October 19, 2004
Mobile LBS finds blood donors
KTF and Korean Red Cross provide emergency blood donation service using handsets, the mobile operator announced Tuesday, reports Telecoms Korea.
"Subscribers who have agreed to receive urgent messages calling for blood donation can give their blood voluntarily.
The service is carried out through Cell Broadcasting System (CBS)-based radio channel which divides the nation into several sections so that the messages are delivered under the optimum conditions."
Related:
-- Looking for blood donors by SMS - the State's largest blood center, will launch a pilot program -- the first of its kind in the US -- enabling the organization to directly alert specific blood donors and volunteers in "real time" via wireless text messaging.
-- Want to donate blood? Just SMS - A "Be a Blood Donor — Save a life" campaign was launched in Chennai (India) to encourage donors to sign up by texting in their blood type to a designated short code.
-- Kiss a Vampire - In January 2001, a campaign by The UK National Blood Service, invited university students to come "Kiss a Vampire" (none other than Sarah Michelle Gellar, star of TV cult series "Buffy and the Vampires") in an effort to recruit blood donors.
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