This story is going out at the same time as the alert should be broadcasting for devices connected to a cell tower in the United States.
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Major carriers bracing for impact of Hurricane Florence
How are the national wireless networks are working for customers in Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina during the storm?
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FCC’s Pai wants $954 million for Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands recovery
Most of the funds will go towards one of Pai's larger priorities: lighting up grids in rural or low-connectivity areas. Those happen to occur heavily in storm-affected regions.
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HTC’s weather app lands on Google Play
One of the biggest changes you can argue 2014 brought in was OEMs decoupling crucial apps from UI skins and giving them their own homes on the Google Play Store. HTC, over the last few months, has been doing exactly that, and today the HTC weather app has found itself on Play.The advantage OEMs have by moving important apps to an app store comes when updating said apps. Updates can happen faster and more frequently, while critical updates can almost immediately spread to all the devices with the app installed. Previously, OEMs would have to wait for a full software update (often requiring ...
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Weather Station Gives Galaxy S4 Features A Boost (Video)
The Galaxy S 4 ships with more sensors than it knows what to do with. As we described in our full review, the new Samsung superphone boasts a thermometer, barometer, and even a hygrometer beneath its glazed polycarbonate shell, making the device almost as much tricorder as communicator. But sensors are only as good as the apps that can make use of their data. Realizing this, one talented developer
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Why Don’t I Have Weather Overlays In Turn-By-Turn Navigation?
I was driving from Canada to Boston several months back, about halfway back from the BlackBerry 10 unveiling in Toronto, when an unfriendly darkness crept up over the horizon ahead. Talking to my father on the phone, I mentioned that I was somewhere in eastern New York State, and he asked if I was driving into any weather; apparently he’d seen mention on TV of a storm in the region. My eyes flashed to my other phone, the BlackBerry Z10 review unit I’d just picked up, which was propped up ...