Cities wage high-tech battle against graffiti
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Global positioning systems (GPS),  digital photography and computer databases are joining the  humble paint can as U.S. cities battle to obliterate graffiti  and catch its shadowy perpetrators.
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Past attempts at a high-tech quill have ended up as expensive paperweights, but a new crop of start-ups has higher hopes.Photos: Pens get smarter
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Sharp designs and colors fight the impression made by older devices.
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Preserving the digital crime scene poses one of the biggest challenges in the global fight against cybercrime, said participants this week at a major international conference on fighting Internet-based crime.
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The City of Chicago is developing a futuristic video surveillance system designed to scan city streets looking for everything from bombs to traffic jams.
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The fashionable city of Milan has become the staging area for a new breed of online social protests.
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By KEN MAGUIRE BOSTON - Several illuminated electronic devices planted at bridges and other spots in Boston threw a scare into the city Wednesday in what turned out to be a publicity campaign for a late-night cable cartoon.
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Only about 25m of the reinforced concrete wall panels remain. Some of the panels are pock-marked and worse for the wear of time and the hundreds of thousands of tourists who each year caress the lurid graffiti ...
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Search technology for images may lead to a way to search handwritten manuscripts.
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Arts & entertainment: What's behind our sudden craving for big, bold works of public art?
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Cities are the future of the world, and slums are the future of the city.
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Flickr style GPS scrawl mashup metatags the taggers American cities have begun to wage war against graffiti artists using the latest consumer tech: namely, integrated digital photography and GPS platforms feeding into a central database run as an online service.â¦
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Florence, Renaissance city of art and history, is trying to clean up its streets by cracking down on squeegee men, saying they were causing "great danger" to drivers and pedestrians alike.
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MADISON, Wis. - There's so much graffiti on a Milwaukee bridge it must be legal. That's the argument a man busted for tagging a city bridge made to the 1st District Court of Appeals. The court didn't buy it and upheld his sentence Tuesday.
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By The Fresno Bee, Calif.  Sep. 18--This just in: Fresno County will soon begin doing something about graffiti in rural neighborhoods.   Well, not exactly soon. The program is another six or eight weeks away. But in county time, that's relatively fast.
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This image compares the effects of image noise and aggressive noise reduction technology.
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Cities in the US are using a global positioning software system in their efforts to control graffiti.