Tor, the anonymity network, is recovering this weekend after it was targeted by hackers. The peer-to-peer network designed to keep users' and their activities anonymous from state surveillance was the subject of an attack, said to be launched by the same hackers who brought down Sony's

It turns out Aereo, the company that tried to bring over-the-air (OTA) TV to cord-cutters really didn't have a plan B. On November 20th, the company announced on its Web site that it was filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Aereo may be dead, but media companies are taking to the cloud and Internet to

What would you do to stimulate a sluggish economy? Push tourism? Cut taxes? Well, Italy is trying something a little different: free public WiFi. Over 100 legislators have proposed spending €5 million ($6.3 million) over three years to help install gratis hotspots in thousands of locations across

On October 1, Microsoft officials blogged in a fairly vague way about some of the coming features of potential interest to enterprise users. But these "under the covers" features were not explained or analyzed in detail -- at least up until now. A quick aside, because I've been asked this question

I live in a mixed household. I use a Samsung Galaxy S5, my wife uses an iPhone 5s. Half of my friends use Android phones, the other half use iPhones. The iPhone 6 may be bigger, but will it be fundamentally better? So, I know both worlds. Unlike some knee-jerk smartphone fans, I can see there's a