On Friday, in a move designed to further internationalize the internet, ICANN announced that, beginning next year, domain names will be expanded to include languages that do not use the Latin alphabet. In other words, right now all of the top-level...

In the debate over copyright reform, Lawrence Lessig has been at the forefront of the movement. It is he who has argued that the open internet is being closed off into protected private spaces, and he's become something of a folk hero in the Digital...

Still reeling off my email account getting hacked last month, another cyberattack has been brought to my attention. An IT manager and friend of mine describes how his office was attacked last week by a keylogger phishing scam. Keyloggers are programs...

As protest movements migrate into cyberspace, there is a growing legal debate over to what extent the programmers who write its source code are actually expressing themselves. In other words, is code only functional, or is it also expressive? And...

Software engineers and programming students take notice. Even in the current economic climate, there is a bright ray of sunlight... venture capital funding is on the rise, particularly in technology. According to Chubbybrain.com, venture capital...