As soon as new music from artists you follow hits Spotify, you'll receive a mobile alert.
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"The phone is ringing all the time, " said Czarnek's mother, Victoria, who signed up for the university's mobile alert system.
Muwembe is part of a team testing a new mobile alert system aiming to improve the delivery of weather forecasts and help vulnerable fishing communities in Lake Victoria protect themselves from dangerous conditions.
Memish said the CDC recommended setting up a mobile alert system used in the Hurricane Katrina disaster in the U.S. where mobile devices will document any suspected flu cases via GPS to a command center at the Ministry of Health.
Sensors are being used in a number of promising mobile applications that alert stores when loyal customers enter their premises.
Mobile aps constantly alert wired-in customers what deals are coming next.
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The proposal will include requirements that mobile phone companies alert customers if they are about to rack up abnormal fees, such as those charged for sending too many text messages or downloading too much data.
This allowed us to create sample scenarios to showcase ingenuity and innovation, including how the mobile app can alert individuals on its location and areas to avoid for a fire, flood or terrorist attack, all by aggregating emergency frequency broadcast and GPS technology.
Sliaptsova managed to alert a local journalist by surreptitiously using her mobile phone before it was confiscated.
All three of the major mobile platforms have Facebook tightly integrated into the user interface through their alert systems, extra applications, and extended functionality.
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Nearly all of mobile bankers report taking an action after they received a low-balance text alert from their bank.
There are mobile apps for top managers to view reports, approve spending and get an alert when something goes off the rails, wherever they are.
When a trap counts more than 10 flies in 30 minutes, or when the forecast model predicts a rapid surge in the fly population, it triggers an alert and sends a text message with the warning to farmers' mobile phones.
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It emerged that Keith Grimmett, of the LAS emergency planning unit, had urged a return to the use of pagers to alert senior staff in the event of a disaster because they were more reliable than mobile phones.
Those more assertive efforts eventually led to the AMBER alert system, which broadcasts news about missing children on TV, radio, the Internet, mobile phones, lottery tickets and highway signs.
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