compounded by incumbent telcos who have sued Google Fiber in various states to avoid being forced to share utility poles or route access. Running a cable through yards and under sidewalks and driveways isn't exactly cheap when you have to tear the landscape apart, then pu...
Google announcedvia its official Google Fiber pageWednesday that there are plans in the works to bring Google Fiber to 34 US cities in 9 major metropolitan areas soon. The new cities include San Jose, California; Atlanta, Georgia; Phoenix, Arizona; Portland, Oregon; and Salt Lake City, Utah,...
“This is about being ‘proximate,’ ” he says, citing his friend Bryan Stevenson, the founder of the Equal Justice Initiative and author of Just Mercy, about racism in the criminal justice system. “This is about understanding what’s happening on the ground, being next to the problems...
Fiber has already put pressure on other broadband carriers: in the wake of Google’s Austin announcement, AT&T quickly began installing its own high-speed fiber network, which it launched in late 2013. A move into wireless would take aim at the Verizon and AT&T duopoly and would almost ...
Fiber is now in seven markets —Salt Lake City being the most recent— with five other installations expected to go online in the coming months. However, sources tell The Information that actual subscriber numbers are nowhere near the company’s original projections. ...
It's grippy enough that the phone feels secure in my hand but doesn't stick to the inside of my pocket. The "carbon fiber" accents are a little muted, but I think it works in the overall look of this case. If their other cases are like this one, then my next case will also be...
The JGA cable system will have two fiber pairs connecting Japan to Guam, and two fiber pairs connecting Guam to Sydney. This provides deeply scalable capacity to both our users and Google Cloud Platform customers. JGA is being co-built by NEC Corporation and Alcatel Submarine Networks. The JGA...
a local ssd option is being released in beta. aimed at customer virtual machines, local ssd is meant to serve as a high performance scratch disk or backing up replicated databases. on top of that is the the google compute engine autoscaler, also launching in beta, for automatically growi...
In January this year, Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff put pressure on the European Union to build an undersea link directly to Europe to bypass the US following the news that theNational Security Agency had been spying on top officials —that included president Rousseff herself. ...
Google added, in an e-mail to CNET, "We are outraged at the lengths to which the government seems to have gone to intercept data from our private fiber networks, and it underscores the need for urgent reform." Yahoo told the Post: "We have strict controls in place to protect the secu...