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8/31/2016
Warned of a Crash, Start-Ups in Silicon Valley Narrow Their Focus
Element Acquires Northwest EMC, Expands Global EMC Services
ON Cleared to Buy Fairchild
Nonlinear Optical Quantum-Computing Makes a Comeback
Tesla Clears $2.6 Billion Antitrust Hurdle in SolarCity Deal
(remember when $2.6B was a lot of money?)
Indian Employees Make NFC Payments Using Everyday Objects
8/30/2016
U.N. Could Take Control of Internet
Team USA Heads to World Amateur Radio Direction Finding Championships
Würth
Acquires Amber Wireless (remember, don't be
Würthless)
Strong Growth for
Diameter Signaling with LTE Uptake
Dialog Enters GaN Power
Market
China Launches Aircraft Engine
Maker to Rival the West (using transferred technology)
8/29/2016
FCC Spectrum Auction Pushes Past $13B in Round 10
Scalable Production of Highly Crystalline Graphene Films
Semi Foundries to Grow 9% in 2016, Says IC Insights
Coffee Drinking Habits Can Be Written in Our DNA (C8H10N4O2)
Apple Tackles iPhone 1-Tap
Spyware Flaws
98 Things Facebook Knows About You
Pothead Rats Get Lazy, Less Willing to Try Cognitively Demanding Tasks
8/26/2016
EW Ideas Get Real at Army's Cyber Quest
Indian Smartphone
Market Recovers After Successive Declines
China's Semiconductor Industry Worth $157B by 2020
Apple Accused of iPhone 6 'Touch
Disease' Defect
N. American Semi Equipment Industry Posts July 2016 Book-to-Bill of 1.05
U.S. Extends ZTE's Reprieve from Export Restrictions
8/25/2016
Microsemi Announces Engineering Scholarship with University of Limerick
Turmoil in China Handset Market Hits Qualcomm
Proton Radius Mystery Deepens as Deuterium Measurement Comes up Short
AMSAT Issues Call for 2016 Space Symposium Papers
You're Being Tracked (and Tracked and Tracked) on the
Web
30,000 Small Cells Deployed in U.S. Already
8/24/2016
Apple, Google, Phone Firms Join FCC to Kill off Robocall 'Scourge'
NIST's New Password Rules
Forward Auction of 600 MHz AWS-3 Airwaves Draws over $9B in Bids
'Human Sacrifice' Ceremony at Geneva's CERN Laboratory
Rural China Kick Starts Global Smartphone Growth
'Auction' of NSA Tools Sends Security Companies Scrambling
Quantum Mechanics Trumps Nonlocal Causality
8/23/2016
Can Cellphones Make
You Feel Less Connected to Friends and Family?
Transparent Wood Windows Cooler Than Glass (never
heard of it)
U.S. Army Awards
BlackBerry Certificate of Networthiness and Authorization
Airlines Challenge Lithium Ion Battery Shipments
Verizon's 'One Talk' Marries Office and Mobile Phones for Small Businesses
The Military's Real Readiness Crisis
8/22/2016
New Study Confirms Possibility of 5th Force of Nature
EC Pushes for Longer
Spectrum Licenses
China Launches Unhackable Comms Satellite
7 Top-20 Semi Suppliers Show Double-Digit Gains in 2Q16
Researchers Develop NFC On-Skin Electronics
Smart Meter IT System Delayed
Until Autumn
8/19/2016
Canada's Telcos Raise Cheap Money in Internet Bet, Fed Hikes Loom
$15k Fine Proposed for Alleged Florida FM Pirate
Ericsson, China Mobile Test Drone on Path to 5G
Global Chip Market Still Falling
Unique Mobile Subscribers
in Africa Surpasses Billion/2
Falcon 9 Launches Japanese Satellite, Nails Bulls-Eye Landing
8/18/2016
Deep Learning to
Be in Smartphones Soon
Mobile Data Surge Drives Unlicensed Spectrum and Small Cell Tech
GSA Expects Commercial
1-Gbps LTE by Year End
Lack of
American Engineers & Scientists
Foxconn Closes $3.8B Acquisition of Sharp
Comments in FCC 'Symbol Rate' Rule Making Proposal Due by October 11
8/17/2016
China Smartphone Shipments 44% of Global Total
Demand for Radar in Perimeter Security to Grow by 44%
Amateur Radio Volunteers Responding to Louisiana Flooding Catastrophe
Google Patents Drones in Video Conferencing
Android Apps Can Secretly
Track Users' Whereabouts
Audi's Shock Absorber System Generates Electricity from Bumpy Roads
8/16/2016
FCC Loses Its Bid to Protect City-Run Broadband
RSGB 'Deeply Disappointed' in Ofcom's Attitude Toward Amateur Radio in 5 GHz Proceeding
2 Become 1: How to Turn Green Light Blue
Ferroelectric Materials Push Solar Cell Past Theoretical Limit
Smithsonian Restoring Original Star Trek Enterprise Model
Construction Starts on Huge Chinese Cosmic Ray Observatory
8/15/2016
LinkedIn: Open-Sourcing Under the Microsoft Regime
Job Cuts Loom at UK's National Physical Laboratory
Millions of Volkswagen Cars
Can Be Unlocked via Hack
'Transient Electronics' Research Develops Dissolving Battery
AT&T Execs Won't Provide Small Cell Deployment Goals
Who Are The Highest
Paid Hosts in Radio?
8/12/2016
Turn off That iPhone, Commandant Tells Marines
Growth in New Amateur Radio Licensees Ahead of Last Year's
Big 3 Chipmakers
Likely to Boost Capex
Android Captures Record
97% Smartphone Market Share in India
Deutsche Telekom Launches Pan-European Strategy
Prototype Chip Could Help Make Quantum Computing Practical
'Eye of Sauron'-Inspired Malware Spies on International Agencies
8/11/2016
GPS Under Attack as Crooks, Rogue Workers Wage Electronic War
Skyworks
Acquires Remaining Interest in Filter Joint Venture with Panasonic
900M Android Devices Affected by Qualcomm Vulnerability Exploit
NASA's CubeSat Launch Initiative Opens Space to Educators, Nonprofits
Amazon Japan Raided on Suspicion of Antitrust Practices
2,473 Billionaire$ in 2015 up 6.4% (I'm getting nearer
to that mark myself)
8/10/2016
U.S. Cellular Intros New Roaming Technology
Field Data Proves
GaN FET Reliability
Large Hadron Collider's New 'Particle' Was Just a Fluke
SiSn Anode Boosts LiIon Battery Lifetime
Engine Glitch Stalls Navy's MUOS-5 Satellite
HAARP Facility to Reopen in 2017 Under New Ownership
8/9/2016
China Flooding Silicon Valley with Cash
Space Jam 10 in Illinois Will Again Host ARISS Contact
Quest for Electronic Devices Made of Soft Organic Materials
Using Laser
Impulses to Destroy Hazardous Space Debris
Global Semiconductor Sales Increase in Q2
Global Smartphone
Shipments Grow 1% in Q2 2016
8/8/2016
Stunning Nissan Electric Car Hits Rio
FCC Levies $25,000 Fine on Radio Amateur for Deliberate Interference
Bell,
Nokia Complete 5G Demo in Canada
Navy Moving Forward with New Shipboard Radar
First Osprey Flight with Critical 3D Printed Part
Double Standard When Women CEOs in Tech Stumble?
8/5/2016
Cyclist Claims iPhone Severely
Burned His Leg
Radar Security Market to Grow to 25B by 2022
Global Semiconductor Sales Increase in 2nd Quarter
Bar Blocks Mobile Phone Signals
to Be More Social
Dish-Led MVDDS Coalition Urges FCC to Act on 12.2-12.7 GHz Band for 5G ASAP
Teeth Flossing Shown to Be Not So Effective After All
(more 'settled science' unsettled)
8/4/2016
Newly Founded Company Set to Create New Line of Nokia Phones
Samsung Reveals 5.7" Galaxy Note 7 w/Built-in Iris Scanner
U.S. Battery Consortium
to Boost Small Li-Metal Projects
What's Happening to Japan's Semiconductor Industry?
Single Photon Simultaneously Excites 2 Atoms
8/3/2016
Wireless Carriers, ISPs Seek Rehearing of 'Open Internet' Appeal
3 Win Bosch Engineering Prize for Women
Microsoft Cuts 2,850 Jobs in Distancing Itself from Nokia
Jammer Jams Intruder as Amateur Band Encroachments Continue
(the old two wrongs don't make a right thing)
Solar Panel Systems May Not Meet EMC Standards
Comcast Faces $100M Lawsuit for 1.8M CPA Violations
8/2/2016
STMicroelectronics
Buys NFC, RFID Assets from AMS
FCC Seeks Comments on Waiver Request from Expert Linears
Eutelsat Enjoys Sustained Growth
Avnet
Counterbids $910M for Premier Farnell
Nano-Sized Photo
Detector Integrated on CMOS Chip
UCI Professor Leaves to Start Integra Devices
8/1/2016
Tech Groups Told Europe Funds
'On Pause'
FCC Addressing Amateur Radio Application Backlog
Thin Insulation Offers Ultra-Low Thermal Conductivity
Worldwide Semi Capital
Spending to Decline 0.7% in 2016
How Cognitive Radio Can Help LTE-U and Wi-Fi Users Get Along
Snell's Law for Spin Waves Measured at Long Last
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