MicroTRAK inks marketing deal with Platinum Wireless  

Dallas-based telematics firm MicroTRAK today announced an agreement with Platinum Wireless, a Nextel national authorized representative, to market MicroTRAK’s SlimTRAK to provide location information for any GPS-enabled Nextel phone...

Terabeam pays $28 million for Proxim 

Wireless broadband equipment vendor Terabeam Wireless yesterday agreed to buy substantially all the assets of Proxim for $28 million in a deal that is expected to close next week...

RELM awarded contract from USPS 

RELM Wireless Corp. has coupled with the United States Postal Service to offer two-way portable radios and accessories to offices throughout the U.S. ...

Mobile Satellite Ventures releases spectrum white paper 

Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) recently released a white paper that examined the challenge of developing a next generation public-safety communications networks....

Nextel, Sprint shareholders OK merger 

Shareholders for both Sprint and Nextel Communications yesterday approved the proposed merger that will create the third-largest wireless carrier in the United States...

Vectron Energy turns to automatic meter reading  

Vectron Energy Delivery of Ohio will deploy an additional 60,000 automatic meter reading (AMR) modules manufactured by Itron by first quarter 2006, bringing to 115,000 the total number of gas meters in the utility’s footprint that can be remotely read. ...

Zetron intros paging terminal  

Zetronlaunched the Model 2700 Message Gateway, a paging terminal that uses a Microsoft Windows operating system and which can accommodate up to 1 million subscribers in a single chassis, the company said...

Midian intros FleetSync-compatible display decoders  

Midian Electronics introduced the DDU-600 and CAD-600 display decoders that are compatible with Kenwood’s FleetSync messaging protocol...

Aeroflex submits HSDPA test case for review 

Aeroflex announced it has submitted its high-speed downlink packet access (HSPDA) conformance test case for approval to the 3GPP RAN5 Working Group...

Klein unveils two-way radio  

Klein Electronics introduced the Blackbox Professional two-way radio targeted to the military and public-safety sectors...

Sprint launches EV-DO wireless data service 

Sprint today announced it will provide mobile Internet access in at least 60 U.S. metropolitan areas by early 2006 via CDMA EV-DO (evolution data optimized) networks....

Verizon Wireless launches 3G service in Seattle, San Antonio 

Verizon Wireless this week announced it is offering high-speed Internet access over its new CDMA EV-DO network in Seattle after launching similar services last week in San Antonio...

NENA launches nationwide TTY testing program 

The National Emergency Number Association, in conjunction with telecom testing company TelecomXchange International, has developed a system, known as TTY-PASS, to ensure that equipment used by 911 centers to communicate with deaf or hearing-impaired callers is accurately working...

Atmel, u-blox debut GPS signal tracking technology 

Atmel and u-blox AG recently introduced Supersense, a new GPS weak-signal-tracking technology, supporting Atmel’s ANTARIS GPS chipsets and GPS modules from u-blox...

Itron to automate meters at Piedmont Natural Gas 

Itron recently collaborated with Piedmont Natural Gas Co. to automate data collection from 945,000 natural gas meters for the Charlotte, N.C.-based utility...