Partner content How the FCC’s ‘rip and replace’ program may help kill some small carriers 11th October 2021 ORLANDO – Chris Townson is a NASCAR fan. He understands the strategies drivers use to get ahead. And he also knows the pitfalls that drivers may encounter as they race around the track. As Townson tells it, one big difficulty drivers face is deciding when to head to the pit stop. If they pit at […]
Partner content UCLA develops human-powered medical wearables 11th October 2021 Soft sensors for medical wearable devices could soon generate electricity using the motions of the human body. A soft, flexible self-powered bioelectronic device that converts human body motions into electricity has been created by a team of bioengineers at the Samueli School of Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The magnetoelastic generator […]
Partner content As cybercrime increases, local governments face uphill battle in hardening digital defenses 11th October 2021 What would a small community do if its school district’s network was attacked by ransomware? What about if a municipally managed wastewater treatment plant in a rural county was shut down by a digital onslaught initiated by organized cybercriminals operating a continent away? With cyberthreats increasingly targeting municipal frameworks, these are the types of questions that constituents should be […]
News NENA’s latest version of i3 standard receives ANSI accreditation 8th October 2021 NENA: The 911 Association yesterday announced that the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) fully approved the third—and latest—version of i3, the IP-based NENA standard for next-generation 911 (NG911) networking and core services. Earlier this year, the fact that ANSI had not approved Version 3 of the i3 standard was a point of contention, because legislation […]
News Newscan: FirstNet is coming to Air Force bases 8th October 2021 Web Roundup Items from other news organizations FirstNet is coming to Air Force bases Facebook’s apps went down. The world saw how much it runs on them. Is cybersecurity insurance out of reach for government? Despite Hurricane Ida outages, Louisiana governor supports partnership with AT&T U.S. Senate approve temporary lift of debt ceiling, averts default […]
Partner content This is Smart Cockpit calling Ground Control: Inside Airbus’s conversational artificial intelligence (AI) 7th October 2021 At the virtual track of the AI Summit, part of the jam-packed London Tech Week, an Airbus data scientist outlined conversational AI’s enabling role in the digital transformation. Airbus has managed to train conversational AI using domain classification techniques, data content and interaction models. Once trained, the software has underpinned efforts to create dashboarding & visualization […]
Partner content Syniverse quietly admits it was hacked for five years 7th October 2021 Softly, softly is often the best way to admit something’s gone epically wrong. And so Syniverse, which routes hundreds of billions of text messages a year for hundreds of major carriers, has just quietly admitted that for five years a hacker had access to its databases. The Florida-based company handles 740 billion text messages annually […]
Video Lynk Global: Margot Deckard explains company’s LEO satellite-to-phone tech, rollout plans 7th October 2021 Lynk Mobile COO Margot Deckard describes how the company’s LEO satellite constellation is able to communicate directly with unmodified smartphones to fill outdoor coverage gaps for both first responders and the people they serve. Deckard also outlines the Lynk’s service roadmap, beginning with text-only services that are scheduled to launch next year to full […]
Partner content Why access control has become an important front in the war against cybercrime 7th October 2021 Earlier this year, Hiscox published its “Cyber Readiness Report 2021.” It was based on a survey of more than 6,000 companies based in the US, the UK, Spain, the Netherlands, Germany, France, Belgium, and Ireland. One of the most eye-catching findings was that spending per business on cybersecurity has more than doubled in the last […]
News O’Brien proposes clearing 50 MHz of LMR spectrum to support private-broadband services 6th October 2021 Wireless entrepreneur Morgan O’Brien proposed that private-radio licensees should consider voluntarily pooling LMR airwaves below 1 GHz to create 50 MHz of spectrum dedicated to private broadband services, or they risk losing longtime enterprise customers to commercial carriers offering low-latency 5G services. During his keynote address delivered last week at the IWCE 2021 event in […]
Is LMR the best solution for first responders? Should 4.9 GHz license go to the FirstNet Authority? 24th March 2024
FirstNet Authority reauthorization needed as public-safety-driven network evolution proceeds 16th March 2024