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Warren County has upgraded its early weather alerting system to allow residents to receive winter storm warnings. The county provides weather warnings through a service called CodeRED Weather Warning, a service of Emergency Communications Network.

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SEBI Securities and Exchange Board of India has asked stock exchanges to send SMS  email alerts to retail investors for all transactions done in their names in a day. The regulators decision is based on the complaints it received against brokers and other market organizations who are conducting transactions through their clients accounts without informing them.

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A mob, led by Islamic clerics, ransacked the house of a teenage Christian boy in Pakistans port-city Karachi and set fire to furniture after he was accused of sending text messages with blasphemous content, a media report said on Thursday.

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Just like writers, photographers, and other creative artists have learned, protecting content is one of the primary struggles that webmasters face on a daily basis. It takes time and talent to develop quality content, and there are few things more frustrating than to discover that your content has been poached by another website.

There are a number of actions that webmasters can take to proactively protect their work from being used without authorization by people on the web who are simply looking to cut corners. Take the following steps to proactively guard your content...

How to Protect Web Content

Just because you can not speak another language does not mean you can not text in it. Mobile network AT&T is trialing technology that lets customers send and receive text messages that are automatically translated from English to Spanish and back. A person simply registers a phone number as having a preferred language. Messages sent to that number in a different language are then automatically translated before being relayed to the persons phone.

In an age when people can choose among text messages, email, Facebook and old-fashioned stamps and printed cards, the chance to use the wrong method when sending your very best is quite high.

What to do?

Well, AP went straight to an expert among experts: Judith Martin, author of the syndicated Miss Manners column, who offers guidance on dealing with the evolving etiquette of expressing sincere sentiments in an increasingly impersonal, digital world.

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James Holmes planned to use a series of text messages before the Aurora movie theater shooting spree that left 16 people dead -- and these messages may reveal the accused murders state of mind.

The messages, released Friday upon request by multiple media organizations, were heavily redacted, according to USA Today, one of the companies that made the request.

Uncensored portions of the documents reveal that Holmes sent a series of text messages to a fellow student shortly before the July 20 shooting took place.

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Syrian authorities on Thursday sent text messages over cellphones nationwide with a message for rebels fighting President Bashar al-Assads regime: Game over.

The messages signed by the Syrian Arab Army also urged the rebels to surrender their weapons and warned the countdown to evict foreign fighters has begun. The texts appear to be part of the regimes psychological battle against the rebels, but are highly unlikely to have any effect on fighters intent on toppling Mr. Assad.

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When Christian Oesch was a boy on his families hog farm, cellphones were a thing of the future. Now, Oesch tends a herd of dairy cattle and carries a smartphone wherever he goes. Occasionally, he gets an SMS text from one of his cows.

That is because Oesch, 60, who cares for a herd of 44 Red Holstein and Jersey dairy cows, is helping to test a device that implants sensors in cows to let farmers know when they are in heat. When that is the case, the device sends an SMS to the farmer's phone. The Swiss do not settle for half measures: The SMS can be in any one of Switzerlands three main languages -- German, French and Italian -- plus English or Spanish.

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When the content of a cell phone may help the police to solve a crime, the legality of the search of both the phone and its content is of crucial importance. However, the law of warrantless searches of cell phones is not yet settled.

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More than 70 percent of IT decision-makers in hospitals in North America say they expect secure text messaging to replace paging in the next three years, as smartphones become more of a tool in the hospital environment. Close to half of the respondents say they expect texting to be used for communicating with patients in the next 12 months, and 65 percent say that will be the case within three years.

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Users need to be careful about responding to text messages from people they do not know and need to carefully examine their monthly bills. There are plenty of unscrupulous scams out there.

Six Steps to Avoid Text Scams

KidsDr.com suggests that physicians use text messages to remind patients to get flu shots.