Personal Safety System Wins Award
Concord Camera’s OnGuard Kids Personal Safety Alert System has won the “Best Products Summer 2007 Award” from Dr. Toy’s Institute for Child Resources. This is the second award received by Concord for its OnGuard Kids system which was previously awarded the “Best Products of 2007 Award” from iParenting Media in the safety category.
The OnGuard Kids system is a complete personal safety alert system that combines a digital watch with a powerful 110 decibel alarm and SOS signal that may be activated by children in emergency situations. Also packaged with the watch are a child ID system and an educational DVD hosted by family safety expert Bob Stuber. In the DVD, Stuber teaches children how to use the watch to attract attention in an emergency and offers positive advice and proactive actions for children facing perilous situations. To learn more about the OnGuard Kids Personal Safety Alert System click to www.onguardkids.com.
Network Performance Hit by Recreational Use
Recreational use of network resources is impacting network performance despite formal policies to restrict it, according to a survey conducted by network performance management specialist NetQoS Inc. at its 2007 Customer Symposium. More than 50 percent of the survey’s respondents have seen an increase in recreational use over the last year, with 55 percent of those people experiencing an increase of more than 25 percent.
The survey revealed that while nearly 90 percent of participants have a formal policy in place to limit recreational use (defined as non-business usage of network resources such as instant messaging, music/video downloads, social networking sites, and news/sports sites), it continues to rise and is now impacting the performance of business-critical applications on more than 60 percent of networks. The survey canvassed the views of more than 150 network engineers, managers and IT directors within large enterprises, strategic integrators and government agencies who attended NetQoS’ annual network performance management technology conference.
“While focus in this area has typically been dedicated to employee productivity and IT security, recreational IT use and particularly the increasing popularity of bandwidth-heavy Web 2.0 services is now an important network management consideration,” said Steve Harriman, vice president of marketing at NetQoS. “The network performance management information we provide our customers enables them to clearly identify this excess traffic, quantify its impact on network performance and minimize its effect on business-critical applications. But as our survey shows, changing employee behavior is an entirely different challenge.”
New Effort at Land Mine Eradication
The Sri Lankan Minister of Nation Building and Development has issued a letter of commitment to the Alliance Enterprise Corporation to locate and map out the land mines embedded in the South Asian nation. An eventual contract is subject to a successful demonstration of Alliance’s Land Mine Detection and Mapping Sensor Technology. The Alliance’s Aerial LML (Land Mine Locator) System is a fast, safe and economical means of detecting and mapping land mines in those areas known to be embedded with the deadly devices.
“The Sri Lanka Army Engineer’s Corp have already identified suspected areas and are trained professionally to remove and destroy landmines. The sensors, located aboard the Company’s LML Aerial Platform System will certainly speed up the process of detecting and mapping the location of land mines compared to any other system in use today,” said Robert Williams, VP of Field Operations for Alliance.
