If and when Apple debuts this functionality a minimum of three other competitors will have already deployed it for voice command and content search.

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He's second-in-command at RSR Partners, the mid-sized search firm that Mr. Reynolds started in 1993 after leaving Russell Reynolds Associates Inc.

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An incident command team was also set up to oversee the search.

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Users can quickly send an email, make a call, or search a location as they draw pre-registered marks on the command pad or register a unique mark to allow for quick and easy access.

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Users can send an email, make a call or search a location with pre-registered and customized S Pen strokes marks made on the command pad.

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When not funneling in and out of the command center at West High School, federal, state and local officials spent Tuesday outside using shovels to methodically search for clues.

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