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Homeland Security Technology Corporation Case Study: World Trade Center
White Papers Soon after the World Trade Center (WTC) clean-up began, the Department of Design and Construction (DDC) New York City raised concerns about the security of the 1.8 million tons of debris being transported by dump trucks from Ground Zero to the...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
An Evaluation Of The Role Played By Remote Sensing Technology Following The World Trade Center Attack
White Papers Remote sensing technology has been widely recognized for contributing to emergency response efforts after the World Trade Center Attack on September 11th, 2001. This paper reviews the role played by aerial photography, satellite imagery, and LIDAR...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Emergency Response In The Wake Of The World Trade Center Attack: The Remote Sensing Perspective
White Papers The purpose of this report is to document the use of remote sensing in response to the World Trade Center attack. Approaches that worked should not be forgotten, such as overlaying the building footprints onto images of rubble to locate elevator...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Planes Crash Into World Trade Center
News Two planes crashed into the two World Trade Center towers in New York around 8:30 a.m. EST today, igniting fires and speculation of a terrorist attack. Reports say that the two planes came from a Boston airport.
[September 11, 2001, 15:01]
EBay Bans World Trade Center Items
News Online auctioneer eBay has banned the auction of any items relating to the World Trade Center or the Pentagon on its site. AT 6pm PDT, eBay.com posted a statement on the community section of its site, which asked all customers to refrain from...
[September 13, 2001, 17:27]
The World Trade Center Disaster: A Study On Business Continuity Planning At Organizations Directly Affected By The Sept. 11 Tragedy
White Papers Strohl Systems commissioned a study of organizations that had offices in the World Trade Center complex on Sept. The purpose was to glean information on patterns of business continuity planning, as well as relationships among several variables and...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
GPS And GIS In The World Trade Center Recovery Effort
White Papers In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, the City of New York turned to a number of innovative technologies to aid in the recovery effort. This paper reviews how handheld computers using GPS were used to record and track evidence recovered at Ground Zero...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Tech Giants Scramble To Track Down Workers
News Terrorist attacks on Tuesday, including the crashing of hijacked planes into the World Trade Center and Pentagon, left many technology companies scrambling to track down employees. Sun has about 340 sales and support employees assigned to work on...
[September 13, 2001, 10:25]
Hackers Split Over Vigilante Strikes
News Groups of online vandals and hackers are split over how to respond to this week's terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, with some Internet vigilantes calling for an assault on perceived terrorist sites and others pleading...
[September 17, 2001, 9:32]
State Department Technology Under The Spotlight
News Tuesday's attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon could put a spotlight on a long-standing State Department mandate to upgrade its computer systems to better prevent terrorism. The programme, which was announced in 1992 and intensified...
[September 12, 2001, 10:00]
Computer Recovery Companies Go To Work
News Businesses affected by the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center have been turning to disaster-recovery companies in an effort to get their operations back online. We are currently supporting 35 customers, many of which either had operations...
[September 13, 2001, 12:18]
Ongoing SEC Investigations May Hit 'serious' Problems
News A major field office of the Securities and Exchange Commission was destroyed in Tuesday's attack on the World Trade Center, possibly creating serious problems for ongoing investigations of technology companies.
[September 13, 2001, 16:36]
Lotus, VIA Cancel Conferences
News VIA Technologies and Lotus Development have both cancelled conferences that were due to start within days, following the attacks on the World Trade Center and other targets in the US on Tuesday. Lotus Global Government Forum is not the only...
[September 12, 2001, 12:03]
Net Offers Lifeline Amid Tragedy
News People in New York City and around the globe turned to the Internet on Tuesday to communicate with their families and to grasp the horrific sequence of terrorist attacks that transformed the World Trade Center and the Pentagon into disaster zones.
[September 12, 2001, 10:58]
Empire Blue Cross On The Road To Recovery After Losing Headquarters
White Papers With its 10-floor headquarters gone and 1,900 workers left without offices, Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield executives with the New York health insurer quickly forged a plan to get one-fifth of its World Trade Center employees back to work.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Internet Reels After World Trade Centre Crashes
News Moments after airplanes separately crashed into both towers of the World Trade Center, and then later into the Pentagon, Web sites for the major news outlets were swamped by an overflow of traffic. Most of the trans-Atlantic traffic passing through...
[September 11, 2001, 15:31]
Tech World Mourns Loss Of Colleagues
News MRV Communications, a maker of network infrastructure systems, said on Tuesday that its chief financial officer, Edmund Glazer, was killed when the jet he had boarded crashed into the World Trade Center.
[September 13, 2001, 11:56]
Sydney And London Call Centres Take Calls For Veritas
News In the aftermath of what has been described as the worst terrorist attack in history -- in which both towers of New York's World Trade Center were razed by hijacked commercial planes -- chief executive Gary Bloom said all the company's east coast...
[September 12, 2001, 12:01]
Disaster Recovery Planning Must Take All Angles Into Account
News Baradet, like several other Corporate Partners contacted for their reactions to the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center towers in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, said disaster recovery plans are meaningless if they don't account...
[September 14, 2001, 12:02]
News Roundup: Attack On America
News EBay bans World Trade Center items Friday 14th September Consumer watchdogs warn that con artists are concocting online frauds to profit from the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon Wednesday 12th September Web sites are set up for...
[September 12, 2001, 13:10]
