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. en-us http://www.edn.com/blog/1750000175.html?nid=3101 Copyright 2009 Reed Business Information. Subject to its Terms of Use Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:19:17 PST http://www.edn.com/blog/1750000175/post/290050029.html?nid=3101 Here's one that should be taught in law schools as more and more cases come to courts based on IP, technologies, and new legal provisions that most... http://www.edn.com/blog/1750000175/post/1870049587.html?nid=3101 Election Day is still a month away, but there's another vote you should be aware of. It's called Project 10100. Sponsored by Google, Pr... http://www.edn.com/blog/1750000175/post/790048479.html?nid=3101 IBM is claiming images of the chemical structure inside a molecule with unprecedented resolution. Read our news story for the details on how IBM sc... http://www.edn.com/blog/1750000175/post/1530048353.html?nid=3101 In this world, one either stays up to the minute or falls behind. That's what we heard from our readers when EDN's Twitter efforts were so well acc... http://www.edn.com/blog/1750000175/post/360047236.html?nid=3101 Global Foundries had two milestone events in the last week, ones that perked up another rainy workweek for this New Yorker. This morning the compan... http://www.edn.com/blog/1750000175/post/1160045916.html?nid=3101 There has been much uproar about the Wall Street Journal report released over the weekend claiming that 54-year-old Apple cofounder Steve Jobs had ... http://www.edn.com/blog/1750000175/post/930045693.html?nid=3101 Will Moore's Law soon become no more? A new report from iSuppli Corp suggests that the law, named after Intel co-founder Gordon Moore and making up... http://www.edn.com/blog/1750000175/post/480044448.html?nid=3101 For all the EDN readers who clicked on our story last week "Andy Grove, Gordon Moore, other engineers honored by National Inventors Hall of Fa... http://www.edn.com/blog/1750000175/post/1480044148.html?nid=3101 What's more contagious: H1N1 Flu, more commonly known as Swine Flu, or fear of H1N1 Flu? I'm not a doctor, but I'm going to guess it's the fear. S... http://www.edn.com/blog/1750000175/post/450044045.html?nid=3101 Apple is hiring chip gurus and the big question industry watchers are asking is why. I, as many others do, suspect the company is readying a chip d... http://www.edn.com/blog/1750000175/post/1520043552.html?nid=3101 President Obama has named the United States' first national CTO and who it is came as somewhat of a surprise. Aneesh Chopra wasn't even on the rad... http://www.edn.com/blog/1750000175/post/1110043311.html?nid=3101 ADI is on it. Digi-Key is on it. ISuppli is on it. And now EDN is on it. As part of our ever-striving effort to keep the electronics industry info... http://www.edn.com/blog/1750000175/post/1350042935.html?nid=3101 Based on recent data from various sources, it appears the tech industry has a rosier employment picture than many other sectors. According to a re... http://www.edn.com/blog/1750000175/post/760042476.html?nid=3101 Here in NY, I have a small lemon tree tossed in-pot into my backyard. It's a house plant that's been bred to only grow to 5 feet in height maximum ... http://www.edn.com/blog/1750000175/post/540042254.html?nid=3101 With the April 1, 2009 H-1B visa application process start date just weeks away, reports from the Valley suggest that even though the number of US ... http://www.edn.com/blog/1750000175/post/1980042198.html?nid=3101 The Wall Street Journal today reported that IBM may soon bid $6.5 billion in cash for Sun Microsystems. Such a price would represent a 100% premiu... http://www.edn.com/blog/1750000175/post/540041854.html?nid=3101 Quick, everyone, knock on wood. Cross your fingers. Hold your breath. And rub those rabbits' feet. The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed more th... http://www.edn.com/blog/1750000175/post/650040865.html?nid=3101 It's official. AMD's shareholders have voted to spin out the chipmaker's manufacturing operations into "The Foundry Co," leaving AMD to f... http://www.edn.com/blog/1750000175/post/660040666.html?nid=3101 Microsoft has stolen a page from Apple's playbook and is planning retail stores, seemingly to help revise its image and battle its iPod making riva... http://www.edn.com/blog/1750000175/post/760040276.html?nid=3101 Until now, this blog has discussed the broader view of the DTV transition and asked readers opinions on the four-month delay in shifting to the dig... http://www.edn.com/blog/1750000175/post/870039887.html?nid=3101 Just days after the Senate unanimously voted to move the DTV transition date from February 17 to June 12, the US House of Representatives today rej... http://www.edn.com/blog/1750000175/post/810039881.html?nid=3101 Mark Papermaster -- the engineer who IBM took legal action against for breach of a non-compete agreement after he attempted to move to Apple Inc in... http://www.edn.com/blog/1750000175/post/220039822.html?nid=3101 If you wondered how quickly Obama would influence tech, wonder no more. Less than a week into his presidency and the Senate Monday approved his te... http://www.edn.com/blog/1750000175/post/1350039735.html?nid=3101 If you've read the mainstream media coverage of Intel lately you'd think the company was imploding. The truth is far from that. Let's review: The ... http://www.edn.com/blog/1750000175/post/730039673.html?nid=3101 Welcome to This week in gEEk, EDN's short review of the week's happenings. The United States got its new leader this week, just as a semiconductor...