{"id":43279,"date":"2012-02-13T10:15:31","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T08:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=43279"},"modified":"2012-02-13T10:25:28","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T08:25:28","slug":"google-expanding-googleplex-compound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/43279-google-expanding-googleplex-compound.html","title":{"rendered":"Google expanding Googleplex compound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Google\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/314567-Google\">Google<\/a> is preparing to upgrade their Mountain View headquarters, which will soon house a 120,000 square foot \u201cGoogle Experience Centre\u201d, serving as a private museum and meeting area.<\/p>\n<p>The expansion is also expected to include larger in-house lab testing facilities for the company\u2019s \u201c@home\u201d project, rumoured to be a home entertainment device.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Experience Centre would not typically be open to the public &#8211; consisting of invited groups, and guests whose interests will be as vast as Google&#8217;s range of products, and often confidential,&#8221; said Andrew Burnett, an architect working on the project.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the labs will be designed to screen out RF frequencies, and be used \u201cto test the <a title=\"Wi-Fi\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/289151-Wi-Fi\">Wi-Fi<\/a> performance and development of a consumer product,\u201d said a Google official.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story at: <a title=\"Cnet news site\" href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-11386_3-57376205-76\/googleplex-expansion-to-include-experience-center-test-labs\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cnet<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is giving its headquarters a R924 million upgrade<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":28750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[167,8841],"class_list":["post-43279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-google","tag-googleplex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43279"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43285,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43279\/revisions\/43285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}