If you were hunting for a book most ReadWriteWeb readers would, based on the title, find irrelevant to their pursuits, you could do worse…

Ericsson's Networked Society Program has produced a second documentary, which is available for viewing by ReadWriteWeb readers a day…

When Keith Jones and Deon Maas first started trying to pull together the footage, sources and sound for their documentary, Punk in Africa…

The closer the present approaches an imagined future, the more it inspires a look backward. As computers became Star Trek pads, people got…

When I read Jon Mitchell's post on Glassmap, my first thought was, "Who in God's name would want anyone, even friends, knowing where they…

Hamza Kashgari, who fled his native Saudi Arabia, has been sent back to face a possible death penalty. He left the country, intending to…

A 23-year-old Saudi Twitter user, Hamza Kashgari, fled the country Sunday to avoid being arrested for his religious tweets, only to find…

"Conflict minerals," those mined to support groups conducting armed conflict or engaging in human rights abuses, have been an issue since…

NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission has released the first footage shot of the moon's far side. The…

Anyone with an abiding interest in American music will have heard of Alan Lomax. His travels around the U.S. and through other countries…

Google has reportedly fired its Kenya country manager, Olga Arara-Kimani, over a fraudulent use of Mocality's data. Nairobitech…

The Federal High Court in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa sentenced expatriate journalist and blogger Elias Kifle to life in prison…

We're always on the lookout for upcoming Web tech events from around world. Know of something taking place that should appear here? Want…

Terry Gou, chairman of Taipei-based Hon Hai, Foxconn's parent company, called his employees animals at a recent company party, according…

Since the Kenyan army has gone into Somalia in October (during my trip to Kenya), the main Islamist group Al-Shabaab has used Twitter in its…

China Real Time, the Wall Street Journal's blog devoted to the world's second-largest country, has developed and launched China Econtracker…

We're always on the lookout for upcoming Web tech events from around world. Know of something taking place that should appear here? Want…

Mocality, a Kenya-based crowd-sourced web and mobile business listings company, has accused Google of fraudulently stealing its customers…

The Guggenheim is one of the real standouts in the global modern art arena. The New York-based institution is no light-weight in the area of…

On Monday, Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin staged the first production of a play live on Facebook. The play was a stage adaptation of the…

Chinese smartphone manufacturer ZTE jumped ahead of Apple worldwide last year, according to IDG. ZTE doubled its shipped products in the…

The latest strike in the little cyber war between Israel and the Saudi hacker group xp-group, led by 0xOmar, has taken the form of an…

Described by gaming site Kotaku as a potentially "deadly game of chicken," over 300 workers at the Foxconn factory in China threatened…

After a cyber-attack by a hacker claiming to be Saudi, Israel has vowed a strong response. "(Such an attack is) a breach of sovereignty…