Electronics & Tech Headline News Archive - May 2017

Technology Headline News Archives - RF Cafe

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5/31/2017

Qualcomm to Pay BlackBerry $940M to Settle Royalties Fight

Europasat Communication Satellite Shipped for Launch

'Drastically' Higher Resolution to Your TV and Smartphone

5G to Enable $12B in Global Economic Output by 2035

Memristor Image Processor Uses Sparse Coding to See

5/30/2017

FCC Subject to Denial-of-Service Attack

Smartphone Sales Grew 9% in Q1

Magnetic Switch Turns Strange Quantum Property On and Off

Best Engineering Websites Every Engineer Should Know About (fool missed RF Cafe!)

Red, Green and Blue from a Single Pixel

5/29/2017

Hackers Unlock Samsung Galaxy S8 with Fake Iris

Consent Decree, Forfeiture Terminate FCC Interference Investigation

Euro 5G Consortium Releases Roadmap with No Direction

U.S. Cablecos Strike $2.4B Merger deal

Serious Injuries at Tesla Plant 2x Industry Average

5/26/2017

Fake IC Battle Gets a New Weapon

General Dynamics Tests Military 4G Net for Broadband Capabilities over the Ocean

Google for Jobs Employs Machine Learning to Help People Find Work

China's Semiconductor Industry and 'Win-Win' Growth

U. Calgary in Canada Offers Masters Credit in Mars Architecture

5/25/2017

Wireless Service Falls 13%, Biggest Decline in 16 Years

Skills Gap Widens in Electronics Manufacturing

Li-Ion Battery Inventor Intros Advanced Solid-State Rechargeable

FCC Issues Notice of Unlicensed Operation in Public Safety Interference Complaint

12 Views on the Future of Electronics

5/24/2017

67% of UK Manufacturers Worried Skills Shortage Will Affect Business

CQ Magazine Announces Hall of Fame Honorees for 2017

FCC Moves to Eliminate 'Main Studio Rule'

AT&T's 911 Outage 'Result of Mistakes Made by AT&T' per FCC

Nokia Make$ Million$ on Apple Patent Law$uit

5/23/2017

U.S. Cable, Wireless Mega-Merger Could Be on the Horizon

4th Satellite for Inmarsats Global Broadband Network Launched by SpaceX

5G Interoperability Testing and Outsourcing Will Impact Global Test Market

Dish Tie-up with Amazon Could Lift Tower Companies

Is 'Internet Addiction' Real?

5/22/2017

FCC Votes to Overturn Net Neutrality Rules

Russia's 'Killer Satellites' Re-Awaken

4 Views of the Silicon Roadmap

Record Wafer Shipments Continue

China Executed 18 U.S. C.I.A. Informants 2010-2012

5/19/2017

Worldwide Semiconductor Revenue Grew 2.6% in 2016

Hamvention and ARISS Teaming up Again

8 Things You Don't Know About Steve Wozniak ('The Woz')

Verizon Wins Straight Path Bidding War

Welcome to Light Bulb Selection Heck

5/18/2017

Space Radiation Brought Down to Earth

Fake Russian EW Attack Unmasked

China Expands Data Export Restrictions

Raytheon to Develop 3DELRR, New Expeditionary Radar for USAF

U.S. Household Debt Hit Record in Q1 (must be good thing - look at Government record debt)

5/17/2017

FCC Gives Charter Approval to Test 5G in Florida

Manhunt for Hackers Behind Global Cyberattack

Radio Is a Challenged Industry

Nokia, Ericsson Mark Separate 5G Milestones in Japan, South Korea

How Google Took Over the Classroom

5/16/2017

Way Found to Increase the Lifetime of Tesla's Batteries to 20 Years

U.S. Commerce Secretary Finds China Chip Plans 'Scary'

BT to Cut 4,000 Jobs, CEO Takes Pay Cut

Telcos Shouldn't Be Afraid of Being Viewed as Utilities

Flaw in Intel Chips Could Open Door to Botnet Armies

5/15/2017

Record in Reach for Tech Stocks as Big 5 Add $500B

The Benefits of Old Age (for Transistors)

Upgrading Missile Defense Early Warning Radar

EU5 Incumbents: How They Stack up After Q1

Germans Aim for Aluminium Nitride Deep-UV LEDs

5/12/2017

Ransomware Infections Reported Worldwide

Telecommunications Ministry in India Orders Halt to Online Transceiver Sales

Madison, WI, Schools Block Social Media Access for Students

U.S. to Ban Laptops in All Cabins of Flights from Europe

Army Says Smartphone, Digital Tech Increase Vulnerability

Epistar Files U.S. Patent Infringement Lawsuit against Lowes Home Centers (I buy most of my stuff at Lowes)

5/11/2017

FCC Chief Pai Faces Barrage of Death Threats, Racist Attacks

Qorvo's Quarterly Revenue Hit by Delayed Smartphone Launches in China and Korea

Quartz Powder for Battery of the Future

Google Moves in And Wants to Pump 1.5M Gallons of Water/Day

U.S. Government Subsidization of Electricity Generating ('renewables' a major drain)

5/10/2016

Coffee Shops Skip Wi-Fi to Encourage Customers to Actually Talk

After Moore's Law - What?

Plutonium Discovery Lights Way to Clean up Nuclear Waste

Tablet Market Falls for 10 Straight Quarters

Carbon Fiber, Steel, Put New Twist on Automotive Lightweighting (a new verb from an adjective!)

5/9/2017

QSL Wall to Be Available at Hamvention

Apple Plans $1B Advanced Manufacturing Fund for U.S.

Q1 Smartphone Shipments up 4.3%

Deadline for QST Antenna Design Competition is June 1

NXP Acquires Freescale, Becomes Top MCU Supplier in 2016

5/8/2017

Qualcomm Leads Study on 5G NR in Unlicensed Spectrum

FCC Proposes $400k Fine for Illegal Use of NYPD's Radio System

Harvard Wireless Club Sponsors Inaugural Amateur Radio Symposium

March IC Sales up 18.1%, Says SIA

Samsung Poised to Become World's Largest Semi Supplier in 2Q17

5/5/2017

AT&T to Launch 5G Services in 20+ Metros by End of This Year

Marking Laser Helps Microcircuit Designers Improve Processing Yields

Infosys Will Create 10,000 U.S. Jobs

Yasme Foundation Grants Will Support Youth Involvement in Amateur Radio

Physicists Determine Time Travel Is Mathematically Possible

5/4/2017

Mineral Resources Exhaustion Just a Myth

RadFxSat (Fox-1B) Passes Mission Readiness Review

Skyworks Exceeds Q2 FY17 Expectations

Floodgates Open on Premature 5G Network Announcements

Why Space Dust Emits Radio Waves upon Crashing into Spacecraft

5/3/2017

NBN Fixed Wireless Trial Tops 1 Gbps

Telecom Subscriber Base in India Hit 1.18B in February

iPhone Bug Forces Handsets to Stop Working with Just 1 Press

Switch Flipped on UK's Newest Tokamak Fusion Reactor

Uncle Sam Investigates Huawei for Possible Naughty Deals

5/2/2017

Apple Steps up Pressure on Qualcomm: Stops Licensing Payments

Screen Fatigue Sees e-Book Sales Plunge 17% as Readers Return to Print

The Inconvenient Truth About Electric Vehicles

U.S. Army Orders More Counterfire Radars from Lockheed Martin

Shattering the Failure Glass Ceiling: Yahoo's Mayer Gets Out-the-Door Package >$100M

5/1/2017

Inaugural AM Rally a Hit! Participants Log Nearly 1,500 Contacts

Ladies, Engineering Needs You (flash: engineering needs men, too)

FCC's Ajit Pai Wants to Reverse Net Neutrality

LightPointe Expands Its 80 GHz mmWave Multi-Gigabit Wireless Backhaul Solutions

Lockheed to Add Air Defense to AN/TPQ-53 Counter-Fire Radar