And with that unlimited data plan goes my love life.

Unless federal regulators stop it, AT&T will soon acquire T-Mobile, which makes me worry that Verizon might try to buy Sprint. If that happens, competition in most markets will be reduced to two major companies, reminiscent of the not-so-good-old-days.

Fabrice Tourre (a.k.a. the "Fabulous Fab"), the Goldman Sachs mortgage trader who has become synonymous with Wall Street shenanigans, has now become s...

While it is hard not to be taken with the tool just by virtue of it being really cool, I found it inspiring for how we can perhaps teach people about their personal privacy.

Any expectation of privacy as an absence of data collection is unrealistic. It is impossible to hide from "Big Data." It cannot be eliminated. But it can be tamed and rendered trustworthy.

Data.gov, IT.USASpending.gov, and other five other websites that offer platforms for open government transparency are facing imminent closure.

As a connected global society, people are sharing opinions, reviews, thoughts, and movements with one another all day, every day. That in itself is remarkable. We call it the real-time global brain.

Despite the indoctrination of mathematics throughout primary and secondary education, we are by and large afraid of data.

AT&T knows it's losing the future. Its strategy? To slow down the future's inevitable arrival, one overage charge at a time. Squeeze a few more dollars out of the customer, while squeezing the life out of budding competitors.

Last October, Todd Park, the chief technology officer at the Department of Health and Human Services (HSS) announced HealthData.gov at the HealthCamp ...