The best social network you've (probably) never heard of is one-five-hundredth the size of Facebook. It has no video chat feature, it doesn't let you check in...Slate From ACM Opinion | July 13, 2011
The United States may seriously want to consider creating a new Internet infrastructure to reduce the threat of cyberattacks, said Michael Hayden, President George...NextGov From ACM News | July 12, 2011
The Supreme Court ended its term with a high-profile ruling that violent video games are protected by the First Amendment, but a bigger technology decision could...Time From ACM News | July 11, 2011
Research In Motion (RIM), makers of the venerable BlackBerry devices, will always be remembered as the company that liberated corporate email from the PC. In...Time From ACM Opinion | July 8, 2011
When the Walt Disney Company bought Pixar Animation Studios for $7.4 billion in 2006, there was understandable concern that the media conglomerate that drove...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | July 7, 2011
Forty years ago, I wrote an article for Technology Review titled "Shall We Build the Space Shuttle?" Now, with the 135th and final flight of the shuttle at hand...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | July 6, 2011
Once upon a time, MySpace was the king and pioneer of social networking. When Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. bought the company for $580 million, it looked like...Arstechnica From ACM Opinion | June 30, 2011
According to the old saying, you learn more from a failure than a success. Well, if that's the case, the consumer electronics industry ought to have a master's...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | June 29, 2011
Apple notched a significant win last week when it was awarded a key patent related to basic multitouch functionality. The patent was first called "hugely problematic"...GigaOm From ACM Opinion | June 29, 2011
Your computer, your phone, and your other digital devices hold vast amounts of personal information about you and your family. Can police officers enter your...Electronic Frontier Foundation From ACM News | June 27, 2011
After just 50 days, the group said it was ceasing individual operations. Why, when you might have thought things were going so well?The Guardian From ACM Opinion | June 27, 2011
At Google, we’ve always focused on putting the user first. We aim to provide relevant answers as quickly as possible—and our product innovation and engineering...Google From ACM Opinion | June 24, 2011
For several months, EFF has been following the movement around Bitcoin, an electronic payment system that touts itself as "the first decentralized digital currency...Electronic Frontier Foundation From ACM Opinion | June 23, 2011
"For most artists," as the famous Tim O'Reilly aphorism has it "the problem isn't piracy, it's obscurity." To me, this is inarguably true and self-evident—the...The Guardian From ACM Opinion | June 21, 2011
In justifying U.S. involvement in Libya, the Obama administration cited the "responsibility to protect" citizens of other countries when their governments engage...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | June 20, 2011
Malware authors move fast. Following on from the previous blog post on Bitcoin botnet mining, we have seen a recent Trojan in the wild targeting Bitcoin wallets...Symantec From ACM News | June 17, 2011
Facebook's active user base grew by only 1.7% in May. That's about half its usual growth rate, and it came after similarly slow growth in April. According to Inside...Slate From ACM News | June 15, 2011
Every day there's another report of a computer hack. Yesterday it was a video game company and a U.S. Senate database. And today it could be the Federal Reserve...CNET From ACM News | June 15, 2011