When Boone Hospital Center needed state-of-the art communications and security for its new $89 million dollar patient tower, it called on an old friend: Tech Electronics of Columbia. The hospital’s recent addition has such state-of-the-art communications as a nurse call system so innovative that a patient bed can send messages to special nursing badges if […]
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For more than 20 years, Columbia fell under the aegis of two city managers, both of them more or less homegrown with many years of residence under belt as they worked their way up to this important position. Unlike several predecessors, Ray Beck and Bill Watkins earned the respect of the city councils they served
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One year after it launched WiMAX in Kansas City and St. Louis, Sprint quietly expanded the broadband wireless service to Columbia. Marketed as a “fourth-generation,” or 4G, technology, WiMAX has average download speeds of 3 to 6 Mbps, Sprint said, which makes it a potential competitor to some wired broadband services. Sprint hasn’t officially launched
