911

In a move to provide more options to get connected to 911 service an emergency call center in the basement of the county jail in Waterloo, Iowa, is testing texting system when SMS messages are sent to 911 to inform about the accident. Call centers across the US are also looking to adopt similar solution.

"I think there's a need to get out front and get this technology available," Black Hawk County police chief Thomas Jennings said.

Matthew Weigman, a blind Boston-area teenager known as "Little Hacker", was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison Friday last week for hacking into the telephone network and browbeating the Verizon investigator who was building a case against him. It is known that he was part of a group of telephone hackers that met up on telephone party lines and was associated with more than 60 "swatting" calls to 911 numbers across the country. Weigman pledged to telephone hacking around age 14 and continued to operate until last year.