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Who is your ­competition?
February 2014, Technews Publishing, News & Events
As you recovered from your December break and adjusted to your first days back in the slave galley, you may have noticed a news article about Google buying a company called Nest Labs for just over $3 ...

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Surreptitious, behind the scenes goings on?
January 2014, Technews Publishing, News & Events
The Security Industry Alliance (SIA) held its annual conference in mid-November with a number of industry leaders speaking on a variety of topics. What was clear from the speakers is that the industry ...

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Social media for the rest of us
November 2013, Technews Publishing, News & Events
As I write this, Twitter has just listed its shares on the stock exchange and made a few billionaires and millionaires. Sad to say, I don’t fall into either of those categories. However, it does bring ...

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Maybe it's time to panic
October 2013, Technews Publishing, News & Events
I spoke to someone dealing in identity authentication recently and he was telling me how some of South Africa’s business leaders are dead against the Protection of Personal Information (PoPI) Act. According ...

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Non-compliance is standard
September 2013, Hitech Micro Systems, Technews Publishing, News & Events
An interesting thing happened on the way to the September issue of Hi-Tech Security Solutions. We have a feature on standards, but we’ve ended up with many articles dealing with standards in different ...

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Full of stuff you need to know
August 2013, SMART Security Solutions, News & Events
If you’re feeling weighed down, it’s because we have a huge issue this month. We have 120 pages of all the stuff you need to know about security, including a few interesting case studies (and one about ...

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A month for ­spending
July 2013, Technews Publishing, News & Events
Well, this past month or so has been an interesting one for the security industry as a glance at our news section will show. It seems there is a serious amount of consolidation in progress in the industry, ...

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Ambling to Abu Dhabi
June 2013, Technews Publishing, News & Events
I spent a few days in Abu Dhabi last month at a Milestone partner conference. There is a quick note about it in this issue and I will follow it up with a more in-depth article next month as there was ...

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Surveillance culture, good and bad
May 2013, Technews Publishing, News & Events
News of the bomb attack in Boston was all over the news last month, complete with some really mindless and careless speculation among TV and print journalists about who did it, who was arrested and ...

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Investing in Africa? Is there a choice?
April 2013, Technews Publishing, News & Events
It is strange to hear the different opinions people have on the security industry. The most common one I hear is that business must be booming if you have anything to do with security in South Africa ...

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More bang for your security buck
March 2013, Technews Publishing, News & Events
Christmas comes but once a year and so does the CCTV Handbook. If you have not already noticed, the CCTV Handbook 2013 has been completed and bundled with your March issue. If your copy of this prized ...

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International fame, or is it infamy?
February 2013, Technews Publishing, News & Events
How sad that the plight of the South African security industry makes it onto CNN in a short programme looking at the challenges the industry faces from its own government. It would be something to crow ...

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That thing that used to be called privacy
January 2013, Technews Publishing, News & Events
The worst offenders are not the social media sites that collect all your information, but those individuals who fill out whatever information the screen in front of them asks for without thinking, and then continue to update the site with details of every aspect of their lives.

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Being a world leader is not always something to be proud of
November 2012, Technews Publishing, News & Events
One of the benefits of working for a security publication is that you get to speak to a variety of people with different stories. Since the release of the South African Cyber Threat Barometer for 2012/13, ...

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