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Offering news and business analysis for the design engineer, Managing News Editor Suzanne Deffree filters the electronics industry's developments and trends to explain how what's happening in the board room today can impact the tech innovation of tomorrow. Follow Suzanne on Twitter, @Deffree. Suzanne also manages EDN's Twitter account, @EDNMagazine.
Star Wars Day: May the 4th be with you
35 years ago in a galaxy far, far away, Star Wars was about to hit theaters on May 25, 1977… Fast forward and fans have unofficially dubbed May 4 as Star Wars Day, terming “May the 4th be with you” as its slogan and coming together to celebrate the series. While I can’t claim to be a diehard fan, I have to admit Star Wars was one of the first movies to get me excited ab ...... Read More
Comments (6)Happy Pi Day
Welcome to March 14, or 3.14, National Pi Day here in the United States. Pi Day started in the mid-1980s when a Larry Shaw, a physicist at the San Francisco Exploratorium, celebrated the day, marked by the first three digits of pi, by gathering fellow pi appreciators and marching in circles while eating fruit pies. Various celebrations and ways of marking this math-loving holiday have occurred sin ...... Read More
Comments (0)CES roundup, Thursday
EDN’s Patrick Mannion (@patrick_mannion) has been tweeting quite a bit from CES this week. His latest: Stunning how hard it still is to get a good wifi or cellular connection #EET_CES You’d think you would be able to get decent signal in Vegas, considering what types of products are being showcased. But the sheer volume of users brought in by CES always forces issues. Patrick is only ...... Read More
Comments (1)CES roundup, Wednesday
Here’s a tweet from EDN’s Patrick Mannion (@Patrick_Mannion): Took 18,731 steps today at #CES: Gotta find a way to lighten this backpack! Don’t know which hurts more, my feet or my shoulder. #eet_ces Between that and this daily roundup video by my EE Times co-worker Sylvie Barak, you can plainly see our team there is working their fingers (feet and shoulders, too) to the bone ...... Read More
Comments (1)CES roundup, Tuesday
The beat goes on at CES this week and our team in Vegas is keeping pace, covering the massive show from every angle. You’ll find all of their continuing CES coverage here and be sure to check out EE Buzz, featuring crowd-sourced news, commentary, and trending discussions on CES. Meanwhile, below are a few stories that particularly relate to the design engineer, the most telling in my opinio ...... Read More
Comments (1)CES 2012 roundup and photos, Monday
Due to other major events that we at EDN are prepping for, like DesignCon later this month and Design West (a new event bringing 7 specialized conferences under 1 roof), as well as some other stellar things in the works (more to come), I’m not at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show. But the team we have at CES - EDN’s Patrick Mannion, EE Times‘ Junko Yoshida and Sylvi ...... Read More
Comments (0)Get off the sidelines
Progress: It’s what engineers do. They advance, they grow, they move forward. And, as such, there is nothing more defeating than standing still or, worse, taking a step back. Yet for many engineers, that’s what 2011 was, a year of maintenance or recovery following a layoff or budget cuts. Read the Voices question-and-answer column in our most recent issue and it’s easy to see ...... Read More
Comments (4)Three opportunities to tell your story
Ever hear the saying, “it’s all about me.” Well, here are three opportunities to make it all about you and what you do as an engineer. First, EDN and its partner Tektronix launched a “Tell Us Your Tale” contest that we’ve just extended to close on Wednesday, October 26, 2011. The contest is centered around EDN’s popular Tales From The Cube column, w ...... Read More
Comments (0)Intel’s Q3 looks to ultrabooks as opportunity, adds jobs
When Gartner and IDC both recently noted slowdowns in their respective estimates for PC sales, a cold shiver went through many spines in the electronics industry. Yet Tuesday afternoon, Intel, a bellwether for electronics and semiconductors, announced Q3 results that beat estimates and included a 22% year-over-year increase for PC client group revenue. Q3 was Intel’s most profitable quarter ...... Read More
Comments (14)Steve Jobs life lessons
By now you’ve heard the sad news. Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple Computer and a global icon, has passed away. He was 56 when he died today (October 5, 2011). “Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being. Those of us who have been fortunate enough to know and work with Steve have lost a dear friend and inspiring mentor. Steve leaves b ...... Read More
Comments (35)Top engineering schools ranking
US News and World Report recently released its annual ranking of the best colleges and universities across the United States. The usual suspects topped the national ranking: Harvard and Princeton tied for first with Yale following. Among the top schools making up the national ranking, two that are STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math)-focused made appearances: California Institut ...... Read More
Comments (54)World Maker Faire photos and take aways
First, thanks to those who offered advice on Maker Faire in this blog’s post on Friday. As I stated, this was the first Maker Faire I attended and I didn’t know what to expect. Dale Dougherty, a Maker Faire moderator and of Make magazine, summed up what I was thinking in my planning during a session on bringing more kids into STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math). He was ...... Read More
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