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11/30/2014
Invisible Shield Found
Thousands of Miles above Earth Blocks 'Killer Electrons' (amazing just now finding
this)
European
Parliament Backs Breaking up Google
E-Cigs Contain up to 10x More Carcinogens that Tobacco (but the 'experts' told
us…)
Millimeter-Wave
Performance of GaN Transistors on Silicon
Heat-Conducting Plastic
10x Better
11/28/2014
Hack Friday
How Your Travels Are Tracked This Holiday Season
UK Museum Switches on Historic Computer
China and U.S. Boost Worldwide Industrial Semiconductor Market in 2014
3 Cups of Coffee a Day Could Slash Risk of Alzheimer's (Wally'll
live forever)
Mobile Operator Costs Pass $800B
Annually as Margins Become Squeezed
Breakthrough in Flexible
Electronics Enabled by Inorganic-Based Laser Lift-Off
Wristband Heads off Password Headaches
AT&T Reaffirms Fiber Plan
Following FCC Fracas
:-o The Surprising
Power of Emoticons
China Launches for Second time in 24 Hours
11/27/2014
Germanium Junctions
for CMOS
Heat-Conducting Plastic
Developed
New Device Could Make
Large Biological Circuits Practical
Carrier Wi-Fi Market to Hit $3B
in 2018
Staircase
Quantum Barriers to Improve LED Efficiency at High Current
11/26/2014
AWS-3
Auction Climbs Past $36.4B in Bids (this + taxes+ fees, all to the gov't, is why
your phone bill is so high)
The Slippery Slope of Silicon Valley
NASA to
Launch 4 Spacecraft at Once to Study Magnetic Fields
European Space Plane Set for February Launch
As Hackers Hit Customers, Retailers Keep Quiet About Security (see
Marc Edward's
article)
Clearing a Path for Electrons in Polymers
Google Says Alternative Energy Can't Solve Global Warming (but won't endorse nuclear)
Firefox Searches
Specific Websites with 1 Click
Meet the Woman Who Tech Giants Turn to for Finding New Leaders
Are Electric Cars Greener?
Depends on Where You Live
Europe Takes Another Look at Net Neutrality
11/25/2014
RFMD - TriQuint Merger to Close December 31
Simple Circuit Could Double Cell Phone Data Speeds
Google Launches Ad-Free Net Experiment
(I predict a huge fail)
Electric Vehicles Could Stabilize Large Disturbances in Power Grid
Automation Makes
Us Dumb
Why Would AT&T and Verizon Spend $34B on Spectrum?
Intel Expects 2015 Mobile Speedup
High Tech Materials Lab Opens in Southamption
World's Largest Atom Smasher Coughs Out Two Never-Before-Seen Particles
10 Christmas Gifts for Tech Lovers
Ultra-Short X-Ray Pulses
Explore the Nano World
Magnetic
Fields and Lasers Elicit Graphene Secret
11/24/2014
Smartphones, Tablets, and Laptops Could Cause 'Digital Vision Syndrome'
Tomorrow's Degradable
Electronics
Canadian Radio Also
Challenged by Economy
New Approach to Delivery of Satellites to Orbit (this
ain't new)
China, U.S. Boost Worldwide Industrial Semi Market in 2014
American Tower to Buy 6,400 Towers from TIM
Physicists
Study Magnetism with Roles of Position and Momentum Reversed
Another Bleak Black Friday for Apple Fans
11/23/2014
James Bond-Inspired Laser Watch Will Burn Through Objects
NSA Director: China Can Damage U.S. Power Grid (no surprise - we've handed over
all the technology they need)
Crew Launch to ISS Set for Sunday (notice they wear analog watches)
Security Still Top of Enterprise
Agenda as Wireless Execs Seek to Stay out of Jail
Cable & Wireless Helped Britain Spy on the World
11/21/2014
Cellphone Tracking Solves Z-Axis Problem
Toning Down the Tweets So Colleges Can't Pry
Physicists Discover
New Subatomic Particles
DHS's 2014 National Emergency Communications Plan Incorporates Amateur Radio
USAF Explores More Efficient, Jam-Resistant Wireless Data Links
Malicious Software Said to Spread on Android Phones
Cloaking
Device Uses Ordinary Lenses to Hide Objects
Thin Film Produces New Chemistry in 'Nanoreactor'
FCC Commissioner Pai:
"1st Amendment Under Assault" (yeah, so is the
2nd, the
4th, the
10th,
…)
White Paper Quantifies Consumer Attitudes to Wearable Payments
Disgruntled Employees Are Increasingly E-Sabotaging Businesses
Artificial Adhesive Outgrips the Gecko
Japan's 311 mph Super
Maglev Train (I'd love to ride that!)
11/20/2014
Airline Passenger Stuck with $1300 Wi-Fi Bill
Carbon RF to Extend Battery
Life
Keyssa: 'Kiss Old Connectors Goodbye'
Japan Airlines Tests Battery-Free BLE Beacons at 13 Airports
U.S. Military Looks
to Develop Flying 'Mothership'
FAA Can Regulate Small Drones: NTSB Reverses Judge's Ruling (scary that now a bureaucracy
can overrule a judge)
The 25 Most Powerful People in U.S. Wireless and Wireline 2014
Record Sales to Shake up Top 20 Semi Supplier Ranking
Uber Exec Suggests Investigating Media Personal Lives (give them some of their
own medicine)
Toyota to Launch
Fuel Cell Car Next Month
Amnesty Int'l Releases Anti-Spying Program
for Activists
Field-Emission PnP Solution for Microwave Electron Guns
Achtung! Germany Named World's Favorite Country (popular, nationalistic leaders
that love their country, unlike…)
11/19/2014
"Frequency" TV Series Would Reprise Amateur Radio-Themed Movie
Pentagon Program Would Hitch Rides with Commercial Satellites (yeah, maybe on the
next Antares
rocket)
AT&T and Starbucks Bring Wireless Phone Chargers to Coffee Shops
Spiral Laser Beam Creates
Quantum Whirlpool
What Can Radio Expect
in 2015?
Chinese Dream for IC Powerhouse
Coming True
Researchers
Transfer Atomic-Scale Thin Films to Arbitrary Substrates
Ericsson Expects 6.1B Smartphone Users Worldwide by 2020
U.S. Worries Russia Put 'Satellite Killer' in Space
Battery to Prop up Renewable Power Hits Market
Engineers Make Great Leaders (right, like PLO terrorist leader
Arafat)
Smartphones Teamp with
QR Codes for Secure 3-D Displays
Coffee Can Help Overweight and Obese Individuals Stay Healthy
11/18/2014
Americans' Cellphones Targeted in Secret Spy Program
Laser-Radio Links Upgrade Mobile Internet
Air
Force Takes Another SWAT at Spectrum Warfare
42% Surge in Q3 ZTE Smartphone
Shipments Worldwide
MARS Volunteers Reach out to Amateur Community to Test Interoperability
Russian Internet Remains Growth
Hotspot in the Country's Economy
Russia Plans 'Alternative Wikipedia'
Europe's Distributors Have a Strong Q3
EDN
Hot 100 Products of 2014 (jeeze, it's not even December yet)
Scientists Confident ESA's Comet Lander Will Wake up Again
Lord of the Microrings
U.S. Mobile Payments Market to Boom by 2019
Clues Revealed About Hidden Interior of Uranus (are planetary scientist who study
Uranus called ass-tronomers?)
11/17/2014
Google's Lollipop Wants to Change the Way We Use Our Phones (OS for suckers - get
it?)
DuPont Microcircuit Materials Intros Pure Copper Conductive Ink
New EU Internet Chief to Stimulate
Rural Broadband
Self-Doping Key to
Room Temp Superconductivity
ISS Briefly 'Ham-less' After Crew Members Return to Earth
FCC Auction 97 Starts with $4.7B in Bids
Little-Known Taiwanese Chip Designer Spawns Low-Priced Smartphone Boom
11/16/2014
Electrical Wire a Few
Atoms Wide
Microsoft Exam - So Simple a 5-Year-Old
Passes (but could a
Caveman do it?)
"Amateur Radio Parity Act of 2014" Attracts More Than a Dozen New Co-Sponsors
IoT Entering Peak of Inflated Expectations
ESA
Comet Lander Goes Silent (bummer - hope it awakens when closer to sun)
11/14/2014
Japan's Smartphone 'Zombies' Wreak Havoc on the Streets
Noise iMicrowave Amplifier
Limited by Quantum Particles of Heat
The End of Broadcast
Radio?
Are
Wireless Phones Linked with Brain Cancer Risk? (here we go again)
AWS-3 Spectrum Auction Primer
Superconducting Cable Supplies 10,000 Households with Electricity
On-Demand Conductivity
for Graphene Nanoribbons
Atomic Timekeeping,
on the Go
Engineers Efficiently 'Mix'
Light at Nanoscale
NA PCB Sales
to Remain Flat Through the Rest of 2014
Virgin Galactic Tragedy May Mean New Space Tourism Rules
Nanomotor Lithography Answers Call for Affordable, Simpler Device Manufacturing
Vibrations Excite Electrons
to Change an Insulator into a Conductor
11/13/2014
European Space Probe Makes 1st-Ever Landing on a Comet (congrats to ESA team!)
Hackers Use
Hotel Wi-Fi to Check into Victims' Computers
National Recycling Week: Turning Mobile E-Waste into Art
All the Electronics
That's Fit to Print (play on NY Times' motto)
Will Google's Thread Become Threat?
(what? never heard of
Thread?)
Using 433 MHz for Wireless Connectivity in the IoT
O Sends C-17 to Chinese Air Show Despite Pentagon Concerns (meh, we let Iran steal
our TS
drone)
NFL, Broadway Fight FCC Auction of Broadcast Spectrum
ARRL Seeks Input on Initial VHF-UHF-Microwave Contest Rule Changes
Market Response to Regulating Internet? Not Good
Internet Firms Far Behind Cable Companies in Political-Donations (...which explains
desire to regulate)
Americans Say They Want Privacy, but Act as if They Don't
Microsoft Fixes '19-Year-Old' Bug with
Emergency Patch
Space: The Final Frontier
in Silicon Chemistry
11/12/2014
U.S. and China Move Toward Ending Tariffs on High-Tech Gear
Lighter, Cheaper Radio Wave Device Could Transform Telecommunications
Rocket Bicycle Sets 207 mph Speed Record
Do Good Engineers Make Good Engineering Managers?
AMSAT Celebrates
40 Years in Space for AO-7
Wi-Fi
Goes the Distance for Fixed Wireless Providers
Berlin's Digital Exiles: Where Tech Activists Go to Escape the NSA
IoT Poses New Challenges
to Test Service Providers
Smartphones Team-up
with QR Codes for Secure 3-D Displays
Apple Will Face Lawsuit
over iMessage Woes
Google to Lease Former NASA Airfield
for Space Research
Counterpoint: The Value
of Radio Advertising
A Billion Holes Can Make a Battery
11/11/2014
On LinkedIn, a Reference List You Didn't Write
GaAs/InP
Wafer Bonding with Low Electrical Resistance
Auto Body Panels Used
as Supercapacitors
IBM Predicts Surge in Christmas Shopping via Mobile
Department of Homeland [in]Security Employee Data Breached in "State-Sponsored Attack"
Digital Resistance
is Radio's Biggest Threat
Maybe It Wasn't the Higgs Particle After All (I had my doubts all along)
Rare Mineral Discovered in Ancient Meteorite Impact Crater
AT&T's Smartwatch
for Kids is Both Easier and Tougher
Europe Set to Make Space
History with Comet Landing
DARPA, the Pentagon's Mad Science
Ddivision
Qualcomm: More
Trouble Ahead
11/10/2014
DoD: U.S. Falling Behind China
in Military Defense Technology
Huge Raid to Shut Down 400-Plus Dark
Net Sites
Electronica: What to See at the Show
Nearby Phones May Soon Be Borrowing Your Bandwidth
Wrapping up the Q3 Wireless Earnings Season
AT&T to Acquire Mexican Wireless
Provider, Iusacell
DARPA Funds $11M Tool to Make
Coding a Lot Easier
11/9/2014
Boeing
Claims New Anti-Jam Capability
What an
Engineering Education Lacks
Why HTTP Won't Work for IoT
American Legion Amateur Radio Club Plans On-Air Tribute to Veterans
Governments Request More User Data from Facebook
11/7/2014
Macs,
iPhones, iPads Under Massive WireLurker Attack
UK Government Seeks to Close
Mobile Coverage Gaps
Did You Know the Lead Engineer on the Brooklyn Bridge was a Woman?
'Direct Writing' of Diamond Patterns from Graphite
Defence Science and Technology Laboratory's £1M Research Competition Affordable Space Comms and Surveillance
S-Parameters
Basics
Android Hoards 84% Smartphone OS Market
Share
Microgrid Could Standardize
Small, Self-Sustaining Electric Grids
French Health Watchdog Warns on 3D for
Children
Qualcomm Sees More China Trouble, Faces Probes in U.S., Europe
Next 12 Months 'Critical' for
Future of Mobile
Physicists
Hit Milestone in Accelerating Particles with Plasma
11/6/2014
UK Rolls out eLoran as
GPS Backup for Safe Navigation
South African 5 MHz Research Project Sees Unexpected Results
2014 Global Semiconductor Alliance Award Nominees Announced
Superconductivity Predicted by
Supercomputer
Humans Could
Have Innate Sense of Probability
Tektronix Moves into PC Spectrum Analyzers
Banner Ads: The Monster That Swallowed the Web (sure, but nobody wants to pay for
website access)
'Grimsel' Electric
Racing Car Breaks World Record
New
Fuel Cell Runs Without High Heat
How to Choose Analog ICs, Part 1
Intel Backs Schoolboy Inventor
Anadigics'
Revenue Falls 19% in Q3 Due to Decline in Legacy Mobile
Gluons
Make a Significant Contribution to Proto Spin
11/5/2014
Study Reveals
Missing Boundary in Piezo Material Phase Diagram
Engineering Job Prospects 10 Years Out
Mathematicians
Settle 30-Year-Old Resonance Controversy
Global Debut of SPG Keyless Room
Entry from Starwood Hotels
NASA GSFC Seeks
CubeSat Simulator Intern
Two Photons Strongly Coupled by Glass Fiber
DARPA Seeks to Speed Defense Electronics Development by Recycling Blocks of IP Tools
Domino's Becomes a Tech Company That Happens to Make Pizza
Google and
LG Will License Each Other's Patents for Next Decade
M2M Semiconductor Market is Set
for Rapid Growth
Keysight Technologies Begins Independent Trading
Scientists Propose Existence and Interaction of Parallel Worlds
11/4/2014
TMIC Chips
Pushing Limits of RF and Microwave
Professor Wants to Change Engineering Education
Upstart Oppo Offers World's Thinnest Phone
ARISS: Your Students Could Be Among Next to Speak with the ISS Crew via Ham Radio
Monster Moves to Restore a Faded Job Search Brand
1 Wi-Fi Hotspot for Every 150 People
Worldwide
Scientists Show IQs on the Rise
Starbucks Claims a 90% Share of U.S. Mobile Payments Market (amazing stat)
Redefining Copyright Law in the Digital Age
Chinese Startup Halves Cost
of Solid State Drives
Tablet Market Growth Fueled by Back-to-School
Promotions and USA
Lidar Increases Wind Turbine Efficiency
Identification
of a Gravitational Arrow of Time Proposed
11/3/2014
Court
Rules Police Can Force Users to Unlock iPhones with Fingerprints (a la movies where
bad guys cut off fingers to gain access to secured facilities)
5 Science 'Facts'
We Learnt at School That Are Plain Wrong
China Completes 1st Mission to Moon and Back
Telecom Italia Denies Latest
Brazil Asset Sale Rumour
Radio's Profiting from
the Flip to Christmas
Nanomotor Lithography
for Affordable, Simpler Device Manufacturing
Military Communications Satellite Launched from Russia
11/2/2014
White House
Networks Hacked
U.S. Claims THz Transistor Speed Record
Australia: Data Retention Bill Introduced
New DX Summit Website Seeking Beta Testers
Why Xiaomi Is World's 3rd
Largest Mobile Co.
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