latimes.com — The king of Web search Friday offered to dig into its mountain of cash to transform a chunk of prime public airwaves into a high-speed data freeway. If successful, it could drive down the price of Internet access by creating more competitors to phone and cable companies.
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klipseracerJul 25, 2007
Again. As soon as I saw this I was dying to say, TITTLE IS EXTREMELY INNACURATE and is subject to opinion. Instead of wireless connection you should have said wireless waves. So 'hijacking' some wireless waves. Who cares? So instead of hijacking, you should have put buy. So google to jack your wireless waves. Is that like stealing my nose? But I guess I can see how your story title would suck. Especially since this is a couple day old news. Great info, tho. Even the second time.
flux1337Jul 25, 2007
Googles already my tISP:<a class="user" href="http://www.google.com/tisp/">http://www.google.com/tisp/</a>Currently in the beta, and getting 32Mbits!!! A google rep said this is only 5% of what it can do if required!!
spr0k3tJul 25, 2007
Four years back. Probably longer than that really.
chrgroseJul 25, 2007
Google phone will be cheap, awesome (better than iphone), and offer ultra high speed internet access and national digital phone networks for 25 cents a day. They'll still make money though -- cuz all 300 million of us will have one.
nerdismJul 25, 2007
In any other case you should be more weary, but if Google pulls this off it's going to give them a lot of the good type of focus. From the fanboys to the media, I'm sure they'll be looked upon as saviors.
isoscelesJul 26, 2007
Really, lately it's as if 90% of diggers can't just write a title without adding their little twist. Some like to add in words (ex. "Hijack") others like to add excessive exclamation points. It's ruining the site and I refuse to Digg submissions with asinine titles. It just makes me move to <a class="user" href="http://reddit.com">http://reddit.com</a> where (it seems) like the average age and maturity of users is a tad higher.