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  • Google to bundle TV with Fiber, roll out high-speed service by demand

    Google today revealed more about the vision for the future of its Fiber project, and that vision is in high-definition. Google Fiber, the company’s first large-scale foray into providing internet service, will also feature a prominent and potentially disruptive HD television offering. And all of that technology could be available to residential customers in parts…

  • Google Fiber “arrives on July 26,” new KC video spot announces

    Truman defeating Dewey. Satchel Paige firing a fastball. Charlie Parker playing bebop. The Google Fiber ad spot posted this morning on the Google Fiber Blog certainly pulls at Kansas City’s collective heart strings. And, with the obligatory shot of a steaming stack of short ribs, it also activates the salivary glands. But the 30-second spot…

  • Hatchlings hears from Google

    After nearly a year of unreturned phone calls and emails from its Google AdSense account manager, it took a tell-all blog post and an appearance on the front page of Hacker News for Des Moines startup Hatchlings to get Google on the phone. “The (Google employee) who called me made a comment on the Hacker…

  • Hatchlings takes its troubles with Google to the web

    Hatchlings, a Facebook game billed as “the world’s largest virtual Easter Egg hunt,” published a blog post today detailing its attempts to collect on revenue from its disabled Google AdSense account. “After trying to go through the ‘proper channels’ for almost a year now it’s time to share this story of how Google screwed over…

  • 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 …

  • Council Bluffs rolls out free wifi, plans for celebration tonight

    The City of Council Bluffs has teamed up with Google to roll out the Omaha metropolitan area’s first free public wifi. Thanks to a $154,462 grant from the internet giant, Council Bluffs is giving free access to the web to anyone in and around three areas of the city: downtown and 100 Broadway District, Mid…

  • Google, Associated Press team up to reward scholars in tech, journalism

    Google and the Associated Press announced this week that they will sponsor the new AP-Google Journalism and Technology Scholarship program, which will provide $20,000 scholarships for the 2012-13 academic year to six undergraduate or graduate students pursuing or planning to pursue degrees at the intersection of journalism, computer science and new media …

  • Google to expand ultra high-speed network to Kansas City, Mo.

    Google is now giving Kansas Citians on both sides of State Line Road autobahn-fast access to the information superhighway. The Internet giant, which announced on March 30 that it would build its ultra high-speed network in Kansas City, Kan., is expanding that coverage to Kansas City, Mo. …

  • Assembly offers thrills for Ames students, Google representatives

    Harry Potter. That was the first name called out when Google’s PJ Anderson and Drew Rowny asked a room full of elementary school students to name a children’s character. Anderson and Rowny traveled from Silicon Valley to Ames last week to honor Nathan Hidajat for being chosen as a regional prize winner in the Doodle…

  • Hidajat named regional finalist in the ‘Doodle 4 Google’ competition

    Once again, young Nathan Hidajat has made the local technology news, this time as a regional finalist in the “Doodle 4 Google” competition. In March, the internet giant invited students in grades K-12 to submit a drawing along the theme of “What I’d like to do someday…” Hidajat’s entry, which related directly to the charity:…