Over time, they've grown to 31 locations across the globe, servicing cities like New York, DC, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Miami, alongside a number of international locations in England, the Netherlands, and Israel.
The lethal attacks these documents contain are now the subject of Matthieu Cherubini's new online installation, Afghan War Diary, which builds a unique bridge between three cyberspaces: the aforementioned Wikileaks military logs, player data from popular online action game Counter-Strike, and the globe-mapping services of Google Earth.
A form that was shaped around an ecosystem of modems calling BBSes and IRC channels, not globe-spanning services like Facebook and Google.
Last week, Shakespeare's Globe launched Globe Player, a service that allows users to stream and/or download its productions onto their computers and mobile devices.
It remains to be seen if people will pay for large ticket items spontaneously via their phone, but Google created Street View — the fantasy globe-trotting service that can suck up your time like nobody's business — and now acting on your travel urges just got a lot easier.
They allow universities to feature programs at far-flung corners of the globe and provide services to students on-site, even where the university itself has no presence.
The FBI estimates that, since September 11th, about 100 terrorist plots have been thwarted around the globe; because security services, for understandable reasons, often intervene earlier rather than later when a plot is detected, it is often hard to know what was being plotted.
Motorola's Iridium network, which used 66 satellites in near-polar orbits to blanket the globe, was in service for barely a year before going out of business in 1999.
Brian Blau, who studies consumer technologies at the research firm Gartner, said that given Facebook's mission of linking the entire globe through its service, it needed to reach out to the least tech-savvy customers.
Tens of millions of riders around the globe love this service so much it has become its own verb.
