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A nice number for iTunes: one billion
Michigan user tallies Apple's milestone download with Coldplay's "Speed of Sound."
February 24, 2006: 7:20 AM EST
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com)—The number of songs downloaded from Apple's online music store iTunes sped past one billion Thursday as a customer in Bloomfield, Mich., purchased Coldplay's "Speed of Sound" as part of the band's X&Y album.
Apple, which was watching for the one billionth download, will give Alex Ostrovsky, the lucky downloader, a 20-inch iMac computer, 10 iPods and a $10,000 gift certificate to iTunes.
"Over one billion songs have now been legally purchased and downloaded around the globe, representing a major force against music piracy and the future of music distribution as we move from CDs to the Internet," Apple's Steve Jobs said in a press release.
In addition to the prizes Ostrovsky will take home, Apple will also establish a scholarship in his name to New York's Juilliard School of Music.
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Report: Network Operability Biggest Katrina Issue
By Mark Rockwell
February 24, 2006
NEWS@2 DIRECT
WASHINGTON—Interoperability of emergency radio, wireless and wireline networks in the wake of Hurricane Katrina took a back seat to simple network operability immediately after the storm, according to a White House report that analyzed the response to the crisis.
The report, released yesterday, says "basic operability" was the primary communications challenge after the storm hit the Gulf Coast. "The complete devastation of the communications infrastructure left emergency responders and citizens without a reliable network across which they could coordinate," the 228-page report says.
Wireless network towers and backhaul facilities were hard hit by the storm, as were wireline facilities. It was those connections closest to customers that the report singled out as critical. Although "telephone call centers and electricity generation capabilities were functioning, the connections to customers were broken," it says.
Federal, state and local agencies' emergency communications plans and assets weren't up to the storm, either. Communications assets that could have been used weren't, the report says, noting that the U.S. Department of Agriculture - with the largest civilian cache of radios in the country - "had additional radios that weren't used" by emergency responders or emergency coordinators.
The report calls on the Department of Homeland Security to review "our current laws, policies, plans and strategies relevant to communications" by April 30. After that, the Homeland Security Council, supported by the White House's office of science and technology policy, should develop a national communications strategy that supports communications operability and interoperability, the report says.
Source: Wireless Week
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Communications: FEMA—Trouble on 'Mt. Weather'
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Feb. 27, 2006 issue - One of the more disquieting questions to surface during congressional investigations into Hurricane Katrina concerns Mt. Weather, a huge government bunker under the Blue Ridge Mountains west of Washington, D.C. Originally built as a nuclear-war refuge for top federal officials—reportedly including the president—Mt. Weather, run by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, is supposed to be one of the government's key communications centers in a crisis. According to historical accounts, the hollowed-out mountain contains office buildings, private apartments and dormitories, hospitals, cafeterias and even a small lake fed by freshwater springs. Known to government officials for many years as FEMA's "classified location," after the cold war ended Mt. Weather went semipublic, even hosting emergency-management seminars. But it also has remained a critical command post; in government jargon, Mt. Weather staffers are on duty 24/7/365.
But according to an e-mail sent by former FEMA chief Michael Brown last Aug. 30, some Mt. Weather personnel were not exactly on the ball on the day after Katrina hit the Gulf Coast. "I am ready [sic] to blow up IT support at the mountain," Brown told aides Brooks Altshuler and Patrick Rhode. "They can't seem to get me connected ... or even care about getting me connected." Brown told NEWSWEEK that he was indeed complaining about his treatment by personnel at Mt. Weather, though his complaint related to people who worked in an unclassified computer office rather than on sensitive emergency communications systems that he says he can't talk about because they are still classified. Russ Knocke, a Homeland Security Department spokesman, insisted that all Brown's e-mail is talking about is a "trivial" computer issue, in which the FEMA director was having trouble downloading e-mail files to his BlackBerry from his laptop. Knocke said that by the day after Katrina—the same morning Brown sent his e-mail—a FEMA truck carrying some of the government's most sophisticated telecom gear had arrived in Louisiana to give Brown ample means to keep in touch. Homeland officials declined to discuss Mt. Weather and FEMA officials did not respond to NEWSWEEK messages requesting comment.
James Lee Witt, FEMA director under President Bill Clinton (and a post-Katrina adviser to Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco), said Mt. Weather personnel are "some of the best people I've ever worked with. They were very, very good ... The most responsible people I've ever worked with." Witt said the bunker remains a "very important" center for government communications in a crisis. Brown said he had no complaint about the Katrina performance of people who work on Mt. Weather's classified operations, who he said did provide him with gear that kept him in touch with the rest of the government.
Source: Newsweek
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