Cover Story

Easier said than done

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

Figuring out how to make public/private partnerships work is beginning to resemble the splitting of the atom – a mind-numbing challenge with powerful implications...

First Word

A test of will

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

In September 2005, Sports Illustrated's Rick Reilly wrote a column about Bobby Martin, who was born without legs. Despite this formidable challenge, he...

Features

Biometrics--fact or science fiction?

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

Merging wireless devices with this technology is creating reliability, legal roadblocks...

MIMO's future becomes less certain

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

Wireless carriers are focusing on CDMA standard instead ...

The next phase of modulation

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

OFDM is emerging as the choice for high-bit-rate services...

The hope - and reality - of Project 25

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

Much anticipated transition would offer ample opportunities, but when, how?...

News

Feds ponder broadband future

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

Uncertainty reigns concerning Integrated Wireless Network, 700 MHz band ...

RFID privacy issues loom large

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

Despite security improvements, data is at risk...

L.A. uses wireless surveillance

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

Motorola systems catches perps, provides community services, builds trust...

Jockeying for TV white space continues

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

Wireless coalition, Motorola suggests similar, but technically different approaches...

Air Force deploys P25 radios

May 1, 2007 12:00 PM

The Mountain Home Air Force Base in Mountain Home, Idaho, home to the 366th Fighter Wing, deployed M/A-COM's P25IP VHF band radio communications system....

NextWave picks up IPWireless

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

Company pays $100 million, primarily to acquire TD-CDMA technology...

Rebanding participants: Give us blueprint

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

FCC asked to establish benchmarks for future progress...

Senate Committee seeks funding ideas for next-gen 911

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

Public-safety and industry experts told the Senate Commerce Committee last month that next-generation 911 technology will greatly enhance emergency response...

Kenwood to acquire Zetron

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

Tokyo-based Kenwood Corp., the parent of Kenwood USA, announced that it would purchase Redmond, Wash.-based Zetron Inc. Terms of the deal were not disclosed....

Power companies deploy mobile voice

May 1, 2007 12:00 PM

Carteret-Craven Electric (N.C.) and South Central Power Co. (Ohio) electric cooperatives are deploying Qualcomm's OmniTRACS mobile, two-way geostationary...

Shared Spectrum demonstrates cognitive radios

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

Shared Spectrum last month demonstrated its cognitive radio system developed for the military's neXt Generation, or XG, program at an IEEE symposium on...

Army invests in mobile satellite transceivers

May 1, 2007 12:00 PM

Comtech Telecommunications' Maryland-based subsidiary, Comtech Mobile Datacom Corp., received orders totaling $1.1 million from the U.S. Army for its...

xG Technology, Telefonica Mexicoto pursue joint venture

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

Florida-based technology upstart xG Technology has signed an exclusive agreement with Telefonica Mexico (Pegaso PCS S.A. de C.V.) that could result in...

S.C. agency deploys wireless chemical detectors

May 1, 2007 12:00 PM

San Jose-based RAE Systems, a developer of wireless chemical detectors, announced that the South Carolina Emergency Management Division (SC-EMD) has deployed...

FCC nixes idea of cell phones on planes for now

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

The FCC released an order terminating its proceeding to examine whether cellular phones could be used on board airplanes but acknowledged that the item...

Post Office adds to wireless tracking system

May 1, 2007 12:00 PM

Hackensack, N.J.-based I.D. Systems received orders from the U.S. Postal Service to deploy the company's Wireless Asset Net management system to wirelessly...

View from the Top

Time is not a constant

May 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Robert H. Schwaninger Jr.

During the 800 MHz rebanding exercise, all willing and unwilling participants are reminded each day that time is not a constant. Although this statement...

First Response

IP is not public safety's silver bullet

May 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Harlin McEwen

Many of us who attended IWCE 2007 in Las Vegas in March were bombarded by presentations and products that proclaimed IP as the solution to all of public...

Products

Chip enables smaller RFID reader

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

Longer term, breakthrough is expected to cut prices in half...

Motorola launches PDA

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

MC35 aimed at the enterprise market...

Interoperability software

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

CoCo Communications (www.cococorp.com) officials said that version 4.0 of the company's Communicator software-driven networking protocol and application...

Analyst: Pricing pressures will affect RF power amplifier market

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

Radio frequency power amplifiers are an integral part of all communication base stations and are one of the most expensive component sub-assemblies in...

Products

May 1, 2007 12:00 PM

Four-channel combiner dbSpectra introduced the HC10500-04J, a four-channel combiner that operates from 150 MHz to 174 MHz. The combiner incorporates four...

Low-cost bench analyzers

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

Anritsu (www.anritsu.com) launched a line of spectrum analyzers that the company is billing as an economic alternative for bench testing microwave components,...

P25 radio, satellite-backhaul system

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

M/A-COM (www.macom-wireless.com) introduced the P5400, a P25 radio that is among the smallest in the industry for a public-safety-grade LMR device, said...

Small, lightweight Class A radio

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

RELM Wireless (www.relm.com) plans to introduce this summer the smallest, lightest Class A spec radio on the market, said Dave Storey, the company's president....

Emergency crisis response service

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

Cisco (www.cisco.com) and IBM (www.ibm.com) recently collaborated on an emergency response service that mixes consultancy services with rugged voice and...

Final Word

Refarming effort needs a boost

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

It is difficult to write this column during the week of the Virginia Tech tragedy. I am certain that the coming weeks and months will reveal information...