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1/31/2014
Another Super Bowl Ad Fest, This Time on the Cellphone
A New Twist to Sodium-Ion Battery Technology
Take Electronics Weekly's 2014 Engineering Salary Survey
Raytheon to Pursue Advanced Infrared Technology
Is It Time to Jump on the Graphene Bandwagon?
New Photodetector Nanotechnology Allows Photos in Near Darkness
Raytheon Back to Work on Next Generation Jammer
Curved Displays at Last
From Sensing Weapons to Measuring Jitter
Tesla Aims for Electric Car Coast-to-Coast Record
EU Group Mulls
Remote Car-Stopping Device for Police
Solar System Full of 'Rogue' Asteroids
Fujitsu to Merge Its
Mobile Phone and Smartphone Divisions
Thinking in Silicon
Brooklyn School Cutting Gifted Program to Boost Diversity
(dumbing down to the LCD)
FAA Grounds Brewery's Beer-Delivering Drone
1/30/2014
 Google
Sells Motorola Mobility Unit to Lenovo for $2.9B (China's
back door entry into U.S. phone market)
Salaries and Confidence
Rise for U.S. Tech Professionals
A 'Powerful Antenna in a Soldier's Pocket,' Thanks to Origami
NFL to Block Mobile Video Streaming at Super Bowl
Phosphorene: Graphene with a Bandgap
Physicists Create Synthetic Magnetic Monopole Predicted >80 Years Ago
Enhancing Silicon Carbide Epitaxy with High-Speed Rotation
FCC Opens Brief Window for Comments on WRC-2015 Draft Recommendations
The
Move to Mobile Continues
Researchers
Take Magnetic Waves for a Spin
FCC Auction 96: <20 Licenses Left Without bids
Active Power Control of Wind Turbines Can Improve Power Grid Reliability
Physicists See 27th Dimension of Photons
Facebook Revenues
Surges on the Back of Mobile Advertising Growth
Keeping Track of the Q4 Wireless Earnings Season
Humans Are One-Fifth Neanderthal (more like 1/5 of humans
ARE Neanderthals)
1/29/2014
DOD Acquisition Chief Forecasts R&D Cuts (very anti-science
and anti-technology)
ARRL Debuts Centennial "ARRL at 100" Video
H-Block Spectrum Auction Surpasses $456M after 12 Rounds
Low-Power
Spintronics: Magnetic Switch Gets Closer to Application
Mobile Data Traffic
Grew by 80% in 2013 as Download Speeds Improve
U.S. Frees Tech Companies to Give More Spying Data
Research Could Bring
New Devices That Control Heat Flow
Cuba Provides Its Hams a Slice of 60 Meters
Microwires as Mobile
Phone Sensors
Tactical Radio Testing Gets ULTRA Streamlined
Solar Charger for iPhones Is a Kickstarter Hit
Brits More Worried
About Companies Sharing Personal Information Than Government Spying
(because you can trust the government not to abuse you, right?)
Graphene-Like
Material Made of Boron a Possibility
Pentagon Concerned by China's New High-Speed Missile
Cow Thief Is 1st American Arrested, Jailed with Drone's Help
Swiss
Cheese Crystal, or High-Tech Sponge?
1/28/2014
Demonstration Features Reaper's Electronic Attack Capability
A 96-Antenna System Tests the Next Generation of Wireless
New Quantum Dots Herald a New Era of Electronics Operating on a Single-Atom Level
"Ham Video" Commissioning on ISS Set for Early February
Apple Shares Slump on Weak Forecast
Global Smartphone Shipments Top 1B
Milestone
New Flexible, Transparent Conductor Created
Telecoms Companies
Set to Create More Jobs in the UK Than in Any Other Sector
New
FCC Commissioner Hints at More Deregulation
Is Google-Samsung
Licensing a Big Event?
Google Puts Prescription Lenses in Glass' Frame
FBI Arrests 5 over
'Hackers for Hire' Websites
Tech Leader Quasi-Apologizes for His Nazi Rampage Analogy
Navy Asks All MUOS SATCOM Providers to Step Forward for Evaluation Tests
Tablet Ownership Rate
Reaches New High of 44% in the USA
Sales of iPhones Set Record for Quarter
1/27/2014
3-D
Graphene: Super-Capacitors from Sugar Bubbles
It's Facebook vs. Princeton in Study Smackdown
New Universal Method for Transparent Conduction on Nitride Semiconductors
Google's Motorola Aims to Make a $50 Smartphone
Staying
Cool in the Nanoelectric Universe by Getting Hot
A New Wrinkle in the Control of Waves
Material
Developed Could Speed up Underwater Communications by Orders of Magnitude
Iotera Develops
Active RFID Tag with 4-Mile Read Range
JILA Strontium Atomic Clock Sets New Records in Precision and Stability
NFC World Free Webinar on NFC and Access Control
When Nanotechnology Meets Quantum Physics in 1-D
As Windows XP Fades Away, Will Its Users Stick with Microsoft?
NSA Puts a Furry, Smiley Face on Its Kids Website (the
'NSA Youth')
8
Ways the 'Internet of Things' Will Impact Your Everyday Life
NGA
Maps the Future of Geospatial Intelligence
Tektronix
Acquires Picosecond Pulse Labs
1/26/2014
Stephen Hawking: 'There Are No Black Holes'
SEA Hackers Muck up CNN Sites
6 Months of
Job Cuts Underway at Sprint
Cooling Microprocessors with Carbon Nanotubes
What Makes Superalloys Super
A Radiation Detector in Your Smartphone
1/24/2014
Near Error-Free
Wireless Detection Made Possible
65% of All Email Gets Opened First on a Mobile Device
Why a Rejection Letter from Harvard or Other Top Colleges Can Be Helpful
(never mentions quotas being a big reason)
JILA Strontium Atomic Clock Sets New Records in Both Precision and Stability
'Fastest Ever' Broadband
Passes Speed Test
Qualcomm
Drives LTE-A to 5 GHz
0.1% of LTE Users Consume >50% of LTE Data
Smart Food Packaging Could Send E-Mail When Contents Go Bad
The Telegrapher's Galvanometer
New
HVEC Format Encodes Video with Nearly 50% Smaller BW
New Radios to Improve SOCOM's Tactical Communications
World's Fastest Supercar Might Soon be Electric
Take Electronic Weekly's Salary Survey
Qualcomm Acquires Patents from HP to Bulk up Portfolio
NASA Launching Newest Communication Satellite
Adults Still Think About Numbers Like Kids
1/23/2014
Kazakh Mathematician May Have Solved $1 Million Puzzle
Chinese Internet Traffic Redirected to Small Wyoming House
(this is weird)
Electronics Manufacturing in U.S. and Canada to Resume Growth in 2014
Startup Thinks Its Battery Will Solve Renewable Energy’s Big Flaw
Texting Changes the Way We Walk
BlackBerry to Sell Most of Its Canadian Real Estate (tragic)
Canada
to Get Five 60 Meter Channels
Foundries Flourishing, says McLean Report
Nighttime Smartphone
Use Zaps Workers' Energy
Chrome Browser Becomes
Eavesdropping Tool
China's Busap to Deploy
100,000 Wi-Fi Hotspots in Public Transit Buses
Target Hack a Tipping Point in Moving Away from Magnetic Stripes
Power Over
Ethernet Group Forms
Measure a 75Ω cable with a 50Ω VNA
Antimatter Beam Could Help Solve Physics Puzzle
Actual Unemployment is 37.2%, 'Misery Index' Worst in 40 Years
(20% of U.S. households get
food stamps)
1/22/2014
You Can Now Quit Your Job Via a Text
Engineering Graduates Welcome Manufacturing Opportunity
Foxconn Managers Arrested
in iPhone Components Bribery Investigation
Industry Suggests New Terms to Replace COTS
Orbiting Surveillance System Protects Satellites from Space Junk
New Security Report Confirms Everyone Is Spying on Everyone
(we spy on them; they spy on us)
Supreme Court to Decide If Warrant Needed to Search Cellphone
BlackBerry Boosted
by U.S. Defense Order
Samsung 'Infringed'
Apple's Auto-Complete Text Patent
Scientists Accidentally Capture Ball Lightning
Manage EMI from High-Speed Digital Interfaces
Hackers Delight: Worst Password of the Year Goes to '123456'
LG to Start Sales
of Curved Smartphone in Europe
Stick-on
Screens Open New Vista for Window Projections
Eastern VHF-UHF-Microwave Conference Set for April 11-13
85 Richest People Own as Much as Bottom Half of World's Population
1/21/2014
FCC Implements Lower 700 MHz Interoperability Plan
12 Outdated
Web Features That Need to Disappear in 2014 (lots of things
to hate)
Still Texting? OMG, That's Already So Old-School
Army Strikes Deal for Inflatable SATCOM Antennas
New Guide Promotes FUNcube-1's Educational Value
Peeking into Schrodinger's Box
In China, U.S. Tech Firms Weigh 'Snowden Effect'
Millions of Passwords
and Email Details Stolen in Germany
Putting
Quarks on a Virtual Scale
Romania's Regulator
Consults on Radio Spectrum Auction Plans
Plastic Crystals Open up Possibilities for Novel Materials
Accenture Wins Contract for Obamacare Enrollment Website
(formerly Arthur Andersen, renamed due to
ENRON scandal involvement - politics as usual)
Survivor's Guide to Bullies, Backstabbers and Bastards
Could Future Smartphones
Be Powered by Sugar?
Rosetta Comet Chaser Phones Home
Researchers
Demonstrate Proof of Creation of a Mirror by Optical Matter
1/20/2014
Tiny Antenna Threatens the TV Networks' Airspace
Natural 3D Counterpart to Graphene Discovered
Connected TVs, Fridge Used in Global Cyberattack
ESA Hopes for Sign of Life from Comet-Chasing Rosetta Spacecraft
The Old Man: Rotten
QRM, by HPM
Huge Data Theft Hits
S. Korea
TSMC: Solid
Growth in Q4 Backed Up by Mobile
Telepresence Machine to Watch the Kids or Visit Grandma
Rumor Mill: Sprint to Soon Launch Wi-Fi Calling
Spammers Buy Chrome Extensions and Turn Them into Adware
Yokogawa Combines Scope and Power Meter in One
FCC's Wheeler Vows to 'Fight' After Net Neutrality Rules Struck Down
Israel Plans Laser Interceptor 'Iron Beam' for Short-Range Rockets
Does Technology Restrict Creativity?
Mystery Rock Appears on Mars Surface
Army Focuses on Augmented Reality for NIE 15.1
1/19/2014
Intel to Reduce Global Workforce by 5% in 2014
Passwords Flow Freely at Starbucks
Sprint Readies
Bid for $50B T-Mobile Takeover
Boeing Space Surveillance System Reduces Risk of Satellite Loss by 66%
3DIC Market to Reach $7.52B by 2019
1/17/2014
Superconducting Spintronics Pave Way for NextGen Computing
Apple Patent Combines NFC, Bluetooth and WiFi for Mobile Payments
Sprint MVNO Scratch Wireless Offering 'Free' Wi-Fi-Based Service
Google Unveils Smart
Contact Lens to Measure Glucose Levels
5% Semi Growth Expected for 2014
GSA: LTE at 263 Networks and Going Strong
Beijing Air Pollution at Dangerously High Levels (EPA shuts
down U.S. polluters yet our hypocritical gov't happily trades w/China)
China Mobile Kicks off Apple iPhone Bonanza
On-Chip Interference Between Pairs of Photon Sources Created
The Last Half Century: Wirewound Resistors Part 1
Starbucks Mobile Payments App Caught
Storing Passwords in Plain Text
TSMC: Solid
Growth in Q4 Backed Up by Mobile
Smaller
Army Aviation Will Stress Sensors, Drones
NASA Researchers Push Space Fuel Cell Technology
3.5 Million British
Kids Under Eight Now Have Tablets
New Technique for Probing Subsurface Electronic Structure
1/16/2014
Apple to Refund $32.5M
to Parents Whose Kids Made in-App Purchases (pocket change
to them)
BAE Systems Announces DARPA Insight Team
Congress Offers Glimmer of Hope for Incandescent Light Bulb
Google Wants to Run Your Home with Nest
Ford Targeted in GPS Tracking Dust-up
QST Contributing Editor Jack (John) Troster, W6ISQ, SK
Chicago and Washington Transit to Get NFC Tickets
Intel's Newest Fab to Be Mothballed
Japan Scientists Test Tether to Clear up Space Junk
U.S. Defense Contractor Tried to Smuggle F-35 Blueprints to Iran
(what difference, at this point, does it make?)
First 3D-Printed Metal Part Flies on UK Military Jet
E-Commerce Competition Intensifies in China
IBM, Samsung &
Qualcomm Among Top Patent Recipients
UK Regulator Acts
to Reduce Accidental Roaming Along National Borders
Microsoft Extends
Security Fixes for Windows XP to 2015
U.S. Cyber Command Gets Big Boost in Spending Bill
1/15/2014
NSA Devises Radio Pathway into Computers
Huawei Equipment Being
Removed from UK Government Offices over Spying Concerns
China's Huawei Says Unaudited 2013 Operating Profit Rose >40%
IBM Turns
to Semiconductor Packaging Post-Moore’s Law
Why Einstein Will
Never Be Wrong (interesting)
U.S. Court Partially
Overturns Net Neutrality Regulations
Widely Varying Forecasts for 2014 Semi Market
U.S. Out of Top 10 Most Economically Free Countries
Electricity
Helps Spider Webs Snatch Prey
Air Force Lab's New 20-Tflop Computer Will Mimic Human Brain
(...in embryo form?)
What Your Candles and TV Screen Have in Common
2014 Will Be Year for Voice-Controlled Mobile Apps
6 Trends the Telecom Industry Should Look out For in 2014
Peel-off NFC Tags Seek Kickstarter Funding
Nearly Half of Mobile
Roaming Revenues to Come from Mobile Data by 2018
Tesla Surges on Strength of Fourth-Quarter Car Deliveries
Quantum-to-Classical Transition May Be Explained by Fuzziness of Measurement References
1/14/2014
Intel Surfs
Millimeter Waves to 5G
Global Electronic Warfare Market to Reach $15.6B by 2020
Phase Noise Analyzers Take Over from Scopes
3-D Printing Set to Break
out of Niche
Fake Phone Accessories
Seized in London
IARU Region 1 Monitoring System Notes New Russian OTH Radar on 20 Meters
Google Buys Nest Labs Smart Home Appliance Maker for $3.2B
FCC's Wheeler Stresses 'Values' in CES Debut (I'm
from the government, and I'm here to help)
Will Parking Problems Slow the Rise of Electric Vehicles?
USAF Surveys Industry to Find Companies Able to Upgrade GPS Satellite Waveform Generators
U.S. Telescope Transfer to Boost Space Surveillance Capability
Target Hack Is Wake-up Call on Privacy
Google Strikes Back in Patent Wars
The Inaccuracy of Measuring Accuracy
Canada Outlines Plans
for 2.5 GHz Spectrum Auction
More Than ½
of U.S. Adults Spend More Time with Computer Than Family or Friends
1/13/2014
'Superlens'
Extends Range of Wireless Power Transfer
GM Factory Installs
Smart RFID Bolts in Engine Block, Cylinder Heads
Theory
for Metamaterials That Act as an Analog Computer
Golden Path to Improved Contact Between Graphene and GaN
"Crisis? What Crisis?": New Semi Paradigm Adjustments for Capacity and Equipment Spending
Europe to Study Use
of UHF Spectrum for Mobile Broadband Services
Technology Uses Micro-Windmills to Recharge Cell Phones
(maybe they could also solve Holland's dam issues)
Price War in U.S. Mobile Market Raises Fear of Profit Hemorrhage
Researchers
Invent 'Sideways' Approach to 2-D Hybrid Materials
Antique Radio Classified to Resume Monthly Publication
Microsoft Hit in
Weekend of Hacking Attacks
Electric Buses with Wireless Charging Set for UK Runs in Milton Keynes
Organic Mega-Flow Battery Promises Breakthrough for Renewable Energy
More Well-Known U.S. Retailers Victims of Cyber Attacks
Ultra-Thin
Flexible Transparent Electronics Can Wrap Around a Hair
SpaceShipTwo Performs Highest Supersonic Test Flight to Date
1/12/2014
How iBeacons Could Change the World Forever
Internet of Things Poses New Security Risks
Christmas Delivery Finally for Space Station
Why Offices Are Ditching Their PC Computers for iPads
From BYOB to WYOD: How Wearables Will Transform Business
1/10/2014
70% of Adults Report 'Digital Eye Strain'
Ford Exec Say They Track Customer GPS Data... Then Backtracks
MEMS Resonator Outperformed Quartz in 2013
Smartphones Accounted for 80% of NFC Devices Shipped in 2013
Keeping Electronics Cool in the Antarctic: Harder Than You Think
Smartphones
Replace Keys in Smart Door Locks
The Best, the Worst and the Weirdest of CES 2014
Singapore Testing
Wi-Fi at Railway Stations
TV
and Radio Revenue Will Shift to Digital Thanks to Nielsen
Small Satellite Terminals Could Be Open to Cyberattacks
For PC Makers, the Good News on 2013 Is That It Is Over
Startup Gets $30M to Bring High-Energy Silicon Batteries to Market
Reality Check: Is Distance Really Dead?
Raytheon to Develop Strategic SATCOM System to Link Nuclear Forces to National Command Authorities
½ U.S. Consumers
Consider Access Phone While Driving Vital
TV Makers Look to Pack More Pixels into Your Home TV with 4K
1/9/2014
Explosion May Affect Silicon Supplies
Amateur Radio Showing Steady Growth in the U.S.
Phones Morph into
'Stun Guns' and 'Tricorders' (diagnostic devices on
Star Trek)
Yahoo Malware Turned European Computers into Bitcoin Slaves
Smartphones Accounted for 80% of NFC Devices in 2013
Chips Are
down for VCs, Wall Street
New Battery Material Could Help Wind Power Go Big (not
according to the numbers in the article)
Shift from Device Subsidies to Financing Could Bring Disruption
Class Trumps Race When It Comes to Internet Access (old
'experts' were wrong, new experts say wealth redistribution is the answer)
MS Speculation Focuses on Internal Candidates
BMW Shows off 'Drifting'
self-Drive Cars
China Mobile Tests
Voice over LTE in Guangzhou ('testing voice' for phones
seems backwards)
No Bids in Irish 1800
MHz Spectrum Auction
Can an Engineer Prevent the Unknown?
NASA Gets WH Approval to Extend ISS by 4 Years
DiCaprio to Leave Massive Carbon Footprint During Personal Space Launch
(yet another Hollyweird hypocrite)
1/8/2014
Agilent Spins off Electronic Test and Measurement Businesses into New Company Named Keysight
Technologies (stupid name - who knows what "Keysight" means?)
New iPhone Case Makes It Look Like a Blackberry
Forget Tweeting the Polar Vortex. Phones Fail in Sub-Zero Temps
Ultra-Flexible
Chip Can Be Wrapped Around a Hair
Intel Vows to Stop
Using 'Conflict Minerals' in New Chips (2010
SEC law requires self-reporting, so companies worry about public perception)
Penetration of Wi-Fi
in Car Systems to Reach Almost 60% in North America by 2019
2014 Predictions: Small Cells, Hetnets Set to Flourish
ARRL Reply Comments Cite "Fundamental Misunderstanding" of Symbol Rate Petition
Lenovo &
Panasonics Into NFC Products at CES
Wireless
Execs Make Waves at CES
Robots Invade Consumer Market for Play, Work
Tesla and Audi to Become AT&T Cars
Curved Smartphone
Displays Embark on Circuitous Path to Success at CES
Clear
Channel: The Only Company in America That Benefits from Traffic Jams?
SOCOM Asks Industry for Sensors, SIGINT, Biometrics
Intel Renames Its McAfee Security Brand (recall that founder
is now a suspected felon)
1/7/2014
Six Odd and Crazy Technologies at CES
Honeywell to Investigate Transient Electronic Components Able to Decompose on Demand
"Guccifer" Files Further Detail Hacking Spree
Samsung Shows off
Its Bendable TV
Sound Waves
Levitate Objects in 3 Dimensions
3D Printing Metals in Space
Solar Flux Record High Could Herald Better Conditions
China Suspends Ban on Video Game Consoles after More Than a Decade
RAMBO a Small But Powerful Magnet
Cleaning the Mobile Germ Warehouse
Hand-Held Devices
Drive Record BBC Sport Traffic
3-Star
System Could Test Einstein's Theory of General Relativity
Growth Returns to Tech, but Profits Will Not Be So Easy
Favour In-Flight Phone
Access? Depends on How Old You Are
Scientists
Find a Practical Test for String Theory (Occam's Razor
says let it die)
1/6/2014
Navy Eyes Next Generation of Electronic Warfare
GM Reveals First LTE-Enabled Cars with AT&T Service
U.S. Waived Laws to Keep F-35 on Track with China-Made Parts
Google to Push Android
into Motor Cars
RAF Jets Fly with 3D Printed
Parts
Five Trends to Watch at CES
Particle Physicists Ready to Go Beyond the 'God Particle'
CeCoIn5 Reveals New Secrets About How Superconductivity and Magnetism Can Be Related
Open Source RF Designs Can Interface with Leading FPGAs
ZTE Releases Magic
Radio Spectrum Solution
U.S. Pressuring South
Korean Network to Cancel Huawei Deal
Ireland Stirs Homegrown Flavor into Tech Scene
NGA Maps the Future of Geospatial Intelligence
Nanomaterials Could Enable Large, Flexible Touch Screens
60 GHz
DuoTargets Small Cells
Eastern U.S. on Track for Snowiest Decade Ever
1/5/2014
Attention, Shoppers:
You're Being Watched
2013 Was an Amazing Year for Tech
New Technologies, New Paradigms
Scientists Start Reexamining All Dark Matter Candidates
AT&T Offers
T-Mobile Customers $450 to Switch
1/3/2014
DARPA Eyes Jam-Proof Communications
FUNcube-1
(AO-73) Marks 6 Weeks in Space
Poland to Auction
off Radio Spectrum for LTE Services
Large-Aperture Planar Lens Antennas with Gradient Refractive Index
Using Sound to Levitate Objects, Move Them Midair
NSA 'Developing Code-Cracking
Quantum Computer'
Apple Could Be Hurt in Shift Away from Subsidies
New, Faster Internet – with Optimized Protocols
Researchers Find Ways to Minimize Power Grid Disruptions from Wind Power
Samsung Expected to Have $220B Sales Revenues
Brazil's RFID Professional
Certification Program Grant Accreditation to Its First Enrollees
Binary Bonbons (or 'How I Cracked the Christmas Cracker Code')
New
Salt Compounds Challenge Foundation of Chemistry
Tea Time: How Kettles
Whistle
Private U.S. Rockets Launch 2014 & Commercial Space Race in January
1/2/2014
Billionaires Worth $3.7 Trillion Surge as Gates Wins 2013
ZTE Creates
Mobile Devices Unit in Business Reorg
HP to Sack 30,000
W100AW is on the Air!
RIP
Edison Light Bulb
Ford to Unveil Solar Hybrid Concept Car at CES
iPhone Reportedly Fully Hacked by NSA Since 2008
3D Scanners Capture Clear Images in Darkness
White LEDs from Selective Epitaxy GaN Nanopyramids
China to Upgrade Homegrown GPS to Improve Accuracy
Snapchat Hack Affects
4.6 Million Users
Rural Operators Set for LTE Expansion, Regulatory Challenges
4 Unsettling Prospects for 2014
New Use for Coal: Glowing Nanodots
Civilian Photography Now Rising to New Level with Drones
Another
Rock Station Bites the Dust
1/1/2014
EDN Readers' Choice 2013: Toyota's Killer Firmware, Epic Apple Fails...
HP Lays off
5,000 More Employees
Smart Meters Exposed as Electricity Grid's Weakest Link (gee,
who'd have thought?)
Foundation for Amateur Radio (FAR) Invites Scholarship Applications
Biggest Tech Legal Battles to Watch in 2014
U.S. Bans Russia's GLONASS for Spying Fears (I'm sensing
irony here)
Millions of Snapchat
User Details Leaked Online
COTS Still an Awkward Description Two Decades Later
Half of All Brits Will Soon Have a Tablet
Cash Machines Raided
with Infected USB Sticks
Online Education Revolution Drifts off Course
End of TV Channels 0 and 1 Eliminates 6 Meter Restrictions in Australia, New Zealand
Apple Denies 'Back Door' NSA Access
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