Partner content Ford patents self-driving car that can repo itself 6th March 2023 The sinister potential of a connected car tech has been highlighted by a new patent granted to automaker Ford by the United States Patents Office. The patent refers to rather innocuous sounding “systems and methods to repossess a vehicle.” But delve into the details and it spells out vividly how an autonomous, connected car could […]
Partner content Verizon CEO tries another management shakeup 6th March 2023 Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg announced another reshuffling of the company’s front office in an attempt to rekindle investor interest in the company. Specifically, Vestberg: Named Sowmyanarayan Sampath as head of Verizon’s Consumer business, the company’s biggest unit. Sampath just last year was named CEO of Verizon Business, having taken over the position from Tami Erwin. Sampath is the third […]
Partner content Alternative quadratic voting system can improve budgetary decision making, capture diverse perspectives 6th March 2023 There are certain budgetary processes within local government that continue to perpetuate not because they’re the best or most efficient methods, but because they’ve always been that way. Voting is one of those areas. An initiative from the Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA) called Rethinking Budgeting seeks to disrupt the status quo within public finance and […]
News House passes bill to extend FCC spectrum-auction authority to May 3rd March 2023 House members this week passed a bill that would extend the FCC’s authority to auction spectrum until May, leaving the Senate to approve the legislation before the agency’s existing auction authority expires on March 9. Introduced by Reps. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) and co-sponsored by Rep. Frank Pallone (D-N..J.), H.R. 1108 would extend the FCC […]
Partner content MWC party goes on amid the rubble of telecom 3rd March 2023 MWC23 – The tail end of Mobile World Congress (MWC) week is always a time of reflection about the show and the state of the industry as bleary-eyed and hungover execs return home, in no shape for anything more cognitive than riffling through reams of restaurant receipts. There are a few things to say about […]
Partner content What happened in that cyberattack? With some cloud services, you may never know 2nd March 2023 Major cloud platforms, such as Google Cloud Platform (GCP), fail to adequately log the event data that could facilitate the detection of compromises and the forensic analysis during post-compromise response, according to an analysis. Cloud security firm Mitiga stated in an advisory published on March 1 that the Google Cloud Platform allows customers to turn […]
Partner content Russian government set to grab all taxi consumer data 2nd March 2023 A taxi law giving the Russian government a monopoly over consumer data was passed in December 2022 and is aimed at Russian providers’ many problems such as illegal trips, a lack of responsibility on the part of ride-hailing companies, monopolization and poor working conditions. It has replaced the previous taxi law which, substantially, is a […]
Partner content Satellite players rocket across MWC 2nd March 2023 MWC23 – Attendees of the MWC Barcelona trade show here generally couldn’t access satellite services from inside the massive, crowded Fira Gran Via venue. They’d have to go outside, to get a view of the sky, to do so. But that certainly didn’t stop a wide range of companies from talking about how satellites will […]
Partner content Dish: Systems outage ‘due to a cybersecurity incident’ 1st March 2023 Amid a “systems issue” now in its sixth day, Dish Network confirmed Tuesday that a “cybersecurity incident” is to blame for network outages that are impacting the company’s internal servers, corporate communications, certain Dish-owned websites and IT telephony systems. On top of that “certain data was extracted” from the company’s IT systems as a result, […]
Partner content With economic downturn on the horizon, states and local governments are well positioned financially 1st March 2023 Following a few difficult years, communities across the nation are facing a potential economic downturn. Experts speaking at a roundtable discussion hosted by the Volcker Alliance and the Penn Institute for Urban Research say local and state governments are fiscally ready for whatever comes next. “On average, tax revenues are up almost 5% over the past year,” […]
Latest 3GPP standards-development work includes new classes of HPUE, progress on mission-critical services 22nd April 2024
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