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Editor's note
October 2006, Technews Publishing, News & Events
As I write this, the world (well, a large portion of the population anyway) is remembering the fifth anniversary of 9/11. Airport security certainly increased after that specific 2001 event and after ...

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Editor's note
August 2006, Technews Publishing, News & Events
Well, life at our house is now back to normal following the soccer World Cup, but I have to admit that all through it my mind was thinking four years ahead, trying to answer what the world is collectively ...

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Editor's note
September 2006, Technews Publishing, News & Events
You all know how vehemently proudly South African I am, and this month we decided to let local manufacturers have their say on the matter too. And what an impressive display of locally manufactured - ...

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Bits 'n bytes
July 2006, Technews Publishing, News & Events
Our main feature this month is on security in the education sector and having a 10-year-old daughter, it is a subject very close to my heart! I was shocked to hear my fiancé's daughters and their friends ...

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Bits 'n bytes
June 2006, Technews Publishing, News & Events, Residential Estate (Industry)
Access control, as we have covered extensively in Hi-Tech Security Solutions and particularly in the annual Access Control Handbook, is becoming an increasingly more important part of our daily lives. ...

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Bits 'n bytes
May 2006, Technews Publishing, News & Events
Call me paranoid, but I do not feel very safe with all the striking going on in the security industry - not so much because I pay a monthly fee to be able to get help if I should need it, but more because ...

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Bits 'n bytes
April 2006, Technews Publishing, News & Events
As I write this, it has been a bad week for Jozi from a safety and security point of view. The two major incidents were an armed robbery at the Johannesburg International Airport, then there was the horrific ...

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Bits 'n bytes
March 2006, Technews Publishing, News & Events
I am doing the proudly South African thing again. In two of our stories this month - `Siemens Security Summit' and `Access control from an electrical engineer's perspective' - mention is made of South ...

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Welcome back, and everything of the very best for 2006!
February 2006, Technews Publishing, News & Events
Biometrics. We have heard all about it and it has certainly been a breakthrough in the access control arena, but how easily can fingerprint readers be fooled? I came across an eye-opening article at  ...

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Bits 'n bytes
December 2005, Technews Publishing, News & Events
Apart from the numerous reports of cash in transit heists, two security-related news stories caught my eye in the weeks leading up to the publication of this issue of Hi-Tech Security Solutions... IOL ...

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Bits 'n bytes
November 2005, Technews Publishing, News & Events
Unification is happening, and that would appear to be a good thing for the security industry as a whole. Security Industry Alliance (SIA) chairman confirmed last month at the announcement of an interim ...

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Bits 'n bytes
October 2005, Technews Publishing, News & Events
It does not feel like a year ago that we introduced the Access Control Handbook, does it? Well, it is back this year, and even bigger - as you will see. 11 September marked the fourth anniversary of ...

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Bits 'n bytes
September 2005, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News & Events
This month, Hi-Tech Security Solutions has been around for 10 years so we decided to take a look at some of the main events that have taken place during our 'lifetime'... going through back issues of ...

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Bits 'n bytes
August 2005, Technews Publishing, News & Events
Are crooks becoming cleverer, or are we generally becoming more complacent? We had an incident at the Technews offices over the weekend, during which two of the floors of the building were cleaned out, ...

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