EFJ adds to Viking portables

Samsung Electronics America yesterday announced the market availability of the Galaxy XCover6 Pro smartphone and Galaxy Tab Active4 Pro tablet—two additions to the vendor’s rugged-device portfolio and the first device in each series to support 5G connectivity. Both of the new Galaxy devices are designed to work in difficult environments, as they are MIL-STD-810Hii compliant […]

A team of researchers has developed a tool to manage and combine deployed technologies in smart cities. Researchers developed the AI-based cooperative infrastructure that allows for the collaboration of technologies from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to mobile robots, which could offer game-changing advances in security, surveillance, and search and rescue efforts. The research team, from […]

FCC International Bureau officials last week granted Lynk Global an industry-first license to begin commercial offerings of satellite-direct-to-standard-phone communications—a technology that promises to address most gaps in carrier partners’ outdoor coverage footprint. Adopted on Friday, the FCC order lets Lynk deploy 10 non-geostationary orbit (NGSO) satellites in low-earth orbit (LEO) to support connectivity—on spectrum between […]

Rogers Communications Canada experienced a national service outage on July 8, 2022, that halted LTE communications for millions of Canadians, including public-safety agencies counting on mobile broadband for operations. In light of this jarring failure, should public-safety leaders rethink plans to collapse all wireless communications onto a single wireless technology platform operated by a service […]