Newscan: First known hacker-caused power outage signals troubling escalation

Ericsson and pals are still desperately trying to present network slicing as the best thing since another famous sliced innovation that took breadknives out of the toast-making routine and is far easier for the average punter to digest. It’s a $200 billion sales opportunity for telcos, cooed executives from the Swedish equipment maker on a […]

In cybersecurity, if it isn’t one thing, it’s another 14.4 billion things that’ll get ya. That’s about how many Internet of Things (IoT) devices will proliferate globally by the end of the year, according to some analyst estimates. As a body, this is arguably one of the most rapidly spreading and poorly secured threat surfaces […]

Telematics may have taken something of a back seat in terms of passenger-car technology lately but it is still the driving power for one mobility provider’s growth plans. Start-up rideshare company Alto says it is carving a place in the market focused on employee-based premium vehicle private hire transportation, totally at odds with the bargain-basement […]

T-Mobile is looking to land some punches on AT&T’s burgeoning public-safety business by calling in the ref. The company told the FCC that it should require FirstNet to disclose details about its ongoing relationship with AT&T. T-Mobile also told the commission that it should make clear that “FirstNet must provide interoperability that ensures all public […]