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San Diego's Radisson Hotel in Rancho Bernardo Wins Market Target's Internet Speed Contest

San Diego, CA (PRWEB) January 23, 2012 The Radisson Suite Hotel in Rancho Bernardo was announced today as the winner of Market Target's annual San Diego Hotel Internet Speed Contest. The San Diego Radisson in Rancho Bernardo won this honor by achieving and average guest room speed of 97.3 megabits per second (mbps) over 3 random tests over the course of the year. The hotel was able to achieve this connection speed with their recently upgraded infrastructure from Enteracloud. The upgrade consisted of Category 6 cabling to every guest room and a completed upgraded Cisco core switching infrastructure powered by a high speed, low latency fiber optic connection straight to one of Enteracloud's San Diego Datacenters. It was worth noting that all guests receive the fastest available speed free of charge. There were no additional fees or charges to take advantage of the wired connections. Wireless connections were also tested at this property averaging 17.4mbps over a single ch...

Winning Writers to Award $5,000 in New Sports Poetry and Prose Contest

Northampton, MA (PRWEB) January 19, 2012 Winning Writers invites entries to its new contest for sports poetry and prose. The top winners in the poetry and prose categories will each win $ 1,500. Two second prizes of $ 500 and 10 honorable mentions of $ 100 will also be awarded, bringing the total purse to $ 5,000. The winning entries will be published online at WinningWriters.com, which receives over one million page views per year. Jendi Reiter will be the final judge of the contest. She is the author of the poetry collection A Talent for Sadness (Turning Point Books, 2003) and the award-winning poetry chapbooks Swallow (Amsterdam Press, 2009) and Barbie at 50 (Cervena Barva Press, 2010). She recently received a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artists' Grant for Poetry, the OSA Enizagam Award for Fiction, and the Anderbo Poetry Prize. "Whether you're a player or a fan," says Ms. Reiter, "or the kid who counted the minutes till gym class was over, sports ...