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As part of a federal effort to get more U.S. homes connected to broadband, cable companies will offer Internet service for $9.

Broadband provider Virgin Media offers customers six months of free access to Spotify's premium service.

The movie studio business model is poised for its biggest shift in years as Hollywood turns to Internet delivery as the only way to boost home entertainment revenues. Across Hollywood, a quiet revolution is brewing that's about to transform living rooms around the world.

Ever heard of Petabyte? Or, for that matter, Exabyte? If you haven’t, then you are going to hear a lot about them in the future. And, that’s not all. Very soon, a new word, Zettabyte, is going to make it into our glossary. Now don’t scratch your heads. We will explain. These are all terminologies pertaining to online data transfer. They are used to describe disk space, or data storage space, and system memory.

The company envisions systems that will let consumers to download a high-definition, full-length feature film in less than five minutes, allow rural health clinics to send 3-D medical images over the Internet and let students collaborate with classmates around the world while watching live 3-D video of a university lecture.

President Barack Obama will outline his plan on Thursday for expanding high speed wireless Internet service to 98 percent of Americans while reducing the U.S. deficit by $9.6 billion over the next ten years.

We got the chance to test T-Mobile's newest, fastest phone, the Galaxy S 4G, and decided to see how fast some other top 4G-labeled phones were. It turns out, not all 4G is equal.

US regulators announce a "third way" to salvage efforts to give every citizen access to high-speed internet.

U.S. regulators will announce a major Internet policy this week to revolutionize how Americans communicate and play, proposing a dramatic increase in broadband speeds that could let people download a high-definition film in minutes instead of hours.

Google plans to build and test broadband networks than could deliver speeds more than 100 times faster than what most Americans use.