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Bell cancels Home Monitoring business

Written by Neil Sutton December 03, 2007

Bell Canada has cancelled its Home Monitoring portfolio less than a year after launching the service.

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Automation and security converge

Written by Staff August 15, 2007

Home Automation, Inc. (HAI), based in New Orleans, La., has announced the integration between HAI's Lumina central lighting and home automation product line and Tyco's DSC PowerSeries security panels.

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Fast Forward records in QuickTime

January 07, 2009

Fast Forward Video has announced the NDT 200 portable digital video recorder, a replacement for tape-based recording devices. The NDT 200 records in QuickTime format onto a serial ATA removable hard drive, uses a touch pad interface with large push button controls and includes a USB 2.0 port for easy…

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Smash-and-grab in-car safe

July 16, 2008

Sentry Safe has launched the new AS-1 autosafe, an in-car safe which anchors under a seat or in a truck, and which was designed to protect against smash-and-grab vehicle crimes.

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New apartment alarm security

July 03, 2008

Napco now offers the Freedom F8KIT1, a series of apartment security applications including a panel, multifunction Freedom LED Touchpad with built-in pet PIR and UL siren, iFob Silencer and AC transformer. The kit doesn’t require codes, is key-based, and has a low rate of false alarms.

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Extender kit cuts costs associated with HDMI cabling

February 12, 2008

Montreal-based MuxLab Inc., a designer and manufacturer of security video and audio-video connectivity solutions for copper twisted pair, has added the HDMI Econo Extender Kit (500400) to its AV connectivity portfolio.

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Small business or home

February 13, 2007

SecurityMan has introduced a new four-channel DVR. The NDVR-04 is designed to satisfy the video surveillance needs of small businesses and homes. It is designed to be less complex to operate than other network DVRs. It performs clear and smooth digital video recording and allows users to monitor remotely over…

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Is price or paranoia driving home security?

Written by Jennifer Brown April 12, 2011

In a recent market study, U.K.-based IMS Research found that over 1.1 million security cameras were sold globally through the retail, or consumer channel in 2010.

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Clarify Advanced Mobile Phone System deadline with clients

Written by Ivan Spector March 13, 2008

So you alerted your clients of the impending cellular network changes and proactively got on them to change their transmitters. Our good friends at Rogers decided to pull the plug…

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Vancouver-area integrator plans to prosper by thinking green

Written by Peter Caulfield March 17, 2009

Vortechs Electronics Design Ltd., a Coquitlam, British Columbia-based security and home automation products installation service, grew and prospered, along with many of the other system integrators in B.C.'s Lower Mainland,…

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