The question is: who puts the star at the top? It’s an head-scratching combination. Sure, if you have the mountains that Rio de Janeiro has, placing a Christ the Redeemer statue on top is only natural. But placing a huge Christmas tree on the water? The Guinness Book of Records officially proclaims the tree of [...]
Axis video servers reduce incidents of theft in retail store: Through Swedish security specialists, Securitas, the company was introduced to the Trygg Butik (Safe Store) concept, an initiative involving IP-based network solutions that are aimed at preventing crimes before they happen. As part of the initiative, Stadium chose a solution that included an analog camera, [...]
The US$10 webcam that Anna Giesman bought her daughter at Office Depot over the Thanksgiving weekend sounds like one of those deals that’s too good to be true. And for her, it was. A week later, she’s worried and upset because a CD that came with the camera contained a Web link that apparently infected [...]
Last year’s ski season in Europe started early and saw an astounding amount of snow in most of the Alpine resorts. In contrast, this year is pretty poor, in fact, it looks as though there’s less snow than is normally expected at this time. There is some welcome news though. This week will turn colder [...]
The entry hall in my house has been a test bed for home monitoring cameras for years. I like to be able to record people coming into the house and see what’s going on around the front door. Anyone with a family and occasional babysitters will understand. So I continue to look for simple, robust [...]
I generally find Spain very laid back and relatively lagging in the world of technology — it’s what I often enjoy about being here. It’s somehow possible to stay away from the high-tech hysteria everywhere else, be it use of technology in your personal life (I don’t know anyone here who cares about the iPhone), [...]
The Mission Sydney Airport sought a more flexible, scalable solution that could keep pace with its growing operations while maintaining the highest level of security and safety that staff and the traveling public expect from an airport regularly voted one of the world’s best. The Solution Sydney Airport decided to migrate from video servers to [...]
Tom O’Connor and Ed Soulsby calculate that their Christmas display uses 35,000 lights. That’s 10,000 more than Clark Griswold claims he uses in “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.” “We’ve converted as many as we can to LED,” O’Connor says, referring to the powerful but energy-efficient lights on display at 12177 W. 58th Place in Arvada. The [...]