FAIRFAX, VA. - Verizon Communications has flooded mailboxes, gone door to door and even handed out free ice cream as it seeks to sell its new FiOS television, telephone and high-speed Internet service.

January 26, 2005

Six years ago, "Six A" — a 400-pound robot used by the Department of Public Safety to defuse bombs and unruly people — could only travel about 300 feet.

May 8, 2004

NEW YORK - The nation's three biggest regional phone companies announced an agreement Thursday to standardize the construction of residential fiber-optic networks, in hopes of getting ultra-fast Internet connections to homes more quickly and less expensively.

STOCKHOLM -- Three Americans whose 1960s research laid the foundation for today's world of computerized images and lightning-fast communication shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for their work developing fiber-optic cable and the sensor at the heart of digital cameras.

The Met, a multiuse development in Chandler, soon will bring its residents the most advanced entertainment and communications services available in the area.

Pinal County’s 9-1-1 service has been restored after a three-hour outage Friday morning when a fiber optic line was damaged.

Qwest Communications International said Monday it will launch a “disciplined” upgrade of its broadband system in the East Valley and elsewhere in its 14-state service territory that will give computer users greatly increased Internet speeds.

More than 1,100 communities have approached Google Inc. in hopes of landing one of the ultra-fast broadband networks that the company plans to build in a handful of spots around the country.

 NEW YORK - US Airways said Thursday its computer system is returning to normal after a cut cable delayed about 100 flights.

The first roadway work related to Tempe’s planned streetcar is set to begin Monday in downtown as crews start locating underground utilities.

WASHINGTON - Federal regulators agreed Thursday to let states decide whether to spur competition between the regional Bell phone companies and their rivals, in a move that drew sharp criticism from Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell.

Scott Olson, a student at Gilbert’s Highland High School, was selected as one of eight recipients to receive the Arizona Science & Engineering Fair’s highest grand award.

Internet and long distance telephone services were disrupted in Pinal County and parts of southeast Maricopa County Friday when a Qwest Communications fiber optic line was cut by a backhoe.

DENVER - Sidelined in the merger game since its failed bid for MCI, Qwest Communications could end up acquiring assets, being acquired or standing alone in the fastconsolidating telecommunications industry.

WASHINGTON - Regulators adopted rules Thursday to promote the development of a new wireless technology that can send large amounts of information between buildings without the need to dig up streets to lay cables.

DAWSONVILLE, Ga. — Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday announced the first $182 million in federal stimulus money for 18 projects to expand high-speed Internet networks in rural areas and other underserved communities, including computer centers for 84 libraries in Arizona.

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Working with the basic material of computer chips, Intel Corp. researchers have constructed an all-silicon laser that could lead to computers one day harnessing light waves rather than electrical currents to shuttle data swiftly.

SANTA CLARA, Calif. - In an advance that could drive down the cost of optical networks and help make fiber as common as copper wires, Intel Corp. researchers have built a continuously shining laser with the same material — silicon — that’s the foundation of today’s chip industry.

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Intel, the world’s largest computer chip maker, is pushing a new wireless technology that it believes can bring ultra-highspeed Internet access to American homes as efficiently as fiber-optic networks.