NENA wants coordinated NG911 effort 

By Glenn Bischoff

The National Emergency Number Association, or NENA, recently launched an initiative that the organization hopes will ensure a coordinated and managed...

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...

South Carolina energy provider deploys WLAN 

Santee Electric Cooperative, a South Carolina-based energy provider, has deployed Extreme Networks' Summit WM wireless LAN solution and Altitude 350 access...

Wireless sensor system guides urban firefighters 

By Mary Rose Roberts

Mechanical Engineering Department students at the University of California, Berkeley, teamed with the Chicago Fire Department on Fire Information and...

Cisco makes interoperability platform mobile 

By Donny Jackson

Cisco Systems introduced a mobile version of its IP Interoperability and Collaboration System, or IPICS, at the International Association of Chiefs of...

iPass secures the enterprise 

By Donny Jackson

IPass announced the availability of Virtual Office and Device Lockdown solutions as part of the company's effort to provide enterprises with a unified...

Cognitive radio could be reality by 2010 

By Donny Jackson

FCC officials are preparing for much-anticipated cognitive radio products being available during the next three years, a Motorola official said during...

Map-driven CAD system promises simplification 

By Mary Rose Roberts

IPC unveiled the IQ/CAD, a map-driven dispatch system that promises a simplified user interface. Angela Landess, IPC's product manager, said the solution's...

Hot spots must find a way to co-exist 

By Alan Tilles

In October 2003, I gave a presentation at a Wireless Airport Association meeting in which I stated that airports' shared wireless systems were a wonderful...

Finding new selling points is elementary 

By Paul A. Wardner

Many land mobile radio dealers today wonder, What's next? in terms of sales and business opportunities. With cell phones and digital communications becoming...

Montana police department deploys mobile data solution 

The Whitefish, Mont., police department has deployed BIO-key International's MobileCop, a law-enforcement mobile data software application. The application...

700 MHz speculation heats up 

By Donny Jackson

Just a year ago, public safety was uncertain when it could access 700 MHz spectrum, whether broadband fit into its communications plans and how such a...

Army depot invests in active RFID technology 

Pennsylvania-based Tobyhanna Army Depot has expanded its use of Where-Net's active RFID, real-time locating system technology to streamline the repair...

Professor might have solved SDR 

By Lynnette Luna

Charles Bostian, a professor at Virginia Tech University in Blackburn, Va., is leading a team in developing software-defined radios, or SDRs, based on...

Donahue to leave Sprint Nextel 

Sprint Nextel Executive Chairman Tim Donahue will retire effective Dec. 31, and former Liberty Media President and CEO Robert Bennett has been appointed...