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Researchers say smartphone-location tracking can fight COVID-19

Researchers at MIT have developed a smartphone location-tracking app that they say could help stop the spread of COVID-19. The Private Kit app allows coronavirus patients to rely on their phones instead of their memories when doctors ask them where they have been and who they might have exposed. People who download the Private Kit app can […]

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House Dems include NG911 funding in future infrastructure proposal

House Democrats this week revealed that federal funding to support the nationwide deployment of IP-based next-generation 911 (NG911) technology is included in their proposal for a future coronavirus rescue legislation that places an emphasis on infrastructure projects, but such a package may be delayed longer than anticipated. A cost study released in the fall of […]

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Newscan: First responders face new world with COVID-19

Web Roundup Items from other news organizations ‘We are learning things minute by minute’: First responders face new world with COVID-19 Puerto Rico shutters police stations, 911 center, fire station amid COVID-19 curfew Alabama, other states share COVID-19 addresses in effort to protect first responders Grim new rules for NYC paramedics: Don’t bring cardiac arrests […]

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2G, not 5G, best bet to accelerate driverless tech

Making our existing cars more ‘clever’ could be a better way of getting autonomous cars safely on our streets rather than relying on 5G connectivity. That’s the view of Dr Ramsey Faragher founder and CEO of FocalPoint and a Fellow of Queens’ College, Cambridge, who argues a 2G connection is ample when the car’s sensor […]

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COVID-19 crisis challenging public-safety communications on many levels, speakers say

In addition to a multitude of well-chronicled policy, staffing and supply challenges facing the health-care sector amid the COVID-19 crisis, the outbreak is forcing agencies to consider atypical measures to ensure the health of public-safety communications systems and the people who support them. “Business as usual … kind of ceases to exist,” Greg Rubin, communications […]

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Behind the numbers: How COVID-19 could change the US telecom industry

As much of the US settles into a “new normal” that includes spending a lot of time on the Internet to avoid spreading the novel coronavirus, the nation’s telecom operators are recording new traffic records almost every day. Importantly, all that traffic may have significant implications – including financial implications – for a wide range […]

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Coronavirus is a wake-up call. Are you listening?

The ancient philosopher Heraclitus once opined that the only constant in life is change. But there is another one that impacts every city and county organization and the officials who manage them—sooner or later a natural or man-made event is going to wreak havoc with your organization’s operations. In some cases those operations will come […]

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Analytics in supply-chain management becomes central as coronavirus escalates

From shortages of personal protective equipment to a variety of grocery items to electronics and apparel, coronavirus (COVID-19) has hit the global supply chain in expected and unforeseen ways, and it seems likely that it could take many months to recover. Bouncing back more quickly, said experts, will require supply-chain managers to turn to new […]

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NTT, Toyota in $1.8B smart-city tie-up

NTT and auto giant Toyota have struck a deal to develop smart-city technologies and to also jointly invest in each other. They two companies will invest a total of 200 billion yen ($1.8 billion) in each other, with Toyota to take a 2.07% stake in the telco and NTT to acquire 0.9% of the automaker. […]

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Motorola Solutions agrees to buy IndigoVision for $37 million

Motorola Solutions has agreed to acquire IndigoVision, a Scotland-based provider of end-to-end video security solutions, for about $37.2 million cash in a deal that is expected to close by the end of May, according to information from the companies “Motorola Solutions is pleased to have reached agreement on the terms of a recommended cash acquisition […]

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Researchers say smartphone-location tracking can fight COVID-19

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House Dems include NG911 funding in future infrastructure proposal

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Newscan: First responders face new world with COVID-19

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2G, not 5G, best bet to accelerate driverless tech

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COVID-19 crisis challenging public-safety communications on many levels, speakers say

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Behind the numbers: How COVID-19 could change the US telecom industry

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Coronavirus is a wake-up call. Are you listening?

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Analytics in supply-chain management becomes central as coronavirus escalates

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NTT, Toyota in $1.8B smart-city tie-up

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Motorola Solutions agrees to buy IndigoVision for $37 million

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