The federal government along with U.S. wireless providers will be rolling out a new Emergency Text Alert System this month. The service will be free and will provide geographically targeted wireless emergency alerts for life-threatening events such as: tornadoes, flash floods, hurricanes, typhoons, tsunamis, dust storms, extreme winds, blizzards and ice storms. The text alerts will be brief and will inform consumers to seek additional information or immediately seek shelter if necessary. You may have experienced such alerts via third party weather application or private services but this will be the first national service by the federal government and the wireless industry.

I have some good news for Sprint customers looking to pick up the HTC EVO 4G LTE: looks like you’ll be able to easily unlock the bootloader with the Android SDK and instructions from HTCdev.com — unlike AT&T’s HTC One X. Why would anyone care about being able to unlock the bootloader? Well, it’s essentially the keys to the kingdom, allowing for full backups, modding, custom ROMs and just about any other hacking you can think of.

ASUS continues to lead the pack when it comes to updating their products to the latest version of Android. While everyone else drags their feet, ASUS is updating devices like the Eee Pad Slider — which we can’t imagine is a top seller. Nevertheless, they began pushing out the Android 4.0 update to Slider owners in the U.S. today, and continue to put other manufacturers and their empty promises to shame.

Believe it or not, it’s been one year since NVIDIA launched its Tegra Zone: a hub for easily finding Tegra optimized games. To celebrate Tegra Zone’s first birthday, NVIDIA has invited us all to partake in the inaugural TegraZone Player’s Choice Awards. To participate, all you have to do is head over to the Tegra Zone and vote for your favorite Tegra powered games.

International Galaxy Note users are being treated to Android 4.0 along with the new Premium Suite for the Galaxy Note. The update is rolling out to unlocked devices in the form of an over-the-air update in some areas and via Samsung’s Kies software in Germany.