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Shorter broadband terms arrive as EU laws kick off

...make it easier for people with hearing and speech problems to contact emergency services on their phones. From Thursday, people who register for the scheme... Read more

26 May, 2011 by Karen Friar

Motorola exec: Save spectrum for emergency services

Jeppe Jepsen, an executive at Motorola Solutions, has called on governments to set aside wireless spectrum for use by public safety officers in the event of emergencies Read more

17 March, 2011 by Liau Yun Qing
Self-Supported Congestion-Aware Networking for <endeca_term>Emergency Services</endeca_term> in WANETs

Self-Supported Congestion-Aware Networking for Emergency Services in WANETs

One of the challenging issues for supporting emergency services in Wireless Ad hoc NETworks (WANETs) is coordinating the network under... Read more

27 March, 2011
Fire and <endeca_term>Emergency Services</endeca_term> Instructor 8th Ed Flashcards by IFSTA 8.0

Fire and Emergency Services Instructor 8th Ed Flashcards by IFSTA 8.0

...to help students learn the material found in the IFSTA Fire and Emergency Services Instructor (8th ed.) manual, this app makes studying-on-the-go... Read more

24 April, 2012
Baloise Mobile Makes You Safer With Weather & <endeca_term>Emergency Services</endeca_term> 1.6

Baloise Mobile Makes You Safer With Weather & Emergency Services 1.6

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14 April, 2012
iScanner - Police and <endeca_term>Emergency Services</endeca_term> Handheld Scanner 1.6

iScanner - Police and Emergency Services Handheld Scanner 1.6

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23 February, 2012
iScanner Lite - Police and <endeca_term>Emergency Services</endeca_term> H... 1.6

iScanner Lite - Police and Emergency Services H... 1.6

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23 February, 2012
Interoperability for <endeca_term>Emergency Services</endeca_term>

Interoperability for Emergency Services

A major rush hour accident on a suspension bridge involves an oil tanker truck and numerous civilian vehicles. The... Read more

6 October, 2010

Olympic Games' planners co-ordinate IT and security

...Centre (Nocc), it is being set up to coordinate the activities of emergency services and other agencies to support security operations and the responses to... Read more

26 November, 2010 by Kable
ROBUST: Reliable Overlay Based Utilisation of Services and Topology for Emergency MANETs

ROBUST: Reliable Overlay Based Utilisation of Services and Topology for Emergency MANETs

Emergency services and networks are an emerging area of scientific research. During an... Read more

13 February, 2011
Secure Routing for Supporting Ad-Hoc Extreme Emergency Infrastructures

Secure Routing for Supporting Ad-Hoc Extreme Emergency Infrastructures

The importance of emergency services has lead to an indispensable need for lightweight technologies that will... Read more

9 November, 2010

Autonomy bosses jump HP ship

...been chief financial officer of Sepura, which supplies Tetra radios to the emergency services. Many of the executives had been with the company for over... Read more

24 May, 2012

Photos: BT red phone boxes get heart-starting makeover

...as a cardiac arrest, time is of the essence, and unfortunately the emergency services can't always reach country villages in the recommended five minutes... Read more

11 July, 2011 by Natasha Lomas

Nokia and HTC win patent decision against IPCom

...that Nokia had been violating a mobile patent IPCom holds related to emergency services. However, that ruling cited outdated Nokia models as the issue; newer... Read more

26 April, 2012 by Don Reisinger

North London hit by major power outage

...supplies were restored at 4.21pm and we are working with the emergency services on site." Twitter was flooded with reports of power outages across... Read more

5 April, 2012

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