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Hull City Council Leverages Spatial Assets to Boost Responsiveness and Transform Disaster Management
White Paper The challenge was to accelerate response times to emergency situations through coordinated, real-time information management and sharing. Hull City Council wanted to maximize use of location-based asset... [21 May 2008]
Solution Provider Uses Virtualization to Cut Costs, Add Flexibility, Boost New Business
White Paper Florida-based AcXess is a Microsoft partner whose resilient on-demand application solutions provide a virtual platform to help customers increase business and avoid loss of revenue during emergency... [01 Mar 2008]
Access to Critical Information in Real Time Helps Firefighters Save Time and Lives
White Paper South Wales Fire and Rescue, one of the largest fire services in the United Kingdom, responds to about 60,000 emergency calls a year. Firefighters rely on detailed information to prepare fully for... [11 Jan 2008]
Upwardly Mobile: Bring back MMS
Comment Such services aren't yet on the agenda for the UK's non-emergency number 101, although organisations this side of the pond are experimenting with what MMS can do. And how about asking... [22 Jan 2007]
Cheat Sheet: Wireless mesh networking
Cheat Sheet Mesh networks are also handy for building temporary networks in places like festivals or conferences, or even for the military or emergency services on an ad hoc basis. Mesh networks have to date really... [24 Feb 2006]
Location-Based Services Strengthen the Strategic Position of Mobile Operators
White Paper One can benefit from LBS in the following situations: to find the nearest hotel, to locate the taxi/truck driver who is currently close to a customer location; to look for a street, in case of an... [12 Jun 2004]
£850m prize in three-way fight for government contract
News Management of emergency situations while maintaining normal IT service during episodes such as the foot and mouth crisis will also be critical, according to the tender document. But trouble may lie ahead... [29 Jul 2003]
£850m IT outsourcing deal key to Defra overhaul
News Management of emergency situations while maintaining normal IT service during episodes such as the foot and mouth crisis will also be critical, according to the document. Public and Commercial... [16 May 2003]
mmO2 police profits come under the microscope
News The NAO also criticised a contract clause which will not allow the cost per user to be re-negotiated in the event of the other emergency services signing up. Also under scrutiny was the fact that Airwave... [25 Apr 2002]
Police paying over the odds for radio network
News The Airwave system was originally intended for the three main emergency services, fire, police and ambulance, to use simultaneously - delivering lower costs, and saving lives in disaster... [11 Apr 2002]
Location location location: Where the mobile industry is pinning its hopes
Comment The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) requires operators provide technology to locate users in emergency situations with accuracies of 100 metres 67 per cent of the time, or 300 metres 95 per cent... [11 Oct 2001]
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