NetQin, a Chinese company developing mobile antivirus solutions is accused of using unethical business methods similar to those used by scareware distributors.The Chinese Central Television (CCTV) reported last week that NetQin covertly installs a malicious application alongside its antivirus program and then asks fo... |
25 March 2011
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A group of experts from the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA), working in collaboration with scientists from the Reston, Virginia-based ObjectVideo, have recently finished developing a new computer vision system. The prototype demonstrator features a function that has never before been seen on a similar ... |
1 June 2010
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The China Central Television media conglomerate, which is controlled by the Communist Party, has aired a two-part series show called “Confession of a Murderer,” during which reporters went inside a juvenile prison in Beijing and interviewed one guy who was said to have been condemned to life in jail becau... |
29 December 2009
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As part of a major research project, scientists are currently working on a closed-circuit television (CCTV) system that could be able to predict suspicious behavior usually associated with crime in bus travelers. The cameras would relay information back to a control room, where operators would be able to watch suspic... |
25 September 2009
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With filmmaker Robert Spence's announcement that he will be using the first-ever eye-shaped video camera for his new documentary, security experts and privacy advocates are becoming increasingly concerned as to the impact that the next generation of surveillance equipment will have on the traditional way people ... |
28 March 2009
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Closed-circuit television (CCTV) is blamed by many as an affront to the privacy of decent and honest citizens, despite the fact that authorities praise it as an effective means of catching crooks and criminals. To calm some of the protests on CCTV, scientists at Hewlett-Packard have devised a method of “conceal... |
2 February 2009
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Adobe will make available some of its high-end technologies, such as Flash and Flex, to offer a full Internet coverage of the Olympics in China and Macau. The company has partnered with CCTV.com, the enterprise that has the online video rights to the Beijing Olympic Games. While the Chinese company will allow users t... |
5 August 2008
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So let's see! There is a self-destructor bag, a bug detector, a dagger shoe, a jet pack, the good old safe cracker and a bunch of other stuff James Bond would carry in his exotic "purse".This gizmo I ran into on Wired looks like an ordinary book, but it's actually a high tech camera containing a miniature v... |
12 December 2007
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George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is starting to get closer to reality. Orwell's vision of a society where close-circuit cameras and computers spy on (almost) every person's movement is here. "Talking" CCTV cameras that scold anti-social "children of England" are already putting an eye on the ground... |
6 April 2007
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A study made by the market-research firm iSuppli Corporation showed what the evolution of surveillance technology will be over the next couple of years. The eye-in-the-sky that looks over what you do during shopping at the local supermarket or when you park your car in an overcrowded parking lot is the method of cont... |
21 March 2007
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