We’ve come to see the Net as our virtual global village, with all the benefits and pitfalls of human interaction that the concept implies. As governments worldwide grapple with ways to regulate this vast entity (for better or worse), there’s also vigorous debate on just what rights we’re entitled to as users of the World Wide Web. The futur ...

WHEN I first visited the US, I couldn’t get over the giant Tower Records (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_Records) store with several floors of thousands of music titl ...

THE TIME has come for ISPs – the companies that connect you to the Web - and major Internet companies such as the search engines to come clean with us about what information they keep about us. They may have “privacy policies” on their site but we don’t really know what information they keep, how long for, and who has access to i ...

IT’s always great hearing from readers they are nervous about the technology involved. Even getting on the Internet is a victory for some. We love those stories. Peter from the UK may not read but we admire him for making his first videos and putting them on the popular YouTube (go to video” starts with what he calls “geriatric gripes ...