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U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano announced today nearly $1.8 billion in Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) preparedness grants designed to help states, urban areas, tribal governments and non-profit agencies improve their readiness by enhancing protection, prevention, response and recovery capabilities for all disasters. Secretary Napolitano was joined by FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate in announcing the grants....

Optimize Your Alerting System The term emergency means different things to different people. When considering all of the ramifications for mass notification, it becomes clear that only situations with a high probability of injury or loss of life from immediate circumstances can be considered an emergency. To address situations that require immediate attention, an effective mass notification system must have the ability to notify all of those affected in real or near-real-time. The time from when an alert is initiated to...

AKRON--The Summit County Council this week agreed to spend $75,000 on a two-year contract for pager services. American Messaging Services LLC of Lewisville, Texas, will handle the services for about 650 pagers in the county system...

LEWISVILLE, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 6, 2006--American Messaging, formerly Ameritech Mobile Services, Inc., announced today that it has completed its acquisition of the paging operations of Verizon Wireless, becoming the second largest paging company in the United States with more than 1.5 million customers. ...