news headlines: 5th february 2004

New development could greatly improve crisis communications accuracy and speed
Research project using GPS technology linked with ‘context aware’ messaging to reliably contact people.
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•Date: 5th February 2004 •Region: N.America/World •Type: Article •Topic: Crisis comms
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Protecting against agricultural terrorism
Department of Homeland Security has published an update.
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•Date: 5th February 2004 •Region: N.America •Type: Article •Topic: Terrorism
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NetEx launches high availability option for fastest WAN IP data transfer accelerator
Latest release of HyperIP includes support for ‘Automatic Hot-Standby’ feature designed to meet demanding data centre requirements for redundancy.
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•Date: 5th February 2004 •Region: N.America/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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SunGard Availability Services wins Royal & SunAlliance contract
Seven year deal to provide all Royal & SunAlliance’s UK workplace recovery services.
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•Date: 5th February 2004 •Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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Critical vulnerability update available from Microsoft
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS04-004 Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer.
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•Date: 5th February 2004 •Region:Worldwide •Type: Link •Topic: Warnings
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BCI London Forum
Wednesday 3rd March, Barclays HQ, 54 Lombard Street, London.
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•Date: 5th February 2004 •Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Events
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