Prior to the 7.0 earthquake, there were approximately 125,000 landline phones and more than 3 million wireless devices in Haiti. With more than 3 million Haitians directly impacted, or one-third of its population, mobile devices have been very important in the search and rescue missions. The Department of Homeland Security’s National Coordinating Center (NCC), the operational arm of the Nati...

We are beginning to receive reports from Haiti as to the extent of the damage caused by the earthquake on Tuesday. Debris is still blocking the roads and preventing an accurate assessment of the communications infrastructure. We are being told there is very little commercial power, and fuel supplies are low.  The Department of Homeland Security’s National Coordinating Center (...

The wireless industry will be working on delivering wireless emergency alerts thanks to federal government action today. The Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the FCC announced the adoption of design specifications so that wireless carriers

What's better than a handful of sensors for determining if some hostile enemy has set off chemical weapons in a city? How about hundreds of thousands or millions of sensors? If research being done by NASA Ames Research Center under the Cell-All program in the US Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate is taken into production, your next smartphone might conta...

* More Security Issues for BlackBerry Users! This time, there has been a Security Statement released by the Department of Homeland Security! Unless you have been living under a rock, you know that mobile security issues have been a “Hot Topic” recently.  On Thursday, 10/29/09, BlackBerry security issues reached an entirely new level. The Department of

Scientists at NASAs AMES research facility along with researchers from the Cell-All program, from the Department of Homeland Security, participated in an event on Tuesday which included the demonstration of prototypes which would allow mobile phones to detect chemical and biological agents. The Cell-All programs goal is to use mobile phones for ubiquitous chemical and biological

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), a division of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is relying on Sprint (NYSE:S) to provide 2,000 Nextel handsets in support of FEMA's nationwide vehicle tracking system.

Department of Homeland Security Agency Award Requires AT&T to Deploy Smartphone and Mobile Computing Devices for FEMA Workforce The AT&T Government Solutions business unit has announced three awards potentially worth up to $50 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), an agency within the Department of Homeland Security, to provide voice and data devices for the nationwide... [

Cybersecurity control should be taken away from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security placed under the White House's purview, a panel of government and industry leaders are urging President-elect Barack Obama.

Rep. Loretta Sanchez wants to establish guidelines for border searches and seizures of laptops, smartphones and other electronic devices that store data. Department of Homeland Security officials maintain the Fourth Amendment does not require U.S. Customs agents to have reasonable suspicion before searching laptops and digital devices and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with the feds. Re...