New York rail line invests in routers, modem kits  

Parvus received a $728,800 contract from the New York State Metropolitan Transportation Agency’s Metro-North Railroad ...

Carmaker chooses wireless fleet management system  

Hackensack, N.J.-based I.D. Systems recently announced that Nissan North America would deploy the company’s Wireless Asset Net vehicle management system ...

Report: Aerospace and defense RFID market to reach $2 billion by 2011  

ABI Research this week said in a report that the market for radio-frequency identification (RFID) solutions deployed by aerospace and defense companies will exceed $2 billion by 2011...

RF vector signal analyzer unveiled  

Keithley Instruments this week introduced the Model 2180 RF vector signal analyzer for the automated testing of wireless devices and transmitter circuits in production test environments...

R&D agreement for DoD emergency response network  

Reston, Va.-based 4G integrated wireless network developer TerreStar Networks this week announced it has entered into a research-and-development agreement with the Department of Defense...

Army awards $92 million logistics support contract  

IT and network solutions vendor CACI International recently announced a $91.7 million contract from the U.S. Army to provide logistics support ...

RFID pilot project launched  

EPCglobal, which is working to develop Electronic Product Code standards that support the use of radio frequency identification (RFID) technologies...

Vehicle-tracking solution for car dealers unveiled  

MyDealerLot this week introduced a Web-based Wi-Fi solution that uses radio frequency identification technology ...

Companies partner to deliver family of wireless modules  

Cypress Semiconductor and Unigen collaborated on a new family of wireless modules based on a 2.4 GHz wireless USB LP radio system-on-a-chip from Cypress. ...

NetLogix lands municipal wireless contract  

Maywood, Calif., officials announced NetLogix will design, build and manage a municipal, wireless network for the city. ...

Glucose-sensing RFID microchip gets U.S. patent  

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office awarded Digital Angel a patent for its syringe-implantable, glucose-sensing passive RFID microchip. ...

Wireless Matrix unveils mobile base station  

Wireless Matrix introduced the Terrestrial Mobile Base Station 2, a GPRS- and EDGE-enabled communicator for mobile-resource management and vehicle-fleet applications. ...

South Carolina energy provider deploys WLAN  

Santee Electric Cooperative, a South Carolina-based energy provider, has deployed Extreme Networks’ Summit WM wireless LAN solution ...

Broadcom announces new line of WLAN solutions  

Broadcom launched a family of ultra-low-power 54g WLAN solutions for Wi-Fi connectivity in mobile devices. ...

Third-generation WLAN promises anywhere communications  

NEC Unified Solutions unveiled the Univerge Assured Mobility solution. The solution uses the company’s wireless optimized architecture, a third-generation WLAN...

Hawaiian earthquake doesn’t shake police communications  

All police radio and voice communications were routed over Catalyst Communications Technologies’ system during the Oct. 15 Hawaiian earthquake. ...

Energy company moves from private radio to national network 

Akron, Ohio-based energy company FirstEnergy will use Sprint Nextel for voice services, specifically Direct Connect, as it moves from a private radio network to the Nextel National Network...

Municipal network trial set for Israeli city 

Nortel announced it will launch a yearlong, municipal, wireless mesh network trial in Ariel, Israel, to support the city’s surveillance needs and economic development...

U.S. Army spends $36 million for multi-band radios 

Raytheon landed a $36 million contract to supply the U.S. Army with 746 multi-band, multi-mission radios. The radio is used as a satellite system for enhanced voice and data for beyond-line-of-site communications...

Atheros joins FON craze  

Atheros Communications announced its AR5006AP-G 802.11b/g router solution will be used in FON’s routers. ...

IP Wireless announces 700 MHz-based solutions  

IP Wireless unveiled its 700 MHz band public-safety solution. The UMTS TD-CDMA-based solution operates in all 700 MHz ...

Boston chooses vendor for WiFi project  

Charys Holding Co. subsidiary Charys Technology Group has been selected to build and operate Boston’s wireless broadband network as part of the city’s WiFi project. ...

TETRA IP-based switch hits market  

Motorola released Dimetra IP Compact, an IP-based switch for Terrestrial Trunked Radio private network customers. ...

WJ unveils RFID chipset  

WJ Communications has developed the WJC200, a RFID UHF silicon reader chipset. It meets ECPglobal, Gen2 ISO 18000-6C ...

Intermec releases reusable RFID tag  

Intermec introduced the Small Rigid Tag, a reusable RFID tag build for harsh industrial applications. ...