Through the looking glass 

By: By Jim Barthold

Wireless video gives emergency room doctors a vital head start on treatment...

Turning the corner 

By: An MRT Staff Report

Without question, 2008 will be the year of answers for the urgent-communications sector, as the future for key technologies, initiatives, entities and players finally will crystallize...

700 MHz broadband effort gains clarity 

By: By Donny Jackson & Glenn Bischoff

PSST named as public-safety licensee, outlines sector's expectations...

Meru to test, certify WLAN video-surveillance products 

By: By Mary Rose Roberts

Meru Networks announced its Video Unplugged Program, a video over wireless LAN partner program that tests and certifies multivendor video products...

Path to safer roads takes positive turn 

By: By Lynnette Luna

Technologies are emerging that could reduce congestion and prevent fatal accidents...

Firetide deploys Chicago video-surveillance network 

By: By Donny Jackson

Wireless networking vendor Firetide has completed the first deployment phase of a network that is part of the city of Chicago's Operation Virtual Shield,...

Broadcom chip supports video apps 

By: By Donny Jackson & Mary Rose Roberts

Speedy 802.11n device integrates controller, radio and power amplifier...

FCC sets E911 deadlines 

By: By Mary Rose Roberts

Benchmarks include location accuracy at PSAP level...

M2Z Networks files suit to overturn FCC ruling 

By: 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...

First responders expand data reach 

By: By Merrill Douglas

PDAs, smart phones offer portable acces to advanced applications...

Wireless to the rescue 

By: By Mary Rose Roberts

Systems performed well after Minn. bridge collapse; could sensors have prevented tragedy?...

Rosum passes E911 compliance tests 

By: By Donny Jackson

Location-technology vendor Rosum announced that independent test results indicate that the company's hybrid positioning technology, which combines television and global positioning system (GPS) signals, complies with the FCC's Phase II E911 specifications for handset-based solution even in indoor settings...

Multipath data technology receives commercialization grant 

By: By Donny Jackson

Attila Technologies announced it has been awarded a $100,000 grant from the New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology that will help fund the commercialization of the startup company's adaptive-radio technology...

Miss. picks Motorola for new network 

By: By Doug Mohney

Statewide network is expected to be compatible with those in adjoining states...

The other side of the story 

By: By James Careless

Video surveillance is a vital crime-fighting tool--but it comes with challenges...