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. [...]

Have you herd of the term “Office Creeper?”  If not, the definition can be found on this Word Spy web page.  Essentially, an Office Creeper is someone who sneaks into an office building during regular work hours to steal personal property from offices in that building. In case you are wondering if this really happens, [...]

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 [...]

From television station WMAZ Channel 13 in Macon, Georgia (just south of Atlanta) comes this latest story of thievery.  As you will see in the video clip on their website, several thugs drove a white pickup truck through the front doors of Target and then loaded up the ATM that was located near the front of [...]

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 [...]