The Cardinal

On December 26, 2012, The Cardinal featured an OP-ED entitled Police Radio Encryption: Not Secure, A Transparency Failure, A Public Safety Nightmare. Yesterday, a reader posted a comment criticizing the article with some very good points about why police radios should be encrypted. The Cardinal’s position is that general law enforcement radio dispatch should NOT [...]

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Homeland Security? Schaumburg police responded about 9:10 a.m. Thursday to a security alarm on Martingale Road showing possible entry to a public safety emergency communications tower and facility for fire and police communications. Police arrived on the scene and found nothing at the address. An alert police officer recalled that a different address up the [...]

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Now is your chance to earn your J-Card and learn the REAL origin of how Dr. Dre became is doctor. Di you hear “Albino brothers?” Mobile phone manufacturer HTC has launched a new mobile known as the HTC Sensation, which includes hip-hop producer Dr Dre’s ‘Beats Audio’ technology. In July 2008, Dr. Dre released his [...]

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A new Network Siemens Networks sign near Dundee Road and Route 53 at 1501 Shure Drive, Arlington Heights with employees at unveiling ceremony. Nokia Siemens Networks held a brief ceremony unveiling a new sign facing Route 53 at the Arlington Heights campus on Thursday, September 22, 2011. Nokia Siemens Networks executives and Village of Arlington [...]

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Google Inc.’s $12.5 billion deal to buy cellphone maker Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. is aimed at giving the Internet search leader more legal firepower as it battles Apple Inc. Google announced early Monday morning that it will acquire the cell phone division and smartphone maker Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion in cash. Google CEO Larry [...]

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Android took the lead over other smartphone platforms in the US, Nielsen determined on Thursday. Android broke a three-way deadlock between November and January, and claimed 29 percent of the US smartphone market. Apple’s iPhone and RIM BlackBerry were tied at 27 percent. All of Microsoft’s platforms combined were at 10 percent. HTC leads the [...]

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Android users of the Samsung Captivate on AT&T are finally getting to update their phones to the 2.2 version of the Android OS. There have been widespread complaints about lagging operating system updates. Mac Users Left Out with Captivate Captivate owners who use a Mac rather than a Windows computer can’t update their phones yet [...]

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Sample video of outdoor scene with the Motorola DROID. DROID by Motorola arrived Nov. 6, 2009. In the video above, the video and camera quality rate excellent. The camera was pretty quick on the draw — catching deer feeding in Busse Woods near Golf Road and Route 53 near Rolling Meadows, Illinois. For those of [...]

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Funny satire on the new iDon’t commercials about the upcoming phone Android operating system phone soon to be available from Verizon. Android is a mobile operating system running on the Linux kernel. Android was initially developed by Google and later the Open Handset Alliance. In July 2005, Google acquired Android, Inc., a small startup company [...]

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