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AT&T closes deal for AlienVault, appoints CEO as head of new cybersecurity unit

AT&T completes its acquisition of cybersecurity firm AlienVault and established a new cybersecurity-solutions unit that will be led by AlienVault CEO Barmak Meftah, who says he wants AT&T to “simplify” cybersecurity, especially in the critical-infrastructure sector.

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Motorola Solutions: Aaron Bravo highlights functionality within CommandCentral Aware platform

Aaron Bravo, a solutions advisor at Motorola Solutions, outlines key benefits of CommandCentral Aware, which is designed to let public-safety officials view—and perform analytics leveraging—information and video from multiple sources on a single platform.

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Inmarsat Government provides satellite broadband to support first solo transatlantic remotely piloted aircraft (RPA)

Inmarsat Government announces that its SwiftBroadband L-band satellite service was used to help General Atomics Aeronautical Systems’ fly a remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) across the Atlantic Ocean for the first time without any support from a chase plane.

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Newscan: Amazon employees protest sale of facial-recognition technology to law enforcement

Web Roundup Items from other news organizations Amazon employees protest sale of facial-recognition technology to law enforcement Supreme Court ruling means states can tax Amazon marketplace The tech side of Trump’s plan to reorganize government White House reorganization addresses cyber workforce gap NSA ‘systematically moving’ all its data to the cloud Chairman Thune pencils in […]

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Apple to utilize RapidSOS to deliver 911 caller-location information to PSAPs

Apple announces that its devices will utilize RapidSOS technology to share location data with public safety when emergency calls are made using iOS 12, an upgrade to the Apple operating-system platform that is scheduled to be released later this year.

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Zetron announces improved 911 location results from RapidSOS pilot project in Tennessee

Zetron announces results from a pilot project using integrated location information from partner RapidSOS to deliver significantly better caller-location data quickly to public-safety answering points (PSAPs) receiving emergency calls

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Univ. of Oxford: Pedro Gusmao demos navigation system designed to help locate firefighters

Pedro Gusmao, a researcher at the University of Oxford in England, explains how his team is developing a algorithm that can leverage dead-reckoning technology and inertial sensors to estimate the location of a firefighter or other first responder, even when network infrastructure is not available.

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TRX Systems: Carol Politi highlights company’s partnerships, deployment successes

TRX Systems President and CEO Carol Politi explains how partnerships are helping the company realize widespread deployments and notes recent developments in its location technology.

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IoT initiatives need good business cases, solution providers to ensure adoption, Avnet exec says

Enterprises seeking to leverage Internet of Things (IoT) technology need clear business cases and vendors that provide end-to-end solutions with long-term support before they will be willing to adopt IoT, according to an executive from Avnet, a leading IoT company.

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Carnegie Mellon University: Anthony Rowe showcases firefighter-location technology

Anthony Rowe, associate professor in the electrical and computer engineering department at Carnegie Mellon University, demonstrates how an incident commander could leverage ultrawideband (UWB) beacon technology to track the location of firefighters, even when there is no traditional network infrastructure available.

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AT&T closes deal for AlienVault, appoints CEO as head of new cybersecurity unit

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Motorola Solutions: Aaron Bravo highlights functionality within CommandCentral Aware platform

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Inmarsat Government provides satellite broadband to support first solo transatlantic remotely piloted aircraft (RPA)

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Newscan: Amazon employees protest sale of facial-recognition technology to law enforcement

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Apple to utilize RapidSOS to deliver 911 caller-location information to PSAPs

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Zetron announces improved 911 location results from RapidSOS pilot project in Tennessee

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Univ. of Oxford: Pedro Gusmao demos navigation system designed to help locate firefighters

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TRX Systems: Carol Politi highlights company’s partnerships, deployment successes

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IoT initiatives need good business cases, solution providers to ensure adoption, Avnet exec says

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Carnegie Mellon University: Anthony Rowe showcases firefighter-location technology

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