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Top News: New CEO Zeev Farkash takes over at ioimage

Israel-bsed video analytics products provider ioimage has a new chief executive officer. Zeev Farkash, the company's vice president of global sales and customer service, was appointed as CEO, replacing Roni Kass. Kass, who founded the company, is ...

From GEOFF KOHL, Security Info Watch,  27 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Applied Materials, Inc.

Top News: Mace to launch dealer program, acquire central station

During a shareholder's meeting today held over the phone and online, Mace's CEO Dennis Raefield laid out a direction for the company that includes a strong refocusing of its security business. The company, famous for the Mace brand of pepper spray ...

From GEOFF KOHL, Security Info Watch,  7 Jan 2009

Top News: NFL stadiums to host collegiate sports security event training

Stadiums used by the National Football League are being used for more than the pigskin battle of offense versus defense. The stadiums also will be the sites for teaching colleges and university how to manage security for sporting events. The training ...

From GEOFF KOHL, Security Info Watch,  18 Dec 2008
Related Topics: NFL,  National Basketball Association

Top News: Pelco and Cisco partner for interoperability

Pelco has a new partner in Cisco. Pelco, a Clovis, Calif.-based firm specializing in video surveillance technology, has joined Cisco's Technology Developer Program in the Industrial Wireless Solution area. The announcement comes as both firms have ...

From GEOFF KOHL, Security Info Watch,  12 Dec 2008
Related Topics: Cisco Systems, Inc.,  Schneider Electric,  Invensys

Top News: SCM Microsystems and Hirsch Electronics to merge

Hirsch Electronics Corporation, a California-based company providing physical access control technologies and solutions, and SCM Microsystems, a German firm specializing in logical/network access control readers and solutions, are to merge. The ...

From GEOFF KOHL, Security Info Watch,  11 Dec 2008
Related Topics: SCM Microsystems, Inc.

Has biometrics hit the tipping point?

Unisys today announced the release of data from its biannual Unisys Security Index. One niche part of this years research was on the topic of consumer perception and comfort with biometrics for authentication and identification. The chief finding, ...

From GEOFF KOHL, Security Info Watch,  9 Dec 2008
Related Topics: Unisys

Top News: The Piracy Problem

Piracy continues to grab the national headlines, and with the taking of large vessels that are being held for ransoms of many millions of dollars, pirate attacks in the Gulf of Aden (between Somalia and Yemen) are a top concern for worldwide shipping ...

From GEOFF KOHL, Security Info Watch,  9 Dec 2008

Top News: Pelco withdraws support from UK's IFSEC tradeshow

Pelco is pulling back money that would have been used to fund its traditionally large booth space at the IFSEC tradeshow, a tradeshow held in Birmingham, England, and considered the largest for the UK security and fire detection market. Instead, Pelco ...

From GEOFF KOHL, Security Info Watch,  5 Dec 2008

Bruker branches into explosives detection market

Bruker Corporation, a scientific research and development company known for technologies in the areas of health imaging and superconductivity, is branching into the world of airport-based explosives detection. The company announced on Thursday that it ...

From GEOFF KOHL, Security Info Watch,  5 Dec 2008

Top News: IP video standards group gains traction

Launched at the Essen security tradeshow in Germany earlier this year from within video surveillance competitors Axis, Bosch and Sony, the Open Network Video Interface Forum (ONVIF) is now gaining some traction. The organization announced today that it ...

From GEOFF KOHL, Security Info Watch,  5 Dec 2008
Related Topics: Sony

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