Electronics & Technical Headline News Archive - April 2017

Technology Headline News Archives - RF Cafe

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4/28/2017

Pentagon Ramps up Space Warfare Effort

March Semi Billings Reached Levels Not Seen Since March 2001

Armed Forces Day Crossband Military / Amateur Radio Communications Test is May 13

Debunked: The 5 Biggest Data Myths in Telecoms

Vodafone, Huawei Demonstrate Spectrum Sharing at 900 MHz

4/27/2017

Asia Will Surpass the U.S. in C4ISR Spending by 2025

Fab Tool Billings Reach 16-Year High

AT&T Launches Fixed Wireless Internet in Georgia

SAGE Millimeter Intros 18-40 GHz Dual-Ridged Horn Antenna for 5G Apps

UK to Host World's Most Complex Autonomous Vehicle Trial

4/26/2017

UK Engineers Want Action by Government on Skills Shortage

Metamaterial Designed with Counterintuitive Property 

BT Takes Legal Action Against Former Execs over Italy Accounting Scandal

Skyworks Sets Environmental Resource Conservation and Waste Minimization Records

India's Mobile Subscriber Base Reaches 895M in March

4/25/2017

Broadband, Wi-Fi More Important Than Laundry for Apartment Dwellers

ARRL 2017 Hamvention Forum Topics Encompass Makers, Youth, HamSCI

Rechargeable Batteries from Recycled Glass Store 4x More Energy

Google AI Engineers Defect, Start Own Company

Computer Pioneer Harry Huskey Dies Aged 101

4/24/2017

'New Golden Age' of (Digital) Radio Heralds Possible End of FM

10 Superconducting Qubits Entangled by Physicists in China

GaN Systems' Investors Receive Venture Capital Awards

Verizon Loses Key Wireless Customers for 1st Time

FCC Clears Way for Big TV Mergers

4/21/2017

Italian Court Finds Link Between Cellphone Use and Tumor (ruh-roh)

Death by Overwork: Japan's 100-Hour Overtime Cap

FCC Proposes Levying Huge Fine on New York Police Radio Jammer

China Mobile Network Market to Shrink 34% in 2016-2021

Verizon Drops a $1B on Fibre with Corning

4/20/1027

Children as Young as 13 Treated for Cellphone Addiction

H-1B Visa Applications Drop

The Motor City Tops Best Town List for CAD Designers

Nominations Open for 2017 Bill Pasternak Young Ham of the Year

DOD Eyes More Flexible Ground Terminals to Combat Anti-Satellite Threats

4/19/2017

Samsung Retakes Smartphone Crown from Apple in Slow Q1

China's Highest-Capacity Communications Satellite Launched into Orbit

That Fingerprint Sensor on Your Phone Is Not as Safe as You Think

Fluorinated Graphene Passivation for Aluminium GaN Transistors

Microprocessors Based on Layer of Just 3 Atoms

4/18/2017

College Students Study Best Later in the Day

Cygnus Freighter to Make Science-Enabling Delivery to ISS

German Regulator to Tackle Misleading Broadband Speeds

How 3D Printing Began, Layer by Layer

High-End Turntables, Additive Manufacturing and QA at Subcon 2017

4/17/201

Finalists Unveiled for 11th Annual RFID Journal Awards

TPG, Vodafone Buy Australia's 700-MHz Leftovers

DOD Turns to More Flexible Ground Terminals to Combat Anti-Satellite Threats

Graphene Sees More Light with Silicon Carbide Substrate

Leaked NSA Malware Threatens Windows Users Worldwide

4/14/2017

New Navy Destroyer Radar Conducts First Flight Test

It's Been an Expensive Week for Qualcomm – $815M Expensive

Jumping Droplets Could Cool Computer Chips

Mitsubishi Electric to Build New Satellite Production Facility

Spending on PCs, Mobile Phones to Hit $600B This Year

4/13/2017

International Girls in Information and Telecommunication Technologies Day is April 27

Samsung Tips Best Quarterly Profit in 3 Years as Chips Soar

Inkjet-Printed Flexible Memory Devices

ABI Research Forecasts 4.5B Global Smart Home Sensor Installations by 2022

NXP Announces 65 V LDMOS Technology That Speeds RF Power Design

4/12/2017

U.S. FCC Chair Wants to End Effort to Allow Cellphone Use in Air

Analog Devices Adds 2 Broadband GaN 6-GHz Power Amplifier Modules

AT&T to Acquire Straight Path in $1.6B deal for Spectrum

2016 Marks Year of Recovery for Global Semiconductor Market

Rising Memory Prices Lift Chip Market Outlook

4/11/2017

ARRL Collegiate Amateur Radio Initiative Seeks Volunteers at Hamvention

U.S. Military Satellite Production Rates Boosted by 3-D Printed Parts

China Offers Concessions to Avert Trade War with U.S.

Wind Farm Idling Cost to Be Passed on to UK Customers

Record New Renewable Power Capacity Added Worldwide (see above)

4/10/2017

5G Demo at 2018 Winter Olympics

Semiconductor Sales Keep Climbing

EU Parliament Approves Wholesale Roaming Caps

Same-Band 'Dueling CQs' Now Prohibited in All ARRL Contests

Free App Allows Blind Hams to Work PSK31

4/7/2017

Verizon Launching Nationwide LTE Cat M1 Network for IoT

Analog Devices Buys Broadband Amplifier Vendor

Digital Ad Revenue to Soar in 2017

Privacy Concern Raised over Search Service on Verizon Phones

JavaScript Still Most Popular Language, but Developers Love Rust

4/6/2017

Older Workers Find Age Discrimination Built into Some Job Websites

Smartphone Use Blamed for Road Deaths

Ion Pairs Perform Enhanced 'Spooky Action'

MaxLinear to Buy Exar for $700M

Navy Upgrades E-2D Advanced Hawkeye Radar

Too Much Communication

4/5/2017

Patent Trolls Plague Chip Vendors

Netherlands Modifies 5 MHz Ham Privileges to Conform with WRC-15

Army: We Will Be Challenged to Maintain EW Superiority

Samsung Galaxy S8 Unlocks Just by Looking at It

'Doomsday Library' Opens in Norway for World's Most Precious Books

4/4/2017

Top 20 Venture Capitalists Worldwide

ARRL 2017 Teachers Institutes on Wireless Technology Accepting Applications Until May 1

Apple Wins iPhone 6 Patent Battle in China

Exposed Files on Microsoft's Document-Sharing Site (a reason not to store sensitive docs in 'the cloud')

Industrial IoT to Exceed 53M Connections Worldwide in 2017

4/3/2017

EDA Sales Jump Most in 5 Years

Premium Processing for H1-B Visas Suspended for 6 Months

College Students in Belize Introduced to Amateur Radio

Samsung Plans to Relaunch Refurbished Note 7 Devices

Smartphones That Get Too Darn Hot