Emergency Service
75 Stories
Designing products for life-saving situations
Insight newsmaker When mission critical equals life-and-death, intuitive use is the basis of designing devices for such events, says Motorola's design team head.
Tags: Mobile/Wireless, Motorola Inc., Product, Training, Officer, Malaysia, Copenhagen, Environment, job, radio
Experts: Bluetooth security dangers ignored
News A former White House cybersecurity adviser and an RFID researcher issue warning that communications protocols are ripe for abuse.
Tags: RFID, Bluetooth, Communications, Security, Protocol, Howard Schmidt, Card, Flaw, device manufacturer, Bluetooth
Technology needs to pinpoint calls for help
News A wireless industry lobbyist urges the FCC to require that cell phone callers can be located within office buildings, subway stations and schools, whether those structures are standing or not.
Police expert calls for open source data tools
News Emergency services should use open source software to ease exchange of data, according to data expert from U.K. Association of Chief Police Officers.
Tags: Open source, RIM BlackBerry, Security, Officer, Tool, emergency response, Unisys Corp., agency, emergency service, Open source
COO: Facebook can build your business, and now we can prove it
News Facebook's COO formally announces the social-networking company's "strategic alliance" to build social-media audience measurement tools with Nielsen.
Tags: Web 2.0, Tool, Australia, social networking, Facebook, brand, market research, emergency service, Web 2.0
Short Take: IBM axes Australian workers
News IBM Global Services Australia, an outsourcing division of the computer giant, has cut 64 jobs from its data-processing units in Sydney and Melbourne, leading to a mass walkout of 150 workers.
Short Take: IBM axes Australian workers
News IBM Global Services Australia, an outsourcing division of the computer giant, has cut 64 jobs from its data-processing units in Sydney and Melbourne, leading to a mass walkout of 150 workers.
Microsoft, Motorola form new alliance
News The companies team up to enhance software applications for law enforcement and other emergency service providers.
Tags: Business applications, Knowledge management
Japan proposes 911 cellphone location system
News Japan may soon have its own version of the American E911 system that pinpoints the location of a person making an emergency call.
Communication failures hampered London bombing rescues
News Report on Jul. 7 bombings criticizes lack of underground radio network, system for communication with ground-level operations.
Tags: Operations, Government, Local Government, Defense/military
UK police and military 'battling over spectrum'
News A new data network for the emergency services won't take off unless the Ministry of Defence starts sharing its spectrum, Motorola claims.
Tags: Mobile/Wireless, LANs and WANs, Networking technology
Med-Media software speeds triage at disaster sites
Insight Emergency response teams are constantly looking at ways to improve field operations during an emergency. This case study examines one solution a rescue team uses to get critical medical information to rescuers in the field without all the bulk.
Where business goals meet social gains
News More IT companies are leveraging their core capabilities, as well as urging employees to exercise corporate social responsibility.
Tags: Corporate responsibility, IBM Corp., India, Emergency Management, GPS, Emerging Market, information technology company, emergency response, information technology, leadership
Where's technology when the earth shakes?
Blogs This past week has been calamity filled. Following the freak dust storm in Sydney, Typhoon Kestana flooded into the Phil...
Asia earthquakes heighten BCP need
Blogs It's hard not to notice the earthquake risk around the Pacific Rim these days. I'm not sure if the risk is actually high...
