Electronics & Tech Headline News Archive - December 2018

12/31/2018

• AT&T to Begin Upgrading Existing LTE Phones to '5G E'

• Huawei CEO Hits Back at Security Claims

• Optical Transceiver Market Grows 8% YoY

• Apple's Self-Destructive Qualcomm, China Strategies

• NASA Spacecraft Hurtles Toward Historic New Year's Flyby

12/28/2018

• Game's On: Telecom Predictions for 2019

• AT&T's New Tower Deals Cut Rent Costs in Half

• U.S. Considers New Restrictions on Chinese Students

• Businesses "Watching in Horror" as No-Deal Brexit Risk Rises

• An Ode to Christmas: The Twelve Months of Telco

12/27/2018

• Aviation Community Worries About Possible Effects of 5G in C-Band

• GSMA: mmWave Spectrum Will Account for 25% of 5G's Value

• How Huawei Took over the World

• 1,086 Points Highest 1-Day Gain in DOW History

• U.S. Christmas Sales Strongest in Years

12/26/2018

• Global Electronic Industry Slowing Coupled with Geopolitical Strife

• Australian Telco Telstra Secures Early Access to 5G Spectrum

• Directed Energy, Particle Beam, Lasers are Future of Defense

• 6 Devices Being Replaced by Digital Technologies

• Intel Takes Integrated Graphics to a Trillion Operations Per Second

12/25/2018

• Slowing Worldwide GDP Growth to Hit Semi Market

• Private LTE Market Continues Booming

• Keysight Submits 1st 5G-New Radio Conformance Test Case to 3GPP for Certification

• Semi Equipment Sales Forecast: $62B in 2018 a New Record

• Outlook for Unlicensed Spectrum and 5G NR?

12/24/2018

• "Hunt for Santa Claus" Event Gets Under Way on December 21

• 2019 Predictions Aerospace & Defense After-Sales Service

• Global Smartphone Shipments Will Rebound in 2019

• India Preps Military Communications Satellite for Launch (cool photo)

• Gallium Oxide as Ultrawide Bandgap Semiconductor

12/21/2018

• Burnout, Stress Lead Companies to Try 4-Day Work Week

• Ofcom to Auction More 5G Spectrum in 2019

• AT&T to Launch Mobile 5G in 12 Cities on Friday

• 7 Cloud Predictions for 2019

• Powering up Gallium Oxide MOSFETs

12/20/2018

• Chip Manufacturing Equipment Market Goes into Reverse

• Semi Equipment Sales Forecast: $62B in 2018 a New Record

• AT&T 5G Hotspot Now Available in Some U.S. Cities

• Student Debt Reaches Record $1.465T (surprised? gov't took it over in 2010)

• Radio Amateurs in Turkey Gain Access to 2 Bands

12/19/2018

• Japan to Ban Chinese Vendors from Government Contracts

• Streaming Shows Overtakes Basic Cable, Broadcast for 1st Time

•  Neil Carleton, VE3NCE, Named to Canadian Amateur Radio Hall of Fame

• Silicon Valley Inquisition Gathers Pace

• End of the Line for Microsoft Edge? (hopefully)

12/18/2018

• Qorvo Intros 5G Industry's 1st 28 GHz GaN Front End Module

• China Issues Spectrum for Nationwide 5G Trials

• FCC to Investigate Mobility Fund Coverage Mapping

• Army of Robots Coming to the Factory Floor

• Bug Forces Alphabet to Expedite Google+ API Shutdown

12/17/2018

• Australian Carriers Secure 5G Spectrum in the 3.6 GHz Band

• Qualcomm Looks to Bring 5G to PCs in 2019

• Heaviest TV Viewers vs. Heaviest Radio Listeners

• Ku-Band HTS Satellites Provide Unprecedented SATCOM Network Solutions

• With Jailed CFO, Huawei's Future Darkens

12/14/2018

• Germany's Federal Network Agency Catches Flak for 5G Rules

• Wireless Industry Ad Spending Rises in November

• Verizon Says Goodbye to Nearly 7% of Workers

• FCC Warns Against Fishing Net Buoys That Use RF

• NASA's Voyager 2 Probe Enters Interstellar Space

12/13/2018

• Panasonic Argues for Preserving Entire 5.9 GHz Band for Auto Safety Services

• 5G Would Add a New Dimension to Automotive V2X

• China Bans Some iPhone Models at Request of Qualcomm

• Using Terahertz Band to Provide Low Cost, High-Speed Connectivity

• NPL Teams up with Manchester Graphene Centre

12/12/2018

• American Entrepreneurs Who Flocked to China Heading Home

• Verizon to Double 5G Home Speeds in 6 Months

• Qualcomm and Nokia Conduct 5G-NR mmWave and Sub-6 GHz OTA Interoperability Test Calls

• 2018 QST Antenna Design Competition Winners Announced

• FCC Tells LED Sign Marketers to Abide by Statutes and Rules

12/11/2018

• China Summons U.S. Envoy over Huawei CFO

• Deployment of Small Cells to Grow by 68% Annually

• WSTS Bumps up Chip Sales Forecast

• Verizon, Samsung Promise 5G Smartphone for Next Year

• AMSAT's Fox-1Cliff Amateur Radio CubeSat Launched Successfully

12/10/2018

• Another Tech Company CEO Bites the Misconduct Dust

• Massive Satellite Launch Signals Start of IoT Revolution

• Samsung, Qualcomm & Verizon Complete 1.7 Gbps 5G Data Transmission at 28 GHz

• Worldwide Semi Equipment Billings Drop to $15.8B in Q3 2018

• 2 New Ham Astronauts Join ISS Crew

12/7/2018

• R&S & Huawei Conduct 5G V2X Latency Measurements in Moving Vehicles

• 28 GHz Auction Moves Past $500M Mark

• Consumers Still Turn to TV for News

• BT Set to Remove Huawei Kit from Its 4G Network Core

• Wall Street Rule for the #MeToo Era: Avoid Women at All Cost

12/6/2018

• EU Passed New Telecom Rules to Promote 5G

• Huawei to Work with New Zealand Regulators on 5G Fears

• UK Will Not Use EU's Galileo for Defence

• ZTE May Be in Trouble with the U.S. Yet Again

• Semiconductor Industry Veterans See Old Order Crumbling

12/5/2018

• Semiconductor Market Rally May Be Over

• Huawei's Problems Make $5B Opportunity for Ericsson, Nokia, et al

• BAE Systems to Develop Machine Learning Algorithms to Decode RF Signals

• Can Light Replace RF in Some IoT Applications?

• 63% of Non-Citizens on Welfare, 4.6M Households (while you & I pay for them -outrageous!)

12/4/2018

• IEEE Standard Addresses Network-Based Coexistence for Lightly Licensed Devices

• JOTA Reports 36% Growth in Boy Scout Participation

• GOP Has Stealth Bill to Outsource College Graduate Jobs (the Swamp lives on)

• Q3 Chip Sales Reach Record $129B

• Mars InSight Mission Shows That CubeSats Can Relay Messages from Deep Space

12/3/2018

• Your Electric Car Position, Usage Data Going to China & Other Governments

• Ofcom Wants "Competing, Nationwide Fibre Networks"

• Santa's Radio Club Special Event Set for December 1–8

• Amazon Web Services and Lockheed Martin Make Downlinking Satellite Data Easier

• Silicon Contamination Hinders Commercial Impact of Graphene