Chinese police have arrested a well-known online dissident for violating his terms of probation, as the country seeks to crackdown on critics in the run up to the Olympic...

If you understood the subtitle reference, congratulations, you're old enough to watch porn, and probably run for President. If you didn't get it, you're awfully young and...

YouTube is dominant enough among video websites that, in order to keep its rivals from getting squished together at the bottom, it had to be removed from a graph showing...

Mexico's primary provider of fixed-line phone service, Telmex, is prepared to introduce Internet-based television and is waiting for the government's approval to launch...

Despite no ads or any obvious revenue generation, Google News is worth $100 million to Google, according to VP Marissa Mayer. How does zero equal $100 million? As one of...

We've noted time and time again the way in which Wikipedia receives loads of traffic from Google, and to be honest, there's no clear sign that this will change.  But...

Miri Systems, a privately owned developer of the Miri Card designed to allow credit card users make secure transactions online by providing a unique number for each...

Toads cause warts; new clothes on Easter bring good luck; and Google penalizes sites for having full RSS feeds. MentalFloss.com issued a "never mind" on that...

Google North America finds itself down a head of sales and finance this morning.  Michael Adair has moved away from the search giant and is joining Glam Media as...

Today's big news from TechCrunch is is that Google is in the final stages of acquiring digg for about $200 million.  Makes sense to me.  Particularly...

A federal court has upheld a ban on a law that would criminalize protected speech on the Internet.The American Civil Liberties Union challenged the Child Online...

For the third time this year speculation has aroused around an impending sale of Digg.com to Google. Is the third time a charm? We may not know for a couple of weeks, but...

Some Facebook apps are useful, polished pieces of software.  Others are examples of spammy, unattractive crap.  And Facebook seems ready to separate the two, as...

The Internet plays an increasingly essential role in retail for brick and mortar retailers, even for purchases made in-store according to a new survey from Nielsen...

One word may have two different meanings, depending on the context of their usage. Yahoo hopes to find the key in search that enables its engine to understand the...

If you can read Old Greek, you're in for a real treat. If not, you're in for "selected translations," which is almost as nice. Hey, at least the Codex...

The majority (94%) of Americans believe they make a bigger impact on the environment by downloading a movie online instead of renting or buying a movie at a video store...

No doubt the high priced attorneys working for Viacom will have to prove CEO Philippe's Dauman's words in court—or at least sell them well enough to convince those...

I've been speaking at a lot of events lately, and several focus on similar topics in social media or interactive marketing. One of the consistent problems with speaking...

New Hitwise numbers regarding social networks in the UK are out, and from the looks of things, Facebook is on a very nice roll.  Top competitors MySpace and Bebo...