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Happy Valentine's Day: your home is toxic
That was the ahppy message to numerous families from the feds today. Specifically it was FEMA telling displaced Katrina refugees that their government-provided travel trailers contain unsafe...
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Don't inhale, Part Deux
Another revelation in the case of the odorless but possibly dangerous FEMA trailers. Some Katrina victims have been living in more than forty-thousand of these trailers for over a year. Now some...
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Got a new computer desk? Don't inhale
Once you and I are are dead, formaldehyde could be useful. It's an embalming fluid, after all. But right now, you are not really helped by breathing the stuff. With that in mind the geniuses at...
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Images: It's open season for hurricanes
The NOAA predicts four to six major hurricanes this year. What are the perils and how is FEMA getting ready?
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Images: It's open season for hurricanes
The NOAA predicts four to six major hurricanes this year. What are the perils and how is FEMA getting ready?
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IT improvements key to disaster response
The federal government must improve its use of information technology on many fronts to improve disaster response and recovery, DHS' IG told Senate committees.
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Chertoff's fixes for FEMA inadequate
Homeland Security Sec. Michael Chertoff's plans for fixing FEMA, moves that include beefing up vendor databases and claims management software, are necessary but inadequate experts tell the...
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More details on FEMA tech upgrades
As part of government's mea culpa on Katrina, Chertoff pledges to beef up FEMA technology.
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Fixing FEMA: Chertoff focuses on technology
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff (finally) conceded that the agency's response to Katrina failed and many of his proposed fixes center on tech.
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DHS failing on cybersecurity front?
Security expert Peter Trippett compares DHS management of cybersecurity to FEMA's relief efforts: confusion, no leadership.
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FEMA was warned computers were inadequate
Departed FEMA director Michael Brown was warned weeks before Katrina that the agency's computer systems were overwhelmed and underpowered to handle its mission.
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Energy CIO: Communicate by any means necessary
Dept. of Energy CIO says plans are needed for powerless communications in emergencies, and commonsense overrides policy.
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IE still required on FEMA site
As predicted here a week ago, FEMA's website still requires applicants to use Internet Explorer to apply for aid. Last week there was heavy coverage of the fact that FEMA had said they were...
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David Pogue: FEMA website flap no big deal
The New York Times' David Pogue thinks the buzz over FEMA's assistance website requiring IE 6 for Windows is "a big overblown." He notes that the site states the agency is working on the problem,...
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More on FEMA's browser boo-boo: Was FEMA not thinking clearly or just lazy
Frank Hayes at Computerworld: "Ever think that cutting a corner that simplifies development but limits who can use your systems is no big deal? Maybe that's true if you're working in a corporate...
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FEMA promises fix to IE-only website but so far its still IE only
FEMA's claims they are working on fixing their website so that it works with other browsers besides Internet Explorer. As of today, though, it's IE only.
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USA Today: Plenty of government technology, but a lack of will
What's wrong with government technology? When it came to predicting Hurricane Katrina, nothing, writes Andrew Kantor at USAToday. In short, Kantor says, "The bottom line is that our technology...
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While Mass. takes the lead in open access, feds lock citizens into IE
David Berlind points out at Between the Lines that, while the state of Massachusett is immovably committed to the Open Document format - and will banish Microsoft Office from state agencies if...
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HP introduces the Net-Zero Datacenter
HP Labs research into the Net-Zero Energy Datacenter has implications for more efficient management and operation of existing datacenters.
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Android 5 Jelly Bean: I Say Innovation, You Say Fragmentation...
A new version of Google's Android mobile OS is expected to be unveiled at the Google I/O conference in late June. Will that leave developers or enterprises wanting to call the whole thing off?
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