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3/31/2015
Why We
Disagree with the IEEE's Patent Policy
Ericsson Launches 5G Collaborations
with Universities
World Amateur Radio
Day is April 18!
New Answer to "How Long Would It Take You to Fall Through the Earth?" (an example
of 'settled science' being wrong)
Vodafone Combines Tokens and SIMs for NFC Payments in Europe
DARPA
Picks 4 Companies to Develop Affordable Sub-Reflector-Based Imaging Radar Technologies
Cyber-Attacks Hit British Airways,
GitHub and Slack
ACE Awards Will Honor the Best in Electronics Design Engineering
Bringing Internet to the Far Corners of the Earth
Safari Users Win Right to Sue Google over Secret Cookies
Scanner Surveys RF Fields Near ICs, Detects Hot Spots
Electronic Waste Has Energy
Value
Army Drafts Specs for Next Round of Commercial Hardware Buys
3/30/2015
2 New Satellites Join Europe's Fledgling Navigation Network
FBI Director: Apple, Google Acting 'Above the Law' by Locking Users' Phones
Night Vision Eye Drops Allow Sight of up to 50m in Darkness
India Spectrum Auction Ends,
Raises >€15.9B
UK Government Says Huawei
Poses No Security Threat
CAPTCHAs May Do More Harm Than Good
What It's Really Like to Work for a Small Engineering Firm
3/29/2015
Air Force Launces 9th GPS IIF Satellite as Delays Continue for GPS III
BT Returns to Mobile with
Low-Cost 4G Service
Samsung's Solve for Tomorrow Contest Inspires Students to Pursue STEM
Wireless Connectivity Offers Distinct Advantages for Industrial Applications
Superhighway to Connect NY and London (I like it)
3/27/2015
Boeing Patents a Real-Life Force Field
Radio Shackto Sell Customers’ Personal Information in Bankruptcy Sale
Stealing Data
from Computers Using Heat
Crashing Drones Exposing Secrets About U.S. War Operations
Samsung's Galaxy S7 Could Fold in Half
Motorola Found
Guilty of Infringing on Patent from Infamous Troll
Samsung Rumored to Be Eyeing AMD Acquisition
Army Considers Electro-Optical Camouflage Fabric
Engineering
Correct-by-Design PCBs
China Aims for Industry 4.0 by 2025
5 Gitmo Terrorists Traded for Known Deserter (what difference, at this point,
does it make?)
Germanwings Pilot Locked out of Cockpit Before Crash (impenetrable cockpit
a 9/11-inspired regulation, thanks to RadIslam)
Ford's New Car Will Force
You to Obey Speed Limit
3/26/2015
Why Wall Streeters’ Defections to Silicon Valley Are Good News for the Economy
Nanolaser Built Using Single Atomic Sheet
Quantum
Experiment Verifies Einstein's 'Spooky Action at a Distance'
Are
Smartphones Bad for Our Kids?
Mobile Ad Spending
to Hit $29B
More
Schools, More Challenging Assignments Add up to Higher IQ Scores (gee, who would
have guessed?)
Physicists Solve
Low-Temperature Magnetic Mystery
O2 U.K. to be Sold for $15B
Why Venture Capitalists Love Security Firms Right Now
Should
Some Smart Munitions Be Called UAVs?
Paris Bans ½ of City's Traffic to Reduce Pollution
Facebook Data Row Reaches Top Euro
Court
3/25/2015
Students Accused of Using Twitter to Cheat on Test (duh, this isn't news)
FCC
Inches Toward Reforming Airwave Auction Discounts
Analog This: Is an Old Way Key to Solving Complex Simulations?
Flip-Chip
Packaging and GaN Power Transistors
Global Amateur Radio Emergency Conference Returns to Its Roots for 2015
Philips
to Quit Lighting (wow!)
Small Powerful Systems Give Rise to Medical Semiconductor Sales
Tektronix Returns to High-Speed
Oscilloscope Game
Bee Behaviour Mapped by Tiny Wireless
Trackers
Sewage Could Be a
Source of Valuable Metals and Critical Elements
Windows
Hello Waves off Passwords
USAF Funds Sense-and-Avoid Technology Development
3/24/2015
The EE Times 2014 Salary
and Opinion Study
Raytheon
to Build Missile-Spoofing EW Drones
The Military’s Proliferating Mix of Smartphones and Tablets
A Graphene Solution
for Microwave Interference
NASCAR Puts Kids on STEM Fast Track
Can All Wireless Charging Standards Coexist?
Americans' Retirement Funds Increasingly Contain Tech Start-up Stocks
Now Algorithms Are Deciding Whom to Hire, Based on Voice
Mathematicians
Solve 60-Year-Old Problem
Radio Remains Resilient
in Streaming World
Quantum Correlation Can Imply Causation
Apple Praises New Book on Steve Jobs
3/23/2015
Pentagon Launches Next Phase of Spectrum-Sharing Program
Older Mobile Users Spur Data Traffic
Growth in the USA
Patent Filings: Who Made the
Cut for Top 50?
Skynet 5 Orbital Move Will Place Military Satcom over Asia-Pacific Region
Orbital Sciences Wants to Spy from Space, Sell
Satellite Imagery
Entertainment from When Radio Was King
Cable Lobby Eyes Opening to Rewrite Web Law
3/22/2015
FCC, Regulatory Issues Dominate ARRL Executive Committee Meeting Agenda
NXP-Freescale Merger to Result in World’s 8th Largest Chip Maker
Proton Rocket Launches with Russian Telecom Satellite
China Web
Freedom Group Faces Online Disruption
The Coming Ice Age: A
True Scientific Detective Story
3/20/2015
Superconductivity Breakthroughs: Cuprates Earn Their Stripes
Wheeler: No to FM
Chip Activation Mandate
Bi-directional RF Doubles Cellular
Capacity
Microsemi All-in for Ethernet and Communications Technologies in Acquisition of Vitesse
Tag Heuer Teams up with Google and
Intel for Android Watch
New Way to
Control Light Developed for Next Gen of Super Fast Computing
Direct
Growth of InGaN on Silicon Substrate
Hidden Benefits of Electric Vehicles Revealed
ITU Symposium Endorses Small Satellite Regulation and Communication Systems Declaration
Companies Worried About Hackers Turn to Cyber Insurance
Synthetic ‘Chameleon Skin’ Changes Color on Demand
Tesla's Model S Will
Plan Trips Along Charger Routes
3/19/2015
Microsoft
to Axe Internet Explorer
Radio Chip Harvests Energy from RFID Readers
7 Silent Project Killers
Tried and True, Old PCB Design
Software Still Going Strong
SoCal's
1st 'Water Coaster' Driven by Magnets (isn't there a severe H2O shortage
in CA?)
Electronics
Cooling Program Moves Forward at IBM
1/3 of Americans Changed Online and Phone Behaviours Post-Snowden (BS - less
than 1/3 even know about Snowden)
UK Government to Plough £600m
into Freeing up Spectrum
Windows
Hello Waves off Passwords
Fate of Expiring Federal Solar Tax Credit Remains Unknown
U.S. Trade Groups Seen Leading Lawsuits Against Net Neutrality
White House Wants to Encrypt Every Federal Website (why bother? just put
private e-mail servers in all Fed employees' houses)
3/18/2015
Kids' Smartphone Usage Rampant
Electric Propulsion Gives Small Satellites a Boost
Analysts Warn Airplane Communications Systems Vulnerable to Hacking
FY 2016
DOD Budget Looking Good in Congress
BBC Plugs Kids
into Programming
AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile Warn FCC About Interference Issues in 600 MHz Auction
How
Millennials Get Their News
Sri Lanka Mobile Phone Market
Touches One Million Mark in Q4 2014
Nearly 1/3 of Americans Hide Information Online
Uncovering
the Secrets of Super Solar Power Perovskites
Practice
of Replacing American Workers 'Widespread'
Windows
10 More Compact, Lets You Easily Kill Bloatware
3/17/2015
New Technology May
Double RF Data Capacity
Wireless Redefining the Home Audio
Market
Colorado Governor Signs Amateur Radio Antenna Bill into Law
DARPA
Moves Ahead on Long-Range 100 Gbps Wireless Links
Cuba Approves 1st Public Wi-Fi Hub
in Havana (wow, even more of a People's Paradise now)
Pentagon
Wants Unhackable Drone Helicopters by 2018
Cambridge Consultants Looks for 100 Designers after Funding Boost
Scientists Pursue Super-Fast
Material
Blackberry Unveils New High-Security
Tablet
Telco Chiefs Ramp up Pressure over Cost of Metadata Retention
Hertz Puts Cameras
in Rental Cars
U.S. Economic Data Have Been the World's Most Disappointing
3/16/2015
Manufacturers Struggle to Find Trained Tech People (no prob - they're flooding
across the border)
Wireless Network Problem Incidence
Increases as Texting and Web Use Grows
Vendors Fielding End-to-End IoT Support
Join the Engineer in June for a Celebration of UK Engineering
5G Challenges Ahead, Experts
Say
Air Force Continues to Track Debris from Unexplained Exploded Satellite (Global
Warming did it)
Gamers Targeted by Ransomware Virus
3/15/2015
Cambridge Consultants Reveal World’s 1st All-Digital Radio Transmitter
NASA Launches 4 Spacecraft to Solve Magnetic Mystery
Apple's Researchkit Could Be Gold Mine for Hackers
Particle Jets Reveal
the Secrets of Most Exotic State of Matter
Mexico Launches Shared Mobile
Network Tender
3/13/2015
CIA Aided Program to Spy on U.S. Cellphones (used 'dirtboxes')
NXP to Focus on All CMOS
Radar Future
Silk Could Be New
'Green' Material for Next-Generation Batteries
LTE-U Forum Explores Technical
Possibilities of LTE in Unlicensed Spectrum
One Fractal
Quantifies Another
Army Puts Tech-Centric Weapons and Surveillance Tools to the Test
Reducing
Low-Frequency Noise in AlInN/GaN HEMTs
Quick-Turn PCB Shop Review Project: Elecrow
Fastest Snap-Shot
Yet for Observations of Superconductivity
Understand LTE-A Release 12 Transmitter Architecture
Dollar Surge Poses Policy Dilemma for Fed
3/12/2015
Ericsson to Slash 2,200 Jobs in Sweden as Part of Cost-Cutting Measures
FCC
Enforcement Bureau Field Resources Poised to Shrink
China Mobile Launches 4G Roaming
in 71 Countries and Regions
Scientist-Radio Amateur Named to Receive Prestigious Award
Connected Car Market
$190B by 2020
NXP Unveils Connected Car with NFC and Payments
NASA to Investigate
Magnetic Explosions
Patches Released for Freak Flaw by
Microsoft and Apple
Android
Phones Soon to Use a Smaller, Simpler USB Connector
Process Builds Better
Semiconductors, Improves Electronic Devices
Wikimedia Foundation Sues NSA over
Surveillance
Electrons in Slow
Motion
3/11/2015
Startup Lights New Way
to Wireless Charging
Armed Robber Caught After Boasting About Planned Stick-up on Facebook
New Angle on X-ray
Measurements
Smartphone Problems Leading to
Customer Frustration and Churn
Glasses-Free 3D Display
Made with Tiny Spherical Lenses
Smartphones Will Soon Learn to Recognize Faces and More
Apple Watch Gets Mixed Reactions from IT Analysts
Laser
Weapons Technology Keeps Getting Better
Squeezing out New Science from Material Interfaces
Neighbors and Fans Are Curious About Apple's Massive New HQ (1.5 million tons
of concrete is very un-green, but they're forgiven by fellow hypocrites)
Millennials Lack
Trust in Advertising
Quantum
Sensor's Advantages Survive Entanglement Breakdown
3/10/2015
Price Range for Apple Smart Watch: $349 to >$10,000
French Chip Tech Centre Offers 3D Silicon to Universities
4G to Cover More Than 3/4 of Latin
American Population by 2020
EU's 5G Vision Gets Clearer,
Still Fragmented
Ultrathin
Polymer Insulators Key to Low-Power Soft Electronics
Danish Astronaut Among Latest Group of Space-Bound Radio Amateurs
Android 5.1 Arrives with HD Calling
and Safeguards for Stolen Phones
Viral Video Documentary About Pollution in China - Banned by the Government (then
check to see where all your stuff was made)
How to Land a Job as an Engineering Intern or Co-op
Facebook Post Criticizing Employer Lands Florida Man in Abu Dhabi Prison
25 Robots Set to Compete in Ambitious Contest This Summer
Anti-American Sentiment in Russia Now More Intense Than During Soviet Era (so
much for the stupid red "Reset" button)
3/9/2015
Millions at Risk from 'Freak' Encryption
Bug
Comments Due by April 6 on 76-81 GHz Radar Sharing Proposals
Android Captured Tiny 11% Share
of Global Smartphone Profit in Q4 2014
Air Force Looking to Weaponized Ultrashort Pulse Lasers
Wireless Gaining Momentum in Remote Monitoring
Smartphone,
Samsung in Trouble
Confederation of British Industry Warns of Poor Science Teaching in Primary Schools
3/8/2015
Skysilicon Releases China's First GaN Power Transistor on 8-inch Substrate
ESA Experts Assess Risk from Exploded USAF Satellite
Simulations Provide New Insight into Emerging Nanoelectronic Device
Einstein Put to the
Test - Again
Breakthrough in Nonlinear
Optics Research
3/6/2015
Scientists Find Link Between Flame Retardants and Obesity (they blame your electronics
 )
Location-Based Ambient Intelligence
Is Next Big Leap in Consumer Applications
5G Researchers Seek Spectrum
Hackers Threaten
Phone in Your Pocket
Pizza Hut Could Let Customers Order and Pay for Pizza from Their Cars (coffee &
pizza news always worth posting)
Buckybomb
Shows Potential Power of Nanoscale Explosives
EU Data Roaming and Net Neutrality
Plans Attacked
Unlicensed Bands Used to Meet Mobile Data Demand
Peer-to-Peer Wireless Is Increasing Competition Worldwide
Energy-Generating
Cloth Could Replace Batteries in Wearable Devices
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft Prepares for Ceres Rendezvous
Oracle Releases
JDK 8, Update 40
3/5/2015
U.S. Amateur
Radio Numbers Reach an All-Time High
China and U.S. Clash over Software
Backdoor Proposals
2D Material Beats Graphene
(dethroned already?)
Intel and Qualcomm Want 60 GHz Spectrum for 3 Gbit/s Wi-Fi
Target Cutting Thousands of Jobs in U.S.
Facebook Explains When and Why It Peeps at Your Account (this might spook you
a bit)
Connected Home Growth Hindered by Inaccessibility, Conflicting Standards
Smog Blankets China Once More (compliments of all your China-made stuff)
Outdated Encryption Keys Leave Phones Vulnerable to Hackers
First-Ever Quantum
Device That Detects and Corrects Its Own Errors
Pennies Reveal New Insights on Nature of Randomness
Demand for Linux Skills Growing Faster Than Talent Pool
3/4/2015
Qualcomm Demos 3D Fingerprint Technology for Mobile Phones
Safety Worries Lead Airlines to Ban
Li-Ion Battery Shipments
Geneva Auto Show Worries About Silicon Valley
U.S. Needs a Mars Colony, Buzz Aldrin Tells Senators (Disney's
Buzz Lightyear named after him)
ARRL 2015
Field Day Gear, Supplies Now Available
The Slow Death of Hardware Design
Woman Reunited with Stolen iPhone When Idiot Thief Posted Selfie on Her Facebook Page
Prepare for 'The End of College' as You Know It
Blackberry Unveils 'Leap' with No Physical
Keyboard
Supreme Court Backs Trade Group’s Challenge to Internet Sales Tax Law
WordPress to Remain Most Attacked Platform
California Homes Raided in Investigation into Chinese ‘Birth Tourism’ (...while
CA invites Illegal anchor babies from Mexico & SA - racism?)
3/3/2015
Air Force Weather Satellite Explodes in Orbit (since when do those things just
explode? global warming caused it?)
Boeing’s First Two All-Electric Satellites Ready for Launch
Ikea Turns Furniture
into Wireless Phone Chargers
Isis threatens Twitter Employees over Blocked Accounts (no prob - they're just
the
JV team)
Counterfeit Components Continue to Slam Electronics Industry
Western European Mobile Phone
Market Shows Clear Signs of Saturation
First Ever Photograph
of Light as a Particle and a Wave
Photographs of Lowest
Lifeforms Obtained (I expected images of politicians)
Millions Share New Chinese Character
Google Allocates $∞ for Hackers Finding Security
Flaws in Chrome
Telcos Demand 'Level-Playing
Field' with Apps Giants
Foreign Workers Fill Hundreds of Sacramento-Area IT Jobs
3/2/2015
RIP Leonard Nimoy, Mr. Spock of Star Trek (has he returned to the
Genesis planet?)
Vandalism in Arizona Shut Down Internet, Cellphone, Telephone Service Across State
Huawei and LG Unveil Traditional Round
Smartwatches
Internet's Regulatory Future Will Bring Near-Endless Litigation (legislation
by lawyers for lawyers - job security)
Hi-Speed Transistors from Liquid
Processing
Awesome
3D Electronic Sculptures
Meet
Samsung's Galaxy S 6 and Galaxy S 6 Edge
3/1/2015
SMAP Observatory Unfurls Large Science Antenna Structure
Top-Precision Optical
Atomic Clock Starts Ticking
Semiconductor Unit Shipments to Exceed 1T Devices in 2017
Ericsson Sues Apple for Patent
Infringement
Open Source vs. Proprietary Firms on the IoT Battleground
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