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Microsoft aims to dislodge AWS as ‘preferred provider’ to telcos

Two years ago, Microsoft did something that left executives at Ericsson and Nokia sweating like soldiers before battle. Within the space of a few weeks, Seattle’s biggest export besides coffee had bought two small but irksome rivals to the Nordic vendors in the market for core network software. The takeovers of Affirmed Networks and Metaswitch […]

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Reshaping the threat landscape: Deepfake cyberattacks are here

Malicious campaigns involving the use of deepfake technologies are a lot closer than many might assume. Furthermore, mitigation and detection of them are hard. A new study of the use and abuse of deepfakes by cybercriminals shows that all the needed elements for widespread use of the technology are in place and readily available in […]

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Cities need to look at total picture when buying technology

Procurement teams need to take a holistic approach when acquiring technology, says Bill Campbell, senior vice president of North America at Hexagon’s Safety, Infrastructure & Geospatial Division. Hexagon offers a variety of digital reality solutions. Its products combine sensor, software and autonomous technologies. The firm puts data to work to boost efficiency, productivity, quality and safety […]

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Debating the role of hyperscale cloud providers in 5G

LAS VEGAS – #MWC22 – Mike Murphy has a unique view into the future of 5G. Murphy has been developing wireless technologies for almost four decades, first at Nortel, then at Nokia and now at Ericsson. Today, he’s the North American CTO for Ericsson, the only network equipment supplier currently providing midband 5G gear to all […]

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Public cloud holds perils, and don’t expect an ‘open’ RAN with it

Splitting up with a public cloud provider threatens to be as complicated, expensive and time-consuming as a celebrity divorce, depending on the equivalent of the prenuptial agreement. Snap, the company behind the Snapchat messaging app, almost sounds resigned to being in permanent relationships with AWS and Google Cloud, whatever happens. Moving services to another provider […]

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Newscan: Electric school buses aid power grid in moments of need

Web Roundup Items from other news organizations Electric school buses aid power grid in moments of need Senate passes stopgap to avert shutdown for 10 weeks, House must still act U.S. candidate beats Russian to head U.N. tech agency Unsuccessful deployments in IoT—a furore about failure DoD’s digital threats are increasingly interconnecting, watchdog warns NSA […]

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CMA again delays provisional-decision report on Motorola Solutions role in UK public-safety comms

A report outlining a provisional decision whether Motorola Solutions’ roles in United Kingdom (UK) public-safety communications—both the legacy Airwave TETRA system and the LTE-based Emergency Services Network (ESN)—should be altered has been delayed until October, according to a UK government watchdog. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) today released a new administrative timeline for its […]

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Sophisticated covert cyberattack campaign targets military contractors

A cyberattack campaign, potentially bent on cyber espionage, is highlighting the increasingly sophisticated nature of cyberthreats targeting defense contractors in the US and elsewhere. The covert campaign, which researchers at Securonix detected and are tracking as STEEP#MAVERICK, has hit multiple weapons contractors in Europe in recent months, including potentially a supplier to the US F-35 Lightning II […]

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Stopgap funding bill would grant temporary FCC auction authority, leave NG911 funding in limbo

Stopgap funding legislation that is designed to prevent a federal-government shutdown this weekend includes language extending the FCC’s spectrum-auction authority into December, although the impact on potential funding for next-generation 911 (NG911) deployments remains unclear, according to media reports and Beltway sources. Currently, the FCC’s authority to conduct auctions of radio spectrum—bidding events that have […]

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South Korea wants half of all cars to be autonomous by 2035

The South Korean government has laid out its road map for the introduction of autonomous cars – and it contains some ambitious targets. The country’s Mobility Innovation Roadmap was revealed by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport. The first notable deadline is later this year, when the country hopes to become the third in […]

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Microsoft aims to dislodge AWS as ‘preferred provider’ to telcos

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Reshaping the threat landscape: Deepfake cyberattacks are here

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Cities need to look at total picture when buying technology

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Debating the role of hyperscale cloud providers in 5G

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Public cloud holds perils, and don’t expect an ‘open’ RAN with it

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Newscan: Electric school buses aid power grid in moments of need

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CMA again delays provisional-decision report on Motorola Solutions role in UK public-safety comms

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Sophisticated covert cyberattack campaign targets military contractors

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Stopgap funding bill would grant temporary FCC auction authority, leave NG911 funding in limbo

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South Korea wants half of all cars to be autonomous by 2035

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