The phrase "alert tool" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a software or device designed to notify users of specific events or conditions.
Example: "The alert tool will notify you immediately if there are any security breaches in the system."
Alternatives: "notification system" or "warning device".
One of the most interesting features about the service, however, is probably its price-drop alert tool.
It could also help to protect against phishing – something that Google addresses today through its Password Alert tool, too.
One nifty tool that sets Clipix apart from the competition is its price drop alert tool (the company has a patent pending for this technology).
Other changes that have been made in the 2.0 release include the ability to play audio and video files inside Outlook, a desktop toast alert tool for high priority items and a number of stability and deployment improvements.
Jessica, who was the first in her family to go to college when she enrolled at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), received kudos messages--rather than alerts--from the early alert tool.
Patients with AKI were identified using a validated and automated electronic alert tool.
But Yotify offers much more than the search giants' current alert tools, argues Ron Bouganim, CEO and cofounder of Branchnext, the San Francisco startup behind Yotify.
Those alert tools, Bouganim says, are merely an afterthought for these huge companies, and they do not take into account important Web 2.0 developments, such as social networking.
About 25% of our doctors regularly use our secure messaging (including our free eFax) and 1 in 3 uses our CME and research alert tools monthly.
His group is using the deforestation alerts tool to send rangers to investigate possible new deforestation events.
Mention's feature-set puts it in competition more with social media monitoring services such as HootSuite than Google's free (and pretty basic) Alerts tool.
