Google Fiber rollout now ready to begin in both Kansas Cities
It reportedly suffered a slight delay due to some disagreement with local officials over just how its thousands of miles of wires would be hung, but Google announced today that it’s finally ready to begin the rollout of its Google Fiber network in Kansas City, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri. Expectedly, that effort will initially focus on the network’s backbone, after which Google will then turn its attention towards connecting homes and businesses in the two cities to the gigabit network (promising speeds 100 times faster than the average high-speed connection).
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Comcast’s Internet Essentials program expanding as digital literacy project soars
If everyone needs the internet, then poor kids need it more — since so much learning material is dependent on technology. Comcast teamed up with the FCC to produce Internet Essentials : a $10 a month broadband plan and $150 computers to get the nation’s poorest families online. Six months later, the program’s been a colossal success, leading to the company adding some sweeteners: eligibility is being relaxed to include any family who qualifies for discounted lunches (swelling the catchment group by a further 300,000)
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Comcast’s Internet Essentials program expanding as digital literacy project soars
Facebook files $5 billion IPO, values the company at nearly $100 billion
The rumor, speculation and awkward Winklevii jokes can end (at least for now) as Facebook has officially filed for its public offering. Underwritten by Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs amongst others, the internet’s most popular site seeks to trade under the stock symbol “FB” when it goes public later this year.
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Facebook files $5 billion IPO, values the company at nearly $100 billion
Sky will launch an internet based TV service in the UK in the first half of 2012
UK pay TV service Sky has just announced its quarterly results, and despite adding 100,000 subscribers as well as notching its “highest ever first-half adjusted operating profit” it will launch a new internet TV service, available to anyone in the country with a broadband connection.
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Sky will launch an internet based TV service in the UK in the first half of 2012
It’s okay to peek: phone size comparison tool reveals how your equipment stacks up
See any trend emerging here? Yes, we agree that Google’s phones are getting hotter with each generation, but that’s not the answer we’re looking for
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It’s okay to peek: phone size comparison tool reveals how your equipment stacks up
Rhapsody officially acquires Napster International, eyes European launch
After having already acquired Napster here in the US, Rhapsody has taken its expansion one step further, with the acquisition of Napster International.
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Rhapsody officially acquires Napster International, eyes European launch
European Commission unveils new online privacy rules, aims to protect consumer data
As SOPA ‘s aftershocks continue to ripple across the US, a slightly different brand of techno-political drama is unfolding over in Europe, where the European Commission today announced a new set of online privacy regulations. The new legislation, unveiled this morning , was crafted with the intent of giving consumers more control over their online data, and places more pressure upon private companies to protect user information
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European Commission unveils new online privacy rules, aims to protect consumer data
Google suggests TCP tweaks to make web pages load faster
Google has already proven it can load web pages as fast as lightning and flying potatoes , but its “Make the Web Faster” team has grander designs.
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Google suggests TCP tweaks to make web pages load faster
SnapStream TV monitoring now lets OS X users keep tabs on amusing video-blunders
The Daily Show and Colbert Report famously rely upon SnapStream’s high-power Windows DVR software to monitor the insanity at the fringes of America’s cable spectrum. The media-monitoring software is also used by news services, educators and shadowy government agencies to keep tabs on the subjects discussed on TV. The latest edition (version five) opens the platform up to OS X users, enabling them to run it in Firefox without messy virtualization
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SnapStream TV monitoring now lets OS X users keep tabs on amusing video-blunders
Grooveshark goes dark in Germany over ‘unreasonably high’ license fees
The masses of online music streamers in Germany have discovered that there’s one less option for blasting Cee Lo Green. Grooveshark has pulled the plug on its services in the country due to the seemingly truckloads of cash it was shelling out to GEMA, the performance and reproduction rights organization. The US-based music streaming service is no stranger to licensing quarrels, though, as they’ve been in scuffles with Sony, Universal, Warner and EMI in the States.
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Grooveshark goes dark in Germany over ‘unreasonably high’ license fees