Red Brain

  • Red Brain founders share story of spin-off, law enforcement app (Video)

    Earlier this month, we reported on Red Brain Inc., the University of Nebraska-Lincoln spinout company that recently introduced its first product, CrimeView NEARme. Last week, we sat down with Ian Cottingham, Red Brain’s president and co-founder, Kevin Farrell, Red Brain’s vice president and co-founder, and Alan Tomkins (left), the director of the University of Nebraska’s…

  • New UNL technology provides location-based crime data to police

    With a smorgasbord of apps to assist would-be diners in locating somewhere in the neighborhood to break bread, why aren’t there similar applications to aid police officers in finding and deterring bad? Back when Lincoln Public Safety Director Tom Casady was the chief of the Lincoln Police Department, he began to ponder that problem. Now,…