Google's new Fiber Optic Service

Google will soon revolutionize the way you surf the Internet, promising a new broadband service that they will first test in small markets across the country. Many communities around the country, including Rochester, are lobbying Google to become one of the test markets for the new service. Google states:

"We're planning to build and test ultra high-speed broadband networks in a small
number of trial locations across the United States. We'll deliver Internet
speeds more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have access to today
with 1 gigabit per second, fiber-to-the-home connections. We plan to offer
service at a competitive price to at least 50,000 and potentially up to 500,000
people."

With so many small cities looking to become one of the test markets, communities are pulling out all of the stops:

• PC Magazine: The 5 Strangest City Pitches for Google's New Fiber-Optic Service

Many influential people in Monroe Country and New York State are attempting to make Rochester/Monroe Country one of the test sites.

• Democrat and Chronicle: Communities woo Google over high speed Internet.
• Democrat And Chronicle: Schumer to Google: Consider NY as test market for super-fast Internet access

After reading the articles, consider the following questions:

1. What is Google's goal for is new high speed Internet initiative?
2. What steps are communities around the country taking to interest Google in using them as a test market?
3. What steps has Monroe County taken to lure Google into this area?

PS3 System Errors

Read the following article:

• ApocalyPS3: Buggy Clock Drives PlayStation 3 Haywire

Answer the following questions:

1. Describe the software problem that is currently effecting gameplay on the PS3.
2. What does Sony suggest users do while a solution to the problem is being researched?
3. Under See Also, what problem is causing glitches on the Playstation Network?

My favorites from the Top 10 Things to do While your PS3 is Broken:

9. Pull out your PlayStation 2. Reminisce about the good old days when game consoles were free-standing appliances that didn’t need to ping a central server before they allowed you to play.
6. Stand outside by your mailbox, waiting for friend requests.
5. Play the Xbox 360, which has an internal clock that does not have a horrible kill-switch built into it. AARGH.
4. Break out the Pledge and clean the dust off your Wii. Bonus: Clean off all your unused peripherals, too — by the time you’re wiping the last of the grime off the Wii Wheel, the bug will be fixed.
1. Get your old box of Little League baseball trophies out of the basement, and award them to yourself. Take them to bed with you, comforted in the knowledge that Sony cannot take these away from you (until at least the PlayStation 5).