SNAP Security Corp is a leading provider of mobile surveillance and defense technologies. Solutions such as C3 Mobile Command enables users to access both real time and recorded video feeds providing actionable intelligence to operations teams on their mobile devices and Real-Time Operations Command centers.

The CEO, Kurt Menzies, leads the business with his passion for technology and innovation integrating some of today’s top technologies in a complete solution, which is  effectively deployed in Government, business and residential environments today.

Visit our Military and Police section for further information on the Throwbot and iRa C3 solution.

Other winners in the Technology category include: 3M Mobile Projection Technology, from 3M, OnStar Stolen Vehicle Slowdown Technology, from OnStar, and Livescribe Pulse Smartpen, from LiveScribe Inc.

Lextech Labs Founder, Alex Bratton, accepting the award from Debbie Adler Myers, General Manager of Discovery’s Science Channel.

About the Edison Awards (from Edison Award Press Release)

The Edison Best New Product Awards, presented last night by Discovery Channel, honored a wide range of new products and product innovations at an awards gala held at The Capitale in lower Manhattan. New and innovative products in eleven categories, from high-tech gizmos including a mini-car and a high performance electric motorcycle to consumer packaged goods such as the world’s first mass market gluten-free mixes, were recognized for innovation and invention in the spirit of Thomas Alva Edison, America’s greatest inventor and innovator.

Edison Best New Product Awards are given annually. The Award was founded 23 years ago by the American Marketing Association.

The Edison Awards, a peer-review honor similar to the Oscars (one newspaper called them the “Oscars of Innovation”) is voted on by roughly 2,000 members of the not-for-profit Marketing Executives Networking Group (MENG), an association of America’s top executives and academics. The awards symbolize the persistence and excellence personified by Thomas Alva Edison, America’s premier inventor, inspiring America’s drive to remain in the forefront of innovation, creativity and ingenuity in the global economy.

More information can be found at www.edisonawards.com

[courtesy of Lextech Labs]

To find out more information on LRAD and it’s product line visit our Corporate or Millitary and Police exclusive page.

Applications:

- Large crowd communications

- Infrastructure and perimeter protection

- Search and Rescue Operations

- Enforcing security zones from secure remote locations

- SWAT operations

- Emergency responder situations

- Crowd / Riot control

- Port security

- Vessel protection

- Serving warrants

- Fire/HAZMAT evacuation

- Anti-piracy

- Force protection

- Special operations

- Mass notification

- CBRN incident response

- Hostage negotiation from a safe location

To find out more about our partner program visit our “become a reseller” page and fill out an information request.

The cost of a false alarm is going up in Toronto.

The Toronto Police Services Board voted Thursday to increase the fee to $130 from $83.50, starting Feb. 1, reflecting what it costs to send a cop to false alarms.

The cost recovery program was launched in 1996, charging $70 for false alarms.

In 2007, police responded to a total of 22,912 alarms, but only 666 were valid. Officers spent an average of an hour at each of the calls.

The projected annual cost for false alarms between 2009 and 2011 is more than $3.1 million and police would have recovered about $1.8 million at $83.50 per false alarm.

The only issue board members were concerned about was that no public announcement was made to alert security companies monitoring alarm systems that the fee would rise.

- Using IP based video surveillance and iRa C3 mobile solution , breach alarms can be effectively identified and deemed false or action required, before dispatching an actual guard or officer as a first responder.

As we see in the article above, false alarms come at costly price where as the right IP mobile video solution saves time, money and increases situational awareness on both the client and first responder side. – S.S.

New Years Eve Edmonton, Alberta

iPhone Users were able to view the fireworks live as they happened along with the live events that took place on New Years Eve 2009. One user commented “What a treat to be able to login form my iPhone and see how busy things were getting downtown, we were able to time the crowds perfectly and enjoy the show” . Other users commented they took advantage of viewing the live fireworks on their iPhone while stuck in traffic.

SNAP Security Mobile Media Solutions provide real-time, live multi feed video broadcasting to the iPhone or iPod Touch.

An effective and intuitive tool for large media events where the organizers and advertisers goal is to create an enhanced real -time interaction between their end clients and the media they wish to experience.

The rise of middle-class shoplifting.

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When you read the bad news of the recession, it’s all extremes.

GM’s laid off another 20,000. Abortions are way up. Lehman Brothers, a financial staple for almost 160 years, has been forced to liquidate.

But, looking back, there may be a deeper depression in discussing some of the more subtle consequences of the downturn.

Indeed, the recession’s most understated outcome might’ve been the disruption of normalcy – a downgrade in the family car; a lighter church donation; an “I think we’re just going to lay low tonight” excuse to your friends headed to that expensive restaurant – we were forced to cope with.

Some were able to brush this off from the start. We don’t care what other people think. We’re just trying to get by.

And that is as noble as it gets. Commendable all the way through.

Yet not everyone could adapt quite as well, and some – at the behest of social pressures, image-consciousness or a desire to maintain a certain lifestyle – found themselves doing the unthinkable to stay on top of things.

At least, that appears to be the reasoning behind this latest story from the (U.K.) Times, which reports middle-class shoplifting has spiked since the recession arrived.

According to the paper, theft of mid-level items like fresh meat and expensive fish and cheeses has increased dramatically. Overall shoplifting boomed by nearly 20 per cent in Europe last year alone.

“We are not simply looking at your traditional shoplifters here … this is epitomised in the recent uprising of the middle-class shoplifter, someone who has turned to theft to sustain their standard of living,” one source tells the Times.

“I suppose people want to carry on with their lifestyle but cannot afford (the things) that they used to be able to afford and now they just take it.”

Pretty disheartening, no?

When all of this financial collapse nonsense is dead and gone, we’re going to reflect on the lasting images of the downturn.

And we’ll think of a picket line outside a closed auto plant, a bewildered stock broker with his head in his hands and – perhaps now – a 40-something housewife stuffing a wheel of Gouda into her blouse.

Link to article: http://www.everydaymoney.ca/2009/11/the-rise-of-middleclass-shoplifting.html
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Another apparent reason to ensure the protection of your clients retail or commercial business assets and investments using C3 Advanced iPhone Surveillance and solutions powered by LEXTECH LABS.