Tech Industry Headlines Archive - October 2016

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10/31/2016

70% of Galaxy Note 7 Owners Will Stick with Samsung

Supercomputer Confirms Nickel-78 is 'Doubly Magic' Isotope

USAF Weather Satellite Broke up in Orbit

Software Error May Have Doomed ESA Mars Lander

Syrian 'Refugee' w/4 Wives & 23 Kids Receives £320k in Benefits per Year

10/28/2016

Apple's Profits Fall for 1st Time in 15 years

Broadcasters, Jammers Wreak Havoc on Amateur Radio Frequencies

Google Fiber Broadband Plan Scaled Back

Code Names, Covert Meetings, Big Political Donations in AT&T's Courtship of Time Warner

Artificial Intelligence Will Allow Fighter Jet Pilots to Control Drones

10/27/2016

Gallium Demand to Grow at 6% Annually to 420 Tons in 2020

Russian Indicted over LinkedIn and Dropbox Mega-Breaches

Smashing Metallic Cubes Toughens Them Up

EnSilica Opens Oxford RF Design Centre

Geomagnetic Storm Peaks at G3 (Strong) Level

10/26/2016

Spectrum Wins Stretch India Operators' Balance Sheets

Smartwatch Sales Show Sharp Decline

Lockheed Martin Re-ups MUOS Satellite Network Contract

4DS Memristors Target ReRAMs

Online Crime Leads to Losses of £10.9B per Year

10/25/2016

Who Did Well in Wireless in Q3 2016?

AT&T's $85B Merger with Time Warner Follows Decades of Industry Deals

Graphene Cracks the Glass Corrosion Problem

New Era of Internet Attacks Powered by Everyday Devices

Pentagon Forces Soldiers to Repay Reenlistment Bonuses

10/24/2016

Ultralow Power Transistors Could Function for Years Without Battery

Apparent ARISS Radio Failure Prompts Shift to Russian Service Module Ham Gear

Microsoft Shares at New Record High

Tech Start-ups Pick up Awards from Deloitte

DDoS Attacks Stun Amazon, Twitter, Spotify

Millennials Fall for More Online Scams Than Pensioners

10/21/2016

Pushing the Boundaries of Magnet Design

Law Needs to Credit Inventive Computers in Patents

MARS-Amateur Radio Interoperability Exercise to Test 'Very Bad Day' Scenario

Stop Messing Around, Ofcom, and Do Your Job

Postal Worker Dumps Piles of Mail Woods (at least he didn't stage shoot-out)

10/20/2016

Microsoft Seeks EU Antitrust Approval for LinkedIn Purchase

Silicon Valley Cozies up to Washington, Outspending Wall Street 2-1

Germany Sends Tesla Drivers Autopilot Warning Letter

Radio Amateurs in India Monitoring 'Highly Suspicious' VHF Communications

Bendable Electronic Paper Displays Whole Color Range

10/19/2016

Samsung Predicts $3B Hit to Future Profits After Pulling Galaxy Note 7

Disorderly Conduct in Electron Behavior

Frequency Comb Traps and Cools Atoms

Experiment to Weigh 'Ghost Particles' Starts in Germany (using crystal ball)

The Man Who Stood up to Facebook

10/18/2016

FCC Cites Online Retailer for Marketing Unauthorized Radio Frequency Devices

On-Chip Radar Development Kits Stretch to 122 GHz

Facebook Repeatedly Trended Faux News After Replacing Humans with AI

FTC Appeals Ruling in Throttling Case Against AT&T

Novel Glass Improves Aerospace, Defence and Memory in UK Research

10/17/2016

Molten Silicon Offers Unprecedented Solar Energy Storage

Ericsson Warns Q3 Will Be Ugly, Stock Plummets

King of Thailand Bhumibol Adulyadej, HS1A, SK, Passed (born in the USA)

Army Satellite Network Gives Paratroopers Intel In-Flight

Nobel Peace Prize Prez Threatens Russia with Cyberwar

10/14/2016

FCC's Cross-Ownership Rule Is All About Politics

Why Samsung Abandoned Its Galaxy Note 7 Flagship Phone

Metamaterial Uses Light to Control Its Motion

12-Year-Old Gets €100,000 Google AdWords Bill

China May Be Only Country with Space Station in 2024

10/13/2016

GaN Power Devices Market Growing 86% CAGR to $280M in 2021

Hologram Helps Real Shape of Electrons

MPs Warn Millions of Brits Will Lose Their Jobs to AI Machines

'Radical' Microscope Lens Combines High-Res with Large Field of View

Simulations Show How to Turn Graphene's Defects into Assets

10/12/2016

Samsung Halts Galaxy Note 7 Production as Battery Problems Linger

Consumers Warned of Exploding Samsung Washers (piling on...)

Electron Spins 'Talk' to Each Other via a 'Quantum Mediator'

Software Predicts Power Component Failure

Physics Nobel Work Leading to Improved Superconductors

10/11/2016

Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint LTE Spectrum Ownership

Hack Warnings Prompt Cyber 'Security Fatigue'

Metamaterial Uses Light to Control Its Motion

Miserable, Disobedient & Victorious: Future U.S. Soldier

Facebook Gets £11M Tax Credit, After Vowing to Pay More

10/10/2016

UK 'Lags Behind' London on 4G Coverage

Federated Wireless and Airspan Collaborate to Improve 3.5 GHz Band Quality

Spectrum the Real Game Changer When It Comes to 5G

Air Traffic Controllers, Pilots Can Now Communicate Electronically

STMicroelectronics, WiTricity to Develop ICs for Resonant Wireless Power Transfer

Why Telecoms Industry Must Get Grip on Internet of Things

10/7/2016

ARRL Gauging Impact of Revised California Distracted Driving Law

What is 5G? We Don't Have a Clue, Says Orange

Salesforce Throws Hissy Fit over LinkedIn Acquisition

Ericsson Confirms 3,000 Job Cuts in Sweden

August Semi Sales Rose 3.5%

Yahoo Scanned Customer E-Mails for U.S. Intelligence (spy agencies answer to President)

10/6/2016

IEEE P802.3bz: New Ethernet Standard Ratified

India Spectrum Auction May Finish After a Week

Look Inside a Battery While It Charges

Silicon Fluorescent Material Developed

5 Decisions That Made the Nobel Prizes Look Bad (+BHO Peace Prize = 6)

How Coffee Can Improve Your Fitness

10/5/2016

FCC Announces More Massive Fines for Slamming, Cramming

Oracle Loses Again in Java Copyright Case Against Google

2,000 Qubit Quantum Computer Next Year?

Commodore C64C Computer Still in Use After 25 Years

Innovations for Transistor Scaling at PRiME 2016

U.S. No Longer in Top 10 Most Free Countries List (the plan worked!)

10/4/2016

Qualcomm Eyes $30B Acquisition of NXP Semiconductors

iPhone Copies Samsung’s "Exploding Phones"

Top 5 Takeaways from SEMI Strategic Materials Conference

Philips Plans to Double Size of MEMS Foundry

FCC Streamlines Foreign Ownership Rules

Quantum Research Race Lights up the World

10/3/2016

5G Represents €113.B Opportunity for EU Countries

Bid to Block U.S. Internetet Handover Rejected

Power Amplifier Market Growing at CAGR of Nearly 14% to 2020

Wind Turbines Killing More Than Just Local Birds

Closing in on High-Temperature Superconductivity

Missile Warning Satellite Launch Slips into 2017 Due to Thruster Concerns