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Effective February 1, 2009, Cisco will introduce a new type of question format to CCIE Routing and Switching lab exams. In addition to the live configuration scenarios, candidates will be asked a series of four or five open-ended questions, on the computer screen, drawn from a pool of questions based on the material covered on the lab blueprint. No new topics are being added. ---  To increase the security & integrity of the CCIE R&S Lab exam, there will be a series of open-ended, short answer questions added to the lab exam and delivered online in all global lab locations. The addition of these questions does not change the lab exam blue-print, nor does it require time be added to the total exam time. At this point the questions are being added to the Routing and Switching lab; lab exams in other tracks will be announced in advance.

The biggest problem with G1 is the battery so lets try with different one. I just ordered it. This Innocell extended battery provides more than double the capacity of the standard battery. Even with heavy phone and data usage, this battery will keep your G1 charged and ready to go.   - 2600mAh - Up to 125% more capacity than the original - Includes a replacement door with our soft-touch "rubberized" texture to improve grip - High quality Japanese cells - Extends the depth of your device by only 5mm - Pair it  with our  Horizontal Innocase Leather  for extra protections on the go ** *All battery claims are dependent upon usage patterns, network configuration and many other factors; actual results will vary. ** This 2600mAh Extended Battery is not compatible with Seidio Spring Clip holster. http://www.seidioonline.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=BACY26TMG1-BK

I bought a gift to my sister, a cell phone Nokia 5800 XpressMusic (don't get me wrong this is not the first Nokia phone I've playied with). I used to be a big fen of Nokia but last year or so they are going down really fast compared with their competitors (HTC,etc) As we know there is few very big players on the Mobile Operation System business at the moment - Microsoft with Windows for mobiles/Google with Android/Apple Iphone and maybe BlackBerry (hopefully Palm very soon) So when you start playing with Nokia 5800 the first impression is like the last impression it's crap.. you have to pay for every application which is in the "software download applications" compared with Apple (for example) they just announced that they have 20.000 applications I am not sure how many are they in Android. I personally don't recommend this phone to anyone.. this idea of double touch the icon to activated it it's really anoying.. the phone customization is really bad - it ...

We've got few visits from BBC to show up our 100Mbit/s service called Boost. It's a pretty good marketing idea and good for the people who are using file sharing and HD streaming applications (like cisco video conference systems) etc.  BBC did few tests described in the link bellow - the first test was with iPlayer (BBC application) and iTunnes apperantly they weren't happy with the iTunnes because it was showing 10mins to get the movie so we had to explain to them that we don't have control on 3th party servers and the idea behind the garantee of some capacity is that we have the promissed bandwidht to our uplink providers and after that we don't have any control.  They also did another "Web based speed test" which showed 78Mbit/s downlink and 50Mbit/s uplink BUT most of these web based speed tests are based on the average broadband connectivity in UK. 100Mbps broadband - who needs it? -------------------------------------------------- source: http://www....

Danish and Australian researchers have  developed a chip  that efficiently reads 640Gbps optical transmissions and could help pave the way to terabit Ethernet. The breakthrough comes not on the laser end of the connection by boosting the speed of transmission, but rather at the receiving end where very high speed, error-free reception is required to sort out multiple wavelengths of signals that have been multiplexed at the sending end. The discovery comes just as  100Gbps Ethernet  is in its infancy but predicted to become more common over the next three years. The new receiver technology described in an article to be published Feb. 16 in the journal  Optical Express  relies on a 5 cm optical waveguide, a dramatic reduction in size over competing technology that requires 50 meters of special optical fiber and is inherently unstable, according to the Optical Society of America The researchers say the compact size of their waveguide makes it possible to integrate it with other components...