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City Chooses To Go For Google Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 12:05AMThe Yankton City Commission supported an application process Monday night in the hope that Google will help the community get a jump-start on the future.
Ames wants to be test site for fiber-optic network Tuesday, March 9, 2010 @ 11:53PMAssociated Press - March 10, 2010 12:44 AM ET AMES, Iowa (AP) - The City of Ames plans to submit an application to be a test market for a high-speed fiber optic network offered by the Internet...
Ames wants to be test site for fiber-optic network Tuesday, March 9, 2010 @ 11:49PMAMES, Iowa (AP) - The City of Ames plans to submit an application to be a test market for a high-speed fiber optic network offered by the Internet company Google.
Lansing area lobbies Google to be test site Tuesday, March 9, 2010 @ 11:21PMLANSING - Local leaders are grappling with other communities nationwide for Google’s attention. Political, community and business officials in the Lansing area are vying to have the region become one of Google Inc.’s test areas for the next generation of Internet technology.
Cisco 322Tbps CRS-3 router falls short of promise Tuesday, March 9, 2010 @ 10:51PMNEW YORK, USA: Cisco Systems Inc introduced its first major new routers in six years and said they can be configured to handle Internet traffic up to 12 times faster than rival products.
Wednesday March 10 2010 Tuesday, March 9, 2010 @ 9:59PMNEW YORK, March 10 — Cisco Systems Inc introduced its first major new routers in six years and said they can be configured to handle Internet traffic up to 12 times faster than rival products.
Topeka City Council Supports Google Campaign Tuesday, March 9, 2010 @ 9:50PMThe Council approved a resolution at its meeting Tuesday night encouraging Google to choose the city as a test site for an ultra-fast internet connection.
NIAGARA COUNTY COURT: Lockport man pleads guilty to resisting arrest Tuesday, March 9, 2010 @ 9:49PMA Lockport man pleaded guilty Tuesday morning in Niagara County Court to misdemeanor resisting arrest.
Housing, Internet focus of D.C. trip Tuesday, March 9, 2010 @ 9:43PMHUNTINGTON -- Huntington city officials left for Washington, D.C., Tuesday to ask West Virginia's congressional delegation to support some key initiatives, including an effort to bring a high-speed broadband network to the region.
Green Bay Enters Contest for Google High Speed Internet Tuesday, March 9, 2010 @ 9:34PMGreen Bay is entering the competition to become a test city for Google’s new ultra high speed Internet access.
Missoula and Bozeman push to become a Google test site Monday, March 8, 2010 @ 7:03PMMissoula and Bozeman leaders push to become a Google test site for ultra-high-speed internet.
Use Firefox, but don't delete Explorer Monday, March 8, 2010 @ 6:59AMQ. I took your advice and downloaded Firefox. Is there any value to leaving Internet Explorer on my system? Should I uninstall it?
News: Portal 2 co-op, story, gameplay details Monday, March 8, 2010 @ 3:19AMGameStop and Game Informer blow lid. Portal 2 features a separate two-player co-operative campaign, playable over the internet, and new gameplay features include physics-changing paint. That's according to various reports and scans that have popped up since Friday's confirmation that Portal 2 is due out this year on PC and Xbox 360. According to Game Informer's latest preview, it's also heading ...
Innovative thinkers invited to Google fiber network forum in Chico Monday, March 8, 2010 @ 2:24AMCHICO -- Search engine giant Google is proposing to build and test ultra-high speed broadband networks in a handful of communities, and Chico is hoping to be one of them.
Springfield eyes Google network Monday, March 8, 2010 @ 2:23AMSPRINGFIELD - Springfield is known as the City of Firsts, and now some are hoping to make it the "City of Fast."
Andrew Seybold Choice Award Finalists Continue to Display Innovation, Practicality; Winners to be Announced March 23 Monday, March 8, 2010 @ 2:15AMWirless Commuications Analyst/Consultant Andrew Seybold today announced 12 finalists in the four "Most Innovative" categories that are the basis for the annual Andrew Seybold Choice Awards: (Most Innovative) Mobile Applications; Mobile Devices; Mobile Service; and Mobile Technology. Winners are recognized at the Andrew Seybold Wireless Dinner, a popular event that takes place in conjunction with ...
Standard competency exam for BPO agents launched Monday, March 8, 2010 @ 12:31AMThe Business Processing Association of the Philippines (BPA/P) launched Monday a national competency test to streamline the recruitment of applicants in the $7.2 billion outsourcing industry, officials said.
A2 vies to be Google Fiber test site Monday, March 8, 2010 @ 12:11AMCity officials are currently working to promote Ann Arbor as a trial location for a Google-designed, ultra high-speed Internet network. read more
Across the USA Sunday, March 7, 2010 @ 7:32PMNews from every state
Organizers deem Saturday's flash mob to woo Google a success Sunday, March 7, 2010 @ 6:22PMCOLUMBIA — Organizers said a flash mob planned by CoMo Fiber for Saturday afternoon's Missouri basketball game was successful in drawing attention to Columbia and its quest for fiber. Google plans to test a new high-speed network in trial communities across the country. The service is said to be 100 times faster then average Internet providers. The company is encouraging all interested ...
Somewhere in brandland Sunday, March 7, 2010 @ 12:45PMThey say, travel broadens the mind, well then, following the links sent by your more clued in friends opens it up with pneumatic piledriver. Now, the odd corporation may label this activity as ‘de-efficiencyfying individual productivity’, or whatever the current, popular jargon is for ‘wasting time’. The thing is, it is anything but. The output of your brain is linked to the input. No maths ...
Westwood Beacon Hill Roll Call Sunday, March 7, 2010 @ 9:31AMDISTRIBUTING OBSCENE MATTER TO MINORS VIA THE INTERNET (S 997) House 148-0, approved an amendment that would update the state’s obscene material law to reflect the electronic age of instant messaging, online conversations and e-mail. The amendment would close a loophole that prohibits the dissemination of matter harmful to a minor in a variety of ways but does not include electronic means.
County's Internet rates high for speed Sunday, March 7, 2010 @ 8:49AMInternet users in Fort Wayne don't twiddle their thumbs.
DNA Identification Evidence in Criminal Prosecutions Sunday, March 7, 2010 @ 7:13AMIn criminal cases, there have been challenges on sufficiency grounds and concerns over the use of forensic DNA evidence as the sole or primary proof of guilt. Uncorroborated DNA matching might not be enough to satisfy the burden of establishing guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
Opera's All-Out Bid to Build the Best Browser Sunday, March 7, 2010 @ 7:10AMUsually software companies have the luxury of picking their own deadlines, and typically -- especially in the case of open source or free programs -- those deadlines are allowed to slip or even lapse. But the European Commission gave Opera a solid opportunity to get back in the game, to be discussed once again in the same company as Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Apple Safari.
It's not all change within Telford Police Department Sunday, March 7, 2010 @ 5:23AMTelford Borough Police Department may be going through a lot of changes, but some things stay the same.
Saratoga County vies to be Google test community Sunday, March 7, 2010 @ 1:43AMUltra high-speed Internet could be on its way to Saratoga County via a Google trial. The county’s economic development committee has decided to apply for the county to be one of the communities Google tests its new network on.
Hi-speed Internet hearing March 15 Sunday, March 7, 2010 @ 1:06AMThe towns of Chapel Hill and Carrboro, and UNC have teamed up to apply for Google's ultra-high speed Internet project.
Bristol vies for Google internet Saturday, March 6, 2010 @ 9:39PMBRISTOL — With cities and towns across America in the grip of Googlemania, Bristol doesn’t want to be left out.
Columbia vies for Google's new internet Saturday, March 6, 2010 @ 8:41PMColumbia wants to be a test city for Google's new Internet.
County wants to join Google fiber optic test Saturday, March 6, 2010 @ 8:01PMLocal government officials want Delaware County to have a fiber optic Internet network that would operate up to 100 times faster than current systems and blanket the county from border to border.
Welcome to the Future Saturday, March 6, 2010 @ 6:11PMWe are in an era of accelerating change, moving toward a future that will be profoundly different from the past we grew up in. But what will the nature of that change be? What will the future look like?
Councilman pushes to make Jersey City a Google test site Saturday, March 6, 2010 @ 5:06PM"Whichever communities are picked will get Internet speeds that are more than 100 times faster than most of us currently get," Dreier quotes from Google's blog. "Using fiber-to-the-home connections, people will be able to download files at 1 gigabit per second.''
City Council to consider Google internet partnership Monday Friday, March 5, 2010 @ 10:23AMThe Springfield City Council will consider a resolution Monday that would authorize the city's participation in Google's ultra-high-speed internet test market.
iPhone Lessons From Google's Nexus One Friday, March 5, 2010 @ 9:48AMIn 2010, as in 2007, the entire technology industry gathered at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, only to have the hot tech news of the week...
iPhone lessons from Google's Nexus One Friday, March 5, 2010 @ 8:10AMThere are a few ways in which Google's Nexus One phone improves on the iPhone, and that should serve as useful feedback for Apple. Jason Snell spent a week with a Nexus One and has the details.
Burlington studies Google offer Friday, March 5, 2010 @ 5:11AMCity leaders called a public meeting Thursday to talk about a vague mass solicitation from Google, the Internet search engine and service provider, to find one or maybe a few U.S. communities in which to provide high-speed Internet connections and experiment with new broadband applications.
Burlington studies Google offer Friday, March 5, 2010 @ 5:03AMBurlington leaders called a public meeting Thursday to talk about a mass solicitation from Google to find communities in which to provide experimental high-speed Internet connections.
Billiard Expert Starts New Website in Google, Kansas Friday, March 5, 2010 @ 1:00AMAnnouncing a new way to shop billiards, new website strives to educate consumers before selling them.
It's not all change at Telford Police Department Friday, March 5, 2010 @ 12:21AMTo protect and serve. Telford Borough Police Department may be going through a lot of changes, but some things stay the same.
Burlington goes gaga for Google in partnership bid Thursday, March 4, 2010 @ 11:02PMBurlington is going gaga over Google. City leaders and residents got together to brainstorm ways to convince the internet giant to bring ultra-high-speed internet access to the community. Google put out a nationwide call for test markets, and Burlington wants to be one of them.
Communities, schools cooperate to attract high-speed Internet Thursday, March 4, 2010 @ 9:38PMGALENA, Kan. — The help of area students was sought Thursday, and now residents, businesses and others will be asked to join in a project aimed at attracting an ultra-high-speed broadband network to the region.
Alexandria a potential test site for new Google technology Thursday, March 4, 2010 @ 8:07PMAlexandria is on the cusp of joining a nationwide bidding brawl to become one of just a handful of cities plugged into a new, supercharged form of Internet technology.
Test Drive Unlimited 2 Wednesday, March 3, 2010 @ 1:53AMHey there, Test Drive. Where ya been? Gearing up for Test Drive Unlimited 2, that’s where! The beloved racing franchise hasn’t been seen since outperforming Need For Speed back in ’06, but those of you who dove into the last TDU are undoubtedly ready for M.O.O.R.
What does this all mean? Wednesday, March 3, 2010 @ 1:05AMIt means that things that are impossible now under today’s infrastructure will be possible with connection speeds almost 100 times faster in some places than those currently available.
Topeka, aka 'Google, Kansas,' vies for speedy Internet test Wednesday, March 3, 2010 @ 12:31AMTOPEKA - Topeka's mayor says the city shall temporarily be referred to as "Google, Kansas - the capi ...
Council approves reading of budget Tuesday, March 2, 2010 @ 11:23PMBy: Samantha Cossick Morgantown’s City Council approved the first reading of the proposed $23 million city budget Tuesday....
Opera rolls out 'fastest' web browser Tuesday, March 2, 2010 @ 10:50PMOSLO – The war of the web browsers turned up a notch with Opera releasing version 10.50 of its browser it declares is the "fastest Web browser thus-far produced for Windows computers." "What that means to you: no more waiting around for a site to load," Opera said of the improved software that includes a new JavaScript engine and a new graphics library. Like the latest Internet Explorer, Google ...
Opera rolls out 'fastest' web browser Tuesday, March 2, 2010 @ 10:29PMOSLO – The war of the web browsers turned up a notch with Opera releasing version 10.50 of its browser it declares is the "fastest Web browser thus-far produced for Windows computers."
Johnson City entering competition for Google super superhighway Tuesday, March 2, 2010 @ 10:11PMGoogle this: Johnson City 1 gigabit Internet speed. Google wants to build a superhighway to every home in some American community, and local leaders reckon Johnson City is as good a choice as any for the powerful technology company.