There were reports of widespread outages of Twitter's main Web site Saturday, with speculation centering on the problems stemming from a…

Social media, types of media where everyday people can publish and subscribe to what one another publishes, have changed the world. At…

Burning Man is, in some ways, a virtual world. It's not unlike Second Life: a flat, empty plane onto which creator/participants build a…

Waiting for a Google Plus invite? Google is rolling out the service in waves and you can expect it to become a ubiquitous social option in…

Computers keep getting closer and closer to making people obsolete. The latest step towards human obsolescence? Dropbox Automator, a…

We all know that cyberspace can be a nasty place, but a new study from Bitdefender shows exactly how easy it is to compromise personal…

The Web publishing world was saddened to wake up this morning to the news from three nights earlier, repeated from a presumably reputable…

If you’re using WordPress, the options you are mostly likely to use are to run your own stack, use a shared hosting provider that…

I got all excited this morning when I saw a link on Hacker News to BitPocket, one of the latest so-called “DIY Dropbox”…

The answer is to moderate our use of and dependence on social media, especially Facebook. Frictionless sharing, the act of passively…

How long have you held your current position? If you answered less than two years, you are not alone. It seems that turnover could be IT's…

An intern once asked me, what's the difference between a "journalist" of my day and a "blogger" of his? I laughed and told him my day ain't…

At the end of this discourse, to borrow a phrase from my hero, Edward R. Murrow, a few people may accuse this reporter of fouling his own…

We bring in the new year with a new Pokki developer contest. Like the one we mentioned in October, you have a chance to win 30 large. But…

Over the past week I read Kevin Kelly's latest book, What Technology Wants. It's a highly ambitious and expansive book, which looks at…

Out with the old, in with the new. One of the “old” ways of thinking that finally kicked the bucket in 2011? That users could…

While certainly not every business needs to raise venture financing, it is the path for many high-growth technology startups. Therefore…

Compared to how things used to be done with desktop computers, accessing your smartphone seems as instantaneous as it gets. You just pick up…

My colleague Dan Dern (who has written for us from time to time) has done an excellent two-part extensive review of iPad keyboards for…

"Blogging is largely dead." "There are a lot of stupid people out there ... and stupid people shouldn't write." "There needs to be a…

Not unsurprisingly, this holiday season was a big one for the world's biggest e-commerce retailer. But it wasn't just all those…

Men are more likely than women to turn to Facebook and other social networks for healthcare purposes, according to a survey by accounting…

On April 3, 2010, Apple officially launched its much anticipated tablet: the iPad. It was the most hyped tech product of the year, but for…

They say Big Data is going to be big business, big innovation - a big deal. But how is it going to go down? Applied math and decision…