Is Your Home Wired Properly? Oct 23, 2009
"Let's say for example that [depending on the weather] a homeowner tries to use a portable air conditioning system or heater and plugs it into just any plug and boom! there's no power it trips the circuit. This is common. People don't know that they need a dedicated circuit for that kind of appliance," says Israel. Wire insulation cracks. (RealtyTimes)
Harris Corporation Reports Higher Revenue, Income and Earnings Per Share for the Third Quarter May 6, 2009
The new satellite communications terminals will represent the worldwide backbone for high-priority military communications and missile defense systems and support Internet Protocol (IP) and Dedicated Circuit Connectivity within the Global Information Grid (GIG), providing critical reach-back capability for the warfighter. On April 16, 2009, Harris announced its acquisition of Crucial Security, Inc., a Washington, D.C.-area provider of mission-enabling engineering solutions that address both... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Accelerating the modern age Feb 7, 2009
At that time making a phone call involved creating a dedicated circuit between the handset of a caller and the person they wanted to chat to. "A lot of people realised that point-to-point was going to be a big problem, even for telephones even before they thought about computers," said Dr Pethica. (BBC News -- Technology)
