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Televate Releases White Paper Examining Business Models of the Nationwide Public Safety Broadband Network
May 28, 2013Televate LLC, recently released its white paper “The Business Modeling of the Nationwide Public Safety Network (NPSBN): A Capital and Operational Expenditure Financial Model Analysis.”
Read full articleGeoComm Technical Writers Receive Award of Excellence from the Society for Technical Communication
May 28, 2013GeoComm is pleased to announce that their Technical Writing team recently received an Award of Excellence in the User Support Materials category from the Society for Technical Communication, Chicago chapter.
Read full articleSafeMobile Appointed Sepura Strategic Partner in U.S.
May 28, 2013Sepura announced that SafeMobile has been appointed not only their newest Channel Partner in North America, but also both a Sepura Applications Program Partner and one of Sepura’s Centers of Competence for Support in the United States as well.
Read full articlePortland, Maine Deploys GeoBlade Suite for Public Safety GIS
May 28, 2013Portland had recently deployed a suite of ArcGIS Server based public safety tools from Geographic Technologies Group (GTG).
Read full articleSPAWAR Atlantic Extends GeoComm Project Option for Installation Addressing GIS Project at Five Additional Marine Corps Bases
May 28, 2013GeoComm is pleased to announce that Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command Atlantic has decided to exercise the Option Year.
Read full articleConn. Bill Gives Families Say Over Newtown Records
May 23, 2013HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The public release of any photograph, videotape or digital recording related to last year’s deadly Newtown elementary school shooting would require the written consent of victims’ family members, according to a working draft of a bill released Wednesday by the governor’s office.
Read full articlePocket-Dialing 911 Leads to Fla. Murder Charge
May 23, 2013FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Authorities in South Florida say a man is charged with murder because he was overheard discussing the killing when his cellphone pocket-dialed 911.
Read full article‘Human Error’ Led to 9-1-1 Call Meltdown in Memphis, Tenn.
May 23, 2013Starting between 3 and 4 p.m. Wednesday and continuing until just after 8 p.m. that night, the local 911 system was flooded with “phantom” calls, Shelby County Emergency Communications director Raymond Chiozza said.
Read full articleCivilians to Staff Combined 9-1-1 Call Center in Columbus, Ohio
May 23, 2013Columbus plans to consolidate its police and fire 911 call centers and replace uniformed dispatchers with civilians, a move that drew a threat of a political “bloodbath” from the firefighters’ union president.
Read full articleCalifornia: Suspects Mistakenly Dial 9-1-1 During Crime
May 23, 2013FRESNO, Calif. — Two California men were in custody on Monday after accidentally dialing 911 on a cellphone before breaking into a car, authorities said.
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