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Smart-city technology project reaches 100-city milestone

Rubicon, a developer of smart waste and recycling solutions for smart cities, has reached a new milestone. The company’s smart city technology has now been deployed in more than 100 cities. The milestone was achieved in six years and includes the cities of Houston, Miami, Atlanta and Denver, all of which were added at the […]

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Senate committee advances FCC nomination of Anna Gomez, renominations of Carr, Starks

Members of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation yesterday approved the nomination of Anna Gomez to be a new FCC commissioner, as well as the renominations of existing FCC commissioners Brendan Carr and Geoffrey Starks. All three candidates can now be considered for confirmation by the full Senate. Commerce Committee members approved all […]

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Lead legacy could cost AT&T, others up to $60 billion, report says

Amid calls for accountability, one financial analyst firm estimates it will cost up to $60 billion to remove thousands of aging telecom cables covered in lead. According to the firm, New Street Research, AT&T is squarely in the crosshairs. “AT&T likely has the highest [financial] exposure overall, followed by Verizon and Lumen,” the firm wrote […]

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Video surveillance: Cities and counties will spend more on this technology category

Local governments will increase their budgets in at least one technology in the coming year, says Kevin Taylor, area sales manager at Axis Communications, a producer of video surveillance equipment and other products. “We are optimistic about the growth of video-based Internet of Things (IoT) technologies in local government. We are at a nexus where the […]

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Chinese APT cracks Microsoft Outlook e-mails at 25 government agencies

This spring, a Chinese threat actor had access to email accounts across 25 government agencies in Western Europe and the US, including the State Department. On July 11, Microsoft reported having quelled a cyberespionage campaign carried out by the group it tracks as “Storm-0558.” Storm-0558 is based in China and appears focused on espionage, primarily against Western […]

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Business-industrial LMR licensing struggles during first half of 2023, public-safety activity similar to 2022

Land-mobile-radio (LMR) licensing activity through the first of the year has occurred at a pace that is similar to last year in the public-safety arena and behind in the business-industrial sphere—so far behind that it could establish a new all-time low for the enterprise space at the end of the year. One aspect of the […]

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CISOs find ‘business as usual’ shows the harsh realities of cyber-risk

With the chaos of the pandemic now in the rearview mirror, we are finally back to “business as usual.” The return to normal operations may imply that chief information security officers (CISOs) can now breathe easier, but the opposite is true. CISOs are feeling less prepared to cope with cyberattacks and more at risk than […]

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Where ChatGPT fits in the Internet of Things

ChatGPT’s debut last November – and the publicity it generated – has sparked a widespread interest in the generative AI technology it uses and its possible applications. The human-like text the sophisticated chatbot produces has had some worrying that a self-aware robot threatening humanity waits around the corner. Luckily, the more fantastic fears of an […]

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Deutsche Telekom defends use of Huawei on shaky grounds

If you were to go snooping around Deutsche Telekom’s radio access network (RAN) in Germany for new equipment provided by Finland’s Nokia or Japan’s Fujitsu, you would need a very big magnifying glass and a lot of time. Both companies are named in a recent blog by the German telecom incumbent that rejects recent European Union criticism […]

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Advances in satellites, networking technology increase the options for disaster response planning

Of all the natural disasters that plague mankind, hurricanes are perhaps among the most predictable. Satellites, aircraft observations, weather balloons and ocean buoys, coupled with sophisticated forecasting models, enable scientists to begin tracking tropical storms almost the moment they form. The path of a storm is tracked continuously across oceans and its probable points of […]

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Smart-city technology project reaches 100-city milestone

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Senate committee advances FCC nomination of Anna Gomez, renominations of Carr, Starks

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Lead legacy could cost AT&T, others up to $60 billion, report says

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Video surveillance: Cities and counties will spend more on this technology category

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Chinese APT cracks Microsoft Outlook e-mails at 25 government agencies

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Business-industrial LMR licensing struggles during first half of 2023, public-safety activity similar to 2022

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CISOs find ‘business as usual’ shows the harsh realities of cyber-risk

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Where ChatGPT fits in the Internet of Things

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Deutsche Telekom defends use of Huawei on shaky grounds

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Advances in satellites, networking technology increase the options for disaster response planning

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