Hardware Startups: The Class of 2013 Launches at Haxlr8r
Autonomous personal drone helicopters, smart handlebars, and electrical-circuit building blocks among the products about to hit market
Lost in America: Still No Phone Service After Hurricane Sandy
In several communities, Verizon has not restored landline phone service in seven months—and may never
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Kymeta Demos First Ever Satellite Link With Metamaterials Antenna
The Intellectual Ventures spinoff is one step closer to cheap satellite broadband
Cornell Tech to Receive $133 Million from Qualcomm Founder Irwin Jacobs
Innovation Institute at new university campus to be named after IEEE Medal of Honor Recipient
Student Startups Shine at Demo Mobile 2013
You didn’t start your first company until you graduated? Slacker!
NTSB: Texting While Flying Contributed to 2011 Helicopter Crash
Texting and cellphone calls distracted pilot from making good decisions
First Portable Telephone Call Made 40 years Ago Today
Walking down a Manhattan sidewalk, Motorola’s Martin Cooper called his rival at AT&T Bell Labs
Peaceful Coexistence on the Radio Spectrum
The trials of a small team of engineers who set out to reanimate paralyzed limbs demonstrate the virtues of dynamic spectrum sharing
Authenticating Video
The Guardian Project’s software authenticates human rights videos and protects activists in the field
Antifragile Systems
Nassim Taleb’s distinction between “robust” and “antifragile” is worth reflecting on
Japan Looks to Taiwan to Disaster-Proof Telecom
Software and wireless experience could help realize a wireless service that bounces back
UK Government Reasserts Its Right to Snoop on All Electronic Communications
Even though MI 5 spy chief says urgency of the need to do so rests on some “pretty heroic assumptions”
Smartphones as Blood Analyzers and Allergen Testers
Aydogan Ozcan’s phone can analyze blood, tell whether a cookie contains peanuts, and watch sperm cells dance
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CES 2013: Broadband in a Box
No frills, no contract broadband service can turn ipod touch into a “real” phone
CES 2013: UrbanHello Takes a Step Toward the HD Telephony Era
A sleek new cordless handset will talk to old phone analog networks or new digital ones
Building the Environmental Big Picture from Personal Air-Quality Monitors
A UCSD team piloting pocket-size environmental sensors is discovering surprising things about pollution, and about how people interact.
Mapping From Wi-Fi "Fingerprints" Could Improve Indoor Navigation
Korean researchers build maps from Wi-Fi signals collected by mobile devices, even if GPS signals are lacking
MRI Could Solve Cellphone Radiation Problems
Imaging technique can now map how cellphone radiation heats the brain
Rewriting the Constitution on Facebook
The Icelandic Constitutional Assembly relied on social media in drafting a new constitution
Trying Out Indoor Navigation Using Inertial Sensing
IEEE Spectrum tests a sensor-laden smartphone that maps where GPS can’t
How is a Pit Viper Like an iPhone?
Inventors of the infrared in-ear thermometer design a point-and-shoot temperature-taker for your phone
Japan Mobile Company Debuts Real-Time Voice Translation App
NTT DoCoMo app allows callers to converse without language barriers
Hurricane Sandy’s Radio Days
Battery powered radios—and batteries--were in short supply in the storm-struck Northeast; is it time for FM chips in cell phones?
For Longer Battery Life, Dumb Down Phones
Lobotomizing mobile phones would help conserve power in times of trouble—and normal times, too
Wi-Fi Radio Takes a Digital Turn
Intel's new transceiver pushes RF circuitry further into the digital realm, but will it make it out of the lab?
Navigating the Great Indoors
The smartphone industry is gearing up to get you around when out of sight of GPS satellites
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Wired and Wireless Networks Compete—Cooperatively
For almost two centuries, wired networks have given birth to wireless ones, only to spawn new wired ones
Video and Audio Enabler WebRTC Near Release
A simple way to turn anything with an Internet connection into a peer-to-peer video calling tool
FTC Presents $50K Engineering Challenge: Block Illegal Robocallers
Prize for developing proposed technical solutions or functional solutions and proofs of concept
Smartphones Are Gold Mines Of Economic Data
An economist taps into payment apps for their every financial transaction