Born to be Wireless

United States' Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has just approved a plan for creating a nationwide emergency alert system that would send out text messages in a crisis, such as severe weather, a terrorist threat or child abduction.
The Government will send the alert to the carriers, but they will not be forced to send the message to the users. The top four carriers — AT&T, Verizon, Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile — are interested in participating.

Source: MocoNews

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The NPD Group has issued a report stating that more than 29 million US users play mobile games and more than 7 million download games to their handsets each month. Last year 29 percent of games were downloaded by consumers aged 25 to 34, 27 percent by those aged 18 to 24, and 15 percent by teens between the ages of 13 and 17. Although teens are the most likely to download games there aren’t as many of them as in the adult groups. In terms of playing games about half of mobile gamers in the 25-34 age bracket play games at least once a day, while the figure for teens was 41 percent. The results are based on an ongoing monthly service of about 75,000 US people. (release)

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