Items tagged with 911 services

by Kory Kessel - Wed, Jun 24, 2015

Apple's Siri Connecting Users With Police For Asking About 9/11

Apple's Siri has long been fodder for tales of the miscommunications variety, most of them laced with humor of one ilk or another. The latest reported Siri easter egg, though, fails to bring the funny, and instead results in an immediate and very serious call to the cops. Recent posts on Facebook, Twitter, and in... Read more...

by Sean Knight - Mon, Oct 20, 2014

FCC Reports That 911 Outage In April Was The Result Of A Preventable Coding Error

On April 9, 911 services were interrupted for six hours which affected areas in California, Florida, Minnesota, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina while the entire state of Washington was affected. A 911 call-routing facility, located in Englewood, Colorado, had stopped directing emergency calls to 911... Read more...