Mobile Data Commentary

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Transportation departments take a look at social networking

According to Bill Brownlow, some state transportation departments are using social-networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter to get the word out when something goes awry.

Governments are mobilizing, leveraging citizens like never before

Governments are leveraging social media and smart devices to interact more with citizenry. One goal is to make citizens better informed. Another is to use citizens as a government’s eyes and ears.

The smartphone is pretty cool, but it’s not the top gadget of all time

Popular Mechanics recently counted down its list of the 101 greatest gadgets of all time. At the very top of that list was — drum roll, please — the smartphone. Good grief. What were they thinking?

Mobile app creation platform differentiates Cisco’s new enterprise tablet

The iPad may be trouncing the tablet competition in the enterprise sector to date, but Cisco is poised to release the Android-based Cius tablet on July 31. The device is highly focused on the enterprise and designed to deliver virtual desktop integration with a range of Cisco collaboration and communication applications.

The readers always write — this time about smartphones

Recently, I wrote about the debate I was having with myself over whether to finally succumb to temptation and purchase a smartphone. Several readers said that they shared my concerns. Others did not. Of those, the general consensus was that I should just turn the damn thing off when I didn’t want to be bothered by it. I don’t think it will be so quite so simple in practice.

The iPad is trouncing the competition in the enterprise sector

What the market really needs is a good ruggedized tablet device that is based on a mainstream OS, like Android, that will give the iPad a run for its money. It also needs device makers to stop worrying about how their tablets stack up to the iPad.

Enterprises wrestle with mobile-usage policies

Government agencies should allow and encourage employees to bring in their own mobile devices, which is the trend seen by many enterprises today.

Flying cars, no; embedded communications devices, yes

The device that Marty Cooper dreams about would be much more than a phone — it would be your personal assistant. He said that 30 or 40 years from now, computers will have more processing power than the human brain.

Notebook computer’s silver anniversary whets appetite for future developments

As helpful as traditional laptops have been, CDW-G’s Joe Mangano said he believes user-friendly tablet devices may soon be the tool of choice for field workers in the government sector. Such devices, armed with the proper applications and appropriate connectivity, promise to help employees be more efficiently productive at a time when governments are being asked to do more with fewer resources.

White spaces promise to provide useful test bed

With the FCC’s approval of unlicensed use of television white spaces, where signals can travel significant distances, there is the possibility of making wide-area networking much more affordable.

Commentary

Transportation departments take a look at social networking

Governments are mobilizing, leveraging citizens like never before

The smartphone is pretty cool, but it’s not the top gadget of all time

Mobile app creation platform differentiates Cisco’s new enterprise tablet

The readers always write — this time about smartphones

The iPad is trouncing the competition in the enterprise sector

Enterprises wrestle with mobile-usage policies

Flying cars, no; embedded communications devices, yes

Notebook computer’s silver anniversary whets appetite for future developments

White spaces promise to provide useful test bed

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LTE and liability: Why the fire service must move forward with digital incident command

Partnership and collaboration must be the foundation for emergency communications

FirstNet success means no hypothetical ‘shots’ need to be fired, Swenson says

Events

UC Ezines

IWCE 2019 Wrap Up

Twitter

Newscan: Verizon counts 5.1 million first-responder subs; AT&T has 3.7 million dlvr.it/SW84Gv

Taiwan crisis another blow to the supply chain dlvr.it/SW7GSs

Motorola Solutions seeks contempt finding, global injunction against Hytera for not paying royalty dlvr.it/SW6Ldm

Humanoid robot explores shipwrecks dlvr.it/SW36fy

How IT teams can use ‘harm reduction’ for better cybersecurity outcomes dlvr.it/SW32rd

Increase in emergency-response time caused by insufficient staffing, traffic congestion dlvr.it/SW16zp

Tepid demand, taxation fears drag at 2.5GHz spectrum auction for 5G dlvr.it/SW15Yt

Newscan: Cyberattacks against critical infrastructure quietly increase dlvr.it/SVxr3P