Category: Technology

January 19, 2024

John Deere has entered into an agreement with SpaceX to provide satellite communications service to farmers. Utilizing the Starlink network, this solution will allow farmers facing rural connectivity challenges to fully leverage precision agriculture technologies. The new satellite communications solution […]

January 18, 2024

Who do you trust? Thirty years ago, enterprises answered that question with three almost-equally cited sources: their primary computer vendor, their network provider (almost always their “interexchange” provider), and their network equipment vendor. This fall, in a group of 158 […]

January 17, 2024

ATIS’ Next G Alliance (NGA) has published a new white paper that looks at the transformative role that future 6G technology is expected to play in enhancing integrated sensing and communication systems. NGA said that next-generation systems will enable distributed […]

January 17, 2024

This year’s Mobile Test Summit took place from November 28 to November 29, 2023. Wireless communications professionals came to the Rohde & Schwarz headquarters in Munich for two days of insights into the latest developments in mobile device and infrastructure […]

January 16, 2024

Vodafone’s IoT connectivity unit is to become a standalone business by April of next year (2024) following a major 10-year deal with Microsoft that will see both firms invest in the business, and the UK-based operator also commit $1.5 billion […]

January 12, 2024

A pair of security researchers managed to infiltrate the development infrastructure for PyTorch by using new techniques that exploit insecure configurations in GitHub Actions workflows. Their proof-of-concept attack was responsibly disclosed to PyTorch lead developer Meta AI, but other software […]

January 12, 2024

Ericsson announced the successful migration and modernization of the billing system for ODIDO’s virtual mobile network brand, Ben. The entire mobile billing infrastructure has been seamlessly transitioned to Ericsson Billing, now hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The successful migration […]

January 11, 2024

Satellite comms provider Iridium Communications is inviting device makers, chipmakers, mobile operators, and IoT developers to have their say on the functionality of its developing NB-IoT satellite network. The US firm has convened a consultancy operation as part of its […]

January 11, 2024

Dish Wireless, which is now a subsidiary of EchoStar, was awarded a $50 million grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) with the aim of establishing the Open RAN Center for Integration & Deployment […]

January 10, 2024

Let me start by saying it’s widely known that data centers benefit from being highly automated. Automated scripts can complete whatever task they are given much faster than a human and do it consistently, with fewer errors. The data center […]

January 8, 2024

Ahead of the Consumer Electronics Show starting today in Las Vegas, Qualcomm announced the latest-and-greatest in Extended Reality (XR) silicon platforms. The XR2+ Gen 2, which iterates on the recently announced XR2 Gen 2 platform, brings increased GPU performance compared […]

January 8, 2024

Wi-Fi Alliance is kicking off 2024 with a shiny new certification program for Wi-Fi 7, signaling that the newest generation of Wi-Fi is ready for mass adoption. As is typical in Wi-Fi generations, there is already a leading vanguard of […]

January 8, 2024

As 5G continues to be rolled out, the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) organization is hard at work in developing standards for 5G Advanced and is beginning to talk about what may be included in the first release of 6G. […]

January 5, 2024

Traditional broadband is being threatened by new competitors and changing technology. It’s out with the old, and in with the new. This is both a real challenge and a new growth opportunity. FWA and satellite technologies are impacting the marketplace. […]

January 3, 2024

On Tuesday evening, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California with 21 Starlink satellites in tow. Those satellites included the first six Starlink satellites with direct-to-cellular capabilities, essentially acting as cell towers in space and […]

January 2, 2024

The case statement in the bash shell provides an interesting and easy alternative to the more complex if statements. They represent the simplest form of the kind of logic that evaluates multiple values (e.g., “If it equals this, then do […]

December 26, 2023

For major entertainment productions, video equipment configurations can comprise a single projector, a linear LED wall, multiple projectors like in the immersive Van Gogh art exhibit, or millions of pixels as seen in the Sphere in Las Vegas. “You’re able […]

December 22, 2023

SpaceX has been granted special temporary authority by the Federal Communications Commission for field testing of direct-to-cellular communications via its Starlink second generation satellites. The company said that it would be testing up to five devices at different power levels […]

December 21, 2023

There are 2,900 private LTE/5G networks across the world at the end of 2023, including trial and pilot deployments. So says Berg Insight, which calculates a quarter (700; 24 percent) are based on 5G, with close to half of these […]

December 21, 2023

What Is SD-WAN? When designing a network to connect central and far-flung offices, IT leaders are increasingly turning to a Software-Defined Wide-Area Network (SD-WAN) overlay. A software-defined wide-area network (SD-WAN) is a virtual WAN architecture that’s service provider-agnostic. This allows […]