When the federal government spends more than a year developing a 300 page report on national broadband policy, perhaps the last thing one expects to find in it is a quote from Shakespeare's ... (more)

The Feds are on Facebook. And MySpace, LinkedIn and Twitter, too. U.S. law enforcement agents are following the rest of the Internet world into popular social-networking services, ... (more)

Dan Glickman spent his Hollywood years aiming to improve the ratings system that tells Americans what to expect in a movie - and fighting pirates. Glickman, the outgoing chairman ... (more)

Gamers have long known that patience is rewarded with cheaper, less-buggy games. But does that adage hold true for the inclusion of digital rights management as well? Not always, but ... (more)

NDP MP and musician, Charlie Angus, wants to extend the private copying levy. It was introduced in 1997 on blank tapes and CDs. The bill, C-499, would provide a legal framework for ... (more)

Microsoft today unveiled a public sneak peek of its newest browser, Internet Explorer 9 (IE9), aimed at Web developers and the technically brave of heart. "The Platform Preview, ... (more)

The Federal Communications Commission made its National Broadband Plan public Monday outlining specific recommendations for policy makers over the next decade to ensure all Americans ... (more)

Police in Greece have closed down, pending trial, the BitTorrent index and tracker site Gamato.info that had been used to facilitate large-scale copyright infringement of music, film, ... (more)

Motion controls and social gaming were the hot topics at this week's Game Developers Conference, the annual convention of game designers, programmers and executives. Sony shook up ... (more)

After early calls to shut down a Spanish file-sharing site were dismissed, music group SGAE pinned its hopes on success at the full trial. But, the outcome for them was nothing short ... (more)

The British proposal, set to be taken up by the House of Commons on Monday, goes further. Under an amendment to the bill in the House of Lords this month, courts would be empowered ... (more)

BitTorrent is an Internet protocol that was developed by Bram Cohen in 2001. It is optimized for downloading large files from multiple sources (users) at the same time. In BitTorrent ... (more)

Researchers at Stanford University have just made a major breakthrough that may impact the technology industry for years to come: they've built a better battery. The project, an attempt ... (more)

Worried about preserving your privacy in an online world where privacy is disappearing? Here are seven Firefox add-ons that will help. ... (more)

Broadband provider TalkTalk UK and Dan Bull, the musician behind two comedy tongue-in-cheek Dear Lily and Dear Mandy videos, have teamed to do another music video that seeks to mock ... (more)

The uTorrent team released the long-awaited version 2.0 of their popular application last month. The overall reception has been very positive, but critics have labeled the new release ... (more)

The internet celebrates a landmark event on the 15 March - the 25th birthday of the day the first dotcom name was registered. In March 1985, Symbolics computers of Cambridge, Massachusetts ... (more)

AUSTIN, Texas - At its annual South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) party Saturday night, Digg announced that it will soon launch a significantly revamped version of its service that ... (more)

The Apple iPad, which goes on sale April 3, will access video, applications and Web sites wirelessly - no cords or cables needed. But to move your trusty old music collection onto this ... (more)

BPI, the organisation that represents music publishers, appears to have drafted the controversial Amendment 120a to the Digital Economy Bill put forward by Conservative and Liberal ... (more)

Ford is developing anti-hacking technology in a bid to make upcoming in-car WiFi systems resistant against drive-by downloads and other forms of computer security attacks. The next ... (more)

Time is now on the side of online advertisers. Advertisers have been able to direct online messages based on demographics, income and even location, but one element has been largely ... (more)

The ebb and flow of gas and electricity into your home contains surprisingly detailed information about your daily life. Energy usage data, measured moment by moment, allows the reconstruction ... (more)

The Federal Communications Commission is proposing an ambitious 10-year plan that will reimagine the nation’s media and technology priorities by establishing high-speed Internet as ... (more)

New Zealand's government-run Internet filtering system is now running, and two ISPs are already using the system. Seven thousand websites are on the list, most dealing with child sexual ... (more)

You’re at work, on holiday, or halfway through a vital conversation about last night’s television. Suddenly, you realise the phone’s battery is about to run out. It’s a very ... (more)

Digital music fans will not be deterred by filesharing clampdowns introduced by the Digital Economy Bill, a survey by broadband service provider Talk Talk has found. Instead, eighty ... (more)

Mandybill Ian Livingston, the boss of Britain's biggest ISP BT, is lobbying for the government's proposed technical sanctions against filesharers to be replaced with fines. He said ... (more)

At the RSA Conference in San Francisco last week, security vendors pitched their next-generation of security products, promising to protect customers from security threats in the cloud ... (more)

The Norwegian Nobel Institute yesterday announced there are 237 nominees for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize. Though the the institute doesn't normally disclose who made the list, an official ... (more)