Partner content Airbus looks to acquire Atos cybersecurity unit for nearly $2 billion 8th January 2024 Aerospace giant Airbus and French IT services company Atos are opening negotiations for a potential sale of Atos’ Big Data and Security (BDS) business. Following a stock-boosting Dec. 15 leak to Reuters, in a Jan. 3 market update, Atos revealed that it had, in fact, received two letters of interest in BDS, with Airbus’ encompassing the entire […]
Partner content Catching up on direct-to-cell in 2024: Testing, funding and stumbling 4th January 2024 The direct-to-cell sector didn’t seem to take much of a breather during the holidays, with players ranging from SpaceX to Lynk Global making waves throughout the latter days of December 2023 and the early days of January 2024. Some companies announced tests, some scored new funding, some argued for more favorable federal regulations, and some […]
Partner content Here comes the AI phone 3rd January 2024 Smart devices have been the biggest single driver of mobile revenue for the past 15 years, so it makes sense to try to understand the new generation of AI phones. Analyst firm Canalys has forecast that AI-capable devices will account for up to around 5% of smartphones shipped in 2024 – that still means around […]
Partner content In cybersecurity and fashion, what’s old is new again 2nd January 2024 While distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and zero-day threats are nothing new in cybersecurity, they’re still happening regularly for a simple reason: They work. In early November 2023, OpenAI blamed a DDoS attack for intermittent ChatGPT issues, and one of the largest known denial-of-service attacks hit major internet companies in October. The same group of bad actors — Anonymous […]
Partner content China, Russia test quantum-secured satellite communication 2nd January 2024 Scientists from China and Russia report having successfully demonstrated the transmission of data encrypted using secure keys via the Mozi quantum satellite. The “full cycle” transmission of two encoded images secured by quantum keys took place on Dec. 14 over a distance of 2,360 miles, between a ground station near Moscow and another near Urumqi […]
News Motorola Solutions acquires IPVideo, maker of HALO smart sensor 22nd December 2023 Motorola Solutions this week announced that it has acquired IPVideo, which created the HALO smart sensor that can be used to monitor air quality and detect gunshots, motion, “abnormal noise” and the use of an “emergency keyword” that could spur a response. John Kedzierski, Motorola Solutions’ senior vice president of global enterprise sales, noted that […]
Partner content Microsoft Outlook zero-click security flaws triggered by sound file 21st December 2023 Researchers this week disclosed details on two security vulnerabilities in Microsoft Outlook that, when chained together, give attackers a way to execute arbitrary code on affected systems without any user interaction. Unusually, both of them can be triggered using a sound file. One of the flaws, tracked as CVE-2023-35384, is actually the second patch bypass that researchers […]
News Uncrewed cargo aircraft takes flight 21st December 2023 A cargo plane has completed an autonomous flight in the skies north of Hollister, California, in what is being heralded as a first for aviation. The Cessna 208B Caravan was fitted with an autonomous flight system from Reliable Robotics that automated all phases of the aircraft’s journey, from taxi to takeoff and landing. While there […]
News Lynk, Rogers complete first sat-to-phone voice call in Canada 20th December 2023 Canadian carrier Rogers Communications announced that it complete the first satellite-direct-to-cell (Sat2Phone) voice call via low-earth-orbit (LEO) satellites owned by Lynk Global, which is scheduled to launch commercial Sat2Phone service in Canada with Rogers during 2024. Lynk CEO Charles Miller said phone call was between Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Andrew Furey (pictured above, on the […]
Partner content Senators call for changes to ‘inefficient’ disaster-recovery funding program 19th December 2023 Congress must permanently authorize a critical federal disaster recovery grant program to ensure a swift and efficient allocation of funds to disaster-struck communities, senators and disaster recovery experts said at a Senate appropriations subcommittee hearing on Dec. 12. The Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery program, or CDBG-DR, has never been authorized […]
Latest 3GPP standards-development work includes new classes of HPUE, progress on mission-critical services 1 22nd April 2024
Is LMR the best solution for first responders? Should 4.9 GHz license go to the FirstNet Authority? 2 24th March 2024
