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at a glance This article examines how shippers are utilizing wireless communications to improve delivery performance. Because of the nature of its business, propane tank supplier Blue Rhino needs a [...]

The latest solution for improving productivity and enhancing efficiency is wireless technology. Despite the current fascination, material handling managers would do well to explore this solution thoroughly before rushing to [...]

The dreams of uniting the British Isles with the European continent are centuries old, but now with the completion of the first leg of the 'Chunnel' -- short for channel [...]

Despite reversals in previously strong mobile markets the revolution may be just beginning in Eastern Europe. Is the mobile communications revolution running out of steam? It depends where you are […]

MOBILE WORKERS ARE TAKING WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY WHEREVER there's a job to be done. With the help of cell phones, pagers, and handheld computers, they're getting alerts about the latest tasks […]

When I telephoned Abbott Myers to confirm a time for an interview, I asked, 'Do you want me to meet you at your office?' To which he gave a hearty [...]

Byline: JULIE GALLAGHER JUST AS CONSUMERS ARE GETTING the hang of those black and white squiggly squares known as QR codes, another marketing medium is showing equal promise. Near field [...]

In accordance with the Warning, Alert and Response Network (WARN) Act of 2006, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) established the Commercial Mobile Alert System (CMAS), which is designed to allow [...]

This weekend Wal-Mart will officially begin selling its exclusive, cheap prepaid wireless service, Straight Talk, in more than 3200 stores nationwide. It isn't the first retailer to take on the [...]

The Society of Broadcast Engineers reiterated in reply comments filed with the commission Sept. 10 that allocating 451MHz-457MHz spectrum for use by proposed Medical Micro-Powered Network (MMN) devices is inappropriate [...]

Drivers looking for information quickly need only look at their Blackberry devices and a new mobile application from PHH Arval, according to the fleet leasing company. With the app, drivers [...]

Amongst a host of necessary new decisions, utilities beginning to roll out advanced meter infrastructure (AMI) must choose from building their own network, partnering with a telco for use of [...]

Panasonic Computer Solutions and Venture Development Corp. (VDC) have jointly published a white paper addressing the importance of using total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis in acquiring mobile technology solutions. [...]

A&R Wholesale Distributors, which delivers food items to schools, colleges, local hospitals and hotels in an area encompassing over 46,000 square miles of Southern California, has implemented TeleNav Track to [...]

Byline: Dan O'Shea It is perfectly understandable if many city and county officials have a love-hate relationship with wireless technologies. Some are still recovering from well-intentioned but misguided public Wi-Fi [...]

A plan that would have enabled college students in South Dakota to connect to the Internet via laptops from anywhere on the state's six public campuses has been put on […]

A Group of More Than a Dozen Distribution Cooperatives Across Minnesota are now connected to a private, licensed 700-MHz wireless broadband IP communications network. The system has been deployed across [...]

After considerable delay, the FCC Office of Engineering and Technology (OET) has moved its testing of unlicensed white space devices (WSDs) from the lab into the field. With a continued [...]

The U.S. Navy used wireless Lectrosonics gear to capture the sounds of Navy SEALs emerging from the water, jets taking off from aircraft carriers and dialog for Air Support, a [...]

Track cycling is an extraordinarily complex sport, where timing and accuracy is essential. It's a niche that Phoenix Sports has learned through vast experience. As the official timekeepers of the [...]

Florida's public universities have come up with a list of steps to make their campuses safer. Now the state has to find the $18 million universities say it'll take to […]

SAN JOSE, CA - Several new products announced Monday at the VON.x conference in San Jose had a common theme: Cisco Systems isn't the only name for unified communications. Many [...]

Broadcast playout automation as a concept is not much more than 20 years old. Before then, a channel was played out by a number of staff, working a master control [...]

In about 14 months, the Northside Independent School District in San Antonio, Texas, will be the largest school district in the state to be completely wireless. The district has about […]

Byline: DAN O'SHEA Back in the day, the wireless industry wasn't too concerned about excessive spending, whether it was to build and expand the networks that unwired the world or [...]

KTVU, the Cox Television-owned San Francisco Bay Area station that began HD local newscasts last month, is using Sigalert.com's Traffic TV to produce HD traffic reports. The station's Channel 2 [...]

With a potential billion-dollar market, European broadcasters couldn't help but be interested in how they could get involved. Yet, like their U.S. colleagues, several station representatives on the show floor [...]

The slow-moving Project 25 communication standard may get a boost from the recent release of a Statement of Requirements by its parent organization, the Association of Public Safety Communications Officials [...]

The NFC Forum, a non-profit industry association advancing the use of near field communication (NFC) technology, has announced the publication of its first four specifications. The specifications are available to [...]

PacketHop recently surveyed more than 700 public-safety organizations that filed for 4.9 GHz broadband Wi-Fi spectrum licenses and found that 82% of respondents believe 4.9 GHz networks are becoming vital [...]

AirDefense warned corporations that record numbers of municipal wireless deployments across the United States have opened a back door for hackers and unauthorized individuals to access corporate data, files and [...]

ISA seeks proposals on wireless standards for industrial monitoring ISA's ISA-SP100 standards committee on wireless systems for automation issued a request for proposals for the creation of wireless communication standards [...]

United Illuminating (New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.) recently used the Cellnet wireless fixed network AMI platform to complete rate changes for more than 31,000 time-of-use (TOU) customers across its southwest Connecticut [...]

Mobile ESPN and Amp'd Mobile have something to prove. They're the first of the boutique MVNOs, the first mobile virtual network operators not just focusing on a particular customer segment [...]

A DIVERSITY OF VOICES This year's Globalcomm show will have a distinctly different cast from previous shows held in Chicago at this time of year. Where Bell company executives dominated [...]

A MOBILE transaction company is a good thing to be right now. Ask m-Qube and Qpass. The former went to VeriSign for $250 million, the latter to Amdocs for $275 [...]

RUMORS SPREAD in the early hours of the CTIA's Wireless 2006 trade show in Las Vegas last month about the expected launch of PayPal Mobile, an m-commerce application that lets [...]

Every technology trend has a mixed-metaphor cliche that applies to it. To describe what's happening in the mobile content display advertising arena, you might call it 'a chicken-and-egg perfect storm.' [...]

While many at the NAB convention evangelized the benefits and additional revenue of sending video to mobile phones and other devices, and even though the technology and systems to do [...]

SAN JOSE--Global Crossing has joined forces with iPass to add wireless remote access to its Global Remote Connectivity service. Global Crossing Mobile IP Connect will enable enterprise VPN customers to [...]

BellSouth Chief Architect Hank Kafka walked into the lion's den Tuesday night, attempting in a rapid-fire half-hour technology presentation to convince a skeptical VON crowd that burgeoning video traffic will [...]

Fleets hauling ordnance for the Dept. of Defense can now use TransCore's GlobalWave data communications terminal to wirelessly track and monitor their vehicles. GlobalWave's MT2000 terminal for untethered trailer tracking [...]

Byline: Dan O'Shea Korea Telecom, which debuted its much-anticipated WiBro wireless broadband service late last year at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in South Korea, has announced that it will [...]

MicroWave Technology Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of IXYS Corporation, released a family of eight high linearity power amplifiers (PAs) for Wi-Fi (802.11) and WiMAX (802.16d/e) standards for all three frequency [...]

ABC News, in a new joint venture with AOL News, will increase their use of citizen supplied video journalism. Viewers will be able to contribute text and mobile phone video [...]

Small but rugged enough to withstand a variety of work environments, the MC70 mobile computer is the second entry in what Symbol Technologies calls enterprise digital assistants (EDAs). Joining Symbol's [...]

Can wireless technologies really improve health? A report by The FocalPoint Group, LLC indicates that wireless technologies can cure the ills of the healthcare system as well as boost the [...]

Byline: Kevin Fitchard Earlier this month, entertainment industry executives gathered in Los Angeles to debate the future of content distributed over the mobile phone. Despite the wide-ranging views the various [...]

Broadband access is the fastest-growing segment of the huge global-communications market, but no single technology appears to have cornered the market. Although most current customers receive broadband access by means [...]