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- Does MobileMe's Find My iPhone lead to potential bodily harm?
- Does MobileMe's Find My iPhone lead to potential bodily harm?Isn't there a middle ground?You don't have to call 911 to report a crime. Can't you just call the police on their non-emergency line to report it stolen? Then you just have to hope that your local police care enough to...
- Tags: Does MobileMe, phone, bodily, Puerto Rican, Apple iPhone
- Discussion threads 2009-06-22
- Microsoft: 'We touch every piece' of auto business
- If you're a first responder, which would you prefer to use to get to the site of a car crash? Google Earth? MapQuest? If you work for OnStar, Microsoft's Virtual Earth is now the preferred choice. Last week, OnStar announced that it now uses...
- Tags: Car, Vehicle, OnStar, Microsoft Corp., Service, Ford Works, Car2Go, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-05-21
- LG 160 (Credo Mobile)
- Specialty cell phone carriers haven't had the best track record. Virgin Mobile is still around, but Mobile ESPN, Disney Mobile, and Amp'd Mobile have gone under. Even hotshot Helio, which offered the Helio Ocean, merged with Virgin Mobile last year. Yet, that hasn't stopped Credo mobile from giving the wireless...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Overall IT, display, LG 160, LG Electronics Inc., Credo Mobile, phone
- Product reviews 2009-05-18
- Interview with Andrea Vaccari, research associate at MIT's SENSEable City Laboratory
- Now that machine and sensor data is joining social data traffic on the Internet, the ability to interpret and create meaning out of the information to improve life could be the post-Web 2.0 manifesto. MIT's Senseable City Lab has been on the task for years with various...
- Tags: City, Mobile, Network, Data, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Cell Phone, Analysis, SENSEable City Laboratory, Cellular Phones, Networking, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Chris Jablonski
- Blog posts 2009-04-06
- Managing Technology Transition While Maximizing Your 911/PSAP Performance
- Technology refresh cycles, as well as the transition to E911 and NexGen technology in today's PSAP environments, require high-performance operator console designs and technology management tools that enhance operator performance and supervisory oversight. Working with Minicom have designed solutions for 911/PSAP centers throughout the country that drive team collaboration, increase...
- Tags: Team, High-performance, Minicom, Team Management, Leadership, Management
- Webcasts 2009-01-01
- Magellan Maestro 4370
- It's been a little while since we've seen anything from Magellan, but in late October, the company revealed its latest in-car GPS, the Magellan Maestro 4370. A step-up model from the Magellan Maestro 4250, the portable navigation device PND offers a new user interface with a feature called OneTouch that...
- Tags: Keyboards, Magellan, OneTouch, Magellan Maestro 4370, Maestro, Maestro 4370
- Product reviews 2008-12-03
- (Gallery: Honda kick starts motorcycle safety tech)
- (Gallery: Honda kick starts motorcycle safety tech)Enhanced bike safetyWhile the system looks like a useful addition that could save lives, the onus remains on the motorcyclist to defend himself against too many incompetent car drivers. Surely more effort needs to be put into helping car drivers be more effective?I have...
- Tags: Investment, motorcycle safety tech, motorcycle, Honda Motor Co., Gallery, car, car driver, helmet, asset based security
- Discussion threads 2008-11-05
- Technology could have averted fatal LA train crash
- Technology could have averted fatal LA train crashWhy is everyone so hell bent on blaming the cell phone?Yes it may have been the engineer was utilizing a cellular phone (texting/phone or otherwise). The cell phone is an inanimate object and not capable of making choices - it does as its...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Cellular phones, phone, cell phone
- Discussion threads 2008-09-16
- BIt: From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe
- BIt: From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM MainframeReading this gives me the shakes......by bringing back my days at the Chubb Institute in 1991, learning BASIC, OS JCL & COBOL. MANY hours of flow charting...WITH PENCIL & PAPER...and many more hours at a terminal trying to get what I...
- Tags: Mainframes, Programming languages, Servers, data-processing, COMPUTER PROGRAMS, COBOL, mainframe, IBM mainframe, IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-06
- New mapping tool can save lives
- It is obvious that knowing the location and availability of resources such as hospitals, transportation equipment and water during an emergency situation can save lives. Researchers at Georgia Tech started in 2000 to develop a collaborative mapping tool named GTVC short for Geographic Tool for Visualization and Collaboration. Even if...
- Tags: Asset, Software, Tool, GTVC Overview, Productivity, Transportation, Asset Management, Tools & Techniques, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Management, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-01-17
- Magellan Maestro 4250
- The number of portable navigation systems coming out these days is pretty astonishing, but the thing is, we're finding that when it comes to the core navigation functions, they pretty much all offer the same thing--text- and voice-guided directions, extensive POI databases, automatic route recalculation, and so forth. So in...
- Tags: Keyboards, user interface, Magellan, Maestro, Magellan Maestro 4250, Maestro 4250
- Product reviews 2007-12-16
- Was there life before cell phones?
- I'm old enough to remember a time when cell phones were a novelty, not a ubiquitous form of communication. However, a post on Slashdot reveals that there are enough cell phones in operation to provide one for every two humans on earth. 3.3 billion phones definitely counts as...
- Tags: Phone, Japan, Mobile, Cell Phone, Mobile Device, Telecom & Utilities, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2007-11-30
- Frontline asks FCC to reconsider auction rules
- Following Verizon's lawsuit against the FCC trying to block the open access rules for next year's spectrum auction, Frontline Wireless LLC filed a petition for the FCC to reconsider its rules that shut out small bidders. In addition, AT&T is looking for relief from a rule that requires some spectrum...
- Tags: FCC, Petition, Spectrum, Federal Government, Government, ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-09-26
- I have a cell now, and I might use it too
- I have a cell now, and I might use it tooFirst question in all conversations"Where are you?"This is asked even in conversations that have nothing to do with two people trying to locate each other, or in conversations where the location is irrelevant.I hate them tooMy employer issued one to...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Consumer electronics, phone, cell, yak-yak, cell phone
- Discussion threads 2007-09-18
- Broadband over powerlines gets a boost
- Broadband over powerlines gets a boostMessage has been deleted.Who Needs BPL First?It amazes me when I see the roll-out of a service that hundreds of thousands of us probably millions of us have been impatiently waiting for too many years now. Broadband over Power Lines. When I read...
- Tags: Ham, Broadband-Over-Powerline, broadband over power line, radio
- Discussion threads 2007-08-16
- Ubuntu servers hacked to attack others
- Ubuntu servers hacked to attack othersYeah.Anyone thinking of running a net facing server, get an Expert. I would assume that these people were college students doing it for free but after some of the things I've seen (who in the hell uses a while(1) loop in production software?) I'm not...
- Tags: Linux, Servers, Operating systems, UNIX, Anton, Stupidity, server, Canonical, security, Ubuntu, Ubuntu Server, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2007-08-15
- Device claims to interrupt all cell within 40 foot radius of YOU
- Device claims to interrupt all cell within 40 foot radius of YOUFor those that think its rudeIts rude that I sit in the theater and hear like 10 cell phones go off, or almost getting killed by someone driving while on a cell phone changing lanes without looking. I...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, phone, cell phone
- Discussion threads 2007-08-12
- Australian regulators propose more specific emergency calling infrastructure for VoIP
-  The Australian Communications and Media Authority ACMA said today it is proposing changes to the Telecommunications Emergency Call Service Determination 2002 to confirm the obligation to provide free-of-charge access to emergency call services for ‘two-way' and 'dial-out only' VoIP. 'Many VoIP providers already provide free-of-charge access to triple zero and these proposals clarify that...
- Tags: Regulatory
- Blog posts 2007-06-18
- Rural 911 not keeping up with technology - and results are life-threatening
- Most 911 calls come from cellphones. But in 40 percent of counties - mostly rural areas and small towns - dispatchers dont have the technology to pinpoint the location of the caller, The New York Times reports. Thats shocking because the technology has been available for at least five...
- Tags: State &, Local Govt, Government technology, Emergency
- Blog posts 2007-04-06
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