STILLWATER, OK — Most people probably don’t believe that Facebook is a tool that can save lives.

Facebook and Twitter proved to be a key source of information during and after Tuesday’s East Coast earthquake, as cellphone networks struggled with congestion from an overwhelming number of callers.

Technology is a wonderful thing. Without it, life would be much more difficult.

The fire service MUST embrace current technology to help reduce firefighter injuries and deaths. It’s about going home to your family and protecting your fellow firefighters. In every line-of-duty death (LODD), a member’s future plans have been cut short by a preventable accident or by inherent firefighting dangers that could have been mitigated.

WEST KENSINGTON, LONDON — If you’re going to steal a laptop, make sure you know who you’re dealing with — one London teenager accused of stealing a laptop during the recent London riots certainly didn’t do his homework on who he was robbing.

Battles in war are won — and lost — through timely and accurate communication.

Expensive high-tech digital radios used by the FBI, Secret Service, and Homeland Security are designed so poorly that they can be jammed by a $30 children’s toy, CNET has learned.