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Flashtalk Technology
August 23, 2010
We have completed a small website project to showcase the capabilities of our sister company, Flashtalk Technology...
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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.
Security officers do all sorts of things to avoid doing their patrols...
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Scannergate
July 23, 2007
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...
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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...
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Who do you trust?
July 14, 2010
The continuing tale of our newest competitor:
There are lots of people in the guard tour business. We've met some of our them over the years, at trade shows and elsewhere.
We are on a friendly basis with many of our competitors and have found most to be honorable businesspeople.
Then, on the other hand...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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