Good Day for Concerns That Help Save Data

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The Aug. 14, 2003 Northeast power failure gave a variety of companies and businesses an opportunity to showcase their contingency planning for such disasters.?IBM's office complex in Sterling Forest, NY had diesel-powered generators that began to function when the?electric power failed. Equinix, which maintains network data traffic centers in Newark and Secaucus, NJ, shifted?to battery-, then diesel-powered services to prevent any interruption to customers' data flow.?Examples of other disaster planning services are profiled.

General services, COMMUNICATION, Communications, Broadcasting and Telecommunications, Services information, New England States, Middle Atlantic States, Computer industry, Safety and security measures, Economic aspects, Microcomputer industry, Services, Telecommunications services industry, Telecommunications industry, International Business Machines Corp., IBM, Communications industry, New England, Northeastern United States, Power failure, Power failures, Middle Atlantic States (United States), Northeast Blackout, 2003, Equinix Inc.

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What's in a game? A use for a gadget; 'geocaching' fills a need: what to do with all those G.P.S. units

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Marist College student Robert Casinghino has joined the growing number of individuals who are using G.P.S. devices to play geocaching, a high-tech treasure hunt game. He hides a treasure trove, records its location on a G.P.S. receiver and then posts the location on the Internet. Others are then challenged to find the hidden treasure.

Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing, Search and navigation equipment, Global Positioning Systems, Product information, Technology application, Global Positioning System, Product application, Geocaching

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Manned Private Craft Reaches Space in a Milestone for Flight

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The privately-owned spacecraft SpaceShipOne, developed by Scaled Composites Inc. and piloted by Michael W. Melvill, reaches an altitude of more than 60 miles and may now be the front-runner in a competition to reach 100 kilometers.

Product development, Guided missiles and space vehicles, Guided Missile and Space Vehicle Manufacturing, Space Vehicles, Testing, Achievements and awards, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Aircraft industry, Competitions, Spacecraft, Space ships, Melvill, Michael W., Scaled Composites Inc.

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