The New York Times reports on the growing number of smartphones in prisons, where phones are a federal felony that comes with a sentence of an…

We first spotted this over at Waxy.org, Andy Baio's highly recommended web site. Some French guys ran the texts of the Wikileaked cables through a…

The Microsoft co-founder has been actively suing the following companies for a while now: Apple, Google, Facebook, eBay, AOL, Netflix, Yahoo,…

Amazon has been awarded a patent for a new way to return unwanted gifts. The current system is pretty cumbersome: you have to repackage the ugly…

Leon Walker snooped in his wife's Gmail account – used her password, logged on and started reading. From the Detroit Free Press:…

Yes, that's what they're really calling it. Works out since it's both the acronym of the name of the task force and what CIA employees are saying…

In a 3-2 vote, the FCC voted to adopt new rules about how broadband and wireless carriers treat web traffic and services. A lot of people are…

Our friends at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society say that the number of online attacks intended to shut down human rights groups'…

FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski has the votes to pass his net neutrality plan. The FCC is scheduled to vote today on this plan. Here's an excerpt…

Facebook is blocked in China but Zuckerberg was there to meet with the top brass at Baidu, the search engine of choice/availability for Chinese…