Activists calling themselves the Counterforce on Tuesday made Google engineer and Berkeley resident Anthony Levandowski the focus of their protests against what they say are the Mountain View company’s evil surveillance techniques. At around 7 a.m. a group of activists say they went to the street where Google employee Anthony Levandowski lives in Berkeley to […]
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Google odds: 1 in 1,000?
In Berkeleyside’s previous coverage of Google’s experimental fiber network plans, we’ve noted that the Mountain View-based search giant has been vague about its exact plans. The deadline for Google’s request for information (RFI) passed on Friday. Google announced that the scheme attracted 1,100 community responses and 194,000 individual responses. The map above shows where the […]
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A jump in the Bay? What will it be Mayor Bates?
Mayors of cities applying to be Google’s chosen test bed for its offer of free ultra-high-speed broadband network will go to great lengths to try to be the chosen one, it seems The mayor of Duluth, Minn., threw himself into the ice-ringed waters of Lake Superior. In an act of oneupmanship, the mayor of Sarasota, Fla., immersed himself […]
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Berkeley applies for Google’s ultra-high speed project
When Google announced its competition for communities to test its ultra-high speed Internet, municipalities across the country responded vocally. Towns talked about changing their name to Google to attract interest, community groups made a clamor about how wonderful a test bed their city would be. From Berkeley there was silence initially. “We were all figuring […]
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Berkeley should apply for 1 gigabit/second Internet
Want a quick path to ensuring Berkeley’s position as a center for innovation? How about applying — and winning — the competition to be one of the test sites for Google’s plan to test ultra high-speed broadband networks. Here’s Google’s pitch: We’re planning to build and test ultra high-speed broadband networks in a small number […]
