For the past 15 years Panasonic has been equipping field technicians in industries such as utilities and telecommunications with rugged, mobile computing devices. Extended battery life is essential as these technicians are often in the field for an entire shift. As a result, Panasonic has always offered industry-leading battery life in its rugged line of [...]
Last year, we introduced you to Greg Gillis, a.k.a. Girl Talk, and his use of Toughbook 30 and Toughbook 74 notebooks during his live, vibrant shows. In a recent Rolling Stone interview, Girl Talk discusses his unique way of mixing music and creating fun tunes for the crowds – all of this on his Toughbook [...]
To meet the demand of police agencies in the U.K., the British subsidiary of General Motors, Vauxhall, now offers fleet customers the option of a built-in Panasonic Toughbook 19 in its Astra model. In this economic climate, spending cuts are widespread, forcing agencies, like police departments to improve efficiency. Without a mobile computer, writing a [...]
Rivers, lakes and bad roads never stopped Mark Gumbert’s team from tracking bats, but inadequate equipment did. Mark Gumbert, founder and president of Copperhead Environmental Consulting, and his team spend about three weeks every spring researching and tracking bat migrations for both independent and government-commissioned research and need computers that can withstand the terrain, weather [...]
As the second-largest municipal law enforcement agency in Oklahoma, with around 750 sworn officers, the Tulsa Police Department protects nearly 400,000 citizens. Daily challenges associated with patrolling such a large population made the department realize that its in-car laptops were not maximizing the officers’ efficiency while on duty.
On October 13, 2010, 33 Chilean miners were rescued after being trapped approximately 2,000 feet underground for 69 days, marking the end of the longest-ever mining rescue operation. Securing their successful rescue was not done through the brute force of mining equipment alone. Zephyr Technology’s BioHarness™ BT and Panasonic Toughbook® U1 and CF-29 computers played [...]
Centrica PLC is one of Europe’s largest energy providers, with a main presence in the U.K. (the British Gas brand). The company provides electricity and gas supply and technical services to around 14 million residential households and one million commercial customers. In 2009, Centrica began rolling out smart meters to its customers – the first [...]
