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Katrina aid anger: 'I just want to slap them' Mississippi agencies had a field day with free goods meant for Katrina victims. Prisons, fire departments, colleges and park agencies snatched up coffee makers, cleaning goods and other supplies, a CNN investigation has found. What about the victims? They've been left high and dry. "I just want to s Home > Rss Directory > General > CNN |
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Scientists Think Like a Hurricane to Beat the Next Katrina When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans in late August 2005 and the levees around the city broke, flooding the city and killing hundreds, Ed Link was as surprised as everyone else. He shouldn't have been. As one of the nation's foremost hurricane experts, Link, a professor at the Univ Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Scientists Think Like a Hurricane to Beat the Next Katrina When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans in late August 2005 and the levees around the city broke, flooding the city and killing hundreds, Ed Link was as surprised as everyone else. He shouldn't have been. As one of the nation's foremost hurricane experts, Link, a professor at the Univ Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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SAP defends forced price hike against user anger 'If you don't want it now, you will later' SAP today rejected claims by British customers that its new support pricing scheme will unfairly slap small and medium-sized businesses with extra costs for services they won't use.… Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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Delivering aid in a digital world With mobile banking taking off around much of the developing world, how long will it be before international aid is delivered electronically? Sound crazy? If you think so, you might be surprised to hear that it's already started happening. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Charges dismissed against police in post-Katrina shootings - CNN Charges dismissed against police in post-Katrina shootingsCNN - 35 minutes agoNEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- A judge Wednesday dismissed all charges against six police officers and a former officer who'd been accused of shooting unarmed civilians -- two of them fatally -- Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |
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Open up if you want more cyclone aid, Myanmar told - Reuters India Open up if you want more cyclone aid, Myanmar toldReuters India - 4 hours ago"The Myanmar authorities must turn promises into action. The eyes of the world are watching," British development minister Douglas Alexander said after a landmark aid conference in t Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |
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UN aid workers freed in Somalia Somali gunmen free two UN aid workers from Denmark and Sweden - just hours after seizing them, officials say. Home > Rss Directory > General > BBC |
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UN aid workers freed in Somalia Somali gunmen free two UN aid workers from Denmark and Sweden - just hours after seizing them, officials say. Home > Rss Directory > General > BBC World |
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Jeff Han: We're Just Scratching the Surface of Multitouch SAN JOSE, California -- Jeff Han has some simple advice for companies thinking about how to integrate the latest interface technology into their products: Start over. "It's like Yoda said, you must unlearn what you've learned," he says, referring to the 40 years that the mouse and Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Jeff Han: We're Just Scratching the Surface of Multitouch SAN JOSE, California -- Jeff Han has some simple advice for companies thinking about how to integrate the latest interface technology into their products: Start over. "It's like Yoda said, you must unlearn what you've learned," he says, referring to the 40 years that the mouse and Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Nearly 40,000 Katrina families still in mobile homes ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - Almost three years after Hurricane Katrina, nearly 40,000 families still are living in vulnerable mobile homes and trailers across the U.S. Gulf Coast with another hurricane season just two months away, the top U.S. disaster official said on Wednesday. Home > Rss Directory > General > Reuters |
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Nearly 40,000 Katrina families still in mobile homes
(Reuters) Reuters - Almost three years after Hurricane Katrina, nearly 40,000 families still are living in vulnerable mobile homes and trailers across the U.S. Gulf Coast with another hurricane season just two months away, the top U.S. disaster official said on Wednesday. Home > Rss Directory > General > Yahoo News |
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Children in Katrina trailers may face lifelong ailments
(AP) AP - The anguish of Hurricane Katrina should have ended for Gina Bouffanie and her daughter when they left their FEMA trailer. But with each hospital visit and each labored breath her child takes, the young mother fears it has just begun. Home > Rss Directory > General > Yahoo News |
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Ballmer's Facebook Lust: It's Just Like High School News from Portfolio.com Also on Portfolio Media Marvel: Saavy Iron Man Clips Press Meebo CEO and His 'Live Web' Strategy Multimedia: A Look at the Growing Food Crisis Subscribe to Portfolio magazine If you hang around th Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Ballmer's Facebook Lust: It's Just Like High School News from Portfolio.com Also on Portfolio Media Marvel: Saavy Iron Man Clips Press Meebo CEO and His 'Live Web' Strategy Multimedia: A Look at the Growing Food Crisis Subscribe to Portfolio magazine If you hang around th Home > Rss Directory > Business > Wired News |
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Ballmer's Facebook Lust: It's Just Like High School News from Portfolio.com Also on Portfolio Media Marvel: Saavy Iron Man Clips Press Meebo CEO and His 'Live Web' Strategy Multimedia: A Look at the Growing Food Crisis Subscribe to Portfolio magazine If you hang around th Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Open up if you want more cyclone aid, Myanmar told YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar was promised nearly $50 million in cyclone aid on Sunday, but some Western donor countries said their cash was contingent on the junta keeping its word on letting in foreign aid workers and assessment teams. Home > Rss Directory > General > Reuters |
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Open up if you want more cyclone aid, Myanmar told
(Reuters) Reuters - Myanmar was promised nearly $50 million in cyclone aid on Sunday, but some Western donor countries said their cash was contingent on the junta keeping its word on letting in foreign aid workers and assessment teams. Home > Rss Directory > General > Yahoo News |
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Digital TV Shift May Aid Cable Companies NEW YORK -- TV's big switch from analog to digital broadcasts will be complete in just one year, on Feb. 17, 2009, and many consumers are puzzling over how the shift will affect them: Do they need a new converter box, a new TV, a better antenna? But it's pretty clear which business interests stand. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > WashingtonPost |