Motorola Solutions and Verizon Wireless today announced an alliance to bring LTE to public safety customers across the United States. This first-of-its-kind solution combines a private public safety-controlled broadband network with Verizon’s commercial cellular network. Motorola is working with more than 200 public-safety entities to deploy LTE networks, notes Urgent.com, but funding issues have caused [...]

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Aftershocks have sent survivors scrambling for safety in Christchurch, the second largest city in New Zealand, after a powerful earthquake shook the city at midday, killing at least 65 people and injuring dozens more. Google’s Person Finder application, is helping people locate relatives, while wikis are being used to share information about missing people. EQNZ.co.nz [...]

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Verizon Wireless on Tuesday announced that it will start selling the Motorola Xoom on February 24. The Motorola XOOM will be available for purchase from Verizon Wireless for $599.99 with a new two-year customer agreement or $799.99 without a contract. It’s also available at Best Buy for $799 (without a contract). Wireless 3G data service [...]

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As protests continue across the Middle East and North Africa, a few tech-savvy individuals have crafted simple tools for tracking recent developments by tapping into social media platforms, notes The Huffington Post (below). Meanwhile, Boing Boing lists Christchurch earthquake resources. Software developer Virender Ajmani created a Google Maps Mashup that plots recent tweets from Bahrain, [...]

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The MDRP360 wireless pan/tilt mechanism for still or video cameras has an optional wireless remote and onboard video transmitters to show camera views up to 300’ away. It is designed to work with most cameras: small digital compacts through fully professional DSLRs and is capable of automatically capturing up to 72 precisely aligned images per [...]

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At the 2011 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference in Orlando, Fla., a variety of new services and technologies were introduced. One major barrier to health care reform is making patients physically visit a doctor. Smartphone apps could change that, giving you a doc in your pocket. FotoFinder unveiled its handyscope for identifying [...]

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