Search: Look for:   Last 1 Month   Last 6 Months   All time

Bill Gates slams Google's 'broadband via helium balloon' project

Wellington, Sat, 10 Aug 2013 ANI

Wellington, Aug. 10 (ANI): Microsoft Chairman, Bill Gates has reportedly slammed Google's broadband through helium balloon project and said that it won't solve more pressing problems of the poor.

Google's 'Project Loon' envisages a ring of balloons circling the globe at about 20 km and transmitting broadband to the 4.7 billion people who don't have it.

However, Gates said that when people are dying of malaria, the helium balloon won't be of much help, Stuff.co.nz reports.

He further said that expanding internet to poor countries won't solve other important and pressing issues adding that Google started out with broad humanitarian aims but then it 'shut it all down'.

The report added him saying that Google is now simply doing its core thing but doing just that will not help uplift the poor. (ANI)


LATEST IMAGES
Manohar Lal being presented with a memento
Manoj Tiwari BJP Relief meets the family members of late Ankit Sharma
Haryana CM Manohar Lal congratulate former Deputy PM Lal Krishna Advani on his 92nd birthday
King of Bhutan, the Bhutan Queen and Crown Prince meeting the PM Modi
PM Narendra Modi welcomes the King of Bhutan
Post comments:
Your Name (*) :
Your Email :
Your Phone :
Your Comment (*):
  Reload Image
 
 

Comments:


 

OTHER TOP STORIES


Excellent Hair Fall Treatment
Careers | Privacy Policy | Feedback | About Us | Contact Us | | Latest News
Copyright © 2015 NEWS TRACK India All rights reserved.