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Watch That Tiny $74 1.5GHz Android-Powered Thumb-Puter In Action Kansas City, Kansas citizens! You lucky somuvaperson. Google just announced that they will outfit your city of 145,000 people with ultra fast, super speedy 1Gbs fibre network. Congrats! Sometimes, re-naming your city or naming your kids Google isn’t enough.
Google’s bringing fibre to a special city – whichever city can prove its worth. Portland just threw down some heat by creating its own beer, “Gigabit IPA”. It goes up for a taste-test tomorrow. Will it woo the Goog? [Taplister]
The WSJ delves into the trials and tribulations of trying to build a gigabit fibre network out to even the 50,000 homes at the low ends of Google’s goals for their trial network. It could cost up to $US1 billion, and Google’s already mentioning to people it’s asking for help, like Case Western Reserve University’s Lev Gonick, whose building gigabit fibre to 104 homes, that “we have a lot to learn”. Oh boy, sign me up. (Actually, do sign me up.) [WSJ]
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Hey, Topeka, Kansas! Duluth, Minnesota is calling you out for changing your name to Google in an attempt to get Google’s Gigabit Fibre Internet. They’re announcing that all firstborn children shall be named Google Fibre. Or Googlette Fibre for gals.
Since Google wants to control all forms of communication, the logical next step is being not just what you do on the internet, but how you access the internet as well. To do that, they’ll deploy 1gbps fibre to you.
