IEEE halts work on 802.20 standard 

By Lynnette Luna

In a fight that demonstrates just how high the stakes are for the mobile wireless broadband market, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers,...

Virginia county adopts MobileCop 

BIO-key announced that it has been awarded through its partner, Radio Communications in Glen Allen, Va. a contract by Brunswick County, Va., to provide...

A Battle Royale 

By Lunnette Luna

Intel engineer files statement alleging that the working group included 20 or more consultants who appeared to vote improperly as a block proposals for the standard were given short shrift compared with Qualcomm-based approaches ...

Digital Dispatch arms limo service with mobile computers 

Digital Dispatch landed a contract to provide iPilot 8000 mobile computers for the 400-car fleet of Town Car International of Long Island City, New York....

Washington utility chooses advanced metering system 

Manitoba Hydro, a Washington state energy provider to approximately 500,000 electric and 250,000 gas customers, will deploy Itron's newest OpenWay advanced...

Raytheon rakes in million-dollar contracts 

Raytheon has been awarded a five-year, $75 million contract for ongoing mission support for 300 satellite communications systems installed throughout...

Monitoring vital signs goes space-age 

By Mary Rose Roberts

Fire departments, professional football teams and U.S. Army researchers are choosing ingestible and wearable telemetric sensors to wirelessly monitor...

RFID tracks inventory at Air Force hospital 

Wilford Hall Medical Center at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, installed Mobile Aspects' iRISupply, a computerized inventory system that uses RFID to...

Ultrawideband spins it wheels 

By Lynnette Luna

When the FCC gave its blessing to unlicensed ultrawideband, or UWB, technology in 2002, it envisioned a plethora of potential uses, ranging from broadband...

L-3 lands $37M military contract 

L-3 Communications' Interstate Electronics Corp. subsidiary was awarded a $37 million contract for Phase I of the U.S. Air Force Modernized USER Equipment...

London's underground rail evaluates wireless system 

Canada-based Anvil Technologies and U.K.-based Primetech recently demonstrated its RECoN wireless communications product in the Aldwych tube station,...

Ad-hoc network research project awarded 

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency chose BAE Systems to develop a next-generation, wireless tactical network protocol for the U.S. military....

Winds of change 

By Lynnette Luna

Note to the public-safety community: Like it or not, commercial technology is coming to a jurisdiction near you. After years of shying away from targeting...

DOD contract includes RFID technologies 

ODIN Technologies chose Symbol Technologies to support its recent contract awarded from the U.S. Defense and Logistics Agency, a Department of Defense...

Childcare centers choose AT&T for wireless service 

AT&T secured an additional $1.3 million network integration project from the Learning Care Group, which is the parent company of Childtime and Tutor Time...