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Fraport goes all in on private 5G network

CIO Business Intelligence

There were a multitude of reasons for Fraport AG, the operating company of Germany’s largest airport in Frankfurt, to build one of the largest European private 5G campus networks: automation, autonomous driving, localization of devices, and processing data in real time.

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Gogo sells commercial in-flight internet business to bankrupt satellite provider

The Verge

Gogo, the in-flight internet provider, has found a buyer for its commercial airline business. The FCC is clearing out the C-band (4-8 GHz) to make space for 5G customers, and Intelsat is participating in the program that could net the company nearly $5 billion by selling airwave licenses it currently owns.

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Zero Trust with Zero Data

Phil Windley

In a world where network boundaries are increasingly porous and cyber threats are more evasive than ever, the Zero Trust model centers around the notion that no one, whether internal or external, should be inherently trusted. driver's license) to prove your age when buying beer, we ran convenience stores like a web app.

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Ugh! There's an App for That!

Phil Windley

Delta airlines didn't accept any that I could tell. Beyond health pass applications, things like mobile drivers licenses need to be interoperable to be useful. The lesson of the internet was not that it was the cheapest, easiest way to build global network. Munich has its own—or three. We had CompuServe for that.

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FTC rang Amazon’s bell this time, and it wasn’t as kind as Alexa

Dataconomy

Insecure digital environment’s latest big settlements: Equifax & T-Mobile The credit reporting firm Equifax acknowledged on September 7, 2017, that one of its computer networks had had a data leak that had exposed the personal information of 143 million clients, which eventually rose to 147 million.

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Building Identity Systems on the Sovrin Network

Phil Windley

Summary: An identity metasystem like the Sovrin Network provides the foundation for creating tens of millions of interoperable identity systems for every conceivable context and use. This metasystem is in effect a system of systems that exposes a unified interface much like a device driver or network socket does. Drivers license.

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10 emerging innovations that could redefine IT

CIO Business Intelligence

They worry about protecting the digital data that’s stored in databases, networks, or servers. A number of high-profile software failures at companies like Southwest Airlines or EasyJet show how code that runs well most of the time can also fail spectacularly.

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