Category: Google

As reported on Wired. BY KLINT FINLEY Olathe, Kansas, will be the first place outside Kansas City to receive Google’s ultra-high-speed internet service. Photo: Ichabod   Google Fiber began as a shaming exercise. The company would build an ultra-high-speed fiber internet network in one lucky city, and the rest of the country’s providers would be forced to follow suit. But it turned out that the country’s ISPs are shameless. Last month, Time Warner Cable Chief Financial Officer…

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As reported on Engadget. By Jon Fingas While Google Flight Search covers the far corners of the Earth, many of the people who live in those corners haven’t had a similar option to explore the world of air travel. Google is taking at least a small step toward ending that discrepancy with a fresh expansion to Europe. Jetsetters in France, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and the UK can now find flights to and from many parts of the world, with…

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As reported on TechCrunch. by DEVIN COLDEWEY A couple years ago, I wrote a post called Google, Rome, and Empire. The gist of the article, of which I was very proud at the time, was that Google’s grand plan mirrored the structure of Roman roads in their build-out period, and that Google would unify its dozens of small properties with its five or six big ones by means of a single meta-service. I envisioned this rich tapestry…

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As reported on Engadget. By Jon Fingas If you’re one of the precious few to have access to Google Fiber, you may have been disappointed by the need to use its companion app on a Nexus 7 — a fine tablet, but certainly not the only device in Google’s universe. Thankfully, a new update significantly broadens that pool. The app should now offer remote control and content browsing on phones and tablets that run Android 4.2 or later, whether…

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As reported on TechCrunch. by FREDERIC LARDINOIS No site is fully immune to getting hacked, but there are some obvious things every site owner can do to make it a bit harder for hackers to break into a web server and add rogue links or take over a site completely. Today, Googlelaunched its new “Help for Hacked Sites” series to teach webmasters how to avoid getting hacked in the first place – and how to recover their sites if…

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