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...

Detroit uses MotoMesh system for Super Bowl 

By Donny Jackson

Detroit police monitored activity at Ford Field during last week’s Super Bowl via an event-management solution featuring a Motorola MotoMesh 4.9 GHz network at the site, Motorola announced this week...

Michigan tabs Codespear for alerting, interoperability 

By Donny Jackson

Michigan State Police’s emergency management division has chosen Codespear’s software as the platform for its statewide emergency-alert communications to emergency managers and first responders, Codespear announced today...

Motorola announces general availability of MotoMesh 

By Donny Jackson

Motorola today announced the general availability of its four-radio MotoMesh wireless broadband system and a deployment in Riviera Beach, Fla., focused on video surveillance with the purpose of helping a police department fight crime...

WiMAX Forum certifies first products 

The WiMAX Forum announced this week that it has designated several products as meeting the forum-defined certification profile established for 3.5 GHz systems...

Symbol unveils rugged, multi-mode enterprise-level handheld 

Symbol Technologies recently introduced the MC70 mobile computer, which the company billed as the first rugged “enterprise digital assistant” to combine cellular voice and data communications, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth...

Milwaukee chooses Midwest Fiber for Wi-Fi deal 

By Donny Jackson

Milwaukee Common Council members voted 14-1 this week to approve a $20 million deal with Midwest Fiber Networks to build and maintain a citywide, high-speed, wireless mesh network targeted toward the city’s consumers and enterprises, according to media reports...

IEEE supports EWC’s 802.11n proposal  

As expected, an IEEE task force yesterday unanimously voted in favor of the 802.11n draft standard offered last week by a joint-proposal team led by the Enhanced Wireless Consortium...

Colorado emergency call center selects NICE communications recorder 

Adams County Communications, based in Commerce City, Colo., will deploy a NICE Systems solution to record its emergency communications...

802.11n consensus sets stage for IEEE consideration next week 

By Donny Jackson

A joint proposal team developing proposals for the next-generation Wi-Fi standard—802.11n—yesterday voted unanimously to adopt the specification presented by the Enhanced Wireless Consortium, which is expected to be submitted to the IEEE next week...

Motorola’s BPL solution receives UL approval 

By Donny Jackson

Motorola’s Powerline LV modem this week received approval from Underwriters Laboratories (UL), meaning the vendor giant can begin shipping its broadband over power line (BPL) solution in the next month, company officials said...

Panel: SCADA systems at risk for intrusion attack 

By Glenn Bischoff

ORLANDO—A panel of public utility executives speaking at the Homeland Security for Networked Industries conference here agreed that remote monitoring and control systems, particularly SCADA systems, are vulnerable to intrusion attacks and should be protected more vigilantly...

New Orleans Wi-Fi network proves its worth 

By Glenn Bischoff

ORLANDO—The City of New Orleans plans to expand its Wi-Fi network after seeing how well it performed in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, said Chris Drake, operations manager for the city’s Emergency Operations Center...

Speaker: Choose security battles wisely 

By Glenn Bischoff

The hacker community is populated with “too many smart people,” who are becoming more clever and sophisticated in their tactics, according to Eric Winsborrow, vice president of product marketing for network security solutions vendor McAfee...