Tag: Internet

Google has announced plans to roll out their own fibre optic network in the United States, offering internet connections 100 times their current speed. Initially the network will connect half a million premises with a fibre to the home connection and deliver up to 1Gpbs of bandwidth to customers. It is believed that by offering […]

For the first time an inanimate object, “The Internet” has been nominated for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize. This is despite nominations being kept secret for 50 years by the Nobel Prize committee. In this instance, Riccardo Luna (Editor in Chief, Wired Magazine, Italy) outed himself as nominating the Internet for the prize saying the […]