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Has "snowmageddon" 2010 got you down? Did that snowplow make a wall of snow, ice and grime as tall as your SUV and you don't have a shovel? Or are

A recently leaked report [PDF] from France's State Secretary of Digital Economy reveals the government's efforts to deeply bury net neutrality for this country. This is the latest episode in

Interest in news about last week's protest against anti-piracy legislation was highest among people under the age of 30, according to the latest weekly News Interest Index survey. The survey

There are reports today that Iran has blocked Facebook, apparently to "prevent supporters of the leading opposition candidate from using the site for his campaign". Opposition candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi has

Today, the Federal Supreme Court of the United Arab Emirates, acting as the "State Security Court," sentenced five bloggers to prison time. Pioneering Emirati blogger Ahmed Mansour received the harshest

The Arab Spring - the Jasmine Revolution - the hashtag revolts - the uprisings in the Arab World: whatever you call them, they're ongoing and as long as they go

Facebook and Twitter don't have the power to change the world, says notable author Malcolm Gladwell, whose book "The Tipping Point" detailed how little things can make a big difference.

After all the voting wraps up this evening, the real fun begins - watching the results come in. Whether you want to sit around and watch an auto-refreshing, interactive map

The President of the United States held a Google+ Hangout today. He fielded questions selected from over 130,000 submissions as well as from five lucky Americans selected to hang out

The knock on the type of representative democracy that is employed in the US is that the people aren't actually voting on the legislation that gets passed -- representatives for