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• Japanese disaster could affect Apple, say experts

  Last weeks' earthquake and tsunami in Japan may put a crimp in Apple's supply of flash memory, but its problem will pale in comparison to smaller firms, an analyst said today.

• Communication key to post-disaster survival

  Parts of coastal Japan have been so badly hit by earthquakes and tsunamis in recent days that the only communication about other possible dangers such as radioactive fallout from damaged reactors has been one way, coming to residents through portable, battery-operated FM radios.

• Japan's Internet largely intact after earthquake, tsunami

  Japan's Internet infrastructure has remained surprisingly unaffected by last week's devastating earthquake and tsunami, according to an analysis by Internet monitoring firm Renesys.

• Japan quake could hit semiconductor production, prices

  Because Japan produces more than 40% of the world's NAND flash memory chips -- and 15% of its DRAM -- the 8.9-magnitude earthquake that hit today could seriously affect worldwide semiconductor supplies, according to research firms.

• Natural disaster? There's an app for that!

  As Friday's earthquake in Japan demonstrates, natural disasters happen. And when they do, the first two things to go down are electricity and telephone services.

• After 3 days, Google Gmail still not fixed for everyone

  Three days after Google's Gmail first suffered an outage, some users still don't have their service back.

• Google still working to restore Gmail service

  Two days after tens of thousands of Google Gmail users discovered their e-mail, chat histories and contacts had disappeared from their accounts, the problem still is not fixed.

• Google Gmail outage leaves 150,000 users without e-mail

  About 150,000 of Google's Gmail users woke up Sunday morning to missing e-mails, contacts and chat histories.

• Wisconsin blizzard vs. data center: How Marquette won

  Marquette University's IT department deployed unified communications tools to improve collaboration among faculty and staff - IT staff collaboration wasn't the priority. But as it turned out, Microsoft's Lync suite of voice, videoconferencing and instant messaging tools proved to be IT's life raft during a snowstorm-related data center calamity.

• Reserve Bank seeks new high-speed DR network

  The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) will refresh its existing network services over the next 12 months to keep pace with growing disaster recovery requirements at its $38 million data centre.
  

• Tupperware readies IT for Christmas rush

  When you use the words ‘servers’ and ‘Tupperware’ together, chances are you’re talking food presentation.

• Symantec adds service-level templates to Storage Foundation

  Symantec Corp. today announced Veritas Operations Manager 3.1 and Veritas Storage Foundation High Availability 5.1, the company's next generation family of storage management software.

• Facebook outage spotlights social media addiction

  After Facebook went down on Thursday, one thing was certain: People don't like to go without their favorite social networking site.

• JPMorgan Chase's online banking site crashes

  JPMorgan Chase is blaming "technical issues" for an outage to its online banking site that may well be one of the longest outages by a major provider in recent memory.

• More IT managers plan to spend less, Oracle struggles with users, survey finds

  A survey of 278 IT managers found that spending on storage systems is expected to remain flat through next year due to a soft economy and new technologies that allow IT administrators to do more with what they already have.