Archive for February, 2008
After the previous undersea cable break, the third cable called The Falcon is also cutted. Adding the disruption of internet bandwidth. The Falcon cable was cut 56 kilometres from Dubai, between Oman and United Arab Emirates. The Falcon cable is owned by FLAG Telecom, just like the other two. FLAG Telecom is part of Reliance Communication, an India’s Company.

FDA Studies that Magnetic fields produced by portable music player iPod and other portable music players don’t interfere with cardiac pacemakers.
Well that’s was a releived. The complete stories in pcworld.com.

According to yahoo news, the break is located around egypt. And india is get the most effect, a slow internet connection. Including Dubay Stock Exchange. The main cause of this cable break is not yet known, but some information said because a ship’s anchor.
(update)
On the FLAG Telecom site reported that there were two cables are cutted. The one are on the Mediterranean sea and the other are located at 56 KM from dubai. The restoration is in progress, but due to bad weather, it tooks a week for the restoration.
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