poptech: thedailyfeed: A buried and forgotten fiber-optic network could provide broadband speeds more than 2,500 times faster than the fastest broadband currently available in New York City. The unused cable, called “dark fiber” is being snapped up by Google, who could become an nationwide ISP overnight.  Google has been buying up dark fiber across the country in recent years and plans to launch an “ultra-fast” fiber optic-based Internet service in Kansas City, Mo., later this year that will deliver speeds of around 1 gigabit per second. That’s fast enough to download, say, the high-definition version of “Moneyball” from iTunes in about 30 seconds.  Interesting news, but we’ve got a long way to go.  “A buried and forgotten fiber-optic network could provide broadband speeds more than 2,500 times faster than the fastest broadband currently available in New York City.”

poptech:

thedailyfeed:

A buried and forgotten fiber-optic network could provide broadband speeds more than 2,500 times faster than the fastest broadband currently available in New York City. The unused cable, called “dark fiber” is being snapped up by Google, who could become an nationwide ISP overnight. 

Google has been buying up dark fiber across the country in recent years and plans to launch an “ultra-fast” fiber optic-based Internet service in Kansas City, Mo., later this year that will deliver speeds of around 1 gigabit per second. That’s fast enough to download, say, the high-definition version of “Moneyball” from iTunes in about 30 seconds. 

Interesting news, but we’ve got a long way to go. 

“A buried and forgotten fiber-optic network could provide broadband speeds more than 2,500 times faster than the fastest broadband currently available in New York City.”

Source: thedaily.com

FindTheBest.com Site Redesign

Check out the article today in TechCrunch about FindTheBest.com’s new look:

The Most Disruptive Companies in Tech emergentfutures: The  Most Disruptive Companies in Tech Disruptive innovations don’t have to rule the market, they just have to change the market and force others to follow suit. The goal of disruptive companies is to challenge the conventional market and create a new one. Full Story: Focus

The Most Disruptive Companies in Tech

emergentfutures:

The

 Most Disruptive Companies in Tech

Disruptive innovations don’t have to rule the market, they just have to change the market and force others to follow suit. The goal of disruptive companies is to challenge the conventional market and create a new one.

Full Story: Focus

UK Leader Who Discussed Blocking Social Networks Joins Google Plus

DavidCameron150.jpgDavid Cameron, the prime minister of the United Kingdom, who made comments in the wake of last month’s nation-wide riots about the possibility of blocking participants in civil unrest from using social media, has joined Google’s new social network, Plus. Joining him this morning were +Ed Miliband and +Nick Clegg (as they are referred to on Google’s site), leaders of the Labor and Liberal Democrat party.

Cameron’s remarks about discussing the possibility of blocking social networks at times of unrest were widely criticized as either a balloon being floated for dictatorial contro, an appeasement of angry critics of social networks or simply heavy-handed. Others said it was simply a matter of putting a widely discussed idea on the table. When the city of San Francisco shut off cell phone service in its transit system in order to prevent organizers of a protest against police brutality from using their mobile devices to organize - that made the whole matter feel much more serious.

Source: readwriteweb.com

Google Invests in Pig Poo Power

Turning methane from pig poo into energy.

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