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SMS for catching your bus (Adelaide, South Australia) (0)

12/23/09 •

By Neena Bhandari
Adelaide, Oct 24 (IANS) Each day millions of commuters across the world wait for a bus or a train, wondering when it will arrive. Now a group of students at Carnegie Mellon University’s Adelaide campus that includes Indians has found a way to tell you exactly when your bus or train will be [...]

Municipal mobile services (SMS, WAP and iPhone) – Barcelona (0)

12/17/09 •

A series of procedures and services are being implemented that can be requested accessed and used via mobile phones. These services are interactive, whether using SMS technology, WAP applications or other technologies that correspond to this channel.
Planned services include:

Subscription to SMS services:

Reminder/cancellation of appointments with the city’s Municipal Tax Office
City-Council alerts on citizens’ tax [...]

SMS alerts – National Emergency Warning System (NEWS), Australia (0)

12/07/09 •

THE federal government has selected Telstra to build a new $15 million national warning system that will send text alerts to the mobile phones of residents threatened by bushfires.
Telstra will deliver the National Emergency Warning System (NEWS) after beating rival Optus in a competitive tender process led by the Victorian government.
In the event [...]

SMS reminder for Tuberculosis medication (South Africa) (0)

12/04/09 •

This evaluation looks at a project led by On Cue, a small company based in Cape Town, which sends Short Message Service (SMS) messages to patients via mobile telephones, reminding them to take their TB medication at pre-determined times. The Compliance Service aims to provide an affordable solution to improve patient adherence to TB treatment [...]