Social Media, Connectivity & Communications

IBM builds a search engine aimed at the estimated fifth of the world’s population that cannot read.

In the end, the federal government apparently had no interest in helping to put down broadband infrastructure that would ultimately be owned by private companies.

The Internet is underutilized by those with disabilities. While 81 percent of American adults use the Internet, just 54 percent of adults with disabilities do.

Despite the cowboy outlaw connotations, black-hat services are not illegal, but trafficking in them risks the wrath of Google.

Unlike regular Wi-Fi networks, which are generally limited to beaming high-speed Internet around a house, super Wi-Fi promises to blanket entire neighborhoods with high-speed access.

As the Internet continues to grow in prevalence and complexity, what can we do to replicate our past two decades of success?

"Young people who grow up with the media will not live where they can’t be connected to digital culture. So most rural communities have been behind the eight ball."

The Commerce Dept. is backing a new security system for online identity checks that could be a boon for e-commerce

With a wave of new smartphones and tablet computers threatening to overwhelm wireless networks, the Federal Communications Commission is preparing to take another aggressive step to ease the growing capacity crunch.

The utility will go head-to-head with providers such as Comcast to offer its existing customers an ultrahigh-speed internet connection at a whopping one gigabit per second — more than 200 times faster than the average U.S. download speed.