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Gig Bits: Mayors’ task force unveils ‘playbook,’ Fiber timetable delayed
Nearly two months have passed since the last installment of our Gig Bits series. That gap in coverage can be explained, in part, by the fact that it’s been all quiet on the Fiber front — at least from Google’s side, anyway. The Kansas City Star reported earlier this month that the timetable for Fiber…
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Gig Bits: A television tussle, a new-look website and free fiber in town
All this talk about Google Fiber Bars making anyone else hungry? Well worry not; we’re here to help curb that appetite with another heaping helping of Gig Bits. TV tussle: As we reported Sunday, Google Fiber put its own unique twist on Google’s customary April 1 fun, claiming that Google Fiber was actually a nutritional…
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Kauffman fellow Wilbanks explores KC’s Fiber opportunity (Video)
The second installment of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation’s Google Fiber Speaker Series did little to lower an awfully lofty bar set in the series’ first session. John Wilbanks, who’s a senior fellow in entrepreneurship at the Kauffman Foundation and an expert on open content, open data and open innovation systems, delivered the second …
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Gig Bits: Google eyes deployment technology, Eric Schmidt talks Fiber
Another day, another report of paperwork that could shed light on Google’s plans for its Fiber network in Kansas City. FierceCable on Monday reported it had unearthed a patent application that indicates Google has developed a fiber deployment method and device that could allow the company to connect homes to its ultra high-speed network in…
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Gig Bits: Connecting dots between Google moves in Council Bluffs, KC
For a project that’s expected to enable uploads and downloads at ultra-fast speeds, Google Fiber has come into focus at a plodding pace. But thanks to reports that surfaced over the weekend and early this week, people are beginning to connect the dots between recent Google activity in two Silicon Prairie hubs. First, several outlets…
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Prairie Moves: Macy Koch, Blake Pinneke, Lake Surf Co. and more
Published Tuesdays and Thursdays (two days late this week), Prairie Moves keeps our readers informed about career moves, media coverage, product development and more from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News. If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie Moves post,…
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Gig Bits: Timeline TBA, companies cite Fiber as carrot in KC moves
Following Google’s announcement last Monday via its Fiber Blog that “Kansas City is Fiber-ready,” Silicon Prairie News reached out to the Mountain View, Calif.-based search and advertising giant for additional details about the timeline for the implementation of its ultra high-speed network in the Kansas City area. The specifics of that timeline are TBD —…
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Gig Bits: Crews laying fiber in Kansas City, Google applies to test Wi-Fi
Google announced in a blog post published in the wee hours this morning that crews in Kansas City are ready to begin construction of the company’s much ballyhooed ultra high-speed fiber network. “We’ve measured utility poles; we’ve studied maps and surveyed neighborhoods; we’ve come up with a comprehensive set of detailed …