Take a look, people. If your city is on this map, Google is at least actively considering brining Google Fiber your way.
The company just announced that they will be looking at the feasibility of installing its 1 gigabit (soon to be 10?) high-speed internet service in 9 different metro areas–34 communities altogether.
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In January, the open Web took a major hit when a court sided with Verizon over the FCC’s net neutrality rules. The defeat meant that Verizon or any other ISP could throttle certain types of traffic in favor of others. While the FCC could appeal the ruling, the Commission is apparently not going that route.
In case you were wondering, backlinks are still really important to how Google views the quality of your site. Head of webspam Matt Cutts said as much in the latest “Webmaster Help” video, in which he discusses Google testing a version of its search engine that excludes backlinks as a ranking signal.
When many Americans hear the words, “retirement planning”, they immediately think of silver-haired oldsters plotting life after they are finally able to stop working. This isn’t so unusual since traditionally, it’s been expected that individuals begin planning on an exit from the workforce at about the age of 60 (if they’re lucky)
If you’re anything like me, you don’t think about your age much or how old you’re getting.
But sometimes something will sneak up on you and remind you that you’re nowhere near the age of 18, like when you notice that all of your favorite sports figures as a kid are now either commentators or coaches, and they’re all old.
Patrick Stewart isn’t gay, folks. Sorry. Stewart was mistakenly outed in an article in The Guardian that discussed actress Ellen Page’s decision to come out, and while the “news” may have had some people saying “I told you so,” the X-Men actor is indeed a straight man. No surprise there, but Stewart isn’t upset at all by The Guardian’s mistake and has used it to make his Twitter page more entertaining than it usually is.
Jimmy Fallon is having a stellar week so far as the new host of “The Tonight Show”; not that he had anything to prove, really, since we’ve known for a while now that he can pull off a combination of funny and crowd-pleasing. He knows how to keep us interested, how to hit us in the nostalgia, and how to throw out surprises that will quickly go viral (POTUS visit, anyone?)
In a recent interview with the UK’s Radio Times, singer-songwriter Stevie Nicks said she’d love to write some music for HBO’s award-winning Game of Thrones series.
Nicks told Craig McLean that watching the series helped her through a particularly difficult time in her life. Nicks’ mother died in December 2011 and not long after, Nicks came down with pneumonia.
A fraternity pledge’s death following a bizarre hazing ritual in December has now been ruled a homicide after investigators say members of the fraternity conspired to cover up the man’s injuries before seeking help.
Police shot and killed a 17-year-old ROTC student this past Friday, and his family is saying that the official account doesn’t match reality.
The Police Department in Euharlee, a small town in northern Georgia, claims that Christopher Roupe pointed a gun at an officer when they knocked on his door to serve a probation violation warrant on his father. According to family and their attorney, all Christopher had in his hand was a Wiimote.
