3/31/2017
GaN RF Power Devices ~25% of High-Power Semis for Mobile Wireless Infrastructure in
2017
Tesla Model 3 Ramp up Aims to Crush BMW and Mercedes
3 UK CEO Throws Temper Tantrum over Spectrum Auction
C.I.A. Developed Tools to Spy on Mac Computers, WikiLeaks Disclosure Shows
Nokia Confirms Its New Android Phones to Hit U.S. Shelves
3/30/2017
UK Museum Wants to Hear from Those Who Remember Sputnik Launch
Scientists Evade the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
Startup Develops Polymer Electrolyte for Safer, Longer-Lasting Batteries
Lowenstein's View: 5G 'Marketing' vs. 5G 'Reality'
Keurig to Pay $6M for Defective Coffee Maker (the packages
are 'yuge landfill cloggers)
3/29/2017
Roadmap Says CMOS Ends
~2024
European SEMI Award Honors Advanced Packaging Technologists
Pai's FCC Moves on Cellular Power, Interference Rules in 800 MHz
How to Escape PowerPoint Prison
3 Ways Requirements Documents Kill Product Development Projects
3/28/2017
Australia Couple are 1st Foreigners to Own U.S. Radio Stations
WikiLeaks Vault 7 Leak Claims CIA Bugs 'Factory Fresh' iPhones
American Tower Discloses $100M Deal, Buoying Tower Sector
Cuba Institutes New Amateur Radio Regulations
Organic Power Electronics Now a Reality
3/27/2017
People Who Think They're 'Tech-Savvy' 18% More Likely to Be Hit by ID Theft
(clue to clueless: using smartphone ≠ tech savvy)
Apple to Start Making iPhones in India over Next 2 Months
ARRL
Seeking Synergy with Maker Movement
Wireless Networks
Vie for Air Time
Embedded SIM Technology Weaves Its Way into Devices
3/24/2017
European Share of Fabless Chip Market Halves to 1%
Record Spending for Fab Equipment Expected in 2017 and 2018
Peregrine Semi
Buys MIT Spinoff Arctic Sand
ARRL Reiterates Its Case for New Band at 5 MHz
Keurig to Pay $6M for Failing to Report Defective Coffee
3/23/2017
FAA Eases up on Electronic Devices on Flights
Maritime Radio Day Event Set for April
Trump Bump Military Budget Ups Defense Spending
China Fab Boom
Fuels Equipment Spending Revival
FCC Issues Temporary Waiver Order Regarding Caller ID
3/22/2017
Motorola Solutions Sues Hytera Communications, Alleging Patent, Trade Secrets Theft
U.S. Companies Still Hold Largest Share of Fabless Company IC Sales
Everything You Need to Know About Quantum Computers
SEMI February Billings up 6% on January
Why Industry Accelerated 5G Standard, and What It Means
3/21/2017
China Fab Boom Fuels Equipment Spending Revival
ARRL Weighs In on New California 'Driving While Wireless' Statute
Suspected Hack Attack Snagging Cell Phone Data Across D.C.
Growing Quantum Dot Lasers on Microelectronics-Compatible Silicon
Everything We Know About the U.S. Army's New Super Spy Plane
3/20/2017
SIA Backs House Republicans' Tax Reform Plan
FCC's Pai: 'Section 7' to Evaluate New Tech or Service, Including Above 95 GHz
The Kids Will Learn Radio in Tennessee
Can Ultraprecise Time Measurements Warp Space?
Security Chiefs Join Chorus of Concern About Shoddy IoT Devices
3/17/2017
Registration Under Way for CubeSat Developers Workshop
Headphone Batteries Explode on Flight to Australia
Qualcomm Makes $47B
Takeover Bid for NXP Semiconductor
Rad-Hard Chips Could Hasten Small Satellites
50% of Global Population to Connect to a 4G Network by 2022
3/16/2017
Losing Smartphone Nearly as Stressful as Terror Threat
Boy Scouts Announce 2017 Jamboree-on-the-Air Theme
Macrocell Market Plunged 14% in 2016
Space-Based Lasers Among Beijing's High-Tech Arms
Marissa Mayer out at Yahoo! with $23M Golden Parachute
(would a male failure have gotten more?)
3/15/2017
SK Telecom Exec Talks 5G Tech, 2017 Trials
FBI Allegedly Paid Geek Squad Techs as 'Confidential Human Sources'
World Wide Web's Inventor Warns It Is in Peril on 28th Anniversary
Sprint Shows off Gigabit Class LTE with Qualcomm, Motorola
January Semiconductor Sales up 14% Y/Y
3/14/2017
Samsung Plans to Shift Manufacturing from Mexico to U.S.
Paced by Big Spenders, Chip Capex Projected to Grow
RadioShack Again Files for Bankruptcy
U.S. Fine Pushes ZTE into the Red
ZTE Agrees to Pay
U.S. $892B over Iran Charges
3/13/2017
Did MWC 2017 Illuminate or Obfuscate the 5G Vision?
How Vulnerable Is Your Smartphone per WikiLeaks Data?
Caffeine Boosts Enzyme That Could Protect Against Dementia
(coffee is a mortal's
ambrosia)
Record Spending for Fab Equipment Expected in 2017 and 2018
IBM's Quantum Leap Could Redefine 'Magic'
3/10/2017
UK Comms Industry Welcomes New 5G Investment
Premium Processing for H1-B Visas Suspended for 6 Months
FCC Will Now Review Forfeiture Settlements
FCC Seeking Answers About AT&T's 911 Wireless Outage on March 8
China Confirms 7% Increase in 2017 Defense Budget
3/9/2017
RF Compound Semiconductor Revenue to Grow to $11B by 2021
Microsoft
Releases Visual Studio 2017
Tech Giants
Urgently Study CIA Data Dump (they are complicit with CIA)
Reinforced Solder Preforms Increase Bond Line Coplanarity
Robot Sales Boom in North America
3/8/2017
Verizon: We Need to Have a Single Standard for 5G
WikiLeaks Publishes Huge CIA 'Vault 7' Document Release
Tesla Autopilot Sends Model S into Concrete Barrier
(humans have done that)
FCC Will Now Review Forfeiture Settlements
'Smart' Meters Found to Report up to 6x Higher than Actual
3/7/2017
Protecting Radio's Most Valuable Asset – Our Spectrum
U. of Connecticut Doubled Women Majoring in Engineering
FCC Loosens FM Translator Rules
Handsets Going Wide, Says LG
Renesas Electronics Completes Acquisition of Intersil
3/6/2017
RSGB Says Ofcom is Not Resolving Interference Complaints
FCC Chairman Goes After His Predecessor's Internet Privacy Rules
ARISS to Swap out Handheld VHF Transceivers on Space Station
Arqiva, Samsung to Trial 5G Fixed Wireless in London Soon
What
Facebook Knows About You and the Algorithms That Find It
3/3/2017
FCC Passes $453M/yr for Rural & Tribal Lands LTE Coverage
25 Operators Lab Testing Pre-5G
U.S. Cellular Goes Unlimited as It Posts $6M Q4 Loss
1st Trace of Differences Between Matter and 'Ordinary' Antimatter
Self-Driving Cars Have a Bicycle Problem (as do human-driven
cars)
3/2/2017
Wolfspeed CEO Quits Cree Following Termination of Infineon Acquisition
Verizon to Begin 5G Pilot in 1H 2017 in Atlanta, Denver, Seattle, more
Taiwan Maintains Largest Share of Global IC Wafer Fab Capacity
China's Projects Driving Global Fab Equipment Sales
Top Evolution Guy Say Beatles Had Virtually No Influence on Pop Music
(heresy to Beatlemaniacs)
3/1/2017
Qualcomm Intros Comprehensive RF Front-End Platform for Next Gen Mobile Devices
What Do Your Co-Workers Really
Think of You?
Math and
Maps Make You Nervous? Could Be in Your Genes
EEF to Lead Calls for 5-Year Brexit Transition Period
If Robots Replace Humans, Should They Should Be Taxed
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