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Daily Report Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Daily Highlights
The Associated Press reports the University of California.Los Angeles alerted about 800,000 current and former students, faculty, and staff on Tuesday, December 12, that their names and certain personal information were exposed after a hacker broke into a campus computer system. (See item 10)
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said that it has not found E. coli in samples of green onions suspected of sickening hundreds of Taco Bell patrons, but that investigators have not yet determined the source and have ruled nothing out. (See item 22)
Information Technology and Telecommunications Sector
33. December 12, Reuters — Survey: Text messaging traffic set to double by 2010. Text messages sent to and from mobile phones will more than double over the next five years to 2.3 trillion messages sent by 2010, a survey said on Tuesday, December 12. The number of messages transmitted over short message service (SMS) systems in 2005 was estimated at 936 billion, according to British market research group Gartner. Total revenues from text messaging is forecast to grow to $72.5 billion in 2010 from $39.5 billion in 2005. Gartner said new messaging services are needed, including instant messaging, picture messaging and video messaging, but they would only match the popularity of SMS if they are simple to use and affordable, which are the reasons behind SMS success.
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