{"67493":{"#nid":"67493","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Cellular Networks Not Designed for Mass Texting","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EVirginia Tech\u0027s text-message alert system failed when the sound of gunfire was heard on campus last week. Patrick Traynor, computer science assistant professor, said text-alert systems that use current cellular networks can overwhelm the system and cause partial or complete failure. Source: eSchool News\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2011-06-17 11:35:19","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:24:38","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"panic attacks","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.eschoolnews.com\/news\/top-news\/news-by-subject\/technologies\/index.cfm?i=56122","dateline":{"date":"2008-11-20T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2008-11-20T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}