Posts Tagged ‘Fast High Speed Internet Service’

Zuckerberg Makes His Next Move, Will It Affect Satellite Internet?

Wednesday, January 5th, 2011

It seems that Mark Zuckerberg has been a popular name in the media ever since The Social Network came out in theaters about how he ‘supposedly’ started the company

Facebook Using Satellite Internet Service

we all know as Facebook.  It further seems that Zuckerberg and Facebook have implemented a lot of changes that have greatly impacted high speed internet as we know it.  However, we can’t help but to compare Facebook to one of its biggest competitors, Google.  As we mentioned in a previous blog post, Google has just made a multi-million dollar investment into new satellite internet technologies.  On the contrary we have not seen Facebook make any contributions to the satellite internet world.  One might argue that their attempt at Facebook Light catered to satellite internet’s high latency, but I disagree.  It might have catered to dial up users but not satellite internet users.  Nevertheless, they discontinued this service.

Green Communities Get Satellite Internet

Wednesday, October 6th, 2010

WildBlue Service In Green CommunitiesIn this blog, I’d like to talk about some of the “greener” communities and states here in our great nation, and we’ll take a brief look at what makes them so different. First, let’s look at a little hole in the wall place dubbed Portland, Oregon.  According to Popular Science, Portland is the “greenest” city in the United States based on some raw data collected from the U.S. Census Bureau and the National Geographic Society’s Green Guide blended and formatted in such a way that all the different elements are weighed equally.