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• Botnet continues massive H1N1 malware campaign

  By Gregg Keizer | 03 December, 2009 07:41

  A massive spam campaign that poses as a message from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) asking people to register for H1N1 vaccinations remains a big problem today, a security researcher said.

• Harvard Medical School develops swine flu iPhone app

  By Nancy Gohring | 28 October, 2009 08:20

  Want to know if you’ve got the swine flu? There’s an app for that.

• Online test helps you self-diagnose H1N1 flu

  By Sharon Gaudin | 15 October, 2009 07:08

  Feeling sick? Wondering if it's the H1N1 flu or just a regular old go-away-don't-come-near-me, flu?

• Swine flu near you? iPhone app will let you know

  By Chris Brandrick | 18 September, 2009 04:11

  Apple's increasingly popular App Store has been flooded with a wide number of applications related to Swine Flu since the initial H1N1 outbreak in March, but very few of the apps were actually useful.

• iPhone app tracks swine flu, other disease outbreaks

  By Matt Hamblen | 03 September, 2009 07:04

  A free iPhone app called "Outbreaks Near Me" is designed to help users track and report oubreaks of swine flu and other infectious diseases.

• Indian IT industry gears up to counter swine flu

  By John Ribeiro | 14 August, 2009 18:29

  India's software trade body on Thursday moved to reassure the government and customers that the industry was taking precautionary measures to protect high-tech workers from swine flu.

• With pandemic alert, firms urged to review disaster recovery

  By Lucas Mearian | 12 June, 2009 07:53

  With the first flu pandemic in 41 years officially declared today by The World Health Organization (WHO), companies are again being urged to make sure that business continuity plans are in place and they're prepared for the outbreak.

• E-health data collection key to tracking Swine Flu spread

  By Lucas Mearian | 30 April, 2009 08:10

  As the prospect of a flu pandemic grew more likely Wednesday -- the World Health Organization raised its threat alert to level 5 -- data is pouring into federal health care agencies using systems that a decade ago did not even exist.

• Google begins tracking swine flu in Mexico

  By Sharon Gaudin | 30 April, 2009 08:08

  Google Inc. is running an experiment of sorts to follow the swine flu's path through Mexico.

• Swine flu: What did we learn from bird flu planning

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 29 April, 2009 08:57

  Two years ago, financial services firms tested a pandemic scenario that began with a few flu cases and ended in a workplace absenteeism rate as high as 50%. There was also a breakdown in basic services, resulting in garbage piling up on the streets. The premise -- a worse-case senario designed to stress the response -- was that the World Health Organization (WHO) had reached alert phase 5, a pandemic, and escalated from there.

• Swine Flu spreads via Twitter

  By Brennon Slattery | 28 April, 2009 08:49

  Forget Oprah: the biggest star of Twitter at the moment is the Swine Flu, an occasionally fatal illness that has escalated to a public health emergency as it spreads throughout the United States. Though there are only 20 reported cases of the Swine Flu in the U.S., mass hysteria has swept the country, and Twitter is adding fuel to the fire.

• Is IT ready for a pandemic after mergers, layoffs?

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 28 April, 2009 08:43

  The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is increasingly concerned about a quickly developing swine flu outbreak, with eight cases now in California and Texas, and hundreds more in Mexico.

• Spammers seize on swine flu to pitch bogus meds

  By Gregg Keizer | 28 April, 2009 07:51

  Spammers have seized on the growing interest in news of a possible swine flu epidemic to hawk fake pharmaceuticals, security experts warned Monday.

• Obama enlists Microsoft, Google execs to help in push to boost R&D spending

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 28 April, 2009 08:31

  As US President Barack Obama moves to hike spending on research and development in the U.S., two of the people who will help him shape the government's science and technology policies are top executives from Microsoft Corp. and Google Inc.

• Australia hits Google swine flu map

  By Kathryn Edwards | 27 April, 2009 14:42

  Two suspect cases of the swine flu virus - which has killed more than 80 people in Mexico and infected 20 in the United States - have been pinned on a map of Queensland on a Google map tracking the global movement of the possible pandemic.