On the Editor’s Desk

So, Apple Insider and a number of Mac blogs are all hot and bothered that an IDC report on Apple’s sales figures has them increasing government sales by 200 percent.
Agreed, that’s a big number. Still, 200 percent of not very much is still not very much.
Similarly, people are noting that Apple’s growth in [...]

There’s a strange vibe to ISC East already this year. While there was much speculation that ISC East might be a bigger show this year, since people on the east coast with trimmed travel budgets wouldn’t want to hit either Las Vegas for ISC West or Anaheim for ASIS, I haven’t exactly picked up on [...]

Many of you know that Nortel is in bankruptcy, which is sort of hard to imagine when you remember that within the last decade the company was the single highest-valued stock in all of Canada.
The part of Nortel that you care about is its security business, which I’m not sure was ever very large [...]

Here’s the confirmation of the Cisco membership in Axis-Bosch-Sony-driven specification-developing body ONVIF, along with a few more member and position announcements:
ONVIF (Open Network Video Interface Forum) announces today that the forum has accepted 18 new members since the beginning of 2009. Cisco, Samsung and Siemens have joined the forum as full members and Anixter and [...]

Hey, I like the Siemens security guys, and there’s no mention of security at all in this article, but it can’t be the best PR when your parent company gets whacked with $1.3 billion in corruption fines.
Yikes.
On a side note, let me assure you, gentle readers, that none of those suitcases full of cash were [...]

Just heard that George West, vice president and head of Siemens Building Technologies Security Solutions business unit, is leaving the industry to head up an energy company in Boston. There hasn’t been an official press release, but Siemens called our offices to let us know, which was cool of them. His last day is Friday, [...]

Yesterday, we had news of a Mace CEO coming. Today it’s news of a Dedicated Micros CEO going.
That’s right, Alan Calegari is moving from president and CEO to “non-executive chairman.” I don’t have a link, but here’s the succinct release:
DEDICATED MICROS INC. ANNOUNCES CHANGE OF ROLE FOR PRESIDENT AND CEO
What’s with all the headline yelling [...]