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Yes, you can transmit quantum states instantaneously. And that’s information, or a type of information. But you cannot send USEFUL information instantaneously. For instance, you could not quantumtatively (is that a word?) say, “The Klingons are going to hit you tomorrow at noon. Take cover,” to a colony four light years away, and expect it to be of any help to them. Or so I’ve heard.

Well not yet. But once you know that it works, then it's just a matter of being able to write as well as read. All we do now is check one side's state (it's UP), so now we know the other side's state is DOWN, which is confirmed by measuring it as well. The actual 'teleportation' isn;t stuff the scientists are doing, it's just what they're observing with the particles.

And once you get the basic principles somewhat understood, is when you can start applying the knowledge: eventually we'll be able to write a state to the local particle, which in theory means that the far particle changes its state at the exact same time. As soon as we have that ability, we have near-perfect military communications (for a direct one-to-one situation). We have electronic devices (is this still considered electronics, really?) that have zero lag time between components. You can have internet anywhere in the world, no wires or wireless needed: your router simply is connected to your router-b that is wired to an ISP node. Everyone and their mother out in the middle of nowhere, TX or the middle of the ocean can have connectivity.