July 13, 2004
Nextel develops free text-based AMBER Alert offering
Nextel Communications Inc. has joined the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children to develop an AMBER Alert wireless solution, reports RCR Wireless News.
"Wireless alerts would be transmitted via text message to customers in relevant geographic areas, based on area code".
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-- SMS harnassed in kidnap case - Ten thousand eBlockwatch members received an SMS on Sunday morning containing information on Leigh Matthews – who was kidnapped outside Bond University in Sandton (South Africa) on Friday. (July 2004).
-- Arizona expands Amber Alert to SMS - The Arizona AMBER alert system for child abduction notifications is expanding its distribution system so that people can receive them by e-mail and text messaging. (June 2004).
-- Cell phones may get call to fight crime - Police systems that send text messages to cell phone users shortly after a crime gets mixed reviews. (November 2003).
-- Text used to report missing children - The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), along with the Philippine National Police and the Department of Interior and Local Governments, have launched a website for missing children and other persons below 18 (November 2003).
-- Amber Alerts to transmit on cell phones - Amber Alerts, a US nationwide network to help find missing children, should go nationwide by next year, according to a a Justice Department official. (August 2003).
-- Child rescue alert by SMS - first run - Missing 6 year-old Summer Haipule prompted Sussex police to launch the first ever child rescue alert in Europe. Modelled on the US "Amber Alert" (July 2003).
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