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AT&T announces plans for 1Gbps fiber service in Austin, Texas; Google gets immediate competition
Posted On 09 Apr 2013 By Darren Murph. Under: Uncategorized.
First thought: "Ha!" Second thought: "Oh, wait -- competition is an excellent thing." While it's highly probable that AT&T is looking to both overshadow Google's launch party and maintain a foothold in one of its most prized states, the outfit's ...
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Google Fiber rollout detailed for Austin: connections by mid-2014, similar pricing (updated)
Posted On 09 Apr 2013 By Jon Fingas. Under: Uncategorized.
The Google Fiber rollout for Austin has been spoiled twice, but today it's officially official: the music-centric city will become a gigabit city... eventually, that is. Google now says that it will start wiring Austinite homes for super-fast interne...
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Google Fiber is officially coming to Austin, Texas
Posted On 08 Apr 2013 By Darren Murph. Under: Uncategorized.
Hear that? It's Austin, being weird enough to add yet another reason to live within its city limits. As rumored, Google Fiber will be rolling down to one of Texas' most esteemed towns in the near future, joining the Kansas City, Kansas and Missouri m...
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Google Fiber is officially coming to Austin, Texas
Posted On 08 Apr 2013 By Darren Murph. Under: Uncategorized.
Hear that? It's Austin, being weird enough to add yet another reason to live within its city limits. As rumored, Google Fiber will be rolling down to one of Texas' most esteemed towns in the near future, joining the Kansas City, Kansas and Missouri m...
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Rumors suggest Austin, Texas is next up for a Google Fiber rollout (update: so does its website)
Posted On 05 Apr 2013 By Richard Lawler. Under: Uncategorized.
The major problem most of us have with Google Fiber is that we can't get it, but that could change soon for residents of Austin, Texas. According to reports by VentureBeat and KVUE News in Austin, invites are going out for an event on Tuesday at 11 A...
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Live from SXSW: catch our Leap Motion, Elon Musk and Al Gore liveblogs today!
Posted On 09 Mar 2013 By Zach Honig. Under: Uncategorized.
Austin, Texas is loaded to the gills with geeks of every shape and size, and we're here too! We're parked at the city's convention center for a day filled with A-list SXSW speakers, including Elon Musk of Tesla and SpaceX fame, former Vice President ...
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Samsung gets go-ahead on $3.9 billion chip production line expansion in Texas
Posted On 20 Dec 2012 By Mat Smith. Under: Uncategorized.
Samsung's plans for a substantial renovations at hits semiconductor factory in Austin have been approved. Completing talks with the government of Texas, the world's biggest memory chip-maker will be expanding the capacity of its already substantial p...
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Fallen kingdom: 38 Studios’ collapse and the pitfalls of using public money to support tech companies
Posted On 07 Sep 2012 By Jason Hidalgo. Under: Uncategorized.
In a career filled with many clutch throws from the baseball mound, former Boston Red Sox ace Curt Schilling's main calling card was a gutsy post-season performance made even more memorable by a blood-soaked sock. It was a pitch made by Schilling out...
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Isis mobile payment system primed for September launch, supported devices revealed
Posted On 28 Aug 2012 By Zachary Lutz. Under: Uncategorized.
You've known it was coming, but Isis has been so quiet on the mobile payments front in the past few months that you might've forgotten the score. Now, the joint venture backed by AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon has announced that it'll debut its syste...
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Fujitsu and Acacia resolve patent disputes with settlement, keep it out of the courts
Posted On 27 Aug 2012 By Jamie Rigg. Under: Uncategorized.
Fujitsu's bank balance may be a little lighter today, since Acacia Research Corp. has reported that subsidiaries of both companies have signed a settlement deal over patent disputes. As usual, Acacia is keeping tight-lipped about exactly what the pate...
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