NEW YORK-Satellite Survey Systems Ltd., a Dallas company with roots in oil and gas exploration, has added another notch in its diversification belt by helping wireless companies pinpoint tower locations using global positioning systems.The company's endeavors are part of a trend in the tower-siting...
SONYSony Electronics' Personal Mobile Communications-America announced the availability of a dual-mode 800 MHz analog/Code Division Multiple Access version of its D-Wave Zuma wireless handset. The lithium ion battery provides up to 2.3 hours of talk time or up to 45 hours standby time in...
WASHINGTON-The World Radiocommunication Conference is a lot like the Olympics: preparations for the next one start almost before the current event has ended. And, like the athletes who competed earlier this year in Nagano, Japan, are preparing for the 2000 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake...
WANDEL & GOLTERMANNRadMan is a personal safety monitor introduced by German company Wandel & Goltermann that measures electric and magnetic fields in any direction. RadMan monitors the limit values established by control boards and gives an alarm if the levels are exceeded. The monitor...
Wireless carriers in the United States have been focusing a great deal of attention on a government mandate concerning emergency calls made from wireless phones.The United States has in place a three-digit phone number-911-that citizens can call to be connected with police, fire and...
WASHINGTON-A decision to allow law enforcement access to location information as part of the digital wiretap upgrade may have an impact on which technologies are deployed under the enhanced 911 mandate even though all players in the two dramas maintain the issues are separate."Both...
SnapTrack Inc., together with U S West Wireless, last week staged a live demonstration of its location technology designed to meet phase II requirements of the Federal Communications Commission's enhanced 911 mandate. SignalSoft Corp. and SCC Communications Corp. also participated in the trial.The FCC...
NEW YORK-Sirf Technology Inc., a Santa Clara, Calif., company established in 1995, announced agreements last week with Ericsson Inc., Hitachi America Ltd. and Nokia Corp. designed to propel the use of global positioning system technology in wireless devices, including cellular phones."Sirf's objective has always...
The CDMA Development Group announced it plans to conduct trials of location technologies as part of an initiative to meet Federal Communications Commission wireless enhanced 911 requirements.Phase II of the FCC's E911 mandate requires wireless carriers to be able to provide to public-safety answering...
CITELCitel Inc. unveiled a new line of coaxial surge protectors that provide protection against lightning surges and electrical transients. They use gas tube technology, making them suitable for broadband applications. The new line includes: N, BNC, TNC, SMA and 7/16. P8AX coaxial protectors are available...
An indoor solution to wireless electronic asset tracking that uses digital radio-frequency technology to locate personnel and property has been developed by PinPoint Corp., a fledgling company based in Bedford, Mass.Outdoor tracking of vehicles, personnel and equipment has long been available using global positioning...
By 2005, mobile location services will reach all 148 million wireless subscribers in North America, according to a study by Ovum, an independent telecommunications and information technology analyst firm.Ovum also predicts service revenues for mobile location services in North America will reach $2.4 billion...
Murder and espionage claims in recent months have brought to the forefront the issue of safety of wireless industry personnel working abroad.Two weeks ago, Ricardo Periera, 41, Glenayre Technologies Inc.'s general manager of the company's Sao Paulo, Brazil, operation, was shot and killed in...
Magellan Systems Corp., a maker of consumer-oriented Global Positioning System and navigation devices, said it will release its Global Satellite Communicator 100 late next month.The GSC 100 provides global two-way e-mail capability using satellite service provided by Orbcomm. The unit also features a GPS...
SnapTrack Inc., headquartered in San Jose, Calif., is attracting attention from some industry heavyweights with its Global Positioning System-based method for providing location-based services, including enhanced 911 service.Seven Code Division Multiple Access carriers are taking a serious look at what SnapTrack has to offer....
CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom-Cambridge Positioning Systems introduced its Cursor Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) location system in February at the GSM World Congress in Cannes, France.The company said Cursor is the first demonstrable system of its kind.Cambridge is demonstrating the system to potential business...
Cambridge Positioning Systems, a Cambridge, United Kingdom-based company, last week introduced its Cursor Global System for Mobile communications location system at the GSM World Congress in Cannes, France.The company said Cursor is the first demonstrable system of its kind. Cambridge is demonstrating the system...
For several years, there has been an international mission to create a modernized, global satellite navigation and location system distinctly for civilian use.Such a system could bring massive improvements to the efficiency of global air traffic control, international shipping and agricultural land tracking, among...
BOULDER, Co.-CellPort Labs Inc. announced the third-generation version of its in-vehicle wireless data connectivity solution called C/P Connect. The new version of the platform pre-integrates a global positioning system receiver and choice of wireless airlink transceivers."We've taken C/P Connect to the next level of...
Safety has long been a selling point for the wireless industry and customers historically have pointed to safety as a primary reason for purchasing a wireless phone.Now several automobile manufacturers are deploying systems in their vehicles that can summon emergency help to accident victims,...
Dr. Dan Schlager, M.D., president of Zoltar Satellite Alarm Systems, filed an ex parte brief with the Federal Communications Commission urging it to apply Phase II E911 rules on locating emergency callers to new wireless phones only.Schlager said the wireless industry should follow the...
NEW YORK-The United States Global Positioning System Industry Council, Washington, is opposing a plan, scheduled for a vote this week, that would permit mobile satellite systems to have some of the spectrum now allocated for GPS and the planned Global Navigation Satellite Service.To be...
NEW YORK-Wireless telecommunications and computer information systems are fast bringing agriculture to the brink of the next green revolution, known as precision farming."Farming has been in the dark ages technologically. Precision farming today is as significant as was the tractor replacing the plow," said...
Who is tomorrow's paging user?RCR asked that question of a number of industry execs. Each one had a little different twist on the same theme. PageMart Wireless CEO John Beletic put is succinctly, "The paging user of tomorrow is anyone between the ages of...
