Search results matching tag 'Google'

RE: Time Warner Cable Weakly Swipes at Google Fiber Rollout in Austin

mhenriday — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 13:28:03 GMT

From what I understand, Mr Donaldson, you're quite right about the corruption, deceit and fraud so prevalent in the telecom industry in the US - hardly surprising given the amount of money these firms can bring to bear on the political system («the best governments [local, state, and federal] money can buy», as the saying goes) to see that their interests, not those of ordinary consumers, are uppermost in the minds of «regulators» and legislators. But Google's interests here differ fundamentally from those of the ISPs ; what the former want is as many people eyeballing as many advertisements as possible, so that the firm can profit from their clicks. For that reason, they do have an interest in seeing to it that relatively cheap high-speed fibre cable becomes widely available to consumers, and they are not adverse to attempting to disturb the prevailing equilibrium, just as they tried to do, with, alas, scant success, with the Nexus One, which, as I read it, was an attempt to break providers' stranglehold over the smartphone market. Hope they make a better go of it this time 'round - if people in the US become aware of the fact that it is possible to have high-speed connexions at a reasonable price, they just might become angry enough to begin to demand them of their providers and, not least, their politicians....

Henri

RE: Look-Out Google Fiber, VTel Vermont To Offer Gigabit Internet Speed At $35 A Month

mhenriday — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 00:37:44 GMT

Strikes me that this is precisely the objective Google has had in mind ; i e, not to invest thousands upon thousands of millions themselves to provide decent internet speeds to the whole country, but rather with a limited investment to inspire many others to contribute to that development, which will undoubtedly be of benefit to Google's bottom line. Got to admire their strategic vision !...

Henri

RE: Time Warner Cable Weakly Swipes at Google Fiber Rollout in Austin

mhenriday — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 00:19:19 GMT

David Talbot has published an analysis of the effects of Google's fibre rollout on the competition om the MIT Technology Review website. Interestingly enough, he finds that even if only a few customers sign up - Google isn't saying, but Akamai estimates that in Kansas last year, Google served fewer than a thousand subscribers - the offer itself seems to exert significant pressure on hitherto monopolistic/duopolistic ISPs to clean up their act....

Henri

RE: Google Fiber Could Be Coming Soon to Provo, Utah

mhenriday — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 12:30:53 GMT

Here the link which inadvertently disappeared above : http://muninetworks.org/content/level-playing-field-0....

Henri

RE: Google Fiber Could Be Coming Soon to Provo, Utah

mhenriday — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 12:25:28 GMT

I have no pipeline (or Gb/s connexion) to Google's leadership, but this move should, I submit, be seen against the situation for community broadband in the US and, not least, efforts at the state level to restrict the rights of municipalities to provide broadband services to residents....

Henri

RE: Google Fiber Installations Kick Off in Kansas City, The Rest of the World Remains Envious

mhenriday — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 07:39:09 GMT

OK, I'm envious, Rob ! Just continue to pour salt in the wound !...

Henri

RE: Boingo And Google Team Up To Bring More Free Wi-Fi To The People

mhenriday — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 10:21:09 GMT

Anybody know if people like myself with GNU/Linux installed on our machines will be able to avail ourselves of this service ?...

Henri

RE: Google Readies 1Gbps Fiber Network

mhenriday — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 11:54:30 GMT

Hot times and fast down at !2th Street & Vine....

Henri

RE: Internet Explorer Still Clinging to Half of Browser Market Share

mhenriday — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 18:08:24 GMT

Pardon me, Paul, if I take NetMarketShare's figures *** grano salis. StatCounter, with a far more extensive network, reports that today, 3 July 2012, Chrome and IE are running neck and neck with about 34 % each, with Firefox behind at around 24 %. These figures represent the market shares among the top 5 browers ; Safari and Opera complete the picture with 8 % and around 2 %, respectively, with «Other» at about the same level as Opera. My impression is that NetMarketShare consistently overstates IE's share, which may please MS shareholders in the short term, but could prove disastrous in the long term....

Henri

Re: Is Google's DNS Service Worth It?

digitaldd — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:41:37 GMT

I used GRC's DNS benchmark with Google's DNS, for me OpenDNS was still faster, even faster than Time Warner's DNS and I'm on Time Warner.