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  • Google Fiber to the Pole answers gigabit need outside the home

    Kansas Citians with Google Fiber are spoiled by gigabit speeds when they’re at home, but how do they access the ultrafast internet connection when they’re on the go? “We realized that the answer was all around us—utility poles,” Michael Plump, product lead for Fiber to the Pole, said today on the Google Fiber …

  • Gig Bits: Q&A sheds light on 100-mile mark, Fiber Huts

    Google has already hung more than 100 miles of fiber on utility poles throughout Kansas City, Kan. and Kansas City, Mo. But that’s not all that’s up in the air when it comes to Google’s ultra high-speed network. A post Wednesday on the Google Fiber Blog shed some light on what stands between Kansas Citians…

  • 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,…

  • KC’s going gaga for Google Fiber. But what will it mean? (Video)

    Amidst talk that Google is thinking about entering the TV game and speculation that Kansas City, with the impending arrival of Google’s ultra high-speed network, is a good candidate to serve as a testing ground for the TV service, there’s been an interesting confluence of buzz-building and reality-checking in the last few days regarding the…

  • Prairie Moves: Deal Garden, Michael Gelphman, Sara Davidson and more

    What is Prairie Moves? – Published Tuesdays and Thursdays, 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 …

  • Google names Rachel Hack of SITAKS its KC Fiber community manager

    Google has tabbed Rachel Hack as the point person to help bring its ultra-high speed internet to the Kansas City area, the Kansas City Star and Kansas City Business Journal reported today. Hack (left, photo from linkedin.com) is the president of the Software and Information Technology Association of Kansas (SITAKS), a membership group designed to…