Toshiba, Criterion Aim Tablet PC at Real Estate Sector

Toshiba is partnering with Criterion to provide real estate professionals with a customized bundle of "on-the-go" solutions. The companies said the bundle features Criterion's Real Estate Dashboard Tablet software application preloaded on Toshiba's Portege 3500 Tablet PC and e750 Pocket PC devices. Read more ...

St. Louis, Raytheon Keep Emergency Treatment on Track

The St. Louis Fire Department is using Raytheon's Emergency Patient Tracking System to communicate with medical centers while patients are en route to the hospital. Part of the city's Metropolitan Medical Response System, the mobile solution allows fire fighterst to rapidly transmit casualty information to hospitals. Read more ...

Smithsonian Collections Helps Chronicle Wireless Revolution

Wireless technology is now part of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, thanks to a collection donated by Daniel Henderson, inventor and co-founder of PhoneTel Communications Read more ...

Macromedia, Microsoft in VITLE Link for H.K. Students During SARS Crisis

Students at Hong Kong Baptist University are keeping up with classroom studies via technology from Macromedia and Microsoft, despite the school being shut down to help contain the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) virus outbreak. Read more ...

Cingular, CBS Team for NCAA Tourney Play

Cingular Wireless is teaming with CBS Sports to offer fans a way to stay mobile and stay connected to NCAA Basketball Tournament action. Read more ...

Wireless Users Want News on the Go

When it comes to news, consumers of wireless technology want it fast, easy and relevant, according to a report from the Newspaper Association of America. Read more ...

About Face: Biometric Push to Secure U.S. Borders

A new and tighter immigration bill passed unanimously (97-0) by the U.S. Senate will require all visitor documents to be "machine-readable" via biometric technologies, such as face recognition. In the meantime, the U.S. Attorney General is calling for the breakup of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). Read more ...

Infrared Eye Keeps Tabs on Bambi and Bullwinkle

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A Canadian company that develops imaging technology for destroying enemy missiles is helping give motorists – and wildlife – a fighting chance. With funding from the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC), QWIP Technologies, of Edmonton, and its subsidiary, InTransTech, are field testing an infrared camera system for alerting motorists that an animal is wandering on the road ahead. Read more ...

Using 3D GPS to Keep Tabs on Structural 'Integrity'

Two California companies are combining efforts to produce cutting-edge 3D GPS technology for monitoring major structures, including dams, bridges and power facilities. Read more ...

Wanted: A Few Good Robots (Actually, It's More Like a Hive)

U.S. military scientists, on the prowl for the latest in high-tech solutions, are calling on the high-tech industry to create an army of tiny robots to patrol and protect interior spaces against outside threats. Read more ...

Air Force Targets Radar 'Spoofing' Attacks

The U.S. Air Force is offering a five-year, $24 million contract for "techniques and technology" to protect military radar against the same threat plaguing the Internet – electronic "spoofing." Read more ...

Skin Deep: Green Light for U.S. Distribution of Human Microchip

VeriChip has been given an official green light to begin selling its implantable human microchip in the United States. The Palm Beach, Fla., company announced that it had received "written guidance" from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that the chip is not considered a "regulated medical device." Read more ...

Wi-Fi Access Gets Another Boost

Mobile Computing The fast-growing Wi-Fi market got another boost as wireless access provider Wayport Inc. and GRIC Communications, a remote network alliance, joined forces to untether the mobile workforce. Read more ...

Serving Up Apples for Bluetooth

Bluetooth Bluetooth may make it to primetime yet. Providing the needed ratings: announcements this week from Palm and Sony Ericsson about products and plans to collaborate on Bluetooth solutions for the mobile working class ... Even more exciting, if you're an Apple fan, Bluetooth will be available for OS X beginning next month. Read more ...

DoCoMo Looks Westward

NTT DoCoMo, the Japanese company that proved customers will buy cell phone services, is looking West for expansion opportunities. Read more ...

Air Force Fashion Statement: Protection

The next market for wearable-computing could be the battlefield – and the computer itself could be something as mobile, and comfortable, as a mesh undershirt. Read more ...

Chipping Away at Andy Rooney

Andy Rooney, the curmudgeonly commentator on TV's "60 Minutes" news magazine, has been challenged to "chip" his words by a developer of implantable human microchip technology. Read more ...

San Diego Co. Answers SOS for SMS

SMS is getting a boost in the fragmented U.S. network market from a San Diego company that says its solution is aimed at giving users what they're clamoring for – text-talking between carriers. Read more ...

Wireless Group Helps Secure Winter Games

When the 2002 Winter Olympics officially open tonight in Salt Lake City, public agencies will be working with a beefed-up radio communications game plan from the Public Safety Wireless Network Program. Read more ...

Building a Hospital with Heart & Technology

A new hospital under construction in Indiana takes the idea of specialized medicine to heart – and in the process showcases wireless information technologies as a new-era healthcare solution. Read more ...

A Cingular 3G Focus

Cingular Wireless, the second-largest wireless carrier in the U.S., on is currently testing technology that will allow its customers to move seamlessly between its TDMA and GSM networks. Read more ...

Ericsson Aids Relief Workers in Afghanistan

Humanitarian efforts in Afghanistan are getting a helping hand from Ericsson. The telecom equipment giant, through its Ericsson Response initiative and in conjunction with the World Food Program (WFP), has set up a complete GSM-based mobile telecommunications system in Kabul that will initially provide communications for 200 users from the United Nations and other humanitarian organizations. Read more ...

Saab Drives Telematics Home

Saab Automotive has commissioned AU-System of Gothenburg, Sweden, to turn its telematic road map into real-life services and applications. Read on ...

With Visions of Safety Beams ...

New this holiday season from venerable catalog company Hammacher Schlemmer, a high-tech device from American IR Technologies that uses infrared beams as a personal safety shield. If the invisible beam is crossed, an alarm goes off. Read on ...

Bluetooth and 802.1lb: Cozy Couple?

Bluetooth and 802.11b may be a compatible networking couple after all. That's the word from Wireless Infotech Education Services, which teamed with the University of Pennsylvania's Applied Research Laboratory to test the two key technologies driving the move to wireless networking. Read on ...

A Phone That's a Camera, Too

Nokia's upcoming 7650 is the next logical step in mobile-phone moments. After all, with wireless multimedia capabilities, it only makes sense to combine a phone and a camera in one tidy package. The 7650, scheduled for delivery in the second quarter of 2002, is bound to be a hot-ticket item, everywhere, that is, but the U.S. Read on ...

Fast Gas the Wawa Way

Verizon has teamed with Pennsylvania-based Wawa, a milk company-turned-convenience-store, on an m-commerce initiative aimed at getting customers gassed up and back on the road in record time. Read on ...

Cell Phone Use Slowing but Still Growing

Morgan Stanley Dean Witter cut its estimate on wireless subscriber growth in the U.S. Wednesday by 4 million for 2001, but maintained that the sector will continue to see growth overall. Read on ...