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With new satellite tech, rural dwellers get access to true broadband
Just three months after settling into geostationary orbit, Hughes Network Systems’ new EchoStar 17 satellite is ready for commercial service. Hughes Net on Monday launched new plans offering download...
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FreedomPop’s home broadband service goes live. Can you survive on 1 GB a month?
FreedomPop launched its home broadband service on Wednesday, taking the freemium model it uses for mobile data to the residential broadband market. FreedomPop is offering 1 GB free of charge to any...
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Report: Google wants to connect the developing world with wireless
You might have thought Google’s gigabit fiber plans in the U.S. were big, but Google may have even bigger broadband ambitions in the developing world. According to a Wall Street Journal report, Google...
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Google-backed O3b successfully launches its first four satellites into the...
At 12:27pm PT Tuesday, four new communications satellites developed by O3b left the ground in French Guiana, riding atop a Soyuz rocket bound for medium-Earth orbit. Those for birds will make half of...
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The fascinating backstory of Google’s Project Loon
Wired tells the story of Rich DeVaul, Project Loon’s first leader, as he and Google engineers try to tackle the problem of building a network that traverses the stratospheric winds. Loon sounds crazy...
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White spaces anyone? Google opens its spectrum database to developers
All of those unused frequencies that linger between TV channels, called white spaces, are ripe for the taking, and starting today network builders and device makers can start using them, with a little...
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Can SMS be a surrogate for the internet in the developing world?
Unconvinced as to the power of SMS? Well, in an instant, mobile messaging company Mobile Accord could send a mass text message that could reach people in 205 countries, said president Steve Gutterman —...
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Zuckerberg: The goal of Internet.org is to make basic mobile internet access...
Internet.org doesn’t just want to make access to the mobile internet cheap in the developing world. It wants to make baseline connectivity free, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg said at Mobile World Congress...
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Drones vs. balloons: Zuckerberg explains why wings are better for the...
When Facebook and Internet.org revealed their intentions on Thursday to connect the developing world through aerial drones and satellites, the plans drew the inevitable comparisons to Google’s Project...
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Google trains a Loon balloon to surf the air currents, avoiding the “polar...
If you don’t subscribe to Project Loon’s Google+ account, then I would highly recommend that you do. Sure, it’s all a marketing effort to promote Google’s crazy plan to connect the world through a...
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BitMate Brings BitTorrent to the Developing World
BitTorrent is known as a way to quickly download gigabytes of data, ranging from TV show episodes to Hollywood blockbusters. The technology doesn't work quite as well over dial-up. Pakistan-based...
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1/4 of smartphone users rely on their device for Internet access
For one-quarter of smartphone users, their device is the primary way they access the Internet, according to new data. It's a sign of the growing dependence on smartphones and also shows that for a...
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The digital divide and the end of Internet freedom
Technology used by ISPs as well as regulatory decisions have shaped the Internet. The New America Foundation sees danger in the current evolution of the Internet as the web becomes segregated by what...
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Take a look at IBM’s 5 innovations for the next 5 years
Every year, IBM comes up with a list of five innovations it believes will become popular within the next five years. For 2011, it has come up with the following technologies it thinks will gain...
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We need better infrastructure to bridge urban digital divide
After distributing much of the $500 million broadband stimulus program to narrow the digital divide in 2011, these investments should start bearing fruit. But the success faces two challenges:...
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How femtocells are connecting the Congo
You thought it was hard to get cellular coverage in your basement -- try getting it in the rain forests of the Congo. RascomStar plans to ensure that remotest communities in the Republic of the Congo...
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With 2 days left, Google Fiber has signed up 21,000
Google has convinced 10 percent of the people living in areas where it can deploy fiber to pre-register for the service with two days left before the Sept. 9 deadline. That's a good start, but it might...
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Zuckerberg’s Internet.org feels the love (and fear) from carriers
At Mobile World Congress on Monday Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg took the stage with three executives from carriers in developing countries to talk about the progress of Internet.org and its attempts to...
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