Mar 30, 2011 at 5:25pm ET by Matt McGee

A little more than a year after announcing its plans to build a superfast, experimental broadband network somewhere in the U.S., Google has announced where that's going to happen: Kansas City, Kansas. In selecting a city, our goal was to find a location where we could build efficiently, make an impact on the community and develop relationships with local government and community organizations. We’ve found this in Kansas City. Google says that nearly 1,100 cities applied to host the high-speed broadband network. Many used public and government support to show Google how desperately the [...]

Google Hires Georgia Tech To Build Internet Monitoring Tools

Mar 23, 2011 at 9:32am ET by Barry Schwartz

Ars Technica reports Google has given a $1 million grant to a team at Georgia Tech in order to build tools to help users around the world monitor the internet for free. The goal is to build web-based tools any user can use that enables them to detect Internet throttling, government censorship, and other transparency problems. It will let users verify that their ISPs are delivering the upload and download speeds they were promised. It will let users learn if their governments are blocking or modifying the Internet without their knowledge. It will basically help users know if they are being [...]

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Google Buying The “VoIP Infrastructure” Out From Under Competitors

May 18, 2010 at 10:13am ET by Greg Sterling

Google rarely does anything with a single objective in mind. There are almost always multiple goals or possibilities involved in most of its strategic moves and acquisitions. Such is also the case with its $68 million effort to acquire Global IP Solutions (GIPS). The company, headquartered in San Francisco but publicly traded in Norway, "provides best-in-class voice and video processing in IP communications." As several others have already remarked, GIPS has a customer list that includes "Nortel, Oracle, Samsung, WebEx, Yahoo. AOL and other key players in the VoIP market." Some of the Vo [...]

Topeka Changes Its Name To Google, Kansas (Temporarily)

Mar 2, 2010 at 12:50am ET by Matt McGee

What would you do to get Google to build a super high-speed broadband network in your hometown? If you're the city of Topeka, Kansas, you'd change your name. To Google, Kansas. According to the Topeka Capital-Journal (err ... the Google Capital-Journal?), mayor Bill Bunten issued a proclamation today that renames the city to "Google, Kansas — the capital city of fiber optics" for the entire month of March. When presented with the idea, none of the city's seven councilmembers objected. (After all, who among us would refuse the chance to be a councilmember of Google?) This is apparently [...]

Google To Develop Superfast “Experimental Fiber Network”

Feb 10, 2010 at 11:19am ET by Greg Sterling

Google continues to flirt with being an ISP or carrier. Several years ago the company was part of the aborted municipal WiFi bid for San Francisco with Earthlink. Google is also one of the major forces behind the White Spaces initiative ("WiFi on steroids") that seeks unused TV spectrum for broadband purposes. In addition, Google currently operates a free WiFi network in and around Mountain View, California where the company is headquartered. And it's an investor in WiMax provider Clearwire. A few years ago Google was reportedly aggregating "dark fiber" and seeking a person to "negotiat[e] [...]

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