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Blue Origin plans to test Blue Ring space platform on Pentagon’s DarkSky-1 mission

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The Pentagon-backed mission, known as DarkSky-1, will demonstrate Blue Origin’s flight system, including space-based data processing and storage capabilities, ground-based radiometric tracking and Blue Ring’s telemetry, tracking and command hardware, also known as TT&C.

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Canadian CIOs discuss driving digital transformation at a rapid pace

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According to the State of the CIO, 2024 research “79% of heads of IT say that CIOs have a strong educational partnership with the CEO/board of directors “and “88% of CIOs say that their role is becoming more digital and innovation focused”. This was an added stress on planning his data and cloud strategy.

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The HP-Autonomy lawsuit: Timeline of an M&A disaster

CIO Business Intelligence

Rather than selling software to customers, HP said, Autonomy had been selling them hardware at a loss, then booking the sales as software licensing revenue. March 2010: Apotheker says he wants to transform HP from a hardware producer to a software and services provider. November 2012: HP takes an $8.8

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Amazon says Project Kuiper satellites are maneuvering the way they were built to do

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They’re designed to test the hardware as well as the software, ground-based facilities and procedures that will be used for the full constellation. Amazon says that the first operational satellites are due to be launched early next year, and that beta service to selected enterprise customers could begin by the end of 2024.

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Follow the countdown to the first launch of Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellites

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ULA Photo) The countdown is on for the first-ever launch of Amazon satellites, aimed at testing out the hardware and software for the Seattle company’s worldwide Project Kuiper broadband internet constellation. — to test the hardware on the spacecraft, as well as Amazon’s ground facilities and customer terminals.

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Fraport goes all in on private 5G network

CIO Business Intelligence

Here, we actually get a licensed frequency we don’t have to share with anyone, so there’s no interference,” he says. Independence through private 5G Because of this licensed frequency, network slicing offers from mobile operators were out of the question. As a result, the Private 5G project had to be put on hold.

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Amazon says Project Kuiper satellites ace orbital tests — including video streaming and online sale

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The tests conducted over the past month served as a demonstration of those synergies as well as confirmation that Project Kuiper’s hardware, software and ground-based infrastructure are on the right track. Engineers test the Project Kuiper satellite network in McAllen, Texas. The rest would have to be launched by 2029.

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