InnerWireless announces hospital location system 

By Donny Jackson

InnerWireless announced its development of a new, 802.15.4-based RF Location System (RFLS) that will let hospitals and medical facilities efficiently track key assets, including patients, personnel and equipment...

xG Technology demo uses lower power 

By Donny Jackson

FORT LAUDERDALE--Communications firm xG Technology yesterday conducted another wireless line-of-site demonstration of its xMAX solution here, transmitting a 3.5 MB/s data stream a distance of 18 miles using less than 36 milliwatts of power using 10 MHz of unlicensed spectrum in the ISM 900 MHz band...

XG Technology conducts first public demonstration of xMAX 

By Donny Jackson

For the first time, Florida-based xG Technology yesterday demonstrated its xMAX platform to a group of industry observers, delivering a data stream equivalent to full-motion MPEG-2 video with stereo sound 18 miles using just 50 milliwatts of power...

Sprint Nextel, cable operators announce joint venture 

By Donny Jackson

Sprint Nextel and a consortium of cable companies yesterday announced a joint venture that will let them offer a “quad play” of integrated voice, video, data and wireless communications during the first half of next year...

New Mexico city’s Wi-Fi network completed 

Wireless services firm Azulstar Networks yesterday announced completion of its 40-square-mile contiguous Wi-Fi network for the city of Rio Rancho, N.M....

Motorola, Intel to work on mobile WiMAX 

Motorola and Intel yesterday announced plans to jointly help develop a standard for 802.16e, a proposed WiMAX standard that is designed to enable mobile applications...

CML lands Montana 911 deal 

By Donny Jackson

Emergency communications systems provider CML Emergency Services today announced an agreement to provide equipment to public-safety answering points (PSAPs) throughout the state of Montana...

Vancouver taxi company deploys next-gen dispatch solution 

Richmond, B.C.-based Digital Dispatch announced that Yellow Cab Company of Vancouver will deploy its next-generation dispatch solution that consists of the company’s iPilot 8000 mobile computers and the PathFinder dispatch application...

Virginia city launches city-wide BPL network 

Communications Technologies (COMTek) announced that it has deployed a city-wide broadband-over-powerline network in Manassas, Va....

Avtec, Trident partner on digital trunked radio interface 

By Glenn Bischoff

Dispatch system vendor Avtec Inc. and Trident Micro Systems will announce a jointly developed digital interface that connects Trident’s NTS solution and Avtec’s DSPatch and DSPatchNET console communications systems during next week’s Enterprise Wireless show in Nashville, Tenn....

AT&T offers plan for nomadic VoIP 911 

By Donny Jackson

AT&T has submitted a proposal known as Heartbeat to the FCC that the company said is designed to help ensure that even nomadic customers of its CallVantage voice-over-IP service have updated address information when making 911 calls...

Radio IP secures patent 

Radio IP Software this week announced that it was awarded a U.S. patent for its suite of middleware technology as a gateway for wireless networking...

Consortium changes 802.11n landscape again 

By Donny Jackson

In yet another twist in the saga surrounding efforts to establish a next-generation 802.11 standard, a previously reported splinter group this week announced that it has the support of most key players in the industry...

Florida counties turn to CML for 911 solution 

By Donny Jackson

CML Emergency Services this week announced the deployment of a tri-county 911 system for Gulf, Franklin and Calhoun counties on Florida’s Gulf Coast...

Mapping application unveiled for Blackberrys 

MapQuest, Research in Motion-manufacturer of the Blackberry personal digital assistant-and Sprint Nextel jointly announced the availability of MapQuest’s “Find Me” location-based application on Blackberry 7520 handsets operating on Nextel’s national network...