The realtime web has become a habit. It's a twitch. More importantly, when I succumb to the reflex of checking it every few minutes or seconds, I do so at the expense of thinking.

The "Nigerian email scam" actually started in the 1970s using paper letters. Lately, though, Nigeria and so-called "scam baiters" have been cracking down on the frauds' perpetrators.

Is email becoming obsolete? Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg seems to think so. At Nielsen's Consumer 360 conference on Tuesday, Sandberg said that onl...

Politicians need to use the knowledge of Digital Divide issues to bring more people in, not use it to exclude more people.

While some critics have had mixed feelings, Apple has sold more iPad's this weekend than it did when the iPhone debuted and took 74 days to hit a million in sales.

Google is planning to offer a standard email option in Gmail in the next few months, two executives at the company say.

Is your email private? You may think it is, but you may also be surprised how easy it is for law enforcement to access it without a warrant.

Just over a month after a Facebook glitch sent personal messages to the wrong users, a new Facebook flub that struck yesterday evening exposed members...

If you want to reach your consumers in the internet age, tell the youngsters in the office that you're kickin' it old school with USPS.