• Project Loon Starts to Deliver Internet Access to People in Puerto Rico

    Project Loon Starts to Deliver Internet Access to People in Puerto Rico

    Last month, we wrote an article about Alphabet’s Project Loon.  In that post, we talked about how Alphabet was partnering with AT&T and T-Mobile in order to bring LTE to Puerto Rico.  And now, its helium air balloons have delivered internet to 100,000 residents on the island.  Which is still something I am having a…

  • Alphabet’s Project Loon Gets Approval to Bring Internet to Puerto Rico

    Alphabet’s Project Loon Gets Approval to Bring Internet to Puerto Rico

    Alphabet, Google’s Parent company has received approval to deploy its Project Loon LTE balloon in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.  Project Loon was a former Google X Lab project which was developed to provide mobile data access to disaster zones and remote areas by using high altitude weather balloons.  The project is now…

  • NBA teams up with NextVR to bring Basketball to Google’s VR platform

    What could be the next best thing to watching the NBA in person? If you said VR, you would be right. The NBA has partnered with NextVR to bring Basketball to Google’s VR platform. However is not where it stops. NextVR’s NBA virtual reality coverage is also on Samsung Gear VR. Right now you can watch…