news headlines: 23rd October 2007

SunGard Availability Services makes senior appointment
Eric Berg becomes group chief executive officer.
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•Date: 23rd October 2007• Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
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City of London Police upgrades business alert system
New Vocal contract provides London-based businesses with enhanced crisis communications.
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•Date: 23rd October 2007• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: Crisis comms
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HP launches enhanced Business Service Management software
Helps IT organizations monitor and manage business services to mitigate business risk and reduce the potential costs of service downtime.
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•Date: 23rd October 2007• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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OSHA issues new combustible dust instruction
Details OSHA policies and procedures for inspecting workplaces that handle combustible dusts and that may have the potential for a dust explosion.
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•Date: 23rd October 2007• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: Manufacturing BC
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Banks failing to take a holistic approach to information risk management
Managing risk is a priority, but less than a third of banks take an integrated approach to information management.
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•Date: 23rd October 2007• Region: UK/W.Europe •Type: Article •Topic: Finance BC
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‘Emergency Planning for the Financial Services District’ conference
The Irish Branch of the Emergency Planning Society (EPS) is presenting a conference on emergency planning for the Dublin financial services district on Thursday November 15th.
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•Date: 23rd October 2007• Region: W.Europe •Type: Article •Topic: Events
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MessageOne introduces the Incident Collaboration Center
New tools will ‘dramatically ease communication and coordination after any crisis’.
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•Date: 23rd October 2007• Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: Crisis management
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Business continuity briefs
Today's issue includes:
• Southern California wildfires situation update
• Border Security and Global Terrorism Conference
• Chertoff discusses improvised explosive devices in the United States
• IAEM 2007 award winners
• Current environmental stories with business continuity implications:
   - FEMA daily SITREP
   - World weather impacts
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