Archive: February 2005
U.S. Navy awards fire company contract worth $52K
February 24, 2005SSN Staff
February 24, 2005
SEATTLE - Western Fire & Safety Company received a contract from the U.S. Navy worth approximately $52,000 for fire fighting, rescue and safety related equipment.
The Naval Supply Systems Command’s Fleet & Industrial Supply Center Puget Sound granted the contract to provide carbon fiber cylinders, or oxygen and carbon dioxide tanks, used by fire fighters.
Based here, the fire installation company services, supplies and installs land and marine fire detection and suppression...
Axis orbits into Canada
February 24, 2005Jeffrey Sanders
February 24, 2005
CHELMSFORD, Mass. - As demand for IP-based security products continues to surge worldwide, Axis Communications established a sales office in Toronto this month to create a broader market reach of the company’s technology.
“We decided to start focusing on that market with IP video and surveillance solutions,†said Fredrik Nilsson, general manager at Axis Communications. “We are obviously looking to grow our business...
Panasonic restructures to combine related technologies and operations
February 24, 2005Rhianna Daniels
February 24, 2005
SECAUCUS, N.J. - Panasonic Corp. of America announced the formation of Panasonic Systems Solutions Company of America in January as part of a company-wide initiative to combine related technologies and operations.
PSSA, formerly known as Panasonic Digital Communications & Security Company, combines the Security Systems, Vision Systems and Information Systems divisions. The organization was also expanded by adding the company’s Corporate Systems operation, which...
Alarmforce restates financials to come up to speed with accounting procedures
February 24, 2005SSN Staff
February 24, 2005
TORONTO, Ontario - In late February, Alarmforce Industries announced it restated its financial statements for the first three quarters of the year that ended Oct. 31, 2004, and the corresponding three quarters and annual figures for the year that ended Oct. 31, 2003, to comply with Canadian accounting procedures.
The company’s decision to restate its financials for the first three quarters of 2004 was based on its failure to adopt a new accounting policy, released by The...
Eclipse offers security dealers brochure materials
February 24, 2005SSN Staff
February 24, 2005
Newport Beach, Calif. - Identifying how costly promotional materials are to produce, Eclipse Marketing introduced a program this month that enables security dealers to purchase brochures in quantities both small and large.
Eclipse is a marketing and design firm that focuses on the integration and builder markets. The materials include the benefits of alarm systems, including the protection of property and cost savings when security systems are installed during the construction...
SIA motors on for education
February 24, 2005SSN Staff
February 24, 2005
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - The Security Industry Association will host the Second Annual Ride for Education in Las Vegas on the day after the close of ISC West.
The proceeds from the guided motorcycle ride, which will be held on Saturday, April 9, will benefit SIA’s Education Grant Fund. The cost is $30, plus the cost of a bike rental.
The ride will take participants through the Nevada desert and includes a catered lunch by Smokin’ Sams. More than one dozen riders took part...
Markland acquires surveillance and security firm for $10M
February 17, 2005SSN Staff
February 17, 2005
RIDGEFIELD, Conn. - Homeland security company Markland Technologies, through an acquisition of a shell company, purchased Genex Technologies in a cash and stock deal valued at $10 million.
Markland paid $3 million in cash for the company through Technest Holdings. Genex, which has 20 patents either issued or pending in video and imaging technologies, supplies imaging, surveillance and security sensor technologies.
In particular, Genex develops surveillance technologies for object...
Protection One sees progress in its long and winding journey
February 17, 2005Rhianna Daniels
February 17, 2005
LAWRENCE, Kan. - As Richard Ginsburg, the president and chief executive officer of Protection One, put it last week when he spoke at the Barnes Buchanan Mallon Conference in West Palm Beach, Fla., the company has weathered through its own version of the perfect storm.
But last week, that storm subsided as the company completed its out-of-court debt restructuring, and avoided Chapter 11 bankruptcy, with affiliates of the Quadrangle Group, the private equity firm that purchased...
Activcard and Lenel partner for access solution
February 17, 2005SSN Staff
February 17, 2005
FREMONT, Calif. - ActivCard Corp, a developer of identity assurance products, announced a joint distribution agreement with security product provider Lenel Systems International in mid-February.
Through this agreement, the two companies will jointly market a solution for physical access to facilities and logical access to networks. According to a press release, the combined solution, which combines ActivCard’s Enterprise Active Card and Lenel’s OnGuard ID Credential...
Survey: IP-ready security products “a realityâ€Â
February 17, 2005SSN Staff
February 17, 2005
SARASOTA, Fla. - A recently completed survey commissioned by Security Systems News and sister publication Security Director News shows that 76.4 percent of systems integrators and installers believe IP-ready products are a reality as part of today’s security solution.
The survey was conducted in early February and polled systems integrators, end users, manufacturers and distributors. The final report will be published and made available for free to attendees of TechSec Solutions,...