Armed With Handhelds
Source: Information Week
L33tdawg: Blackberry's are waaaaayyyyyy cool. I remember jooz telling me about them quite some time ago. Unfortunately, I've yet to see them for sale here in Malaysia. Then again, it could just be that I haven't looked hard enough.
Massachusetts state troopers working at Boston's Logan Airport now have wireless access to the National Crime Information Center thanks to technology from Aether that delivers data to BlackBerry handheld devices.
Eighty troopers working at Logan are using the BlackBerrys to quickly send information gathered from license plates or by talking to individuals at the airport to the National Crime Information Center to check for stolen vehicles, outstanding warrants, or previous felonies. When an inquiry is made via the handheld, the data is sent through a wireless network to a server at the Lake County, Fla., sheriff's office. Once data is received, it's transmitted back to the device. Massachusetts is in the process of upgrading its interfaces with the National Crime Information Center. Once completed, it will use its own servers instead of the one in Florida.
