18 results found for Beyond Technology, displaying items 1 - 18
April 28, 2005 No Place To Hide
Are you ready for electronic passports, voiceprints, DNA checks, and iris scans? Black boxes in your cars that can log your speed and when you use your brakes and seat belts? Employers tracking you via radio-frequency identification tags and Global Positioning System technology in your company-issued car or cell phone? ID chips implanted in your body? That's the relatively new stuff. We're already being tracked by government databases and private companies, such as banks,...
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Ron Schneiderman
July 19, 2004 U.S. Innovation Feels Competitive Global Heat
The Electronic Industries Alliance (EIA) recently published a "policy playbook" that seeks to turn attention from the political debate over offshore outsourcing toward global competitiveness. The EIA points out that the rest of the world is...
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Ron Schneiderman
March 15, 2004 Industry Hopes "Seamless Computing" Reaches Consumers
Moore's Law is coming to consumer electronics. If the industry has its way, we'll all be transporting digital music, video, and photos to a home-entertainment center, and soon. Indeed, to even the casual observer, it seemed like just about every...
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Ron Schneiderman
November 24, 2003 Potential Spectrum Loss, BPL In Ham's Way
People like to talk, which may account for why ham—or amateur—radio is as big as ever, despite the extraordinary success of the Internet. At last count, there were more than 682,000 amateur radio operators in the U.S. and more than 2.5...
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Ron Schneiderman
October 27, 2003 Job Market Heats Up in Tech Specialty Fields
Is the job outlook going to get any rosier over the next several months? The signs don't seem to point in that direction, except for specialty technology jobs. The economy may be edging up, but hiring will see only slight improvement by year's end,...
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Ron Schneiderman
September 15, 2003 Unresolved H-1B Issue Tempers Modest Economy
The economy is picking up, as we're told by the people who keep track of such things, and the news is slightly encouraging on the employment front for engineers. But it's still a tough market out there, especially for jobs. After climbing to 7% in...
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Ron Schneiderman
July 21, 2003 Want Job Security? Get A Security Job
Job security is literally taking on a new meaning. Domestic security concerns, tied so closely into the nation's reliance on telecom and computers, has opened up tremendous job opportunities for EEs and computer scientists who can design and...
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Ron Schneiderman
May 26, 2003 Censor Sensibility?
Almost daily reminders about national security have reached a new level—safeguarding information on American technology by keeping more of it secret. Over 20 scientific journals have agreed to censor articles they believe could compromise...
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Ron Schneiderman
April 28, 2003 Weak Economy, Layoffs Hammer EE Continuing Education
Today's sluggish economy and poor employment picture seem to have put the brakes on one of the more time-honored elements of engineering life—continuing education. Companies struggling for profitability are reluctant to spend much on training....
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Ron Schneiderman
