NEW YORK, Aug. 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The iPhone, one of the most relied upon devices for getting information, connecting with your friends, and listening to music, can now be used to receive life-saving alerts.

ANNOUNCEMENT COMMEMORATES THE 15TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ABDUCTION AND MURDER OF 9-YEAR-OLD AMBER HAGERMAN ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 12, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Life-saving AMBER Alerts are now available to the millions of people on the social networking service Facebook.

A newborn baby kidnapped from a hospital in the middle of the night has sparked a statewide manhunt and multiple Amber Alerts in Texas and New Mexico, authorities said.

By Michele Sager, Tampa Tribune, Fla. Feb. 16--TAMPA -- Tampa police are urging cell phone users to sign up for Amber Alerts. The police have partnered with Syniverse Technologies to text-message subscribers with the alerts, which report missing children.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Missouri and Kansas apparently are close to joining an Amber Alert system that uses the Internet to spread the news about missing children more quickly. Terri Durdaller, a spokesman for Missouri Public Safety Director Mark James, said James will recommend the system to Gov.