On Genova Street in downtown Mexico City, illegally copied CDs of music by top U.S. artists sell for 20 pesos, just under $2 a piece, in tiny booths between tables overflowing with batteries, stuffed animals and cheap knockoff sunglasses. That's about one-tenth the price in nearby stores. Complete Story
China's Internet regulators are stepping up controls on blogs and search engines to block material it considers unlawful or immoral, the government said Friday.
A massive effort by Internet users to prohibit telephone and cable companies from providing better service and prices to preferred customers failed to get through a Senate committee on Wednesday.
A vendor of security software wants to make the Web safer to browse by creating virtual boxes set off from the rest of your machine.
Five leading online service providers will jointly build a database of child-pornography images and develop other tools to help network operators and law enforcement better prevent distribution of the images.
The major Web browsers are getting facelifts as they increasingly become the focal point for handling business transactions and running programs over the Internet rather than simply displaying Web sites.
A Russian and Chinese-led bloc of Asian states said Thursday it plans to set up an expert group to boost computer security and help guard against threats to their regimes from the Internet.
A lot of people are eager to see Dan Bricklin's latest product. It's a new piece of software, which means there are features to program and bugs to work out. This isn't an easy task, especially when you work alone, as he does.
Philip Kaplan, the bawdy joker behind a profane Web site that skewered casualties of the dot-com bust, found out mocking other executives is easier than trying to run a rapidly expanding company.
A major wrestling match in Congress over control of the Internet features some strange tag teams — rockers and evangelists vs. phone companies and the Bells' usually biggest adversary, cable TV companies.
Representatives from law enforcement and the high-tech industry met Friday to discuss ways Internet service providers can better preserve customer records that prosecutors might need to pursue child pornography cases, people familiar with the meeting said.
A couple who photographed a woman bleeding after a botched abortion agreed to stop discussing her case to settle a lawsuit over a picture posted on the Internet with her medical records.
The head of the FBI says Internet companies should retain customer records for two years to help the federal government investigate not only porn but also terrorism.
It should come as no surprise that most Americans with Internet access at work do some personal Web surfing on the job. A new survey finds that half of them would rather give up their morning coffee than forgo that ability.
African Internet users pay on average 90 times what Americans pay, crippling efforts by the world's poorest continent to become competitive, a senior Kenyan official said.
The government dismantled a $2.5 billion offshore Internet gambling operation, the Justice Department said Wednesday, charging two fugitives and their companies with laundering gambling proceeds from Internet casino games and sporting events.
Faced with opposition from conservative groups and some pornography Web sites, the Internet's key oversight agency voted Wednesday to reject a proposal to create a red-light district on the Internet.
The founders of the popular social networking site MySpace.com are among the winners of this year's Webby online achievement awards.
A U.S. appeals panel sharply challenged the Bush administration Friday over new rules making it easier for police and the FBI to wiretap Internet phone calls. A judge said the government's courtroom arguments were "gobbledygook."
A group of cigarette distributors and sellers sued New York Wednesday seeking to overturn a law banning Internet, telephone and mail order tobacco sales.
By sending data using different colors of light, operators of the ultrahigh-speed Internet2 network are hoping to boost capacity by as much as 80-fold to enable researchers to connect telescopes around the world and perform other bandwidth-intensive tasks.
The U.S. online population has hit an all-time high: 73 percent of adults, or 147 million, now use the Internet.
The British Broadcasting Corp. is revamping its Web site to incorporate more user-generated content such as blogs and video, features already available through the popular social networking site MySpace. The broadcaster also has long-term plans to create broadband portals in such areas as sports, music, health and science.
Microsoft Corp. is releasing a new test version of Internet Explorer, the market-leading Web browser that is facing competition from smaller players.
Saying surfing the web is equivalent to reading a newspaper or talking on the phone, an administrative law judge has suggested that only a reprimand is appropriate as punishment for a city worker accused of failing to heed warnings to stay off the Internet.