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Friday, March 28, 2008

Location-based mobile alerts is a pet peeve of mine. I’ve been following the developments about how the average citizen is alerted to emergency situations: natural disasters, terrorist attacks, and more localized events that could cause alarm. It seems like every few months we hear of another campus shooting. As a parent, it’s a chilling situation.

In addtion, more is being done to abide by The WARN Act, the Warning, Alert and Response Network, signed into legislation in 2006. In this podcast, Tim Lorello, chief marketing officer of TeleCommunications Systems, provides an update on his company’s technology that will assist cellular carriers to provide location-based alerts.


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