« What is Your World View? | Main | Judge asks for Republican accountability »

May 18, 2005

Cell phones can now receive Amber Alerts

I think this is a good use of our technological potential here. I don't know why it can't include pictures as well, but I guess now that I think about it the Amber Alert system doesn't include that natively. Of course I'm not clear why you have to put in zip codes, they should just send it to the requested zip codes (based on location of towers) and if you're in that area and have requested the service they should pop-up. I mean what if you're on vacation or something? With a bit of streamlining I think this could really improve things.

Read more here.

Posted by ManDrake at May 18, 2005 3:00 PM

Trackback Pings

TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.daffodillane.com/movabletype/mt-tb.cgi/2610

Comments

Post a comment





Remember Me?

(you may use HTML tags for style)