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• URespond concept sketches for Random Hacks of Kindness event

  
  Tehran Shake — Authority: 106
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• November 2009 Auditor General’s Report

  
  Wednesday-Night — Authority: 133
  Read the Report Disaster response body inadequate: Auditor General (CanWest) The federal department charged with disaster planning is itself a disaster when it comes to preparing for emergencies as varied as the swine flu pandemic, floods and terrorist attacks, says Auditor General Sheila Fraser. … The ...
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• GreatCall Paid With Stock for MobiWatch

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 707
  wireless , Acquisition , deals Bruce V. Bigelow wrote: A regulatory filing made last month by GreatCall, the San Diego-based parent of Jitterbug, offers some insight into the value of Jitterbug’s acquisition of Waltham, MA-based MobiWatch. Jitterbug announced the deal yesterday but declined to comment ...
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• Keeping Details to a Minimum, San Diego’s Jitterbug Announces Acquisition of MobiWatch of Waltham, MA

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 707
  wireless , acquistions , deals Bruce V. Bigelow wrote: San Diego-based Jitterbug , the simple-to-use wireless phone and services provider, says today it has acquired MobiWatch, a startup in Waltham, MA, developing mobile personal emergency response services. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. ...
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• Jitterbug Acquires MobiWatch Emergency Services Corp

  
  Great Product Direct — Authority: 157
  Today Jitterbug announced that it will acquire MobiWatch for an undisclosed sum. MobiWatch has been developing Mobile Personal Emergency Response Services (M-PERS). Personal Emergency Response Services were previously only available from landlines. By incorporating MobiWatchs service directly into Jitterbug ..
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• T-Mobile Says All Services Restored

  
  Great Product Direct — Authority: 157
  T-Mobile issued a statement late Tuesday night to inform customers that all voice and data services had be restored after an outage affected 5% of T-Mobiles subscribers.
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• In Case of Emergency

  
  It's my party (and I'll cry if I want to...) — Authority: 127
  I am a member of our companys Emergency Response Unit . We regularly have simulation of events where we play the role of telephone agents providing information to the affected families. Every year we go through emergency response training and phone-answering skills to equip ourselves in the event of a real emergency. ...
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• Second disaster management conference begins Wednesday

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  New Delhi, Nov 3 (IANS) The second India Disaster Management Congress will be held in New Delhi from Wednesday and is expected to bring together 1,500 scientists and scholars from various global universities for interaction and integration of knowledge on various aspects of disaster risk reduction and management.The ...
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• RescueSim – Virtual Fire Team Traning

  
  gCaptain.com — Authority: 519
  We have shown you the video game Ship Simulator 2008 , a “realistic” (we haven’t tested this claim) simulator game for your PC, but today we point you towards another product from the company Vstep; RescueSim. Here’s the short description from the RescueSim website ; RescueSim allows emergency response ...
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• GAO Reports on Federal Geospatial Investments and Coordination

  
  GeoData Policy — Authority: 112
  Geospatial Information: Better Coordination and Oversight Could Help Reduce Duplicative InvestmentsGAO-04-824T June 23, 2004The collection, maintenance, and use of location-based (geospatial) information are essential to federal agencies carrying out their missions. Geographic information systems (GIS) are critical ...
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• 25,000 Displaced Children in Zimbabwe to Benefit From a Program Launched By the International Organisation for Migration

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 155
  Nearly 25,000 displaced children in Zimbabwe are set to benefit from a new program launched by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) on Wednesday to create a safer, healthier and more conducive school environment for mobile and vulnerable children. The program targets 40 marginalized and neglected ...
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• Information Technology (Amendment) Act, 2008 Comes Into Force

  
  LEGAL & FINANCIAL UPDATES FROM TAX GURU — Authority: 444
  With proliferation of information technology enabled services such as e-governance, e-commerce and e-transactions; data security, data privacy and implementation of security practices and procedures relating to these applications of electronic... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, ...
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• Haiti, Cuba Relieved by Quiet Hurricane Season

  
  Voices of CRS — Authority: 133
  This time last year, Haiti and Cuba were reeling from powerful hurricanes that still have both countries in recovery mode. So understandably, the start of the current storm season heightened concerns among people on the islands as well parishioners in places such as Miami, the closest major U.S. city to the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Boat Ambulance Boon for Majuli Patients

  
  Sinlung — Authority: 156
  Dispur to launch facility for river island next month to mark anniversary of 108 road emergency service The speedboat donated by NRL Guwahati, Oct 23 : After air ambulance, it is now the turn of a boat ambulance to make its debut in the healthcare sector. Assam will be the first in the country to have boat ...
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• Typhoon Lupit Nears Storm Weary Philippines

  
  Voices of CRS — Authority: 133
  From an AlertNet report : Exhausted aid workers are gearing up for the third typhoon to strike the Philippines in less than four weeks, a storm they say could be “disastrous” for people living in the already weakened northern regions. Within the next 24 hours Typhoon Lupit is due to hit the Luzon area in ...
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• MedicAlert EMIR Partners with Microsoft HeatlhVault For Integration

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 516
  MedicAlert also has an online PHR and now you can enjoy integrating with HealthVault, perhaps to share information if needed.  BD  In addition to the announcement with MedicAlert, HealthVault also is offering a monthly news letter for subscription.  “The Microsoft HealthVault team is pleased to ...
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• New tsunami proof buildings may save thousands of lives

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Washington, October 20 (ANI): A team of researchers is developing a series of tsunami evacuation buildings up and down the Pacific northwest coast, which would help in saving lives when a killer tsunami strikes.The team of researchers is being led by Yumei Wang, a geotechnical engineer at the Oregon Department of ...
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• Sailor remembered for ‘living twice as hard’

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  Sailing veteran Andrew Short is being remembered as a brave adventurer, a keen businessman and a devoted father at his funeral in Sydney. More than 2,500 people have gathered at the service at St Marys Cathedral to farewell the 48-year-old sailing veteran who was killed when his yacht ran aground during a night race ...
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• tehran’s minor earthquake on saturday

  
  Tehran Shake — Authority: 106
  Tehran experienced a minor earthquake (Richter magnitude 4) on Saturday at 2:23 pm local time (http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=205750). It seems that most Tehranies felt this shake. There is now a widespread fear of aftershocks and possibly bigger earthquakes due to more activities on the Eivanaki fault ...
  3 weeks ago

• India Floods: ‘No Jobs, No Crops, No Food’

  
  Voices of CRS — Authority: 133
  Flood survivors in southeast India stand in front of their destroyed home. Photo by Fr. Jijo Murthanatt for CRS “When the flood hit, the water rose from my feet to my waist in five minutes,” says Kasturi, a 20-year-old mother who is nine months pregnant. “My husband put our two daughters on his shoulders, one ...
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