Web alarms, mobile alerts aim to make you safer
NEW YORK (Reuters) - From emergency message networks that can reach 100,000 people within minutes, to alarm systems that allow you to monitor your home over the Web, new technologies are aiming to make U.S. consumers feel safer.
While institutions such as immigration services, banks and credit card companies continue to improve their systems to prevent fraud or theft, in many cases homeowners and their communities haven’t kept pace.
That’s starting to change — but, unfortunately, it often takes a major disaster or tragedy to get people thinking about how to better protect themselves and their families.
Many new security technologies have sprouted as a result of the September 11, 2001, attacks in the United States.
The deadly rampage by a lone gunman that claimed 32 lives at Virginia Tech university last month brought renewed attention to a wave of companies offering the latest technology to keep people informed, and hopefully safe.
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Source: www.reuters.com
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