January 28, 2008
Wireless Alerts To Find Missing Kids
The Ad Council is running public-service annoucements aimed at educating people about Wireless AMBER Alerts, text messages that are sent to mobile subscribers as soon as local law enforcers release AMBER Alerts about missing or abducted children. People can get the alerts by registering at www.wirelessamberalerts.org.
Here are two of the ads about the service:
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June 19, 2007
Jokes Aplenty At The NXTComm Conference
CHICAGO -- The morning session of the NXTComm conference here today was lively and full of humor -- much of it at the expense of the presenters.
Randall Stephenson has been chairman and CEO of AT&T for just more than two weeks now, and he said he has learned a major lesson during that short period of time. "The chairman still has to take out the trash at home and feed the dog," he said. "I learned that the hard way!"
At another point in the conference, Matt Ross, the group chief technology officer at BT, polled attendees about whether they have voice-mail systems on their home telephones, personal mobile phones, work mobile phones and office phones. When nearly 2,000 folks in the audience said yes to all of the above, Ross said, "I suggest counseling."
FCC Chairman Kevin Martin, meanwhile, appeared at the show by live video conference and looked quite haggard . The reason he could not make it to the prestigious event in person? His wife is expected to deliver the couple’s second child today in Washington.
Telecom executives here joked that being the dutiful dad, Martin did not want to miss the "latest rollout" in his family.
-- Gene J. Koprowski, for Technology Daily
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