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Healthcare giant Kaiser Permanente considering private LTE network

Kristan Kline is in charge of network strategy for Kaiser Permanente, the nation’s largest nonprofit health plan with 12 million members, 39 hospitals and $84 billion in revenue. He recently completed Cornell University’s 5G for Business online program, but when he thinks about how wireless technology can solve business problems for Kaiser, 5G isn’t the […]

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Supply-chain data visibility paramount as industry lurches into next chapter

The COVID-19 crisis has hit the global supply chain from all sides. Shortages for in-demand products abound, while shipment delays are common and production lines run at a fraction of capacity. Erratic consumer demand adds further dysfunction. Supply chains will survive COVID-19, of course, but not without interim pain and structural change. Practitioners must develop a data […]

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Zebra Technologies: Chris Sullivan discusses COVID-19 test-center solution leveraging FirstNet

Chris Sullivan, global healthcare practice lead for Zebra Technologies, explains how the company’s devices and software delivered across the FirstNet LTE system help reduce wait times and improve accuracy within temporary COVID-19 test centers that have been established throughout the nation. Sullivan spoke with IWCE’s Urgent Communications Editor Donny Jackson as part of the […]

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As communities grapple with budget shortfalls, how will online and digital taxation change?

The financial strain of COVID-19 can be felt across nearly every industry, with state governments facing massive budget shortfalls as the economic shutdown puts a damper on taxes – their main revenue source. With stay-at-home orders and fewer consumers out spending money, many states have seen a significant drop-off in sales tax revenues. Couple the […]

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ESChat: Josh Lober highlights features in upcoming release of application

ESChat CEO Josh Lober details upcoming enhancements to the company’s push-to-talk application, including multimedia messaging, location tracking and mapping, and the ability to support both inter-carrier interoperability and inter-system interoperability, which are particularly important to public-safety and military users. The Android version of the new ESChat application is scheduled to be released in August. […]

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Cisco takes a coronavirus beating as profits fall

Cisco is not having a good pandemic. While parts of the technology sector are still viewed as a relatively safe haven, the world’s biggest maker of Internet switches and routers has just posted an 8% fall in revenues, to about $12 billion, and a 9% drop in net income, to roughly $2.8 billion, for the […]

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Zebra Technologies: Alex Cooper highlights findings from public-safety survey

Alex Cooper, Zebra Technologies’ director of government and field-service strategy, discusses results from the company’s global survey of public-safety decision makers, which revealed that most recognize the value of mobile technologies to first responders, even though many indicated they are not able to implement new solutions as quickly as they would like. You can […]

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Optimizing IoT power consumption

One of the greatest barriers to IoT technology is the implementation of sustainable, functional deployment. The multifunctionality of the Internet of Things (IoT) comes at a cost in terms of power. While traditional battery power is the most obvious solution for remote applications, it’s not always economical. First, battery capacity may be insufficient for emerging […]

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Smart city joins the ranks of the ‘rationalized’

Google parent company Alphabet cancelled its ambitious smart city project in Toronto, Ontario, last week. It cited the “unprecedented economic uncertainty” of the Coronavirus pandemic as the root cause. Dubbed ‘Quayside’, the project envisioned a complete transformation of a twelve-acre, former-industrial stretch of Toronto waterfront into a futuristic city. Here the cars would be self-driving, […]

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Survey results: Local-government leaders express coronavirus concerns

American City & County recently polled its readership to understand their worries during the continued pandemic. A second wave of COVID-19 infections topped the list of concerns. Economic and social pressures are causing communities to consider relaxing their shutdowns, despite warnings from the medical community that doing so prematurely might set off a second wave of […]

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Healthcare giant Kaiser Permanente considering private LTE network

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Supply-chain data visibility paramount as industry lurches into next chapter

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Zebra Technologies: Chris Sullivan discusses COVID-19 test-center solution leveraging FirstNet

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As communities grapple with budget shortfalls, how will online and digital taxation change?

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ESChat: Josh Lober highlights features in upcoming release of application

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Cisco takes a coronavirus beating as profits fall

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Zebra Technologies: Alex Cooper highlights findings from public-safety survey

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Optimizing IoT power consumption

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Smart city joins the ranks of the ‘rationalized’

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Survey results: Local-government leaders express coronavirus concerns

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