Long-term decline in wintertime arctic sea ice growth

Long-term decline in wintertime arctic sea ice growth

New NASA research has found that increases in the rate at which Arctic sea ice grows in the winter may have partially slowed down the decline of the Arctic sea ice cover. As temperatures in the Arctic have warmed at double the pace of the rest of the planet, the...

5G to the rescue as hardware revenues drop

Total combined 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G infrastructure hardware revenues are forecast to bottom out at $49,7-billion in 2018, declining 8% over the previous year. Stéphane Téral, executive director, mobile infrastructure and carrier economics at IHS Markit, offers this...

European tablet sales up 21%

Volume sales of tablets through the distribution channel in Western Europe were up by +21% year-on-year in October 2018 following a return to growth earlier in the year, according to the latest distribution data published by Context. Much of the early Q4 growth was...

Ericsson working to restore O2 services in the UK

Customers in the UK are still waiting for the O2 network to be restored, following a series of outages caused by software issues with Ericsson equipment. The issues affected network equipment on the O2 network, as well as on Japan’s Softbank network. Softbank problems...

Up close and personal with Asteroid Bennu

After flying 2-billion km, NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft has arrived at the asteroid Bennu Monday. The spacecraft executed a maneuver that transitioned it from flying toward Bennu...

Huawei executive arrested in Canada

Huawei’s chief technology officer – and daughter of the company’s founder – has been arrested in Canada, pending extradition to the US. Huawei has released a statement saying it has no knowledge of the charges against Meng Wanzhou, and has...