If you were worried about Hurricane Sandy and her aftermath, you are not alone. Millions of people were concerned about the well being of themselves and their families, resulting in anxiety about future readiness. Unfortunately, these events are common around the globe. It would be much easier on the government, stores, and regular people if [...]

Overview
With crime on the rise more people have been turning to security systems for protection. Often, police are overburdened with cases and too far away to get to an emergency in time. A few extra seconds can make a situation escalate dangerously. A security system allows you to know when an intruder is coming [...]

Well, friends, it looks like the Kelora saga is finally over.

Special thanks to those who commented and dug up so many great articles on Kelora.

Here's the ruling document itself: http://docs.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/california/candce/4:2010cv04947/235910/153/

Some articles found by our readers:
www.internetretailer.com/2012/05/22/big-patent-win-e-retailers
http://ipwise.wordpress.com/2012/05/21/from-on-sale-to-obvious-kelora-systems-is-twice-bitten-by-a-prior-product/

Sites Go Dark to Protest Anti-Piracy Proposals SOPA, PIPA: MyFoxDFW.com

Here's a link to the latest court ruling on Kelora.

http://docs.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/california/candce/4:2010cv04947/235910/120/0.pdf?ts=1323253793

Basically, it declares the needs for expert witnesses and in doing so rejects Ebay, Microsoft, Cabela's, et all's motion for immediate dismissal. The expert witnesses should complete their testimony no later than January 25th. We'll keep you updated.

(This is an update from this story about the demand letters sent by Kelora to most of the US's eCommerce sites)
A form letter about some other topic, filled with fluff and nonsense about speeding up the patent process to bring products to market faster and spur innovation, yes, that's what the white house decided to send in response to the [...]

The hearing which was originally scheduled for November 17th has been pushed back to December 1st.
After a hearing the judge usually takes 4-8 weeks to rule; a week after the hearing you will be able to request a transcript. As soon as we get the transcript or any other news we will help distribute the [...]

Update from Wednesday, May 23 2012: The claims by Kelora against Ebay, Microsoft, Adobe, Target, etc have been invalidated. We did an updated post here which is mostly just other site's commentary about the ruling that our readers found. I am not a lawyer, so this isn't legal advise, but if you get a letter [...]

This is part one in a series of research reports on property crime in America.
The purpose of these reports are not to incite fear or "fear monger" in an attempt to convince people to purchase our products. In fact, many of our points will suggest the opposite. Video Surveillance certainly has a [...]

Homeland Security Watch has an excelent post up written by Lynda A. Peters, who is the City Prosecutor in the Chicago Corporation Counsel’s Office. It covers many of the additional considerations that governments must make for legal and record keeping requirements.

The post is at http://www.hlswatch.com/2011/09/06/the-hidden-budget-costs-of-cctv-security-cameras/

Bing Invents Time Travel

Bing invents time travel

We get asked a lot here at Security Camera Warehouse, "Should I use a bullet or a dome camera?"
So, we decided to make a flowchart to make it easier for you to make the decision. You'll want to start at the bottom.
For a thorough explanation and links to explanations of some of the terms [...]

How to do all those things in Ubuntu Unity that everyone says you can't do in Ubuntu Unity
These points came from a bunch of my (Matthew's) reddit comments, but since they will eventually become unavailable and they were a bit spread out and they didn't have pictures, here's a permanent place for those points.
Before we [...]

The opinions listed below are from Matthew, one of the owners of SCW. We might have a rebuttal from one of our other owners.
 
"Do you think "job creators" are more likely or less likely to create a job if he/she is taxed less and thus has more money?" I was asked the other day. This seems [...]

The security industry spends a great deal of time talking about technical issues from SAS, encryption, user access, and server capabilities to entry access points, live monitoring, and video feeds. We might want to also spend some time reading comic books.
In comics, there are super heroes and super villains. As security companies we have been [...]