Penn State Live Offers Mobile News Service
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| Title: | Penn State Live Offers Mobile News Service (ID: CSD4624) | |
| Author(s): | Candace Lombardi (CNET News.com) | |
| Topics: | Communication, E-mail and Messaging, Handheld and Mobile Computing, RSS | |
| Origin: | Contributed by Organizations or Campuses (2006) | |
| Type: | Articles, Papers, and Reports | |
| Abstract: | Pennsylvania State university will launch a text-messaging wireless service called PSUTXT today as an expansion of Penn State Live, a news service with 360,000 subscribers. The university plans to use the service to send text messages of news alerts to mobile devices.Registered users can sign up for short message service (SMS) text messages on campus emergencies, sports, and concert information. Topics will expand as users indicate an interest in other types of information. PSUTXT targets Penn State students, faculty, and staff, although anyone may subscribe. | |
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