While the UK government is trialling the use of SMS text messages and GSM cell broadcast to inform members of the public during a local or national emergency, Twitter is introducing its own scheme.
Twitter Alerts enable the sender to highlight urgent tweets, which will cause them to be delivered by text message and highlighted with an orange bell icon when they’re received by the Twitter iOS or Android app.
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Apple says it’s sold nine million new iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c smartphones within the first three days of them going on sale.
The figure is a new record for Apple, although it’s also the first time the company has launched two handset models and included China in its initial launch.
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Google has made the Quickoffice productivity app free for Android and Apple iOS devices.
Quickoffice, which enables users to update Microsoft Office documents from a mobile device, was acquired by Google last year.
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New figures from technology research company Gartner anticipate that 102 billion applications will be downloaded from mobile app stores this year, up from 64 billion in 2012.
Less than one in ten of those apps will be chargeable to download, according to Gartner’s forecasts.
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BlackBerry’s BBM instant messaging service will be available to Android and iPhone users from the weekend.
The free application, which was previously only available on BlackBerry devices, will be launched via Google Play on Saturday and the Apple App Store on Sunday.
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