For the past year, Google has been trying to decide what city would be the test city for its new initiative to roll out ultra high-speed broadband, delivering speeds more than 100 times faster than what we're stuck with now. The winner? Kansas City.

Sick of that Wi-Fi signal dying whenever you need it most? That may be happening a lot less in the coming years as the FCC pushes forward a plan to turbocharge the wireless tech, giving it longer range and improving its capability to penetrate walls. The key: unused airwaves between TV channels.

Remember last month when we told you about the Federal Communications Commission's vague plans to deliver 100Mbps broadband (over 20 times as fast as we have now) into American homes? Well, the FCC isn't letting the plan fall by the...

Pick up any newspaper or log onto any news website, and it's there in black and white. Tough times are all around, and no amount of stimulus is making it go away any time soon. Everyone's watching pennies, and life...