There were heaps of irony, and not a little schadenfreude, when Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt got himself a bi-partisan grilling before the Senate Antitrust Subcommittee, just two days before the FCC formally released its rules governing an Open Internet.
Since changes are both inevitable and usually a sign of improvement and progress, you'd think that most people would be in favor of them, rather than rallying in protest. Why all the fuss?
There's a bill in the U.S. Congress that would give permanent legal status to immigrants if they attract $1 million in investment or generate $1 million in revenue for their company. It's a pretty simple idea that does not cost taxpayers anything.
The stories about AT&T;'s financial arrangements with ADE and HTTP should trouble people of color and make them question whether their interests are truly being represented in Washington.
'Virtual classes' qualify as blended learning, because most of those kids are enrolled in traditional high schools. That's a growth industry: Just a few years ago only eight states allowed virtual courses or schools; today, nearly 40 states allow it.
The Internet has always been the arena of the virtual bully, a playground of casual cruelty, its anonymity allowing us to turn on our bile spigot at full force.
While technology is no panacea for the world's challenges, its place at the decision making table of all aspects of our future is undeniable.
The cell phone has dramatically changed the face of journalism; that face is one of the citizen who wields his mobile device and captures news as it happens-instantly trumpeting the story to the world via social media such as Twitter and Facebook.
Economic diplomats worldwide need to intensify their focus on Internet-related trade. Taking steps to develop international norms should lay the foundation for new technology issues that are approaching.
A bag of rice saved my iPhone a few days ago. I am often klutzy, sometimes dumb and occasionally very unlucky. On Sunday I hit the trifecta, managing to be all three at once.
The 2010 Republican nominee for governor of California is back. She won't be running California, but she will be running a California icon.
I am surprised when the word "inaccessible" is applied to poetry. Few writing forms are better engineered for our snap-synapse driven e-culture. And compellingly, poems coax meaning in a way similar to the best of social media
In 2011, with Twitter and Facebook, we have become a generation attached to our devices and it's making it increasingly difficult to maintain normal relationships because we're so focused on twittering and updating we tend to overlook our real lives.
At NetHope, we are partnering with several public and private organizations to deliver on an important commitment to action: scaling the development of young IT professionals.
Discovery has been a feature of the Internet for a long time, but there's an important difference between "today's most-emailed stories" and content that relates to the stories I've read, liked, or reviewed. This is discovery based on me.
I conducted a small experiment to begin to see the extent to which online advertisers engage in racial targeting. The following shows the results of this preliminary investigation of racial and economic profiling through Google Adwords.
Are start-ups that cater to the female consumer damaging the credibility of women entrepreneurs?
We rely on businesses to self-report incidences of attacks and intrusions without any means to verify their statements. To turn the tide in the fight against cyber crime, we first need to know its true impact.
If you're an experienced coder and user interface designer, nothing is easier than throwing together a web site. (Heck, in Silicon Valley even the waiters can do it.) But for the rest of us mortals, whose eyes glaze over at the thought of web site design, here's a handy how-to guide.
