Tucked in the FCC's national broadband plan is an ambitious goal: Connect 100 million households to affordable 100-megabits-per-second service over the next decade. So what exactly would we do with Internet connections so fast?

While the overarching goals of the national broadband plan will be difficult for anyone to oppose -- extending high-speed Internet to virtually all Americans and dramatically boosting its speed -- getting there will be neither quick nor easy.

The next generation of faster mobile networks is poised to lower costs for operators and potentially unleash a new price war in the industry in Europe.

Television, historically an extremely passive way of consuming media, could become something else, a hybrid form of professionally produced content and crowd-sourced comments. Right now, a crawl sometimes shows up at the bottom of the news, but in the not too distant future, it could be your friends’ comments that are streaming by.

Nine months after Michael Jackson's death, his estate has signed one of the biggest recording contracts in history, giving Sony, Jackson's longtime label, the rights to sell his back catalog and draw on a large vault of unheard recordings.

Federal regulators detailed a $20 billion, 10-year plan to ensure all U.S. households access to high-speed Internet service, but the proposal faces resistance from industry groups and possible questions from lawmakers over how to pay for it.

The FCC has rolled out the highlights of its national broadband plan plan and is expected to present the full plan to Congress this week. From the outline of the details, however, it doesn't appear the plan takes a hard-line on cost. And high connection costs are the biggest roadblock to universal high-speed Internet access.

Sick of slow Internet connections? The federal government hears you. The FCC unveiled some details of its broadband plan, which aims to speed up Web connections and make high-speed Internet available to more Americans.

In its effort to convert all its mobile subscribers to valuable data users, AT&T announced four new Quick Messaging Devices that will bring smartphone-like features to mass-market consumers, AT&T's fastest growing segment. The new data services include enhanced messaging, contacts management and subscription-based video and photo sharing.

An executive summary of the FCC's national broadband plan drew near-unanimous praise from stakeholders on the eve of the full plan's release, with industry groups, public interest advocates and lawmakers all weighing in positively as they became aware of the agency's intentions.