8/31/2017
3-Mile-Wide NEO Passes Within 18x Moon Distance on Friday
ARPA-E Awards $30M for 21 Projects as Part of CIRCUITS Program
5 Things to Know About DARPA's Spectrum Grand Challenge
Money for Nothing and Phones for Free
NASA TDRS-M Satellite Achieves Orbit
8/30/2017
Hutch Disputes €4B India Tax Demand
Apple Likely to Launch iPhone 8 on September 12
10 Years
of the iPhone
Samsung's Note8 Is Its Biggest Galaxy Phone Yet
China IC Startup Nets $100M Series A Financing
8/29/2017
Air Force Seeks Common VLF Communications for Nuclear Forces
Google and Walmart Partner with Eye on Amazon
SPY-6 Radar Scores in Ballistic Missile Defense Test
New York on Pace to get 25 Mbps to All by 2018
Tesla's Massive Gigafactory Looks Busy in New Drone Footage
8/28/2017
Solar Eclipse QSO Party a Hit, Science Conclusions Await Additional Analysis
Oversized Phones 'Could Be Big Plus' for Operators and Vendors
(my oversize phone is a desktop computer)
Semiconductor Industry Capital Spending Forecast to Jump 20% in 2017
Semi July Billings up 32.8% YoY
Samsung Verdict
Jolts South Korea
8/25/2017
Millennials & Boomers Align Well in the Engineering Workplace
Companies Urge FCC to End Apartment Broadband Monopolies
Google Secretly Recording You Through Your Mobile
InGaNP Quantum Wells on Silicon on Insulator
Celebrating the Engineer
8/24/2017
Japan Launches Satellite for Better GPS System
ARRL Now on Snapchat
Gender Quotas in the Workplace
2 New Jersey FM Radio Pirates Warned
New Dawn
for Thorium Reactor Research
8/23/2017
U.S. Smartphone Market Jumped 14% in Q2
Large Number of Americans Find Their Workplace Hostile
Ultrathin Semi Materials Exceed Some of Silicon's "Secret" Powers
AMSAT Reports RadFxSat (Fox-1B) Completes P-POD Integration
EE Challenges UK 5G Spectrum Auction Rules
8/22/2017
FCC Proposes Fine for Cellphone Jamming
Semiconductor
Industry Backs Trump's China Probe
Scottish Tech Firm Plans Growth and Recruitment
Canada Proposes Implementing a 60-Meter Band, Retaining Discrete Channels
AT&T's $85 Billion Time Warner Merger to Be Approved
8/21/2017
Google, UC Berkeley to Create Eclipse Movie from Crowd-Sourced Images
Internet Access to ARRL Headquarters to be Disrupted on August 22
Nokia Wants to Conduct 3.5 GHz Small Cell Tests at Comcast
Cable Providers Continue to Dominate the Broadband Industry
Peregrine Semiconductor Announces New VP of Engineering and Product Marketing
Warning from History: Could Japan-Style Crash Hit China?
8/18/2017
UK 3rd in the World for R&D
Space Station Crew Looks Forward to Total Solar Eclipse
(Monday, August 21)
IBM Deep
Learning Breaks Through
FCC Takes Heat for Plan to Lower Broadband Deployment Bar
4 Potentially Higher-Status Alternatives to the iPhone 8
8/17/2017
Taiwan Government to Fund 30,000 Tech Start-ups in 3 Years
FCC Issues Rules to Open Spectrum for Vehicular Radar
Boeing Creates In-House Avionics Unit to Replace Outsourcing
The Greatest Top 40 Stations of All Time!
NZ Regulator Warns Telcos over Fair Trade Violations
8/16/2017
Ultrafast Wi-Fi on Horizon at 100x Current Speeds
China Unicom Issues H1 Revenue Warning
TIM succumbs to Stockholm Syndrome (whoa -
is that a gun?)
Fired Google Engineer Says Company Is 'Like a Cult'
Nokia Bell Labs Developing 5G Platform-as-a-Service
8/15/2017
FCC Updates RF Device Authorization Rules
China Must Stop Forcing U.S. Firms to Share Intellectual Property
Making the World More Like Star Trek Than Skynet
Huawei Goes Bear Hunting at the 5G Frontier
Britain's Big Ben to Fall Silent for 4 Years
8/14/2017
IEC TR 63100:2017, Radio-Over-Fibre Technologies for Spectrum Measurement
T-Mobile Exec Sees Low-Band Spectrum as Great Equalizer
Renewable Energy Revitalizes the Ammeter Shunt Resistor
Russian 6th-Gen Jet Fighter to Employ Laser Weapons to Burn Missile Seekers
Manchester Businessman Sentenced in H-1B Visa Fraud Case
8/11/2017
Worldwide Semi Capital Spending Forecast to Grow 10.2% in 2017
First Bulgarian Amateur Radio CubeSat to Launch in 2018
4 Reasons Manufacturing Jobs Are Returning to the USA
Podcast Patent Ruled
Invalid by Court
Never Too Old to Code: Japan's 82-Year-Old App Maker
8/10/2017
Radio Amateurs in Atlantic Canada Go on Standby During Telephone Outage
FCC Issues Rules to Open Spectrum for Vehicular Radar
China's Web Users Fear Losing Tools to Bypass 'Great Firewall'
Can We Wean Elon Musk off Government Support Already?
23% of All Federal Prisoners are Illegals
8/9/2017
France and Germany Plan Tax Crackdown on U.S. Tech Giants
(they also evade paying taxes in U.S., BTW)
Carrier Coalition Praises FCC for Midband Spectrum NOI
5G Needs
mm-Wave Regs - Pronto
Ice Wireless Connects Unconnected Canadians
Teenage Whiz Kid Invents AI System to Diagnose Her Grandfather's Eye Disease
8/8/2017
FCC Updates RF Device Authorization Rules
Semiconductor
Sales Tracking up 21% from 2016
You Don't Need a BA to Get a Well-Paying Job
Boeing Sets up In-House Electronics Team to Develop Avionics
Apple Defends Caving
in to China over VPNs (profits abrogate declared corporate
philosophy)
8/7/2017
FCC's Ajit Pai Says, "We want America to Be the Leader in Innovation."
Special Event Under Way to Mark 50 Years of Offshore Radio Broadcasting
Cutbacks Hit Radio-Telescope Project
Could Extra Dimensions Be Detected by a Bose–Einstein Condensate?
How Much You Need to Earn to Be in Top 1% at Every Age
8/4/2017
U.S. Carriers' Network Capex 'at Healthy Levels'
Top 3 Smart Cities in Europe
Top 3 Smart Cities in North America
How Steve Jobs Helped This North Korean Defector 'Think Different'
Ferroelectric Phenomenon Proven Viable for Oxide Electrodes
Flash Killing HDD (I love my SS drive - computer
boots in <30 seconds)
8/3/2017
Hot Spot for Tech Outsourcing: The United States
31 Million Homes Will Cut TV Cord This Decade
Verizon Is Clear Winner in Rootmetrics Nationwide Network Evaluation
OLED TV Expected to Grow to >50% of $1,000+ Market by 2019
(my only TV, a 26" LCD w/built-in DVD, cost $120 in 2008)
Si Valley Restaurant Where Google & Apple Execs Are Served Gilded Steak
8/2/2017
Europe's 1st 5G Fixed Wireless Access Trial Runs in London
Silicon Wafer Shortage Starts in 2018 (we've
run out of sand???)
Apple Granted License to Test 5G Wireless Broadband
Call for Speakers: Pacific Design & Manufacturing 2018
5G Proposals
Jam 3GPP Channels
8/1/2017
LNA Market Expected to Reach $3B by 2023
Semiconductor
Equipment Sales Rise Again
UK Fintech Start-up Investment Booming
Microsoft Previews Windows 10 PC-Phone Link
Apple Faces $506M
Patent Dispute Payout
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