The residents of San Jose, California got surprised recently by the passage of a new alarm response ordinance.  According to this article in the San Jose Mercury News from January, 2012, the San Jose police department has decided not to respond to any security system signals unless there is verification of a crime in progress. [...]

If you are a regular follower of the news, you will know about the major floods that have inundated parts of Thailand.  Unfortunately, some of the areas that experienced the heavy flooding contained factories that manufactured electronic goods that are regularly consumed here in the United States.  One example of a product that is now [...]

The Grinch is back!  In the latest caper, thieves broke into a storage area for holiday decorations in the city of Macon and stripped all of the copper from the decorations.  Here is the link to the article in the Atlanta Business Chronicle: http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/morning_call/2011/11/copper-thieves-destroy-macons-holiday.html?surround=etf&ana=e_article Would you think you would have to secure the holiday decorations with [...]

Arecont Vision, a leading manufacturer of megapixel video surveillance (CCTV) cameras, has released a new 20 megapixel, 180 degree, day/night, dome camera.  This new camera has four 5-megapixel imagers in one dome camera housing and it allows users to get wide views with high-resolution quality.  I predict that megapixel video surveillance cameras will soon become the [...]

Another day in Atlanta…another story of a smash and grab burglary.  These types of burglaries are very hard to stop because the burglars wait until a business is closed (usually a retail business is the target) and then smash the front window and grab everything they can in a very short period of time. So, [...]