In most towns and cities, loudspeaker systems can broadcast emergency information to residents.
The reality of our networked world, though, where we broadcast so much more information about ourselves (or have it broadcast or compiled by others) is that we are susceptible to these types of crimes.
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Rather than visiting a kiosk to rent a bike, you'll be able to use a smartphone app to locate some available wheels, with position information broadcast by a built-in GPS. Once you find a bike you want to rent, the system will send an unlock code to your handset, which you'll enter into a handlebar-mounted PIN pad.
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It said before take-off, the pilots had also listened to an automatic terminal information service broadcast about the runway, "but it was reportedly in heavily-accented English".
They also criticize Mexican networks Televisa and TV Azteca, which control more than 90% of the market in a country where the vast majority of people still get their news and information through broadcast television.
On TV, only 31 million hours of the total 123 million hours of broadcast programmes count as new information.
If he had, would he have been told by our elected leaders to share this information via public broadcast?
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"They cannot directly or indirectly, on camera or not for attribution, give CBS information which once broadcast creates a substantial likelihood for an unfair trial, " he said.
The BBC then appointed veteran journalist Colin McIntyre, its former UN correspondent and chief publicity officer, as the first editor of a news and information service which was broadcast using the same method.
The base unit transmits signals across an unused FM frequency, and the user can select from numerous radio stations with the tuner, which also has a "Tell Me More" button that can be used to obtain more information about songs being broadcast, or even to purchase MP3 files or CDs.
"The mission of the DTV Transition Coalition is to ensure no consumer is left without broadcast television due to a lack of information about the transition, " the group has said.
Nor would drivers have to sacrifice their privacy, advocates say, because there's no need for cars to broadcast their identity in order to share useful information.
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Both systems also support the HD Radio Artist Experience feature, which allows the user to view album art, station logos or other broadcast related graphics in addition to the displayed text information (when available).
From London, the latest war news was broadcast in Norwegian, along with a message and information network which became vital to the resistance movement and which gave the people in Norway inspiration and hope of liberation.
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Popular news and information websites complement Tribune's print and broadcast properties and extend the company's nationwide audience.
And journalists themselves are both using Twitter to broadcast their own stories as well as find sources and information for stories they are working on.
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Cruising right alongside wireless broadband and DMB (Digital Media Broadcast) cell phones, telematics refers more specifically to automobiles receiving remote information from commercial service providers.
As the broadcast unfolds on television, alongside it flash synchronised Web pages of enriching background information.
Journalists, publishers, lawyers, press service officers, media experts, and other participants of the debars discussed specific cases of violation of the rules by journalists willing to upgrade the ranking of their newspaper or broadcast station, as well as the cases when law-enforcing authorities published erroneous information in their press releases.
Some shoppers may feel uncomfortable entering their credit-card information on the site, while others may be wary of making a purchase that could be broadcast on users' news feeds or profiles.
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