Google Fiber TV hands-on impressions, photos, and video
We spent some time the the prototype hardware and services Google is launching along with Google Fiber in Kansas City. The hardware consists of a set of three small boxes — two in a gray that is as nondescript as possible. That’s not really a disappointment — these are utility boxes, after all — but it does mean you’ll want to put these boxes in the corner instead of on your mantlepiece.
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Google steps back from net neutrality, claims banning servers is ‘industry standard’
It looks like Google is starting to see that whole net neutrality thing a little differently now that it’s in the business of providing internet service. In a response to the FCC this week, the company argued that it’s justified in prohibiting Google Fiber subscribers from running servers on their shiny new gigabit connections. The filing, originally reported by Wired, points to “policies of many major providers in the industry” such as Verizon and Comcast, all of which require pricier commercial service to operate a server. Google doesn’t yet offer an equivalent tier of service to its customers.
Broadband gap: Google Fiber isn’t the only revolution in Kansas City
Kansas City, a metropolitan area of about 2 million that straddles the border between Kansas state and Missouri, seems an unlikely place to see what the future of internet connectivity could look like. But nearly three years after Google announced that this midwestern metropolis best known for jazz and barbecue would become the first place in the world to get the company’s experimental, ultra-high-speed broadband internet service — Google Fiber — Kansas City is looking more futuristic. Just not in the way Google or Kansas Citians originally anticipated.
Google Fiber is coming to Austin, Texas
It’s official: Austin will be getting Google Fiber. There’s no word on how the service will be rolled out, or how long it will take, but we do know that some Austinites will be getting the gigabit internet, television, and telephone service in the future. So far Google has limited Fiber to Kansas City, MO and Kansas City, KA, but no longer.
Google Glass’ awkward interactions parodied on ‘Saturday Night Live’
Google Glass and its new approach to a constantly-connected lifestyle has already been the butt of a number of jokes, including Tumblr blogs devoted to showing how ridiculous the device can be. On Saturday’s new episode of Saturday Night Live, the writers of Weekend Update also got into the fray, with fictional tech blogger Randall Meeks and his new Google Glass joining the news desk to speak to Seth Meyers.
If we don’t make you cry, we fail,” Ms. Twohill said. “It’s about emotion, which is bizarre for a tech company.
The first thing I did was BitTorrent Ubuntu.
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