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. en-us http://www.edn.com/blog/1750000175.html?nid=3101 Copyright 2010 Reed Business Information. Subject to its Terms of Use Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:04:12 PST http://www.edn.com/blog/1750000175/post/130052613.html?nid=3101 “Think big with a gig” is the catchy start to a Google blog post this morning introducing company plans to experiment with a fiber netw... http://www.edn.com/blog/1750000175/post/1640052564.html?nid=3101 Football is not my thing, neither is it my husband’s. But we are both in media, he working in advertising. So instead of watching yesterday&r... http://www.edn.com/blog/1750000175/post/1000052500.html?nid=3101 Did anyone catch Avnet CEO Roy Vallee’s appearance on Mad Money with Jim Cramer last week? I’m not regular viewer of the show. Cramer&r... http://www.edn.com/blog/1750000175/post/950052295.html?nid=3101 The iPad is finally here and, in classic Apple fashion, the company announced the flashy details on the tablet device – the cool, sleek desig... http://www.edn.com/blog/1750000175/post/700052270.html?nid=3101 Around this time in 2008, I posted to this blog an entry that questioned why Wall Street hadn’t taken off its rose-colored glasses and reacte... http://www.edn.com/blog/1750000175/post/1370051737.html?nid=3101 Math and science-related professions continue to rule rankings of the best jobs out there, at least that’s according to a career site which t... 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...