A handful of tech companies are betting that smartphones will eventually serve a different role in the workplace than they do outside. The “bring your own device” trend — employers cutting IT budgets by requiring employees to use personal phones instead of company-provided devices ...

China's new government is threatening jail terms for Web comments deemed defamatory. But by Beijing's definition, "defamation" could mean anything that any politically connected person doesn't want to see made public.

Debate is back on in Washington on “Net neutrality” regulations that bar Internet broadband providers from blocking or discriminating against services or content. Arguments were held earlier this month in a court case brought by Verizon, one of the largest Internet service providers, challenging ...

Privacy in the traditional sense is most certainly dead. But the killer isn't the NSA. It's the Internet itself — or, more to the point, our entire reliance on it

Giving the five billion people who still stuck in the paper age digital access would transform their lives in a very positive way.

A young Ohio man who confessed online to killing a man while driving drunk was charged with vehicular homicide Monday, court records show. Matthew Cordle, 22, was also charged with driving under the influence. “When I get charged I will plead guilty and take ...

Steps must be taken to combat the problem of Internet addiction, which is affecting a growing number of children and adults.

Facebook said Tuesday it received more than 25,000 government data requests in the first half of 2013, with the largest number from the United States. The company’s first “transparency report” showed Facebook received between 11,000 and 12,000 requests for data in the U.S., affecting ...