Chief Frank Beazley said Halifax Regional Police officers will be using portable digital equipment in the near future to record images at "hot spots" in the municipality and public gatherings like rock concerts.

Researchers from Melbourne's Swinburne University of Technology claims to have developed an optical recording technique that it says can place a a theoretical 1.6 TB on a DVD-sized disc. This is done by adding extra dimensions to the recording surface.

It is not wholly clear what the purpose of this measure would be. Over the last few years, the government has pursued a two-pronged attack on what it sees as the evils of under-age drinking.

]]> http://www.eagleeyedvr.com/faq#news_33 Wed, 25 Feb 2009 13:35:25 GMT Researchers have developed a breakthrough storage technology capable of squeezing the contents of 250 DVDs onto a disk the size of a quarter.

The technique involves using the self-assembly properties of chemically dissimilar polymer chains to array themselves into ludicrously dense but perfectly regular formations.

Working with co-lead investigator Thomas Russell of UMass Amherst, Ting Xu of the University of California at Berkeley was able to create defect-free arrays with cell sizes as small as three nanometers.

Three-nanometer domains could theoretically create storage densities of 10 terabytes per square inch. Compare that density to the record 803 gigabytes per square inch achieved in rarified testing of perpendicular magnetic recording technology at TDK's labs, and this new technique has the potential for increasing storage densities by 12.5 times over that record.

]]> http://www.eagleeyedvr.com/faq#news_32 Wed, 25 Feb 2009 13:31:48 GMT Seagate Technology on Friday confirmed a firmware problem that caused some of its hard drives to fail.

Customers have been flooding tech forums, including Seagate's own community forums, with failure reports of Seagate's 1-TB Barracuda 7200.11 drive. The complaints follow by about two months problems found with Seagate's 1.5-TB Barracuda 7200.11 drive, which randomly froze, according to tech site Tom's Hardware.

In an e-mailed statement, Seagate said it had "isolated a potential firmware issue" in certain products, including some Barracuda 7200.11 drives and related drive lines based on the same platform. The products had been manufactured through December and also include the Barracuda ES.2 SATA and DiamondMax 22 drives. More than two dozen drives are affected.

]]> http://www.eagleeyedvr.com/faq#news_31 Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:06:16 GMT

But he won't get that chance. They carried off the security videotapes with the candy bars.

"Cleaned out," Beckstrom said. "It's that simple, and the rest of us can just drop dead for all they care."

The moonlit heist a few weeks ago hit him hard enough that it killed his business. He let his nine employees go after he opened his doors for one last time in late December to try to sell the sparse inventory that remained.

Seldom is a business hit with a one-time theft bad enough to bankrupt it, but Beckstrom and many other retailers in Utah are now more vulnerable to that possibility.

]]> http://www.eagleeyedvr.com/faq#news_30 Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:03:14 GMT Emmy Lou Thorp, of Topeka, was shocked when she saw $3,000 in unauthorized charges on her checking account, because she had never lost her debit card.

The thief used her card number to make 24 purchases over a three-week period in November and December.

A Topeka police officer said it is possible the criminal could have been a bad employee who compromised her debit card number when she made a purchase.

Thorp, 76, is a victim of one of the fastest growing crimes in the country — identity theft and financial fraud.

]]> http://www.eagleeyedvr.com/faq#news_29 Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:57:22 GMT (12-23) 17:35 PST -- Some Bay Area cities are dealing with an increase in shoplifting, a trend that police and security experts believe is linked to tough economic times prompting people to steal items out of need as well as greed.

Richmond police have been arresting women taking diapers or baby clothes, in addition to the typical thieves interested in iPods and video games, said Officer Victor Vaca, who has been assigned to Hilltop Mall in Richmond for three years.

"We're getting older shoplifters, mothers with their children stealing day-to-day necessities," Vaca said. "In the past, people were more likely to steal luxury items like jewelry and electronics."

]]> http://www.eagleeyedvr.com/faq#news_28 Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:52:39 GMT At first glance, it didn’t seem like a case of employee theft.

But the employee had apparently visited unauthorized websites. A lot of websites. The investigation finally showed that the employee had spent literally hundreds of hours in front of the computer not working.

The private investigator working on the case, Mark Cayer, says it’s probably typical of the loss of productivity and income employers suffer every year from the disappearance of merchandise, damaged equipment, time spent on non-company business, fraudulent benefit claims and, yes, taking cash from the till.

]]> http://www.eagleeyedvr.com/faq#news_27 Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:50:42 GMT ST. LOUIS - Some employees steal. It's always been that way. But there are signs, nationally and locally, that the economic pinch may be making it worse.

A woman took more than $39,000 from her Sunset Hills employer. A man used a Pine Lawn boss's money to gas personal vehicles. Department store clerks improperly redeemed coupons for free merchandise in south St. Louis County.

There are a few workers at stores and restaurants everywhere who let friends take goods for free, or keep money meant for the company's account.

Officials say times of economic stress may make it easier to submit to temptations on the job.

]]> http://www.eagleeyedvr.com/faq#news_26 Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:45:06 GMT In the wake of the recession, more businesses are facing a growing financial threat: employee theft. New research shows that employers are seeing an increase in internal crimes, ranging from fictitious sales transactions and illegal kickbacks to the theft of office equipment and retail products meant for sale to customers.
 
Tim BowerEmployers suspect that workers are pilfering from them to cope with financial difficulties at home or in anticipation of being laid off.

What's more, it's often the most trusted workers who are committing the thefts.

]]> http://www.eagleeyedvr.com/faq#news_25 Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:39:46 GMT The current economic downturn has led to an upturn in workplace theft, especially in large organizations, according to a recent study by the Institute for Corporate Productivity. The study, released on December 11, found that 27 percent of respondents in large companies—those with 10,000 or more employees—said crime in the workplace has risen during the current economic crisis, while 15 percent of all respondents, regardless of company size, reported the same.

]]> http://www.eagleeyedvr.com/faq#news_24 Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:34:01 GMT It’s no secret that when the economy tanks, retail crime goes up. Especially when it comes to crimes such as shoplifting, returns fraud and use of stolen credit cards.

This recession is no exception: According to the Retail Industry Leaders Association’s 2008 Current Crime Trends Survey, retail crimes are trending up and will likely continue to increase through the rest of 2009.

]]> http://www.eagleeyedvr.com/faq#news_23 Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:23:58 GMT It is possible for a business to loose more to employee theft, than to shoplifting, burglary, and robbery combined. Below are some of the ways in which employees can steal from a business:

]]> http://www.eagleeyedvr.com/faq#news_22 Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:46:05 GMT If your company has more than five employees, chances are you were the victim of internal fraud last year. Bribery, conflict of interest, false statements, embezzlement. How can you tell if you have a fraudster on the inside — and how can you keep your assets safe from now on?

]]> http://www.eagleeyedvr.com/faq#news_21 Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:40:00 GMT NEW YORK (CNN) -- A rash of bank robberies in New York has the city's police commissioner worried that criminals have turned banks into "virtual cash machines" and some wondering whether tough economic times are fueling the trend.

 On Monday alone, robbers targeted five banks in the Big Apple, some striking in broad daylight and near famous landmarks.

Police called the incidents unrelated, but they're just the latest examples of the growing tally of hold-ups.

Bank robberies in New York have risen 54 percent compared with last year, with criminals committing more than 430 in the past 12 months, according to the New York police department.

Detectives were able to take images from the security camera and get them to the media within a few hours. Media outlets publicized the images and someone recognized the suspect as Roger Dale Brown, 52, of Old Randleman Road, Greensboro. He was taken into custody within 24 hours of the crime and charged with robbery with a dangerous weapon.

"It creates an immediate lead to follow up on," Graham Lt. Brad Shirley said. He said there is no question as to whether the clerk recalled the suspect's height accurately. "It is just one more tool in our toolbox to solve these crimes."

And although security cameras have been around for several decades, the newer technology makes a dramatic difference as far as what the police have to work with.

"At one time, most stores have VHS systems with tapes that were used numerous times, reducing the quality of the image we had to work with," he said. "Now most places have digital cameras that are smaller and have better images."

An said when he bought the store, one of these archaic cameras was hanging up, but the camera didn't even work.

"It had a sign underneath that said it was hooked up to the police station, but that was it," he said laughing. "We keep that beast here just like a vintage souvenir from the 70s. It is kind of nostalgic."

An's family installed working cameras in 2006, but now have four cameras that are only a little bigger than a ballpoint pen and have very clear images. The fact they have the cameras isn't a secret, either as they have the real-time video feed on a small television behind the register, in full-view of the customers as they check out.

Cameras at Dave McGrath's Computer Depot MD store recorded a man apparently helping himself to a processor and then leaving.

McGrath posted a video of the incident, which happened while a clerk was in a room in the back of the building, on the YouTube video-sharing website.

Seadragon has developed technology that lets people quickly view large images from a personal computer or other devices. A user could zoom in to see a small road on a vast map, for example, or pick out a single word from hundreds of pages of a novel.

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]]> http://www.eagleeyedvr.com/faq#news_16 Mon, 25 Jun 2007 12:00:07 GMT A group of South Korean researchers have produced a wide-angle surveillance camera lens capable of producing a distortion free image covering a field of view of up to 150 degrees. What's more, this technology uses conventional optics with mirrors, and is relatively inexpensive.

]]> http://www.eagleeyedvr.com/faq#news_14 Mon, 05 Mar 2007 20:36:03 GMT Honeywell Aerospace has created an unmanned compact aerial hovering video camera device called the Micro Air Vehicle (MAV) that can be used for military applications to provide intelligence on targeted areas.

As the optimal observation elevation is around 500 feet, there are possible urban uses to this application as well. It may not be long before these "mobile observation platforms" are patrolling city streets, following suspects, or covering front line action.

]]> http://www.eagleeyedvr.com/faq#news_13 Tue, 27 Feb 2007 15:37:41 GMT An Ottawa company has figured out how to bring a paper-thin piece of plastic to life, and now is ready to unleash its moving ads on the world. Using cutting-edge technologies, XYZ RGB can turn an eight-second video into a full-colour hologram and place it in a plastic film that can be posted in malls, pasted to billboards or even wrapped around a can of soup.

See article at: PosterWire.com

Quantum technology could revolutionize the computer industry by allowing systems to perform multiple calculations simultaneously where traditional computers would have to perform them one at a time. This is possible because the system is governed by the rules of quantum mechanics, which govern particle interactions below the atomic scale, where the conventional laws of physics break down.

]]> http://www.eagleeyedvr.com/faq#news_9 Mon, 17 Jul 2006 12:17:39 GMT InPhase Technologies, the leader in holographic data storage media and systems, announced it has developed and is shipping the first Holographic-ROM (H-ROM) media targeted for use in consumer devices. The company has also announced that it has demonstrated the highest data density of any commercial technology by successfully recording 515 gigabits of data per square inch, as compared to 300 gigabits for standard magnetic disk drives.

]]> http://www.eagleeyedvr.com/faq#news_7 Sun, 02 Apr 2006 21:58:44 GMT Seagate Technologies has released the DB35 Series, a line of Hard Drives providing optimal performance and reliability with capacities up to 500 GB, yielding hundreds of hours of standard digital video recording time.