Comcast in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, US is speeding up the existing Internet while CERN has created a parallel Internet called "The Grid".  Only Comcast’s offering will be seen by everyday users (in one small part of 1 state out of 50) while the CERN project is shared between research and academic institutions in Europe, America, and the Far East.

It looks like Microsoft may release the successor to Windows Vista earlier than it planned. No less than Microsoft’s CEO Bill Gates gave a hint that Vista’s successor, Windows 7, may soon be hitting the development stage as early as next year.