You might have heard about Verizon's new 20/20 symmetric FiOS—a sweet 20Mbps upstream and down. But 20 ain't 100, and we're damn jealous of the Japanese, so we got on the phone and asked the guys managing Verizon's tubes what's around the bend. The scoop for citydwellers is that we can expect "not too distant" announcements about FiOS availability

This spring, Verizon will be adding video transcoding and streaming to their DVR software, in addition to cell phone scheduling.