As a technical assistant to Bill Gates, Microsoft's chairman, in 1994, Mr. Sinofsky was one of the Microsoft employees who alerted Mr. Gates to the Internet challenge, after seeing students using the Web at his alma mater, Cornell University.
Dogs barked like crazy as Margaret and I passed through the gate, alerting the proprietor to customers.
As the car nears the garage, a computer chip installed inside the vehicle alerts the automatic gate.
I made her clean up, alerted Newark's gate security, and we had a biohazard team clean the first class area because it smelled so bad.
On the airline side, the app can alert you if the gate changes for your flight.
JetBlue has nothing there to alert passengers that its gates lie in that concourse, too.
An upgrade to TripIt Pro, at $49 a year, offers useful features like reminders about travel plans and alerts about flight delays, gate changes and fare refunds.
In a 1995 internal memo, "The Internet Tidal Wave," Mr. Gates alerted company employees to the Internet's potential to be a disruptive force.
Earlier that day, in a nearby booth where officers monitor the port's gate, an automated voice barked "gamma alert, gamma alert".
I don't complain when the gate agent fails to alert the flight attendants of the risk.
