Publisher's Letter

Let's get to it

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

There is a lot to be said about the American Experience even given its imperfections. The ability of Americans to innovate, develop and achieve great...

First Word

Fantasy, meet reality

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

The passion I have for baseball was instilled in me by my father. Beginning when I was a pre-schooler and continuing until I left home for good in my...

News

All crazy on the 700 MHz front

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

Flurry of activity generates more questions than answers...

Service fleet deploys wireless tracking devices

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

Wireless Matrix signed a two-year agreement with the Kaufman, Texas-based Trinity Valley Electric Cooperative to provide mobile resource management services...

Task group proposes standard channel-naming

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

A National Public Safety Telecommunications Council, or NPSTC, task group examining the channel-naming recommendations of the national coordination committee...

Rebanding effort gets a Band-Aid

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

Subscriber-deployment program not enough to offset negotiation delays...

xG Technology defies its critics

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

Company deploys first networks capable of delivering mobile VoIP...

Shoe company integrates RFID into product line

Apr 1, 2007 12:00 PM

Checkpoint Systems will provide Germany-based shoe company Reno GmbH with radio frequency identification tags and store-tagging systems. According to...

IPC acquires public-safety products portfolio

Apr 1, 2007 12:00 PM

New York-based IPC acquired public-safety solutions provider Positron Public Safety Systems. IPC now will offer CAD and records management systems, E911...

HID protects its turf

Apr 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Doug Mohney

RFID security presentation sparks brouhaha...

Wisconsin State Patrol tests P25 channel controller

Apr 1, 2007 12:00 PM

The Wisconsin State Patrol recently began testing Raytheon JPS Communications' Project 25 channel controller, developed by Etherstack. The controller...

RFID tags used to study wasps

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

Scientists who study animal behavior at the nonprofit Zoological Society of London, or ZSL, have been tracking the habits of Panama's paper wasp by using...

Transportation Department purchases digital sensor network

Apr 1, 2007 12:00 PM

Traffic.com announced an agreement with the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) for the installation of the company's digital sensor network...

Clearwire IPO raises $600 million

Apr 1, 2007 12:00 PM

Wireless broadband provider Clearwire raised $600 million through a much-anticipated IPO that is expected to help finance the company's capital-expansion...

IBM to design citywide wireless system

Apr 1, 2007 12:00 PM

The city of Brownsville, Texas, hired IBM under a $4 million agreement to help design an enterprise-modernization project that will provide city departments...

Automaker invests in RFID

Apr 1, 2007 12:00 PM

I.D. Systems' Wireless Asset Net RFID-based wireless asset-tracking and management solution will be deployed at DaimlerChrysler facilities in Ohio and...

Texas city to deploy wireless mesh network

Apr 1, 2007 12:00 PM

Cisco Systems announced that the city of El Paso, Texas, is deploying its wireless mesh solution for an outdoor wireless network. The new network will...

FCC chairman names bureau chief

Apr 1, 2007 12:00 PM

FCC Chairman Kevin J. Martin announced his intention to appoint Derek Poarch as the FCC's Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau Chief. Poarch, a...

Harris receives multimillion dollar military contracts

Apr 1, 2007 12:00 PM

Harris Corp. received a four-year, $33.5 million contract from ViaSat, Inc. The contract is for additional hardware used in Multifunctional Information...

Baseball team uses wireless pedometer

Apr 1, 2007 12:00 PM

Boston Red Sox players this spring are toting a small, wireless pedometer called the ActiPed from FitSense Technology. The pedometer tracks steps, burned...

RELM receives secure encryption validation

Apr 1, 2007 12:00 PM

RELM Wireless received a Federal Information Processing Standards [FIPS] 140-2 validation from the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The...

Provigent raises $16 million in funding round

Apr 1, 2007 12:00 PM

System-on-a-chip vendor Provigent announced a $16 million fourth round of financing that will fund the company until it becomes profitable, according...

RFID tag sales expected to reach 1.7 billion in 2007

Apr 1, 2007 12:00 PM

Market research firm IDTechEx projected that more than 1.7 billion RFID tags will be sold in 2007. By year-end, the total RFID global market value including...

DoD awards $6.7 million contract

Apr 1, 2007 12:00 PM

EFJ's subsidiary EFJohnson received a $6.7 million contract from the Department of Defense for its Project 25-compliant radio accessories. The contract...

LGS awarded interoperability contract

Apr 1, 2007 12:00 PM

LGS, an Alcatel-Lucent subsidiary, was awarded a regional wireless broadband network equipment contract by the District of Columbia as part of the National...

Cyren Call makes its business case

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

Without the coveted 700 MHz airwaves slated for auction, the numbers don’t add up ...

View From the Top

Accept no substitutes

Apr 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By David P. Storey

On March 1, after the terrible tornado hit Enterprise, Ala., emergency response communications were in chaos, according to reports from the Associated...

In the Works

Moving to the front of the pack

Apr 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Lynnette Luna

In mobile broadband, OFDM is fast becoming the ‘gold standard’...

In the Field

Interference mitigation still confusing

Apr 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Lynnette Luna

Emerging handset and base station solutions each offer distinct pros and cons...

Tech Speak

Well-grounded principles

Apr 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Jay M. Jacobsmeyer, P.E.

Follow these guidelines to eliminate lighting damage...

The key to RF signal amplifier specs

Apr 1, 2007 12:00 PM

A primer on using one of the radio shop’s most useful and versatile tools...

Enterprise

Pulling the plug on the cable jumble

Apr 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Doug Mohney

Ultrawideband brings needed mobility to the enterprise sector...

A new economic theory

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

Colleges leverage text messaging to deliver vital alerts – and generate cash...

Public Safety

It's wild out there

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

A wireless network offers a window into the life in Southern California’s backcountry...

Cooperation gets more than lip service

Apr 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Merrill Douglas

Virginia counties join forces to deploy interoperable regional system...

IWCE 2007

The path to staying better connected

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

Device connects IP telephony systems, land mobile radios...

Cover Story

The new ice age

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

Cryogenically cooled chips promise to deliver long-sought frequency agility, reduced power consumption and increased bandwidth – and a pathway to cognitive radio. ...

Products

HP gets the word out

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

IPAQ 510 Voice Messenger is the latest smartphone option...

RIM unveils the BlackBerry 8800

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

Research and Motion recently released its newest hand-held enterprise tool the BlackBerry 8800 smartphone, a quad-band, GPS device that operates on Rogers...

Products

Apr 1, 2007 12:00 PM

Passive intermodulation analyzers Summitek Instruments has upgraded the hardware design of its passive intermodulation analyzers, used to test radio-frequency...

An alternate to RFID

Apr 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Dave Plank

The gripes about traditional radio frequency identification have become well known: It doesn't work well around water; it doesn't work well for tracking...

Final Word

Batten down the hatches

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

The tidal wave that you're hearing is not the son of Katrina. Rather, it is the cresting of rebanding waves crashing together. The protracted negotiations...