Hamina official: Google to be Finland’s biggest international investor

Internet search giant Google continues to make large scale investments in Hamina. The company has remained close-lipped about the latest deal, but city director Hannu Muhonen has referred to large sums being involved. Google is ramping up its interest in eastern Finland.Google inaugurated a new server farm in the eastern Finnish town of Hamina in autumn of 2011, after buying up Stora Enso's defunct paper mill buildings in 2009. The...

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World’s fastest wireless network hits 100 gigabits per second, can scale to terabits

German researchers have combined photonics and electronics to create a world-record-breaking wireless network that can send and receive data at a heady 100 gigabits per second (Gbps). This beats the same team’s previous world record of 40Gbps. At 100Gbps, or a transfer rate of 12.5 gigabytes per second — ten times faster than Google Fiber — you could copy a complete Blu-ray disc in a couple of seconds. To achieve such a massive...

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