8 March 2010, 9:32 pm
Bringing high-speed Internet to rural America can dramatically level the playing field between city and countryside, delivering specialized medicine to places that can’t recruit medical specialists and opening university instruction to people who can’t come to a campus.... Read More »
8 March 2010, 3:31 pm
The Social Analyst is a weekly column by Mashable Co-Editor Ben Parr , where he digs into social media trends and how they are affecting companies in the space. Facebook; Twitter; LinkedIn; YouTube; Wordpress: these companies, built from the ground-up, are mainstays in social media. None of them wer... Read More »
4 March 2010, 9:00 pm
About 30 people assembled at the Dripolator on Thursday evening, March 4, to discuss ways to encourage citizen involvement to convince Google to pick Asheville as the town where it will build a high-speed fiber-optic network that brings super Internet connectivity to homes and businesses at speeds o... Read More »
1 March 2010, 11:34 am
How many people are online, and where are they? How much SPAM do we get every day? What social networks rock our world, around the world? And what's with zombie computers?... Read More »
17 February 2010, 8:47 am
The transition from legacy transport networks using SONET/SDH to packet optical networks has not been an easy one. Access and aggregation transport facilities continue to be primarily SONET/SDH based even though IP/Ethernet payloads dominate traffic requirements. Some insights as to what the timing ... Read More »
12 February 2010, 5:13 pm
Google says it will roll out Internet service to a select number of U.S. homes. The service will provide home users with 1 gigabit per second speeds, an astounding number.... Read More »
12 February 2010, 4:08 am
The issue with Google's new social toy is that 400 million people already use Facebook and have been offered no viable incentive to switch.... Read More »
11 February 2010, 10:56 am
Fresh off of unveiling its Facebook-ish Buzz -- which, over the last 24 hours, we've been using with surprising frequency, and very much enjoying -- Google wants to dip its toes in the broadband market. How so? With Google Fiber . Still in its nascent stage, they plan on testing out "Internet speeds... Read More »
11 February 2010, 2:17 am
Firm to launch trials delivering access speeds 100 times faster than most current connections.... Read More »
10 February 2010, 9:00 pm
Google staked a claim on another corner of the technology universe Wednesday, saying it now wants to turbocharge your Internet connection.... Read More »