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Emergency Service Agency Cuts Disaster-Response Time With Award-Winning IT Tools

The Middle Gelderland Emergency Service Region provides comprehensive emergency assistance to the citizens of eastern Netherlands. The disaster-response team was challenged by information systems that were difficult to use and suffered from inconsistent connectivity and response times that were below target levels. The agency collaborated with Microsoft Certified Partner Geodan...

Tags: Emergency Service, Microsoft Corp., Middle Gelderland Emergency Service Region, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software

Case studies 2009-07-28

IT failures roundup: Emergency services around the world

Today's roundup focuses on public emergency services. Although these systems should never fail, here are several that did. by Michael Krigsman

Tags: emergency service, information technology, computer, productivity, michael krigsman

Blog posts 2008-08-08

FCC to decide fate of valuable wireless spectrum

The FCC will soon decide how much radio spectrum to reserve for a state-of-the-art emergency response system for police, firefighters and ambulance crews, The Wall Street Journal reports With broadcasters freeing up analog spectrum as they convert to digital, a battle is brewing between commercial interests and those that...

Tags: FCC, Mobile/wireless, Government technology

Blog posts 2007-04-06

emPals for Pocket PC 2002 1.1 (Mobile)

emPals is an excellent suite for the Pocket PC users. It combines 3 great modules like Address Book, My Buddies and Restaurant which can provide you with an instant solution for all your personal requirements.Address Book will keep track of all your personal, business and emergency service details. All these...

Tags: Emergency Service, Mobile, Pocket PC 2002, Emcon Emsys Technologies, emPals, Address Book, Pocket PC, Food & Beverage, Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Hardware, Manufacturing, Marketing

Software downloads 2002-08-13

emPersonal For Pocket PC 2002 1.0 (Mobile)

emPersonal is an excellent suite for the Pocket PC users. It combines 6 modules like Address Book,Reminder,Renewal,My Buddies, My Call and PartyToAttend can provide you with an instant solution for all your personal requirements.Address Book will keep track of all your personal,business and emergency service details. All these options have...

Tags: Emergency Service, Mobile, Renewal, Pocket PC 2002, Emcon Emsys Technologies, emPersonal, PartyToAttend, Mobile Number, Pocket PC, Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Hardware, Marketing

Software downloads 2002-08-13

emPersonal 1.0 (Mobile)

is an excellent suite for the Pocket PC users. It combines 6 modules like Address Book,Reminder,Renewal,My Buddies, My Call and PartyToAttend can provide you with an instant solution for all your personal requirements.Address Book will keep track of all your personal,business and emergency service details. All these options have features...

Tags: Emergency Service, Mobile, Renewal, Emcon Emsys Technologies, PartyToAttend, Mobile Number, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2002-05-24

Additional Resources

Reid promises 60 on Saturday

promises, promises, promisesHe will not get his 60 on Saturday. There are enough senators with the backbone to avoid what will be an economic catastrophe for our nation.Obama created phantom jobsSomeone did bother looking into the jobs Obama claimed to save / create and found this:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1t3zZBhJ7wBlog not about Obama or...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care, Reid

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

In recession, VoIP makes strong case for cutting your home landline

Tempting, but I will passI've considered VoIP several times over the years, but it usually just takes a few phone calls with a friend or relative who is using VoIP before I change my mind! Not infrequently, the conversation becomes a warbling mess. Then there are times we...

Tags: Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, VoIP, phone, recession

Discussion threads 2009-10-30

Data Rescue 3.0.1 (Mac)

Do you have a corrupt hard drive or one that no longer mounts? Are other Mac file recovery utilities failing to even recognize your bad drive? Do you need to recover files that have been deleted? Data Rescue 3 is the best data recovery software on the market for recovering...

Tags: Hard Drive, Data Recovery, Apple Macintosh, Prosoft Engineering, Storage Management, Databases, Storage, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2009-10-27

GPS Mail for iPhone 2.0 (Mobile)

With GPS Mail for iPhone simple taps results in a location-aware email message ready to send to a friend, business associate, emergency service, or family member who will be able to immediately locate and or navigate to your exact location through Google Maps in a computer web browser or the...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Big Hill Software, E-mail, GPS, Smart Phones, Online Communications, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-10-22

Free WiFi from Google - On airplains

WTF is an "airplain"?Is it the air above Kansas?It is for reasons like your comment......that you are no longer allowed in Kansas !!!RE: Free WiFi from Google - On airplainsWill this be safe... they ban phone and communication devices with a well known reason... and Internet on Plane can be...

Tags: Wireless LANs, Telecom & Utilities, Cellular phones, WTF, phone, cell phone, Wi-Fi, Free Wifi, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-20

Future ERP

Brian Sommer's provocative post that juxtaposes SAP's technology thinking around the 'old' and 'new' worlds provides insights into something SAP was talking about last year - the two speed world of ERP. At the back end there is still plenty to do, hardening applications, winkling out recurring bugs...

Tags: Innovation, Salesforce.com Inc., Financial, SAP AG, ERP, Brian Sommer, Brian, S-curve, Cloud Infrastructure, BRP, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-10-19

Snowe and enemies push health reform forward

Of course . . ."But the story is not yet told, and the trolls below will have their day."Of course. Your way is so right and everybody else is so wrong.at this point If they SO against the health reform let them have it there way since they...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care

Discussion threads 2009-10-14

Technology is great, it's us that's flawed!

Can you put the window up after the ignition is turned off?Just a guess - my vehicle has a feature that allows me to raise or lower the windows after the ignition is turned off unless I open a door. It's convenient because I don't have to turn the...

Tags: Construction, window, black box

Discussion threads 2009-10-12

Behind the GOP revolt on health care

ZDNET is not a LIBERAL soap box...Treat it like the TECH blog its supposed to be.You want to talk the merits of tech in medicine - I'm there.If you just use your position as a writer to spout your liberal views, you're doing the site a disservice.that's FUDThere is no...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Blogging, NOW IT, Dems, GOP, tax, health care, blog

Discussion threads 2009-10-06

Weak passwords dominate statistics for Hotmail's phishing scheme leak

Weak Passwords suckUntil about 4 years ago my organization had no restrictions on passwords. Our students got their birthdays or their phone numbers as passwords and our staff could choose whatever they wanted. Most common staff password was 1234. Well after years of security breaches and administration...

Tags: MSN Hotmail, phishing, password, weak password

Discussion threads 2009-10-06

Alas, Poor Blackberry, I knew him.

verbsjust my opinion but:I brought (s/b took) it with me when I left the house. ...will be happy to bring (s/b take) me on as a new... just my opinion.Just buy a damn phone.Just buy a normal phone, you know, one that makes and receives calls.You tried phoning people...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Handhelds, Smart phones, phone, Verizon Communications Inc., AT&T Corp., carrier, RIM BlackBerry

Discussion threads 2009-10-01

A Quick Primer on Data Center Tier Classifications

Today, a number of companies are either consolidating their data centers or implementing new data center projects. Their decisions are often based on the appropriate "tier level" of the IT facility. The tier level is determined by an industry standard classification system for infrastructure performance. A four-tier system rates a...

Tags: Data Center, STC Associates, Tier Level, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management

White papers 2009-10-01

Real-Time Visualization Enables Stronger All-Star Game Security for City of St. Louis

When St. Louis, Missouri, was chosen to host the 2009 Major League All-Star baseball game - where President Obama would throw out the first pitch - the City Emergency Management Agency CEMA needed an efficient way to coordinate public safety among 40 organizations for the five-day celebration. The Microsoft Citizen...

Tags: St. Louis, Microsoft Corp., Content Management, Collaboration, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies 2009-09-30

Nokia 7705 Twist (Verizon Wireless)

We can safely say that we've never seen a phone like the Nokia 7705 Twist. Sure, we've reviewed square handsets before, and swivel models were in style a few years back; however, we've never had the two design aesthetics combined onto one device. We're not quite sure if it works--it's...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Verizon Wireless, Nokia Corp., phone, display

Product reviews 2009-09-16