broadband connection

Ah, Comcast. Apparently the company sent an email to a user telling him that they had boosted the speeds on his broadband connection (which Comcast is trying to rebrand "Xfinity"), only to email him again a couple days later to admit they didn't really mean that.

Finland has just passed a law making access to broadband a legal right for Finnish citizens. When the law goes into effect in July 2010, every person in Finland, which has a population of around 5.3 million, will have the guaranteed right to a one-megabit broadband connection.

The FCC is set to share the nation's first official broadband plan with Congress Tuesday -- a sort of Declaration of the Internet that seeks to ensure that a fast broadband connection is just as much an unalienable right as life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

ET Editor Loyd upgrades his broadband connection, only to find it's slower than Japan or Korea--and more expensive.

Got a broadband connection and a networked Xbox 360 or PS3? You can watch Web-based video on your living room television set without an HTPC.