NYC orders $500 million emergency data network
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New York City will spend $500 million   on a wireless data network for emergency services following   complaints that authorities had trouble communicating with each   other when responding to the September 11 attacks.
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Providence, R.I., officials have unveiled a wireless mesh network that can provide police and fire personnel with quick access to city records.
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FedEx Corp.&#39;s express air shipping unit was ordered to repay $29 million in emergency financial aid granted by the US government after the Sept.
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Verizon Wireless plans to expand its wireless high-speed data network into 14 additional cities, including New York and Los Angeles.
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Motorola has unveiled its Incident Scene Management offerings, a wireless broadband product suite for first responder commanders and other public safety and government users who require communications tools for managing large-scale emergencies.
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Verizon Communications Inc. yesterday identified 19 Boston suburbs -- including Natick, Newton, and Woburn -- where it will offer super-fast Internet access over a new fiber-optic network this year.
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A new satellite-based information system will quickly spread environmental and health data across the world so that developing countries can anticipate catastrophes such as drought, storms and floods &#151; for only about $1,500 in setup costs.
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CHICAGO  - FedEx Corp.'s  express air shipping unit has been ordered by the U.S. government to repay $29 million in excess funds received under an act established after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the company said on Friday.
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In the upcoming 2010 census, the Census Bureau for the first time will equip its temporary work force of 500,000 people with hand-held computers made by Harris Corp., to help them make a more precise count of more than 300 million people living in the 50 states and Puerto Rico.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 4  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- While Con Edison crews work to restore electrical power to residents in Westchester affected by power interruptions caused by remnants of Tropical Strom Ernesto, the company is distributing dry ice to customers.
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By MARTHA McKAY, STAFF WRITER  Comcast plans to hire more than 500 people in New Jersey by the end of the year to meet increased customer demand, the company said Friday.
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency recently rolled out an Intranet that has helped it handle overflow processing for hurricane disaster relief.
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AT&T Government Solutions of Vienna has received a $13 million task order from the U.S. Agency for International Development to upgrade the agency's Web systems.
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Fireman's Fund pays for only the capacity it uses in $157 million, seven-year contract for an automated data center and 5,200 personal computers.
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NEW YORKâHitachi Data Systems Inc. unveiled Tuesday embedded virtualization layer technology that can aggregate up to 32 petabytes of internal and external storage into a single virtual storage pool and
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At a renovated textile warehouse near Boston's Fort Point Channel, where 50 employees of Ember Corp. are moving this month from cramped quarters next door, young engineers are busy lining the walls with 600 wireless sensor nodes -- each containing a low-powered radio frequency microchip mounted on a printed circuit board.
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Mayor Kerry Prendergast is going to make broadband a key issue in her re-election campaign. Privately owned telco CityLink says that for $5.5 million, it could build a 53-kilometre suburban network.