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Title: Texting when there's trouble - Li Yuan, The Wall Street Journal Post by: Mark David on May 06, 2007, 06:46:42 PM The evening before an ice storm swept over the University of Texas at Austin, in January, administrators sent an urgent message to its 67,000 students, faculty and staff: Stay home tomorrow. Thanks to a state-of-the-art emergency communications system, students instantaneously received the alert as text messages on their cellphones and via email on their PCs. Building managers received a similar message on their pagers. And the university issued the warning live on local radio and television stations.
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