Thales offers GPS support for P25 radios 

By Lynnette Luna

DENVER--Thales Communications announced its Project 25 radios now support GPS software, allowing users to plug in any off-the-shelf GPS unit...

Motorola offers data improvements for Astro 25 systems 

By Donny Jackson

DENVER--Motorola today announced it has begun initial deployments of infrastructure that will let its Astro 25 customers realize a 10-fold increase in the data rates inherent in the system...

Video surveillance clearly on Motorola’s screen 

By Glenn Bischoff

DENVER--Motorola is wasting little time in leveraging last year’s acquisition of peer-to-peer network developer MeshNetworks...

PacketHop announces first product 

By Donny Jackson

DENVER--Software vendor PacketHop today announced the release of its first commercial products at the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officers (APCO) conference...

Maryland county to unveil emergency command center 

Anne Arundel County, Md.--located midway between Baltimore and Washington and home to Annapolis and the U.S. Naval Academy--will showcase its recently purchased mobile emergency command center a mock emergency to be held August 23...

Virginia fire chief honored for communications work 

Charlottesville (Va.) Fire Department Deputy Chief Charles Werner recently was recognized by Virginia Governor Mark Warner for his efforts to develop interoperable communications between public-safety agencies in the state...

PacketHop lands $10 million funding round 

Mobile mesh-networking system developer PacketHop said it has received $10 million in its third financing round, which was led GF Private Equity Group...

Midland Radio lands state contract for mobiles 

Midland Radio Corp. said the State of West Virginia has given the company a contract to provide 400 low-band Titan mobile radios...

Ambulance service receives in-vehicle mobile data 

Emergency medical personnel employed by Greenwood, Colo.-based American Medical Response are receiving critical data in the field using a wireless gateway from In Motion Technology...

Maxstream adds ZigBee-compliant radio  

MaxStream has introduced a stand-alone XBee-PRO radio that complies with both the ZigBee and 802.15.4 standards...

Bird catalog highlights new items 

Bird Electronic Corp. has released its RF and Microwave Components Catalog that contains information on standard and custom products including attenuators, terminators, loads, couplers, signal samplers, dividers/combiners and filters...

RAM unveils body-mounting devices 

RAM Mounts has introduced the Body-Mounts series of devices that lets users attach to their arms, legs or waist myriad devices...

Sprint, Nextel secure FCC merger approval 

FCC commissioners yesterday granted regulatory approval to the merger of Sprint and Nextel Communications to form the third-largest nationwide wireless carrier...

Motorola focuses on mobile enterprise worker 

By Donny Jackson

CHICAGO--Motorola this week announced several products designed to let mobile workers stay connected to the workplace wirelessly, including a slim, multifunctional device with a qwerty keyboard known as the Q...

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...