Although government-aligned media outlets generally are faithful stenographers for the coercive caste, the same is not true of social media. Thus it's not surprising police are seeking to ban Facebook pages that document
One year after the first revelations of Edward Snowden, cryptography has shifted from an obscure branch of computer science to an almost mainstream notion:
In late April, the "contact us" form on the Peoria, Illinois, website experienced a sudden deluge of traffic. People from across the country wanted to let Peoria Mayor Jim Ardis know what they thought of his decision to get local police
When Google chief financial officer Patrick Pichette said the tech giant might bring 10 gigabits per second internet connections to American homes, it seemed like science fiction.
Google is putting its considerable weight behind an open source technology that's already one of the hottest new ideas in the world of cloud computing.
Google acquired Skybox, a company that provides high-res photos and video using low cost satellites for $500 million, extending their reach far beyond the internet, reported Wired.
Facebook will soon start tracking the browsing history of its users, and selling that data to advertisers. In addition, a list of all applications downloaded by those on the social media site will be available for sale.
Facebook announced the cha
'As a Houston resident with limited home broadband options, I found the following interesting: Dwight Silverman of the Houston Chronicle reports (warning: paywalled) that Comcast plans to turn 50,000 home routers into public Wi-Fi hotspots without th
Microsoft, one of the world's largest e-mail providers, is resisting a government search warrant to compel the firm to turn over customer data held in a server located overseas.
Amtrak has more passengers than ever before, but it still manages to lose loads of potential customers to crummy bus companies that run the same routes.
Mobile devices are projected to put over half the world's population online by 2018 — some 3.9 billion internet users — according to Cisco's State of the Internet Report released today.
A real issue is people who are oblivious to what they are giving up. Not everyone is informed and educated, this video aims to start a conversation so that users can educate themselves and then make informed decisions.
One of the founders of file-sharing website Pirate Bay has been arrested in southern Sweden to serve an outstanding sentence for copyright violations after being on the run for nearly two years, Swedish police said on Saturday.