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SAFE and SAFE Financial move to new headquarters

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01/01/2002
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SAN RAMON, Calif.-SAFE and SAFE Financial have moved into a new 35,000 square-foot building here which is more than three times larger than the company's previous facility located here.

Senate subcommittee briefed on biometrics

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01/01/2002
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WASHINGTON, D.C.

False alarm ordinance watch

 by:  SSN Staff  - 
01/01/2002
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Pittsburgh County, Okla.
Sheriff Jerome "Snookie" Amaranto has asked the Pittsburgh County commissioners to consider allowing him to charge security companies for false alarms.

Tyco Ele. targets residential cabling market

 by:  SSN Staff  - 
01/01/2002
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HARRISBURG, Pa.-Tyco Electronics has introduced a new residential cabling system that it plans to introduce to the residential multi-dwelling unit market, its first step to targeting the residential wiring market as a whole.

Home Director partners with N.C. developer

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01/01/2002
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MORRISVILLE, N.C.

Monitoring takes Internet route

Internet alarm monitoring expected to ride wave of broadband growth
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Joanne Friedrick
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01/01/2002
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Internet alarm monitoring expected to ride wave of broadband growth

With an anticipated 5.6 mil-lion residential DSL subscribers in 2002 and a forecast for nearly four million broadband business lines in North America by 2004, it's little wonder the alarm monitoring industry has turned its attention to Internet usage.

EST training to begin in Chicago

 by:  SSN Staff  - 
01/01/2002
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ARLINGTON, Va.-A private vocational and business school in Chicago will begin classes for the certification for Electronic Systems Technicians (EST) in the fall semester, announced the Consortium for Electronic Systems Technician Training.

Newspoll Results

 by:  SSN Staff  - 
01/01/2002
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We sent a newspoll to our Security Systems News Newswire subscribers asking them what they think about Tyco's plan to purchase DSC. Here's the question we asked, how people responded and comments some of you made.

Strategis Group predicts growth in home networks

 by:  SSN Staff  - 
01/01/2002
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WASHINGTON-The Strategis Group, a global telecommunications research and consulting firm, predicts that 2.3 million U.

Western to cut staff

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01/01/2002
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TOPEKA, Kan.-Protection One parent Western Resources said in December it expected to reduce its work force by 214 people by year end and that the company will incur a fourth-quarter charge of about $25 million related to the cuts.

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SSN News Poll June 2013

Early termination fees are a standard in the security industry but now The ADT Corp. is facing a class-action lawsuit over them. The attorney representing ADT clients from California, Illinois and elsewhere in the lawsuit says the fees violate federal and state consumer protection laws. But industry advocates say the fees are legitimate to help companies recover installation costs and for loss of profit. What do you think about such fees?

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