Google flaunts white space wireless magic
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'This is not Russian Roulette' Google is running its very own "white space" tests, as it continues to push a master plan to stream high-speed internet access over unused television airwaves.â¦
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Blog: Google just picked up Zenter, a presentation creation service.
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Wireless networking startup Meraki plans to deliver free wireless Internet access, supported by advertising, across San Francisco by the end of the year, it announced Friday.An earlier&#160;attempt by Google and EarthLink&#160;to offer&#160;free city-wide Wi-Fi access in San Francisco&#160;foundered in August when&#160;EarthLink pulled out. They had planned a two-tier service, with faster, paid access provided by EarthLink and a more limited, advertising-funded service to be offered by Google. The search engine giant is also an investor in Meraki.Meraki will base the service on an existing project covering parts of the city, Free the Net, which has signed up 40,000 users over an area of 5 square kilometers since it began last March.To avoid the need for extensive cabling, Meraki will build the backbone of the network using a mesh network of solar-powered wireless repeaters installed on rooftops. The nodes will use some of their wireless capacity to offer Internet access to those nearby, and the rest to haul traffic back, via adjacent nodes, to the network&#39;s core.The company is looking for city residents willing to put a repeater on their roof. Those hosting a repeater will get free access to the service -- but so will their neighbors -- although for them, the signal may not be as strong. Although devices are shared, Meraki aims to deliver data rates of around 1Mbps&#160; to each user.Meraki will pay the cost of rolling out the service, and no public funds are involved, it said. Investors have offered the company an additional $20 million in venture capital to fund the move, it announced Friday.Ozone in Paris offers a similar wireless Internet service based on a network of wireless repeaters. Its service is only free for those who host repeaters, though: others must pay &#8364;18 ($26) a month.
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The wireless-infrastructure leader is connected to a profitable future.
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Femto-feeding frenzy commences Search giant Google has joined investors pouring $25m into femtocell technology company Ubiquisys, endorsing the technology that aims to put tiny little 3G cell sites into every home.â¦
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Google has an idea so novel that it should patent it.
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Wireless service provider Clearwire will offer Google's e-mail, calendar, and chat applications to its subscribers.
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In the latest step in its continuing effort to focus the Web services model around its own servers, Google this morning introduced a way to enable individuals to embed some Google Gadgets within Web pages, without the need to install software.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. _ Gordon Hamachi, a software developer who lives in Mountain View, Calif., just started using the new free wireless computer network that Google has launched to cover the entire city.
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If the FCC obeys its demands Google's riches are exceeded only by its cheek. When the Federal Communications Commission auctions off the coveted 700-MHz wireless spectrum, the search giant has said it will lay down a bid of $4.6bn - provided the auction is handled exactly the way Google wants it handled.â¦
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The Earthlink-Google plan for free WiFi in San Francisco appears to be derailed -- for now.
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Lightning-fast wireless Internet access, anywhere, anytime has been the elusive goal of Internet junkies and e-mail-a-holics. It&#39;s finally arrived - in Grand Haven, Mich.
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Step by step and bit by digital bit, Google is taking over the way PC users find, manage and receive information. The Mountain View, Calif.
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(InfoWorld) - Google Inc. has asked for the right to use as many as 1,500 San Francisco light poles for wireless equipment on a test network of its own, separate from the citywide Wi-Fi infrastructure that the company proposed along with EarthLink Inc. The search giant and EarthLink were chosen earlier this year through a request for proposals to build a wireless network around the city that would provide free Internet access as well as a faster, paid service. EarthLink, which would build and operate the network, is now in negotiations with the city on the details of the deal. The network is to be built at no cost to the city, which would provide light poles and other places to mount access points. The Wi-Fi plan, as well as the city's process for seeking proposals and input on it, have sparked protest from activists and public officials who are worried that the city is giving the private companies free rein and getting too little in return. They have asked for city ownership, more privacy guarantees for users and funding to help disadvantaged residents get on the Internet. EarthLink told the city earlier this month that Google wanted access to 450 light poles for a test network, with the option to expand it to 1,500 poles, as a condition of its participating in the project, according to a regular disclosure by the city about the negotiations. Google doesn't want a direct contract with the city for use of the poles, but would rather wrap those rights into the overall Wi-Fi contract, the disclosure said. However, Google's request may not get very far, according to a city official involved in the negotiations. "I don't think we'll be able to accommodate them through this RFP process," said Brian Roberts, a senior policy analyst for the city. The idea seems to go too far beyond the concept presented in response to the RFP, he said. The proposal surprised Kimo Crossman, a local activist who has been watching the negotiation process. Such an arrangement would give Google a valuable asset, he said. "It's all about real estate. It's about getting access to the poles and the buildings, and you'll figure out what you'll do with it later," Crossman said. Google executives could not immediately be reached for comment.
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Sleepy Spokane, Wash., has a secret: it's the wireless hot spot of the future
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IBM and Google have jointly unveiled portlet software that can be used gto integrate more than 4,000 Google Gadget services and utilities into the WebSphere portal.
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Wireless users can query the search site via text messages.