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2/28/2014
Tesla Plans Battery Factory in Nevada; Employ 6,500
Battery-Free Technology Brings Gesture Recognition to All Devices
Boeing to Sell Phone That Can Self-Destruct
New Army Manual Combines Cyber, Electromagnetic Operations
IBM
Begins U.S. Layoffs
Superabsorbing Design May Lower Manufacturing Cost of Thin Film Solar Cells
Scientists Twist Sound with Metamaterials
A New Push to Solve Wireless Charging
U.S. Consumers
Increasingly Shopping on Mobile Phones
AirWatch Chairman on BlackBerry: 'Hope Is Not a Strategy'
(you need hope AND change)
Atom Smasher's Farewell Sets Stage for New Physics Era
FCC's Clyburn: Study Not Intended to Chill Speech
(bullshite)
Energy Firm
Cyber-Defence 'Too Weak', Insurers Say
UK Spy Agency Hacked Millions of Yahoo Webcams
Decline of Bronze Age 'Megacities' Linked to Climate Change
(they had SUVs and incandescent bulbs 4,000 years ago?)
Russian Spy Ship Docked in Havana (Bay of Pigs redux)
2/27/2014
Secretive Boeing Black Smartphone Appears on FCC Website
Key Found to Controlling Electronic and Magnetic Properties of Mott Thin Films
Senator Calls for Total Ban of 'Dangerous' Bitcoin
LTE
Built-in GM Cars: No Smartphones Required
Optical 'Nanocavity' to Boost Light Absorption in Semiconductors
Top 10 Semi R&D Spenders
Handset Makers Go Big on Smartphones
Silicon-Germanium Chip Sets New Speed Record
Introducing the Quantum Droplet
ARRL to File "Friend of the Court" Brief in Ohio Antenna Case
Qualcomm Working with Google on Connected Cars
Chinese Officials Reportedly Shut Some Businesses as Pollution Soars
IEEE
& MEMS Industry Group Team up on Standards
Google's Project Ara and Modular Smartphones Explained
Data Storage Capacity Enhanced by Mixing Hard and Soft Magnetic Materials
With Tech Outsourcing, the Internet Can Be 'A Scary Place'
2/26/2014
Pentagon to Shrink Army to Pre-WWII Level ('American
dominance in the seas, sky and space can no longer be taken for granted' - fundamental
change)
Cell Phone Peeping Tom Beaten by Victim's Boyfriend
After Huge Defense Cuts, What Lies Ahead? (beating
swords into EBT cards)
Scientists Demonstrate First Contagious Airborne WiFi Virus
DARC Questions BPL/PLT Emission Measurement Method
IBM Sets New
Data Transfer Speed Record
Self-Charging Battery Gets Boost from Nanocomposite Film
Microscopic Component to Foil Electronics Counterfeiters
Is Your Spacecraft Flying Reliable Chips?
Scientists
Complete the Top Quark Puzzle
BlackBerry Unveils New Q20 Phone
If You Think You're Anonymous Online, Think Again
End in Sight
in Long Search for Gravity Waves (gonna stop looking
for them?)
Microsoft to Cut Windows Price 70% to Counter Rivals
Google's Eric Schmidt to Give $1M 'Tech-for-Good' Grants
Apple Finally Patches Massive OS X Security Bug
2/25/2014
Phones for Outsmarting Snoopers Get Pitched to Mass Market
LinkedIn Goes to China
Intel Touts New Ultra-High-Speed Wireless Data Technology
More CubeSats Expected to Deploy from ISS This Week
Blackberry Stock Rises on Ford Tie-up Reports (good news,
finally!)
DoD Looks to Share, Better Use Spectrum
Mozilla Plans $25
Smartphone for Emerging Markets
Smartphone Prices
Race to the Bottom
Teenage
CEO Speaks at EE Live!
Samsung Galaxy S5 has NFC, Fingerprint ID, PayPal
Brazil, Europe Plan Undersea Cable to Skirt U.S. Spying
(wasn't the world supposed to love us by now?)
Deutsche Telekom
Accelerating its Migration to All-IP Network
Mobile Advertising
Reach Has Doubled over Past Year
Why Google Could Merge with Verizon
The 50 Smartest Companies (RF Cafe, at #51, just missed
the list)
Pentagon Plans to Shrink Army to Pre-World War II Level
2/24/2014
Fiber Lasers Could Accelerate Fielding of High-Energy Weapons
DOD Aims for Proactive Spectrum Strategy
U.S. Air Force Reveals Neighborhood Watch Spy Satellite Program
3D
Printing Takes on Metal at Amsterdam Lab
Positive Book-to-Bill for SEMI
Nanoscale Pillars Could Radically Improve Conversion of Heat to Electricity
Security Failings
in Home Routers Exposed
Windstream to Cut
Jobs Following $25M FCC Fine
Researchers
Propose Using Distant Quasars toTest Bell's Inequality
Imec Makes 79 GHz Transmitter on Low Power CMOS
A Step Closer to a Photonic Future
5G Needs MIMO, Multi-GHz
Fatwa Issued: 1-Way Trip to Mars Prohibited in Islam
2/23/2014
Growing Fleet of Electric Cars Will Strain Aging Electrical Distribution Systems
FCC's H-Block Spectrum Auction on Life Support
Real-Time
View of Battery Electrochemistry
'Windfalls of War': Companies with Spotty Records Making Billion$ off Afghanistan ("Beware
the military-industrial complex" - Eisenhower)
2/21/2014
FCC Wades into the Newsroom (big deal - nothing Kim Jong
Il wouldn't do)
New Study Reveals Communications Potential of Graphene
JPL Scientists Ask Industry for CubeSat Camera Able to Take Color Images of Near-Earth Asteroid
New Laser for a
Faster Internet
Electron's Mass More Precisely Measured
Air Force to Swap 5,000 BlackBerrys for iOS Devices (
Google Unveils
Smartphone with 3D Sensors
Royal Canadian Mint picks NFC for Virtual Currency Pilot
Steve Jobs Getting 2015 Stamp (used to have to be dead
10 years to get stamp)
Nanoscale Pillars Could Radically Improve Conversion of Heat to Electricity
Vibration Energy the Secret to Self-Powered Electronics
Gravity-Style
Space Debris Threat from Giant Satellite Explored
Total Inductance in the Return Path: Rule of Thumb #7
AT&T Snags 700 MHz and AWS Spectrum Licenses from Cable Firm
In the Age of the Micro-Miniature
Nerd Factor Aside, Bluetooth Headsets Are Useful on the Go
2/20/2014
Chip Makes Engine Sounds for Quiet Electric Cars (sad,
sick)
Assistance for Laid-Off Workers Gets Downsized
Startup
Claims Cellular Breakthrough
FCC Proposes to Fine Texas Radio Amateur $7k for Malicious Interference
Google: How Not to Be a 'Glasshole' (gotta love the headline!)
FCC to Try Again on Net Neutrality
Wireless Charging
Shift Ahead (more components, lower efficiency, higher
cost, more ambient RF noise - how is that green?)
Canada Wireless Spectrum Sale Nets C$5.27B
When GPS Falters, Where Will the Military Turn?
Fujitsu Develops
NFC Enabled Gloves
Scientists Discover Bulk Material That Exhibits Monolayer Behavior
Computer
Generated Math Proof is Too Large for Humans to Check
3D Dead-Reckoning Makes Car Navigation Smart
World's Smallest Reed Switch Makes Technology Easier to Swallow
Official Forecast of the U.S. Government Never Saw This Winter Coming
(Warm Earthers)
"Reporters w/o Borders"
Rates U.S. Freedom of Press at #46
2/19/2014
'Outernet' Could Beam Free Wi-Fi to Entire Earth (um,
free? I doubt it)
Superconductivity in Orbit: Scientists Find New Path to Loss-Free Electricity
Fractal Wire Patterns Enhance Stretchability of Electronic Devices
84% of Emerging
Market Operators Pushing Mobile Data Services to Prepaid Customers
(now Sub-Saharan warlords can play Angry Birds online)
After 400 Years, Mathematicians Find New Class of Solid Shapes
Controlling
Magnetism with an Electric Field
Iranian Hacking of Navy Computers Reportedly More Extensive Than Thought
Windows Phone Users to Get More NFC Controls
German Chancellor Proposes Europe-Only Network
Why Retailers Aren't Protecting You from Hackers
Navy's First Laser Gun Could Target Drones, Small Craft
(fried Somali pirates come to mind)
India to Simplify
Taxes on Mobile Phones to Boost Local Production
Quantum
Communication Scheme Provides Guaranteed Security w/o Quantum Memories
Apple Looks to Cars and Medical Devices for Future Growth
Planning Air Battles with Dogfighting Drones
Misconceptions of Science and Religion Found in New Study
2/18/2014
U.S. Navy Ready to Deploy Laser Weapon for 1st Time
European Visitors
'Turn Phones Off' to Avoid Charges
Super-Secure, Temporary Texts Draw Interest of Business Crowd
Battery with Liquid Electrodes Can Be Recharged or Refilled
At Newark Airport, the Lights Are On, and They're Watching You
Increasing fMAX for InP/GaInAsSb Transistors
EU Mobile App Sector
to Employ 5M by 2018
Harvesting Light the Single-Molecule Way
Intel Squeezes x86 into SD Card
World-Record Micrometer-Sized Converter of Electrical into Optical Signals
NIST/JPL Technology Decodes More Information from Single Photons
FCC and Manufacturer Conclude Consent Decree on Marketing of Noncompliant Device
Einstein's
Conversion from Belief in Static to Expanding Universe
S. Carolina Arrests
Woman for 9 Year Overdue Video
Push to Boost Computer Science Learning, Even at Early Age
1:4 Americans Unaware That Earth Circles Sun (I guess
the WH never texted it to their o-phones)
2/17/2014
Smartphone 'Kill Switch' Proposed by New Federal Law
Google Plotting
10Gbps Broadband Service to the Home
Physicists Produce Potentially Revolutionary Material
Special Forces 'Iron Man' Suit Prototypes Arrive in June
(from Stork Industries?)
IBM Invests in New $5B Chip Fab in India
World's Most Powerful Airborne 3-D Laser Imager
Decade Long Study
Finds No Link Between Mobile Phones and Cancer
End of
Startup Era? Chips Face Innovation Gap
Angela Merkel
Proposes Europe Network (the builder always has a copy
of the key)
Debut of Radar Signature Analysis of Electrically Large, Complex Targets
New Pomegranate-Inspired Design Solves Problems for Li-Ion Batteries
Pains & Gains on Tech Street
How Most Anyone Can Find Photos of Secret Government Sites
2/16/2014
Vodafone
Plows $3.2B into India Spectrum
Internet of Things, Part 1: God's Gift to the NSA
Mac OSX Imitated
in Latest North Korea System (think will Apple sue for
patent infringement?)
Space Junk Endangers Mankind's Usual Course of Life
Israel Laser Shield Moves Closer to Deployment
2/14/2014
Facebook
Graph Reveals Who You Love (a Valentine's Day headline
for you)
GPS Pioneer Warns on Network's Security
Comcast to Buy Time Warner Cable for $45.2B
India Spectrum Auction
Ends with Bids Topping $9.8B
Mathematical Beauty Activates Same Brain Region as Great Art or Music
Apple in Conflict
Mineral 'Name and Shame' Crackdown
Chinese Company
Announces Plans to Invest in Alien Technology for RFID
Your Smartphone Could Replace Hotel Keys
The
'State' of Silicon Valley
Australia's
Telstra to Pay out A$1.8B to Shareholders as Profits Grow
Stirring-up Atomtronics in a Quantum Circuit
Over ½ of
U.S. Smartphone Owners Using TV-Related Apps Monthly
Massive Neutrinos Solve a Cosmological Conundrum
GaN Quantum Dots and Deep UV Light Emission
Silicon Wafer Revenues Declined in 2013
Defense Contractors Shore up Security Post-Snowden
2/13/2014
China's Smartphone
Market Hiccups As Growth Ends with 1st Sequential Decline
Lawrence Livermore Achieves 1st-Ever Break-Even Nuclear Fusion
Are
Wind Farms Changing Europe's Climate? (ultimate irony)
2014 "Will Be the Year of NFC" Says New AFSCM President
Google Ramps
up Chip Design
New Way to Measure Electron Pair Interactions
Annual Smartphone
Sales Surpassed Sales of Feature Phones for the 1st Time in 2013
Helical
Electron and Nuclear Spin Order in Quantum Wires
We Are Just Not Here Anymore
How to Survive the Next Wave of Technology Extinction
UK Needs Master Plan for Wireless Connected Cars
Leaked
Photos Show Larger, Rounded-Edged iPhone 6
2014 Predictions: State of Wireless Union in 2014 - Devices, OS and LTE
Chinese Engineers Work to Save 'Jade Rabbit' Moon Rover
What Are the Chances that a Particle Collider's Strangelets Will Destroy the Earth?
U.S. to Offer Companies Broad Standards to Improve Cybersecurity
2/12/2014
Patent
Suit Bills Found Wanting
Over 800 Million
Smartphones Using Indoor Location by 2018
Physicists Reveal Novel Magnetoelectric Effect
Huge Hack 'Ugly
Sign of Future' for Internet Threats
2 in 3 Phones to Come with NFC in 2018
Smart Antenna Configurations Improve 4G In-Building Wireless Coverage
World's First Entanglement-Enhanced Microscope
Helical Electron and Nuclear Spin Order in Quantum Wires
Engineer
Brings New Twist to Na-Ion Battery Technology
Legalisation in
the USA to Push Mobile Gambling Revenues Past $60B by 2018
(mostly welfare=taxpayer money lost)
FCC
Working on Plan to Fix Net Neutrality, Save the Internet
(we're from the government and we're here to help)
Galileo's Optical Illusion Explained by Neuroscience
Quantum
Computers Could Crack Existing Codes but Create Others Much Harder to Break
Gummy Material Addresses Safety Concerns of Lithium Ion Batteries
Air Force Expects Delay in GPS III Satellite Delivery
Virgin Galactic Space Flights Set for This Year
2/11/2014
Get Your Documents by Drone... in Dubai
Iridium Unveils a Global, Wi-Fi Satellite Hotspot (originally
named Iridium for 77-satellite constellation, but only launched 66 - should change name to
Dysprosium Communications)
Apple Could Put Quantum Dots Before Your Eyes
Team USA in Sochi: High-Tech Gear Spurs High Hopes
Nanomotors Controlled, for the 1st Time, Inside Living Cells
(gives new meaning to motor skills)
Top 10
Sensor Trends to Watch
Parents Unaware
of Dangers Faced by Children on Smartphones (lots of
oblivion parents raising oblivion kids)
Radio Amateurs of Canada Cautions Regulator Against Tower Rules Changes That Affect Hams
India's PC Market
Declined 19.9% in Q4 of 2013
Is Triboelectricity the Next Harvesting Source? (a new
rub in charging)
Chinese Tech Giant Lenovo Extends Its Reach in U.S.
NXP Reports Slowdown in NFC Revenue Growth
Contraption Beams Video into Your Eyeballs
SETI: Intelligent Alien Life Could Be Found by 2040 (or
not)
Canadians Get Cheaper
Roaming to Cuba (oh yeah, been a long time waiting for
that)
Nokia Releasing First Android Phone
2/10/2014
U.S. Military Funds
Mission Impossible 'Vanishing' Tech
IBM Getting out of IC Manufacturing
6 DIY Hacks for Measurement Tools
Arecibo Observatory Club to Establish New Amateur Radio Station
Chastened HTC Turns to Cheaper Smartphones in Search for Profit
What Noise Does the Electric Car Make?
NYPD Using Google Glass in Crime Fighting
Found: The First Porsche - And It Was Electric!
Proposed California Law Would Mandate 'Kill Switch' for Stolen Phones and Tablets
NASA Bets on Private Companies to Exploit Moon's Resources
Russian Telecoms Satellites Readied for March Launch
Crossover Sound
LinkedIn Buys Bright
Army Units Give Thumbs-Down to Battlefield Intelligence System
Broadcom Awards NI a Wireless Test License
Snowden Used Low-Cost Tool to Best NSA
2/9/2014
Google to Own $750M Lenovo Stake After Motorola Deal Closes
Operators to Launch
RCS Despite Lack of Business Case
LATSAT - The First Summit for Satellite Communications in LatAm
German Government
May Reduce Its Stake in Deutsche Telekom
Japanese Scientists Reveal the Best Way to Eat a Hamburger
(how did we manage to win WWII whilst eating hamburgers the
wrong way?)
2/7/2014
Canadian Regulator
Investigates Use of Satellites for Rural Telecoms
LinkedIn Shares Sink on Weak Outlook
Mobile Economy Growing
Faster Than Expected - Worth >$3T by 2017
CERN Eyes New Giant Particle Collider
Dayton Hamvention® Announces 2014 Award Winners
Mexico's Smaller
Mobile Networks in Merger Talks
DARPA to Re-Invent How We Search the Internet (route
everything through the new
NSA supercenter)
Sony to Sell PC Unit and Cut 5,000 Jobs
When It Comes to High-Speed Internet, U.S. 'Falling Way Behind'
Theorists Predict New Forms of Exotic Insulating Materials
NASA Boards the 3-D-Manufacturing Train
U.S. Government Wants Wireless Technology to Make Cars Safer
(wireless tech -cellphones - has made them unsafer[sic] in
the first place)
Google to Make
'Significant' Changes to Avoid EU Fine
Astronauts to Watch Winter Olympic Games from ISS (safest
location re Islamic terrorist threats)
Burning the U.K.'s Plutonium Stockpile Could Fast-Track New Reactors
U.S. Postal Service Announces Giant Ammo Purchase (just
have postal workers donate theirs)
2/6/2014
Intel Takes IT into
the Toilet
RadioShack Looking
at Closing 500 Retail Stores (no surprise)
Cuba's 5 MHz Band Comes with Strings Attached
Engineering Majors Continue to Earn Highest Starting Salaries
Ballistic Transport in Graphene Suggests New Type of Electronic Device
Chips
Break Sales Record in 2013
Nielsen:
Most Radio Listening Done Outside Home
Twitter Reports $645M
Loss for 2013
U.S. Export Control Reforms Advance
Improving Nanowire Transistor Linearity with Regrowth
Vanadium
Dioxide Research Opens Door to Multifunctional Spintronic Smart Sensors
Government
OKs Car-to-Car Talk
New Measurement
of Electron–Quark Scattering
Lawrence Livermore to Build Super Laser for ELI Facility in Czech Republic
Solving
a Physics Mystery: Those 'Solitons' are Really Vortex Rings
Slower Smartphone Growth Hits ARM Shares
2/5/2014
Counterfeit Mobile
Phones a $6B a Year Drain on Global Economy
2014 Capital Spending Up in Korea
Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle Limits Challenged
FCC's Auction 96 Pushes Past $1.2B (gov't only product
for sale is your airspace)
Improving Nanowire Transistor Linearity with Regrowth
Reshoring's a Reality – Manufacturing's Coming Back
Rice Lab Clocks 'Hot' Electrons
First
Evidence of Common Brain Code for Space, Time, Distance
Watching Nanoparticles
Grow
4G Connections to
Increase at a CAGR of 69% from 2013-2018
Diamond Defect Boosts Quantum Technology
DOD Wants 'Big Mechanism' for Mining Research Data
Power Line Communication Implementation for DC Applications
Metal-Free Flow Battery Show Promise for Grid Storage
(turn off ½ the world's outside lights for huge energy savings)
Target to Invest in Chip-Based Credit Cards
U.S. Army Faces Massive Recruiting Fraud Scandal (just
consider them 'morale
bonuses' like the IRS is getting)
2/4/2014
3 Killed, 2 Hurt in W. Va. Cell Phone Tower Collapse
IBM Claims to Make "First Fully Functioning" Graphene IC
Snowden: Canada
'Spied on Airport Travellers' Using Wi-Fi
NASA to Create
Coldest Spot in Known Universe
X-Rays Set to Reveal Electrons' Dance
Rail Riding Radio
Google Told
to Move Mystery Barge Due to Wrong Permits
Are Electronic Devices Making Kids Nearsighted?
1/3 of Employers
Will Use Biometric Authentication for Mobile Devices by 2016
DARPA Wants Ability to Turn Computer Chips into Dust
Google Sees Revenue
Per Advert Decline As Mobile Fails to Match Desktop Revenues
(opposite of what we've been hearing)
Nearly ½
of Australians Have Switched Providers in Past 3 Years
Researchers Time Plasmon-Generated Electrons Moving from Nanorods to Graphene
Yahoo Plans Return to Search Engine Roots
Tech Companies Reveal Scope of Secret Data Requests
European Shares Fall
After Heavy Losses in Asia, U.S.
2/3/2014
World's 1st Nonreciprocal Acoustic Circulator: A 1-Way Sound Device
(modeled after the human child - you speak, they don't hear)
5 Tech Tips for Enjoying the Super Bowl
Teenage Girl Burnt
When Apple iPhone Catches Fire
Physicists
Create Synthetic Magnetic Monopoles in the Lab (egad,
then 
was a lie?)
Space Squadron Shuttles Wideband Satellites, Boosting Comm Power
China
Bets on Homegrown OS
.com Gives Way to .bike and .single (that's .bs - .com
is still king)
Ericsson and Qualcomm
Test 300 Mbps Downloads over 4G Network
USAF Tells Industry to Prepare for Upcoming RF and Electro-Optical Research Program
FCC to Issue Report on 600 MHz Incentive Auction Structure in the Spring
"Honey Encryption" Bamboozles Attackers with Fake Secrets
Radio Amateurs Receive Rosetta Spacecraft Signals from Deep Space
FCC Chairman Calls for Transforming the Technology Used by Phone Systems
Lockheed Martin Powers on Second GPS 3 Satellite in Production
RFMD's Revenue Hit by Weakening at Two Largest Customers
Windows 8.1 Update May Boot to Desktop Mode
2/2/2014
FCC to Start Carrier Trials of IP-Only Voice Service
In
Situ Bandgap Tuning of Graphene Oxide Achieved by Electrochemical Bias
NSA Pursues Quantum Technology
Nearly Everyone Uses Piezoelectrics - Be Nice to Know How They Work
$10,000 Fine for Illegal Commercial Broadcasting
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