Google ultrahighspeed internets! Something Phoenix should be bidding on
Breaking news, from the Wall Street Journal:
Google Inc. plans to build and test broadband networks than could deliver speeds more than 100 times faster than what most Americans use.
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The Internet giant, which plans to offer the service to at least 50,000 customers and potentially up to 500,000, said it aims to foster the development of new “killer apps” as well as experiment with new ways to deploy fiber networks.
Key graf:
The company is collecting responses from interested communities until March 26 and will reveal the ones it has selected later this year.
5:36 PM
Go Daddy's banned Super Bowl ad
CBS is refusing to show the local internet company’s 2010 Super Bowl ad, the Phoenix Business Journal reports. Here it is:
The ad is offensive, but since when are mincing homosexuals not allowed on network TV? The real issue, I think, is that it shows a former footfall player in that role—and one mustn’t disturb the fragile sexuality of the current players.
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