Gigabit

Google Fiber is looking to hire numerous people as it prepares to launch service in the Triangle area. It’s also picked office locations in Durham, Raleigh and Chapel Hill. Just when service will be available is not yet known, but the job postings and office news are clear signs the countdown for delivery is well underway. For you job seekers, here are the latest postings – including one for its mobile software development office in Chapel Hill: Regional Engineering Lead, Google Fiber, Southeast Raleigh, NC, USA Oversee the design of the Outside Plant Fiber Network from preliminary design to...

Do you remember using the Internet on dial-up? It was terrible, yes, but we didn’t realize just how bad it was until high-speed Internet entered the market. You don’t always see how bad something is when you’re using it in the moment. It’s only when the new technology comes along to replace the incumbent that you think back on the awfulness of dial-up. Well, things are about to change in Charlotte for everyone—residents, businesses, and organizations. Why? Google Fiber…that’s why. Charlotteans are on the cusp of going from “high-speed” Internet to the lightning fast Google Fiber. And, just like...

In today’s Bulldog update of technology news: Durham public housing residents to get Google Fiber free; Aerie Pharmaceuticals expanding R&D in the RTP; IBM, RTI partner; iPod touch updated; EPRI to study coal ash recycling for Duke. Google will supply its gigabit Google Fiber Internet access to Durham’s public housing residents for free, according to a statement the company issued Wednesday. In the post, written by Google’s head of community impact for Google Fiber, Erica Swanson, noted that as many as 26 percent of people earning less than $30,000 a year don’t access the Internet. “Google Fiber is working...

Google Fiber has named 16 Digital Inclusion Fellows, one in each Google Fiber market, including literacy skills instructor James Butts in the Triangle. Butts will work the Triangle Literacy Council and the Kramden Institute to help design and implement programs to help adults learn  digital skills. Those range from teaching workplace skills to job seekers and how to take GEDs online to showing parents how to access their children’s grades online. The idea is for the digital fellows to act as catalysts in designing and creating programs that will outlive the fellowships. Google Fiber will contribute approximately $1...

In today’s Bulldog update of technology news: Metabolon names new chief commercial officer; Rocky Mount and Suddenlink to offer next gen Internet; how many angel investors are too many?; Google fiber on Raleigh city agenda. Metabolon, the metaolomics company, has named Darin Leigh chief commercial officer, a new position at the company, “Darin is a proven commercial leader of global organizations and has demonstrated strategic planning and tactical skills that have delivered exceptional results,” said John Ryals, Metabolon CEO, in a statement. Prior to joining Metabolon, Leigh was the senior vice president of commercial operations at Asuragen, Inc., a...

After years of lobbying for Google Fiber then waiting for service once the Triangle was picked as a site, the news many Triangle residents and businesses have hoped for is official: Construction of a 5,700 mile fiber-optic high-speed Internet and entertainment network by Google is finally getting under way. People across the Triangle have been vocal about getting Google Fiber since 2010, offering anything from naming children after Google’s founders and pleas such as “We could use a city of tomorrow today.” That “tomorrow” became closer to reality Tuesday, with the Triangle market joining the list of Google Fiber...

Google Fiber formally disclosed launching the construction of its Triangle network today, but it’s starting from behind. However, J. Erik Garr, the head of Google Fiber for the Triangle, says the company is ready to take on competition such as AT&T and Frontier, which have a big head start in the gigabit Internet market. He also talks about a wide number of issues in a Q&A with WRAL TechWire. AT&T, Frontier and CenturyLink already are offering or will soon offer gigabit Internet access in Triangle markets. Is Google prepared for the challenge of competition? How does Google plan to...

Google Fiber, which is the process of building an ultra high-speed Internet network in the Triangle, is teaming with the Triangle Literacy Council and the Kramden Institute, which repairs and donates used PCs, to launch a mobile computing lab. Google Fiber also will fund a fellowship to pay benefits and salary as part of a “digital inclusion” effort to help more people utilize the Internet. “At the Triangle Literacy Council, we offer literacy programs and classes throughout the community. Our Digital Inclusion Fellow will help us reach more people and give them the skills they need to navigate the...

The Internet via fiber is too fast? Can you believe that someone would actually say that and demand slower speeds – at least at times? People want to enjoy the “power of slowness”? We can get Internet at the speed of light – well, at gigabit anyway – and people want to go back to the speed of sail? Life in the slow lane returns? Warp speed to impulse? Is this a joke? Well, Google announced its latest feature on March 31, not fools’ day. Are we being played? I hope so. Beam me up … Welcome to Google...