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IBM, Cisco team up for emergency services
News IBM and Cisco announced on Tuesday a joint emergency services offering aimed at government and corporate customers. We'll offer upfront consulting and planning, and do periodic testing to see how the clients respond in emergency situations," said...
[March 20, 2007, 8:20]
Emergency services turn to IM
News IBM and a consortium of government agencies in the Washington, D.C.area are creating a wireless emergency network that will allow approximately 40 police, fire and safety agencies to communicate in real time via instant messaging and access one...
[August 22, 2002, 14:20]
International SOS Ensures Continuity of Emergency Assistance Services With Improved Disaster Recovery
White Papers International SOS is the world's leading provider of medical assistance, international healthcare, security services and outsourced customer care. To ensure that its life-saving assistance operations were not disrupted in the event of a catastrophe...
[June 12, 2008, 1:01]
Private equity snaps up O2 Airwave
News After months of speculation, private equity has finally snapped up O2 Airwave, the mobile operator's emergency services digital radio network. Airwave has traditionally made a business from signing up customers from among the emergency services.
[April 23, 2007, 11:48]
MSN TV prank creating 'emergencies'
News MSN TV users are inadvertently calling emergency services after falling prey to a prank program that changes the daily dialup number on their set-top boxes to 911, the US equivalent of 999. In April 2000, the National Infrastructure Protection...
[July 24, 2002, 8:00]
Olympics digital radio system gets funding boost
News The Home Office has provided funds to boost the capability of the emergency services' digital radio system for the 2012 London Olympics. Under a contract agreed by the National Policing and Improvement Agency and Airwave Solutions, the service will...
[November 4, 2009, 7:33]
Police and military 'battling over spectrum'
News Emergency services are being preventing from making full use of their equipment because the military is denying them access to key radio spectrum, Motorola claimed this week. One is the range between 410-430MHz, which is being considered for...
[November 23, 2006, 14:51]
Disaster Response Company Uses Mobile Solution to Expedite Inventory Processes
White Papers Kenyon International Emergency Services is a Texas-based company that provides emergency response services to government agencies and private companies worldwide. To help its field teams collect and catalog personal effects gathered at disaster...
[November 10, 2006, 0:00]
Ofcom rules VoIP networks must allow 999 calls
News VoIP telephony providers will have to enable customers to make calls to the emergency services, following a ruling by Ofcom on Wednesday. Ofcom is concerned that lives could be put in danger if users try to dial the emergency services and...
[December 6, 2007, 12:39]
London councils adopt crisis messaging system
News An emergency communication system which will help local people and services during a crisis has been rolled out by two London authorities. The system will also be used to ensure up-to-date information gets through to council staff and the emergency...
[December 13, 2007, 9:50]
Ofcom: VoIP services must allow 999 calls
News VoIP phone services must allow users to make 999 emergency calls, under proposals published by communications watchdog Ofcom. Under Ofcom's proposals, providers of VoIP out and full-service VoIP would be required to offer access to emergency services.
[July 26, 2007, 16:27]
MmO2: We've stopped the BT rot
News He praised O2's partnership with Tesco in the UK and predicted that O2 would soon be providing wireless connectivity for all of Britain's emergency services. Despite ongoing concerns about alleged health risks posed by the technology -- which have...
[March 17, 2004, 12:35]
London Assembly criticises Airwave delays
News A report into the 7/7 bombings in London two years ago has raised fresh concerns about the capacity and coverage of the Airwave emergency services digital-radio network in the capital. The latest London Assembly 7/7 committee report says, despite...
[August 16, 2007, 16:43]
Out-of-Band Management for Windows Server 2003
White Papers It describes the capabilities of new Emergency Management Services, and guides systems administrators in designing and implementing out-of-band management facilities for their networks. In Windows Server 2003, Microsoft introduced Emergency...
[June 24, 2009, 16:02]
Ofcom embarks on VoIP regulation
News Information which VoIP vendors will have to reveal includes whether they offer emergency services calls; the type of number portability they offer; whether they provide directory enquiries; and how much the VoIP system is dependent on the user's...
[March 29, 2007, 15:16]
New Millennium body for the capital
News London Readiness 2000 will liaise with borough leaders and work to ensure the infrastructure, utilities and emergency services in the capital run smoothly over the millennium period. While he acknowledges that many observers see these committees as...
[December 7, 1998, 15:08]
San Diego Emergency Dispatch System Depends on Windows 2000 Advanced Server and Stratus Fault-Tolerant Servers
White Papers Uncompromised availability was the most important factor in selecting a new platform, as 911 emergency dispatchers rely on the system to track and manage all aspects of San Diego's emergency fire and medical services.
[September 28, 2007, 1:00]
UK tech 'not ready' for terror attack
News The UK government's ability to protect its citizens in the event of a large-scale terrorist attack has been called into question today following the revelation that work on a dedicated computer network to coordinate the emergency services...
[February 24, 2003, 14:44]
Open-source geeks are modern heroes, says think tank
Talkback However, I know of (many) cases where 911 services in North America, for example, have crashed using windows systems, thus leaving urgent emergency callers with a dead telephone.fortunately, more competent cities, etc.are switching to linux to...
[December 1, 2004, 14:46]
Flood of England and Wales successfully simulated
News The technology in the simulation, which involved the emergency services and central, local and regional government, "worked perfectly", said an Environment Agency spokesperson on 18 June 2004. Emergency services were faced with the imaginary...
[June 21, 2004, 14:00]
