Here is an interesting Kickstarter project. Connectify Switchboard is trying to raise $100,000 for a project to build their software that aims to improve Internet speed. The software achieves the faster speed by utilizing all of your connections to the Internet and making them available for improved downloads and uploads. … [Read more...]
Illinois Gigabit Challenge applicants published
Google and Kansas City are living pretty large right now with their gigabit Internet offerings recently announced. Illinois Governor Pat Quinn announced the Illinois Gigabit Challenge in his State of the State announcement this year to provide $4 million to the best proposal to build out a gigabit fiber network by the end of 2013. The applicants of the Illinois Gigabit … [Read more...]
“Bandwidth flows like water” in Kansas City with Google Fiber
Are you ready for Google the cable company? Kansas City was the chosen community to work with Google to integrate gigabit speed broadband access by running fiber throughout the city. Today, the company announced their residential plans for both gigabit internet and TV service. … [Read more...]
Google will live stream Google Fiber announcement 11AM Central Time
The Google Fiber site has been updated to a Save the Date announcement for at least the past week. Tomorrow the announcement will be known and hopefully we will see some more details on Google's project to deliver high-speed broadband access to Kansas City, Kansas. For those that may not remember, Kansas City was finally chosen after a long deliberation period by Google with … [Read more...]
World IPv6 Day 2: This Time It Stays On For Good
Though it sounds like a bad movie sequel, World IPv6 Day is back and it's a good thing. Whereas last year's World IPv6 Day was a 24 hour test by some of the largest websites on the Internet, this time IPv6 is being turned on and left on since no major problems were encountered during the test. While World IPv6 Launch is scheduled for June 6th, due to the international time … [Read more...]