The EU Commissioner for Home Affairs (Security), Cecilia Malmström, will announce today 41 actions to meet the “urgent security threats” that Europe is facing. In the case of “cyber security”, the European Commission shall establish by 2013 a center to combat ‘cyber crime’, create a computer network, a computer emergency response and a European system [...]
2010 Nov 28 | Posted in
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“The biggest ever”, that was the comment of most of the marketers visiting the 2010 Conference ad tech New York, last November 3rd and 4th. This year the ad tech showed the fast growing reach and power of digital marketing, featuring some of the industry`s most entrepreneurial and innovative marketers. Our digital newspaper The Americas [...]
2010 Nov 28 | Posted in
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There is no doubt Jose Mourinho leaves an indelible mark wherever he goes. Just ask followers of Porto, the team he guided to UEFA Cup and UEFA Champions League glory in successive seasons, or Chelsea, with whom he masterminded back-to-back Premier League triumphs. Nor must we forget his exploits with Inter Milan, who became Italian and [...]
PORTLAND, Ore. — A Somali-born teenager who thought he was detonating a car bomb at a packed Christmas tree-lighting ceremony downtown here was arrested by the authorities on Friday night after federal agents said that they had spent nearly six months setting up a sting operation. The bomb, which was in a van parked off [...]
Technologies such as mass notification, thermal cameras, video analytics and edge/distributed recording are just a few areas in the security industry that have been slow to come to maturity but are now taking off and will be trends to watch for next year. During the Anixter Showcase held in Edmonton Sept. 30, presenters from Axis [...]
2010 Nov 28 | Posted in
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TASER International announced this year exports of its electronic control devices “tasers” to Brazil and Colombia. TASER Intl received and shipped an order of 2,250 ADVANCED TASER(R) M26(TM) Electronic Control Devices (ECDs) and related accessories to the Brazilian Ministry of Justice. In regard to this export the Chairman and founder of TASER International declared that [...]
This month we will highlight a major wireless video project with the hope that by sharing this experience, it will help locksmiths gain perspective on the many markets and opportunities out there for them, if they are wishing to grow their businesses and learn new technologies. We spend a fair amount of time bidding jobs [...]
Biometric technology continues to find expanded applications in the military and commercial marketplace. Hand geometry and fingerprints biometrics account for the majority of deployments, but this could change as other technologies such as facial recognition and retinal scan mature and reach more competitive price points. The benefits of biometrics are ostensibly to eliminate the potential [...]
The security forces of Argentina have seized some 108.6 tons of drugs in operations carried out between January and October in the country, 12.5 percent more than the same period of 2009, according to statements of argentinian officials like the Minister of Justice Julio Alak. Alak is a close member of Kirchner´s entourage. The drugs [...]
After the closing of a military exercise in the colombian city of Leticia and with the participation of the armies of Colombia, Peru and Brazil in the three countries in the Colombian city of Leticia, the Minister of Defense of the three countries announced their determination to combat all crimes in the common Amazon frontier. [...]
2010 Nov 28 | Posted in
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FARC`s Activities,
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