K.C. police deploy Compudyne CAD system 

The Kansas City (Mo.) Police Department recently announced it has deployed a computer-aided dispatch system developed by Compudyne’s Tiburon division...

DOD radio system allegedly overpowers garage-door openers 

A two-way radio system is being deployed by the Department of Defense at military bases across the country that allegedly is jamming garage-door openers in the affected area, according to the Chicago Sun-Times...

Chicago fire department field-tests handhelds 

The Chicago Fire Department currently is field-testing handheld mobile computers that are capable of providing incident commanders with layouts and floor plans of buildings and hazardous materials sites while in route to a scene, the Chicago Sun-Times reported...

Nextel, Zetron combine on interoperability solution 

Nextel and Zetron recently announced a solution that enables dispatchers using Zetron’s Series 4000 radio dispatch console to connect users of private land mobile radio systems to users of Nextel’s nationwide Direct Connect or Group Connect push-to-talk services...

IPMobileNet launches Wi-Fi backhaul system 

IPMobileNet said yesterday that it had launched IP XpressNet, an 801.11-based mesh network that provides backhaul and mobile data user access to LANs, WANs and other IP-based networks...

Digital Dispatch adds public data network support to dispatch software 

Digital Dispatch Systems this week announced the launch of PathFinder 3.05, the latest version of its dispatch software suite that now provides support for public data networks...

Report: Minnesota county plans new radio dispatch center 

The Ramsey County (Minn.) Board plans to build a new radio dispatch center at a cost of about $2.5 million, the St. Paul Pioneer Press reported...

Report: Army awards Harris contracts exceeding $30 million 

Harris Corp. has won contracts from the U.S. Army worth more than $30 million to deliver its AN/PRC-117F man-pack and vehicular multi-band, multi-mission radios, the Rochester (N.Y.) Business Journal reported...

Florida airport deploys wide-area Wi-Fi network 

Systems integrator TEACO has installed a wide-area Wi-Fi network developed by BelAir Networks at Southwest Florida International Airport in Fort Myers, Fla...

Raceway deploys wireless broadband network 

Racing Radios, which specializes in designing and installing wireless communications networks at automobile racetracks, recently deployed a wireless broadband network at the Atlanta Motor Speedway using equipment from Motorola and Tropos Networks...

Public safety praises Nextel, Verizon Wireless truce 

By: By Donny Jackson

Public-safety officials reacted happily to yesterday’s announcement that Nextel and Verizon Wireless have settled their legal differences, which included Verizon dropping its objections to the FCC’s 800 MHz rebanding order, believing that the settlement clears the way for rebanding to begin...

New Jersey transit police deploys mobile wireless database application  

BIO-key International announced that the N.J. Transit Police has deployed the company’s PacketCluster Patrol software application ...

Raytheon, Nextel partner on P2T interoperability solution  

Nextel Communications and Raytheon JPS Communications said they would jointly develop a patch that would enable users of Nextel’s Direct Connect push-to-talk service to interconnect to land mobile radio systems ...

Thales announces role in JTRS radio development 

Thales announced it is a core member of the General Dynamics JTRS Cluster 5 team that has been awarded a $295 million contract by the U.S. Army to develop small, lightweight software-defined radios for use by all branches of the U.S. Armed Forces...

Airspan partners with picoChip on WiMAX base-station upgrade strategy 

Airspan Networks picoChip announced the two companies would jointly develop upgradeable reference designs for WiMAX base stations...