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More Street View Scandal – Google Tries to Defend the App

June 22nd, 2010

In May, Google admitted they had made a mistake: In 2006 an engineer working on an experimental WiFi project wrote a piece of code that sampled all categories of publicly broadcast WiFi data. A year later, when our mobile team started a project to collect basic WiFi network data like SSID information and MAC addresses [...]

 
 

Google’s Experimental Fiber Network

February 10th, 2010

In 2005, Google ran an ad for Strategic Negotiator for Global Infrastructure, saying duties would  include: “Identification, selection, and negotiation of dark fiber contracts both in metropolitan areas and over long distances as part of development of a global backbone network; contracts and negotiation for managed metropolitan services and long haul wavelength services to fulfill [...]

 
 

Google Wants to Help Administrate White Space

January 6th, 2010

Google has taken another step towards more access for all, reports the Google Blog. It’s a path they’ve been pursuing for a while – the goal being to get the ‘WiFi on steroids’. In May 2008, Larry Page told New American Foundation: The U.S. has slipped from third to sixteenth in broadband penetration rates, in [...]

 
 

Search Engines Using WiFi as a Bribe?

November 11th, 2009

Now the big three in the search engine battle for domination are sweetening deals with the offer of free WiFi! Google, Microsoft and Yahoo have made public their near identical plans to providing free Internet access in various places. Yahoo and Google plan to provide completely free Wi-Fi Internet access, but rising star Microsoft is [...]

 
 

Online Local Search Passes Paper Yellow Pages

October 12th, 2008

It has finally happened. The internet has beaten out the phone book as the most utilized tool for local search. According to a recently released survey conducted by TMP Directional Marketing, the breakdown finally tipped in the web’s favor, even if only by a point: Search Engines (31%) Print Yellow Pages or White Pages (30%) [...]