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The race to provide ultrafast broadband is on.

The race to provide ultrafast broadband is on. In May, Cleveland will become a test bed for a service, spearheaded by Case Western Reserve University, that lets residents of more than 100 homes download data at about 1 gigabit per second. In February, Google said it plans an ultra-high-speed broadband network covering as many as 500,000 users. "The purpose of this project is to experiment and learn," Google said in a blog introducing the idea. "Network providers are making real progress to expand and improve high-speed Internet access, but there's still more to be done." The U.S.

The Obama administration knew that there'd be a lot of interest in the $7.2 billion for high-speed Internet projects it included in last year's huge economic stimulus package.

The goal was to quickly create tens of thousands of jobs and connect millions of poor and rural communities to broadband, a technology that's essential for economic development, modern medicine and education.

Social networks have infiltrated themselves into the lives of millions of Internet users. While some businesses have embraced the phenomenon, others are being negatively impacted by the use of social networks at the office.

Aside from distracting individuals from their everyday work and affecting companies' bottom lines, they are also negatively impacting their security.

Apple is drumming up interest for a plan to launch an Internet TV subscription service. CBS and Walt Disney may participate in the move to compete with satellite and cable-television operators, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.

Published reports indicate Apple is working to organize a subscription service that would offer consumers programming from television networks for a monthly fee similar to what customers are used to paying for cable. Apple reportedly plans to launch the service in 2010 once it strikes licensing deals with content providers.

Having transformed the music business once with iTunes and iPods, Apple is getting ready to do so again with a web-based service, according to a new report in The Wall Street Journal. If so, the influential online music store could again change the industry by changing what it means to own a song.

Comcast Corp. announced Thursday it plans to buy a majority stake in NBC Universal for $13.75 billion, giving the nation's largest cable TV operator control of the Peacock network, an array of cable channels and a major movie studio.

Although the deal could mean that movies could reach cable more quickly after showing in theaters, and that TV shows could appear faster on cell phones and other devices, it was already raising concerns that Comcast would wield too much power over entertainment.

General Electric ha alcanzado este lunes un acuerdo con Vivendi para comprarle el 20% de su participación en NBC. Ambas compañías han negociado durante semanas el valor de este paquete de acciones en la cadena, finalmente pactado en 5.800 millones de dólares (3.850 millones de euros). La operación da el control de la compañía a GE, lo que le permitiría llevar a cabo una alianza con Comcast, el operador de cable más grande de Estados Unidos, según informa The New York Times.

General Electric ha alcanzado este lunes un acuerdo con Vivendi para comprarle el 20% de su participación en NBC. Ambas compañías han negociado durante semanas el valor de este paquete de acciones en la cadena, finalmente pactado en 5.800 millones de dólares y que mantiene Comcast, el operador de cable más grande de Estados Unidos, informa The New York Times .

General Electric ha alcanzado este lunes un acuerdo con Vivendi para comprarle el 20% de su participación en NBC. Ambas compañías han negociado durante semanas el valor de este paquete de acciones en la cadena, finalmente pactado en 5.800 millones de dólares (3.850 millones de euros) y que mantiene Comcast, el operador de cable más grande de Estados Unidos, informa The New York Times .