iPass users now access Wi-Fi at McDonald’s  

iPass and enterprise-mobility management company Wayport have expanded its relationship by providing iPass users with access to Wi-Fi in more than 7500 McDonald’s restaurants across the United States. ...

Detention facility uses RFID to track juveniles  

Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Alanco Technologies will provide a Wi-Fi compatible, RFID inmate-tracking system for the Indianapolis, Ind.-based Marion County Juvenile Detention Center. ...

Radio IP announces new customers  

Radio IP Software has signed a series of new customers in the mobile government and utility markets including Semco Energy Gas Co., ...

U.S. Navy invests in onboard wireless platform  

Secure wireless networking provider Fortress Technologies has been awarded a contract by General Dynamics NASSCO, a subsidiary of General Dynamics, to implement secure wireless communications ...

Nokia and T-Mobile team up on 3G  

Nokia signed a contract with T-Mobile USA to supply third-generation wireless equipment and services to support T-Mobile’s WCDMA 3G rollout in the U.S...

University health system sends sonographs wirelessly  

Toronto’s University Health Network and Mount Sinai Hospital have deployed SonoSite’s MicroMaxx system across three emergency rooms. ...

Commercial contract for TETRA PDAs announced  

Motorola announced it has signed a contract with Airwave O2 Limited to supply Motorola MTC100 PDAs that operate on TETRA networks. ...

Florida Highway Patrol chooses IP system  

IP-based dispatch and interoperability solution provider Catalyst Communications Technologies has installed its IPRadio, Network Access Radio and IPLink products ...

Dallas officials invest in interoperability  

McLean, Va.-based CoCo Communications landed a multiyear contract with the city of Dallas for the deployment of interoperable, public-safety software. ...

Partnership promises enhanced data security  

Siemens Communications announced it has integrated its HiPath Wireless Manager with Microsoft’s Network Access Protection platform. ...

Calif. high school district gets wireless connectivity  

The Encinitas, Calif.-based San Dieguito Union High School District chose Aruba Networks to build a wireless networking system for its K-12 campuses. ...

Wi-Fi Alliance certifies access points  

Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Meru Networks announced its Access Point 200 Series products for 802.11x and WPA2 interoperability have been re-certified by the Wi-Fi Alliance. ...

Portland to go wireless  

Microsoft will partner with MetroFi to build free, wireless Internet services for city of Portland, Ore. ...

RF Micro Devices launches GPS solutions  

Greensboro, N.C.-based RF Micro Devices released samples of its RF8110 GPS solution, which combines a radio-frequency integrated circuit and software to deliver GPS technology to next-generation devices. ...

Snapdragon promises universal mobility  

Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon platform, built for universal mobility for next-generation electronics. At the core of the technology is the Scorpion 1 GHz microprocessor ...

Grants let academics study wireless tools for the disabled  

Georgia Tech’s Center for Advanced Communications Policy and the Shepherd Center, a catastrophic care hospital in Atlanta, have been awarded a $4.75 million Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center grant for wireless technologies aimed at enhancing the lives of people with disabilities...

Louisiana State Police invest $5 million in wireless broadband network  

ERF Wireless, a provider of encrypted wireless networks for the banking industry, has entered into an agreement with the Louisiana State Police to construct a $5 million statewide, wireless broadband network...

Tire company purchases RFID system to track assets  

Hackensack, N.J.-based ID Systems announced Canadian Tire Retail—a hard goods retailer that operates 462 stores—will deploy its Wireless Asset Net industrial vehicle management system...

Fla. city gets wireless coverage  

WPCS International’s subsidiary Southeastern Communication Service has been selected to design and deploy a wireless, public-safety network throughout the city of Cape Coral, Florida....

Firetide lands Singapore Wi-Fi contract  

The Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore awarded Firetide partner iCell Network a contract to build the eastern portion of the island’s nationwide Wi-Fi initiative...

System lets doctors wirelessly monitor heart patients’ conditions  

Boston Scientific’s Latitude Patient Management system is an FDA-approved product for wireless home monitoring of a patient’s heart condition, implanted device, blood pressure and weight. ...

Aeroflex unveils EvDO Rev. A signaling conformance solution  

Aeroflex announced it is offering an EvDO Rev. A signaling conformance solution following the delivery of an automated C.S0038-A-compliant suite of test cases for its 6402 CDMA AIME network emulator. ...

Symbol releases v3 of its wireless switch  

Symbol Technologies unveiled v3 of its WS5100 wireless switch based on its Wireless Next Generation architecture. ...

V2 solution lets enterprises manage data access  

Juniper Networks unveiled the Unified Access Control 2.0 solution, which helps enterprises manage users’ access to business assets from network endpoints. ...

Children’s hospital installs wireless system  

Enterprise wireless vendor MobileAccess Networks announced that its Universal Wireless Network has been installed by The Children’s Hospital in Aurora, Colo. ...