LG has just shown off the world’s first 84-inch Ultra Definition (UD) LCD interactive whiteboard, and it’s truly something to behold. The technology is being geared towards schools, where teachers could use it as a

What newspapers don’t say matters as much as what they do IF ALL the stories in the newspapers claiming that a cure for cancer is just around the corner were true, the dread disease would

They’re all about to come to market over the next two years . . . It’s hard to think of glass as an area of rapid technology evolution. But it’s one of the central technologies

Users are rapidly adopting new interest-based social networks   With the pending public offering of Facebook anticipated to be the largest tech IPO in history, it’s an interesting time to think about where we go

Earlier this summer Google quietly embedded a powerful new tool in their image works: the reverse search. The concept is simple. Drag an image into the search bar (as above), and Google will return locations

As the United Nations has said, access to the Internet is a human right. A report by the U.N.’s special rapporteur presented last month to the Human Rights Council in Geneva warns that this right

The Obama administration is leading a global effort to deploy “shadow” Internet and mobile phone systems that dissidents can use to undermine repressive governments that seek to silence them by censoring or shutting down telecommunications

Innovation in online advertising YOU are browsing for lampshades on a department store’s website. You grow bored, and surf across to the website of your favourite daily newspaper. Mysteriously, the lampshades follow you: an advertisement

DO YOU HAVE THE NEXT GREAT INVENTION? The History Channel is searching for everyday inventors! Are you an amateur inventor who’s come up with a big idea?  Are you looking for an investor who can get

People pitch me on new apps all the time, but Al Gore doesn’t do it that often. In fact, only once — last week. I took the bait. I met with him and his collaborators

Free speech advocates and Internet users are protesting new Indian regulations restricting Web content that, among other things, can be considered “disparaging,” “harassing,” “blasphemous” or “hateful.” The new rules, quietly issued by the country’s Department of

News events as varied as the commercial jet landing in the Hudson River and the uprisings in Egypt have demonstrated that people armed with cellphones — not professional reporters — are often the first source