Technology
International Fuel Tax Association (IFTA) Transaction
April 16, 2010The Nlets IFTA transaction identifies companies severely delinquent in paying their fuel taxes.
Read full article9-1-1? There’s an App for That
April 15, 2010There’s a new iPhone app called Silent Bodyguard. When activated, the application silently sends an emergency alert and your GPS location to a pre-set list of phone numbers and e-mail addresses at 60-second intervals without alerting onlookers or potential attackers. Public safety telecommunicators need to know how to manage those calls and have a procedure in place for how to best use the GPS information being delivered to you.
Read full article10 Nlets Data Sets You Need to Know About
April 2, 2010This series covers transactions for 10 of the 100 data sets from the Nlets network.
Read full articleReview: MX Desk Mount LCD Arm
April 1, 2010The M-NCPPC Montgomery County (Md.) Park Police Communications Center installed and reviewed Ergotron’s new MX Desk Mount LCD Arm.
Read full articleFrom Broadband to TriBand
March 24, 2010Educational opportunities were plentiful and many new products were on display at IWCE 2010, held March 10-12 in Las Vegas.
Read full articleCloud Computing
March 1, 2010In his March column, APCO International Executive Director George Rice discusses the implications of cloud computing technology for public safety communications.
Read full articleA High-Tech EOC on Wheels
February 24, 2010An interview with Frisco (Texas) Fire Department Chief Mack Borchardt and Assistant Chief Paul Siebert about the state-of-the-art communications technology used in its new command and communications vehicle.
Read full articleTech Evaluation
February 24, 2010At APCO’s 2010 Winter Summit, Clifford Clarke offered some considerations public safety communications centers should consider when evaluating new technologies.
Read full articleLTE — ‘What Is It and Why Should I Care?’
February 1, 2010Read about the background and the implications of LTE technology for public safety communications, and what communications professionals should know.
Read full articleHialeah, Fla., Gets New Center & CAD Upgrade
February 1, 2010In October 2009, all this changed when the nearly 50 police and fire dispatchers and calltakers the City of Hialeah, Fla., merged into the city’s new comm center. Today, cross-trained on a new computer-aided dispatch (CAD) system, telecommunicators serve Hialeah’s citizens from a high-tech facility.
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