NBC Olympic Mobile Alerts Run Into Glitch
MocoNews reports that NBC’s much-ballyhooed Mobile Alerts program for the Olympics failed to work properly on every phone they tried.
The site tried four separate handsets that spanned three carriers, but no dice. To check on the situation, blogger Tricia Duryee called Bellevue-based SinglePoint, which powers the back-end messaging capabilities for NBC. “They promised to investigate the situation, and at about 8 p.m. last night I started getting alerts. Today, SinglePoint explained the problem in a statement: ‘We identified an issue with some of the data we received from another vendor, we immediately informed them about it and it was resolved.'”
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