Google: Internet Access
Google testing new tool to check internet speeds directly in search results
Powered by Measurement Labs, Google's latest widget was surfaced via a search for "check internet...
Study: Google Adds 1,200 Search Sites & 750 ISP Client Networks In Less Than A Year
A study published by researchers at the University of Southern California unintentionally discovered Google has dramatically increased the...
Google’s April Fools’ Day 2013 Joke-A-Thon: YouTube Shutdown, Google Nose & More
April Fool’s Day is pretty much like a national … err, international holiday for everyone that works for Google. It seems that...
Google Selects Kansas City For Superfast Broadband Network
A little more than a year after announcing its plans to build a superfast, experimental broadband network somewhere in the U.S., Google has...
Google Hires Georgia Tech To Build Internet Monitoring Tools
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...
Google Buying The “VoIP Infrastructure” Out From Under Competitors
Google rarely does anything with a single objective in mind. There are almost always multiple goals or possibilities involved in most of its...
Topeka Changes Its Name To Google, Kansas (Temporarily)
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,...
Google To Develop Superfast “Experimental Fiber Network”
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...
Google Starts Public DNS Project
Google is introducing their own public DNS (domain name system) today named Google Public DNS. DNS is basically the Internet service that...
Google Wants The Web To Go Faster
Google wants to make the internet faster. By speeding up the “most important computing platform of our time,” Google believes that...
Google Promotes New “Small Business Network”
Although it’s been around for a little while, Google is doing some promotion of its new “Small Business Network.” Believe it...
Tech Companies Win ‘White Spaces’ Airwaves Decision
The US Federal Communications Commission approved a plan to allow unlicensed broadcast TV spectrum to be used by companies to create wireless...
Google To Help Bring Internet To Africa & Beyond Through New Satellites
Google backs project to connect 3bn to net from the Financial Times reports Google will announce they’re contributing to a project to...
Google May Launch Balloons Across World To Provide Mobile Access
We have been covering how Google may provide internet access to those users who don’t have it yet for a while now. While the Submarine...
Google Unity Project To Build Submarine Cables Across Pacific Ocean
Remember that Submarine Cable Negotiator job we mentioned being available at Google last month? Turn out Google’s not just negotiating for...
Google Explains The ‘White Space Coalition’ And Its Push For Unused TV Spectrum Internet Access
It sounds a little like the name of a band: The White Space Coalition. We previously wrote about the joint effort (by Google, Microsoft, Intel...
Microsoft And ‘White Space’ Coalition To Try Again On Internet Access Plan
A coalition of companies that includes Microsoft, Google, Intel and Dell were recently rebuffed by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission...
Microsoft, Google Suffer Setback On ‘White Space’ Internet Access Plan
According to a Dow Jones report, prototype devices from Google, Microsoft and a coalition of companies that includes Philips, Intel and Dell...
FCC: Nice Ideas, Google — But We Don’t Like All Of Them
FCC shuns Google plans for open mobile network from Computer Business Review reports that US Federal Communications Commission chair Kevin...
Google Offers $4.6 Billion Incentive So The FCC Can Approve Wireless Spectrum Proposal
Google has made it officially clear that they are committed to making their wireless spectrum proposal win the FCC decision. Google said they...