Next time you buy a new car, ask the salesperson about the "black box."
Linda Milazzo | Posted 08.26.2008 | Politics
At the very core of patriotism is the desire to preserve and enhance democracy. For true patriots - those who take their love of nation beyond the c...
Philip G. Baker | Posted 08.21.2008 | Business
Is the Apple 3G phone fatally flawed?
Wired | Ryan Singel | Posted 08.17.2008 | Business
Online advertising networks -- particularly Google's -- are more dangerous than the fledgling plans and dreams of ISPs to install eavesdropping equipm...
Silicon Alley Insider | Vasanth Sridharan | Posted 07.10.2008 | Business
Most of us can get an iPhone 3G for $199 when it comes out on Friday. But some AT&T customers -- ones who didn't buy the first iPhone, and who aren't ...
Wallstrip | Posted 07.09.2008 | Business
Wallstrip's Julie Alexandra talks about the impending struggle for bandwidth freedom as Internet providers consider charging users for heavy Web use. ...
Philip G. Baker | Posted 07.05.2008 | Business
Next Friday morning the new iPhone 3G will go on sale at Apple and AT&T stores beginning at 8 am. While Apple's announcement made the new phone seem l...
Joel Schwartzberg | Posted 07.03.2008 | Living
I guess it makes more sense to celebrate our freedom from government tyranny and interference before we give them the okay to monitor our private conversations. No one wants to be a party pooper.
Timothy Karr | Posted 06.03.2008 | Media
While a generation of Americans can barely remember life without Google, millions of households still can't send an e-mail, pay bills online, or conduct research for school.
AP | PETER SVENSSON | Posted 05.01.2008 | Business
NEW YORK — AT&T Inc. is launching its new video service for cell phones Sunday on two phones, and will charge $15 per month for 10 channels. AT...
AP | Posted 04.18.2008 | Business
NEW YORK — AT&T Inc. on Friday said it plans to cut about 4,600 jobs, or 1.5 percent of its work force, to shift resources to growing parts of i...
Timothy Karr | Posted 04.05.2008 | Media
For an excellent perspective on net neutrality, read Saturday's New York Times op-ed by OK Go guitarist Damian Kulash.
Timothy Karr | Posted 04.04.2008 | Media
There's no better time to hear from us. Comcast has been caught blocking BitTorrent, Verizon has been caught blocking text messages, AT&T wants to inspect and filter Web traffic.
Allison Kilkenny | Posted 03.31.2008 | Business
The CIA has enlisted Google's help for their exponentially expanding spy network. Google will claim they're aiding the CIA with national security, just as AT&T claimed, just as corporations always claim when they're caught spying on people for the government.
Shelly Palmer | Posted 03.27.2008 | Media
Other countries have 100 of something we have 1.5 of. They can move information much faster than we can. This is a real problem. Information = currency.
Reuters | Posted 03.27.2008 | Business
The head of the top U.S. phone company AT&T Inc (T.N) said on Wednesday it was having trouble finding enough skilled workers to fill all the 5,000 cus...
Timothy Karr | Posted 03.21.2008 | Media
Without action to restore Net Neutrality protections, the Web we get may be blinkered by phone and cable companies' ability to restrict the content and applications we may want to use.
Silicon Alley Insider | Dan Frommer | Posted 03.07.2008 | Business
Sprint Nextel has no shortage of supposed suitors: Pretty much every phone company, Google (GOOG), and Comcast (CMCSA) have all been rumored as intere...
Timothy Karr | Posted 03.04.2008 | Media
You would hope that Wall Street Journal editors had learned enough public policy by now to pull their writers' frequent rants against it into line with actual history.
New York Times | Laura M. Holson | Posted 03.03.2008 | Business
Hollywood and Silicon Valley have something of a Mars/Venus problem: the two sides are talking but they don't speak each other's language. A new ventu...
Silicon Alley Insider | Dan Frommer | Posted 02.28.2008 | Business
Sprint Nextel's new plan to hang on to fleeing customers: An all-you-can-eat calling package priced $10 below its competitors. Sprint plans to sell a...
Silicon Alley Insider | Dan Frommer | Posted 02.27.2008 | Business
Apple's iPhone has been a big hit for exclusive U.S. carrier AT&T -- but it's an expensive one. In its annual report to the SEC (PDF), AT&T said sell...
Huffington Post | Posted 02.25.2008 | Business
On Monday, Visa announced that it was looking to raise $19 billion from its initial public offering (IPO), which would make it the largest in U.S. his...
AP | PETER SVENSSON | Posted 02.19.2008 | Business
NEW YORK — Verizon Wireless introduced an unlimited calling plan $99.99 a month on Tuesday, a move that was quickly matched by AT&T Mobility and...
Josh Silver | Posted 02.13.2008 | Media
If Tuesday's immunity vote holds, the largest phone companies will only be emboldened in their efforts to control the Internet.
Saturday Night Live's sketch about the vice presidential debate starred Queen...
At a rally on Saturday in California,...
WASHINGTON — By claiming that Democrat Barack Obama is "palling around...
The McCain campaign is all set to roll out...
About a year ago, I had a memorable chat with a high-ranking Republican operative. ...
The following are my comments from the stage at yesterday's Vote...
In the latest instance of inflammatory outbursts...
Katie Couric was out shopping in midtown with her daughters...
Actor and activist Alec Baldwin appeared on "Real Time with Bill Maher" Friday night. At several points...
WASHINGTON — The now-bankrupt...
WASHINGTON — Hurricane Ike's winds and massive waves destroyed...
Last week's post began an exploration into what style is today and how this relates to each of us. If we...
Two French scientists who discovered the AIDS virus and a German who defied convention...
Steve Parker | Posted 10.07.2008 | Business