Consumer Electronics and Computers Blog - Zippy Reviews » Google http://www.zippyreviews.com/consumer_electronics_computers_blog Electronics, Technology, and Computers information that you'll love! Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:02:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Google High Speed Internet to your Home – Google ISP? http://www.zippyreviews.com/consumer_electronics_computers_blog/internet-connectivity/google-high-speed-internet-fiber-to-your-home http://www.zippyreviews.com/consumer_electronics_computers_blog/internet-connectivity/google-high-speed-internet-fiber-to-your-home#comments Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:24:58 +0000 Dan http://www.zippyreviews.com/consumer_electronics_computers_blog/?p=129 Google may now be getting into the ISP (Internet Service Provider) business.  They will be doing a market test to validate the possibility of this being broad reaching across the nation.  They claim the that speeds can be up to 100 times faster than current high speed internet connections.  It will be interesting to see how the “open access” concept works out since currently the telecommunication lines usually are owned by 1 provider for each area within the United States and then indirectly regulated the resale price to each individual ISP that wants to “lease” from this one provider.  Google, being a giant, and thinking outside the box may be able to get this changed.  We’ll see…….  Here’s a link to Google’s information on this concept:

http://www.google.com/appserve/fiberrfi/

]]> http://www.zippyreviews.com/consumer_electronics_computers_blog/internet-connectivity/google-high-speed-internet-fiber-to-your-home/feed 0 FTC pressure facilitates division between Apple and Google’s Board of Directors http://www.zippyreviews.com/consumer_electronics_computers_blog/cell-phones-and-smart-phones/ftc-facilitates-division-between-apple-googles-board-of-directors http://www.zippyreviews.com/consumer_electronics_computers_blog/cell-phones-and-smart-phones/ftc-facilitates-division-between-apple-googles-board-of-directors#comments Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:23:14 +0000 Dan http://www.zippyreviews.com/consumer_electronics_computers_blog/?p=91 With all the anti-trust laws and regulation we have here in the US you’d think this wouldn’t have been allowed to begin with.  Apple and Google had many key board members in common.  Apple and Google have been making competing technology starting with Android OS (Google’s mobile platform) and the iPhone.  Yet just recently the FTC has begun to dig into things to investigate whether anti-trust laws are being broken due to their shared board members.  Can true competition really exist and be fair to it’s share holders if a board member is being shared?  I think not.  At one point even Eric Schmidt (Google’s CEO) was on Apple’s board (until August 2009 actually).

The most recent wrinkle in this debacle is that Arthur Levinson has resigned from Google’s Board of Directors.  This now severs all shared ties between the two boards.  Competition in our capitalistic market can now go back to how it was intended.  If you’re a shareholder of either company does this concern you?  Were you even aware?

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