4INFO has picked some low-hanging fruit — event based alerts. They already had a service that would send you information at a particular time of the day (for example, the weather) but now they’ve upgraded it so they will send you a message based on an event — say, the score of a sports game changing or a stock rising or falling by a particular amount. Pretty neat, and more fitting to the name “alert”…
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