Engineering Lifestyle
What were they thinking: Newspapers want a cut of Google’s pie
Brian Bailey
11/30/2012 1:16 PM EST
Greed is at work everywhere and when someone is successful, everyone wants to freeload. That is what is going on with publishers in Europe…
It is both the snippets in search results as well as the consolidated news news.google.com, etc. ...
An eBay for engineering talent
Sylvie Barak
11/29/2012 7:31 PM EST
UK initiative offers something of a cross between an online matchmaker and an engineering careers site.
Your site provided us with valuable information to work with. Each & every tips of your post are ...
3-D printing electronic devices...that work!
Sylvie Barak
11/28/2012 10:29 AM EST
Scientists at the University of Warwick say they have invented a simple and inexpensive conductive plastic composite able to work in even today’s low-cost 3-D printers.
"they're talking about" For the moment, it will come soon enough if the US patent office dont skrew ...
GM's Chevrolets first to get Siri
Sylvie Barak
11/28/2012 3:47 AM EST
The firm made the announcement at the Los Angeles International Auto Show on Tuesday, saying it would be the first of nine car makers to adopt Apple’s talking butler service, starting with the Chevrolet Sonic LTZ, RS, Spark 1LT and 2LT.
Driving is a full time job and just changing a distraction to eyes-free and hands-free does not ...
Video: Samsung stresses its smartphones
Sylvie Barak
11/27/2012 3:09 AM EST
Samsung is out to show the world how tough it is, or at least, how tough its smartphones are, with a newly released video showing the various (and rather rigorous looking) stress tests it puts its devices through.
Is this really a piece of worthy news???
My favorite Cyber Monday deals
Sylvie Barak
11/26/2012 12:13 PM EST
Pickings were not as great as I'd hoped, but here are a few Cyber Monday deals that piqued my interest.
Freescale's i.MX 7 canned as firm refocuses
Sylvie Barak
11/21/2012 8:14 AM EST
The mobile and tablet market can be a money maker for some and a deal breaker for others. For Freescale, it seems to be the latter, with the firm choosing to discontinue its high end i.MX 7 mobile processor line, in favor of lower powered chips aimed more at the internet of things.
First TI, now Freescale. Who is next to bite the dust? My bet Marvell. Another proof point that ARM ...
Sylvie Barak
11/19/2012 7:20 PM EST
Capdevielle’s day to day job consists of being on the front lines of circuit safety, answering scores of queries on a daily basis from engineers about product design, and where fuses fit in.
Yay!!! Success!
Sylvie Barak
11/16/2012 8:10 PM EST
Panacast is a new system meant to emulate human visual perspective, in order to achieve real-time video streaming with a 200° field of view.
Thanks Bert - that's what I get too. And yet the video in Sylvie's article on fuses works just fine ...
SPARC founder: Chip industry sorely needs innovation
Sylvie Barak
11/16/2012 2:09 AM EST
All human progress depends on the unreasonable man, said Khosla, lamenting the lack of innovation in the modern chip space and imploring engineers to have the guts to go that one step further, beyond the logical, beyond the assumed possible.
The USA certainly is in need of more innovators not venture capitalist that milked innovations for ...

