Technology reporter Greg Sandoval has resigned from his position at CNET after the website gave in to pressure from its parent company, CBS, to change its "Best of Show" award at last week's Consumer Electronics Show (CES).
Instagram scared off users when it changed its terms of service to profit from their photos. Its attempt to backtrack seems to be failing.
Anonymous hacked the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) website late Sunday night in retaliation for the university's role in Aaron Swartz’s death.
The Six Strikes campaign by Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:VZ) to combat online piracy, long-awaited, is coming in weeks.
Nobody really took crowdfunding seriously until Kickstarter came along in 2009. But has Kickstarter already seen its best days?
The CES 2013 keynote, featuring both chiefs from the CEA and Panasonic, is set to begin Monday at 11:15 a.m. EST.
Academy award season is a time for gorgeous dresses, glamorous celebrities drinking champagne and leaked movies. Lots of leaked movies.
Copyright enforcers in Ireland are trying to convince the country’s Internet service providers to block access to The Pirate Bay, a move that would likely be met with significant skepticism in the United States.
A new report claims Google and Yahoo have quietly been funding piracy websites, although the companies may not have even realized it.
The iRadio, Apple's planned radio streaming service akin to Pandora, is reportedly still in the works.
Spotify has removed a feature from its desktop application that allowed users to purchase and download new music in an effort to "simplify" its service.
BuzzFeed has raised another $19.3 million in venture capital fundraising, bringing its total funding to date to $46 million.
Three years in, has Kickstarter lived up to its promise to disrupt entrepreneurship and artistic patronage? We look at some of the top Kickstarter projects from 2012 to find out.
In 2012, battles were fought on retail shelves, on TV ads, and in social media and courtrooms -- and living rooms -- around the world.
Unlike the Nielsen ratings, there is no single comprehensive way to track which BitTorrent files are most searched for and downloaded. Even so, data assembled by TorrentFreak found that the most-sought television show was “The Walking Dead.” Popular films included “Ted,” “Taken 2,” “The Dark Knight Rises,” and “The Avengers.”
We've compiled 16 of the very best viral videos from 2012; very little explanation is required here, just sit back and enjoy.
Was 2012 the year memes finally entered mainstream culture? Here's a look at some of the most influential memes of 2012.
Here's your guide for New Year's Eve 2013, including where to watch the ball drop on television, smartphones, live stream and in person.
A Zuckerberg family photo was leaked from Randi Zuckerberg's account amidst complaints about the social networking site's privacy settings.
China's leaders are reviewing a new Internet policy that will require users to register with real names, among other restrictions.
Netflix's video streaming service was hit by an outage on Christmas Eve, a prime movie-watching night, because of a breakdown at Amazon cloud servers.
Twitter has suspended a number of user accounts across the U.K. after they were found to have graphic images of child abuse.
Facebook messages from Ryan Lanza, the brother of Sandy Hook gunman Adam, 20, are all a hoax, according to the Lanza family.
Where is Santa Claus right now? You can follow St. Nick on his Christmas Eve journey thanks to live streams and trackers from Google and NORAD.
Facilitating Internet piracy is not the goal of the programs uTorrent and BitTorrent, according to the file-sharing giant that owns both platforms, BitTorrent Inc.
If you're reading this sentence, the 2012 apocalypse hasn't happened yet, which means there's still time to cross these 31 items off your bucket list! Hurry, the clock is ticking!
The so-called Mayan apocalypse has arrived, and here's a collection of some of the best end of the world memes from around the Internet.
Apple announced on Thursday that its iOS and Mac App Stores will both be frozen from tomorrow until Friday, Dec. 28 to observe the holiday season.
MakerBot has pulled plans for the lower receiver of an AR-15 semi automatic rifle from the Thingiverse on Thursday, saying that "recent events served as the impetus" to enforce the company's terms of service.
Three tourists were terrified while in Australia when a crocodile was caught on video leaping at one of the tourists.
