Telecommunications
Azio’s Myriad RF Interface Board for USB/DE0-Nano FPGA Board Connection
April 16, 2013 9:24 am | by WDD Staff | Product Releases | CommentsAzio has launched the interface board for Myriad RF, a non-profit, open-source RF hardware project. The DE0-Nano interface board connects to the Myriad-RF1 allowing users to easily connect to Altera Cyclone IV FPGAs, and provides a USB connector to link Myriad directly to PCs and Raspberry Pi to set up the board.
Wi-Fi Alliance and Wireless Gigabit Alliance to Unify Multi-gigabit WiGig Technology
April 15, 2013 11:57 pm | News | CommentsWi-Fi Alliance and the Wireless Gigabit (WiGig) Alliance have executed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) outlining their plans to consolidate activity in Wi-Fi Alliance. The agreement builds on more than two years of collaboration between the organizations...
SecurityCoverage Signs Distribution Agreement with SYNNEX Canada
April 15, 2013 10:48 pm | News | CommentsSecurityCoverage Inc. has announced the company has entered into a distribution agreement with SYNNEX Canada. SYNNEX will become the exclusive Canadian distributor for the “Ultimate Mobile Accessories” From SecurityCoverage, extending the strong demand for the firm’s products already seen in the U.S. since their release.
Fox Electronics Signs Distribution Agreement with Arrow Electronics
April 15, 2013 10:40 pm | by Fox Electronics | News | CommentsFox Electronics has signed a worldwide distribution agreement with Arrow Electronics, a global provider of products, services and solutions to industrial and commercial users of electronic components and enterprise computing solutions.
Video Recording Eyewear Turning Heads
April 15, 2013 1:42 pm | by Meaghan Ziemba, Editor, WDD | Articles | CommentsFor the adventurers, explorers, and extreme athletes, getting the perfect shot or photo can be quite cumbersome with a regular, hand-held camera or camcorder; especially when both hands are needed to maneuver a certain situation or action. New York start-up, Pivothead ...
Small Satellites Becoming Big Deal for Students
April 15, 2013 12:57 pm | by Scott Palo, University of Colorado at Boulder | Articles | CommentsFor some University of Colorado Boulder undergraduates, designing, building and flying small satellites is becoming a large part of their hands-on education. NASA recently selected CU-Boulder as one of 24 institutions or organizations to fly tiny satellites as auxiliary payloads aboard rockets planned for launch in 2014, 2015, and 2016.
HotSpot Episode 8: A Sneak Peek of the Xbox 720
April 15, 2013 10:43 am | by Eric Sorensen, Coordinator of Multimedia Development | Videos | CommentsThis week on WDD’s HotSpot, Germany-based Hama, has announced their WiFi data reader; a 56-page document titled “Xbox 720-9-24 Checkpoint Draft 1” has shown up on Scribd; Civil Rights Defenders in Stockholm has launched the Natalia Project: a wireless assault alarm system...
Google Clears Another Step in EU Antitrust Case
April 15, 2013 10:30 am | by JUERGEN BAETZ, Associated Press | News | CommentsGoogle Inc. has submitted a list of remedies in legally binding form to address the concerns voiced by the European Commission, which acts as the 27-nation bloc's antitrust authority, the body's spokesman Antoine Colombani said Monday. He added that they will shortly be put to a market test...
Local Police Grapple with Response to Cybercrimes
April 15, 2013 10:13 am | by EILEEN SULLIVAN, Associated Press | News | CommentsIf a purse with $900 is stolen, the victim probably would call the police. If a computer hacker steals $900 from that same person's bank account, what then? Call the police? Could they even help? As it is now, local police don't have widespread know-how to investigate cybercrimes.
Dish Network Offering to Buy Sprint in $25.5B Deal
April 15, 2013 9:56 am | by Associated Press | News | CommentsDish Network is offering to buy Sprint Nextel Corp. in a cash-and-stock deal it values at $25.5 billion, saying its bid is superior to that of Japanese phone company SoftBank. Sprint's stock jumped almost 15 percent in premarket trading Monday. SoftBank Corp. is seeking...
Low-Cost RF Vector Signal Generation for Wireless Communications Test
April 15, 2013 9:50 am | by Agilent Technologies | News | CommentsDigitally modulated signals fill space and travel through almost every wired and optical network. Today, almost all wireless services use a plethora of complex carrier modulation schemes. The continuous improvement in modulation technologies, components, and advancements ...
Biological Transistor Enables Computing within Living Cells
April 15, 2013 9:24 am | by Andrew Myers is Associate Director of Communications, Stanford University School of Engineering. | Articles | CommentsWhen Charles Babbage prototyped the first computing machine in the 19th century, he imagined using mechanical gears and latches to control information. ENIAC, the first modern computer developed in the 1940s, used vacuum tubes and electricity.
B&B Electronics Adds Wi-Fi Access Point Capability to SPECTRE 3G
April 12, 2013 11:09 am | by WDD Staff | Product Releases | CommentsB&B Electronics has announced that it has added 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi connectivity technology to its rugged SPECTRE 3G cellular router. Called the SPECTRE3G-W, this new wireless cellular router is a single box solution that provides local machine-to-machine ...
Diamond as a Building Material for Optical Circuits
April 12, 2013 10:08 am | by Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) | News | CommentsThe application of light for information processing opens up a multitude of possibilities. However, to be able to adequately use photons in circuits and sensors, materials need to have particular optical and mechanical properties. Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)...
New Software Alleviates Wireless Traffic
April 12, 2013 10:00 am | by University of Michigan | News | CommentsThe software, GapSense, lets these devices that can't normally talk to one another exchange simple stop and warning messages so their communications collide less often. GapSense creates a common language of energy pulses and gaps. The length of the gaps conveys the stop or warning message.
Facebook's Zuckerberg Launches Political Group
April 12, 2013 9:55 am | by BARBARA ORTUTAY, AP Technology Writer | News | CommentsZuckerberg announced the formation of Fwd.us (pronounced "forward us") in an op-ed article in The Washington Post late Wednesday night. In it, he said the U.S. needs a new approach to these issues if it is to get ahead economically. This includes offering a path to citizenship...
Investors Dump Microsoft, PC Stocks on Bleak News
April 12, 2013 9:48 am | by MICHAEL LIEDTKE, AP Technology Writer | News | CommentsThat logic ruled Thursday as Wall Street reacted to fresh evidence that PCs are turning into a dying breed of technology as consumers and businesses embrace smartphones and tablet computers as their preferred computing devices. That logic ruled Thursday as Wall Street reacted to fresh evidenc...
Review: Home Shields You from Non-Facebook Tasks
April 12, 2013 9:43 am | by ANICK JESDANUN, AP Technology Writer | News | CommentsWhen I got my first smartphone in 2010, I checked Facebook obsessively. But over time, the novelty wore off and opening Facebook's app to check photos, links and posts from friends turned into a chore. In a sense, I'm the ideal target for Facebook's new Home app ...
NYC Students, Hackers Train for Cybersecurity Jobs
April 12, 2013 9:37 am | by JAKE PEARSON, Associated Press | News | CommentsEvery week, a group of teenagers and 20-somethings dressed in hoodies gets together in a tiny room on a college campus and plug in their laptops. They turn up pulsing electronic funk music, order pizza and begin furiously hacking into computer networks.
Coding Boot Camps Promise to Launch Tech Careers
April 12, 2013 9:28 am | by TERENCE CHEA, Associated Press | News | CommentsInstead, he quit his job and spent his savings to enroll at Dev Bootcamp, a new San Francisco school that teaches students how to write software in nine weeks. The $11,000 gamble paid off: A week after he finished the program last summer, he landed an engineering job that paid more than twice his previous salary.
Engineering Newswire 33: Boston Dynamics Tests Mustard Gas & Sarin on PETMAN
April 11, 2013 2:03 pm | by Eric Sorensen, Coordinator of Multimedia Development | Videos | CommentsToday on Engineering Newswire, brought to you by PD&D TV, we're building a bionic dragonfly, fishing with the FrankenDrone, and testing mustard gas on PETMAN. To help test the durability of hazmat suits, Boston Dynamics has unveiled its PETMAN...
Engineering Update #8: Glasses-Free 3D & a Near Replacement For Knight Rider
April 11, 2013 1:50 pm | by Eric Sorensen, Coordinator of Multimedia Development | Videos | CommentsThis week on Engineering Update from ECN, brought to you by Mouser Electronics, Mobile 3-D, Without the Glasses; Capturing Energy From Waste Heat; New Lightweight Electric Car; and Longer-Lasting Batteries, and Charging Phones Without Electricity ...
Aircraft Sensors without Batteries or Cables
April 11, 2013 1:22 pm | by Vienna University of Technology, TU Vienna | News | CommentsAn idea from EADS and Vienna University of Technology is taking off: in a joint project, Energy Harvester Modules suitable for aircrafts have been tested, which should supply sensor nodes with electrical power in the future.
Wild, Unregulated Hacker Currency Gains Following
April 11, 2013 10:55 am | by RAPHAEL SATTER, Associated Press | News | CommentsWith $600 stuffed in one pocket and a smartphone tucked in the other, Patricio Fink recently struck the kind of deal that's feeding the rise of a new kind of money — a virtual currency whose oscillations have pulled geeks and speculators alike through stomach-churning highs and lows.
Banks Rethink the Branch, but Will it Work?
April 11, 2013 10:44 am | by CHRISTINA REXRODE, AP Business Writer | News | CommentsIn an age when checks can be deposited by smartphone and almost everyone retrieves cash from ATMs, the corner bank can seem a relic, with its paper deposit slips, marble countertops and human tellers behind glass partitions. But some banking executives say the brick-and-mortar...
