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Migrating to Flatter, All-IP Wireless Networks
To address consumer demands for better voice and data communications and more advanced services, wireless technology standards have evolved over the last decade from 1G systems to the currently deployed 3G systems. Despite the growth of carrier networks and the evolution of standards, voice and data communications have not evolved in synch. Carriers have historically added data communications as an afterthought to voice network architectures originally conceived in the circuit-switched era, resulting in complex hierarchical networks that support both voice and data. This type of architecture is expensive, leading to high operating and capital expenditures for service providers and significantly lowering margins in a highly competitive industry. In addition, networks employing cobbled-together voice and data communications systems simply do not have the capacity to provide the rich multimedia services and omnipresent Internet access that todays wireless customers demand.
Hip-Hop Rumors: Joel Ortiz Off Aftermath? Is Bow Wow Crazy? Amy ...
Wow Bow doesn't have to do this. He doesn't. He can still make his name Bow Wow again. The rumor is that he got pissed off at Chris Brown and spit on his R&B counterpart. That's word to Omarion! Anyway apparently at a show in Dallas, Wow Bow ended his set off and accused Brown of messing up his set. How? I'm not sure how. Chris Brown is the headliner of the show, but I don't know what he did. Anyway, Wow Bow had to be restrained and out came the spit. I know this is only a rumor, but I have to ask: IS WOW BOW CRAZY?
Now that I got a good laugh out of that, you should know that Wow Bow has stated on the record that this never happened. Chris Brown hasn't issued any denial.
OBAMA HAS A SHOT!
OK, I know one doesn't have anything to do with the other, but I thought I would say this anyway.
'You must stop this manhunt!'
On the first floor of Société Générale's giant glass tower in Paris' business district La Défense, the normally sedate corridors thronged with people in crisis management. Daniel Bouton, the chief executive of France's second biggest bank emerged to explain why the discovery of one of the financial world's biggest ever frauds - a rogue trader who lost nearly €5bn committing hidden transactions from his desk - was not all bad news. But the one question that eluded the big bosses of Société Générale was the issue all were trying to comprehend: who was this lone trader in his 30s? What motivated an intelligent, young man to commit a fraud five times greater than the infamous rogue trader Nick Leeson who caused the collapse of Barings bank in 1995? At Société Générale's head office, the men in charge shrugged their shoulders, saying they wouldn't name him.
A popular acne drug may raise cholesterol levels.
People who take the acne drug Accutane (isoretinoin), may be at risk for high cholesterol. Researchers from the University of California, San Franscisco, looked at the blood tests of almost 13,772 patients who took the drug between 1995 and 2002. Looking closely at those who had normal blood tests before taking the drug, the researchers noted that 44 percent developed high triglycerides, 31 percent developed high cholesterol and 11 percent developed high liver enzymes while taking Accutane. While Roche, the maker of Accutane, does warn patients that the drug may cause increased triglycerides, cholesterol and liver enzymes, this is the first study to show how significantly blood levels of these elements change. The study found that blood tests tend to go back to normal once patients stop taking the drug.
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