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Wireless weather alerts

As the first severe storm of hurricane season barreled toward Florida's Gulf Coast, some weather forecasters were hoping residents were looking to their cell phones instead of the darkening skies. WeatherBug, a weather information service in Germantown, Md., is the latest to announce a new alert system. WeatherBug's product, developed in partnership with Manhattan-based Send Word Now, uses global positioning to pinpoint a subscriber's location and send targeted weather alerts to a cell phone, BlackBerry or other handheld device. It is geared toward large businesses, agencies and school districts that need to simultaneously disseminate emergency messages to large numbers of people. [Read]