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Newsby Staff WriterSeptember 6, 2012

LEID Products Awarded Patent for BACS System

LEID Products has been awarded a new patent for its Biometric Access Control System (BACS) by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the company announced.

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Newsby Staff WriterSeptember 6, 2012

Ten Agencies Purchase Spillman Software

Ten public safety agencies purchased software from Spillman Technologies for the first time during the second quarter of 2012, the company announced.

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Newsby Staff WriterSeptember 6, 2012

Miss. Cop Suspended for 'Liking' Facebook Post

Two Columbus firefighters and a Columbus police officer have been suspended for 30 days after they "liked" a Facebook post made by a former firefighter.

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Newsby Staff WriterSeptember 5, 2012

EF Johnson's Viking VP600 Now Available in Multiple Bands and Models

EF Johnson Technologies has announced that the Viking VP600 portable radio is now available in three distinct models across the 700/800 MHz, UHF, and VHF bands. With the availability of the VP600 in all bands and in multiple models, EF Johnson is now able to offer the Viking VP600 across all segments of first responders, including the military, Department of Defense, and all state, local, and federal entities.

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Newsby Staff WriterAugust 29, 2012

Colorado Agency Deploys Citizen Alert Phone App

Citizens can download the free app on their Apple or Android smartphones to be alerted to natural disasters, dangerous weather, missing persons, traffic situations, and local crimes in progress. The app is not available on Blackberry or Windows phones yet but plans are underway for a release in the near future.

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Newsby Staff WriterAugust 27, 2012

Blogger Creates Facebook Page Praising Cop Killers

A Facebook page celebrating two accused killers of a Philadelphia Police officer has been taken down, and the U.S. Secret Service has launched an investigation into its founder who also created a "Kill Mitt Romney" page.

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Newsby Staff WriterAugust 24, 2012

Avtec Demonstrates Dispatch Communication Software at APCO Trade Show

Avtec Inc. demonstrated its latest software release, Scout 2.4, at the 2012 Association of Public Safety Communications Officials (APCO) conference in Minneapolis, Minn., this week.

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Newsby Staff WriterAugust 24, 2012

Carlson Introduces High-Gain Omnidirectional Antenna

Carlson has introduced a high-gain omnidirectional base-station antenna that's specifically designed to meet the demands of TV white space (TVWS)—the areas of unused spectrum in the TV bands located between 470 MHz and 698 MHz in the UHF range.

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Newsby Staff WriterAugust 24, 2012

DHS Rolls Out Multi-Band Radio Technology To Responders

The Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) has completed the Multi-Band Radio (MBR) pilot project with the transition of more than 100 radios with the newest multi-band technologies.

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Newsby Staff WriterAugust 24, 2012

NYPD Sought Cellphones for Video of Times Square Shooting

Dozens of bystanders grabbed their cellphones and hit the record button as a knife-wielding man skipped backward through Times Square on Aug. 11. Some witnesses, holding their cellphones above their heads to capture the action, ran alongside police officers as they pursued the man down Seventh Avenue with guns drawn.

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