Cover Story

Lifeblood

Mar 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Mary Rose Roberts

The medical sector is increasing its use of wireless systems to reduce treatment errors and give first responders better tools for triage-level events, in the hope of improving patient care and saving more lives...

Features

The big squeeze

Mar 1, 2007 11:00 AM, By Merrill Douglas

Video compression and other optimization technologies conserve bandwidth...

Big D's magic bullet

Mar 1, 2007 11:58 AM, By Donny Jackson

Dallas project offers hope for affordable interoperability, perhaps nationwide ...

The value of ferrite RF isolators

Mar 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Harold Kinley

Proper use at crowded communications sites can reduce intermodulation effects...

Practice, practice, practice

Mar 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By James Careless

Tabletop exercises provide effective, inexpensive rehearsals for disasters...

News

700 MHz debate moves to Capitol Hill

Mar 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Donny Jackson

Cyren Call proposal attracts influential proponents, opponents...

Questions surround grant funds

Mar 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Donny Jackson

Despite the enactment of a law calling for $1 billion in interoperability grants to be distributed to state and local agencies by Sept. 30, how and when...

Rebanding falls further behind

Mar 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Donny Jackson

Vast majority of licensees still are lacking agreements with Sprint Nextel...

Vendors re-enact Moore's Law

Mar 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Donny Jackson

Breakthrough chip announcements offer promises to wireless industry...

Florida counties experience deja vu

Mar 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Mary Rose Roberts

Deadly tornadoes spawn several communications challenges...

PacketHop announces first customer

Mar 1, 2007 12:00 PM

Mobile-mesh software company PacketHop recently made its first customer announcement: the Lakewood, N.J., Police Department, which deployed the vendor's...

Clearwire buys 2.5 GHz spectrum from AT&T

Mar 1, 2007 12:00 PM

Wireless broadband provider Clearwire has agreed to pay AT&T $300 million in cash for 2.5 GHz spectrum previously owned by BellSouth, AT&T announced....

General Dynamics unit lands German army contract

Mar 1, 2007 12:00 PM

General Dynamics C4 Systems has landed a $30 million contract from ND SatCom Defence GmbH of Friedrichshafen, Germany, to supply tactical antennas and...

DOT purchases wireless system

Mar 1, 2007 12:00 PM

In-building wireless solutions provider InnerWireless announced it would deploy its Wireless Utility product at the U.S. Department of Transportation....

Intermec's RFID hardware deployed at Microsoft, NASA

Mar 1, 2007 12:00 PM

RFID technology vendor Intermec announced it has been selected to supply its CV60 vehicle-mounted computers, IV7 vehicle-mounted RFID readers and IA33E...

Energy company to deploy Tait voice and data network

Mar 1, 2007 12:00 PM

Tait Radio Communications has been awarded a contract with Rapid City, S.D.-headquartered Black Hills Power, a 123-year-old energy company. The contract...

Motorola teams with TI on 3G, WiMAX

Mar 1, 2007 12:00 PM

Motorola teamed with Texas Instruments to develop 3G, WiMAX and other devices that meet next-generation wireless standards, the companies announced. Motorola's...

Fuel industry vendor invests in EV-DO

Mar 1, 2007 12:00 PM

Ruggedized wireless modem developer BlueTree Wireless Data announced its products will be deployed by Canada-based Trican, a manufacturer of pressure-pumping...

Children's hospital deploys RFID

Mar 1, 2007 12:00 PM

The Heart Center at the Columbus (Ohio) Children's Hospital will implement Mobile Aspects' RFID-based iRISupply inventory management system to store,...

Michigan college goes wireless

Mar 1, 2007 12:00 PM

Proxim Wireless announced that Adrian College in Adrian, Mich., a private liberal arts and science college, is deploying its ORiNOCO mesh product line...

Michigan hospital deploys WLAN

Mar 1, 2007 12:00 PM

Troy, Mich.-based CareTech Solutions announced that it has implemented a campuswide WLAN at the Garden City Hospital located in Garden City, Mich. The...

Report: Cellular E911 location information inconsistent

Mar 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Donny Jackson

Public-safety answering point, or PSAP, managers should work with cellular providers in an effort to improve the location data the carriers provide when...

RFID used in parking lots

Mar 1, 2007 12:00 PM

GAO RFID launched a parking control management system that uses RFID technology, automatic control technology and applications software to collect the...

College studies RFID in warehouse environments

Mar 1, 2007 12:00 PM

Stratum Global and Intermec jointly established an RFID program at Oakton Community College in Des Plaines, Ill. The program, focused on providing students...

Articles

Read it on the Web

Mar 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Mark Hickey

To better serve our rapidly growing e-audience, we've rebuilt our Web site from the ground up, in the process creating a tremendously enhanced site capable...

In Hawkeye's dreams

Mar 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Glenn Bischoff

Like millions of Americans in the 1970s, I was a big fan of the television show . Given my teenage mentality at the time, I found the offbeat and often...

Get a clue about your inventory

Mar 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Phil Burks

Industry publications are awash with griping about 800 MHz rebanding actually, the lack of progress thus far and what to do about 700 MHz spectrum that...

Public/private partnership is needed

Mar 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Charles Werner

On Feb. 8, I testified before a Senate committee as a representative of the International Association of Fire Chiefs and APCO, to support the passage...

A glimpse of the future

Mar 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Glenn Bischoff

Conference offers look at trends, issues guaranteed to shape mobile communications...

FCC is fully engaged in rebanding

Mar 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Alan Tilles

The FCC has become more involved in helping resolve rebanding problems, releasing several public notices and orders that clarify certain aspects of the...

Products

Antenna boosts weak signals

Mar 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Donny Jackson

Enhances voice clarity and coverage, reduces dropped calls on demand...

VoIP console melds disparate protocols

Mar 1, 2007 11:00 AM, By Mary Rose Roberts

Radio and telephone console vendor Avtec (www.avtecinc.com) recently launched Scout, the company's voice over IP, or VoIP, console. Scout is comprised...

Atheros announces Bluetooth chip for PC market

Mar 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Donny Jackson

Atheros Communications announced the Atheros AR3011, a Bluetooth 2.1+Enhanced Data Rate, or EDR, solution for laptop and desktop PCs, according to the...

Products

Mar 1, 2007 12:00 PM

Multi-platform RFID device Salo, Finland-based Nordic ID launched the PL3000 UHF device, a hand-held computer with a long-range UHF RFID reader. It uses...

Spotlight: Two-way radios and accessories

Mar 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Mary Rose Roberts

Silynx Communications launched the QuietOps, a tactical communication headset built with noise-reduction technology. Silynx (www.silynxcom.com) develops...

New Airwave solution manages Wi-Fi, WiMAX and mesh

Mar 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Donny Jackson

Airwave Wireless announced version 5.0 of its wireless management software suite that expands its support for Wi-Fi networks to include management for...