Intel achieves world record for on-die silicon-based fiber optics
Intel announced on Sunday that their Silicon Phonotics lab has achieved the fastest ever recorded transmission for silicon-only-based on-die photonic transmissions. These are basically on-chip fiber...
View ArticleFiber optic bed cover lights up your bedroom
Here is one way to add a little futuristic style to your lackluster bedroom–introduce a little fiber optic lighting technology to jazz up your bed. It’s an electric blanket of sorts, but instead…
View ArticleNorwegian ISP says: “Put your back into it. Shovel and save $400!”
A Norwegian ISP named Lyse has found an innovative way to drum up new customers. Their growth-based business model includes saving you the consumer $400 if you dig your own trench from street…
View ArticleMIT creates camera out of cloth
The ultimate spy camera would allow someone to walk into a room recording everything they see and no one would ever know a camera was present on their body, not even after a…
View ArticleCommercial espresso machine gets carbon fiber housing upgrade
Owning a coffee shop, one would assume that the pride and joy, not to mention the centerpiece of your establishment would be the espresso machine. Not only does this steam powered device serve…
View ArticleBored hunters force Google to lay fiber underground in Oregon
The Dalles, Oregon If you ask people what Google’s greatest threats are, the the common answers would probably include Microsoft, Apple, and the rising cost of energy. What you wouldn’t expect to hear…
View Article1Gbps Internet coming to 700 homes in California for $70 a month
At one time, a 1Gbps broadband connection to the Internet seemed like a pipe dream. That was until we reported in April 2010 that an ISP based in Hong Kong planned to offer it…
View ArticleResearch team create transistors using cotton fibers
The idea of integrating electronics into the clothes we wear isn’t a new one. The problem so far has been figuring out how to add our typically rigid components to a flexible piece…
View ArticleGoogle fiber project in Kansas City, Kansas delayed by bureaucracy
Google’s project to install a fiber network capable of delivering 1Gbps data rates to homes and business in Kansas City, Kansas (KCK) has been stalled due to bureaucratic red-tape issues that should have…
View ArticleUK to get 300Mbps broadband courtesy of BT
According to the UK’s broadcasting regulatory authority Ofcom, the average Internet connection speed to a home in the UK is around 7.6Mbps. If that was a minimum, it would be acceptible, but an…
View ArticleMicrosoft’s best employee perk? Insane internet speeds
Microsoft takes a lot of heat these days for being behind the times and caught up in bureaucracy. But as one Reddit post put it, working for Microsoft has its advantages. The post…
View ArticleVerizon offers up insanely fast FiOS Quantum: 300Mbps down at $210/month
Verizon’s fiber-optic communications service, FiOS, has been available for a few years now and, if you haven’t been using it, it’s been fantastic. Since it’s been released, FiOS has gone from fast to…
View ArticleGoogle Fiber launches in Kansas City
The two-year wait for gigabit internet speeds in Kansas City is now officially over, as Google today finally unveiled its full Google Fiber plan and its upcoming deployment in Kansas City, Kansas and…
View ArticleUp close with the Google Fiber hardware in Kansas City
This past weekend I had the good fortune to be able to go and check out the brand new Google Fiberspace facility in Kansas City. Being a local made it easy for me…
View ArticleAT&T waits until Google announces Fiber to reveal competing service
Google’s Fiber initiative is making waves in Austin, TX. This time it didn’t take long for local competition to respond, however, as hours after the announcement AT&T revealed a plan to deliver their…
View ArticleJapanese ISP leaves Google Fiber in the dust with 2Gbps downloads
While the United States drools over Google Fiber‘s $70 per month residential internet speeds of 700Mbps up and down as it slowly rolls out to certain parts of the country, a Japanese ISP…
View ArticleCalifornia man finds Verizon’s unlimited FiOS is capped at 77TB
It wasn’t too long ago that bandwidth caps were a complete non-issue in most US cities. Connections simply weren’t fast enough for even power users to reach the cutoffs. That has changed with…
View ArticleVerizon sends angry letters to FiOS users sucking down over 10TB per month
Verizon’s FiOS internet service is, for all intents and purposes, uncapped. The ISP sells FiOS as clearly superior to other services, and part of the pitch is unlimited bandwidth. Some customers who...
View ArticleNASA brings broadband to the moon
Before the test, NASA's record speed for transmission from orbit was on the order of 10 kilobytes per second; this week's test saw that speed increase to over 75 megabytes per second.
View ArticleGoogle is developing 10Gbps fiber internet
Google’s experimental 1Gbps fiber internet service that has cropped up in a handful of towns across the US might be only the first step. The search giant is working on an even faster […]
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