Newscan: Routing issues for 911 calls in Parkland shooting shed new light on emergency communications

This year’s MWC show in Barcelona has taken another battering with news that Intel, Google and Microsoft will not be attending the physical show. The US technology firms join a flotilla of other big exhibitors who had booked exhibition space but have subsequently decided they will not set sail for Catalonia in June because of […]

In January 2021, on his last day in office, President Trump quietly pardoned autonomous vehicle engineer Anthony Levandowski. He had been sentenced to 18 months in prison for stealing trade secrets from his former employer, Google. With everything else going on that month, including the Capitol riot and the inauguration, this news didn’t receive much […]

Codan Limited has signed a definitive agreement to pay $45 million cash to acquire 911 solutions provider Zetron that will enable the merger of Codan’s Critical Communications unit and Zetron into a new company that will operate under the Zetron brand, according to multiple sources. Australia-based Codan and Zetron—a subsidiary of Japan-based JVCKENWOOD—announced the deal […]

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