Washington, United States – Comcast has announced a partnership with the National Skills Coalition (NSC) to educate local, state, and national decisionmakers about the benefits of the new Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to promote digital equity and opportunity nationwide. The initiative aims to help close the digital skill divide that is currently limiting educational and employment opportunities for nearly 50 million Americans. (more…)
February 1, 2023
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar
QA Cafe, a provider of network test solutions and analysis tools, has announced a partnership with Amarisoft, a provider of affordable and high-quality 4G/5G testers to the wireless industry, to offer comprehensive fully-automated testing of 5G and LTE fixed wireless broadband gateways. (more…)
January 31, 2023
Posted by: Shriya Raban
When a crisis hits, we all know what to do: Call 9-1-1. That’s why 9-1-1 call centres need to be dependable and prepared for circumstances that might interrupt their data connections. For the Tennessee Emergency Communications Board, that means ensuring the state’s 118 primary public safety answering points (PSAPs) or 9-1-1 call centres have backups in place in the event their primary fibre connections are disrupted for any reason, says Jim Bugel, president of the FirstNet Program, AT&T and Curtis S. Sutton, executive director, Tennessee Emergency Communications Board. (more…)
January 30, 2023
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar
San Diego – Nextivity, a provider in intelligent cellular coverage solutions, has announced the acquisition of Assured Wireless Corporation, a provider in high power user equipment (HPUE) technology. The acquisition enables Nextivity to serve the first responder sector with FirstNet coverage portfolio: indoors, outdoors and at the edge of the network. (more…)
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar
Wilmington, United States – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), an all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 open source projects and initiatives, has announced Apache NuttX 12.0, the release of the real-time operating system (RTOS) for embedded microcontroller applications. NuttX is used in appliances, wearables, satellites, drones, connectivity, rapid prototyping, industrial IoT, and much more, with support for numerous microcontroller architectures from 8-bit to 64-bit. (more…)
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar
Thousands of people living and working in rural Cornwall will get access to lightning-fast broadband after local supplier Wildanet was awarded £36 million from the government to roll out new connections. (more…)
Posted by: Shriya Raban
u-blox, a global provider of positioning and wireless communication technologies and services, has announced the u-blox JODY-W4, an automotive-grade module incorporating Wi-Fi 6E technology and Bluetooth LE Audio functionality in all its variants. (more…)
Posted by: Shriya Raban
The Trending Tech Podcast returns to the topical issues of Connected Healthcare and IoT’s role in Industry. We hear from two experts, Jash Bansidhar and Michael Wernaert from Advantech, how automation is improving patient outcomes, including through robotic surgery’s greater accuracy, faster patient release dates and lower care costs. We ask how ‘co-created’ solutions on open source platforms can benefit hospitals and healthcare OEMs? And can OpenAI’s ChatGPT enable industry’s digital transformations? There’s even time to see how ESG is creating an intelligent, sustainable planet. Not bad in half an hour.
January 25, 2023
Posted by: Barto Szkaradek
Haivision Systems Inc., a global provider of mission-critical, real-time video networking and visual collaboration solutions, has announced that Telefonica deployed Haivision Air mobile transmitters for a 5G-powered drone proof of concept during the Spain Sail Grand Prix on September 24-25, 2022. (more…)
Posted by: Shriya Raban
Espoo, Finland – Nokia has announced a new collaboration with UNICEF to bridge the digital divide by helping to improve digital education and training in schools in select parts of Senegal, West Africa. This activity is in line with Nokia’s enhanced Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) strategy, as well as Nokia’s commitment to advance digital skills. (more…)
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar