Here's a summary of company, product, market, and technology news from the past week:

Companies and Products

After disappointing market acceptance of the Fire phone, Amazon is restructuring Lab126's projects and team. Wall Street Journal article.

ANADIGICS is shipping their AWL5910 Wi-Fi PA for Ubiquiti Networks' airFiber 5X carrier backhaul radio. Ubiquiti's point-to-point radio set a wireless connectivity "milestone" of 140 miles by linking Los Angeles and Las Vegas.

Avago reported fiscal Q3 financial results: wireless communications revenue was $616 million, up 6.9 percent quarter-to-quarter and 69 percent above last year's quarter.

GigOptix completed a public offering of 9.2 million shares and raised $14.73 million, earmarked for acquisitions. In the process, CEO Avi Katz sold 250,000 shares.

MACOM released a high sensitivity transimpedance amplifier (TIA) for GPON ONU, SONET, CPRI and SFF/SFP applications. The TIA handles data rates from 100 Mbps to 3.125 Gbps.

China Unigroup's acquisition of memory chip maker Micron seems dead, given U.S. political opposition. Read Doug Young's analysis in Young's China Business blog post.

Peregrine Semiconductor announced that their phase and amplitude controller capability is being extended to Ku-Band using their UltraCMOS process technology. No specific products were announced.

POET Technologies selected ANADIGICS to be the manufacturing fab for POET's proprietary optoelectronic ICs. The two companies announced a VCSEL manufacturing agreement.

Qorvo officially announced plans to convert their 4-inch GaN line to 6-inch, beginning with the 0.25 micron process. The conversion of the Richardson, Texas, fab, which will be completed during 2016, will double Qorvo's capacity and reduce GaN costs.

SAW filter start-up Resonant established an advisory board, recruiting mobile and filter industry veterans Sean Curry and Chris Conlin to advise on commercializing the company's filter technology.

Markets and Technology

4G — Mobile operator Swisscom, working with Ericsson and Qualcomm, demonstrated LTE-Advanced, aggregating three carriers in two bands, in both FDD and TDD.

CATV — Comcast plans to deploy DOCSIS 3.1 beginning in 2016 and finishing by 2018.

Wi-Fi — What service providers do to pay for free Wi-Fi at airports: AT&T briefly tested "ad injection" at Dulles and Reagan, which some claim is illegal. DSL Reports article.

IoT — Nokia is seeking innovative ideas for the IoT. Winners of the Open Innovation Challenge may receive VC funding.

China — An interesting management shake-up that you'll only see in a state run economy: China Telecom and China Unicom chairmen swapped roles, while a Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) vice minister became chairman of China Mobile. Reuters article.

Technology's Impact on Society - Part 1 — Less talk, more texting: Ericsson finds that enabled with mobile technology, families are more in touch with each other. Yet that's no substitute for facetime. Read the report from Ericsson's consumer lab.

Technology's Impact on Society - Part 2 — Facebook achieved a record of 1 billion users in a day, many accessing via mobile devices.

History — Read about the path from maser to laser to LASIK eye surgery.

Hat tip to the UAB School of Engineering for pointing out one of the laws of human nature:

Have a good — dare I say productive — week.