Newscan: Police departments offering free or discounted Amazon Ring doorbells for video-surveillance purposes

Police officers in the city of Clovis, Calif., are able to respond more quickly to incidents—saving lives and property—because they use the Live911 application developed by HigherGround to listen to the audio from 911 calls near their location, according to a Clovis police official. Jim Munro, a lieutenant in the Clovis Police Department, said the […]

The city of Tucson, Arizona, is weeks away from finishing the first phase of its 4G LTE network buildout. The city will initially use the network to connect around 1,000 kids in poor households to the Internet but eventually hopes to use the network for a variety of services ranging from smart city IoT operations […]

Top execs from FireEye, SolarWinds, Microsoft, and CrowdStrike testified before the US Senate Intelligence Committee on Feb. 23 on the aftermath – and ongoing investigations – into the epic attacks. The attackers who infiltrated SolarWinds Orion’s software build and updates had spent “several months” embedded in FireEye’s network before the security firm spotted them, Kevin […]

In Buffalo, N.Y., 311 is a vital lifeline for the city, providing an always-on call resource for the city’s 250,000 residents to reach city government. When the COVID-19 pandemic prompted a stay-at-home order, city officials knew a surge of calls was coming, and they needed to act fast to keep their front-line communications channel open. […]