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 system (CMAS) is scheduled to become operational.

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 Technologies, had to say about the company's greatest achievements in 2011 and their business strategy looking towards 2012. 

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 across the southern and eastern United States, and residents had very little time to escape the destructive storms.