[GTER] Google announces free in-home wireless broadband service

[Daniel França]

Falando em 1o de abril, essa também é muito boa, tambem do Google:
Google Paper
http://mail.google.com/mail/help/paper/


On 4/1/07, Acácio Alves dos Santos <adm.acacio at digi.com.br> wrote:
>
> É... o pessoal do Google realmente gosta de piadas de 1o. de abril :)
>
>
> On Apr 1, 2007, at 3:10 PM, Rubens Kuhl Jr. wrote:
>
> > http://www.google.com/tisp/press.html
> >
> >
> > Google announces free in-home wireless broadband service
> >
> > "Dark porcelain" project offers self-installed plumbing-based
> > Internet access
> >
> > MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., April 1, 2007 - Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG)
> > today announced the launch of Google TiSP (BETA)™, a free in-home
> > wireless broadband service that delivers online connectivity via
> > users' plumbing systems. The Toilet Internet Service Provider (TiSP)
> > project is a self-installed, ad-supported online service that will be
> > offered entirely free to any consumer with a WiFi-capable PC and a
> > toilet connected to a local municipal sewage system.
> >
> > "We've got that whole organizing-the-world's-information thing more or
> > less under control," said Google Co-founder and President Larry Page,
> > a longtime supporter of so-called "dark porcelain" research and
> > development. "What's interesting, though, is how many different
> > modalities there are for actually getting that information to you -
> > not to mention from you."
> >
> > For years, data carriers have confronted the "last hundred yards"
> > problem for delivering data from local networks into individual homes.
> > Now Google has successfully devised a "last hundred smelly yards"
> > solution that takes advantage of preexisting plumbing and sewage
> > systems and their related hydraulic data-transmission capabilities.
> > "There's actually a thriving little underground community that's been
> > studying this exact solution for a long time," says Page. "And today
> > our Toilet ISP team is pleased to be leading the way through the
> > sewers, up out of your toilet and - splat - right onto your PC."
> >
> > Users who sign up online for the TiSP system will receive a full home
> > self-installation kit, which includes a spindle of fiber-optic cable,
> > a TiSP wireless router, installation CD and setup guide. Home
> > installation is a simple matter of GFlushing™ the fiber-optic cable
> > down to the nearest TiSP Access Node, then plugging the other end into
> > the network port of your Google-provided TiSP wireless router. Within
> > sixty minutes, the Access Node's crack team of Plumbing Hardware
> > Dispatchers (PHDs) should have your internet connection up and
> > running.
> >
> > "I couldn't be more excited about, and am only slightly grossed out
> > by, this remarkable new product," said Marissa Mayer, Google's Vice
> > President of Search Products and User Experience. "I firmly believe
> > TiSP will be a breakthrough product, particularly for those users who,
> > like Larry himself, do much of their best thinking in the bathroom."
> >
> > Interested consumers, contractually obligated partners and deeply
> > skeptical and quietly competitive backbiters can learn more about TiSP
> > at http://www.google.com/tisp/install.html.
> >
> > About Google Inc.
> > Google's innovative search technologies connect millions of people
> > around the world with information every day. Founded in 1998 by
> > Stanford Ph.D. wannabes Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google today is a
> > top web property in all major global markets. Google's targeted
> > advertising program provides businesses of all sizes with measurable
> > results, while enhancing the overall web experience for users. Google
> > is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the
> > Americas, Europe and Asia. For more information, visit www.google.com.
> >
> > ###
> >
> > Media Contact:
> > Sunny Gettinger
> > Google Inc.
> > sunnyg at google.com
> > 650-253-4713
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