First Word

Look, Ma, more hands

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

I try not to have too many rules regarding how I live my life. It's not that rules are bad. It's just that I have a difficult time following them, so I tend to prefer guidelines...

News

FCC changes 800 MHz rebanding course

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

New rules establish progress benchmarks but not extension...

Etherstack announces investment agreement

Oct 1, 2007 12:00 PM

Etherstack Ltd. announced a strategic investment and technology advancement agreement with In-Q-Tel...

National Guard uses RFID to track assets

Oct 1, 2007 12:00 PM

WebTech Wireless, a provider of location-based and fleet telematics services, supplied the Texas National Guard with its wireless Quadrant solution...

Parties prep for 700 MHz auction

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

Bids begin early next year, following completion of mandated tasks...

xG Technology hits a speedbump

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

But company says it's still on track for promised introduction of 4G version in 2008...

FCC sets E911 deadlines

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

Benchmarks include location accuracy at PSAP level...

DoD awards $25 million contract

Oct 1, 2007 12:00 PM

The Department of Defense awarded TeleCommunication Systems a five-year, $25 million contract...

Amateur radio vet turns 100

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

On Sept. 19, amateur radio enthusiast Harry Mills celebrated his 100th birthday...

InterAct deploys E911 system

Oct 1, 2007 12:00 PM

InterAct Public Safety Systems has recently implemented 15 new mobile fire units at the Regional Fire Protection Authority in Victorville, Calif....

M2Z Networks files suit to overturn FCC ruling

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

M2Z Networks has asked a federal appeals court to reverse a recent FCC ruling that denied the fledgling company 20 MHz of 2.1 GHz spectrum needed to make its vision of offering a free, family-friendly broadband wireless service nationwide a reality...

Connecticut buys $1 million in equipment

Oct 1, 2007 12:00 PM

Connecticut Gov. M. Jodi Rell announced that the state is buying $1 million worth of new communications equipment...

South Carolina invests in wireless chemical detectors

Oct 1, 2007 12:00 PM

RAE Systems announced that the state of South Carolina has purchased 300 GammaRAEII wireless handheld radiation detectors...

Las Vegas PD deploys wireless inmate tracking

Oct 1, 2007 12:00 PM

The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department selected Omnilink Systems' advanced wireless offender monitoring solution...

Transit system installs wireless surveillance system

Oct 1, 2007 12:00 PM

Firetide, a developer of wireless-mesh networks, and Safety Vision, a digital-video mobile solutions provider, will provide wireless surveillance...

View from the Top

A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity

Oct 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Joe Ross

The FCC has released its Report and Order creating a public-private partnership between the 700 MHz D Block auction winner and the still-to-be-named Public-Safety Broadband Licensee, the entity that will manage public safety's 700 MHz interests...

First Response

FCC's E911 order is on the mark

Oct 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Jason Barbour

On Sept. 11 the FCC adopted a Report and Order clarifying that wireless carriers must meet FCC wireless E911 location accuracy requirements at the public-safety answering point level...

In the Works

The future is now ... almost

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

Affordable cognitive-radio types could be delivered within a year...

In the Field

A new way to fish

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

Unforeseen RFID vulnerabilities could reate massive headaches for the supply chain...

Tech Speak

Keeping secrets

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

The need for privacy spurs widespread use of cryptography in radio systems...

Public Safety

The cash grab begins

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

Interoperability grant money has administrators, potential recipients scrambling...

Policy

When time is a factor

Oct 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Marthin DeBeer

Policy engines enable instant communications between first responders...

Cover Story

It's not Panning out

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

Headlines across the country are heralding the implosion of the municipal Wi-Fi market as EarthLink, one of the service's largest backers, significantly...

Products

A better way to spy

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

IP-based video surveillance system operates over a wireless mesh network...

Distributed mesh system supports public-safety communications

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

MeshDynamics of Santa Clara, Calif., announced the addition of 4.9 GHz radio technology to its line of MD4000 Wi-Fi wireless-mesh nodes...

Terocelo: SDR chips will be ready for handsets next year

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

CMOS transceiver chips using Terocelo's patented True Software Radio technology will be available in about a year...

Solar-powered batteries

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

Solis Energy of Orlando, Fla., introduced its suite of solar-powered products ...

Cheaper Wi-Fi chip

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

Broadcom announced a new low-cost wireless LAN solution designed to let manufacturers build smaller, more affordable Wi-Fi products...

More products

Oct 1, 2007 12:00 PM

Spacenet of McLean, Va., introduced its mobile emergency communications vehicle for disaster recovery and first responders. Read about this and other products here...

Web site Showcase

Web site showcase

Oct 1, 2007 12:00 PM

Avtec is the forerunner in the development of radio and telephone communications console systems. read more about Avtec and others in our Website Showcase...

Final Word

FCC is well-meaning, but off base

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

Increasingly frustrated by the lack of rebanding progress, on Sept. 11 the FCC attempted to get serious about deadlines...