Electronics & Tech Headline News Archive - February 2018

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2/28/2018

FCC Chief Wants to Auction 28 GHz Spectrum This November

Apple Plans Giant High-End iPhone (desktop in your pocket)

Spreadtrum and RDA Join Intel on 5G

New Ofcom Rules Could Cut Price of FTTH up to 50%

IC Technology Advances Continue to Amaze

2/27/2018

UK Derives $64B Revenue from Its Subsea Cables

BMW to Offer Wireless Charging Solutions for Its Electric & Hybrid Cars

Test Satellites for SpaceX's Broadband Megaconstellation Set for Launch

Smartphones Dominate UC&C Landscape as Fixed Line Usage Wanes

Top Chipmakers Raise R&D Bets

2/26/2018

Huawei Launches World's 1st Commercialised 5G Chipset

Nokia Flexes Its 5G and WiFi Muscles at MWC 2018

47% Indians Care More About Smartphones Than Their Loved Ones

EE Ranked Most Reliable Mobile Network in UK

Silicon Valley Too Expensive for Tech Workers to Live

2/23/2018

Silicon Valley's Corrupt Underbelly

Ericsson and the Middle East Are Leading the 5G Race

Deutsche Telekom, Huawei and Intel Head for 2019 5G Rollout

Major Discovery in Controlling Quantum States of Single Atoms

Qualcomm Increases Offer Price of $127.50 per Share for NXP

2/22/2018

U.S. National Science Foundation Clamps down on Misconduct

Netherlands Planning Massive Solar Energy Farm at Sea

Rise of Tech Giants May Be Bad News for Economy

Heaviest Element Could Have Fascinating Atomic and Nuclear Spectra

FCC Releases Report on Internet Access Services

2/21/2018

Employees at Apple's New Campus Are Walking into the Glass Panes

Qualcomm Offers Previews of Its 5G Chipsets, Services

FY19 Defense Budget Calls for Big Boost for DIUx

Precision Experiments Reveal Gaps in van der Waals Theory

Tsinghua in Deal to Invest $100B in Fabs

2/20/2018

Engineering Jobs and Salaries Are Growing

Smartphone Market to Show Weak Growth in 2018

U.S. Demand for Semiconductor Machinery to Total $7.4B in 2021

Ham Radio "a Special Hobby," ARRL Member Tells College Publication

ARRL Receives Byrd Antarctic Expedition Morse Key, Historical Materials

2/19/2018

U.S. Intel Chiefs Advise Americans Avoid Products & Services from Huawei and ZTE

Elon Musk's Broadband-from-Space Plan Clears Crucial U.S. Hurdle

New German Warship Fails Sea Trials Due to Tech Woes

5G Comms Prototype at 2018 Winter Olympics

Faster, Cheaper, Nano-Based Manufacturing

2/16/2016

Qualcomm Claims World's First 2 Gbps LTE Modem

Future Forward Submarine Networks

Missed Opportunities to Put Engineering in the Spotlight

New IC Manufacturing Lines to Boost Industry Wafer Capacity 8%

Lenovo Tops Indian Tablet Market with 94% Growth

2/15/2018

Gallium Oxide (Ga2O3) as Replacement for Silicon in Lower-Cost, Smaller ICs

Tech Sector Takes Lead in Tackling Modern Slavery (all your cheap thing$ going to co$t more)

Cyber Attacks Infiltrate the Olympics

Ericsson Completes Its 5G Platform for Operators

Pentagon Releases New Nuclear Strategy

2/14/2018

Qualcomm's R&D Chief: "There Will Be a 6G Probably" (I mentioned 6G 1st)

Is Alexa Rejuvenating Radio?

Orange Announces New 5G Trials in France

Huawei Predicts 2.5B Gigabit Users by 2025

Electronic Warfare (EW) Upgrade Set for C-130H

2/13/2018

Qualcomm Rejects Broadcom Recent Bid

EE to Bring Superfast Broadband to 580,000 Rural Homes and Businesses

WiFi Routers Riddled with Security Holes

Nokia Touts Better-Than-Expected Q4, Optimistic on 5G

How Defense Contractors Are Adapting to Today's Demands

2/12/2018

Telstra Opens 5G Innovation Center in Australia's Gold Coast

Worldwide Smartphone Market Sees Big Declines in Q4

X-ray Pioneers Bag European Physical Society Condensed Matter Division Europhysics Prize

Meet the 'Odderon': LHC Shows Potential for Elusive Quasiparticle

NBC News Report Says Hams "Could Save Our Lives" in a Disaster

2/9/2018

Trump Administration Documents Show Military Weapons Are 5G Concern

Russia Poised to Surprise the U.S. in Battlefield Robotics

Q4 Smartphone Shipments Down 4.5%

Space Drones to Give Satellites New Lease on Life

Harley-Davidson to Release an Electric Motorcycle in 2019 (for Fonz-e)

2/8/2018

FCC Releases Summary of Its 2017 Accomplishments

Broadcom Expected to Increase Qualcomm Offer to $145B

Sprint to Launch Nationwide Mobile 5G in 1st ½ of 2019

The 9 Most Sought-After Engineering Degrees

Chipmakers Discuss a Future After Meltdown and Spectre

2/7/2018

Turbulent Times Ahead for Trade

Apple Overtakes Samsung in Smartphone Shipments

In College, Sports Trumps STEM (psst: it always has)

Fed 100 Flush with Defense Winners

Sprint Positioned for 'Truly Awful' 4th Quarter

FCC Tries to Save Paper

2/6/2018

Wireless Institute of Australia Seeks Amateur Radio Power Increase

Lumileds New-Gen LEDs Lit up Super Bowl LII

Speed of Light Drops to Zero at 'Exceptional Points'

FCC Updates Public on Hawaii Incident

Diamonds Show Promise for Spintronic Devices

2/5/2018

Nokia and Telefonica Germany Sign 5G Testing MoU

Urban Mining Tool Makes Moves to Manage eWaste in EU

Tech Spending in India to Grow 12% in 2018

More Gloom for Ericsson

T-Mobile Vows to Use Renewable Electricity to Cover 100% of Energy Needs

2/2/2018

AMVETS Says NFL Censored Its Ad Against Flag Protests

Super Bowl LII a Proving Ground for Small Cell Deployments

Worldwide Semi Revenue Forecast to Grow 7.5% in 2018

Nationalized 5G Network 'Costly and Counterproductive' per FCC Chairman

Sandia Computer Modeling Aids Solder Reliability in Nuclear Weapons

2/1/2018

Institute of Coding to Be Set up in UK

AT&T to Lose Hundreds of 5G mm-Wave Spectrum Licenses

11 Myths About LoRaWAN

Value of Semi Industry M&A Deals Slows Dramatically in 2017

Renesas Denies Negotiating to Buy Maxim