With Halloween just around the corner, a Taunton Street homeowner caught some ghostly images on his webcam last weekend. Scarier still, the images were of a burglar rifling through the home and making off with valuables. Plainville police have posted the images on the department’s Facebook page and this might shake up the burglar: Police [...]
This is popular anti-theft software from Norton than can track lost or stolen laptops, PCs, tablets and android smartphones. You can log on online to find the laptop’s location and you can also snap photographs of thieves using your device via the internal webcam. The software is easy to use, but a computer-savvy laptop thief [...]
Technical Details 1/4″ progressive scan CMOS Image Sensor. 4.4 mm/F2.0 fixed iris Lens. H.264 Motion JPEG MPEG-4 Video compression 640 x 480 Max video resolution (pixels) Multi-level passwords IP filtering HTTPS encryption Security Product Description Small-sized indoor network camera. Fixed lens. 1/4″ progressive scan CMOS sensor. Connects over wireless LAN (IEEE 802.11g) or wired Ethernet. [...]
When you check into a hotel, don’t get perturbed by the webcam glaring at you. It’s now mandatory for city hoteliers to retain photographs of all customers along with their details. Soon after one checks into a hotel, his photograph and details get stored online in Kolkata Police’s server instantly. Initially, this was started for [...]
Happy Feet has become a creature of the Internet age. The wayward emperor penguin, who was discovered on a New Zealand beach six weeks ago and will soon be returned to the wild, already boasts an online following of more than 120,000. That’s how many unique visitors have logged onto a webcam set up to [...]
On the fourth night, they finally showed up in force: at least 16,000 police in yellow jackets and riot armour, up from 6,000 the night before, standing in clusters on almost every major street corner across the burned-out and shattered expanses of London’s perimeter, ready to face the rioters. Britain’s worst riots for decades spread [...]
Payments company Jumio is today launching a new technology called Netswipe that turns any webcam into a credit card reader, both on the desktop and on mobile. The service aims to bridge the convenience of online and mobile shopping with the security inherent in face-to-face transactions. It also makes it incredibly easy to shop. You [...]
Stafford College has come under fire after installing a webcam looking out on to a children’s play park. It is part of a network of cameras designed to show progress on the college redevelopment. A group of parents became concerned when they noticed the camera, and raised their concerns with the local educational chiefs, who [...]