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A Great Place to Live
December 5, 2011 — Solon, Ohio was named #3 on Money's list of America's best small towns...Read full entry
Officers Arrested for Falsifying Cell Check Logs
September 6, 2011 — In an incident reminiscent of last year's Scannergate, two officers at a Texas county jail were charged with tampering with government documents... Read full entry
Shenyang VS Digital Copied Our Web Site!
August 15, 2011 — Does that web page design look familiar? Here's another blatant copy of our home page, this time by a Chinese company... Read full entry
Our customers rate our tech support
June 17, 2011 — Here are the results of the chat session ratings for the first five months of 2011... Read full entry
New Guys Cook the Burgers Day
April 6, 2011 — Why is everyone smiling in our company picture? Because TimeKeeping Systems is a great place to work? That's true, of course, but it's not the only reason... Read full entry
Are Your Officers on the Job?
January 11, 2011 — Although it is a well-known fact that the contract security industry has a high turnover rate, we haven't found any authoritative figures. Guard companies are understandably reluctant to share this sort of internal data... Read full entry
Battery Recycling
November 30, 2010 — What happens to the PIPE's lithium batteries when they are replaced?... Read full entry
Put the Hammer Down
September 18, 2010 — Here's the next entry in our PIPE torture test series... Read full entry
Flashtalk Technology
August 23, 2010 — We have completed a small website project to showcase the capabilities of our sister company, Flashtalk Technology... Read full entry
Can your guard tour system do this?
August 7, 2010 — We recently posted our first two PIPE torture tests... In one, our engineers drive around town with a PIPE tied to their bumper.
In the other, we cook The PIPE in a microwave oven for five minutes... Read full entry
Scannergate
July 23, 2010 — Yesterday's L.A. Times carried a report on "Scannergate", where Los Angeles sheriff's deputies at the Men's Central Jail
created duplicate bar codes to circumvent the jail's guard tour system and avoid doing their patrols... Read full entry
Guard Tourer replies
July 17, 2010 — We wrote to the Guard Tourer folks asking them to remove the content they copied from our web site (see our previous post).
We received a reply from Umit Hassan, the president of UMT Computers... Read full entry
Who do you trust?
July 14, 2010 — The continuing tale of our newest competitor... Read full entry
Imitation is not the Sincerest Flattery
July 12, 2010 — One problem we face as the leader in the guard tour business is that lots of people copy us. Many companies have copied
the appearance of The PIPE to varying degrees. We've been copied by companies in Brazil, China, Turkey, South Africa, the
UK and the US... Read full entry
New Ad + How We Got Our Name
July 2, 2010 — We've been busy working on our web site and new product development, but we're finally circling back to some long-delayed
marketing projects... Read full entry
The Simple Secret of Our Success
April 27, 2010 — With this, our first post, and the introduction of our new web site, we want to express
our appreciation to our customers, who are the reason for our success. Read full entry