During October, national Cyber Security Awareness Month, Americans should take special care to make sure their computers are safe from threats such as viruses, spyware and hackers. And Verizon, a leading provider of broadband services, is making it easy for all computer users to get the protection they need.

Like sports fans everywhere, Washington metro fans want more sports on TV - and Verizon plans to deliver. Starting this fall, local fans will have more ways to watch their favorite professional, college and high school teams when FiOS1, Verizon's local TV channel, adds new programming to its sports lineup

Beginning today, consumers in Medway have more choice in cable TV providers now that Verizon has introduced FiOS TV, making a broad range of programming choices and superior picture quality available to some 3,500 more Massachusetts households.

Residents of this Long Island village are a major step closer to having a real choice for their cable television service, thanks to a newly approved agreement authorizing Verizon to offers its FiOS TV service, delivered over the most advanced fiber-optic network straight to customers' homes.

Building on its revolutionary all-fiber-optic network that continues to grow in the Buffalo area, Verizon announced plans Thursday (Sept. 20) to establish a video hub office in Erie County.

Hyper-fast broadband and crystal-clear voice are now available to more than 2,000 Juanita-area households as the company expands its Verizon FiOS (FYE'-ose) suite of Internet services on the Eastside.

Beginning today, consumers in Methuen and Norwood have more choice in cable TV providers now that Verizon has introduced FiOS TV, making a broad range of programming choices and superior picture quality available to some 17,000 more Massachusetts households.

Verizon FiOS Internet customers will now get super-sized e-mail storage and access to their Verizon.net home e-mail accounts with select Verizon Wireless Get It Now-enabled phones from Verizon Wireless.

The Board of Directors of Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:VZ) today declared a quarterly dividend of 43 cents per outstanding share, an increase of 2.5 cents, or 6.2 percent, from the previous quarter. On an annual basis, this increases Verizon's dividend 10 cents per share, from $1.62 to $1.72 per share.

Residents of Methuen are a major step closer to having a real choice for their cable television services, thanks to a newly approved agreement authorizing Verizon to offer its FiOS TV service via the most advanced all-digital, fiber-optic network straight to customers' homes.

Mikron Technology Group, one of the world's leading providers of customer-specific manufacturing and assembly systems, has chosen Verizon Business to implement and manage a new communications network to link Mikron's offices in Europe, North America and Asia.