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Nokia gets its head round latest network tech trends

It has not been the best month for Nokia. The Finnish vendor has just announced swingeing cuts that will claim up to 14,000 jobs, with a target to reduce annual costs by between €800 million (US$843 million) and €1.2 billion ($1.3 billion). Despite the various difficulties, Nokia CEO Pekka Lundmark nevertheless expressed confidence there will be a recovery, […]

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Verizon surprises with ongoing delays in 5G standalone rollout

Verizon said it does not yet have any commercial traffic traveling over its 5G standalone core, a situation that has surprised some industry analysts and seemingly runs counter to indications that it had already launched commercial standalone 5G services. “We have it in trials only at this point. We don’t have it commercially available for […]

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Meet your new cybersecurity auditor: Your insurer

As businesses deal with the fallout of massive ransomware waves, from Lapsus$ to Cl0p/MOVEit, an unlikely new entity is joining the regulatory bodies to raise the bar for cybersecurity: the cyber insurer. These experts do more than just process claims in the aftermath of an attack. Their coverage requirements and metrics-driven approach to risk put organizations not meeting […]

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NLC’s City Fiscal Conditions report: City budgets are stable in the short term, admins uncertain about future

It’s been years since stay-at-home orders and mask mandates broke the headlines, and cities have more or less recovered from the effects of the pandemic. Most administrators now project a positive short-term fiscal outlook, according to the National League of Cities’ (NLC) annual 2023 City Fiscal Conditions report. The report, which was published earlier this month, […]

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Motorola Solutions CEO expects decision on UK Airwave appeal this year

Motorola Solutions anticipates that the United Kingdom (UK) Competition Appeal Tribunal will issue its decision this year in the appeal of a Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) ruling about the Airwave TETRA system that would cost the company about $200 million in annual revenue, according to CEO Greg Brown said. Brown made the statement today […]

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SEC charges against SolarWinds CISO send shockwaves through security ranks

The Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged SolarWinds Corp., along with its CISO Tim Brown, with fraud and internal control failures related to the 2020 supply chain cyberattack on the company’s Orion Platform; ultimately leading to the compromise of US government departments by Russian intelligence. The charges are already sending shockwaves throughout the CISO […]

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Starlink heading to Gaza, despite Israel opposition

Elon Musk’s Starlink is once again headed to a war zone after the total shutdown of Gaza’s telecom infrastructure over the weekend. Musk committed Starlink in response to a tweet by Democrat congress member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who said “cutting off all communication to a population of 2.2 million is unacceptable.” The news sparked a sharp response from […]

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Boeing breached by ransomware, LockBit gang claims

In a post on its leak site, prolific ransomware threat group LockBit claims that it breached Boeing, and said that it will start releasing sensitive data it purportedly stole from the company’s systems if ransom demands aren’t met by Nov. 2. “A tremendous amount of sensitive data was exfiltrated and ready to be published if […]

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Governments installing digital safeguards that shield infrastructure from cyber criminals

Cities and counties will incorporate multiple public improvements in their infrastructure projects, says Avi Schwartz, a principal at Deloitte who leads the firm’s Government and Public Services (GPS) Infrastructure and Capital Projects activities. Deloitte is a global management consultancy that provides technology, strategy and operations and human capital consulting for many industries, including the public sector. Schwartz’s firm […]

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BK Technologies tethering LMR, smart devices to support push-to-talk-over-broadband services

BK Technologies today announced the development of a tethering feature within its InteropONE service that is designed to let users of the company’s P25 radios expand their communications capabilities by leveraging push-to-talk-over-broadband technology, as well as traditional LMR voice functionality. James Teel, general manager of BK Technologies’ SaaS business, said the service—now known as a […]

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Nokia gets its head round latest network tech trends

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Verizon surprises with ongoing delays in 5G standalone rollout

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Meet your new cybersecurity auditor: Your insurer

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NLC’s City Fiscal Conditions report: City budgets are stable in the short term, admins uncertain about future

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Motorola Solutions CEO expects decision on UK Airwave appeal this year

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SEC charges against SolarWinds CISO send shockwaves through security ranks

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Starlink heading to Gaza, despite Israel opposition

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Boeing breached by ransomware, LockBit gang claims

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Governments installing digital safeguards that shield infrastructure from cyber criminals

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BK Technologies tethering LMR, smart devices to support push-to-talk-over-broadband services

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Land mobile radio (LMR) systems are just as vulnerable to cyberattacks as any other networks used in the public-safety sector. Here’s what to do about it.

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