10/31/2014
• Lenovo Completes Motorola Takeover after
Google Sale
• Nokia Net Boosts Smartphone Browsing
Speed by 20% While Reducing Power Consumption by 40%
• RF Performance
of Junctionless Trigate GaN FETs
• Physicists Pave the
Way for Quantum Interfaces
• Tiny Carbon Nanotube
Pores Make Big Impact
•
Bluetooth Smart Improvements Appear in More Devices
• Movie Theaters Ban
Google Glass and Other Camera-Toting Wearables (yet cellphones have cameras)
•
STMicroelectronics to cut 450 Jobs
• IoT Isn't Just Buzz
•
Microsoft
Cuts 3,000 Jobs
•
SEMICON Japan 2014: New Venue and New Ideas for Rebounding Industry
• People Trust
NSA More Than Google
10/30/2014
•
Record-Breaking THz Circuit Could Open New Bands of Spectrum
•
Satellites Carrying Amateur Radio Payloads Among Those Lost in Launch Explosion
• RF
and MEMS Technologies to Enable the IoT
•
1st Commercial Mission to Moon Launched from China
•
Elon Musk Warns Against Developing AI, Compares It to 'Summoning the Demon'
• Smart Watches to Reach over 100M
by 2019
•
Copper Cube Cooled to Near Absolute Zero in New World Record
• LG Plans
Quantum Dot TVs
• Verizon's Changes
to Mobile Web Traffic Limit Your Privacy
•
Mobile Malware Takes Victims by Surprise
•
Students - Imagination Hosts Robot Programming Challenge
• FTC sues AT&T over Unlimited
Data Plans
10/29/2014
•
Spooky Wi-Fi Hotspot Name Grounds Plane
•
You Know You're An Engineer If …
• Envelope
Tracking Market to Exceed 4B Units by 2018 (post office needs these)
•
Liquid Helium Offers Fascinating New Way to Make Charged Molecules
• CERN Seeks Help with Photo Archive Captions
•
How Wi-Fi Is Driving New Competition in the Mobile Market
• Cutting Power Could
Dramatically Boost Laser Output
• Glowing 'Smart Cycle Lanes' Pitched to
UK
• Mobile Device and Wearable Vendors
Are Struggling with User Interface Complexity
• Detroit's Stupid Plan to Kill Tesla
• Best Classic Rock Stations
Announced
•
Light-Matter Interaction Can Turn Opaque Materials Transparent
10/28/2014
• Keyless Cars 'Increasingly Targeted by
Thieves Using Computers'
•
Budget Pressures Push Air Force to Mull Commercial Satellite Tracking (how about
Russia or China - they launch our astronauts now)
•
Indian Radio Amateurs Continue Communication Support Following Cyclone
•
Cable Sees Big Future in Wi-Fi as Video Gives Way to OTT, High Programming Costs
• World Record Data Transmission
with Smart Circuits
• Terrestrial Broadcast
TV down, but Is It Out?
•
Light-Matter Interaction Can Turn Opaque Materials Transparent
•
Materials Trick Might Help Move Computers Beyond Silicon
•
Google Exec Breaks Sound Barrier in 135,890' Sky Dive
• DRS Unveils Next-Gen
RF Tuners for UAVs
•
Smartphones Stuck in the Slow Lane
•
Compound in Cocoa Reverses Age-Related Memory Loss
10/27/2014
•
FCC Delays Start of 600 MHz Incentive Auction to Early 2016
• Porsche
and Mercedes Want Electric Cars That Can Fight Tesla
•
Twitter Invites Us to Say Goodbye to Passwords (this will be compromised quickly)
• Marines
Eye Full Production of G/ATOR Radar
•
Liquid Helium Offers Fascinating New Way to Make Charged Molecules
• Chicago to Get NFC Mobile Ticketing in 2016
•
Israel's Solar-Powered 'Trees': For Smartphones and Community
10/26/2014
• 4 Connected Devices for Every Person
in World by 2020
• The Queen Sends Her 1st Tweet to Launch
Science Museum Gallery
•
Simpler Superconducting Promised by Nanowire Device
•
Radio
Amateurs Report Hearing 4M Moon Orbiter JT65B Signal
• How
Big Data is Paying off for DOD
10/24/2014
• Reinvention of Broadcast TV: 10
Things to Know (the electronics renaissance man in me roots for the movement)
•
The Slide Rule: A Computing Device That Put a Man an the Moon
• Broad-Bandwidth
Amplifier That Ups Gain by More than 10 dB
•
Calling 911 on Your Cell? It's Harder to Find You Than You Think
• China's 5-Year Plan Revealed
• Man Who Jumped from
Radio Tower: Forever 38
• Ultra-Thin 3-D Display
Tech Operates w/o Power Source
• Industry Standards for Integrating RF and Microwave Components in EW and SIGINT Proposed
•
GaN
Could Win over SiC for Power Design (GaN needs a high volume champion)
•
Magnetic Mirrors Enable New Technologies by Reflecting Light in Uncanny Ways
•
Let Isaac Asimov Lead Your Brainstorming Session
• Hackable Flaws in Medical Devices Investigated
• New Devices Based on
Metamaterials
10/23/2014
•
Woman Charged with Planting Spyware on Cop's Phone
• FEMA Administrator
Touts Radio and FM Chip
• AT&T's Focus on Connected
Cars Beginning to Pay Off
• Spectrum Scarcity Sparks Need
for Regulatory Support and Research
• Microsoft Ditching the Nokia Name on
Smartphones
•
Lithium Battery Charges 70% in 2 Minutes
•
Are Old Cars Better Than New Cars? (go ahead and chime in)
•
Indonesia's
New President, VP Are Radio Amateurs
•
European Companies Can Fast Track into China
• EEs Explore Life after CMOS
• Nanofluid That Improves
Heat Conductivity
• Cosmic Rays
Threaten Future Deep-Space Astronaut Missions
•
Yahoo Revenue and Profit Surpass Estimates
10/22/2014
• Technology
and Inequality (rich vs. poor)
•
ARRL On-Line Auction Gets Underway on Thursday, October 23
•
5G Will Drive Test Equipment Surge
• Seeking 'Absolute
Zero', Copper Cube Gets Chillingly Close
•
Envelope Tracking Takes off in LTE Phones
•
USAF
Launches Space Operations Initiative to Find Technologies to Control Orbital Space
• Michigan's
New Law 'Clarifies' Ban on Tesla's Direct Sales Model
• TI's Rosy Outlook Defies Microchip's
Gloom
• Wild
Molecular Interactions in New Hydrogen Mixture
•
Auction Offers Fascinating Glimpse into History of Science and Technology
• Staples Investigating Theft of Payment
Card Data
• Audi Claims Self-Drive Car Speed Record
• When
Women Stopped Coding (it's men's fault - who'd have guessed?)
10/21/2014
•
Air Force Awards Deal for Next-Gen 3D Radar
•
New
100 Gbps High-Speed Transatlantic Network to Benefit Science Collaborations
•
IARU Administrative Council Resolution Seeks to Rein in Electromagnetic Interference
•
Nokia Software Claims 80% Reduction in Smartphone Signaling
•
Tunisia's Emerging Tech Sector Hampered by Old Policies
• IBM Pays $1.5B to Offload Chip Unit as
Profit Falls
• As Revenue Dips, China Mobile
Pushes 4G
• Phone Soars While iPad
Languishes
• Imaging Electric Charge
Propagating Along Microbial Nanowires
• IoT Group Turns off TV Band
•
Starbucks to Offer Mobile Ordering and Payments Across U.S. in 2015
•
Does Lockheed Martin Really Have a Breakthrough Fusion Machine?
10/20/2014
• AMD Plans 7% Layoffs
•
Chinese
Find Number URLs Easier Than Letters
•
Automation Market Set for Extended Boom Times
•
Report
Details Sequestration's Impact on DOD Contractor Spending (lots of defense budget
$$$ diverted to unrelated 'renewable' energy & social programs)
•
Apply Now for Space Station Ham Radio Contact Opportunities
•
Building Supply Chains to Rival China
•
Trying to Live in the Moment (and Not on the Phone)
• U.S. Military
Stuck in the Ditch
•
Superheterodyne Image Response (interesting analysis - all for naught per commenter
Erickk)
• Disney Rendered Big Hero
6 on 55,000-Core Supercomputer
10/19/2014
•
Military GaAs Device Market to Grow at CAGR of 13% to over $0.5B by 2018
•
Russian 'Smart' Mini-Satellites to Go into Orbit in 2016
•
Lockheed
Makes Breakthrough on Fusion Energy Project
• Costly
Internet Tax Could Be on the Horizon (it's inevitable)
• Simple Way to Build
3-D Materials of the Future
10/17/2014
• Samsung Makes 7.5 Gbps 5G Speed
Claim
• Teal Names Big
11 Defense Electronics Companies
• Silicon
Valley's Biggest Internet Mistake
• Smart Meters Can Be Hacked to Cut Power
Bills
•
Free PCB Design Tool Includes 3D Modeling
•
Semiconductor Market in India is Expected to Reach US$ 52.58B by 2020 (4-digit precision
in estimate, eh?)
•
FBI Director Calls 'Dark' Devices a Hindrance to Crime Solving
•
Scientists Look to Mine Metals from Plants
• Lockheed
Martin Pursues Compact Fusion Reactor Concept
•
Component Distribution Can Take Hybrid Approach
• Stop Airing School
Closings. It's Bad Radio
• NYC Brings
Carrier and WiFi Coverage to More Subway Stations
•
Light bending Material Facilitates the Search for New Particles
•
Engineering Disasters: Deadly Zaps from the Therac-25
•
Open Source Needs to Get with the Security Program
10/16/2014
Qualcomm
to Buy CSR for £1.6B ($2.6B US)
• Earth's Magnetic Field
Could Flip Within a Human Lifetime (invest in magnetic compass pointer retrofit companies
now)
•
Google Glass User Treated for Internet Addiction
• FM Chip Gets Support
from UNCOM
• World's Thinnest Electric
Generator Created
•
'Smart' Li-Ion Battery Warns of Fire Hazard
• Many Young People Addicted to Internet
•
Samsung's Note 4 Smartphone Gives Glimpse of Computing's Future
•
EU Near Agreement with China over Telecom Equipment Subsidies
• Skyworks Raises
Guidance for Quarterly revenue Growth to 51% YoY and 22% Sequentially (whoa!)
• Smart Bracelet Doubles As
Handset for Your Phone
•
Australian Teams Set New Records for Silicon Quantum Computing
•
New Exotic Particle Could Help Explain What Holds Matter Together
•
Antilog Converter Linearizes CO2 Sensor
• U.S. Troops Assisting
in Ebola Mission May be Quarantined (note ladder on left is not locked)
10/15/2014
• Broadcasters
Want Your Phone to Be Mix of Online and Old-School Radio
• Microchip Forecast Dip Triggers
Debate
•
Ireland to Phase out 'Double Irish' Tax Break Used by Tech Giants
• Internet
Caretaker ICANN to Escape U.S. Control
• Is U.S.
Ready for a Determined Cyber Attack?
•
ARRL Executive Committee Adopts Mobile Amateur Radio Operation Policy
• Magnetic Superconductor:
Strange Bedfellows
•
At 113, Woman Lies About Her Age So She Can Join Facebook
•
Instead of Google Glass, How About a Tiny Telescope? (looks like an old girly peep
show viewer)
•
Dropbox Leak Highlights Password Security Dangers
•
Homes at Center of Smart Metering Revolution
•
Lightning Strike Becomes EMP Weapon
• AT&T's New Travel Plans
Let You Text All You Want
•
OPEC Split as Oil Prices Fall Sharply
• Intel Profits up 13% on Recovering PC Market
(another 'expert'
prediction gone bad)
10/14/2014
• Ofcom Eyes Commercial White
Spaces Services in 2015
• China's Wafer Foundry Market Sees 15% Growth in 2014
• Getting Sharp Images
from Dull Detectors
•
The
Intel of Things: How Chip Giant Plans to Own IoT
• New Records Set for
Silicon Quantum Computing
•
Eb la
'Most Severe Acute Health Emergency in Modern Times' (pols brought it to America)
• Samsung Accelerates Wi-Fi Speeds
•
History of GaN-on-Diamond Technology
•
Market Signals Possible Weakness in Wireless and Mobile
• Microchip Forecast Dip Triggers
Debate
•
Radio Amateurs in India Fill Communication Gaps in Cyclone's Wake
•
Understanding the Hardness of Metals
•
Russian Phone Operators Could Become GLONASS Shareholders
• Cantilever
Bridge to Higher Bandwidth from VCSELs
• Neutrinos with
"Fuzzy" Quantum Mass Solves Solar Neutrino Problem
10/13/2014
•
The 5 Biggest Job Cutters in Wireless in 2014
• UK Public Fears Advance of Internet-Enabled
Devices Amid Security Concerns
•
Pros and Cons of Bluetooth Low Energy
•
Man Offers to Swap House for New iPhone
• Microsoft's
Quantum Mechanics
•
Radio Waves Used to Detect Subtle Changes in Pressure
•
MS's Nadella's Advice on Raises Stirs Discussion Among Women (he stepped in it big
time!)
•
China's Emerging 3D Printing Market Will Grow 4x
• Apple's Designer Accuses Copycats of
Theft
•
Sales of Gas Masks, Bio-Hazard Suits Soar
10/12/2014
• Korea Communications Commission
(KCC) Called for Patience Amid New Subsidy Rules
•
Superfast
Internet Likely to Spawn 'Telepresence'
• Amazon to Open
1st Brick-and-Mortar Site
• Discovery of New Subatomic Particle Sheds Light on Fundamental Force of Nature
•
The Ominous Math of the Obola Epidemic
10/10/2014
• Dissolvable Silicon
Circuits and Sensors
• Devices Being Remotely Wiped in Police
Custody
•
Simple Trick to Measure Plane Impedance with VNA
•
Retro Radio Reproductions Look Good, Sound Terrific
•
Revamped Large Hadron Collider Set to Restart
•
Marines Will Take Android Smartphones into the Field
• A Cold-Atom
Ammeter
• Late October Exercise to Test MARS-ARES Interoperability
• Highest, Lowest Wireless Tax Rates
• Unstoppable Magnetoresistance
•
MATLAB Gets New Graphics System
• Frozen Fuel Lines
Made ESA Satellites Go off Course
• Chip Options Sought as Costs Rise
• Healthcare Smartphone Accessory
Sales to Exceed $3B by 2019
•
Tim Berners-Lee, Web Creator, Defends Net Neutrality
10/9/2014
•
China
Overtakes U.S. as World's Largest Economy (more Change w/o Hope)
• Radio Amateur is Among Nobel Prize in Chemistry Winners
• Nokia's Largest Plant to Shut
Down in India
• USAF
Picks Raytheon for Transportable Radar
• Debate over Cellphones in Schools
Continues
•
PCIA to Set Wireless Training Standards
•
Mechanism of Photoconduction Could Lead to Next-Generation Excitonic Devices
• New Fusion Reactor
Could Be Cheaper Than Coal
•
Paper-Thin and Touch-Sensitive Displays on Various Materials
•
6000 Aussie Mobile Black Spots Waiting for Fix
•
How to Think Like an Engineer
•
India Puts Spacecraft into Orbit Around Mars
• Experiments Confirm Einstein's Time Dilation and Quantum Electrodynamics (once again)
• ATM Machine Hack 'Dispenses Wads' of
Cash
• USAF Infrared Satellite System Gets to Next Step
10/8/2014
• ARRL Investigating
Web Server Breach (is nothing sacred?)
• The Technician's
Voice in Flightline Testing
•
IMF Trims Forecast for Global Economic Growth
•
How to Become a Tower Climber
• Blue LED Inventors Win Nobel
Prize
•
Lighting Sheets Would Use ½ as Much Power as Light Bulbs (interesting)
•
Top 20 US Graduate Engineering Programs
•
Even Techies Limit Their Children's Screen Time
• EU Hosts Anti-Muslim-Extremist Tech Meeting
• Quantum Probe Enhances
Electric Field Measurements
•
Chicago Transit Users Get ½ Price Rides When Paying by NFC
•
Dubai Police Add Facial Recognition to Google Glass
•
Gold Version of BlackBerry Passport on the Way?
• Middle East's First Voice over
LTE Call in Commercial Network
•
Sub-Picofarad Measurement with CMOS Inverters
10/7/2014
• Scientists Sound Alarm
over Long Wait for Nobel Prize
• HP Splits Again, Adds 5,000 Layoffs
•
European Semi Sales up in August over July
•
MacArthur Genius Grants: Don't Call Them, They'll Call You
• Tech and Telecoms Groups Fight to Dominate 'Internet of Things (IoT)
• Tiny Conical Tips Fabricate
Nanoscale Devices Cheaply
• Samsung Electronics Forecasts 60% Fall
in Quarterly Profit
•
People Can't Live Without the Internet
•
World
Radiosport Team Championship 2018 Will Be in Germany
• Teen Hormones and Cellphones
•
Studying the Steve Jobs Industrial Complex
• Attack Code for 'Unpatchable' USB Flaw
Released
• Sprint
Moves on New Job Cuts
•
U.S. Manufacturing: A Remembrance and a Look Ahead
•
Hackers' Attack Cracked 10 Financial Firms in Major Assault
10/6/2014
•
1:10 Cell Sites Violate FCC Rules Limiting RF Exposure
• Town
Built for Driverless Cars
• Why Turn
Cars into Smartphones?
•
Telecom Posts Mixed Employment Stats
• Physicists
Observe Elusive Particle That is Its Own Antiparticle
• Untangling How Cables
Coil
• True or False: How Well
Do You Know Nobel Prizes?
•
U.S. Keeping Nuclear Warheads in Case of Killer Asteroids
• Newly Discovered Particle Both
Matter and Antimatter at Same Time
• $200M Photonics Effort to
Keep U.S. Ahead
10/5/2014
• Marriott Hotel Fined for Blocking
Cellular Backhauled Wi-Fi Devices
• The
Scope ... from Hell!
• UK Cable Broadband Internet Speeds 'Faster
Than Fibre'
• Air
Force Research Lab Chooses 7 Companies for Advanced Spectrum Warfare Work
•
Navy
Puts Autonomous 'Swarmboats' into Action
10/3/2014
•
Looking Deeper to Identify Counterfeit Microchips
• 3D Magnet Stack Subs for Transistors
• Cheap Hybrid
Outperforms Expensive Metal as Fuel Cell Catalyst
• 5 Ways the Superintelligence
Revolution Might Happen
• Radio Still Dominates
Music Listening
•
Horizon Contests OSHA Cell Tower Citations
• New Nanomaterial Introduced
into Electrical Machines
• Phone Boxes Turn Green to Charge Mobiles
• Security Researchers Detail
'Unpatchable' USB Hack
•
Why 4.4B People Still Don't Have Internet Access (conclusion: you're too cheap to
pay for it)
•
Simultaneous Imaging of Ferromagnetic and Ferroelectric Domains
• Dolphins
Are Attracted to Magnets
•
5G Roadmap Video
• Birmingham University Enables AC to DC Power Grid Transition
•
Hands on with Windows 10's New Features
10/2/2014
• Airlines Told to Change Cockpit Screens
in Boeing Planes Due to WiFi Interference
•
How to Become a Tower Climber: Pay, Benefits and Schedule
• New Frontier in
Error-Correcting Codes
• ARRL
Takes Issue with NTIA's WRC-15 Proposal for 5 MHz
•
There's No Clear Business Model for LTE Broadcast
•
U.S. Attorney General Urges Tech Companies to Leave Back Doors Open on Gadgets for Police
(AG 'urging' akin to IRS 'asking' people to pay takes)
• Research Sheds
New Light on Why Rechargeable Batteries Fail
•
U.S. Charges Four with Stealing $100M in Software
•
Mobile Malware: Small Numbers, but Growing
• 7 Tricks
for Estimating Battery Life Accurately
•
Google
Strips Down News Service to Pacify German Publishers
•
Bluetooth Plug-and-Play Electronics Kit
•
12 Weird Technology Acquisitions
•
FCC Releases Info Package for Broadcasters Tied to 600 MHz Incentive Auction
• Bats May Be Mistaking Wind Turbines
for Trees (dumb bats)
10/1/2014
• Actor Tim Allen
Gets His Ham Ticket For Real (flashback from
2011)
• RFID-Reading Drone Tracks Structural
Steel Products in Storage Yard
• Microsoft Unveils Windows 10 System with
Return of Start Menu
•
Navy Tracks How Solar Events Can Disrupt Satellite Navigation
• Entanglement Made Tangible
('spooky action at a distance' is an apt description)
•
Robust Domestic Mobile Broadband Market Needs More Spectrum
• Car Connectivity Going
Mainstream
• Electronic Brain by 2023
(just in time as most human brains go smooth)
•
Hands-Free, Mind-Free: What We Lose Through Automation
• Cat and
Mouse Game of Missiles and Anti-Missiles
•
eBay to Spin off PayPal (that didn't last long)
• At the
Interface of Math and Science
•
Crackdown on Spying Apps Leads to StealthGenie CEO's Arrest
• Google, Silicon Labs Mesh
for ZigBee-Like Protocol
•
Saying Hello to Ello, an Ad-Free Facebook
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