Electronics & Tech Headline News Archive - October 2018

10/31/2018

• IBM Buys Red Hat for $34B

• China Targets Control over Internet of Things for Spying, Business

• Tesla Faces Deepening Criminal Probe

• 6G is Fiber, Argues SDN Communications' CEO (see 6G news)

• China's 1st Private Rocket Fails After Launch

10/30/2018

• Countries Push Digital Taxes on Tech Giants

• Future Samsung Smartphones with Full-Screen Fingerprint Scanners

• Qualcomm, Ericsson Make Demo 5G Call at 3.5 GHz in Sweden

• Paper Filing Eliminated by FCC

• 1st Proof of Quantum Computer Advantage

10/29/2018

• GaN RF Device Market to Grow at Double-Digit CAGR to $1.5B by 2026

• USAF's 4th AEHF Communications Satellite Launched

• FCC Adopts 10-Year Terms for 3.5 GHz CBRS Band

• 5G Americas Analyst Forum Wrap Up

• Beamed Microwave Energy for Launching Space Vehicles

10/26/2018

• RF Tunable Filter Market to be Worth $87M by 2023

• Deformation of Nanotubes to Control Conductivity

• Accelerator Chip Track to Put the Silicon Back in Silicon Valley

• Deutsche Telekom Rolls out 400 Base Stations in 5G Prep

• >½ of America Gets More in Welfare Than It Pays in Taxes (bring in more Illegals!)

10/25/2018

• Method to Detect Location inGPS-Challenged Environments

• Q3 2018 Data Useage by Network, Operator and Service Plan

• EU Telcos Could Benefit from Being Behind the 5G Curve

• Wi-Fi Alliance, Cisco Among Those Applauding 6 GHz Action

• Swedes Getting Microchip IDs Inserted into Their Hands

10/24/2018

• EU's Quest to Build an Unhackable Quantum Internet

• Are Engineers Educated? (by Robert Lucky)

• Ericsson Banks 1st Profit since 2016

• GaN Semiconductor Specialist Exagan Forms Taiwan Subsidiary

• Slipshod Cybersecurity for U.S. DoD Weapons Systems

10/23/2018

• Engineers Keep Losing Sleep over Continuous Education

• Apps Can Track You Even After You Uninstall Them

• China Technology Transfer Policy Needs a Reset

• Average Number of Devices Per Cellular Account Nears 3

• Samsung Debuts Semiconductor Innovations at Samsung Tech Day

10/22/2018

• Operators Blasted for 'Completely Unacceptable' Response to Hurricane Michael

• Norwegian Radio Amateur Being Prevented from Leaving Chad

• RF GaAs Market to Be Worth $9B by 2022

• Trust Outranks Tech in Attracting Customers: LinkedIn Sales Report

• Next-Gen Military Communications Challenges

10/19/2018

• RF GaAs Market to Be Worth $9B by 2022

• EW BrightSparks 2019 Begins Search for Electronics Excellence

• The Future of Cobalt

• FCC Affirms Whopping Fine for Spoofed Robocalls

• Can Radio Survive Without Passion?

10/18/2018

• Vendors Pushing LTE for Private Wireless and Fixed Wireless Networks

• Bidding in ARRL On-Line Auction Set to Begin October 19

• Japanese MNOs to Rollout 5G in 2019 a Year Ahead of Schedule

• 80M LoRa Technology-Enabled Devices to Be Deployed by Early 2019

• Smartphone Brand Determines Longevity

10/17/2018

• 60-GHz Wi-Fi Gets a Refresh

• The Semiconductor Industry Is in Transition

• Wafer Shipments Forecast to Set New Highs Through 2021

• Hutch Working on $1B Italian Towers Sale

• Researchers Using ISS to Conduct New Communication Experiments

10/16/2018

• U.S. Pushes Canada on Huawei 5G Ban

• Reported Russian Ham Band Intruders Continue to be Troublesome

• AT&T Seeks OK for 5G Demos in Atlanta, Hawaii

• How to Prevent the Internet from Ruining Your Company's Reputation

• Too Much Sleep Bad for Brain

10/15/2018

• Verizon Looking to Rapidly Extend 5G Beyond Fixed Wireless

• U.S. to Allow Cars Without Steering Wheels

• Here's What One Ad Agency Executive Thinks of Radio

• Indian Regulator Defends 5G Spectrum Pricing

• PC Innovation Is Back

10/12/2018

• Verizon's 5G Threat to Cable is Overblown

• Metro to Launch Pay-as-You-Go 5G in U.S.

• Hubble Space Telescope in Safe Mode as Gyro Issues are Diagnosed

• Europe Approves Merger of Tele2 and Com Hem

• Hampton$ Millionaire$ Build Panic Rooms Full of Guns to Hide from MS-13 (their type brought us MS-13)

10/11/2018

• 3.5 GHz CBRS Band Lands on FCC's October Agenda

• August Semi Sales up 14.9%

• EPA Moving to Loosen Radiation Limits

• Huawei Willing to Work with Government to Allay Korea's 5G Security Fears

• 'Rip-Roaring Hot' Jobs Market Sees Private (not gov't) Payrolls Surge by 230,000

10/10/2018

• Your Next Job Interview Could Be with a Robot

• Germany to Ease Immigration Rules to Tackle Worker Shortage (...because it's worked so well so far)

• EEMBC Creates IoT Bluetooth Power Consumption Benchmark for MCUs

• FCC's Carr Touts Support for Small Cell Proposal

• Apple Watch Series 4 Crashing, Rebooting Owing to Bug

10/9/2018

• Mozilla and NSF Hand out $1.6M to Wireless Challenge Winners

• Nearly All UK Workers Muck About on Mobile Devices During Meetings

• Verizon Will Be 'Extremely Aggressive' with 5G Roll-Out

• Having Acne Good for Your GPA (this is science?)

• FCC Reiterates Requirements for 2-Way VHF/UHF Radios in U.S.

10/8/2018

• FCC Gives U.S. Telcos a $2B Small Cell Site Boost

• Indian Telcos Face Financial Challenges Following DoT Probe

• New Mechanism for Developing Electronic Devices

• Telia Pays Most in Finnish 5G Auction

• Russia Finds ISS Hole Made Deliberately

10/5/2018

• More than 1B New LTE Connections Added in Last 12 Months

• Limiting Kids' Screen Time Improves Brain Function

• Verizon Switches on 5G in U.S.

• Qualcomm Accuses Apple of Subterfuge in Sharing Data with Intel

• Engineering Plays Big Role at the Mayo Clinic

10/4/2018

• Qualcomm Undeterred on Road to Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything (C-V2X)

• Trump Officials Vow 'America First, 5G First'

• China to Account for 19% of Semi Foundry Sales This Year

• World's 1st Wireless Charging Solution Charges Multiple Devices up to 80' Away

• Germany to Ease Immigration Rules to Tackle Worker Shortage (...because it's worked so well thus far)

10/3/2018

• U.S.-China Trade War Heats up with Semi Caught in Middle

• Ericsson Planning 39 GHz Tests Around Florida Foliage

• FCC's Rosenworcel Initiates Podcast Series on Women in Digital Technologies

• DOD Has Lost 4,000 Civilian Cyber Workers in Past Year

• Women as CEOs: The Problems and the Promise

10/2/2018

• Sweden Regulatory Agency to Require Fee to Run More Than 200 W

• FCC Approves New Rules Aimed at Speeding Deployment of Small Cells and 5G

• Anokiwave Joins 5G Open Radio Access Network Alliance

• Georgia Tech Merges Antennas with Electronics

• U.S. Contemplates Its Own Version of GDPR

10/1/2018

• Home Office to Delay 4G Emergency Service Net by 3 Years

• 3.7 GHz Bidding Nears €3B in Italy 5G Contest

• Do College Kids Listen to Radio?

• NFC Forum Announces Liaison Agreement with German Automotive Association