PowerTrunk announces vehicular radio solution

NextNav this year plans to deploy sensors that will let cellular devices determine their vertical—or Z-axis—location for 911 purposes in at least the top 50 markets after securing $120 million in a funding to pay for the installation of the needed infrastructure, according to a company official. NextNav last week announced the $120 million funding […]

Samsung this week introduced the Galaxy XCover Pro, a rugged smartphone for enterprise “frontline” employees that features programmable buttons that can be used to support push-to-talk (PTT) communication, including integration with the new “Walkie Talkie” capability in Microsoft Teams. Chris Briglin, Samsung Electronics America’s director of enterprise mobile product marketing, said Samsung hopes the XCover […]

Several new studies have found that hackers can convince wireless carriers’ customer service agents to port legitimate phone numbers to bogus accounts — a practice that can then open that account up to fraud and theft. Researchers at Princeton University called three of the four major carriers and tried to convince customer service representatives to move […]

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