The aftermath of the Australian Open -- as well as the exceedingly long men's final that brought it to a close -- makes this as good a time as any to focus on the long drawn-out tennis season that follows the first major of the year.

Several...

As the number of hours we spend in virtual communities begins to surpass the amount of time spent in offline interactions, as social media rapidly becomes the most predominant channel of communication, as people increasingly choose virtual games over real playing fields, the electronic innards of computers everywhere are gradually...

Anyone that has worked in a research lab has at some point or other typed in a dozen combinations of key words in a Google search box to find a source for that elusive but crucial reagent, and sifted through scores of irrelevant page results before finally giving up.

Last week, Wired reported that In-Q-Tel, the CIA's technology arm, is investing in Visible Technologies, the social-media monitoring company, which tracks over half a million Web sites everyday. Many of the sites that the company surveys include blogs, online forums and open social networks, which can render public opinion...

A few weeks ago, while having issues with my cable service, Comcast became my rightful target for a string of disapproving tweets. They didn't go unnoticed. "@ComcastBill" responded to my complaints, and asked if there was any way he could help. I did not seek his advice or...

The tennis world breathed a collective sigh of relief, when after one of the most painful losses of his career, Andy Roddick sent out an upbeat message to over one hundred thousand followers on Twitter.

Defying the laws of grammar and just barely keeping to the more stringent...