Stories about: Federal Emergency Management Agency

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    Lycos, Yahoo offer portals for information on Katrina victims 09/09/2005 08:00:37

    Two major Web search companies, Lycos.com and Yahoo.com, have assembled aggregated, fully searchable Web pages that allow people to simultaneously search numerous disaster sites for information on family members, friends and victims who may have been injured or displaced by Hurricane Katrina.
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    For FEMA aid online, Katrina survivors will need IE 6 08/09/2005 13:14:03

    Hurricane Katrina survivors looking to apply online to the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency for assistance better make sure they're running Microsoft's Windows operating system and using Internet Explorer Version 6 or higher. IE 6 is required for the aid applications, according to information on FEMA's Web site.
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    ICANN accepts bids to operate .net registry 21/01/2005 09:49:30

    The contest to operate the Internet's .net domain has begun, with four leading domain name service providers submitting bids to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers by the midnight Tuesday deadline.
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    Dirty bomb? Grab your PDA! 26/03/2003 09:09:50

    Devotees of PDAs (personal digital assistants) can now put "survival" alongside "calendar" and "address book" in the list of useful applications, as two companies announced release of Terrorism Survival Plan software for PDAs.
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    GPS/GIS mapping helps narrow search for shuttle debris 06/02/2003 11:13:37

    Using Global Positioning System-derived geo-location data to define the debris field from the breakup of the shuttle Columbia, researchers and undergraduates from Stephen F. Austin University in Nacogdoches, Texas have helped narrow search patterns in east Texas, where thousands of pieces of the spacecraft have been located.
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    US, Chinese hackers continue Web defacements 02/05/2001 09:30:58

    Two days into what was supposed to be a 'cyberwar' launched by Chinese hackers in retaliation for the death of Chinese pilot Wang Wei, a number of US government Web sites have been defaced, but groups of US hackers have entered the picture as well, hacking Chinese sites.
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    More Y2K fever to come in 1999 23/12/1998 21:49:18

    "It's the end of the world as we know it" certain groups springing up on the Net would have you believe about the millennium bug. The irony is, the Web is both the chief venue of communication for such groups, and "the mother of all their fears". As 1999 begins, the Y2K hysteria will only increase . . .
 
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