Shotspotter announces Birmingham deal; Boston pact on the horizon 

By Donny Jackson

Shotspotter recently announced that the city of Birmingham, Ala., will use the company’s patented gunshot-location technology in a 6-square-mile area of the city...

MobileSphere enters emergency text-messaging space 

By Donny Jackson

Boston-based communications provider MobileSphere today announced the expansion of its text-messaging portfolio with the Emergency Broadcast Text Messaging Solution designed to let universities, enterprises and governments share information quickly within their communities...

Shared Spectrum to demonstrate radios with cognitive abilities 

By Donny Jackson

Shared Spectrum will demonstrate its cognitive-radio system developed for the military’s neXt Generation (XG) program this week at an IEEE symposium on shared-spectrum technologies that begins tomorrow in Dublin, Ireland...

Intel enters UHF RFID reader market with R1000 chip 

By Donny Jackson

Semiconductor giant Intel this week is scheduled to begin production on R1000 chips, which are expected to enable smaller and less expensive RFID readers in the UHF band, an Intel official said...

xG Technology, Telefonica Mexico to pursue joint venture 

By Donny Jackson

Florida-based technology upstart xG Technology has signed an exclusive agreement with Telefonica Mexico (Pegaso PCS S.A. de C.V.) that could result in a joint venture to deploy a network based on xG Technology’s xMAX solution in Mexico...

Motorola launches PDA for enterprise workers 

By Glenn Bischoff

Motorola launched the MC35 enterprise digital assistant, or EDA, this week at CTIA Wireless 2007 in Orlando. The device provides all of the voice and high-speed data capabilities typical of personal digital assistants, or PDAs...

IWN project in jeopardy, audit report says 

By Donny Jackson

A much-anticipated, nationwide broadband network designed to serve federal law-enforcement users is “at a high risk of failure,” according to an audit released this week by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) inspector general...

IBM and Cisco launch emergency crisis response service 

By Mary Rose Roberts

IBM and Cisco recently collaborated on an emergency response service that mixes consultancy services with rugged voice- and data-communications systems designed to restore enterprise and government network systems during crises...

Motorola introduces rugged notebook, mobile workstation 

By Donny Jackson

Motorola today announced rugged notebook and mobile workstation computers that are designed to serve government, public-safety and enterprise users that need to access information wirelessly in a secure manner...

Frontline Wireless offers an alternative 700 MHz proposal 

By Donny Jackson

Frontline Wireless, a two-month-old startup boasting a trio of high-profile industry leaders, this week unveiled its proposal for a 700 MHz nationwide, broadband public-safety network that would utilize spectrum currently allocated for both commercial and public-safety use...

Clearwire buys 2.5 GHz spectrum from AT&T 

By Donny Jackson

Wireless broadband provider Clearwire has agreed to pay AT&T $300 million cash for 2.5 GHz spectrum previously owned by BellSouth, AT&T announced this week...

Atheros announces Bluetooth chip for PC market 

By Donny Jackson

Atheros Communications yesterday announced the Atheros AR3011, a Bluetooth 2.1+Enhanced Data Rate (EDR) solution for laptop and desktop PCs, according to the company...

TCS sells two enterprise units 

By Donny Jackson

Maryland-based TeleCommunications Systems (TCS) yesterday announced it has sold two of its three enterprise units and plans to sell the other during the next two months...

Mayor: Images, video part of New York City’s 911 future  

By Donny Jackson

In an emergency, callers to the 911 system in New York City in the future will be able to include digital images and video to support their verbal descriptions of an incident, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said this week in his “State of the City” address....

Raytheon begins interoperability pilot in the Quad Cities 

By Donny Jackson

Raytheon yesterday launched a six-month pilot program in the Quad Cities region of Illinois and Iowa that is designed to enhance interoperability and provide remote broadband access to first responders in the area...