It can sound an alarm or send a message to the device.

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No cause for alarm, seems to be the message.

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You can then send a message to the phone, and it will sound an alarm, alerting nearby people to save it for you.

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Deadlines and all their grim paraphernalia, such as alarm clocks, car services, online or phone reservations of any kind, programming my GPS, setting the hotel's always impossibly complicated alarm clock, and, yes, understanding a voice-mail message.

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McClusky argued that like signs posted in yards advertising alarm systems, signs that warn the homeowners have guns would get the message across, he said.

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And the message that the president-elect is trying to send here is that when economic alarm bells are going off, as they have been, that someone is listening.

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