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Smart loading-zone pilot launched in Philadelphia for delivery drivers

Anyone who’s driven down a bustling main street in a large city knows how difficult parking can be—especially for delivery drivers offloading product or equipment. A new pilot initiative that launched Monday in Philadelphia aims to alleviate this challenge by giving drivers the ability to view availability of 21 designated curbside delivery spaces in real time […]

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FirstNet tops 4 million connections for 23,000-plus agencies, AT&T says

FirstNet provides more than 4 million connections to more than 23,000 public-safety agencies while continuing to play a significant role in the postpaid wireless subscriber growth figures for contractor AT&T, according to information released yesterday by the carrier. During the third quarter that ended on Sept. 30, FirstNet added 334,000 connections, which represents a significant […]

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The cloud and 5G security apocalypse is only a matter of time

AMSTERDAM – Network X – Greg van der Gaast recalls his first encounter with hacking at the tender age of 16. “My sister brought home a VHS cassette of the movie Hackers, and what this movie taught me was that if you break into computers you get it on with Angelina Jolie,” he said. “I was […]

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List of common passwords accounts for nearly all cyberattacks

Tens of millions of credential-based attacks targeting two common types of servers boiled down to a small fraction of the passwords that formed a list of leaked credentials, known as the RockYou2021 list. Vulnerability management firm Rapid7, via its network of honeypots, recorded every attempt to compromise those servers over a 12-month period, finding that the […]

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Verizon rules out putting its core in the public cloud

AMSTERDAM – Network X – “It’s called the core for a reason,” said Verizon Business CEO Sampath Sowmyanarayan with a smile. His company’s number-one US rival stunned many onlookers in June last year when it announced plans to run its 5G network, core and all, in the public cloud of Microsoft Azure. Outside AT&T, telco […]

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5G streetlights installed a Peachtree Corners: Smart City USA

The smart city at Peachtree Corners is beaming with innovative technologies, even though some of it is hiding in plain sight. There are solar panels built into street pavement that the autonomous shuttle continually drives over for testing, lidar sensors high up on poles sending signals to the IoT control center and streetlights that look […]

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Green-light priority-traffic technology possible solution for school-bus driver shortages

Across the United States, communities of all sizes and regions are facing school bus driver shortages. New research from Georgia shows promise in a technological solution to this widespread problem. A pilot program conducted this spring at the Fulton County School System in Alpharetta, Ga. tested out devices that give vehicles the right of way at traffic […]

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CMA report proposes larger Airwave losses for Motorola Solutions, hints at ESN changes

Motorola Solutions could lose more than $250 million annually in projected revenue for providing its Airwave TETRA service to United Kingdom (UK) first responders during the next four years, and the company could be removed from UK public-safety broadband plans, based on findings in a UK competition watchdog report released yesterday. On Friday, the Competition […]

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Decades after 9/11, push-to-talk remains a first-responder challenge

BK Technologies, an equipment vendor to the public safety community, this week announced a new, interoperable push-to-talk (PTT) service for first responders. The offering is “designed to eliminate today’s barriers and enable all first responders to communicate regardless of which cellular network they use or PTToC [PTT over cellular] service they subscribe to, or even first responders […]

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Cybersecurity’s hiring spree requires a recruiting rethink

Widely reported shortages of trained cybersecurity professionals are driving the industry to try to come up with some with creative recruiting and training solutions. But it’s complicated. At the very same time, automation is increasingly performing the tedious entry-level tasks that early-career threat hunters once built their chops working on, making it harder to gain early experience. […]

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Smart loading-zone pilot launched in Philadelphia for delivery drivers

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FirstNet tops 4 million connections for 23,000-plus agencies, AT&T says

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The cloud and 5G security apocalypse is only a matter of time

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List of common passwords accounts for nearly all cyberattacks

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Verizon rules out putting its core in the public cloud

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5G streetlights installed a Peachtree Corners: Smart City USA

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Green-light priority-traffic technology possible solution for school-bus driver shortages

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CMA report proposes larger Airwave losses for Motorola Solutions, hints at ESN changes

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Decades after 9/11, push-to-talk remains a first-responder challenge

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Cybersecurity’s hiring spree requires a recruiting rethink

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