What do San Jose, California, Plano, Texas and North Bergen, New Jersey have in common? They are among the 23 U.S. cities that made the top 100 list of fastest broadband cities worldwide, according to the "State of The Internet" report to be released in early February by Akamai.Read more

Innovations in healthcare are providing significant advantages for the U.S. medical system, including increased efficiency, lower costs, and most importantly, improved patient care.Read more

I grew up in rural Illinois. By "rural" I mean, I grew up outside of a town of 3,000 people, in the middle of cornfields. By Illinois standards, that's a pretty small town. By the standards of the rest of the Midwest, that's not "that" rural. We were just close enough to the central hub of Chicago to have the amenities of reliable phone service.Read more

Every February, sports fans and commercial-lovers alike gather together in living rooms across America to watch the highly anticipated showdown of the two best teams in professional football. Recognizing how much people value the Super Bowl, NBC announced they will be live streaming the game for the first time ever, in addition to their TV broadcast.Read more

The Internet has provided us with many conveniences, and continued innovation has only increased our connectivity to information and to one another . What if broadband could do more than just connect people to other people? What if it could integrate the online experience into errands as basic as supermarket shopping? As shown in the new Broadband for America TV ad, it can and it will.Read more

A new report released by Google on Monday shows the Internet economy of G-20 nations will nearly double in value to $4.2 trillion by 2016. According to the report, nearly three billion people will use the Internet, approximately 45 percent of the world’s population.Read more