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NASA funds small-business ideas ranging from plumbing for the moon to AI medicine

GeekWire

NASA says it’ll fund more than 400 ideas from small businesses, aimed at creating technologies ranging from plumbing fixtures suitable for the moon to AI-based medical assistants that can provide “an extra pair of trained eyes” for crews on Mars.

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7012 Regs and Cyber insurance on collision course with small business

CTOvision

With both scenarios, UCTI drives grey-area vulnerabilities involving personnel and Unclassified networks. Thus, the small businesses most likely to experience difficulty with scaling up to compliance for UCTI are also most likely to outsource — do-able, if Unclassified, but adding a layer of risk and a layer of complexity for auditing.

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The importance of connectivity for remote working in small businesses

Spearline Testing

With the best network monitoring and testing tools at the ready, Spearline’s platform can easily warn your business of any potential problems, allowing your remote workers to carry on with a new project and not panic that the system is experiencing issues. Traditional tools, however, stare only at the private network.

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The importance of connectivity for small businesses remote working

Spearline Testing

With the best network monitoring and testing tools at the ready, Spearline’s platform can easily warn your business of any potential problems, allowing your remote workers to carry on with a new project and not panic that the system is experiencing issues. Traditional tools, however, stare only at the private network.

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Washington Dept. of Commerce helps launch ‘Equitable Innovations Accelerator’

GeekWire

Other commerce department initiatives with an emphasis on under-represented communities include the Small Business Flex Fund , backed by $30 million from the department and $40 million from several banks. The fund has provided low-interest loans of up to $150,000 to more than 110 small businesses since its inception this summer.

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DTW 2022: Axiata CIO Anthony Rodrigo on lessons learned while building an API marketplace

TM Forum

Axiata Group, a leading telecommunications group in Asia with operations serving 350 million subscribers in 11 countries, has learned from its mistakes in launching an API marketplace aimed at small businesses, according to the company’s Group Chief Information Officer Anthony Rodrigo. The second phase of the project.

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Lumen imagines ‘what if’ to transform into a techco

TM Forum

Today the company has over 450,000 route miles of fiber and more than 2,200 public and private data centers on network fiber. Modernizing networks and IT. To deal with technical debt, Lumen launched a strategy that classifies infrastructure and applications as “deployed-modern, made-modern or never-modern.”

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