Electronics & Tech Headline News Archive - June 2018

6/29/2018

• Singapore Will Lead ASEAN Smart Cities Boom

• ARISS-Russia Testing Undeployed CubeSats from ISS

• Wifi Alliance Introduces Next WPA Security Generation

• Experiments Look to Leverage Low-Latency HF to Quicken Trade Times

• Rising Concerns over Hackers Using Satellites to Target U.S.

6/28/2018

• 9 of Top 12 Smartphone Suppliers Are Chinese

• FCC to Take Comment on Opening More Mid-Band Spectrum

• New Bug Allows iPhone Passcode to be Hacked

• UK Public Has Little Understanding of Quantum Technologies (likely the same everywhere)

• Einstein Proved Right in Another Galaxy

6/27/2018

• Chip Equipment Billings Rose 19% in May

• Why Proposed EU Copyright Law May Cause Chaos

• Volkswagen Engineers a Win at Pikes Peak Hill Climb (I've driven up Pike's Peak!)

• Ofcom Must Consider Spectrum Sharing Before 5G Rollout

• USAF Builds in Russia's Backyard

6/26/2018

• Supreme Court Rules Warrants Required for Cellphone Location Data

• Mercury to Tackle DRFM Electronic Warfare

• Caffeine from 4 Cups of Coffee Protects Heart

• Huawei Completes New Phase of China's 5G R&D Test

• World's Fibre Pioneers Must Also Lead on 5G

6/25/2018

• Russia Warns Against Trump's 'Alarming' Plans for U.S. Space Domination

• Over 60% of Commercial Aircraft to be Connected by 2027 (hard to believe it'll take so long)

• Telenor Slapped with $96M Fine for Abuse of Power

• Reorg Puts DOD in Charge of Security Clearances

• Chrome on Android Lets Users Surf Web Without Internet

6/22/2018

• U.S. DoD Project to Demo Waveguide Transparent Throughout MWIR and LWIR Bands

• High Court: Online Shoppers Can Be Forced to Pay Sales Tax

• Huawei Hits Back at Australian Security Paranoia

• India Must Release Spectrum Soon, or Risk Falling Behind in 5G Race

• New Study Group to Focus on Impact of Robo Vehicles

6/21/2018

• Senate Puts Stoppers on Trump's Plan to Save ZTE

• Ofcom: UK Has Golden Opportunity to Provide Nationwide Mobile Coverage

• Only 25% Adults in India Use Internet

• SK Telecom and KT Win Big at South Korea's 5G Auction

• UK Telcos Not Meeting Demands of Brits

6/20/2018

• Increased Russian Activity Around Undersea Communications Cables

• Former France Telecom CEO to Stand Trial over Employee Deaths

• Engineer Salary Survey Highlights Widening Gender Pay Gap

• Where on the Hype Cycle Is 5G?

• Spectrum Sharing Is Key per OSTP, FAA, FCC, CTIA

6/19/2018

• Trumps Orders Pentagon to Create U.S. 'Space Force'

• Former Radio Amateur-Astronaut Named as Spain's Minister of Science

• Higgs Boson and Top Quark Interaction Finally Observed at CERN

• Italian Broadcasters Threaten Italy's Plans to Award 5G Spectrum

• Multitenant Small Cell Deployments Prove Challenging

6/18/2018

• Broadcom Lays off 1,100; There May Be More

• Wi-Fi Expects 802.11ax Go-Ahead in July

• Wireless Tech to Comprise 55% of Connectivity IC Shipments in 2018

• ARRL/TAPR Digital Communications Conference Invites Technical Papers

• 3GPP Puts Finishing Touch on Standalone Version of 5G Standard

6/15/2018

• C-Band Plan Prompts New Round of Concerns

• Semi Equipment Record Spending to Continue Through 2019

• Globalfoundries Cuts 5% of Workforce

• China Leads in IoT Deployments, North America Leads in 5G

• IQ Scores Have Been Dropping Since the 1970s

6/14/2018

• EU Takes China to WTO over Technology Transfer

• Iranian Radars Showing up on 10 Meters

• WSTS Raises Chip Sales Forecast

• USAF Partnership to Push Emerging Tech

• Microsoft Acquires GitHub for $7.5B

6/13/2018

• Tesla to Cut 9% of Jobs

• Canadian Radio Amateurs Petition Parliament to End Deliberate Interference

• Microsoft Keeps White Spaces on Front Burner

• Irwin Jacobs on Q'comm and Moore

• TI Tops Industrial Semi Rankings

6/12/2018

• Semi Increase 20% YoY in April; Double-Digit Growth Projected for 2018

• Matchbox-Sized Atomic Clock for Commercial Space

• Building Owners Could Pay for Part of 5G Rollout

• Clocks for Watched 14 Years to Prove Einstein's Theory of Relativity

• Navy Shipboard EW Extending to Helicopters

6/11/2018

• MIT Just Built World's Fastest Supercomputer

• Aircraft Hack Only a Matter of Time

• Nokia, T-Mo Tackle Bi-directional, OTA 5G NR

• Avoiding Career Death by Twitter

• Hobby Drones Banned Near Hawaii Volcano

6/8/2018

• The FM Chip: A Potential Life Saver in Troubled Times

• ZTE Signs Preliminary Agreement with U.S. to Overturn Ban

• Hungary Regains Access to 60 Meters

• Small Companies Make Leap to Advanced Manufacturing

• UPS Strike Could Disrupt Business Across U.S. (Amazon will do a hostile takeover of them)

6/7/2018

• Sophisticated Cellphone Spying Found Near White House

• Northern Ireland's £150M Broadband Funding to Boost Local Economy by £1.2B

• FCC Denies Petition Preventing Interference from Digital Repeaters to Analog Repeaters

• Long-Soaring Smartphone Market Heading to Earth

• ARRL Foundation Announces 2 New Scholarships

6/6/2018

• Tech Stocks at Record High as FAANGs and BATTS Bite

• ARRL Foundation Announces 2 New Scholarships

• India Among Top 5 Countries in e-Waste Generation

• Army Awards $93M Unmanned Target Drone Contract

• 2018 Radio Mercury Awards Winners Announced

6/5/2018

• International Trade Wars Threaten to Spark a 5G Arms Race

• Commercial Satellite Launch Service to Grow Strongly Through 2024

• South Korean Carriers to Submit Offers for 5G Spectrum Next Week

• Teens Falling Away from Facebook

• South Africa Gets 100 kHz Band at 5 MHz

6/4/2018

• People Fleeing Silicon Valley for Nevada, Texas and Idaho

• Eagles Guitarist Joe Walsh, WB6ACU, Promotes Amateur Radio

• Tech's Titans Tiptoe Toward Monopoly

• Qualcomm and Huawei: More Partners Than Rivals

• Telecom Egypt Secures $200M 4G Funding from Chinese Firms

6/1/2018

• MARS Urging Members to Use Computers Isolated from the Internet

• Telcos Must Raise Game or Lose out on $1.1T IoT Prize

• FCC Orders Largest Forfeiture Ever

• China ICs Grow 21%

• NB-IoT Device Shipments to Rise to 613M Units in 2023