Newscan: Major airlines say the 5G doomsday scenario is over

UK Home Office officials plan to procure a mission-critical-push-to-talk (MCPTT) service from a vendor other than Motorola Solutions for the Emergency Services Network (ESN), but it has asked the Competition and Market Authority (CMA) to impose new interworking requirements on Motorola Solutions. Public-safety agencies in the UK primarily rely on TETRA radio service from Airwave […]

Dubai’s Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) is collaborating with Infra X, the IT and telecommunications arm of Digital DEWA, and its British technical partner Wyld to establish IoT satellite terminals to help streamline operations and maintenance efforts. The project comes under DEWA’s Space-D programme and will connect DEWA’s water and electricity assets to nano-satellites to […]

Ransomware incidents are on the rise and this week proved no exception, with the discovery of a Linux-based ransomware family called Cheerscrypt targeting VMware ESXi servers and an attack on SpiceJet, India’s second largest airline. Meanwhile, an oddball “GoodWill” variant purports to help the needy. The Cheerscrypt ransomware variant was uncovered by Trend Micro and relies on […]

At around midday on Tuesday, May 24 an 18-year-old shooter walked into an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas and shot and killed 21 people including 19 children. It is the second worst mass school shooting in U.S. history. There have been 30 mass shootings at K-12 schools so far in 2022. “I am sick and […]