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The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Netlist, Optimer Pharmaceuticals, Aeterna Zentaris, Affymax, Star Scientific, Medicines Co., and Canadian Solar. The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Avago Technologies, RF Micro Devices, Transition Therapeutics, Avanir Pharmaceuticals, and Vodafone Group.

Rural homes and businesses in Devon, Somerset, Norfolk and Wiltshire will get super-fast broadband connection, the UK government has said.

Activist investor Pardus Capital Management called on Clearwire Corp to resume efforts to sell wireless airwaves in order to strengthen its hand in negotiations with majority owner Sprint Nextel.

Researchers have set a new record for the rate of data transfer using just a single laser which could help to broadcast three-dimensional high-definition television signals and support the continued rollout of cloud computing.

The United States is still lagging behind other industrialized countries in terms of broadband adoption and download speed, according to a report released by the Federal Communications Commission on Friday.

The United States continues to lag behind other countries in broadband adoption and download speeds, according to a report released by the Federal Communications Commission on Friday.

Sony Corp has been hacked again.So-Net, the Internet service provider unit of Japan's Sony, alerted customers an intruder broke into its system and stole virtual points worth $1,225 from account holders.

Sony Corp has been hacked again.So-Net, the Internet service provider unit of Japan's Sony, alerted customers an intruder broke into its system and stole virtual points worth $1,225 from account holders.

Sony Corp has been hacked again.So-Net, the Internet service provider unit of Japan's Sony, alerted customers an intruder broke into its system and stole virtual points worth $1,225 from account holders.

Sony Corp has been hacked again.So-Net, the Internet service provider unit of Japan's Sony, alerted customers that an intruder broke into its system and stole virtual points from account holders worth $1,225.

Sony Corp has been hacked again.So-Net, the Internet service provider unit of Japan's Sony, alerted customers that an intruder broke into its system and stole virtual points from account holders worth $1,225.

Verizon Wireless said it is expanding the 4G LTE network in Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, New Orleans and Philadelphia.

Movie and TV streaming site Netflix has become the biggest source of internet traffic in the US, accounting for 29.7 percent of downstream Internet traffic during peak times, according to a new research.

Google’s Superfast broadband internet service will be launched in Kansas City, Mo. by 2012 beginning and then it will tip-toe to the Missouri side of the state line in the next few months.

Following are the Oppenheimer's top equity ideas for May. The stocks are based on their view of the company's fundamentals in the context of current market conditions.

AT&T’s data cap has been in effect for a week and public interest groups are asking questions.

Jefferies & Co. initiated coverage of AsiaInfo-Linkage, Inc. (NASDAQ: ASIA) with a buy rating and a price target of $27, implying 41 percent upside.

Telecoms gear maker Ericsson blasted past first-quarter core profit expectations thanks to surging mobile broadband sales but said it would take until the third quarter to resolve Japan quake supply problems.

The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: LM Ericsson Telephone, Silicon Image, SAVVIS, ShoreTel, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Questcor Pharmaceuticals, and Vical. The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: MIPS Technologies, Broadcom, SuccessFactors, Entropic Communications, and RF Micro Devices.

Telecoms gear maker Ericsson blasted past first-quarter core profit expectations thanks to surging mobile broadband sales and hopes to resolve Japan quake supply problems later this year.

Telecoms gear maker Ericsson blasted past first-quarter core profit expectations thanks to surging mobile broadband equipment sales, and said it hoped to have post-Japan quake supply problems ironed out by the end of the third quarter.