Grants and Stimulus Funding Update: Justice Programs and Competitive Grants
The U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs announced a list of more than 40 open solicitations for grants. The grants include funding for programs aimed at Internet crimes against children, rural law enforcement, corrections, courts, forensics and more.
From Digital Communities, March 31, 2009
Firetide Forecasts Big Jump in Large-Scale Municipal Wireless Networks in 2009
New MIMO technology, Fed’s Stimulus package and expanding public safety networks boost market and business outlook
From Firetide, March 31, 2009
Investors Bank on WiMax in Eastern Europe
In the third installment of our series on WiMAX around the globe, we look at the unique market conditions WiMAX faces in Eastern Europe.
From WiFi Planet, March 27, 2009
Rural broadband vs. red tape
President Obama's $7 billion-plus plan to bring broadband to rural America could create up to 260,000 new jobs, according to researchers. But some industry executives worry it will take too long to put that money to work.
From TelephonyOnLine, March 27, 2009
New York City implements wireless automated meter reading system
New York has announced that it will be replacing over 800,000 water meters, currently read by humans, by wireless meters monitored automatically.
From Muniwireless, March 25, 2009
Adelstein Tapped for RUS Post
President Barack Obama intends to nominate FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein to be administrator for the Rural Utilities Service (RUS), which will administer $2.5 billion in grants and loads for rural broadband initiatives.
From Wireless Week, March 23, 2009
Wi-Fi at Work in Agribusiness
California’s Faria Farms is using a wireless mesh network to monitor five separate facilities in the Central Valley.
From WiFi Planet, March 19, 2009
Amtrak Cascades Testing Wi-Fi and it works!
We can vouch for this because we've been IMing with a friend of ours who is on the Amtrak Cascades train to Portland, and other than getting false disconnection notices, it's working like a charm.
From Seattlest, March 17, 2009
Comcast to Resell Clearwire’s Mobile WiMAX
Comcast plans to launch mobile Internet in Portland , Ore., over Clearwire’s WiMAX network by midyear, placing it among the first of Clearwire’s joint venture partners to resell the mobile WiMAX service.
From Wireless Week, March 16, 2009
AT&T's Wi-Fi guy targets smartphone transactions, Wi-Fi
Last December, AT&T finalized its quarter-billion-dollar acquisition of Wayport, culminating a Wi-Fi services partnership begun in 2003.
It was a dramatic move: a wireless cellular carrier with licensed spectrum actively, even aggressively, embracing unlicensed wireless LAN for its subscribers, who can use Wi-Fi enabled notebooks, dual-mode cellphones, and VoIP without touching the cellular network at all.
From IT World, March 16, 2009
