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FRIDAY — AUGUST 31, 2012 — ISSUE NO. 521

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Dear Friends of Wireless Messaging,

Greetings from Southern Illinois. We are supposed to get the remnants of Hurricane Isaac later today.

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I got a call from a fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology about my report of hearing WWV announce the wrong time. He is the Quality Manager for the NIST Time and Frequency Division.

There is a group of amateur radio enthusiasts called the “FMT Nuts” who have contests to see who can most accurately measure the frequency of a radio signal. (FMT stands for Frequency Measuring Test.) So the FMT Nuts had been discussing this WWV time reporting issue on their Yahoo group and I helped the NIST fellow get access to their reports. I hope they find out what the problem is. One of our readers suggested that the pain medication after my oral surgery might have had an effect on my time monitoring ability — ha ha, but I don't think so.

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“In computing, a news aggregator, also termed a feed aggregator, feed reader, news reader, RSS reader or simply aggregator, is client software or a Web application which aggregates syndicated web content such as news headlines, blogs, podcasts, and video blogs (vlogs) in one location for easy viewing.”

Wikipedia contributors, “News aggregator,” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia , (accessed August 31, 2012).

I spend the week searching for news about Wireless Messaging, Paging, and related topics, so you don't have to.

Being too busy to keep up to date about the industry that you work in is similar to the students who are too busy to do their homework—they flunk out of school.

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Public Safety Critical Messaging Just Got BETTER!

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Critical Response Systems (CRS), a provider of mission-critical communication systems, announces several enhancements to its public safety communication systems.

  • M1503 Response Pager : Responder Presence/General Status
  • ResponseView Dashboard : Agency-Specific Replies
  • ResponseView Dashboard : Responder Capabilities

M1503 Response Pager
Responders can now proactively set their general status using their M1503 pager, prior to incident-related messages. This allows dispatchers and commanders to asses overall readiness with a glance at the ResponseView agency dashboard. Agencies can set custom status messages such as in service, at lunch, in maintenance, according to their own standards and procedures. Incident commanders not only know who receives and reads each message, and how they are responding, but also who is in a position to respond before the next incident even starts.

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ResponseView is the response dashboard component of the SPARKGAP™ critical messaging system. It provides authorized command staff with immediate access to messages, alerts, and response information in real time. Commanders in the field can see who received and read each message, and how they are responding to any given incident.

Since many public safety agencies are dispatched by consolidated 911 centers, CRS has enhanced ResponseView by allowing individual agencies to customize their reply options. Personnel can thereby reply with agency-specific responses ( e.g. arriving station #1 ) to provide specific context to their commanders. Together with the customized general status capabilities of the M1503, the dashboard gives commanders a complete overall incident snapshot at a glance.

Additionally, to give the dashboard even more tactical value, agencies can also now assign specific skill set capabilities to each responder — interior, exterior, hazmat, driver, ALS, etc. This displays not only who is responding, but also the specific capabilities they are bringing to the scene. Incident commanders can now detect subtle manpower issues — such as the lack of a driver for the necessary apparatus — very early in the response process. This early perspective enables commanders to take early corrective action, further reducing overall response time.

Critical Response Systems is dedicated to providing public safety professionals with the right critical messaging solutions to know who is responding, where they are, and when they will arrive on scene. Call CRS today at 866-372-9578 for more information on these latest enhancements or visit us here for additional information about all our solutions. You can also click here to read out latest blogs on various issues related to critical alert messaging.

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IFA 2012: A new Generation of Weather Stations with Paging Module

Weather Warning Free Home Delivery

Professor Gerpott: Paging is being used to give more functionality to millions of devices in the home.

At the IFA-Berlin, the world's leading trade show for consumer electronics, the latest generation of weather stations with Paging Modules will be presented to the public.  In addition to detailed multi-day weather forecasts now being transmitted they will alert the user when there are official severe weather warnings for their local region — published by the DWD (German weather bureau) and transmitted nationwide by the German paging network of e*Message. The Expert for Telecommunication and Economics, Prof. Dr. Torsten Gerpott certifies paging as having tremendous innovative potential for domestic applications.

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The new generation of satellite-based wireless weather stations presented by partners of e*Message, for the first time, at the IFA 2012 in Berlin. With “Twister 300” and “WD 4920” presented by the Companies TFA Dostmann and Technotrade, at the world's largest consumer electronics trade show, devices for the sideboard which show not only detailed local weather forecasts for the next days, but also visual and audible alerts when official severe weather warnings from the German Weather Service (DWD) come up for the local region. All forecasts and alerts are regionalized. For 300 districts in Germany the data will be dynamically updated and transmitted through the nationwide paging network of the Berlin-based e*Message Group. Since its successful debut five years ago already over two million households get their up-to-date weather forecasts with weather stations using integrated paging modules.

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The advantage of the wireless weather stations: “Push” rather than “Pull”

Telecommunications and Economics expert Prof. Dr. Torsten Gerpott sees several reasons for the high demand. “Compared to calling for (Pulling information) weather forecasts on a smartphone or tablet via a GSM/UMTS-network or on a stationary computer connected to the Internet, this  solution is characterized by the automatic data updating (Pushing information) thus not requiring the user to take action to get the latest weather forecasts.” This is one of the reasons he identifies. An additional increase of the attractiveness is raised by the fact that the user is not forced to sign a contract or a subscription to get the weather information.

According to Prof. Dr. Gerpott — Professor of Business and Technology Planning / Telecommunications Management at the University of Duisburg-Essen — there are other potential use cases for Paging Modules based on transmission of information that is of general interest. In addition to weather forecasts, one of them is, for example, time-dependent electricity price tariffs.

Source:e*Message Wireless Information Services Deutschland GmbH

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Processor pioneer Victor Poor dies of cancer at 79

Modest designer of Intel's first integrated processors

By Iain Thomson in San Francisco

Obituary Victor Poor, whose death was announced this weekend, isn't one of the first names to come to mind among computing history, but he played a pivotal role in the development of Intel's early architectures that went on to dominate modern computing and is a legend in ham radio circles.

Poor, along with fellow radio enthusiast and student Harry Pyle, designed what became Intel's 4004 chip, on Thanksgiving weekend in 1969 - sketching out the architecture in his living room in a marathon four-day session. He also played a key role in working with Intel on the 8008 chip, the world's first 8-bit microprocessor.

Born in 1933, in the midst of the last Great Depression, Poor showed an early interest in technology, describing himself in a 2004 interview with the Computer History Unit's oral history division as a "natural-born nerd" who lived for ham radio.

After a stint in the US Navy following World War II he qualified for naval electronic school before working on the first Univac systems and the Packard Bell 250 computer. He recalled that the Univacs, with their delicate construction of vacuum tubes and liquid mercury memory, were prone to breaking down every 90 minutes or so, so any programming had to be quick and correct. The team was working on a computer program for air traffic control at the time, which caused him some concern for the safety of passengers coming in to land.

The same reliability problems of analogue computing dogged his next job as a field engineer for Raytheon, fixing up the Sparrow III air-to-air missile. The missile's control systems relied on the analogue circuitry and vacuum tubes and "didn't work very well," he recalls, particularly in tropical parts of the world.

In 1959 he left to start up what became Fredrick Electronics with $100,000 in VC funding. Much in the same way as Hewlett and Packard, Frederick was a radio and telecommunications engineering shop, working on military and commercial communications and building some of the first reliable telex systems capable of transmitting images and sound.

Occasionally these products were accidental. Inspired by his ham radio systems, Poor built a machine to convert teletype into Morse code. This was just something he was noodling with, but a visiting US Navy officer saw it and insisted on ordering some, and eventually the company sold huge numbers of machines that could convert Morse code into teletype and vice versa, eventually achieving transmission speeds of 300 words per minute.

But these devices were still analog and weren't programmable, running purely off ROM memory. This led to significant reliability problems. While machine to machine communications were reasonably reliable, the tapping style (or fist) of a human Morse code operator could completely flummox the machines.

After the company was bought out by Plantronics, Poor turned his mind to integrated circuitry, and joined Computer Terminal Corporation (CTC), a startup by two NASA engineers. The company pitched Intel and Texas Instruments to build the 4004 processor design he and Pyles had developed and used it in a range of teletype machines based around integrated circuitry.

Poor also worked with Intel on the next generation of processors, which became the 8008 line that helped spur Chipzilla's massive growth. CTC again asked Intel and TI to try and build the chip, eventually using most of Intel's offering but with its own tweaks. Intel bought the rights to the hardware in exchange for writing off its original $50,000 fee.

Despite his pivotal role in the design of early computer hardware Poor was very modest about his input, typically shifting the praise to fellow engineers who also worked on the project. Patenting such systems wasn't also something he had much time for and he appeared to regret the current mania for owning every new technology in a legally binding way.

CTC was renamed Datapoint and developed its own processing systems under Poor's guidance. But the company decided not to follow IBM's move into the personal computer market, for fear that it would undercut its own highly-profitable business — a decision Poor personally disagreed with.

He retired in 1984, saying the company had got too big and he wasn't having fun anymore. For someone with more experience than most in the field, he described himself as still clueless about how to run a technology company efficiently, saying he felt too much like Dilbert's pointy-haired manager.

"I've often thought about what's the good way to organize a company and I've come to the conclusion there is no good way," he said. "No matter what we did, you know, at Datapoint we tried all kinds of schemes, we did skunkworks projects and we had separate departments and we merged departments and we unmerged departments and no matter what we did there was always something wrong."

He professed irritation with management guru Tom Peters, who interviewed him and other Datapoint management for the book In Search of Excellence. Peters misrepresented the management process, he said, making it out to be easy.

"I didn't even recognize myself in there. He made it look like we were geniuses and it just is not true. It's just not true," he said.

After stepping down from Datapoint, Poor and his family spent much of their time sailing in the US, Mexico and Europe. While on board he developed a communication system that married amateur radio stations transmissions and messaging servers to allow a basic e-mail, graphics, and data transmission, which is still used by over 100,000 hams today.

In May, Poor was diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer and he died on Friday in Florida. He is survived by Florence, his wife of 60 years, and their two children.

Source: The Register

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Samsung Develops Android App to Simplify Smartphone Screens for In-Car Use

Published on: 28th Aug 2012

Samsung Electronics has launched a mobile app that is aimed at improving safety for users while driving. Drive Link is built around the three most popular uses of smartphones while driving: listening to music, navigating to a destination and talking hands-free. It also includes shortcuts to other driving applications that have also met safety certification standards.

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Samsung said that the Drive Link application conforms with the standards of the Japanese Automotive Manufacturers Association, one of the world's strictest driver's safety regulation standards.

Enlarged buttons are complemented by a simple menu structure that makes navigating through the options easy and intuitive. Upon loading the App, the user is presented with a welcome screen displaying time and weather information for the current location. Upcoming appointments saved in S Calendar are also displayed and, if they contain address information, a link is displayed and set directly as the destination.

If present, Drive Link can connect smartphones to a car's In-Vehicle Infotainment system, or head unit, via MirrorLink. MirrorLink is the new standard connectivity protocol between smartphone and car head units from the Car Connectivity Consortium, an industry body comprising most major smartphone and vehicle car manufacturers.

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Staying in touch during journeys can often be important. With this in mind, Drive Link incorporates a feature called Text-To-Speech, available in English, French, Italian, German, and Spanish, which enables all incoming messages, emails and updates from social media websites to be automatically read via the car's speaker system. All personal contacts saved in the phone are loaded to Drive Link and users can also make a phone call directly by dialing on the keypad.

Drive Link is launching on the Samsung GALAXY S III and will be made available on other smartphones running Google Android 4.0 in the near future.

The app is downloadable from Samsung Apps.

Source: Cellular News

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SPECIAL ISSUE

Regulatory Fee Payments Due September 13, 2012

The FCC has just announced that all regulatory fee payments for fiscal year 2011 will be due no later than 11:59 PM (ET) on Thursday, September 13, 2012 . However, as discussed below, the FCC's financial management software has been known to put licensees into "red light" status even when they have timely paid their regulatory fees, if the fee payment has not been processed by the deadline. Therefore, we recommend submitting the fee payment several days before the September 13, 2012 deadline.

Like last year, all regulates that pay annually will be required to pay their regulatory fees via the Commission's online Fee Filer payment system. Certain Part 90 and Part 101 private radio licensees pay their regulatory fee every ten years with their license renewal application. Cellular, PCS, AWS, 700 MHz, Paging, and most other CMRS/commercial licensees must pay annually. Regulatees will be required to access the Fee Filer system ( www.fcc.gov/fees/feefiler.html ) with their valid CORES FRN and password in order to initiate the process of filing their annual regulatory fees. Payment may be made electronically through the Fee Filer system (ACH Payment or Credit Card) or by check or credit card information that is forwarded directly to the FCC's Lock Box at US Bank. Additionally, you may also make payment by wire funds transfer directly to the US Treasury. Instructions for the wire transfer will be provided in our detailed memoranda.

It is important to note that the FCC no longer mails out pre-bills for regulatory fees associated with Interstate Telecommunications Service Providers ("ITSPs"), Satellite Space Stations, holders of Cable Television Relay Service ("CARS") licenses, Earth Stations or CATV Systems. Instead, the FCC has placed its pre-bill information for these services its Fee Filer system, where they may be viewed and paid.

If you chose to make payment by credit card, please note that the US Treasury permits a maximum charge of $99,999.99 from a single credit card per day. If your fee is greater than this amount, it will be necessary to pay by another method.

If you choose to submit a payment by check or money order (as opposed to paying electronically via Fee Filer), a Form 159-E voucher, which is generated by the Fee Filer System, must accompany your payment. Please note that FCC recommends against submitting multiple Form 159-Es with a single payment ( e.g. , check, wire transfer, credit card, etc.). This is because it will increase the chance of errors in the FCC's processing of your annual regulatory fee payments and increase the likelihood of being placed in a red light status after the regulatory fee payment due date even though the payment(s) had actually been made in a timely manner. This is significant because any company that is "red lighted" is presumed by the FCC to be delinquent on its debts to the Government and therefore will not receive any benefits from the FCC (such as application grants or USF payments) until the matter is resolved.

If you choose to send the payment and Form 159-E payment voucher via regular mail, the envelope should be addressed, as follows:

Federal Communications Commission
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P.O. Box 979084
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If, instead, you chose to send the payment and Form 159-E payment voucher by courier, two envelopes should be used. The outer envelope should be addressed, as follows:

Federal Communications Commission
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The inner envelope should be addressed as follows:

Federal Communications Commission
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We caution that all regulatory fees must be paid by the Thursday, September 13, 2012 filing deadline . A failure to successfully make the payment by this deadline will result in the imposition of a 25 percent late payment fee . Additionally, it is important to note that the FCC has started the practice of immediately placing any regulatee whose payment has not been received and processed by the filing deadline in a "red light" status. Thus, even if the payment has been timely made, you could end up being "red-lighted" if the FCC has not completed the processing of your payment prior to the September 13, 2012 filing deadline. As discussed above, being placed in a red light status could have adverse consequences since you will not receive any benefits from the FCC (such as application grants or USF payments) until the matter is resolved.

Exemptions from Regulatory Fees — Governmental entities and non-profit entities under Section 501 of the Internal Revenue Code are exempt from the payment of regulatory fees. Any entity claiming exempt status must submit (or have on file with the Commission) a valid IRS Determination Letter documenting its non-profit status or a certification from a governmental authority attesting to its exempt status. Finally, a regulatee will also be exempt from the payment of regulatory fees if the sum total of all of its regulatory fees owed is less than $10.00 .

Please let us know if you have any questions or need any assistance with your regulatory fee payments.

BloostonLaw Contact: Richard Rubino

Verizon's Internal Report on 911 Outages in Virginia Reveals Laundry List of Failures

The Washington Post reported that Verizon was scheduled to present a report to the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments at its Wednesday meeting. This report is said to list a wide-range of technical and procedural failures that cascaded into a perfect storm and resulted in the loss of emergency 911 service to over 2.3 million people in Washington, DC suburbs of northern Virginia. This outage, which occurred as a result of the derecho on June 29th, was not fully resolved until July 3rd.

Among the failures that Verizon is reported to have admitted are: issues with Arlington County's 911 system that Verizon previously denied; failures of emergency backup systems, including drained batteries and faulty generators; failure of a technician to thoroughly investigate the root cause of the 911 outage; treatment of the outage as a service complaint rather than the large-scale outage that it really was; failure to implement internal emergency command center procedures even though there were significant issues at the two central offices that routed 911 calls; and improper communications with local governments regarding the status of the E911 communications system.

Verizon's mistakes illustrate the need for carriers to systematically evaluate their equipment and internal processes in order to ensure that there is not a single point of failure for critical communications systems such as the 911 system. Some examples include conducting regular tests that could mimic a major disaster or weather emergency in order to verify that back up equipment will function in the event of an outage and a review of and drills using internal procedures in order to verify that they provide adequate guidance to personnel for purposes of testing and in the event of a catastrophic emergency.

Source: BloostonLaw Telecom Update Vol. 15, No. 31 August 17, 2012

 

This newsletter is not intended to provide legal advice. Those interested in more information should contact the firm. For additional information, contact Hal Mordkofsky at 202-828-5520 or halmor@bloostonlaw.com

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FAA to Study Use of Electronics on Planes

By Joshua Freed
AP Airlines Writer
Tuesday, August 28, 2012

It's going to be a while before airline passengers can use iPads and other electronic devices during the whole flight.

The Federal Aviation Administration said Monday that it is starting a process to study the issue, with a timeline that means it will take at least until March 2013 for a recommendation — and maybe longer for action.

In March the FAA raised hopes that it might loosen rules for electronic devices by saying it would "explore ways to bring together all of the key stakeholders involved."

Smartphones and tablet computers are common in the passenger cabin, and pilots are using iPads in the cockpit. But passengers have to shut off electronic devices when the plane is below 10,000 feet because of worries that signals emitted by the devices might interfere with electronics in the cockpit.

The FAA doesn't actually ban the devices. But it says airlines can only allow devices that have been tested and proven not to interfere with the plane's electronics. With thousands of devices on the market and new ones coming out each day, airlines simply ban them all during takeoff and landing.

The FAA will form a committee this fall to study the issue for six months and then make recommendations. The FAA often uses such Aviation Rulemaking Committees when it is considering changes, and their deliberations often last months, sometimes years.

This group will include people from mobile technology companies, airplane makers, pilots and flight attendants, airlines, and passenger associations. The FAA will also ask for public input.

In a written statement, acting FAA Administrator Michael Huerta said the agency wants "information to help airlines "decide if they can allow more widespread use of electronic devices in today's aircraft."

The FAA said allowing cellphone use during flights isn't under consideration.

FAA spokeswoman Brie Sachse said the members of the new committee have not yet been chosen. She declined to say why the process is taking so long.

Source: WirelessWEEK

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Second Java zero-day exploit uncovered

by Antone Gonsalves
Aug 29, 2012 11:30 am

Researchers have found a second zero-day Java vulnerability that attackers are using to hijack computers on the Web.

An analysis of exploit code found shortly after the first Java flaw was discovered Sunday revealed the second vulnerability. The code has been tied to attackers in China.

"The beauty of this bug class is that it provides 100 percent reliability and is multi-platform," Esteban Guillardoy, a developer at Immunity, said Tuesday in announcing the discovery of the second bug. "Hence this will shortly become the penetration test Swiss knife for the next couple of years."

Users of Java, which is installed in billions of devices worldwide, are notorious for not staying up to date with patches. Rapid7 estimates that 65 percent of the installations today are unpatched. However, this time around, people with the latest version of Java were the ones most open to attack.

The bugs are in Java 7 and affect Windows, Mac OS X and Linux operating systems running a Web browser with a Java plugin enabled. The flaws were introduced with the release the platform in July 28, 2011, Guillardoy said in his analysis.

Java steward Oracle has not released a fix for either vulnerability. The company has registered the first flaw as CVE-2012-4681 on the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures list. Joshua Drake, a security researcher from Accuvant, discovered the initial bug.

Researchers are advising computer owners to disable Java in all browsers. "That would be the only solution, right now," said Tod Beardsley, a bug testing engineering manager for Rapid7.

For businesses that need to run Java, Beardsley recommends using a white list that prevents employees from visiting anything but trusted websites.

Both vulnerabilities are being leveraged in the Blackhole exploit kit, a backdoor Trojan kit used by cybercriminals. "Now that Blackhole has it, you should expect to see it in any kind of attack involving websites and Web browsers," Beardsley said.

Blackhole is one of the most common Web threats. Security vendor Sophos found the exploit kit used in 28 percent of the Web threats the company detected between October 2011 and March 2012.

The flaws allow a remote attacker to execute code via a Java applet launched by a victim clicking on a link on a hacker's website or on a hijacked site.

"The applet can run with the same permissions that the user would normally have, so it's out of the Java sandbox," Beardsley said. "It can do anything that you can do with your computer. It can upload documents, install keyloggers and backdoors — basically anything."

Hackers are increasingly targeting Java because it runs on any operating system, which greatly expands the number of available targets. Many of today's Web exploit toolkits rely heavily on Java exploits, which have surpassed Flash Player and Adobe Reader flaws in popularity, experts say.

Source: Macworld

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To: brad@braddye.com
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 11:51 AM
Subject: From the Paging Information Web Site

Hello Brad,

Referencing the August 17th Newsletter regarding Motorola and Google . . . sad times indeed along with fond memories.

In 1979, I had the privilege to be part of the Motorola team that attended Telecom '79 in Geneva, Switzerland (I believe it was Knobby Clark, Bob Ennis, Tom Gallagher along with Peter Applebee from the UK and me doing booth duty). We had a fully working cell phone system at our booth and demonstrated the first working Motorola cell phone handset.

Battery life was so bad, we had a bank of chargers and batteries in the back of the booth and kept quickly changing batteries for our live demos. Wasn't it correct that it took until 1983 when John Mitchell demonstrated the first commercially viable unit in the US that satisfactory battery life was achieved?

If you can put this in the newsletter, I would appreciate comments from others to see if my memories are correct.

Personal regards,

Ken Krassy
kenkrassy@aol.com
719-231-9109 cell phone

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