Nearly 30 years ago, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the wireless trade association CTIA, started a conversation about the need for wireless location-based services. It wasn’t until ...
With extreme weather conditions affecting many Americans this summer, including devastating tornadoes in Oklahoma, destructive wildfires in Arizona, and flash flooding throughout the eastern part of ...
You may not know that the innocuous kiwi was first known as the Chinese gooseberry. And Chilean sea bass was originally called the much less appetizing Patagonian toothfish. Sometimes a name change ...
Now that the Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) program–known to many as the Commercial Mobile Alert Service, or CMAS—is fully operational, it's clear that more must be done to educate the public about ...
Text-based alerts of significant, imminent danger will be able to be sent to most mobile-phone users in a hazardous location in the U.S. beginning Saturday, when the new commercial mobile alert ...
TMCnet recently asked some of the leading lights in the industry for their thoughts about 2011 and what’s in store for the year ahead. Read what John A. Dwyer, president and CEO of Interop ...
When a series of more than 200 tornadoes struck seven states in late April, an estimated 366 people died and thousands of homes and businesses were destroyed or damaged. The twisters swept rapidly ...
