Google Will Launch 1-G bps broadband network.

Google will launch a 1G-bps broadband network for faculty homes on Stanford University's campus in 2011. Think of it as a flight test for its planned community deployment.

Some city leaders resorted to extreme measures (jumping in freezing water, swimming with sharks, renaming islands) to catch Google's eye 

to be the site for an ultra high-speed broadband zone.

The Stanford test, characterized as a "beta deployment," will serve as a template for how future deployments in the winning city or cities might fare.

Google Fiber Product Manager James Kelly made it clear that the Stanford network "is completely separate from our community selection process for Google Fiber, which is still ongoing."

Even so, Kelly said this is the first time Google is trying its service out with real customers.

"We'll be able to take what we learn from this small deployment to help scale our project more effectively and efficiently to much larger communities," Kelly added.

The test will allow Google to play with its new fiber optic technologies, normally the purview of broadband carriers such as Verizon, Comcast and AT&T, as well as the networking gear providers who make the equipment.

Google cited Stanford as the first customer test because the university is close to Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., and is open to the company experimenting with new fiber technologies on its streets.

It certainly doesn’t hurt that Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin created Google at Stanford, which later invested in the project that would become the world's leading search engine.

While Google likes to characterize these broadband network dalliances as tests, the company never does anything without some higher meaning and goal.

It's unlikely Google will become a massive, certified global carrier of broadband. But it could create a decent-sized footprint of pipes through which it can sell its own brand of Web services, starting with Google TV, which was launched in October on Logitech companion boxes and Sony Internet TVs and Blu-ray players.

While Google has not formally announced advertising plans for Google TV, the company is the Web's premier digital ad provider, so there's no question it's got an idea of how it wants to target consumers with ads while leveraging the convergence of Web and TV.

Populating speedy broadband networks can help Google TV, as well as boost the company's Web apps and services, such as YouTube. 

By: Clint Boulton

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Google Says Whole Emails Gathered By Street View Cars

SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones)--Google Inc. (GOOG) acknowledged Friday the cars its uses to collect data for its online mapping service had inadvertently gathered entire emails and passwords, a disclosure that prompted the Internet giant to appoint a privacy chief and tighten its policies.

The Mountain View, Calif.-based Internet search giant said it wanted to delete the information as quickly as possible. It also announced several steps its would take to improve its internal privacy and security practices, including the appointment of Alma Whitten, who specializes in computer security, as director of privacy for both engineering and products.

The development comes as Google faces heightened regulatory scrutiny around the world prompted by revelations in May that its cars had collected personal data from unsecured wireless networks while taking photos for its Street View mapping service. Google initially said the data was fragmentary, but external reviews discovered that some of the data was more complete than expected.

"A number of external regulators have inspected the data as part of their investigations," Alan Eustace, a senior vice president in charge of engineering and research, said in a blog post. "It's clear from those inspections that while most of the data is fragmentary, in some instances entire emails and URLs were captured, as well as passwords."

Google's admission came just days after Canada's Privacy Commissioner said the company violated the privacy of perhaps thousands of Canadians when it captured sometimes highly sensitive personal information such as complete emails, email usernames and passwords, and even information about certain Canadians' medical conditions.

"Canada has played an important role in blowing the digital whistle," said Jeffrey Chester, Executive Director of the Center for Digital Democracy.

Privacy groups have increasingly become concerned by the amount of data companies collect on consumers as they use the Internet. Google Buzz, a social networking project, quickly became the target of complaints when user information was revealed more broadly than anticipated.

Social network Facebook Inc.'s privacy policies have also been scrutinized.

Eustace said Google would enhance training on the proper collection and use of data for its engineering, product management and legal groups. In December, all employees will be required to take a new information awareness program.

Google said the data collection was caused by the accidental inclusion of coding from an experimental project.

On Friday, Google shares were little changed at $612.53.

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