The Federal Communication Commission (FCC) has pledged to examine communications infrastructure breakdowns that hampered emergency response and rescue efforts in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, saying it would aid victims of the crisis.
Disaster relief crews are adopting RFID tags to help them identify victims of Hurricane Katrina. The US Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team and health officials in Mississippi's Harrison County are implanting human cadavers with RFID chips...
Meteorologists have excelled in forecasting the track of Hurricane Katrina and others but they still need technological advances in storm surge prediction, experts told a congressional committee on Tuesday.
A Florida man who collected nearly $40,000 over the web for Hurricane Katrina humanitarian relief was indicted on fraud charges on Monday. Kraser is the first person the US has charged with internet fraud linked to Hurricane Katrina, the US...
UNO is the first of New Orleans' damaged large universities to reopen - if largely virtually - to students in the wake of Hurricane Katrina's devastation. After weeks overseeing phone banks and fielding calls from students and other employees at...
The idea of expanding the warnings to other media appears to have escalated in popularity since Hurricane Katrina and the communications bungles that occurred during the storm. And local and state governments failed to activate it for Hurricane...