Reacting to the 6.5 earthquake in Pakistan Telecoms Sans Frontieres (TSF) deployed a team of emergency telecommunications specialist on Friday.
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CellularNews on 2nd Nov 2008 (via feeds.feedburner.com)
The continuing buzz about the first Android handset, the previously reported about HTC Dream, is starting to grow into an earthquake. The info hungry internet is getting as many details as possible and the news about the first Android handset is slowing making its way to the masses. Recently details about what the HTC Dream -
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TimTechs on 27th Aug 2008 (via news.timtechs.com)
A recent patent application assigned to Nokia details an innovative system for warning people about natural disasters such as earthquakes and tsunamis such as the one that devastated parts of Asia in 2004. The patent describes how a message would be sent to all recipients in a specific region and explains how all users would be
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DialAPhone on 8th Aug 2008 (via dialaphone.co.uk)
Venture Beat notes that a 5.4 magnitude earthquake struck Southern California near Los Angeles this morning. It choked phone calls, not Twitter, says C/Net. Well before the information was anywhere on the major news outlets, tweets (Twitter messages) were flowing in at a rapid clip. I say again, events such as …
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CellPhonesZone on 1st Aug 2008 (via cellphoneszone.net)
The earthquake that hit Southern California on Tuesday caused phone networks to jam up as many people tried calling at the same time, but the infrastructure was intact, the area's main phone companies said.
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CellularNews on 30th Jul 2008 (via cellular-news.com)
It's odd to think about your own mortality but a recent story has got me doing just that. And I've come to the conclusion that should there be an earthquake and I was trapped under the building my mobile would leave me to die a slow agonising death. Its battery is simply not strong enough. Have
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SMSTextNews on 30th Jul 2008 (via smstextnews.com)
Venture Beat notes that a 5.4 magnitude earthquake struck Southern California near Los Angeles this morning: Well before the information was anywhere on the major news outlets, tweets (Twitter messages) were flowing in at a rapid clip. I say again, events such as this showcase the power of the micro-messaging service Twitter. When natural disasters strike, people
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DailyWireless on 29th Jul 2008 (via dailywireless.org)
MEMSIC, a semiconductor firm which sells to handset manufacturers has lowered its financial outlook for the second quarter of 2008 - citing reduced demand following China's recent devastating earthquake.
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CellularNews on 12th Jun 2008 (via cellular-news.com)
Keen news readers would have heard about the strong earthquake that rocked south-western Greece on Sunday. Fewer may have realised that the quake was not so much an act of God, as an act of Jobs.
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CnetAustralia on 11th Jun 2008 (via cnet.com.au)
The World is going through some rough patches lately with the latest bad weather in Myanmar and the earthquake in China that had devastated lives and properties. But in the US, the disaster is an on-going one that had started some 8 years ago.
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MOBIZ on 7th Jun 2008 (via mobchina.blogspot.com)