Electronics & Tech Headline News Archive - February 2019

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2/28/2019

• Keysight Demonstrates 1st 5G Smartphone Connection

• Frigid Temperatures Cut Electric Vehicle Range by 41%

Russian "Sunflower" Coastal Radar Showing up on 60, 40, and 75 Meters

5G Reaches an Anticlimax at MWC 2019

Not Enough People Have Smartphones

2/27/2019

FCC Announces Career Opportunities of Interest to Amateur Radio Operators

Ericsson Set to Acquire the Antenna and Filters Business of Kathrein

• Would a Huawei Boycott Unravel the Supply Chain?

LinkedIn Starts Showing Trending Stories of the Day

• Qualcomm Introduces Its 1st Multimode 5G Modem

2/26/2019

• Silicon Valley on Alert with New Antitrust Breakup Talk in Congress

• Teen Building Working Nuclear Reactor Using Parts from eBay

• Warning Issued over Attacks on Internet Infrastructure

Carole Perry, WB2MGP, 1st Recipient of Award Named in Her Honor

Facebook Accused of Revealing Sensitive Health Data

2/25/2019

China May Deploy Anti-Satellite Laser Weapons to Destroy U.S. Military Satellites

• Wi-Fi Alliance Presses for Modifications in 6 GHz Rules

New Plan Aligns ARES with the Needs of Served Agencies

U.S.-China Trade War Could Benefit India

• 1:3 Rural England Homes Without Basic Connectivity

2/22/2019

Small Cell 5G Network Market to be Worth $3.5B by 2025

KickSat-2 is Alive and Being Tracked

The Great Semi Debate: SiC or GaN?

• U.S. Student Debt in "Serious Delinquency" Tops $166B

• Data Leak Exposes Vast Hi-Tech Surveillance in Xinjiang

2/21/2019

Lack of Minerals Threatening America's Energy Future

UK Labels Facebook "Digital Gangsters" in Fake News Research

• World's Tax Collectors Look to Divvy up Tech Giants' Billions

• Albuquerque's $133M e-Bus System Going Nowhere Fast (see below)

Growth in Electric Buses Key to Electrification (see above)

2/20/2019

• CTIA Presses Congress for More Midband Spectrum for 5G

Quantum Strangeness Gives Rise to New Electronics

Apple's Insider-Trading Policy Enforcer Accused of Insider Trading

Huawei Launches 5G Test Bed in Thailand

Your Smart Light Can Tell Amazon and Google When You Go to Bed

2/19/2019

• Wireless Carriers Caught Playing Fast and Loose with Location Data

iPhone Sales Plummet by 20%

Verizon Prepares for 3.5 GHz Tests in Boston, Phoenix

• Telesat Taps Blue Origin to Launch Broadband Satellite Fleet

UK GDP Growth Slowing, But So is Europe's

2/18/2019

Ericsson Opens 5G Training Center in Texas

Skyworks Quarterly Revenue down 7.6% YoY to $972M

C-Band Alliance Responds to Backlash

U.S. Navy's Newest Defense Radar Aces Its Most Complex Test Yet

• New Materials Created for High-Voltage Supercapacitors

2/15/2019

• NextGen Nano-Satellites to Directly Communicate with IoT Devices

Amazon Doubles Profits, Pays $0 in Federal Income Taxes - Again!

Navy Secure SATCOM for Shipboard Communications and Computer Networks

• One Man's Quest to Prove Vermont Has Terrible Cell Service

• Here Are the Top 50 Streamed Talk Show Hosts

2/14/2019

• 5G and Massive MIMO Radio Shipments to Hit 100M Units by 2021

Politics Play a Role in 5G Outlook

New York's Excessive Antenna Application Fees Violate Reasonable Accommodations

Light Speeds up 3D Printing of Plastic 100x

Renesas Sales and Profits Sink

2/13/2019

Tesla Buys Ultracapacitor Company

ISS Packet Radio System Back in Operation

Defense Contractor Innovators Among the 2019 Fed 100

Social Media Addicts Struggle to Make New "Real" Friends

Exotic Form of Magnesium Suggests Surprising Shape-Shift

2/12/2019

U.S. Military Warns of Threat from Chinese-Run Space Station in Argentina

GPS Jamming During NATO Drills in 2018 a Big Concern

• Italy Denies Report of Huawei, ZTE 5G Ban

• Transport Measurements Reveal Intriguing Properties of Germanene

Russia to Fly U.S. Astronauts to ISS Ahead of Schedule (Russia collusion on ISS began in 2011 w/Space Shuttle cancellation)

2/11/2019

• Intellectual Property and 5G: 2019's Culture Clash

Iridium Declares Victory with $3B Satellite Constellation Upgrade

Periodic Table Still Influencing Today's Research

• Arianespace Preps for 1st of up to 13 Launches in 2019

• Germany Cracks down on Facebook for Data Harvesting

2/8/2019

• Deutsche Telekom to Set up New 5G Trials This Year

iPhone Apps Recording User Screens Without Their Knowledge

• Potential Return of Roaming Premiums Causes Latest Brexit Flap

Chip Sales Slow, China Talks Start

• Faulty Battery Blamed for Man Killed by Exploding Vape Pen

2/7/2019

• Es'hail-2/P4A Satellite Designated as Qatar-OSCAR 100 (QO-100)

• Global Semiconductor Sales Increase 13.7% to $469B in 2018

Opening 400MHz of Midband Spectrum for 5G to Add $274B to U.S. Economy

• Organic Electronics Could Boost Plastic-Based Solar-Cell Efficiency

• Democratic House May Kill U.S. Space Force

2/6/2019

• UC Riverside Physicists Create Exotic Electron Liquid

• 4 Chinese OEMs in Top 10 Chip Buyers

FTC v. Qualcomm: What Really Is Going On

• Chinese Company Inks Deal to Launch 90 SmallSats

Russia Suspends Nuclear Missile Treaty in Tit-for-Tat with U.S.

2/5/2019

• Geoffrey Starks Sworn in as FCC Commissioner

• ZTE & China Unicom Complete World's 1st 5G Call on 5G ProtoPhone

• UAE Used Cyber Super-Weapon to Spy on iPhones

• KDDI and Nokia Boost Japan Broadband Speeds by 800%

• Google Deletes 29 Apps That Steal Users' Info

2/4/2019

• Qualcomm, 5G in Judge's Hands

EU's Youngsters on the Air Enthusiasm Breeds Contesting Exuberance in U.S.

• 5 Predictions of Tech Disruptions in Next Decade

• BT Takes Big Step Towards Expansion in China

• Blue Multi-Mode Laser Diodes Boost Cars' High Beams

2/1/2019

Is 5G Harmful for Humans and the Environment?

• Europe to Harmonize Spectrum in 3.6 GHz Band for Future 5G Services

• U.S. Unveils Sweeping Charges Against Huawei

• China Slams Allegations as U.S. Brings Criminal Charges Against Huawei

• Generation of Child Web Addicts