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Mobile broadband isn't exactly known for its ability to transmit video in real time, but Mushroom Networks wants that to change with the ThirdEye. Not too long ago mobile broadband wasn't exactly the medium of choice for people who wanted to access the Internet. The wireless technology evolved, though, a... |
6 February 2012
03:22 GMT |
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GotoCamera, a video monitoring service deployed in over 180 countries across Asia, is now available in the form of a free desktop app for Mac users.
A system so easy your grandma could set it up (their words, not ours), GotoCamera doesn’t require expensive hardware and technical skills to use.
According to th... |
5 January 2012
15:21 GMT |
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Best known in the industry for its powerful NAS storage solutions, Thecus has recently announced that it has expanded its product portfolio to include a new series of network video recorders (NVR) dubbed the VisoGuard.Thecus has designed these new VisoGuard NVRs in collaboration with NETAVIS, which was responsible of... |
6 October 2011
07:34 GMT |
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AXIS did more than release new surveillance cameras recently, having also added a new storage solution just for them, one that has multiple benefits for the video surveillance applications they are aimed at.
Two new network cameras were launched by Axis not too long ago, but the company has more to show off.
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19 September 2011
10:20 GMT |
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TRENDnet seems to be one of those companies that likes to take the IT market by storm when it launches something, and the four announcements of today definitely appear to support this assumption, especially since one of them deals with something only related to networking.
TRENDnet has long been a presence on the... |
7 September 2011
08:58 GMT |
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Security researchers from Trend Micro have identified a commercial service that allows people to distribute a mobile trojan and receive the data stolen by it."We’ve been reporting about several NICKISPY variants—Android malware that can monitor a mobile phone user’s activities and whereabouts like S... |
20 August 2011
07:23 GMT |
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The Indian government is trying to find a solution that would allow its intelligence agencies to monitor Facebook and Twitter encrypted traffic.The Indian regulators are considering asking telecom providers to put the encryption keys for their secure services in an escrow account for use in surveillance operations wh... |
11 August 2011
12:33 GMT |
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Security researchers claim that GPRS traffic can easily be intercepted because most mobile operators currently employ weak encryption, if any at all.The research was presented this week at the Chaos Communication Camp 2011, a yearly hacker gathering near Berlin, by Karsten Nohl, chief scientist at Security Research L... |
11 August 2011
12:25 GMT |
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Last week hackers flocked to Las Vegas to attend the biggest annual hacking conference in the world, DEFCON, and at least one of them claims that he detected a large scale CMDA and 4G surveillance operation that targeted attendees indiscriminately.The claim was made in a post to the Full Disclosure mailing list yeste... |
11 August 2011
10:22 GMT |
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Nearly three quarters of Earth's surface is covered with water and it's very difficult to monitor and control such a vast surface. In recent times, experts began realizing that satellites are the way of the future, and they are now moving forward with creating a surveillance networks. Some of the most commo... |
18 July 2011
10:29 GMT |
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Axis Communications, one of the world's best-known and largest suppliers of surveillance solutions, has just released a couple of interesting new additions to its line of dome network cameras, namely the AXIS P5522/-E models.So, what we're basically talking about here are a couple of new pan/tilt/zoom dome ... |
16 March 2011
07:49 GMT |
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Without a doubt, the evolution of battlefield technology over the past few decades is absolutely astounding, and the FalconFighter system introduced by the Harris Corporation proves this only too well.So, what we're dealing with here is a complete set ofi imaging and communications solutions (the manufactur... |
21 February 2011
11:01 GMT |
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On Sunday, authorities in the United States augmented their space-based surveillance capabilities with the launch of a new spy satellite. The instrument was launched from California, and its developers are hopeful that it will be able to increase the nation's ability to collect valuable data from space. Accordin... |
7 February 2011
03:24 GMT |
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Without a doubt, we live in a world that's becoming more and more dangerous with every passing day, and for this reason, the various solutions that help keep us and our property safe are becoming more and more popular, the latest such product we've come across being called simply the S9 and being developed ... |
25 January 2011
08:24 GMT |
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Raising a child is no easy task, but modern technology has helped a lot in making this whole process a lot less stressful for parents, who can now keep an eye on their kid's whereabouts and behavior even while he/she sleeps, one of the latest solutions enabling such a level of functionality being the BabyVIEW Ba... |
13 January 2011
05:38 GMT |
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), one of the leading online privacy watchdogs, is urging companies like Google, Facebook and Yahoo! to better secure the accounts of Tunisian activists.Since the beginning of December, the authoritarian North African nation of Tunisia has been engulfed in violent street riots o... |
12 January 2011
08:59 GMT |
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A governmental agency recently announced that it's currently pursuing the development of a technology that would see video cameras being endowed with visual intelligence. This would allow the control software to process the information it collects in novel ways.If successful, the new endeavor will see the creati... |
6 January 2011
06:35 GMT |
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An in-depth journalistic investigation into the January 2010 assassination of Hamas military commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, revealed that Mossad monitored his online activities via a computer trojan.The revelation came in a GQ magazine report by Israeli investigative journalist Ronen Bergman, who conducted extensive i... |
6 January 2011
05:11 GMT |
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Local media reports that RIM has provided a cloud-based solution to the Indian government that would allow its national security agencies to access encrypted BlackBerry Messenger communications.According to India Times, RIM has informed the government via a letter that it is ready to receive and process lawful interc... |
5 January 2011
13:39 GMT |
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Baby monitoring systems have come a long way over the past few years, and the device you'll read about as follows, namely the WiFi Baby 3G Video Monitor, proves this only too well, since this thing will let you keep an eye out on your kid whether you're using an iPad, an iPhone or a PC.
The WiFi Baby 3G ... |
2 December 2010
09:58 GMT |
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Without a doubt, the Internet is a pretty big place nowadays and, to some extent, poses as many dangers as the real world (if not more) for children, who might be very easily drawn into certain potentially dangerous situations by child molesters.And since the exploitation of children via the internet is growing at an... |
11 November 2010
02:35 GMT |
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Although the best way to avoid getting a speed ticket is to actually drive safely, the truth of the matter is that quite a lot of drivers from all over the world tend to forget about this and push the pedal to the metal, quite often with some pretty tragic consequences.Speed cameras are those surveillance solutions u... |
8 November 2010
03:58 GMT |
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Right now, one of the hottest topics in international news is that of the Yemen bomb plots, but this problem related to air transport and international security has also had some effects in the world of technology, since Morpho Detection, Inc. part of Morpho, Safran group’s security business, has announced that... |
2 November 2010
06:46 GMT |
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As cars become “smarter” and more advanced, the need for various solutions that will allow drivers (or even the car itself) to check out their surrounding environments becomes more dire, and for this reason, Xilinx and OmniVision have partnered for the development of a four camera, 360-degree surround vie... |
21 October 2010
02:47 GMT |
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According to documents obtained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), during President Obama's inauguration, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) established a special program to collect and analyze social networking data.Called the "Social Networking Monitoring Center" (SNMC), the division was taske... |
16 October 2010
08:16 GMT |
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According to officials at the giant defense contractor Lockheed Martin, it would appear that the company, working in collaboration with Animetrics Inc., has been awarded a new contract by the US government, this time for improving facial recognition software.This type of tool is now used extensively by security compa... |
17 September 2010
10:59 GMT |
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After tagging thousands of marine creatures with acoustical transmitters, researchers are now prepared to start using the recently-develop Pacific Ocean Shelf Tracking (POST) network, which would enable them to eavesdrop on natural oceanic activity patterns.For the past few years, about 16,000 animals have been tagge... |
3 September 2010
02:58 GMT |
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ESA’s Business Incubation Center developed an unmanned aircraft that is guided by satnav and can provide fast monitoring of land areas and disaster zones.This new system uses independent micro-air vehicles, or MAVs, with a wingspan of less than two meters that inspect different areas.It was developed by a Germ... |
1 September 2010
06:26 GMT |
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Experts from the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) announce the development of a new type of surveillance system. The Imaging System for Immersive Surveillance (ISIS) represents a new approach to conducting scans of crowds, officials from the S&T say. The device contain... |
8 June 2010
05:08 GMT |
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Romanian authorities arrested 50 individuals for using a special mobile-phone program to spy on their spouses, business partners or the competition. The spyware was able to steal call logs, e-mails, SMS messages or GPS data from smartphones and allowed attackers to eavesdrop on active phone calls and private discussi... |
4 June 2010
06:11 GMT |
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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
05:04 GMT |
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As the pretext of fighting against terrorism is giving government officials more and more leeway for abuse, some are now even considering introducing mind-scanners in airport terminals as part of the security effort. Those behind the new machines say that they will help detect which individuals have plans to carry ex... |
29 January 2010
00:56 GMT |
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Experts from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), led by Dr. Richard A. Albanese, announce the development of a new, computerized, large-scale surveillance method that relies heavily on the use of innovative algorithms and formulas. The sophisticated algebraic theories, which are called groups, rings and fields,... |
2 December 2009
05:47 GMT |
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IBM seems bent on becoming a prominent supplier of security and compliance solutions for the public sector, fact seen in its continued efforts to expand its Business Analytics and Optimization Consulting organization. It plans to integrate Guardium into its Information Management Software portfolio that has more than... |
1 December 2009
04:03 GMT |
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QNAP, a leading provider of network attached storage and video recorders announced today that it had entered a collaboration with Hikvision that would enable customers to take advantage of combined solution-integrating products from both companies. Worldwide customers will be able to use Hikvision's high-perform... |
5 November 2009
08:35 GMT |
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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
06:35 GMT |
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Etisalat, one of the largest mobile carriers from the United Arab Emirates, shipped spyware to its BlackBerry customers by hiding it as an official update. The software was discovered, because it had significant battery drainage as an unexpected side-effect. Last week, BlackBerry Etisalat subscribers received a "pe... |
15 July 2009
08:51 GMT |
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Emergency response teams and surveillance crews around the world already benefit from the advantages that remote-controlled flying probes have during an emergency situation, in a spot where humans cannot survive. But, while the machines have certainly made it a lot easier for their owners to respond to a situation, a... |
7 July 2009
09:03 GMT |
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Scientists at the Tel Aviv University have recently announced the development of a new “perfection” tool for analyzing video footage, which would allow investigators watching them to zoom in and correct the image to the point where the person in it becomes recognizable. Needless to say, the application co... |
1 July 2009
06:40 GMT |
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On Monday, a senior Air Force official announced that the United States would begin to track all the 800 maneuverable satellites in Earth's orbit, by October 1st. The decision was prompted by the February collision of a US communications satellite with an out-of-service, Soviet-era spacecraft, an accident that l... |
1 April 2009
02:29 GMT |
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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
07:40 GMT |
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RFID chips, in addition to being truly useful in stores, for inventories and the likes, are highly-criticized by human rights groups, because they say that, once inserted in a human being, they can pass on their location, as well as a myriad of personal information, including banking accounts, purchasing habits and t... |
3 February 2009
07:09 GMT |
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Starting with fiscal year 2009, Japan's fresh satellite surveillance program will be an important step forward for the country's intelligence network, as the new device will be endowed with a camera featuring one of the largest resolutions to date. On Saturday, officials announced that the fine sensor would... |
2 February 2009
11:07 GMT |
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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
05:08 GMT |
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The new “smart” surveillance system, designed by James W. Davis, an associate professor of computer science and engineering at the Ohio State University, and doctoral student Karthik Sankaranarayanan, surpasses regular surveillance cameras by a great deal, as it is no longer limited to the tilt-pan-rotate... |
18 December 2008
05:15 GMT |
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Spy-gadgets in general and covert video or audio recorders in particular have always exerted quite a high level of fascination with a lot of people, especially because just about any person out there (mostly men, obviously) wants to feel like James Bond at least once in their life. And given the consumers' non-s... |
6 November 2008
10:26 GMT |
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Lextech Labs’ iRa has brought the tools of the high-end security industry to the iPhone, enabling users to view multiple video feeds and directly control pan-tilt-zoom cameras from their device.Users may define multiple groups of cameras, each containing as many video feeds as they like, and quickly switch betw... |
28 October 2008
15:07 GMT |
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Surveillance is an important part of a security system for any business, that is why major and even small companies allocate a significant budget for implementing high-quality and reliable surveillance systems. And one of the key components of a surveillance system is a camera, which is set to record visual content o... |
17 June 2008
11:03 GMT |
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Taiwanese manufacturer QNAP has just introduced its NVR-1012 home and office surveillance system, a completely automated television system. The NVR-1012 network surveillance kit comes with two IP cameras, 1 TB of hard-disk drive storage, as well as two-way communication.The system flawlessly integrates with the exist... |
26 April 2008
04:43 GMT |
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The 'bat' is only the latest of the series of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles - UAV for short - designed to gather information about enemy sites and urban combat zones, capable of relaying data related to sight, sound and smell back to the command post to be used as intelligence. The 'bat' has been desig... |
14 March 2008
09:36 GMT |
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