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The world of hackers can be roughly divided into three groups. "Black hats", "white hats", and "grey hats". read more

Where are you likelier to encounter dirty language and coarse culture -- in unregulated newspapers or regulated broadcast television? read more

The smearing of Shirley Sherrod ought to be a turning point in American politics. read more

What are you doing on your summer vacation? Relaxing at the beach? Enjoying friends and family? Or are you checking your smartphone every five minutes? read more

Google is not making us stupid, PowerPoint is not destroying literature, and the Internet is not really changing our brains. But they may well be making us think we're smarter than we really are, and that is a dangerous thing. read more

The sleek handheld device includes an Internet browser, a multimedia player, a PDF reader, and video conferencing ability. But its biggest attraction is the price: $35. read more

Congress begins work July 27 on a bill to overturn a 2006 law banning Internet gambling in the US. read more

Two years ago, the Federal Communications Commission stumbled as it tried to create a nationwide wireless broadband network for police officers, firefighters and emergency medical workers, delaying the construction of what everyone agrees is an urgently needed system. Now the agency is hoping to rework the plan. read more

The United States still trails much of the world in broadband development, ranking 23rd on the list of the top 57 countries, according to rankings released by analyst firm Strategy Analytics. read more

Lucky Charms. Froot Loops. Cocoa Pebbles. A ConAgra frozen dinner with corn dog and fries. McDonald's Happy Meals. These foods might make a nutritionist cringe, but all of them have been identified by food companies as healthy choices they can advertise to children under a three-year-old initiative by the food industry to fight childhood obesity. read more

A Q&A with DirecTV Chief Executive Mike White. read more

CTIA, the lobbying arm of the wireless industry, is taking the city of San Francisco to court over a controversial new cellphone law. read more

On July 23, the Obama Administration proposed trying to enhance access for people with disabilities to websites for hotels, retail stores and other public sites as well as improve access to movie theaters. read more

How do you use your Internet connection? Is it simply a way for you to get access to the news and entertainment handpicked by your Internet service provider and offered up on portals like comcast.net, verizon.net, or rr.com? Is all you see and read at the mercy of some unseen editor, like with cable TV or your local newspaper? Or is it more like the telephone -- a general-purpose connection granting access to everything else on the Internet, like other newspapers, Skype, the DMV, the Old Spice guy, or HuffPo? read more

No matter how many times the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) says he has no intention of "regulating the Internet," there will always be politicians using the talking points of the big telecommunications empires to attack him for wanting to "regulate the Internet." read more

Seventeen months after the U.S. stimulus law authorized billions to subsidize electronic health records (EHRs), 864 pages of rules for how physicians and hospitals must show "meaningful use" of the technology are finally set. Now comes the hard part: implementing the technology in a country where, by one estimate, only 17 percent of doctors use EHRs at all. read more

All politics may be local, but apparently not enough journalism is. As newspapers keep cutting back on staff and printing skimpier editions, journalists, entrepreneurs and ordinary citizens have responded by creating websites to cover the local news they feel is going underreported read more

One group of people not contributing to the erosion of paid newspaper subscriptions: our duly elected representatives and their staffs. read more

Whereas most media firms scramble to create iPad applications or fret about whether to chase online advertisers or build paywalls, a few digital resisters refuse to distribute over the Internet at all. read more

The problem is just the scarcity of the airwaves — there are times when too many people want to use their devices at the same time. read more