MC 2: MC2 Post 1504 Case Study on How the Wireless Spectrum Game is PLAYED

Saturday, January 26, 2013

MC2 Post 1504 Case Study on How the Wireless Spectrum Game is PLAYED

AT&T Buys Verizon Spectrum for $1.9 Billion Verizon Wireless and AT&T continued to dance the spectrum shuffle today, with the companies inking deals for the transfer of licenses in the 700 MHz and AWS bands.

Verizon agreed to sell 39 lower 700 MHz B block licenses to AT&T for $1.9 billion. In exchange, AT&T will hand over 10 MHz of AWS spectrum to Verizon in western markets like Los Angeles, Phoenix, Fresno,
and Portland, Oregon.

From: http://www.pcmag.com

Link: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2414702,00.asp

TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/b2oqt5a

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Diana Rigg

Emma Peel as Lady Olenna Tyrell (aka the Queen of Thorns).

Diana Rigg, will be playing Lady Olenna Tyrell (aka the Queen of Thorns), along with eight new cast members were announced during the HBO fantasy show’s panel.

From: http://www.wired.com

Link: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/01/game-of-thrones-season-3-photos/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Top+Stories%29&pid=9277

180 Freaking Characters to Wired's Link. Wingman.

TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/a23rgmr

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Chrome Update closes Holes and fixes Mouse Wheel Issues

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Google has released Chrome 24.0.1312.56 to the stable update channel of the open source browser. The new update closes five security holes, three of which are high severity, and fixes problems with mouse wheel scrolling.

Atte Kettunen of the Oulu University Secure Programming Group in Finland received $1000 for the discovery of a high severity use-after-free vulnerability in the font handling of the HTML5 canvas.

Link: http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Chrome-update-closes-holes-and-fixes-mouse-wheel-issues-1791381.html

TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/bb78nuh

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Fedora 18 Samba Standalone Server With tdbsam Backend

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Link: http://www.howtoforge.com/fedora-18-samba-standalone-server-with-tdbsam-backend

TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/ag2t5gt

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VoltDB 3.0 Enhances Performance, SQL and Connection

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The developers behind VoltDB, the in-memory relational database, have released the third major version of the database. VoltDB's in-memory architecture allows it to have low latency and high throughput and, in version 3.0, the developers have re-engineered the transaction coordination architecture to ensure that communication between nodes in a cluster is minimised during transaction processing without compromising the ACID nature of the system. The result, say the developers, is sub 2ms latencies in their test system up to 240,000 transactions per second; VoltDB 2.8.4.1's latency shot up to over 15ms at around the 200,000 transactions per second on the same test.

Link: http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/VoltDB-3-0-enhances-performance-SQL-and-connection-1791358.html

TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/aybyamk

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