Dish Network is making progress on the unique open access radio network (RAN) in the US, and dish chair Charlie Ergen said “we’ll just do it,” instead of trying to convince skeptics of what they’re doing. Dish has to come through the RF planning, licensing and site purchase process and …
Read More »Qualcomm Lobbying US to Sell Chips for Huawei 5G Phones: WSJ
PHILO PHOTO: Qualcomm’s logo unveiled at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, 28 February 2017. REUTERS / Eric Gaillard (Reuters) – Chipmaker Qualcomm Inc. Lobbying US Government to Purchase Restrictions on Component Sales to Huawei Technologies Co. [HWT.UL], after the Chinese company was blacklisted by the United States, The Wall …
Read More »What a WeChat Ban would Mean for Americans
“If we don’t have WeChat, we’re really going back 40 years,” she said, in comments translated from Mandarin Chinese. Tencent (TCEHY)The popular messaging app could now be banned in the US if the company does not agree to sell it, as required by an executive order issued Thursday. WeChat is …
Read More »Scientists are inventing a new way to track spacecraft during the day
You might not see it when you look at the night sky, but there’s a lot of junk around the world right now. Pieces of decomposed satellites, discarded rocket launchers, and other man-made debris circle our planet like a giant bubble of trash. Tracking the positions of these objects is …
Read More »Expensive iPhone 12 delay, iPad finds lockout, Google’s MacBook nightmare
Looking back on another week of Cupertino news and headlines this week’s Apple Loop includes the delay and price increase to the iPhone 12, the success of the iPhone SE, the new Intel iMac, the MacBooks taking over the Chromebooks, the MacOS 11 public beta, success of iPad sales, and …
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