Have you watched UP "The Movie"?

Have you watched UP? This is another animated movie from Disney Company. Millions already have fallen in love with the old fellow who flies with balloons and the small obnoxious kid explorer who accompanies the old man on this adventure. The movie is touching and funny, and the animation is gorgeous to look at. It takes you on an emotional journey as well as keeps tickling your funny side to make you stick to the screen. If you haven't seen this movie yet, then believe me, you are missing one of the best Comdey Movies ever, However, it is not too late, you can check them now, I am sure you would be happy watching such a great movie. 

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The cash advance online

The cash advance online is a small amount of money which is meant to cover the bills that will due the next week or even the next day. The good thing with cash advance online is you can get your money the next 12 hours upon submitting your complete application form and requirements. Remember cash advance loan is not a way of earning money rather than a way to pay expenses that is about to due and can no longer wait for you pay check. However, borrow only an amount that you can repay. If you get to use doing this the more problem you will be facing in the future. 

Requirements are often salary slip for the past three months and social security number and a bank account for the money transfer. Always apply for a good reason and don't ever apply just to get luxury things that you want. And always pay the loaned amount so you can avoid a stressful life. There is a very good service that I would like to recommend, This service is called FastCashOnline.com, they are really good in what they do to help you out, so what do you think to take a minute to try their services? i am sure you would be happy dealing with such a great service. Have a nice day

A payday advance loan

Do not stress yourself simply because your bills are due the next week. Let's be honest, we all need a little extra cash now and then. For this, a cash advance online is a perfect thing to come to the rescue! Regardless of your credit score if you are currently employed and have a bank account, a cash advance online can help you when it matters most. They are especially useful if you have some bills due and you are not getting paid until the next week! Avoid the high cost of bounced checks and overdue bills from your bank and get a quick and easy advance Online. Some credit firms will simplify the process by shopping the lenders for you and find the best option. 

 A payday advance loan is a quick and easy way to get a short term unsecured payday loan to hold you over until your next payday or for an unpredictable emergency cash need. Very often people find themselves short on cash and need to pay their rent or utility bills. We provide you with a fast online cash advance service to help you get out of a pinch.

Google lowers 'unusually high' early termination fee on Nexus On

At the end of January, the Federal Communications Commission's Consumer Task Force launched an inquiry into the Early Termination Fees (ETFs) of the major wireless providers with a special focus on the Google Nexus One handset. The Nexus One is unlike other smartphones in that it is sold only by Google and available on multiple carriers. As such, if a customer terminated his contract, he faced early termination fees from both Google and his wireless provider. The Consumer Task Force's Inquiry said: "Consumers have been surprised by this policy and by its financial impact. Please let us know your rationale(s) for these combined fees, and whether you have coordinated or will coordinate on these fees and on the disclosure of their combined effect." Google's response appeared quite plainly yesterday evening: it has lowered its early termination penalty from $350 to $150. Responses from the FCC and Google this morning are pending.

Success: Google's Nexus One shipping support line takes tech sup

In a test of Google's willingness to take customer concerns this morning, Betanews Editor-in-Chief Nathan Mook -- a new Nexus One owner himself who has not experienced either the 3G connectivity problem or the touchscreen tracking problem -- contacted the Nexus One shipping support line with a technical concern. After getting off the phone with a live Google support staffer in San Francisco, Nate reported very positive results. The problem Nate was having, he says, is minor: The phone's automatic brightness isn't working well, remaining too dark when auto-brightness is turned on. Plus, the phone's touch-sensitive panel buttons at the bottom appear non-sensitive if you touch too close to the bottom. Nate tells us Google's representative very kindly put his concern into the system, and offered to set up an exchange of phones with him; he responded it was not necessary. "She was really quite nice," Nate reports. "She put my concerns into the system. Best customer support experience I've ever had from a big company. Better than Apple. I had zero wait time." His previous phone was an iPhone 3G S. 10:46 am EST · With hopes of being able to talk to a real, live person for the first time, to address not only 3G connectivity issues but an emerging, separate problem with poorly tracking touchscreens, Google Nexus One phone users had hopes today of being able to dial a toll-free phone number and speak with a Google representative. But despite headlines blazing through the blog-O-square this morning, that number is only "for questions about your existing order," as Google's support page clearly states. Immediately below the newly posted instructions for shipping questions, the "Technical Support" section now directs customers with problems with the phone to HTC, the phone's manufacturer: "For technical support, please contact HTC customer care at 1-888-216-4736. For additional details and international support, please visit HTC's website." This despite Google executives having told analysts during the phone's premiere event last month that Google was the "vendor of record," implying that it would be responsible for managing customer concerns. "I knew it was too good to be true," writes Nexus One customer xsyclubs to Google's support forum early this morning. "However, I am still going to call daily." That may be just a symbolic act for now, as xsyclubs and others may end up being transferred to HTC. Over on HTC's support forums, a bold message appears to have declared the 3G connectivity issue resolved. But an unusual message from Google employee Ry Guy yesterday told Nexus One customers that HTC was, in fact, declaring a different issue resolved: "The message...on HTC's website concerns a previous temporary data outage, not the 3G connectivity issues that some users have been experiencing," he wrote. As 3G connectivity issues continue for many customers even after the distribution of an over-the-air software update, a growing number of owners are experiencing trouble with their touchscreens. In fact, defective touchscreens appears to be becoming a popular subject of YouTube videos, where owners everywhere are letting Google and the rest of the world see these symptoms for themselves. The video above shows the touchscreen failing to respond to browser functions, but responding nominally to the home menu. Another YouTube video from a different customer shows the drawing program registering repeated taps on the screen as vertical lines starting the same distance (about an inch) below the fingertip, and ending at the fingertip location. In the wake of scrutiny not only from Nexus One customers but Congress as well, Google decided yesterday to reduce its "equipment recovery fee" from as high as $350, as stated in its original Terms of Sale, to a maximum $150. However, that fee is in addition to whatever T-Mobile (for now, Nexus One's exclusive carrier) may charge; and as Google's revised terms state, the customer must agree that $150 is necessary to compensate for a kind of depreciation Google only describes as "market changes."

Nvidia debuts new dynamically-switched graphics card technology

The idea behind notebooks with switchable graphics processors is that the most common tasks are handled by the lower power integrated GPU; but should the user need more complex graphics, a discrete graphics processor will be able to kick in to take care of the hard work. It's been an option in certain notebooks for more than three years, and it has certainly grown more common as the technology has aged. But it has never quite been a perfect, on-demand solution. In the earliest switchable setups, the computer had to be rebooted for the swap to take place, and in later iterations, it required a physical switch to be thrown or sessions to be reset. and still others could turn on the discrete GPU, but not switch back to integrated once the change was made. Today, Nvidia debuted its Optimus technology for GPU switching, which will soon be available in a handful of Asus notebooks (UL50Vf, U30Jc in the "ultra slim and light" series, and N61Jv, N71Jv, N82Jv in the Multimedia N series) Instead of requiring a conscious effort on the part of the user, Optimus-powered graphics processors balance the graphical processor load as a background task. Unlike ATI's switchable graphics platform, which uses the discrete card when under AC power and the integrated graphics processor to be used in battery mode, Optimus switches dynamically based upon the needs of the running applications. "We needed hardware support to quickly move the graphics data around in the system, so we created a fast copy engine. The Optimus Copy Engine is a new alternative to traditional DMA (Direct Memory Access) transfers between the GPU frame buffer memory and system memory used by the IGP. With Optimus we also removed multiplexers, called MUXs, so we use the integrated graphics as a display adapter or pass through," Sasha Ostojic, Nvidia's Senior Director of Notebook Software, wrote in Nvidia's blog today. "The discrete GPU can do the heavy lifting and pass through the results to the integrated graphics chip to be displayed. By doing this, Optimus eliminated the need for hardware multiplexer and completely removed glitches associated with switching the display from IGP to GPU. Optimus transfers the display surface from the GPU frame buffer over the PCI Express bus to the system memory-based frame buffer used by the IGP. The key to performing the display transfer without negatively impacting 3D performance is the Optimus Copy Engine." Asus' notebooks featuring Optimus are expected to begin availability some time in mid-March, with specifics pending.

By many measures, Microsoft is simply too big. The bigness is in

Now nearly a decade old, RealNetworks' online music service Rhapsody is going to be spun off into an independent company. The spin-off will mean that RealNetworks will no longer have operating control over the service, and it will have no single majority owner. Currently, Rhapsody is a joint venture with RealNetworks and Viacom subsidiary MTV Networks, with real owning 51% of the equity of Rhapsody and Viacom owning 49%. Robert Kimball, president and acting CEO for RealNetworks today said, "Separating Rhapsody into its own independent company is a significant first step in making RealNetworks a more focused and profitable company. Rhapsody will be the largest pure play digital music service in the market. We have provided Rhapsody with the right team, and financial and intellectual property assets to succeed in the competitive market for digital music." Real expects the spin-off will be complete late in the first quarter of 2010.

Why former employees say Microsoft can't innovate

By many measures, Microsoft is simply too big. The bigness is in the gut, like a middle-aged man who drinks too much beer and eats too many classic potato chips. In computing years, Microsoft most certainly is a middle-aged company. So is Apple, which by comparison is leaner and healthier. What's up with Microsoft's gut? Based on communications with current and former employees, Microsoft's midriff problem is one of middling middle management. The number of middle mangers swelled over the last decade, and they also are the employees making key management decisions, which includes who gets laid off or fired and where the remaining people work. What manager will fire himself or herself? (Before continuing, let me be clear that only former Microsoft employees will be quoted, and anonymously at that. Current employees would only communicate with me on background, for concern of risking their jobs). One former employee, whom I'll call Boris, had this to say about how last year's layoffs affected him and his former team: "Out of a starting staff of nearly 20, four remained, all managers. I'm not sure what they manage." Who made the decisions about whom to layoff? Another former Microsoft employee whom I'll refer to as Fred said that a "dramatic increase in middle management, and the fat cutting the muscle, is right on target." I don't have figures on how many middle managers Microsoft now employs. But various former, and even some current, employees say that their number of "reports" -- meaning people they report to -- has increased by five to seven managers above them during 2000. Typically that works out to double or more the layers of middle management over the decade. "When I started at MSFT in 1996, there were six people between me and [Microsoft cofounder] Bill Gates," Boris said. "In 2009, there were 13 people between me and [Microsoft CEO] Steve Ballmer." Fred said, "the number of managers between me and the CEO went from six to 10," during the last decade. Another long-time Microsoftie, whom I'll call Barry, saw his reports go from six to 12. Microsoft's swelling workforce gives some hint of the midriff, middle management problem. In June 2000, at the end of fiscal 2001, Microsoft employed 39,100. At the end of fiscal 2010, even after 5,000 layoffs, Microsoft employed 93,000. 'All Praise the Holy Reorg' Microsoft manages middle management by way of seemingly perennial reorganizations. Every former or existing Microsoft employee I communicated with for this post and the accompanying "Microsoft Confession" series harshly criticized the reorganizations. "How many reorgs have ever benefited anyone except the folks on top?" asked a former employee I'll call Jack. "The people that need to be cut at MS are the managers that don't support their teams and only support their own careers. I've watched countless super visionary managers get bogged in politics and leave." Another former employee, whom I'll call Amanda quipped: "All praise the holy reorg, which is an approximately annual religious festival in certain sects, I mean divisions, of Microsoft." Recent reorganizations -- those publicly disclosed or uncovered over the last 12 months -- include desktop operating system, developer tool, entertainment, mobile device, search and server organizations, among others. This year's reorg affecting Microsoft's TV products came with the departure of Enrique Rodriguez, a corporate vice president. Bill Veghte is one of Microsoft's highest-profile executive departures steaming from reorganization. Microsoft announced Veghte's departure on January 14, after he failed to find a new position following the summer 2009 reorg that put Steven Sinfosky in charge of the Windows & Windows Live group. Weeks later, Microsoft acknowledged the departure of Mike Nash, like Veghte a 19-plus year veteran. At the end of 2009, Microsoft also lost Chris Liddell, as chief financial officer. The point: Microsoft is shedding top-level managers all while middle-manager ranks add bulge to the organizational structure. The reorganizations can be looked at another way -- as reflecting ineffective management processes that Microsoft tries to resolve by changing which groups report to which groups or to whom. In theory, Microsoft's five business groups -- Business, Entertainment & Devices, Online Services, Server & Tools and Windows & Windows Live -- should be small enough to be nimbler than a company employing more than 90,000. But there are mitigating factors, such as reporting hierarchies that cut across different groups and supporting organizations, like marketing and services, that have responsibilities affecting all five Microsoft divisions. In many ways, Microsoft's organizational structure is best described as a middle schooler's messy room (also a Windows Plus! Pack for Kids theme). Incentives that Discourage Risk, Innovation Related to gut-bulging middle management: some HR review and compensation processes discourage many employees from taking the kinds of risks necessary for Microsoft to regain its competitive edge and, quite frankly, to innovate in truly meaningful ways. Microsoft's definition of innovation, for most of its product groups, is anything that preserves the status quo -- meaning extending Office and Windows and increasingly server software like SharePoint and Windows Server. Risk is a dirty word for many employees looking to advance at Microsoft. A former employee whom I'll call Rodriguez said of the HR review process: "Microsoft has become too 'scorecard' heavy and highly litigated to the point it kills an employee's spirit of free thinking and creativity, since everything a person does is closely judged by management." Among the former Microsofties I communicated with over the last couple of months, Rodriguez was the harshest critic of Microsoft's review process, which he observed is going on right now; fiscal year ends on June 30 and reviews occur midway. Several former and existing employees tried to explain Microsoft's seemingly complicated review and compensation process. People are hired at a certain level and can advance up levels, which have corresponding salary ranges. During reviews process, employees are graded with such designations as 'exceed,' 'achieved' and 'underperformed' commitment ratings. These are based on numerous criteria, which include management assessment of performance and achieving goals set during the previous review process. Other criteria include "contribution rankings." Problem: These criteria sometimes work cross-purposes to performance. Fred explained: Processes became more bureaucratic and individuals were less empowered to take action. In fact, oftentimes the incentive structure encouraged individual contributors not to do the right thing, but just to do what they committed to in their review the year prior. In other words, if you committed to include Feature A in Windows, and halfway through the year you realized that was a bad thing for Windows and Microsoft customers, the incentive structure actively discouraged you from trying to kill the feature, because then you wouldn't have achieved your commitments. Barry also made similar complaints about the "decentives" to doing a good job. "The metrics are too complex," he said. "We were evaluated also on a client's satisfaction with our work." The client could range from a reporter for Microsofties working in PR to developers for employees doing product development or for anyone to other groups within Microsoft. Several current and former employees wanting to do better or escape from stifling management situations would request transfers. However, many managers wanted to keep their staff in part "because it would reflect badly on them," Barry said. "I was put in 'performance detention' due to wanting to expand to another part of the company and ended up in the 'crapper' list," said another former employee, whom I'll call Mickey. What About those 5,800 Layoffs? Last year's layoffs surprised many Microsoft employees. There are looming questions about whether or not Microsoft dismissed the right employees. From Friday through Monday, I posted four stories from former employees laid off in 2009. Each story reveals something about the layoff process and the middling middle management problems. Posted as Microsoft Confessions: 'Killed over politics' 'Deeply dysfunctional family' 'Poor worker bees' 'There were a ton of bozos' These four stories and others I received but didn't publish raise questions about whether Microsoft laid off the right people, whether certain groups were targeted and whether more middle managers should have been axed. Perhaps the most visible of the surprising layoffs: Don Dodge, who within two weeks of being let go was hired by Google. Based on former and current Microsoft employee stories, five trends can be seen in Microsoft's layoff of 5,800 employees during 2009. Laid-off employees tended to be: High salaried With the company eight or more years Older -- many in their late 30s or early 40s At a status of what Microsoft calls "long at level" In positions later refilled by younger, lower-salaried people In positions the former Microsoftie resumed as a non-employee contractor Several former employees proactively contacted me about these six similarities, but not all people used all six. Mickey said he was: 1. Over 40 2. Worked at MS for almost 11 years, industry almost 28 3. Pretty high salary 4. Senior guy but brought in underleveled Barry, who had worked as a manager, clearly understood employee evaluations and he concurred about the six similarities. I should point out that in fairness to Microsoft, I've seen this pattern elsewhere, including journalism. Older and/or higher-salaried employees are laid off and either replaced by someone younger who is paid much less or the original employee returns on a freelance basis. For Microsoft, the returnee would a contractor. Barry is someone whom Microsoft laid off and took back as contractor doing essentially the same job as before. Barry insinuated there was some age discrimination in the layoffs, but other former Microsoftie's disagreed. Former employee Randolph (not his real name, of course) noted that four of the people he was laid off with were ages 36 to 59, with two of them being 50 or over. "Suspicious, perhaps, but just as likely a consequence of the team demographics," he said. Two of the people remaining on the team were 48 and 51. The ages were provided with Randolph's severance package. However, "the fact that they gave me the paper in the first place suggests they are sensitive to the implication of age discrimination." Then there is "long at level," which refers to employees who have stayed in the same position or designated organizational and pay level for a long time. Presumably a long-and-level employee lacks ambition to outperform. But for a smaller product or services group, where an employee shows expertise, there may be nowhere to go but out. Other employees stay in organizations where moving up or out is discouraged or even penalized by the manager. I know of current Microsoft employees who change positions every few years simply to avoid being perceived as long at level. In conclusion, no company's organizational structure is perfect, because too many people put their personal ambitions before the company they work for. But companies can encourage mismanagement by the organizational structure, corporate culture and review and compensation processes. Based on my communications with dozens of former and current Microsoft employees over the last couple months, Microsoft needs to streamline its management processes, empower small groups to act like startups, reward risk-taking innovation and sharply reduce the number of middle managers. Update: Mini-Microsoft's blog and especially the comments can offer broader perspective on this post's topic. While I purposely didn't read Mini's blog when researching and writing this post (I typically avoid outside influences when writing), several of my sources sent some of the comments they had posted to the blog. Mini has an active following of current Microsoft employees. I'll resume reading now that I've finished here.

The Windows 7 battery life issue: What's making notebook batteri

Since Windows 7's final release last fall, some testers have been reporting that dual-boot network computers seem to consume power more efficiently running Windows XP than Windows 7. One example came last October from JKOnTheRun's Kevin C. Tofel, who saw his own Toshiba notebook battery die 45 minutes sooner running Win7 than Windows XP. But even then, Tofel was skeptical of a few curious facts, including that Toshiba changed its power management utilities. Since 1999, the system that has reported battery capacity and relative power levels to the operating system has been the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI), developed by industry leaders such as Intel, Phoenix Technologies, and Toshiba. But ACPI was developed with the BIOS in mind; and as PC architecture evolves, as even Phoenix will readily concede, the conventional BIOS is becoming an historical remnant. And history has also shown that as a lithium-ion battery degrades, its capability to report its own health degrades with it. Only now have batteries become capable of reporting their capacity -- how much charge they can hold -- as compared to their manufacturers' specifications. Recently, some Windows 7 users have become acquainted with a new "feature" of the operating system -- an advisory where the operating system suggests it might be time for users to replace their batteries. That started feeding into reports that Windows 7 was degrading batteries faster than its predecessors, such as this from InformationWeek that cites members of Microsoft's support forums. That helped feed stories that the operating system was "tarnished" by a battery plague. The instigator of these complaints appears to be the advisory itself, which users may be interpreting as an indicator that Windows 7 has "eaten" their battery. In fact, as Microsoft Windows division president Steven Sinofsky told users today in a post to the Engineering Windows 7 blog, Win7 is merely reporting a fact of everyday life, whose information had not yet been standardized in the days of Vista. "PC batteries expose information about battery capacity and health through the system firmware (or BIOS). There is a detailed specification for the firmware interface (ACPI), but at the most basic level, the hardware platform and firmware provide a number of read-only fields that describe the battery and its status," Sinofsky writes. "The firmware provides information on the battery including manufacturer, serial number, design capacity and last full charge capacity. The last two pieces of information -- design capacity and last full charge capacity -- are the information Windows 7 uses to determine how much the battery has naturally degraded. This information is read-only and there is no way for Windows 7 or any other OS to write, set, or configure battery status information. In fact all of the battery actions of charging and discharging are completely controlled by the battery hardware. Windows only reports the battery information it reads from the system firmware. Some reports erroneously claimed Windows was modifying this information, which is definitely not possible...Every single indication we have regarding the reports we've seen are simply Windows 7 reporting the state of the battery using this new feature and we're simply seeing batteries that are not performing above the designated threshold." As Sinofsky explains, batteries can report their capacity using ACPI in terms of Watt-hours (W-Hr); and from now on, Windows compares this capacity against design capacity. "In Windows 7 we set a threshold of 60% degradation (that is the battery is performing at 40% of its designed capacity) and in reading this Windows 7 reports the status to you. At this point, for example, a battery that originally delivered 5 hours of charge now delivers, on average, approximately 2 hours of charge." That's a fairly simple calculation to perform, and theoretically, it's been there since the turn of the previous decade. But it would appear that the readings reported by batteries may only have become reliable enough for Windows to rely on this conclusion, in only the last few years. Last July, Microsoft published this document for hardware engineers explaining how Windows 7 polls information from new-generation batteries. Although Microsoft explains that Win7 can only read information from these batteries, it clearly advises engineers that it's up to them to set their batteries' firmware so that it reports the proper levels. As the document reads: "Users who run their system on battery power sometimes use the system until the battery is critically low and must enter the hibernate state to save open programs and data. Windows provides multiple battery warning level and action policies that the system manufacturer can tailor to the underlying hardware platform and battery capacity." The four settings that the document states may be customized by engineers are low battery level, reserve battery level, critical battery level, and critical battery action. These are threshold values separate from the real-time indications reported by ACPI, like last full charge. With Windows 7, Microsoft introduced a completely revised power configuration utility -- a new PowerCfg, whose purpose is to enable engineers to determine the energy efficiency of a notebook computer. Just last month, Microsoft published a document explaining how the revised utility works: "PowerCfg inspects the battery information during the analysis. It logs an information item that contains the battery manufacturer, the battery chemistry, the design capacity, and the last full charge capacity. PowerCfg logs an error if it cannot retrieve the battery information from the firmware. PowerCfg logs a warning if the last full charge capacity is less than 50 percent of the battery's design capacity. PowerCfg logs an error if the last full charge capacity is less than 40 percent of the battery's design capacity." There's where engineers are given that 40% threshold mark for the first time -- the 40% mark that Sinofsky referred to in his blog post today. So the fact that users are seeing "Replace Your Battery" reports for the first time now, may only be because the reliability of such a warning has only recently become viable. "It should stand to reason that some customers would be surprised to see this warning after upgrading a PC that was previously operating fine," writes Sinofsky. "Essentially the battery was degrading but it was not evident to the customer until Windows 7 made this information available. We recognize that this has the appearance of Windows 7 'causing' the change in performance, but in reality all Windows 7 did was report what was already the case."

Certain to cause uproar, Opera shows off its browser for iPhone

Prominent developers sometimes tease us with products made on the iPhone platform that have not yet been approved by Apple. Frequently it's because their applications face certain rejection; sometimes on the famous grounds of "duplicate functionality", sometimes for other reasons. Mobile World Congress next week will be hosting the mother of all iPhone app teases: Opera Mini for iPhone. Opera Mini is already on more than 40 million devices, and is easily the most prominent browser for resource-constrained mobile devices. The company announced today that it will be showing off a version of Opera Mini for the iPhone that is up to six times faster than the iPhone's native Safari browser and can cut bandwidth consumption by up to 90%, thanks to the server-side rendering techniques that Opera uses. Naturally, the browser is not available to the public, nor is it likely to ever be. Opera has built the "duplicate functionality" argument into its very presentation...claiming it can improve upon a primary piece of the iPhone's software. It actually looks more like Opera has gotten wise to Apple's PR magic; and hopes to stimulate some attention for itself in showing off a product certain to create friction with the strict Cupertino company.

Google announced today that it is planning to build and test bro

Almost exactly a year after Verizon Wireless named its LTE equipment partners, AT&T has done the same. And like Verizon, AT&T has chosen Swedish wireless technology provider Ericsson and French telecommunications company Alcatel-Lucent, to make the transition from 3G to LTE more streamlined. Rather than start fresh and attempt to install all new hardware at its cell sites, AT&T is going for hardware that is easily upgradeable. All 3G equipment purchased from the Ericsson and Alcatel-Lucent this year will be easily convertible to LTE, AT&T said. Ericsson and Alcatel-Lucent will be the suppliers for AT&T's Radio Access Network Domain, also known as the middle tier between the users and the central AT&T network. It's called a "domain" because it is part of AT&T's Domain Supplier program which launched last September. In this program, only two suppliers are selected to work on each part of AT&T's network, and they're given multi-year contracts which include not only immediate goals, but also goals for the future. That way, the contractors can develop systems that can evolve, and AT&T can worry less about legacy systems. This year, AT&T says it will upgrade the fiber backhaul to its cell sites to boost 3G speeds and pave the way for its first LTE-compatible sites next year.

Google drops a bomb: It's building its own fiber network

Google announced today that it is planning to build and test broadband networks in several trial deployments across the US which promise to be "100 times faster than what most Americans have access to today with 1 Gbps fiber-to-the-home connections." A careful read of that line suggests that Google is promising 1 Gbps fiber, which is 100x faster than the average broadband user's transfer rate, as opposed to a 100 Gbps pipeline. The company says the service will reach 50,000 people initially, with a potential reach of up to 500,000, the company announced. Right now, Google is putting out a request for information for communities looking to test Google's new fiber service. On March 26, the Mountain View search company will be announcing the markets where it will begin deployment.

car accessories for teens

Some car accessories for teens may seem boring, but they are practical and they will be appreciated. These include such things as car emergency kits, flashlights, collapsible snow shovels, and jumper cables. Many teens will not buy these accessories and so you will be increasing their safety. You may even buy a spare tire if the teen has none. Another good idea is an organizer for registration and insurance papers. Remote car starters costs around $100, but they are very popular with teenagers. You do not need to have it installed by a professional since many of the major retail chains offer the service free of charge. You can give the teen car accessories that are weather related.

 This means your choice of accessory will depend on where the teen will be doing most of the driving. If the weather is usually hot, you can give sun visors for the windshield and if the weather is usually cold, you can give snow brushes or ice scrapers. CarID.com is a great store that sells an amazing car accessories, If you are serious about rocking your car, then I think you must take a look at CARID.com, I am sure you would be amazed with their new collection of vw accessories Have a nice day

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Most of the people are generally short of cash and hence need some extra money to pay their emergency dues immediately. Such people apply for payday loans to make payments in cases of emergencies like medical expenses, car repairs etc. or they want some money aside in case if any emergency arises. Thus, if the problem is genuine and they cannot make the payments for the same, cash advance are of great help. 

 Well, This is a normal issue, But the question is how to make sure that you are going to get your loan from a reliable and well trusted payday loan companies ? First of all, You have to make sure that you are going to read good and professional reviews about the best companies, let me here to mention this service called FastCashOnline.com. They are the best who can help you with that, so what are you waiting for? Take a look at them now to be more familiar with their services, I am sure you would be happy dealing with such a great service. Have a nice day

Buying US flags online

Most people don't have flagpoles in their front yards, and so opt for U.S. flag residential mounts. There are several options available. One is an aluminum flagpole that measures five feet by one inch and that is recommended for flags that are either 2 feet by 3 feet or 3 feet by 5 feet. You can also purchase pole sets that have a heavy-duty two-position mounting bracket and 1-1/2-inch aluminum pole. Some pole sets come with a decorative eagle, poles that extend up to 6 feet, and a pewter finish. 

 If you don't wish to use a bracket and pole, you can certainly display your U.S. flag on your balcony, windowsill, or against the wall. When you do so, proper flag etiquette dictates that the flag is displayed flat, either horizontally or vertically, with the stars displayed on the flag's own right. This means that, when you're standing in front of the flag, the star area (also called the union) should be to your left.  

The US flags is a wonderful symbol of the liberties and principles that we hold dear, and those who purchase U.S. flags are always encouraged to proudly display the stars and stripes.  

united-states-flag.com is one of the best online stores that would help you to get the best American flags or custom flags for a very good price, Don't waste any more time and take a look at them now, I am sure you would be happy dealing with such a professional online store.