Google says it will run fiber-to-the-home trials at the astounding data speed of 1 gigabit per second. They'll sell this service at "a competitive price" to 50,000 people, possibly rising to 500,000 people. Google says that's about 100 times faster than

Alcatel-Lucent said the economic environment "appears to be stabilizing" and that it expects its markets to recover in 2010. For the full year, however, Alcatel-Lucent, which was formed by a 2006 merger, reported its third successive full-year loss with

Research in Motion ramped up its API offerings for BlackBerry Monday with the announcement of new advertising and payment services, general availability of content and alert push to apps, and three new location-based services.

Apple overtook Nokia in the September quarter as the cellphone maker generating the highest total operating profit in the industry.