Press Releases
Resideo Completes Acquisition of BTX Technologies
Resideo Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: REZI), a leading global provider of home comfort and security solutions and distributor of commercial and residential security and audio-visual products, announced it has completed the acquisition of privately held distributor BTX Technologies, Inc.
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Copyright Office Offers New Guidance for Registering Works Using AI-Generated Materials
Today (March 16, 2023), the U.S. Copyright Office issued a statement clarifying its practices for examining and registering works containing material generated through use of artificial intelligence (“AI”) technology.
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SD Marketing with co-sponsors Eyeforce, Emergency24, Actuate, Essex Electronics, and SecuraTrac to host free, can’t miss event “Viva Las Selfies” at the Museum of Selfies-LINQ Promenade on Strip
SD Marketing, a marketing agency solely dedicated to the promotion of security industry organizations in the US and abroad, is proud to announce the hosting of a free event, “Viva Las Selfies”
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DMP Announces Executive Dealer Roundtable Event in St. Augustine, FL
The DMP Executive Dealer Roundtable is an event hosted by members of the DMP Executive Management Group including Owner & President, Rick Britton.
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COPS Monitoring Welcomes K9 Assistant to Workforce
COPS Monitoring, an industry leading professional alarm monitoring service provider in North America, is proud to welcome its first K9 assistant to its workforce.
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Bosch Announces Updated Training Schedule for March, April
Bosch Announces Updated Training Schedule for March, April
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PPVAR Announces TMA’s AVS-01 Received ANSI Accreditation
January 2023. The Monitoring Association (TMA) Standards Committee has received confirmation that its TMA-AVS-01 Alarm Validation Standard has received official ANSI accreditation. Initiated in 2020 in a joint effort between PPVAR and TMA, the standard provides a method of creating an alarm scoring or classification metric for unauthorized human activity detected by alarm systems.
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Registration Now Open for SAAA’s Police Forum, April 13th
Please join the Sacramento Area Alarm Association for our 16th Annual Police Forum. Speakers for this event will be Alex Nitterhouse and Steeve Keefer.
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PPVAR Announces TMA’s AVS-01 Received ANSI Accreditation
January 2023. The Monitoring Association (TMA) Standards Committee has received confirmation that its TMA-AVS-01 Alarm Validation Standard has received official ANSI accreditation. Initiated in 2020 in a joint effort between PPVAR and TMA, the standard provides a method of creating an alarm scoring or classification metric for unauthorized human activity detected by alarm systems.
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TMA Announces their AVS-01 2023 Alarm Validation Scoring Standard
TMA-AVS-01 provides a standardized method of creating an alarm scoring or classification metric for unauthorized human activity detected by alarm systems that will assist law enforcement with resource allocation and Call for Service prioritization.
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Reversing Itself, Ninth Circuit Invalidates California’s Ban on Mandatory Employment Arbitration Agreements
In 2018, California passed a controversial law called AB-51 (now Labor Code Section 432.6) that prohibited California employers from requiring arbitration agreements as a condition of employment – on pain of jail time and civil penalties. AB-51 was immediately challenged and preliminarily enjoined under the Federal Arbitration Act (“FAA”), which was passed almost 100 years ago to combat judicial “hostility” towards arbitration and preempts any law that discriminates against arbitration agreements.
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TMA Welcomes Dynamark Monitoring to its ASAP-to-PSAP Service
The Monitoring Association (TMA) welcomed Dynamark Monitoring, Inc. to its growing list of ASAP-to-PSAP connected monitoring centers – bringing the total number to 29. Launched in 2011 as a public-private partnership, TMA’s ASAP service is designed to increase the accuracy and efficiency of calls for service from alarm monitoring centers to Emergency Communication Centers (ECCs)/PSAPs.
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