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Honeywell Revises Emergency Response Plans, Eyes Restart
April 26, 2013 12:22 pm | News | CommentsThe plant has been closed since May of last year after the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission ordered Honeywell to make the site able to withstand an earthquake or tornado. The regulators also wanted the company to revise its emergency response plans to natural disasters.
New Strain Of Bird Flu Found To Be Highly Lethal
April 26, 2013 12:12 pm | by GILLIAN WONG,Associated Press | News | CommentsA new strain of bird flu that emerged in China over the past month is one of the "most lethal" flu viruses so far, worrying health officials because it can jump more easily from birds to humans than the one that started killing people a decade ago, World Health Organization officials said Wednesday.
Boston Bombers Planned To Attack Times Square
April 26, 2013 12:01 pm | by COLLEEN LONG & JENNIFER PELTZ,Associated Press | News | CommentsThe Boston Marathon bombers were headed for New York's Times Square to blow up the rest of their explosives, authorities said Thursday, in what they portrayed as a chilling, spur-of-the-moment scheme that fell apart when the brothers realized the car they had hijacked was low on gas.
Internal 'Software Issue' Shuts U.S. Options Exchange
April 26, 2013 10:56 am | by BERNARD CONDON & STEVE ROTHWELL,AP Business Writers | News | CommentsSome on Wall Street shrugged off the outage. "I don't think it is too big of a deal if it's a one day thing. If it keeps happening, of course, that's different," said Ryan Detrick, a senior technical strategist at Schaeffer's Investment Research.
How Chinese Bird Flu Infects Humans Is Still A Mystery
April 19, 2013 3:36 pm | by GILLIAN WONG,Associated Press | News | CommentsAlmost three weeks after China reported finding a new strain of bird flu in humans, experts are still stumped by how people are becoming infected when many appear to have had no recent contact with live fowl and the virus seemingly isn't passing from person to person.
One Of Two Suspects In Boston Bombing Killed
April 19, 2013 10:56 am | by EILEEN SULLIVAN, KATIE ZEZIMA & MEGHAN BARR, Associated Press | News | CommentsThe two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing killed an MIT police officer and hurled explosives at police in a car chase and gun battle overnight that left one of them dead and his brother on the loose, authorities said Friday as thousands of officers swarmed the streets in a manhunt that all but paralyzed the Boston area.
Understanding The Phases Of Emergency Communication
April 19, 2013 10:37 am | by Hannah Snyder, Business Continuity Planner, xMatters | Articles | CommentsThe ability to send emergency notifications over any device or platform enables targeted messages to successfully reach and warn large numbers of people about imminent or existing danger, potentially taming an incident or emergency from turning into a crisis or catastrophe. However, every situation is different, and there is no one-size-fits-all solution.
Hoaxes, Scams Abound After Disasters Like Boston
April 19, 2013 9:44 am | by LEANNE ITALIE,Associated Press | News | CommentsLike numerous disasters before, hoaxes and conspiracies have popped up in the chaotic first days after the tragedy, days when people want to jump in with help and support while investigations have barely begun. They're also days when thieves get to work setting up pleas for money via social media, phone calls and text.
Google Mail & Other Services 'Disrupted'
April 18, 2013 1:21 pm | News | CommentsGoogle's mail and application services were unavailable to some users Wednesday morning. The company said it was investigating the problems, but didn't know their cause. It didn't say how many people were affected. The disruptions started affecting people worldwide around 8 a.m. Eastern time (noon GMT) but appeared to be resolved by midday.
House Passes Pro-Business Cybersecurity Bill
April 18, 2013 1:14 pm | by ANNE FLAHERTY,Associated Press | News | CommentsPro-business legislation aimed at helping companies fend off sophisticated foreign hackers sailed through the House on Thursday despite a White House veto threat and an outcry from privacy advocates and civil liberties groups that say it leaves Americans vulnerable to spying by the military.
Monstrous Explosion Rocks Texas Fertilizer Plant
April 18, 2013 12:42 pm | by JOHN L. MONE & MICHAEL BRICK,Associated Press | News | CommentsRescue workers searched the smoldering ruins of a fertilizer plant Thursday for survivors of a monstrous explosion that leveled homes and businesses in every direction across the Texas prairie. As many as 15 people were feared dead and more than 160 others injured.
Judge Chides Army Corps Over New Orleans Levees
April 17, 2013 4:30 pm | News | CommentsThe Army Corps of Engineers built a "tragically flawed" levee system for New Orleans — but isn't liable for claims that excavation work by a government contractor weakened a floodwall and caused it to breach in two places during Hurricane Katrina, a federal judge has ruled.
Radio Scans Show Boston Police, Medic Heroics
April 17, 2013 4:20 pm | by JACK GILLUM & STEPHEN BRAUN,Associated Press | News | CommentsThe urgent and sometimes garbled appeals that flickered across Boston's emergency services radio bands gave full voice to the split-second and pressurized decisions that the city's police and fire uniformed and supervisory officials made under the extreme duress of a long, hard day.
'Software Issue' Grounds American Airlines Flights From Coast To Coast
April 17, 2013 3:46 pm | by DAVID KOENIG,AP Airlines Writer | News | CommentsA massive technology failure forced the nation's third-largest carrier to ground all planes from coast to coast. The company blamed the breakdown on a "software issue" that knocked out both primary and backup computer reservation systems. Passengers took to social media sites to criticize the airline, which for hours could only apologize and say that it was trying to fix the problem.
EVault Launches Industry-Pioneering Cloud Disaster Recovery Service In EMEA
April 17, 2013 3:24 pm | News | CommentsEVault, Inc., a Seagate Company, has announced that its market-leading EVault® Cloud Disaster Recovery Service with a guaranteed Service Level Agreement (SLA) is now available from EVault and its partners in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
