Everbridge also has a weather tracking system, and emergency managers can use that to send out automatic notifications as different weather events approach their areas.

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Are taxpayers who have set up automatic debit savvy enough not to send in the check?

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But the bigger problem is the danger that folks who already have an automatic payment in process will cower and send in that check.

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For our automatic computer posting site, we're going to have our PC send an image via email to the TextAmerica account.

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The telephone-equipment companies want voice dialling (useful in cars), automatic call-centres, computerised operator-services and messaging that allows users to pick up and send e-mails and faxes on an ordinary telephone anywhere in the world.

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