Electronics & Tech Headline News Archive - August 2017

Technology Headline News Archives - RF Cafe

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8/31/2017

3-Mile-Wide NEO Passes Within 18x Moon Distance on Friday

ARPA-E Awards $30M for 21 Projects as Part of CIRCUITS Program

5 Things to Know About DARPA's Spectrum Grand Challenge

Money for Nothing and Phones for Free

NASA TDRS-M Satellite Achieves Orbit

8/30/2017

Hutch Disputes €4B India Tax Demand

Apple Likely to Launch iPhone 8 on September 12

10 Years of the iPhone

Samsung's Note8 Is Its Biggest Galaxy Phone Yet

China IC Startup Nets $100M Series A Financing

8/29/2017

Air Force Seeks Common VLF Communications for Nuclear Forces

Google and Walmart Partner with Eye on Amazon

SPY-6 Radar Scores in Ballistic Missile Defense Test

New York on Pace to get 25 Mbps to All by 2018

Tesla's Massive Gigafactory Looks Busy in New Drone Footage

8/28/2017

Solar Eclipse QSO Party a Hit, Science Conclusions Await Additional Analysis

Oversized Phones 'Could Be Big Plus' for Operators and Vendors (my oversize phone is a desktop computer)

Semiconductor Industry Capital Spending Forecast to Jump 20% in 2017

Semi July Billings up 32.8% YoY

Samsung Verdict Jolts South Korea

8/25/2017

Millennials & Boomers Align Well in the Engineering Workplace

Companies Urge FCC to End Apartment Broadband Monopolies

Google Secretly Recording You Through Your Mobile

InGaNP Quantum Wells on Silicon on Insulator

Celebrating the Engineer

8/24/2017

Japan Launches Satellite for Better GPS System

ARRL Now on Snapchat

Gender Quotas in the Workplace

2 New Jersey FM Radio Pirates Warned

New Dawn for Thorium Reactor Research

8/23/2017

U.S. Smartphone Market Jumped 14% in Q2

Large Number of Americans Find Their Workplace Hostile

Ultrathin Semi Materials Exceed Some of Silicon's "Secret" Powers

AMSAT Reports RadFxSat (Fox-1B) Completes P-POD Integration

EE Challenges UK 5G Spectrum Auction Rules

8/22/2017

FCC Proposes Fine for Cellphone Jamming

Semiconductor Industry Backs Trump's China Probe

Scottish Tech Firm Plans Growth and Recruitment

Canada Proposes Implementing a 60-Meter Band, Retaining Discrete Channels

AT&T's $85 Billion Time Warner Merger to Be Approved

8/21/2017

Google, UC Berkeley to Create Eclipse Movie from Crowd-Sourced Images

Internet Access to ARRL Headquarters to be Disrupted on August 22

Nokia Wants to Conduct 3.5 GHz Small Cell Tests at Comcast

Cable Providers Continue to Dominate the Broadband Industry

Peregrine Semiconductor Announces New VP of Engineering and Product Marketing

Warning from History: Could Japan-Style Crash Hit China?

8/18/2017

UK 3rd in the World for R&D

Space Station Crew Looks Forward to Total Solar Eclipse (Monday, August 21)

IBM Deep Learning Breaks Through

FCC Takes Heat for Plan to Lower Broadband Deployment Bar

4 Potentially Higher-Status Alternatives to the iPhone 8

8/17/2017

Taiwan Government to Fund 30,000 Tech Start-ups in 3 Years

FCC Issues Rules to Open Spectrum for Vehicular Radar

Boeing Creates In-House Avionics Unit to Replace Outsourcing

The Greatest Top 40 Stations of All Time!

NZ Regulator Warns Telcos over Fair Trade Violations

8/16/2017

Ultrafast Wi-Fi on Horizon at 100x Current Speeds

China Unicom Issues H1 Revenue Warning

TIM succumbs to Stockholm Syndrome (whoa - is that a gun?)

Fired Google Engineer Says Company Is 'Like a Cult'

Nokia Bell Labs Developing 5G Platform-as-a-Service

8/15/2017

FCC Updates RF Device Authorization Rules

China Must Stop Forcing U.S. Firms to Share Intellectual Property

Making the World More Like Star Trek Than Skynet

Huawei Goes Bear Hunting at the 5G Frontier

Britain's Big Ben to Fall Silent for 4 Years

8/14/2017

IEC TR 63100:2017, Radio-Over-Fibre Technologies for Spectrum Measurement

T-Mobile Exec Sees Low-Band Spectrum as Great Equalizer

Renewable Energy Revitalizes the Ammeter Shunt Resistor

Russian 6th-Gen Jet Fighter to Employ Laser Weapons to Burn Missile Seekers

Manchester Businessman Sentenced in H-1B Visa Fraud Case

8/11/2017

Worldwide Semi Capital Spending Forecast to Grow 10.2% in 2017

First Bulgarian Amateur Radio CubeSat to Launch in 2018

4 Reasons Manufacturing Jobs Are Returning to the USA

Podcast Patent Ruled Invalid by Court

Never Too Old to Code: Japan's 82-Year-Old App Maker

8/10/2017

Radio Amateurs in Atlantic Canada Go on Standby During Telephone Outage

FCC Issues Rules to Open Spectrum for Vehicular Radar

China's Web Users Fear Losing Tools to Bypass 'Great Firewall'

Can We Wean Elon Musk off Government Support Already?

23% of All Federal Prisoners are Illegals

8/9/2017

France and Germany Plan Tax Crackdown on U.S. Tech Giants (they also evade paying taxes in U.S., BTW)

Carrier Coalition Praises FCC for Midband Spectrum NOI

5G Needs mm-Wave Regs - Pronto

Ice Wireless Connects Unconnected Canadians

Teenage Whiz Kid Invents AI System to Diagnose Her Grandfather's Eye Disease

8/8/2017

FCC Updates RF Device Authorization Rules

Semiconductor Sales Tracking up 21% from 2016

You Don't Need a BA to Get a Well-Paying Job

Boeing Sets up In-House Electronics Team to Develop Avionics

Apple Defends Caving in to China over VPNs (profits abrogate declared corporate philosophy)

8/7/2017

FCC's Ajit Pai Says, "We want America to Be the Leader in Innovation."

Special Event Under Way to Mark 50 Years of Offshore Radio Broadcasting

Cutbacks Hit Radio-Telescope Project

Could Extra Dimensions Be Detected by a Bose–Einstein Condensate?

How Much You Need to Earn to Be in Top 1% at Every Age

8/4/2017

U.S. Carriers' Network Capex 'at Healthy Levels'

Top 3 Smart Cities in Europe

Top 3 Smart Cities in North America

How Steve Jobs Helped This North Korean Defector 'Think Different'

Ferroelectric Phenomenon Proven Viable for Oxide Electrodes

Flash Killing HDD (I love my SS drive - computer boots in <30 seconds)

8/3/2017

Hot Spot for Tech Outsourcing: The United States

31 Million Homes Will Cut TV Cord This Decade

Verizon Is Clear Winner in Rootmetrics Nationwide Network Evaluation

OLED TV Expected to Grow to >50% of $1,000+ Market by 2019 (my only TV, a 26" LCD w/built-in DVD, cost $120 in 2008)

Si Valley Restaurant Where Google & Apple Execs Are Served Gilded Steak

8/2/2017

Europe's 1st 5G Fixed Wireless Access Trial Runs in London

Silicon Wafer Shortage Starts in 2018 (we've run out of sand???)

Apple Granted License to Test 5G Wireless Broadband

Call for Speakers: Pacific Design & Manufacturing 2018

5G Proposals Jam 3GPP Channels

8/1/2017

LNA Market Expected to Reach $3B by 2023

Semiconductor Equipment Sales Rise Again

UK Fintech Start-up Investment Booming

Microsoft Previews Windows 10 PC-Phone Link

Apple Faces $506M Patent Dispute Payout