http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2007/04/virgina_tech_shootings_-_breakdown_in_communications.html Daily news and opinion for 250,000 industry executives and mobile fanatics Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:14:00 +0100 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2007/04/virgina_tech_shootings_-_breakdown_in_communications.html/comment-page-1#comment-44181 » Virginia Tech Shootings - Why Wasn’t Anyone Notified? Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:14:28 +0000 http://www.smstextnews.com/2007/04/virgina_tech_shootings_-_breakdown_in_communications.html#comment-44181 [...] I noticed some other blog posts about this, most notably @ SMS Text News. There appear to be a few companies setup specifically for these types of alerts, and I’m sure they will get much more attention tommorow. This is something I will be offering to my children’s school district immediately. [...] [...] I noticed some other blog posts about this, most notably @ SMS Text News. There appear to be a few companies setup specifically for these types of alerts, and I’m sure they will get much more attention tommorow. This is something I will be offering to my children’s school district immediately. [...]

]]> http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2007/04/virgina_tech_shootings_-_breakdown_in_communications.html/comment-page-1#comment-44060 noel chandler Mon, 16 Apr 2007 22:56:36 +0000 http://www.smstextnews.com/2007/04/virgina_tech_shootings_-_breakdown_in_communications.html#comment-44060 So very true (and sad). I have a friend who lives there and the first thing I did when i saw it on the news is send her a text message to make sure she was ok. It seems to be such a simple thing to set up, but I believe it will be awhile here in the U.S. Everyone uses SMS to communicate with each other, but there is some ramping up needed in all of the other ways SMS can be used amongst most mobile users here, even in the college set. So very true (and sad). I have a friend who lives there and the first thing I did when i saw it on the news is send her a text message to make sure she was ok. It seems to be such a simple thing to set up, but I believe it will be awhile here in the U.S. Everyone uses SMS to communicate with each other, but there is some ramping up needed in all of the other ways SMS can be used amongst most mobile users here, even in the college set.

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