Commentary Necessity indeed is the mother of invention 31st August 2022 An adage regarding the stock market goes something like this: over any 20-year period, the market delivers a return on investment of about 10 percent, but every 20-year period—regardless of when it begins or when it ends—contains peaks and valleys that are driven by market conditions that change often, and often substantially. This adage just […]
News NASNA outlines ‘strong and urgent concerns’ about NG911 funding language in spectrum bill 31st August 2022 Legislation before the U.S. Senate that would allocate as much as $10 billion in federal funds for next-generation 911 (NG911) deployment includes language that “will unnecessarily detract from and delay NG911 implementation,” according to a letter from the National Association of State 911 Administrators (NASNA). Under H.R. 7624—the version of the “Spectrum Innovation Act” approved […]
Partner content Did Elon Musk just upstage Tim Cook’s big iPhone 14 surprise? 29th August 2022 The world’s richest human being – Elon Musk, worth an estimated $265 billion – yesterday said he plans to start launching new satellites next year that can connect directly to existing mobile phones on Earth. Separately, the world’s most valuable company – Apple, with a market cap of $2.7 trillion – is widely expected to introduce a new iPhone next month that can […]
Partner content Thousands of organizations remain at risk from zero-click IP camera bug 29th August 2022 Some 2,300 organizations worldwide — many of them in the United States — remain at risk of major compromise via a known critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Hikvision IP video cameras that was disclosed last year. The bug (CVE-2021-36260) is a command injection vulnerability that is present in the Web server of several Hikvision […]
Partner content Europe working on cross-border 5G for driverless vehicles 29th August 2022 There are an increasing number of European Union projects working on making 5G feasible to operate connected and autonomous vehicles (CAV) across international and national borders. However, standardized connectivity and roaming charges remain as being among the greatest potential challenges in some markets. These issues could present themselves as being obstacles to the proper, efficient […]
Partner content Lifeguard drone saves 14-year-old swimmer’s life 29th August 2022 A drone lifeguard service saved a 14-year-old boy’s life last month by delivering him an auto-inflating life vest as he struggled against a heavy tide off the Spanish coast, Reuters reported. The Auxdrone, manufactured and operated by General Drones of Sagunto, dropped a lifejacket to the unidentified child as he struggled to stay afloat in high seas […]
News T-Mobile, SpaceX unveil plans to ‘end dead zones’ and ‘save lives’ with satellite-direct-to-phone tech 26th August 2022 T-Mobile yesterday announced plans to leverage SpaceX low-earth-orbit (LEO) satellites deliver a lower-bandwidth service to existing cellular devices that is designed to eliminate most outdoor coverage gaps and provide a redundant path to deliver calls when terrestrial networks are incapacitated by a natural disaster. “This partnership has a vision that is the end of mobile […]
News Newscan: Police chief: Dallas officers must wear body cameras during off-duty jobs 24th August 2022 Web Roundup Items from other news organizations Police chief: Dallas officers must wear body cameras during off-duty jobs Advisory board sends critical-infrastructure cyber recommendations to White House Securing the grid: A cybersecurity how-to for utilities Back to school, with panic buttons: The post-Uvalde scramble Cybersecurity for critical infrastructure to get a $45 million funding infusion […]
News Coalition asks Senate leaders for $15 billion, borrowing authority for NG911 23rd August 2022 A coalition of public-safety associations yesterday asked Senate leadership that legislation for next-generation 911 (NG911) be altered to call for “at least $15 billion” in federal funding nationwide and borrowing authority to ensure that deployments can begin as soon as possible. NG911 funding language was passed in the House last month as part of the […]
Partner content The next wave of wireless security worries: API-driven IoT devices 23rd August 2022 LAS VEGAS – Wireless carriers may be the next cast of characters to learn the hard way about the security risks created by IoT devices. This warning came in a recent briefing at the Black Hat information-security conference here by Altaf Shaik, a senior security researcher at Technische Universität Berlin. “There is increased threat when it comes to 5G, […]
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