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Terrorism, Transit and Public Safety Evaluati...
This paper evaluates the overall safety of public transit, taking into account all risks, including recent terrorist attacks. It indicates that transit is an extremely safe mode, with total...

Behavior Recognition: Does Someone Look out o...
In the past a camera might deter a vandal or a thief by its mere presence. Today, installing cameras alone does not result in increased security. Cameras are only sensors, with no intellig...

Varian Medical Systems completes acquisition ...
Varian Medical Systems, Inc., has announced it has completed the acquisition of Bio-Imaging Research, Inc., a supplier of X-ray imaging products for security and inspection. Varian paid approximately $21 million to acquire the pri...

Raytheon awarded $16.3 million contract by th...
Raytheon Technical Services Company (RTSC) LLC, a subsidiary of Raytheon Company, has received a contract valued up to $16.3 million to provide passenger and baggage screening services at two Florida commercial airports, Key West ...

Bell ID and Phoenix Technology forge strategi...
Bell ID’s ANDiS CAMS will become the preferred card, application and key management system for Phoenix Technology and SCTN’s Loyalty Central will become Bell ID’s preferred incentive solution.

What‘s Benefiting Smart Card Industry?
Government initiatives, multi application functionality, open standards, biometrics, increasing IT role, booming virtual economy... These are the buzz words floating around the contactless ...

The industrys first 10 gigabit Ethernet seria...
Demonstrated at Interop 2007, Broadcoms new serial transceiver features a sophisticated receive equalizer and bandwidth improvements that extend the life of legacy systems running at 1Gbps or XAUI(TM) data rates.

ICx Technologies launches new field-portable ...
First field-portable system supporting liquid and direct air sampling to detect volatile and semi-volatile chemical targets on site

Opening doors with your mobile phone
Nedap has successfully tested the use of mobile phone numbers as identifiers in its access control system AEOS®.

Access Control for a Changing Business World
Multiple secure applications for processing personal identification credentials, privileges and access rights that include cryptographic protection of the information have become the key to ...