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5/30/2014
Regulators May
Stymie 60 GHz Use
Worldwide WLAN Market Shows
Slowing Growth in Q1 of 2014
Artemis Claims pCell Can 'Blow the Doors off' LTE Spectral Efficiency
Common Semiconductors
Stabilized for Solar Fuels Generation
IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium Honors Ulrich Rohde, N1UL
Flexible, Transparent Thin Film Transistors Raise Hopes for Flexible Screens
"It's Time for Silicon Valley Firms to Disclose the Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Age of Their Workforce"
(oh, because it has not done very well without mandated diversity?)
Silicon Craft Unveils NFC Smart Poster with Multiple Touchpoints
Future of Online Ed Isn't Heading Where You Expect
China Cracks Down on Instant Messaging Services (where are the 'rights'
heroes on this?)
Cyberespionage Attacks Tied to Hackers in Iran
Police Interrogate Kids over Online
Abuse
Salary Survey Reveals Positive Signs in Job Market
Few Female
Engineers and Execs at Google
Edward Snowden Says He Was Trained 'As a Spy' (hard to believe the CIA
hasn't handled this guy yet)
Elon Musk to
Unveil Spacecraft to Ferry Astronauts
5/29/2014
Graduate Employers Struggling to Fill Vacancies
Supercaps Breakthrough:
Phone Case to Replace Battery
China Will Pass U.S. in Handset Revenue in 2014
Can Radio Continue to
Dominate the Dashboard?
Watch Dogs PR Stunt Causes Ninemsn
Office Evacuation
Milliohm Squawker Great at Finding Shorts on PCBs (remember the black &
yellow BumbleBee-per continuity checker?)
Zeroing in on the
Proton's Magnetic Moment
Northrop Grumman Samples E- and W-Band InP HEMT LNAs for Commercial as Well as Military Applications
Army
Opens Competition for Tactical Field Radios
Graphene and Painkiller Receptor Combined into Scalable Chemical Sensor
Demonstrating Destructive Quantum Interference Using Bose-Einstein Condensates
Telecommunication Satellite Eutelsat 3B is Taken to Target Orbit
Smaller Accelerators for Particle Physics?
Simple Question: What's a System?
Foxconn Global Ambitions Include Mobile Service
Diamond Planets May
Be More Common Than Astronomers Thought (Lucy?)
5/28/2014
Hackers
Locking iPhones, Demanding Ransoms
New Indian Government Urged
to Speed up Radio Spectrum Auctions
Apple Patents NFC Antenna That Works on All Sides of Mobile Device
LG Unveils Laser-Focus Enabled G3
Smartphone
Method Developed for Controlling Growth of Metal Crystals
Samsung Launches Phones for
Respected Old Generations (finally, a cellphone for me)
D-Day Special
Event Stations to Be Active
How Will 5G Compare to Fiber, Cable, or DSL?
Iran Judge Summons Facebook's
Zuckerburg to Court (advice
to Mark: don't go)
Graphene
to Make Large Scale Electricity Storage a Reality
Could Conflict Spur Technology Development?
Inventor Powers Implantable Medical Devices Wirelessly
Who's Using the Data Mined from Students?
Emergency Radios from Boeing to Be Ordered for Downed Pilots
Airbus Launches All-Composite, All-Electric Plane (sweet)
21-Year-Old Makes Astronomy Breakthrough
5/27/2014
Bell Labs Restored to Former Status
(time will tell)
1,200-Year-Old Tablet Computer Unearthed by Archaeologists (aLIENPad?)
WNPR Highlights the History of Amateur Radio and the ARRL
How to Steal Ideas from Everybody You Meet
Canada Relaxes Restrictions on Mobile Devices in Flight
Polarization-Engineered
High Mobility of 2-D Hole Gas in GaN
Going Dark: The Internet Behind the Internet (quite interesting)
Huawei Smartphone Sales Soar
As European Market Fragments
A Drone by
Any Other Name is … an RPA?
UofMD Establishes Orbital Debris Research Center
New Way
to Make Sheets of Graphene
UK's NPL Reveals Quantum
2.0 Science
Google Reportedly Working with Ruckus on Cloud-Based Wi-Fi Network
Argonne Scientists Discover New Phase in Iron-Based Superconductors
Robot Warriors Pose Ethical
Dilemma
Apple Wants Retrial in Samsung Patent Case
5/26/2014
Army Testing a Real-Time Smartphone System for the Battlefield
Are Camera Phones Ruining Your Memory?
BlackBerry Moves Beyond Mobile Devices
Meshnets Serve Communities When Internet Fails
Pentagon to Close 21 Facilities in Europe
Army of Robots
to Invade Amazon Warehouses
Google Working on 3D Image Tablet
Foxconn Employees Charged with
Bribery
Court Approves FCC Plan to Subsidize Rural Broadband Service
U.S. May Act to Keep Chinese Hackers out of Def Con Event
Radio Galaxy Discovery
Near Earth Spurs More Questions
Mexican Drug Cartels Terrorizing America Now (thanks to politicians coddling
Illegals for votes)
5/25/2014
Police Use
Cellphone Spying Device
New Graphene-Type Material
Created
Workers in
Si Valley Lawsuit Likely to Get Average of $4k
First
Broadband Wireless Connection ... to the Moon
New Zealand Mulls 700 MHz Allocation
Options
5/23/2014
Bluetooth Smart Starter Kit Targets Quick Prototyping
Predator Drone
to Get NATO-Worthy Euro Radio
Two 2-D
Materials Integrated into Single Electronic Device
How Much Return Loss Is Too Much?
DARPA Unveils
Hack-Proof Drone (how long until Iran snatches another one?)
Weak Electronics Sales
Pressure Best Buy, Sears
Busting Rust with Light
Nanodiamonds Created
in Coal Fade Away in Seconds
Liberating
Devices from Their Power Cords
School Teachers Group Says Computers
Negatively Affect Ability to Learn
China Plans Security Checks for Tech Firms After U.S. Indictments
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Transistors Constructed on 6 Carbon Nanotubes
HP to Cut 11,000 - 16,000
More Jobs
Lighting the Way to Graphene-Based Devices
BAE
Systems Cuts U.S. Business Sectors to 3
iMessage Flaw
Plagues Apple
5/22/2014
KickSat Re-Enters Atmosphere Without Deploying "Sprite" Satellites (bummer!)
Patent Reform? Experts Say
No
eBay Customers Must reset Passwords after Major Hack
New Lithium
Battery Created in Japan
AT&T to 1,500 to 3,000 Cell Sites Per Year for 'Foreseeable Future'
Cobham
to Buy Aeroflex in $1.46B Deal
GM Announces Another Flood of Recalls (aka
Government Motors, still billions of unpaid bailout $$$)
Circuits and Sensors
Direct from the Printer
BlackBerry to Make a Push into
M2M Market
World's Smallest, Fastest Nanomotor Built
Morgan Stanley Predicts Apple Will Include NFC in iPhone 6
U.S. Retailer Warned After Importing
Fake Samsung Smartphones
Measure Throughput of Cellular and WiFi MIMO Radios (Part 2)
Hackers
Can 'Un-Brick' Stolen iPhones
Some Types of Wormholes
May Stay Open Long Enough to Send a Photon Through
Increase in Q1 2014 Silicon Wafer Shipments
5/21/2014
FCC
Hopes to Raise $10B from AWS-3 Auction (gov't collects sooooo much $$$ from
citizens, then prints even more at will)
Team Visualizes
Complex Electronic State
UK Study to Look at Mobile
Phone Health Impacts on Children
China Bans Windows 8 on Government Computers
New Algorithm Shakes
up Cryptography
Sprint Hit
with Largest-Ever 'Do Not Call' Fine
Ham
Radio: Old Technology Gets New Respect
New Analysis Eliminates
Potential Speed Bump in Quantum Computing
'T-Ray' Tech Converts
Light to Sound for Weapons Detection, Medical Imaging
Chattanooga's Super-Fast Publicly Owned Internet
Oklahoma Grant Will Fund Amateur Radio-Based SKYWARN Location-Tracking System
Taxis to Collect Passenger Data
Verizon Wireless Super-Sizes LTE under 'XLTE' Banner
Army to Build
EMP- and Blast-Proof Launch Center
Lower Risk of Midair
Collisions for Small Aircraft
Billion-Dollar Tech Buyouts Since 2002
5/20/2014
British Telecom Hiring 1,600
New Engineers
NI Works with Nokia on 5G mm-Wave Prototype
Braille Based Mobile Phone Goes
on Sale
Algorithm Appointed Board Director
GPIB Won't
Die, Sorry About That (I cut my test automation software teeth on GPIB and
VB)
ARRL
Offers New Amateur Radio PSAs
Engineers Invent Way
to Beam Power to Deeply Implanted Medical Chips
Freak Frequency from Outside Milky Way Baffles Astronomers (Contact?)
Intrado Delivers First Interoperable
Text-to-911 Service
John Houbolt's Passing Has
Lessons for All Engineers
Electrons Hurtle into Interior of New Class of Quantum Materials
Light Turned into Matter After
80-Year Quest
Improved Supercapacitors
for Super Batteries, Electric Vehicles
Liberating Devices from Their
Power Cords
Scholars Debunk Claims of High-Tech Workers Shortage, Question Industry's 'Free Pass'
Cyber Charges
Against China Could Raise Stakes for U.S. Commands
5/19/2014
Dramatic Improvements
in Nanogenerator Efficiency for Wearable, Implantable Electronics
Jupiter's
Great Red Spot Shrinking (ummm... global climate change w/o mankind's presence?)
Domestic Outsourcing: A Key Component in Successful Reshoring
Vietnam's
Anti-China Protests Force Foxconn Shut Down
Nearly ½ of Q4 Smartphone Sales Will Be Financed
Flexible Supercapacitor Raises Bar for Volumetric Energy Density
Registration Open for RFID Journal's
10th Annual European Event
Quantum Correlations Make You Never Fail
a Test Again
Russia
Loses $275M Satellite in Latest Rocket Failure
FCC Lays out 600 MHz Auction Rules, Unleashes AWS-3
New imaging Technology:
Phase Contrast X-Ray
5/18/2014
Lighting the Way to Graphene-Based
Devices
Quantum Simulator Gives Clues About Magnetism
1-nm-Thick
Graphene Engine Mimics 2-Stroke Engine
Tricking the Uncertainty Principle
Electricity
as Utility. A Model for the Internet?
5/16/2014
MoD's
Quantum Compass Offers Potential to Replace GPS
Error at IBM Lab Finds New Family of Materials (serendipity on display)
FCC Approves Plan to Consider Paid Priority on Internet
Android Device Can Detect Types and Levels of Radiation
Minnesota Introduces U.S.'s First Mobile
Phone Kill Switch Bill
Magnetic Topological Insulators 1,000x More Energy-Efficient for Switching
Verizon, AT&T Restricted
in 2015 Spectrum Auction (they mustn't have donated enough to the controlling
political party)
World Telecommunications and Information Society Day is May 17
Battery Sales Show Tesla Has a Long Way to Go
New Fast Texting World Record Holder
Argentina to Hold its First
Radio Spectrum Auction in 15 Years
DISA
Plan Outlines a Mobile, Cloud-Based Military (yeah, that sounds very secure)
What the Wireless Industry Is Saying About the FCC's 600 MHz Incentive Auction Rules
U.S.
House Committee Expresses Support for MARS Program
FD-SOI Is at 'Tipping point'
Government Mulls Penalties for Cyber Bullies
5/15/2014
Samsung to Pay Compensation
to Settle Cancer Allegations
Intensive Mobile Phone Users at Higher Risk of Brain Cancers
Petition
to Expand RFID Use on 70 Centimeters Withdrawn
Will Elon Musk Fund a Nikola Tesla Museum? (put a giant condom over it, call
it "art," and the government will fund it)
Is There Gold for
EEs in Silicon Valley's Hills?
FCC Vote Could Determine How Fast, Well, Cellphones Work
Senators Intend to Amend Federal Student Privacy Law
Autodesk Unveils 3D Printer
Nanowire Bridging Transistors Open Way to Next-Gen Electronics
Manchester Deal Puts Graphene on Road to Commercial Market
Ultrafast
Laser Technique Developed to Observe Electron Action
High-Speed Solar
Winds Increase Lightning Strikes on Earth
Gallium
Market to Grow 40% by 2020 (that's the semiconductor, not the creepy being
in Hobbit movies)
EU Court Tells Google That People Have 'the Right to Be Forgotten'
Grading the Top U.S. Wireless Carriers in Q1 2014
The Ever-Increasing Value of Modeling
5/14/2014
WiFi in Your Car for
$150 Per Month
China to Deter Unauthorized Use of Radio Frequency
It's Never Too Early
to Study Engineering
The End
of Polished and Perfect Software (huh? when has it even been?)
Physicists Show Unlimited
Heat Conduction in Graphene
Russia to Only Use ISS Until 2020
Is Mobile
Video the Tip of the Iceberg?
Google's $1,500 Glass Costs Just
$153 to Manufacture (odds
fish! you mean the Google folks are out for profit just like those the 1%ers they deride?)
Google Will Now Sell Glass to Anyone in U.S. Who Wants It, Indefinitely
Transistors
That Wrap Around Tissues
The Threat
of a Cloned Iranian Stealth UAV
Cobalt Encapsulation Extends
Copper to 10 nm
When Gadgets Break: Repair or Replace?
Analog Claims Lowest Noise Density for 14-Bit, 1Gsample/s ADC
BlackBerry Launches Low-Cost Phone
The Next Generation of In-Car Entertainment
5/13/2014
Fabless Chip Companies Ranked by
2013 Sales
Under Pressure,
FCC Revises Fast Lane Plan
Android
App Quickly Connects Army's Tactical Radios
Radio Module for IoT
Researchers Develop Covert Optical
Communication System
Is Your Tech Keeping You Awake?
Operation
of Longest Superconducting Cable Worldwide Started
Study Finds Students Taking
Longer to Graduate from High School
German Government Advised to
Sell Deutsche Telekom Stake
AT&T
in Talks to Buy DirecTV for Nearly $50B
A Multi-Billion Dollar Military Satellite Market
Plaintiff in Silicon Valley Hiring Suit Maligns Deal
Where is Casey Kasem?
(wow, name from the past - I grew up listening to his Top 40 Countdown in the 1970s)
LAX Radar Failure Due to U2 Spy Plane Solved
Flexible Supercapacitor Raises Bar for Volumetric Energy Density
As Drones Fly in Cities and Yards, So Do Complaints
5/12/2014
Digi-Key Launches Freescale Freedom Board Design Contest
Patent Surfaces Detailing a Facebook
Wi-Fi Hotspots to Pass 7M in 2015
As Traffic Offload Increases
Rotational X-ray Tracking Uncovers Hidden Motion at the Nanoscale
Metamaterial Applications
a Step Closer to Reality
U.S. Firm Fined for Making
Automated Calls to Mobile Phones
ARRL Centennial Convention Attracting Growing List of Vendors and Exhibitors
'Killer Robots' to Be Debated at UN
The Direct Approach to
Microcavities
EE Time's April
Caption Contest Winner
How to Build a Gamma-Ray Laser with Antimatter
5/11/2014
New Microscope Sees What
Others Can't
Indian Telco Revenues up to €7B in Q4
2013
Florida Man Demands Right to Wed Computer
Q1
Semiconductor Trends and Update
London
Tops Super-Rich City List
5/9/2014
U. GA Students Post Ad for Hit Man to Avoid Taking
Finals
Engineering Majors: You're Hired!
Tech Giants Urge Rethink of Net Neutrality
Changes
FUNcube-2 Launch Set for
June 19
Exploring
the Magnetism of a Single Atom
USAF to Award Space Fence Contract to Track Orbital Debris
Solution to 2 Long-Standing Mysteries of Cuprate Superconductivity Found
68% of Americans Would Accept Risk to Retrieve Stolen Cellphone
NTT DoCoMo Partners with 6 Vendors on 5G
Researchers Build Acoustic Tractor
Beam
Navy
Steps up EW Attack Game with Growler
Military Seeks
to Blend Aircraft and Sensors to Keep Air Superiority in Dangerous Airspace
Handset Law to Check Korean
Telcos' Marketing Spending
Cablevision Wants to Use Wi-Fi to Shake up Cellular Data Market
New Delhi
Has World's Dirtiest Air (pity the people)
Apple Hiring Medical Staff Boosts
Wearable Technology Rumors
5/8/2014
Conference
Hopes to Put Miami on America's Tech Startup Map
Smaller Microchips That
Keep Their Cool
Military
UAV Market to Hit $6.35B by 2018
MIT Demonstrates
First Vertical GaN Diodes on Silicon
5G Performance – What Can We Expect?
Brightest
Atom Laser to Date Built
Carrington-Class CME Narrowly Misses Earth
Graphene for Real-World
Devices
Man Becomes Math Genius After Suffering Head Injury (hmmm...)
Iraq Gives Telcos Go-Ahead for
3G
Global Semi Industry Posts Highest-Ever Q1 Sales
Energy Device
for Flexible Electronics Packs a Lot of Power
Solving
a Mystery of Thermoelectrics
DIYers Inspire Hardware Renaissance in Silicon Valley
Fed Chief: 'High Degree' of Accommodation Still Needed (translation: keep pumping
fiat money into bankers' and fund managers' pots & pay me 0.5% interest on savings)
Chip Market's Bullish Run Continues
5/7/2014
No Danger from
Magnetic Fields in Electric Cars (well, that's a relief)
Tiny KickSat
'Sprite' Satellites May Not Deploy
Electronics
That Stretch at the Molecular Level
Target Date For AM Revitalization:
Halloween
iPhone
Bug Leaves Emails Vulnerable
Graphene-Analog Outperforms
Original
Android and Microsoft Smartphones
on the Rise Among Western European Government Employees
Clues
for Superconductivity in Iron-Based Material
Microsoft Files for Smartwatch Patent
Twitter Plunges as More Shares Hit Market
Wi-Fi Chipset Shipments to Near
18B Chipsets in Next 5 Years
Flexible
All-Carbon Electronics Integrated onto Plants & Insects
USAF to Outsource Middle East Communications (probably to an al Qaeda group)
China's Alibaba Files to Go Public in U.S.
Warning over Unintentional File Leak from
Storage Sites
More U.S. Business Closing Than Opening (per Census Bureau)
5/6/2014
WiGig Is Coming, Test Equipment
Close Behind
Canadian
Radio Amateurs Gain New 472-479 kHz Band
Terahertz Imaging
on the Cheap
Artificial Intelligence
and Electronic Warfare
Huawei Rules out Talk of a Stock
Market Listing
New York City Issues Tender
for City-Wide Wi-Fi Network (for always-connected drug dealers)
Physics
Students Devise Concept for Star Wars-Style Deflector Shields
Bill
Gates No Longer Microsoft's Biggest Shareholder (world's richest man needs
a better barber)
Drone Journalism Can't Fully Take Flight Until Regulators Act
Balky Wi-Fi Above the Clouds
Is the Piracy Crackdown Doomed to Fail?
Global Internet User Base to Reach
3B by End of 2014
Rapid Synthesis Developed
for Bilayer Graphene and High-Performance Transistors
Sony Tape Smashes Storage Record
Kids Tracked by GPS Watch
FCC's Spectrum Screen Proposal Gives Advantage to AT&T, Verizon
5/5/2014
Superheavy Element 117 Confirmed
(suggested name: rfcafenium)
Using Mobile Technology for Work Linked to Higher Stress
Canadian Space Agency Supports 5 Studies on Microsatellites
Mathematicians Find Algebraic
Gold
When Hitting 'Find My iPhone' Takes You to a Thief's Doorstep (this is scary)
Wearable Tech Shakeup Ahead
Potential Benefits of a Laser-Based Interplanetary Internet
Elon Musk Halts Deal Between USAF and Russian Rocket-Makers (Mr. SpaceX)
Elon Musk,
Tesla Plan 'Gigafactory' Site (busy guy)
The Calm Before 2014's Tech Storm: Apple Will Bring the Rain
RFMD's Quarterly
Revenue Falls 11% to $256M
U.S. Jury Orders Samsung to Pay Apple $120M
5/4/2014
Huawei and Qualcomm Hit 300 Mbps with LTE-A
Physicists Confirm Existence of
New Meson Type
Playing
Pool with Carbon Atoms
2-D Semiconductors for
Really Small Electronics
How
to Make a Gamma-Ray Laser with Positronium
5/2/2014
Driver
Caught Using Jammer to Create 'Phone-Free' Bubble Around Him
Graphene Not All Good
Happy 50th Birthday,
BASIC
A Quick Mitigation for IE's New Win XP 0-Day Vulnerability (hat tip to
RF Cafe visitor Harold K.)
China, India
Named on U.S. Piracy, Patents Black List
Mobile Growth Shifts to Low
End
How the Supreme Court Could Reshape Tech Patent Landscape
DC, Another Option to
Improve Electrical Power Transmission
Lead Free Perovskite Solar Cells
Strain and
Light Emission in GaN Nanowires
Microsoft Security Fix for IE, Including for Defunct Win XP
Army Gives 4 Companies Contracts for Soldier Radio Waveform Systems
Solving a Mystery of
Thermoelectrics
M2M Spectrum Networks Aims to Steal M2M biz from Tier 1 Carriers
Orange Criticizes High GSM
License Renewal Fee
What Will Be Consequences of Earth's Magnetic Field Reversal?
5/1/2014
Harnessing Magnetic Vortices for Making Nanoscale Antennas
Tech Sector Job Hiring and Business
Activity Outstrips Rest of UK Economy
Ofcom Outlines Radio Spectrum
Plans for the Next Decade
New Material for Flat
Semiconductors
FCC Chairman Says Broadband Competition Is Lacking
Twitter
Sinks as User Growth Underwhelms
Glass-Paved Roads Provide Solar Power
Parents Just As Likely to Use
Cell Phones While Driving, Putting Child Passengers at Risk
Unexpected Graphene Behaviour
Proving Uncertainty:
New Insight into Old Problem
Google to Stop Mining
Student Emails for Ad Ideas (awfully nice of the "don't be evil" folks)
Is It Secure to Use BLE in
Cars?
Wi-Fi Woes - Is Your Home a Dead Zone?
World's Longest Experiment Spans 90 Years
It's Not
a Tech Bubble - It's Tech Roulette
China
to Pass U.S. as World's Leading Economic Power This Year (yay! more promised
Change w/o Hope)
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