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DECEMBER 6, 2004
All-Band Radio, All-Species CD -- Remember the post-9/11 exposés about incompatible radio systems used by New York's firefighters and police? To Antonio Turgeon, CEO of TechnoConcepts, that was a call to action. His small Van Nuys (Calif.) company has a technology that can enable any two radios to talk to each other. The key is a proprietary chip that sits at the base of an antenna and instantly converts any incoming analog radio signal into digital data. Normally, that process requires a dozen or so tiny analog chips -- and they can handle only one signal format, such as Bluetooth or code division multiple access (CDMA). "Our objective," says Turgeon, "is a handset that can prowl the world and convert any local wireless signal." -- Preparing environmental-impact studies on new construction or logging projects is a tedious job. But it just got a lot easier for consultants and biologists who work on such reports in California. CalBiota, a compact-disk database of the state's rare plant and animal species, can chop the time needed to prepare a study's tables and charts by 80%, says developer Michael Wood of Wood Biological Consulting in Walnut Creek, Calif. A similar CD for Colorado is in the works.  Edited by Otis Port Get BusinessWeek directly on your desktop with our RSS feeds.  Add BusinessWeek news to your Web site with our headline feed. Click to buy an e-print or reprint of a BusinessWeek or BusinessWeek Online story or video. To subscribe online to BusinessWeek magazine, please click here. Learn more, go to the BusinessWeekOnline home page  | | |
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