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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?

The PIPE is tied to a car bumper

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

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