelerate Throughout Latin America in 2014
NFC Forum Updates Specs with Support for Pairing at a Distance
Micro-Macro Entangled 'Cat States' Could One Day Test Quantum Gravity
Samsung Grows Good Quality Graphene
Samsung
Patent Leaks Point to Google Glass Competitor
Wireless Power Transfer Achieved at 5-Meter Distance
Billion-Dollar
BS Degrees
Twitter-Like Weibo and Other Chinese Shares Surge on First Day of Trading
Google Under Fire from
European Media Tycoon
NASA Hands over Historic Apollo-Era Launch Pad to SpaceX
(heavy sigh)
Canadians Arrest a Heartbleed Hacker
Smartphone Kill Switch Gets Breath of Life
Burger King
Expands In-Store Wi-Fi Coverage with AT&T
Electricity Price Surged to All-Time Record for March ("under
my plan... electricity rates will necessarily skyrocket" - promise kept)
4/17/2014
Google Courts Developers for Modular Smartphone Project
BlackBerry's Meltdown Sparks Start-up Boom in Canada's Silicon Valley
New Type of Particle Discovered Using Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
LTE, Chinese Growth to Drive Smartphones to 1.24B Sales in 2014
(holy Toledo Batman!)
U.S. Mobile
Operators, Handset Makers Tackle Smartphone Theft
Security Holes in Power Grid Have Federal Officials Scrambling
All the Passwords You Need to Change Right Now Because of Heartbleed
Thales Shows off Airline Seat with NFC
Army Plans Its Largest Solar Array to Date (more funneling
of defense $$$ into unrelated eco projects)
The
Next Generation of Plastic Computers
Google, IBM Results Raise Questions About OtherTtech-Sector Companies
The Case for Rigid-Flex PCB Technology
66% of U.S. Mobile Broadband Connections by End of 2015 Will Be Tablets
Finding a Battery That Will Power the Future
Minimize Unknowns in ESD Tests
Iranian Cleric
Says Unhealthy Satellite Jamming Un-Islamic (but cutting
the infidel's throat isn't)
4/16/2014
Google to Buy Titan Aerospace as Web Giants Battle for Air Superiority
My Ideas, My Boss's Property
Journalist Wearing Google Glass Attacked
NSA Leaker Snowden
Stories Win Pulitzer Prize
World Amateur Radio Day is Friday, April 18
China's President Xi Urges Greater Military Use of Space
DARPA Calls for New Cutting-Edge Technologies
York, UK
to Get 1Gbps Internet Services Next Year
New Corporate Structure Created for RF Micro, TriQuint Deal
Seeing SDR in Action
Teardown: Dismantling the Samsung Galaxy S5 (Avago front-end,
Yahoo Surges Following Q1 Results
Google Patents Smart Contact Lens System with Built-in Camera
Pakistan
Disappoints with Just 4 Bidders for 3G Licenses
Glow-in-the-Dark Roads Make Debut in Netherlands
U.S. Postal Service Announces Giant Ammo Purchase (hundreds
of millions of rounds bought by gov't agencies in last few years - why?)
4/15/2014
As Internet Shares Break Down, Investors See Value in Old Tech
SU Professors Test Boundaries of 'New Physics' with Discovery of 4-Quark Hadron
Gigabit
Wireless Communications
Faster Wi-Fi on Flights Leads to Battle in the Sky
HAARP Facility in Danger of Being Dismantled
Samsung
Looks to Life Beyond the Smartphone
Apple iWatch to Ship with NFC This Year?
Nearly
$67M Salary for CBS' Moonves (another 1%er who feigns support
for OWS types while exploiting their
stupidity)
Optical
Diode Reverses Time, Making Photo-Based IC Possible
U.S. Government Says Hackers Trying to Exploit 'Heartbleed' Bug
Researchers Develop ErSb Nanostructures with Applications in IR and THz Ranges
The College Faculty Crisis (colleges get million$ of tax
$$$ to waste on useless social degrees & programs)
Improving Electrically Pumped External-Cavity Mode-Locking
Samsung's Galaxy S5 Splashes into the Smartphone Market
BLOODHOUND Team Predict Impact of 1,000 mph Supersonic Car
"World
Must Triple Nuclear and Renewable Energy" – United Nations
4/14/2014
Millions of Android Devices Vulnerable to Heartbleed Bug
Obokata Scandal Puts All Science Research in Peril
NSA Monitors
WiFi on U.S. Planes 'in Violation' of Privacy Laws
LinkedIn
Offers Integration with the Samsung Galaxy S5
Individuals Targeted as San Francisco Tech Money Protests Intensify
Live Amateur Radio Digital TV Test Transmits Astronaut’s Image from ISS
Heartbleed Bug Affects Gadgets Everywhere
Google Glass Goes on
Sale for 1 Day
NASA Orders Spacewalk to Repair Serious Computer Malfunction at ISS
Bend It, Charge It, Dunk It: Graphene, the Material of Tomorrow
SEAKR to Build Space Lasercom Digital Processor
Criminal Gang
Jailed for £1 Million Fraud Against Vodafone
Sprint Revives Market for Kid-Focused Phones with New WeGo
Army Awards Exelis 5-Year Deal for Battlefield Radios
Jet-Lagged? New Math-Using App May Help
Intel, SGI and 3M Create 2-Phase Liquid-Cooled Supercomputer
4/13/2014
Hard Disk Pioneer Stuart
Parkin Wins Millennium Prize
French Government Says Will Pursue Telecom Market Consolidation
Improving Electrically Pumped External-Cavity Mode Locking
Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Team Announces Beginning of Restart
Tech Firms Challenged over Hiring Practices
4/11/2014
Public Urged to Reset
All Passwords
ROHM Semiconductor and imec Join Forces for Ultra-Low-Power Radio R&D
Across the Atlantic, Glimpse an Alternate Internet Universe
U.S. Top
in the World for Entrepreneurship
AMSAT-NA Names New Vice President of Engineering
BlackBerry May Consider Exiting Handsets, Eyes Investments
Space Superiority Remains Vital to National Security
U.S. Cellular to Add 1,200 LTE Markets
Pushing High-Power, High-Frequency Performance of GaN HEMTs on Silicon
Forget Wearable Tech, Embeddable Implants Are Already Here
Photovoltaic Cells Turn 60 This Month
New 'Switch' Could Power Quantum Computing
Future
Computers That Are Normally Off
Competition FundsDevelopment of Graphene in Commercial Products
Flexible Plastics That Turn Mechanical Vibrations into Electrical Energy
New Paradigm for 'Unconventional Superconductors'
4/10/2014
UK Amateurs Losing Access to Part of 2.3 and 3.4 GHz Bands
Retailer Prosecuted
for Downloading Photos from Repaired Mobile Phones
Navy to Deploy Laser Weapon Aboard Amphibious Assault Ship This Summer
In an Online World, Are Brick and Mortar Colleges Obsolete?
Amino-Acid
Semiconductors Promise Fast Phone Charging
Wooing TV Broadcasters is FCC's Next Big Job for 600 MHz Incentive Auction
Comcast Said to Be Concocting Wireless Mobile Phone Plan
WiFi Alliance Adds Support for NFC
Japanese Blamed for Italian Sackings
Flaw Discovered in One Internet's Key Security Methods
L-3,
Intelsat Demonstrate Anti-Jam Technology for Military Satellites
Bacterial
'FM Radio' Developed
One Kind of Supersymmetry Shown to Emerge Naturally
Ultra-Fast Electrical Circuits Use Light-Generated Tunneling
Ensuring Safety in Electrical Engineering Design
Man Accused in Plotting to Use Drone for Bomb in Connecticut
4/9/2014
Silicon Valley Buying Spree: A Tech Bubble, or Strategy at Play?
Being Piggy (strange statements by author)
Recharge
Your Smartphone Battery in Just 30 Seconds
BlackBerry Defeats NXP in U.S. Trial over Patents
$299 3D Printer Achieves
Kickstarter Goal in Minutes
Samsung Looking
to Open 4,000 Phone Stores Across India
Anti Tech Industry Protesters Target Google Exec
SEMI Reports 2013 Global Semiconductor Materials Sales of $43.5B
Quantum
Cryptography for Mobile Phones
Does
America Need a National Broadcast Plan? (...about as much
as we need nationalized medicine)
Self-Assembled Superlattices Create Molecular Machines with 'Hinges' and 'Gears'
Sprint to Shutter WiMAX Network by End of 2015, Turn off at 6,000 Towers
USA Targets
Telecoms Trade Barriers in China, Pakistan and India
Internet Choice Will Be Crucial Battlefield in Big Cable Merger
Microsoft to Dig up Millions of Failed 1980s Video Game Cartridges
What Could Go Wrong When Outsourcing Product Development?
4/8/2014
DAS Drives Demand for RF Engineers
DARPA to Spend >$100M to Reinvent the RF Phased Array Antenna
World's Most Powerful VHF Radar to Be Overhauled in Russia
How Electrodes Charge and Discharge
WWV's
25 MHz Signal Back on the Air
Internet Companies' Growing Ambitions Spook 51% of Americans
(about the same % as believe Elvis is still alive)
Navy's New Airborne Command and Control Post Arrives
China Eyes 'Global Monitoring Network' of Surveillance Satellites
Thousands
of Deutsche Telekom Staff to Strike
Simplifying InGaAs Growth on GaAs Substrate
Philosopher Untangles Einstein Senility Controversy (or
not)
What Silicon Valley's Cast Thinks About Silicon Valley Culture
Color Pixels Made of Nanowires Offer New Paradigm for Digital Cameras
Researchers
Probe Next Generation of 2-D Materials
Digital
Spending to Increase 14.8% in 2014
Windows XP Users Face
End to Microsoft Support
4/7/2014
Wi-Fi Speeds Are About to Triple
FCC Drops the First Shoe in 5 GHz U-NII Devices Proceeding
U.S. Knocks Plans for European Communication Network
First Look Inside Fairphone's Fair-Trade Smartphone (RFMD &
Skyworks inside)
Sprint Might Pass on FCC's Spectrum Auctions
Robot Repairmen Would Fix Satellites in Space
Quantum Key Distribution and Ultra-High Security for Mobile Phones
Tiny Power Generator Runs on Spit
Why the 'Internet of Things' Is Still Fragile
As Moore's Law Slows, Open Hardware Rises
Power Plants Put at
Risk by Security Bugs
4/6/2014
E.U. Lawmakers Approve Tough Net Neutrality Rules
DoD Switches to NIST Security Standards
FireChat Gives smartphone Users Ability to Text Without Service or Internet
Google Talked to Sprint, Verizon About Offering Its Own Wireless Service
Chips Face Tough
Times
4/4/2014
Teenage Girl
Gets Trapped in a Drain Trying to Retrieve Her Phone
U.S. Gets New, Hyper-Accurate Atomic Clock
NASA Breaks Most Contact with Russia
Worldwide
Semiconductor Revenue Grew 5% in 2013
Microsoft Unveils Cortana
Assistant for Windows Phone (a name only Haloites will
know)
USAF Awards Lockheed Martin Full Production Contracts for Next Two GPS 3 Satellites
How to Wean Yourself from Your Smartphone
New
Insights into Quantum Dynamics and Quantum Chaos
Microsoft Makes Windows 8.1 Mouse-Friendly
ICANN Chief: Russia, China Will Not Hijack Internet Oversight
Researchers
Open Path to Finding Rare, Polarized Metals
Lithuania's President Relays Greetings via Amateur Radio CubeSat
Reversible USB Cable
Design Shown for First Time
First Sentinel Satellite Ready for Launch Tomorrow (ready
to attack the
Nebuchadnezzar)
The Science
of Champagne Fizz
New Field of "Strain Engineering" Could Open up Areas of Materials Research
4/3/2014
Pentagon Gives Weight to Electronic Warfare
Ericsson
Accused of Paying Bribes to Win Greek Contracts
Johnson Space Center
Seeks Partners to Market NASA-Developed RFID Technologies
Amazon Launches TV
Streaming and Gaming Device
Carbon
Nanotubes Grow in Combustion Flames
MEMS Mics Pass
$1B Milestone
Nanosheets and Nanowires
Shop and Charge: Stores Offer Cellphone Charging (they'll
read its contents while you shop)
Washington Aeronautic Safety Law Exempts Amateur Radio "Guyed Towers"
GaN-on-Diamond HEMT with 3x Increase in Power Density over GaN-on-SiC
April Schools' Day: School Canceled Thanks to IT System Hack
A&T
Looking to Hire 3,000 Sales Staff
Pentagon Wants Teamwork out of Drones
India to Have Own Satellite Navigation System by 2015
BlackBerry
Ends T-Mobile US Partnership
"Bin Laden is Dead and General Motors is Alive" (not so
much... to wit:
al quaeda,
ignition switch)
4/2/2014
The Internet's Best April Fools Gags
Tesla Motors Model S Highly Vulnerable to Hacking
LinkedIn Email Addresses
Exposed by Plug-in Software
Tektronix TBS1000B-EDU DSO Designed with Students in Mind
BlackBerry 10 Passes DISA's 'Full Operational' Tests
ARRL Calls for Timely, Visible FCC Amateur Radio Enforcement
Major Solar Flare on March 29 Caused Radio Blackout for Several Minutes
Cell Tower Worker Deaths Prompt OSHA to Scrutinize Industry More Closely
Top 20 IC Vendors 2013
25 CEOs Who Started as Engineers
German
Regulator to Claw Back Radio Spectrum from Merged Mobile Networks
Political
Unrest and Economic Slowdown Fail to Dampen Thailand's Appetite for Mobile Phones
Microsoft Expected to Unveil Windows 8 Updates at San Fran Conference
Intel to
Pump $100M into Chinese Mobile Device Developers
Datacenters
Drive 100G Race
Feds to Require Rearview Cameras on Vehicles in 2018 (more
cost added unnecessarily - like Bluetooth tire pressure sensors)
4/1/2014
High-Altitude Balloon Flight to Carry APRS and Crossband Repeater
Biggest Source of DOD's Cyber Threats: Inept Co-workers
IPO Fever Running into Trouble as Deals Struggle
Bluetooth
Smart's Rise from Obscurity to Mainstream
Tesla to Add Triple Underbody Shield and Better Fire Protection to Model S
Heat-Conducting Polymer Cools Hot Electronic Devices at 200° C
BlackBerry Reports $5.9B
Annual Loss (the mass media did this to them IMO)
BlackBerry Wins Sales
Ban Against Copycat Keyboard for Apple's iPhone
A Tax Break to Anchor Tech Growth in San Francisco
Return to Historic Growth Rates for OSD Semis
L.A. TV Stations Show Broadcast Channel Sharing for 600 MHz Auction is Possible
Google Says Government
Requests 'up 120%' in 4 Years (faux outrage, it's a trade
for perks like
cheap jet fuel)
Fabricating Nanostructures with Silk Could Make Clean Rooms Green Rooms
Wireless Electricity? It's Here
Apple Files Patent
for Transparent Display Screen
Scientists
Watch Nanoparticles Grow
