Tag: Wireless Communications: Page 9

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Philips Releases SpeechExec 2.0 for BlackBerry Phones

Software update adds wireless network support and photo attachment capabilities to the company's mobile dictation service.

December 14, 2010

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Video Network Brings Real-Time Data to Pursuing Officers

The Gardena (Calif.) PD is the latest to implement a wireless surveillance camera network to help identify suspects and vehicles in city facilities, parks and public thoroughfares.

November 10, 2010

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Cisco 5940 Rugged Routers Mount In First-Responder Vehicles

The Cisco 5940 ESR establishes a scalable mobile network in first-responder vehicles. The network extends organizational resources with a high degree of security to employees in the field within the public safety markets.

November 9, 2010

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Verizon Reveals Initial LTE Deployment Markets

Verizon Wireless will launch the LTE network in 38 major metropolitan areas, covering more than 110 million Americans, by the end of the year.

October 6, 2010

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All the Suspect Info on the Screen In Your Hand

Notice that in public safety, we have many capabilities in DNA, prints, biometrics, and yet we have no field capability. Not for long. Finally, police executives and IT professionals in public safety are demanding these new capabilities in RFPS and program development.

September 22, 2010

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LTE Expands Communications For LE

As LTE begins to be deployed in 2011, according to industry leaders, patrol officers will have access to data and video in vehicles and on hand-held devices. As I have mentioned in previous blogs, the convergence of cellular applications and devices with current antiquated police radio systems has begun.

July 13, 2010

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Wireless Network Survey

Are you in the majority or the minority? Find out what others think about going wireless.

May 11, 2010

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Getac Enables Rugged Laptops for Verizon Wireless Network

The certification is beneficial to Getac customers in the public safety, utilities, construction, and military professions who often work in remote areas where coverage is weak, according to the company.

April 27, 2010

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North Carolina Department Adds Wireless Access Control System

Under a contract between the city of Asheville (N.C.) and Matrix Systems, several municipal facilities including the police department will have a state-of-the-art, enterprise-based access control system.

April 13, 2010

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Will Cell Phones Eventually Replace Your Handheld Radio?

As systems integration shifts competition among handset manufacturers, we can also expect to see handset capabilities expand. Cell phones run circles around a police radio for about 5 percent of the cost.

April 12, 2010

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Why Does My Mobile Phone Have Thousands of Apps, But Not My Radio?

I can't begin to count the times police and fire personnel have asked me why their cell phones have thousands of applications, yet their radios have none. The simple answer is that we, as public safety professionals, have not required it.

December 13, 2009

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Waiting for a Public Safety Broadband Network

The Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) International hosted a town hall meeting earlier this month during their annual conference in Las Vegas that updated the law enforcement community about the effort to obtain a public safety broadband network.

August 26, 2009