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The Fire Horn provides two functions: A Radio Bridge and a secure SMS Gateway.

The Fire Horn provides a secure SMS gateway that allows you to dispatch messages to responders' cell phones and have mapping data provided to the cell phone. The Fire Horn also provides a function called Radio Bridge that allows members to listen to radio traffic on their cell phones or land lines by initiating a phone call when a department is dispatched. Responses to calls can be monitored online using Response Monitor.

PageGate can be used to take messages from a CAD (Computer Aided Dispatch) system and pass them to the Fire Horn gateway. The Fire Horn gateway then passes the message with all relevant mapping data to the cell phones.

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I tracked down someone who would get us to the answer: greenhouse gas footprinting expert Mike Berners-Lee. Climate impact calculations are just the sort of thing he does for work at Small World Consulting at Lancaster University in the United Kingdom. And estimating the impact of a text message is exactly the thing he did for his 2010 book How Bad Are Bananas? The Carbon Footprint Of Everything.

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If you want to look up some these of words, there are online dictionaries that can help you crack some of these codes or these websites that can help crack teen texting codes:

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Instant messaging can be a source of emotional support for teens and help them collaborate on school projects, but new research shows that texting after the lights go out takes a toll on students sleep quality and academic performance.

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There are 500 million smallholder farmers around the world, many of whom have no internet access. These farmers are often several miles walk from the nearest village, totally disconnected from the information that could make their farms more productive and profitable.

While initiatives such as Facebooks controversial Internet.org are trying to get more people online, some are taking a more low-fi approach: using simple mobile phones and SMS to connect the offline world.

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A meta-analysis of 16 randomized clinical trials found that mobile telephone text messaging nearly doubled the odds of patients with chronic diseases adhering to their medication regimens.

The studies evaluated cardiovascular disease, diabetes, HIV, asthma, allergic rhinitis, epilepsy and other chronic diseases. Of the interventions, eight used a daily text messaging frequency and eight used two-way communication. The median duration of the interventions was 12 weeks.

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It is clear that text messaging is a powerful and effective way to bolster workplace communication, and therefore workplace function, across fields. Perhaps less obvious is the potential marketing power texting holds for fields like realty. Realty marketing can be costly, making it ideal to cut marketing costs and increase return on investment. Text messaging, when used right, can do just that.

Automated texting is one way to save real estate agents time and labor. By offering customers a means to text in codes to automatically receive additional information about a listing, such as important details or answers to frequently asked questions, real estate agents could save large amounts of time taking calls or answering emails.

How Realtors are Using Text Messaging

Texting has become a major mode of communication and coordination for many workplaces, allowing colleagues to exchange information rapidly and effectively. While SMS is of great aid to office environments, firms with more widely distributed work sites could benefit even more from the extensive and efficient communication network that texting affords. Construction firms are no exception, where text messaging is put to task as an effective way of keeping employees up to date and safe.

Using text messaging to perform basic employee coordination is especially important for construction firms, which may mobilize multiple teams of workers to a range of sites in one day.

How Construction Firms are Using Text Messaging

You might not believe it but texting could help reduce your blood pressure!

Researchers from University of Oxford have suggested that typing not only makes it easy to communicate with others, it also aids in reducing your blood pressure!

In their research, the Oxford researchers have found that the high blood pressure is a common condition that can be managed successfully with oral medications. But people often forget to take tablets, even in healthcare systems where that medication is available for free.

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Farm Africa has been using text messaging to send out advice to fish farmers, covering everything from helpful tips on storing fish feed to the number of fingerlings the average pond should contain.

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Many modern professionals know that text messaging is a boon to workplace communication. The power texting also holds to boost marketing and contact with customers is also great, and should not be overlooked. This holds particularly true for insurance companies, many of which use texting in a range of ways to enhance their close contact with policyholders.

Text messaging is more and more used as a more convenient and efficient way to keep in touch with clients.

How Can Insurance Companies Use Texting

So, is text messaging breaking down dating? Or providing a practical platform for our relationships in the modern world? With all the complex ways we engage with texting, it is hard to say. What we can be certain of is that dating is changing, and SMS is helping to shape its new face.

Love in the 21st Century: How Texting Is Changing Dating and Relationships

Text messaging has become a vital piece of technology for so many people in everyday life. Some send dozens of texts every day, communicating with family members, co-workers and even using them to stay informed about dangerous weather as conditions rapidly change.

But is our addiction to texting harming the environment and speeding up climate change?

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Text messages are the latest arrows in the quiver police can draw from to fight crime.

In 2015, Nanaimo and District Crime Stoppers added texting to the ways tips can be submitted and while the technology has not sent tip numbers soaring ȑ 548 tips were made to Nanaimo Crime Stoppers in 2015 versus 513 in 2014 tipping online has vastly improved the quality of information police can follow up.

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The use of a text messaging intervention program can help to boost physical activity levels for individuals who are at risk for heart disease, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association, Clinical Innovation & Technology.

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