Tag: Smartphones: Page 14

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Apple Bans DUI Checkpoint Apps

MacRumors highlighted the change in Apple's App Store Review Guidelines. "Apps which contain DUI checkpoints that are not published by law enforcement agencies, or encourage and enable drunk driving, will be rejected."

June 8, 2011

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Smartphones: How Defense Attorneys Can Use Discovery Rules To Ensnare You

Because smartphone technology is relatively new, the Supreme Court has not decided a case that specifically addresses the question of what types of law enforcement smartphone records are discovery material.

May 31, 2011

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App Review: Smart Tools

Smart Tools is a paid app for Android smartphones that provides tools for length and angle, distance and height, sound and vibration as well as a compass and metal detector. For less than a cup of cappamochafrappajava, this app provides all the measurement tools you need in the field.

May 9, 2011

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Spillman Provides Upgraded Mobile Software To Customers

Spillman Technologies has released Mobile 4.6, an enhanced software product designed to help public safety agencies access crucial information from the field.

May 4, 2011

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Secret Agent: Sur-Tec's VP Covert App

Sur-Tec's VP Covert Audio and GPS software suite is a patented surreptitious listening tool for law enforcement that allows an undercover officer or CI to stream live audio and GPS to one or more computers. The mobile application element of the software runs in the background on the user's smartphone.

May 2, 2011

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App Review: Droid Law

DroidLaw 2.0, which was released in March to the Android Market, is very useful for field officers because it allows officers to search sections of state criminal (penal) codes on their mobile devices. This saves valuable time, so officers don't have to pull out the "old code book" and search for the right law or keyword.

April 26, 2011

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Michigan ACLU Questions Troopers' Use of Cellphone Data Extractors

The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan wants more information about how Michigan State Police troopers are using devices known as cellular data extractors to retrieve information from a citizen's mobile device during a traffic stop without their consent.

April 17, 2011

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App Review: Spanish for Police

Exact Magic Software's Spanish for Police provides Spanish commands and questions organized in basic law enforcement categories such as Officer Safety, Arrests; Searching Suspects; Miranda Warning; DUI/HGN and others.

April 12, 2011

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BlackBerry DUI Checkpoint App Pulled

Research In Motion, the maker of BlackBerry smartphones, has agreed to pull downloadable applications that help users evade sobriety checkpoints and drunk driving citations.

March 24, 2011

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App Review: U.S. Cop

With this review of U.S. Cop, POLICE Magazine launches a twice-monthly series of reviews of smartphone apps for officers on both the iPhone and Android platforms.

March 16, 2011

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PDSI Brings TeleStaff To Smartphones

This enhancement extends core TeleStaff enterprise capabilities beyond the desktop or laptop computer to employees and managers enabling them to complete scheduling and routine workforce management tasks remotely.

March 8, 2011

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Cellular Specialties Introduces Digital Repeaters

CSI's DSP95 modular digital repeater amplifies a carrier's weak signals, allowing smartphone users to stay connected to voice and video services. The repeater offers multiple frequencies, custom pass-band filters, output power options, rack- or wall-mount capabilities, and numerous port configurations.

March 3, 2011