Google Fiber 22, 2016, Google Fiber bought Webpass, an Internet service provider that has been in business for 13 years and specializes in high-speed Internet for business and residential customers. They have a large presence in California and specifically the Bay Area as well as San Diego, Miami, Miami Beach, Coral Gables, Chicago, and Boston. The deal closed in October 2016. Google Fiber provides an Internet connection speed of up to one gigabit per second (1,000 Mbit/s) for both download and upload, which is roughly 100 times faster access than what most Americans have. Google Fiber says its service allows for the
Google Lively without the need to enter a separate program. Engineering manager Niniane Wang supervised this Google project, described in "The New York Times" by Brad Stone: Wang introduced her product July 8, 2008 with this comment: Gadgets in Lively rooms could also run on a user's desktop through Google Desktop. Google Lively Google Lively was a web-based virtual environment produced by Google Inc.. It was discontinued on December 31, 2008. Lively was only supported on Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox, using Windows XP or Windows Vista. It required a special download as well as Flash. The program was designed to be