RFID badge for lead retrieval 

Lead-retrieval vendor Dietze Enterprises introduced the RFBadge, which is designed to let tradeshow exhibitors capture vital information from attendee badges without using cumbersome standard readers...

Agency joins Tucson mobile wireless data network 

The city of Tucson has purchased an upgradeable IP Series 32 private wireless data system from IPMobileNet...

Apptis, SmartLink land public-safety contract 

Apptis and SmartLink Radio Networks recently announced a $3 million contract from Solano County, Calif., to design and deploy an interoperable radio system...

TXU, Current team to create BPL “smart grid” 

By Donny Jackson

TXU Electric Delivery and broadband-over-powerline (BPL) vendor Current Communications today announced an agreement to transform TXU Electric Delivery’s network into a broadband-enabled “smart grid” designed to provide customers more reliable electricity and a last-mile broadband alternative...

Symbol, Vue to develop item-level RFID solutions 

By Glenn Bischoff

Symbol Technologies and Vue Technologies announced this week that the two companies would jointly develop integrated item-level radio frequency identification solutions for both the retailing and manufacturing sectors...

CML delivers Phase 2 system to Wisconsin PSAP 

CML Emergency Services said this week that it would deploy a system in Brown County, Wis., that would provide the county’s public-safety answering point with call-taking, ANI/ALI, mapping capabilities...

Atheros WLAN access point receives certification 

Atheros Communications recently announced that its AR5002AP-2X dual-band, concurrent wireless LAN access point reference design has been certified for Wi-Fi multimedia power save by the Wi-Fi Alliance...

NetMotion reports 183 new customers 

Seattle-based NetMotion Wireless yesterday announced it added 183 new customers during the first nine months of 2005, resulting in the company realizing 91% revenue growth compared to the same period in 2004...

Nokia, others announce near-field-communications trial Atlanta 

By Donny Jackson

Several key companies today announced a near-field-communications (NFC) trial that will let participating customers make contactless payments and access mobile content from their mobile phones at Philips Arena in Atlanta...

Wayne County opts for Codespear’s alert system 

By Donny Jackson

Michigan-based Codespear today announced that Wayne County, Mich., has selected its software to create emergency communications directly with the county’s residents, businesses and public-safety agencies...

North Carolina county uses 4.9 GHz with MotoMesh 

By Donny Jackson

Wake County, N.C., is transmitting video-surveillance information from three key venues in the county to headquarters and patrolling officers in what is the first announced deployment of the 4.9 GHz band using Motorola’s MotoMesh multiband radio solution...

Plant Equipment, CML to merge 

By Donny Jackson

PSAP equipment vendors Plant Equipment and CML Emergency Services today announced their intent to merge, creating a combined company with about 500 employees that will have an installed base of more than two-thirds of the U.S. public-safety market...

Bitwave announces programmable transceiver chip 

By Donny Jackson

Fabless semiconductor startup BitWave this week announced the development of the Softransceiver RFIC, a radio transceiver chip that can used to communicate with different wireless protocols and frequencies via software programming changes...

NTT DoCoMo CEO: 3G poised to take off in U.S. 

By Glenn Bischoff

NEW YORK--Recent consolidation among commercial wireless operators in the U.S. will set the stage for next-generation, or 3G, wireless networks to proliferate in the U.S., said Nobuharu Ono, president and CEO of NTT DoCoMo USA...

Sprint adds pictures to Nextel walkie-talkie services 

By Donny Jackson

Sprint recently announced the availability of Nextel Direct Send Picture service, which lets subscribers send and review a picture while on a Nextel walkie-talkie call without having to access a separate data service....