Wireless devices to get emergency alerts

According to CNN, the US government will soon be sending warnings of national emergencies on wireless phones, Web sites and hand-held computers.

"The Homeland Security Department, through the Federal Emergency Management Agency, expects to have the system working by the end of next year.

"Anything that can receive a text message will receive the alert," Homeland Security Department spokesman Aaron Walker said Tuesday. "We find that the new digital system is more secure, it's faster, and it enables us to reach a wide array of citizens and alert them to pending disasters."

emily | 4:37 PM | SMS and Government |
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