Postcode-based SMS weather warnings.
For a monthly subscription Netweather.tv will send SMS alerts of any rain due
in your selected postal code. The UK's met office radar stations supply
rain information to Netweather every 15 minutes. "It's not a long-range forecast or a complex one; it's reporting what's happening at the time, so accuracy is not an issue" says Netweather MD Paul Michaelwaite. The service is to launch "soon". (From The Observer)
Wal-Mart have signed up to receive critical weather events for their store managers.
Wal-Mart's director of emergency management "said that the 2005 hurricanes demonstrated to the company that letting its managers know as quickly as possible when bad weather threatened their stores or personnel was crucial.". The service only works with GPS enabled handsets in the US, but could also work with other location systems. (From eWeek.)
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