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06-20-2013, 08:56 PM
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The Telegram
Google is using balloons â?? huge balloons â?? to float over New Zealand in a pilot project aiming to test the delivery of Wi-Fi to places where conventional wisdom would hold it's too difficult and/or expensive to reach. Project Loon. www.google.com/loon/.
Project Loon: Google Hops on to Balloon WiFi Internet Connection Experiment (http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNGdCSbwLDt5kuEJU9DBtd05PA23Qw&url=http://www.microfinancemonitor.com/2013/06/20/project-loon-google-hops-on-to-balloon-wifi-internet-connection-experiment/)Microfinance Monitor

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