As Oncam Global takes full ownership of Grandeye, the combined company will now be known as Oncam Grandeye.

Oncam Global acquired the remaining 51% of shares from Creative Technology to take full control of the imaging technology specialist because Grandeye has developed smart camera technology that greatly reduces system complexity and cost when compared with other approaches. Grandeye holds a very strong patent portfolio that si equally attractive.

Grandeye will now be fully integrated as Oncam Global’s technology and engineering ar Read more...

Norbain’s UK operation including export has been acquired by Newbury Investments (UK) Ltd from the administrators, KPMG. KPMG says falling orders at Norbain (as customers put infrastructure investments on hold) pushed Norbain into administration at the end of June.

The distributor supplies about 7000 installation firms and resellers with CCTV, IP video, access control and intruder detection equipment. They employ more than 240 people throughout the UK in various sales offices and at its distribution centre in Manchester. Each year, the company’s International Sales division in UK sells into 77 countries across 5 continents and that supports Norbain’s claim as “one of Europe’s most successful distributors.” The UK operation (domestic and export) generated the lion's share of Norbain’s £100m-plus annual sales.

KPMG is still seeking buyers for Norbain's businesses in So.Africa, Benelux and Portugal. Presumably whoever buys those should realize the newly-acquired UK export department could now also chase business in those markets, unless covenants are in place. Read more...

The world market for video surveillance equipment will grow by more than 12% in 2012, says IMS. But that’s no thanks to Europe which is noted as the “biggest drag” on the world market.

The World Market for CCTV and Video Surveillance Equipment – 2012 Edition puts China-based Hikvision in the top spot by sales revenue in 2011 for CCTV and video surveillance equipment.

According to this report, the top five companies by sales revenues in 2011 are:

1. Hikvision
2. Panasonic System Networks (PSN)
3. Axis Communications
4. Bosch Security Read more...

Security startup Bromium proposes a novel means of keeping PCs secure outside corporate firewalls-- not by keeping threats out, but by isolating suspected threats from the OS core using a "Microvisor."

The Microvisor takes security inside the system, creating what Bromium calls a "Micro-VM" in order to isolate, run and examine every individual tasks. A specially designed hypervisor, the Microvisor is late loading (not provisioned on hardware before the desktop OS) and functions unobtrusively. 

In other words it creates tiny virtual quarantines for Read more...