Crisis Information Availability

WASHINGTON, April 18 /PRNewswire/ -- ADVISORY: Because of numerous media inquiries relating to the Virginia Tech tragedy, the company TechRadium Inc., an industry leader in supplying its Immediate Response Notification System (IRIS) to schools and other institutions, will institute a hotline to respond to media requests for information concerning available technologies.

TechRadium Inc. will explain how, under emergency circumstances, advanced notification systems that are currently in use are vital to help minimize the risk of loss of human life.

John Rodkey at TechRadium headquarters in Sugar Land, Texas, can be contacted directly by telephone at 281-263-6301 or e-mail at Jrodkey@TechRadium.com.

Background: IRIS is now widely used, and TechRadium will be able to supply case studies. Before IRIS, institutions and organizations were very limited in the way they could respond to emergency situations. Phone trees or telephone banks, for example, were and are unreliable, with messages arriving late or not at all. Immediate Response Notification System sends messages through multiple communications devices including telephones, cell phones, e-mail, pagers, faxes, PDAs, satellite devices, LED signs and virtually any communication device connected to Internet or telephone networks.

The TechRadium information hotline will be in service starting Wednesday morning and will continue as needed. John Rodkey and others will answer your questions regarding how new, cutting-edge technologies can help prevent and contain dangerous situations.