Newscan: Risky phone use while driving is soaring, and it’s killing Americans, IIHS study finds

The financial strain of COVID-19 can be felt across nearly every industry, with state governments facing massive budget shortfalls as the economic shutdown puts a damper on taxes – their main revenue source. With stay-at-home orders and fewer consumers out spending money, many states have seen a significant drop-off in sales tax revenues. Couple the […]

PowerTrunk CEO Jose Martin provides updates to his company’s key deployments in North America, primarily with utilities and transit authorities, while also highlighting the fact that PowerTrunk has developed solutions that let users of its TETRA systems have interoperable communications with users leveraging P25 or 3GPP mission-critical-push-to-talk (MCPTT) technologies.      

  ESChat CEO Josh Lober details upcoming enhancements to the company’s push-to-talk application, including multimedia messaging, location tracking and mapping, and the ability to support both inter-carrier interoperability and inter-system interoperability, which are particularly important to public-safety and military users. The Android version of the new ESChat application is scheduled to be released in August. […]

Will head-up displays, headsets and the like soon become part of supply chain, logistics and maintenance? The industry is moving in that direction, as augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) systems begin delivering fresh new Internet of Things (IoT) data analytics to workers in a variety of fields. “We are at a point where […]