Internet freedom going bye bye? The left believes in free speech for their side but not thee? Interesting information from FCC Commissioner speech - very good to read - powerful speech against Net Neutrality - you really need to see what she has to s
The United Nations is considering whether to set up an inter-governmental working group to harmonise global efforts by policy makers to regulate the internet.
The United Nations is considering whether to set up an inter-governmental working group to harmonise global efforts by policy makers to regulate the internet.
Establishment of such a group has the backing of several countries, spearheaded by Brazi
Upgrading its photo-sharing service, Facebook announced today that it will soon enable facial-recognition technology-meaning that when members upload photographs and are encouraged to "tag" their friends, they will be able to choose from a list of su
Contentious Internet traffic rules facing a vote next week are likely to be adopted without radically veering from a proposal unveiled earlier in the month, telecommunications policy analysts said on Wednesday.
Sen. Benjamin Cardin, D-Md has introduced a bill that would require the government and the private sector to require minimum cybsersecurity standards for devices that connect to the Internet.
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg is at the center of change. Born in 1984, the same year the Macintosh computer was launched, he is both a product of his generation and an architect of it.
Paul Butler, an intern with the Facebook data infrastructure engineering team, has created a gorgeous map of the world that illustrates the human connections on Facebook and the distances those relationships span.
During the civil rights era, the sit-in became a popular and effective form of protest against businesses that denied service to black people. Though legally ambiguous, the harsh reactions of authorities against the peaceful protesters ultimately won
What governments around the world are suddenly beginning to realize is that a free internet is ultimately incompatible with government secrets, and secrets are essential to any government that wants to remain in power.
Contacts told American diplomats that hacking attacks against Google were ordered by China's top ruling body and a senior leader demanded action after finding search results that were critical of him, leaked U.S. government memos show.
One memo se
SEI Wealth Network, a division of SEI, a wealth management firm, polled high net worth individuals about their use of social networking sites in general. The results were just short of astounding. A whopping 70 percent of the respondents affirmed the
An American company that had been directing traffic to the WikiLeaks website withdrew its services late Thursday, making the site invisible for several hours. EveryDNS.net, which helps computers locate the sites of its members, said WikiLeaks had bre
A group of "crush fetishists" has caused an online storm in China after uploading graphic videos showing attractive young Chinese women crushing small rabbits. In the widely circulated videos, several smiling women are seen in turn cuddling and playi
The Homeland Security Department's customs enforcement division has gone on a Web site shutdown spree, closing down at least 76 domains this week, according to online reports.
While many of the web domains were sites that trafficked in counterfeit
"For a lot of people, this will be their first experience of the Internet. They are at a huge advantage to previous Internet generations because they are leapfrogging all those fixed line technologies.
Which search is more likely to yield malware: a child's research for a school current events project or a male's search for nude photos of Paris Hilton? The answer may surprise you.
It’s a testament to the enduring power of e-mail that the company that got 500 million people to communicate on its own private network might now be eager to give them a tool to break out of the walled garden and contact the outside world.
The head of NY City's transit union wants to go after an anonymous blogger who's blasted him, and he's asking a court to force Google to give up his critic's name.
John Samuelsen says the blog has repeatedly defamed him with false accusations of inc
Europe will run out of capacity for new internet addresses by early next year, potentially cutting the UK off from the rest of the world online, one of the founding fathers of the communications network warned today. Vint Cerf, vice-president of Goog
As for the "kill switch" support, respondents could be interpreting what that might entail in different ways. "They might not be thinking about what the implications would mean .. they might be thinking of him blocking a particular country [or attack
Twitter users angered by the conviction of a man who threatened to blow up an airport in a Twitter joke showed support for him in their thousands today, thumbing their noses at the law by republishing the words that landed him in trouble.
Paul Cha
Emails and mobile phone text messages would be stored for six months by internet service providers (ISPs), according to a bill presented by the Swedish government on Thursday to bring the country in line with EU data retention rules.
The Obama administration is preparing a stepped-up approach to policing Internet privacy that calls for new laws and the creation of a new position to oversee the effort, according to people familiar with the situation.
The Pentagon's new Cyber Command is seeking authority to carry out computer network attacks around the globe to protect U.S. interests, drawing objections from administration lawyers uncertain about the legality of offensive operations.
Cooks Source magazine pulled a blogger's article from the Internet and, when an apology was requested by the offended blogger, an editor responded the blogger should be "grateful for the edit." Needless to say, this didn't sit too well with the Inter
"Jihadist content" on a US-based website calling for action against British lawmakers who backed the Iraq War has been removed after Britain contacted US authorities. The RevolutionMuslim.com website printed the details after Roshonara Choudhry was j