By Ron WhitneyI’ll admit it, I love gadgets. All types of gadgets, especially the type that can make my life, or my job a little bit easier. While strolling the aisles at the ...
By Scott M. Bruner EMS1 Product EditorThis year's IWCE 2010 show in Las Vegas provided a unique opportunity for developers and manufacturers to present their newest wares – ...
By Scott M. Bruner EMS1 Product EditorAt March's IWCE show in Las Vegas, communications designers and manufacturers came together to present their wares and, in some cases, make a ...
By Greg FrieseI rarely use the portable or handheld radios for contacting my dispatch center, online medical control, or receiving facility. Instead — and like many of you ...
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By Briony Smith ComputerWorldALBERTA, Canada — Apple's popular smart phone is being used by Foothills Regional Emergency Services in Alberta to access electronic patient ...
By Jamie Thompson EMS1 Staff Photo courtesy of BAE SystemsOf the many challenges major incidents pose for firefighters, interoperability is certainly right near the top of the ...
By Carl Lindquist The York DispatchYORK COUNTY, Pa. — York County's 911 project will wrap up in the coming months after overcoming its last major hurdle.Testing of the new ...
In emergency response, it is all about being ready to go — just look at the USAR teams deployed to the aftermath of Hurricane Gustav. And for the rest of us? Well, we go to the ...
Both private and public sectors working to resolve the issue after failed FCC auction ...
By Kara Rowland The Washington TimesWASHINGTON — The District is testing a public safety communications system that allows firefighters, police and medical personnel to link ...
By Steve Thompson The Dallas Morning NewsDALLAS — Dallas Fire-Rescue workers treated a patient Sunday evening, then returned to their ambulance to find something missing: a ...
By Gayle White The Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionATLANTA — When it comes to calling 911, cellular telephones are a mixed blessing, emergency response officials say.A cellular ...
By Fran Spielman Chicago Sun TimesCHICAGO — After a lengthy delay that kept 2,100 portable radios in mothballs, the Chicago Fire Department is finally making the switch to a ...
Imagine this scene: A downed tree separates the volunteers working frantically to contain a blazing woods fire in the northeast corner of Jackson County. Radios don't work. What do ...
By Ryan Robinson Lancaster New Era Copyright 2007 Lancaster Newspapers, Inc. LANCASTER, Pa. — Software glitches have delayed testing of the new countywide radio system. So the $35 ...
By Anne Danahy Centre Daily Times (Pennsylvania) Copyright 2007 Centre Daily Times BELLEFONTE, Pa. — Centre County is hiring an engineering firm to study the county's ...
By Charlie Chapple Times-Picayune (New Orleans) Copyright 2007 The Times-Picayune Publishing Company ST. TAMMANY, La. — Ten of the 14 fire departments in St. Tammany Parish on ...
By Robert Sargent Orlando Sentinel Copyright 2007 Sentinel Communications Co. TAVARES, Fla. — Lake County commissioners are expected to vote today on one of the biggest and ...
FCC working to ensure wireless carriers meet requirements within five years By Brad Reed PC World Copyright 2007 PC World Communications WASHINGTON — The FCC laid out a series of ...
