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Now, the Raleigh Police Department will use the third generation wireless broadband solution, named BroadbandConnect from AT&T to deliver mission critical information to officers across the network, which includes more than 500 patrol cars.
Raleigh Police Department officers can access AT&T’s BroadbandConnect network throughout the city. The solution also supports hand-held devices for officers who uses bicycles and horseback. The BroadbandConnect network allows officers to access photography and databases, which are not available on their two-way radio systems.
AT&T’s BroadbandConnect network includes Sierra Wireless AC875 LaptopConnect cards for each vehicle and NetMotion Wireless’ Mobility XE, a mobile Virtual Private Network (VPN), which provides secure and encrypted access to law enforcement databases. The solution also maintains continuous connections to the Raleigh systems. The LaptopConnect cards dircetly fits into the officer’s onboard laptops, which uses AT&T BroadbandConnect network to connect with mission-critical information. The BroadbandConnect network is based on the global GSM standard, which uses High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) for providing mobile data connectivity at average download speeds of 400 to 700 Kbps.
The AT&T solution also tracks orders online with real time shipping status. The BroadbandConnect network allows officers to perform variety of office functions in the vehicle. Even officers can type accident reports and send memos from their onboard computers instead of writing notes on notepads.
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Via: Money CNN
Malaysia based telecommunications solution provider, Comintel Corporation Bhd has signed a deal with Gupp Technologies Incorporated to manufacture the world’s first Linux based dual mode Wi-Fi centric mobile phone.
The smart phone will use Voice Over Wi-Fi (VoWi-Fi) and GSM networks and allows its users to transfer calls between cellular and Wi-Fi networks. These smartphones would be able to seamlessly switch between Wi-Fi and Standard GS networks facilitated by its Linux system.
Under this agreement, Comintel has acquired a minority stake in Gupp Technologies Incorporated and an exclusive manufacturing contract to develop smart phones.
Lim Keng Hock, managing director of Gupp Technologies, said,
The distribution and marketing rights to the smartphones will help the company with the impetus to expand its current product offering into the Asia Pacific market.
Comintel and Gupp Techologies are hoping, with this new smartphones, both companies to tap into IP smart mobile communication entertainment devices, which would be next big thing for mobile phone technology.
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The Seabird Island is the first nation in British Columbia is going to set up a good example for the first nation communities across Canada with its innovative use of technology from Siemens. Seabird is the first community in Canada to launch a high performance wireless mesh network solutions from Siemens, which provides the high-speed broadband wireless access to support residential, educational and business communication.
Siemens and BelAir Networks have partnered with Chief Clem Seymour and local residents of the community to deploy 49 BelAir Networks wireless access nodes across the community. These nodes can easily be mounted on light poles to provide a wireless carrier backbone to support various services including Point of Sale (POS) terminals at the local gas bar and events.
Siemen’s new network will help the community to reduce the monitoring cost of flood meter by replacing wired lines with a wireless connection. Even the community may also use the network to extend its Closed Circuit TV (CCTV) network and also provide the cost-effective residential telephone service on Seabird Island. Both companies have also developed a training program to train Seabird Island Band personal to pre-stage, program, install, and administrator and repair the wireless network. This training program will help community to manage and maintain the network independently. Even communities can create jobs and ensure self sufficiency.
Chief Clem Seymour, said,
Our new wireless network offers a broad range of communications and revenue opportunities for us. We will be able to create new services for the community and offer our local schools increased educational opportunities through new high speed connectivity.
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Chip designer, Alereon Inc has unveiled its first chip named AL5100 which uses frequency band that is legal all over the world for wireless Universal Serial Bus (USB), a technology with the potential that cuts the tangle of cables surrounding computers.
USB cables connect computers with mice, keyboards, printers, cameras and external hard-drives. The new chip, AL5100 will connect to computers with optional wireless add-in cards, or dongles that go onto USB port.
The underlying radio technology is called Ultra-Wideband (UWB), and uses frequencies, which is usually employed for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, mobile phones and other wireless technologies. It is relatively virgin territory in the airwaves, and exploits high data transfer rates with low power consumption at the price of range, the signal hardly goes further than 10m.
Alereon spokesman Mike Krell said,
The Austin, Texas-based company’s first UWB chipset, the AL4000, to reach the consumer market in a month or two in wireless USB hubs, to which peripherals can be connected with standard USB cables. The hub itself communicates wirelessly to a dongle on the computer.
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Via: Taipei Times
SK Telecom has partnered with the LG Telecom to share fundamental wireless Internet services. SK telecom has allowed LG Telecom to use its platform T-PAK. Now LG Telecom can use those mobile phones, which are developed for SK Telecom.
SK Telecom has signed an agreement with the LG Telecom to share its T-PAK, a mobile phone based on SK Telecom’s UI platform. Under this agreement, LG Telecom can use variety of services developed by SK Telecoms without paying any additional costs. Both companies are planning to introduce a mobile phone based on T-PAK platform by the end of the next year. While the SK Telecom will share its fundamental wireless services with LG Telecom to expand its services in overseas market.
According to vice president of LG Telecom, Gang Moon-Seok, the company is committed for the development of the domestic wireless Internet industry through the expansion of next generation wireless platforms.
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Sony is amid high spirits by introducing ‘X-OOM Media Center’. The X-OOM Media Center is a branch of Playstation 3 — the king of your entertainment center, X-OOM.
The X-OOM Media Center is aimed at the usage of wi-fi capabilities integrated into the console.
Media streaming from PC on to television is possible through the Wii. By this Wiimote an individual can watch movies, listen to music and browse photos by the push of single button.
Not yet over, the exiting features include accessing of web radio and television channels from all over the globe. The Wii comes with its own photo browsing capabilities, when memory devices are used.
Eager to get it! Import it, it is tagged with price of 29.99 Great British Pounds.
Now, anyone can easily design and create a .mobi-compliant website. A leading provider of web hosting services, SherpaHost.com has launched its WebSite Tonight tool, which allows users to create and design .mobi website on their mobile phones and PDAs. WebSite Tonight designed pages are easy to load and navigate from the small and limited screens of wireless phones and PDAs.
The Website Tonight tool allows users to easily create website, which are specially formatted to provide mobile content and services. Each page can be created with this tool with ICANN’s .mobi guidelines to ensure quick download times. Other features of WebSite Tonight are given below:
1. Calendar control
2. Photo album enhancements
3. Animated splash pages with sound
4. Music and video support
ICANN has approved .mobie, which is backed by leading mobile operators, network device manufacturers and Internet content providers, including Ericsson, Google, GSM Association, Hutchison, Microsoft, Nokia, Orascom Telecom, Samsung Electronics, Syniverse, T-Mobile, Telefonica Moviles, TIM and Vodafone.
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McDonald restaurants in the US have been WiFied some years back, now even the restaurants in UK will offer free WiFi to their British customers.
Now, digital camera owners can send pictures to their home PCs or upload them to photo sharing websites through Wi-Fi. US based company, Eye-Fi is planning to launch Secure Digital memory cards with integrated Wi-Fi chips, which will allow digital camera owners to send pictures remotely through Wi-Fi to a home home PCs or to upload them to photo sharing websites.
The standard SD card size and onboard wireless functionality should allow the wireless connectivity to work with a camera and not interfere with its normal function. Users can set the photos to go directly to a PC or other location immediately, or after a photo session is complete. The card comes with 2GB storage capacity.
Eye-Fi founder and CEO Yuval Koren, said,
The focus will initially be on the home network. At $100 the price point may be a bit much, especially for the ‘home network’ market. You can get a 2GB or more actually memory card for much cheaper than $100.
The card is set to cost about $100 and its is expected to go on sale later this year. Currently, the company is negotiating with websites to allow direct uploads from cameras containing the cards.
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Via: Tech Spot
