Electronics & Tech Headline News Archive - August 2018 |
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• Welsh Compound Semi Centre Receives Money, Creates Jobs • Android Collecting 10x More Data Than iOS • Researcher Helps Crack Decades-Old Math Problem • Keysight Going Strong Despite U.S. Trade Tensions with China • Jury Still out on Aspirin-a-Day to Prevent Heart Attack and Stroke (ask me about my experience w/LDA) 8/29/2018 • Global DAS Market Expected to Reach $15.1B by 2024 • Crypto Tycoons About to Learn How Rich They Really Are • NYU Series Tackles Next Spectrum Frontier: Terahertz • Green Light for South African Radio Telescope (will the current land-grabbers ruin it?) • 6 Volkswagen Managers Fired in Ongoing Diesel Emissions Scandal 8/29/2018 • Mapping the Future of Electronics • A Human Enzyme Can Biodegrade Graphene • Europe to Ban Halogen Light Bulbs (the EU puppeteers, actually) • German Component Distribution Stable But Uninspired • FCC Denies Motion to Stop Clock on T-Mobile/Sprint Deal 8/27/2018 • Teens - and Parents - Feel Tethered to Phones • Amp-Free Photodiodes Promise New Wearables • PdvWireless Optimistic 900 MHz Band Will See Action Soon • Korean Patent Landscape Densifies Around Foldable Displays • Qualcomm Targets Upcoming 5G Chip Platform at Smartphones in 2019 8/24/2018 • Europe's New Data Law Upends Global Online Advertising • 7 of Top 15 Semi Suppliers of 1st Half of 2018 Register ≥20% Gains • Verizon Tees up Prototypes for More Tests in 28 GHz Band • Concern Within Amateur Radio Community over WWV-WWVH Shutdown • Worldwide Semiconductor Revenue Hit Record $1208B in Q2 2018 8/23/2018 • SIA: Q2 Semiconductor Sales up 6% QoQ and 20.5% YoY at $117.9B • India Cracks down on 'Predatory Publishers' Following International Investigation • Army Tests EW for Military Ground Vehicles in Jamming Tests • Telstra Switches on 5G Network in Australia • Laser Beam Attacks Bedevil U.S. Military Pilots in Mideast 8/22/2018 • Small Communications Satellites to Surge by 2030 • Advertisers Turn to Sports Radio to Reach Men • Verizon Reveals Indianapolis Will Receive 5G in 2018 • Smart and Ericsson to Rollout 5G in the Philippines by 2019 • HAARP's WSPR Research Campaign Yields Hundreds of Reports on 40 and 80 Meters 8/21/2018 • Optoelectronics Market Worth $9.80B by 2025 • Sprint, LG Promise 1st Mobile 5G Phone • Apple Pulls 25, 000 Gambling Apps from China Market • NASA Launches Parker Solar Probe Mission to 'Touch' the Sun (hope it doesn't get renamed Icarus) • Top Programming Languages 2018 8/20/2018 • Midband Spectrum for 5G Needed Now • SEMI Integration of ESD Alliance Underway • Algorithms Help Power Grids Survive GPS Spoofs • The Weird Mistakes Killing Tesla • Terahertz Technology Creates New Insight into Semiconductor Lasers 8/17/2018 • Keysight Technologies acquires Thales Calibration Services • Virus Attack on Chipmaker Could Delay Next iPhone • Google Tracks Your Location Even When You Tell It to Stop • 16-Year-Old Hacked Apple, Stole 90 GB of Secure Files • AMSAT Issues Second Call for 2018 Symposium Papers 8/16/2016 • Samsung Considers Chinese Factory Closure • Turkey President Threatens iPhone Boycott • Taiwan Shows No Sign of Releasing Stranglehold on Chip Foundry Industry • Qorvo's Quarterly Growth Driven by Mobile Demand in China • Mystery Russian Satellite's Behaviour Raises Alarm in U.S. 8/15/2018 • Qualcomm-NXP Break-up: There Will Be Fallout • Russian Military Spy Software on Hundreds of Thousands of Home Routers • New U.S. Submarine Forces Commander is Radio Amateur • Bell Launches 1.5 Gbps FTTH Services in Canada • Xiaomi Leads Smartphone Market in India 8/14/2018 • Put Your Phone Down! Backlash on Terrible Tech Manners • Open Fiber Raises €3.5B for Italian FTTH Network • Tesla Says on Track for Profit Despite Bigger 2Q Loss • Telcos Will Be Honest If You Force Them to Be • Homeland Security Unveils Center to Combat Cyberthreats 8/13/2018 • FCC Adopts '1-Touch, Make-Ready' to Hasten Broadband Deployments • China Tower Raises $6.9B in Hong Kong IPO • CBNL Ready to Support Millimeter-Wave Auction Winners • Another Big Push For More Radio Deregulation • 6 New Developments in U.S. Tower Industry 8/10/2018 • U.S. House of Representatives Passes PIRATE Act • 14% of U.S. Households Could Go All Wireless • Broadband Internet Causes Sleep Deprivation • Peculiarities of Developing Quantum Computing - Possible End of Bitcoin • Math + Good Posture = Better Scores 8/9/2018 • FCC Streamlines Formal Complaint Processes • First Half Chip Sales up 20% from 2017 • SDR-Based Communication Helped Save Trapped Boys in Thai Cave • FCC Establishes Procedures for 28, 24 GHz Auctions, 39 GHz for 2019 • Strange Metals Just Got Stranger 8/8/2018 • Google to Warn Enterprises of Potential Attacks on G Suite Accounts • Wireless Enjoys Biggest QoQ Jump in >20 Quarters • Rising Cobalt Prices Push up Li-Ion Battery Costs • The Rebirth of the Semiconductor Industry • Amazon in UK Profits up 3x, Taxes Paid down 1/3 8/7/2018 • Audi, Ericsson Test 5G Technology in Car Production • The Rebirth of the Semiconductor Industry • USAF Outlines 5-year, $25M SIGINT Research Project • FCC Passes New OTMR Rules to Speed 5G Deployments • T-Mobile One Step Closer to Rolling out 5G 8/6/2018 • Computer Virus Cripples iPhone Chipmaker TSMC Plants • Senate Passes 2019 National Defense Authorization Act • QST Antenna Design Competition Submission Deadline Looms • Moore's Law, China vs. Team USA • Russian Hackers Have Invaded Hundreds of U.S. Utilities 8/3/2018 •• FCC Cites Baofeng Importer for Illegally Marketing Unauthorized RF Devices • Huawei Ignores Security Allegations as Revenues Surge by 15% • Hynix to Invest $3.1B in New Fab • Prepare for 1st Wave of 5G Wins - Nokia and T-Mobile = $3.5B • U.S. Adults Now Spend Nearly Day/2 Interacting with Media 8/2/2018 • What the Small Cell Market Looks Like in 2018 • UK Telcos Could Shed 48,000 Jobs over Next Decade • China Kills Qualcomm-NXP Deal • Why Flash Storage Will Remain Dominant for Several Years (...and still magnetic HDDs - ugh!) • LG's $1,830 Smartphone to Hit the Shelves Next Month 8/1/2018 • Silicon on Insulator (SOI) Market to Reach $1.8B by 2023 • HAARP Campaign to Use WSPR on 80 Meters • 25 High-Tech Organizations Forging a Successful Resiliency Path • SIA Applauds New DoD Transformative Research Partnerships • New Material Discovered to Cool PCs and Mobile Devices |
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