Newscan: NYC officials still don’t know when text-to-911 service will be available

A federal-court judge this week released an order denying Hytera’s requests for a retrial or a reduction in the $764.6 million in damages for utilizing Motorola Solutions trade secrets and copyrighted software code to develop much of its DMR product portfolio. “Hytera has not met the high standard for judgment as a matter of law, […]

Sierra Wireless this week announced the commercial availability of the AirLink MG90 5G platform, which company officials tout as the first multinetwork 5G vehicle router solution for critical-communications users. Dave Markland, the director of product management at Sierra Wireless, said the MG90 5G is designed to let users in the utility, transit and public-safety sectors […]

Security experts see little chance of ransomware attacks slowing down in 2021 given the continued and growing success that criminal groups have had in extorting sizeable ransoms from victims this year. If anything, attacks will only get qualitatively worse as criminal groups become more organized and targeted in their campaigns, and ransomware tools become easier […]

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