Photron Technologies enters implementation phase for USM 

Photron Technologies yesterday announced that its Ultra Spectral Modulation (USM) technology is entering the final implementation stage, where the company hopes its solution will prove to be the first communications technology to deliver 100bps/Hz...

Mississippi tabs GSS for alert system 

By Donny Jackson

Mississippi emergency responders soon will be able to send text messages via an alert network utilizing FM radio signals built by Global Security Systems (GSS), the vendor announced this week...

Intrado forges ties with 911 location vendors 

By Donny Jackson

Leading 911 equipment and services provider Intrado yesterday announced agreements with three leading location-determination vendors—Rosum, S5 Wireless and Skyhook Wireless...

M/A-COM wins exclusive negotiating rights for Pa. public-safety deployment 

M/A-COM announced today that the York County (Pa.) Board of Commissioners has authorized the county's Department of Emergency Services to negotiate exclusively with the vendor for the deployment of a Project 25 simulcast public-safety radio system...

Philips demos plastic RFID chip 

Philips Research, a unit of Netherlands-based Philips Royal Electronics, announced the development of a 13.56 MHz radio frequency identification chip based entirely on plastic electronics...

IBM claims chipset boosts transmission speeds tenfold 

IBM recently announced the development of a small, low-cost Wi-Fi chipset that the company said would allow wireless devices to receive and transmit signals up to 10 times faster than current Wi-Fi networks...

SDR Forum taps vendor for reference waveform 

The Software Defined Radio Forum has selected Chelmsford, Mass.-based Mercury Computer Systems to develop a reference waveform for the military’s Software Communications Architecture...

Virginia city field tests SquareLoop messaging system 

The city of Manassas, Va., has begun a beta test of SquareLoop’s location-based messaging system...

IPC to buy CAD vendor 

IPC Information Systems, which provides mission-critical communications systems to the public-safety, government, utility and transportation sectors, announced that it has entered into an agreement to purchase Geo911...

Tropos in deal to deliver metro-scale Wi-Fi across Europe 

Mesh network system developer Tropos Networks announced that it has entered into an agreement with hot spot provider The Cloud...

Hitachi claims smallest RFID chip 

Hitachi recently announced the development of a radio frequency identification (RFID) chip that the company said is the thinnest and smallest such chip in the world, measuring 0.15 x 0.15 millimeters and 7.5 micrometers thick...

Atheros teams with Qualcomm for cellular/Wi-Fi solution 

By DOnny Jackson

California-based Atheros Communications and CDMA giant Qualcomm this week are demonstrating interoperability between their chipsets as they pursue an integrated cellular/Wi-Fi solution that can be used on most 3G networks, including WCDMA and CDMA EV/DO...

M-A/COM wins $8.9 million Las Vegas police contract 

M-A/COM today announced that the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department has awarded the company an $8.9 million contract to deploy an IP-based 700/800 MHz OpenSky wireless voice and data network...

StarChase in beta test with L.A. police department 

StarChase recently announced that it signed a letter of intent with the Los Angeles Police Department to beta-test its vehicle tagging and tracking solution...

Radio vendor lands $7.8 million transit contract 

Communications International announced that the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) has awarded the company a $7.8 million contract install and test the agency’s new 800 MHz EDACS radio system manufactured by M-A/COM...