"August 11, 2013 at 1:54 pm PT
Many Californians were jolted out of bed on Monday to an unusual siren sound emanating from their smartphone, followed by an Amber Alert about a suspected kidnapper.
While the mobile phone warning was new to those in the Golden State, the Emergency Alert System has been running for about a year now (as faithful AllThingsD readers already knew) having served up weather-related alerts for Hurricane Sandy and other East Coast storms as well as various regional Amber Alerts.
AllThingsD’s Ina Fried explained the system in an interview with Southern California Public Radio. And, for those that missed it, law enforcement caught up with the suspect in Idaho on Saturday, killing him and rescuing the teenager he kidnapped."
http://allthingsd.com/20130811/why-is-my-phone-giving-me-amber-alerts-what-bezos-should-do-with-the-the-wapo-and-other-tech-mysteries-demystified/?reflink=ATD_yahoo_ticker
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