Nov 08 Who (Still) Doesn't Have Broadband? This interactive requires your browser to have Java installed. Click here to check if you need Java. High-speed Internet went mainstream in the last decade -- home access grew from 9 percent of American households in 2001 to… Continue reading
Oct 07 Stuxnet Has Infected My Reading Ever since I began researching material for a Stuxnet virus segment last week on the Newshour broadcast, I've been fascinated with this little worm, and I can't seem to flip by an article about it without stopping to… Continue reading
Oct 05 Google, Apple Among Those Vying for Living Room Media Dominance The idea of merging the Web and television was so powerful in the late 90s that the U.S. government classified it as a weapon, but the promise has since suffered "years of false-starts and not-quite-there implementations." As people… Continue reading
Sep 17 Conversation: Gary Shteyngart, Author of 'Super Sad True Love Story' By Tom LeGro Jeffrey Brown talks to Gary Shteyngart, author of "Super Sad True Love Story."… Continue reading
Sep 15 Evan Williams Explains New Twitter Interface By Hari Sreenivasan For the 1 percent of users who woke up to a different Twitter experience Wednesday morning, it was probably the biggest change they have ever seen to the real time information service. Twitter has approximately 160 million users and there… Continue reading
Sep 08 Will Open Health Data Save Your Life? After one of health administrator Jim Traficant's two liver transplants, a doctor told him, "The surgery is a science. The medication is an art." Over the next few months of recovery, Traficant's body fought with his new liver. The organ… Continue reading
Sep 08 Gov2.0: D.C. Helps Other Governments Learn to Open Up By Chris Amico Among Gov2.0 advocates, Washington, D.C., is one of the major cities to watch for its efforts to provide open data to citizens and software developers as part of its civic services. It was one of the first cities… Continue reading
Sep 07 Gov2.0: Challenge.Gov Aims to Make Government More User-Friendly By Chris Amico Two of the most consistent themes at this week's Gov2.0 Summit is that government is bad at making the things it needs and it spends far too much on bad technology. "Think about on a daily basis whether you're… Continue reading
Sep 07 At Gov 2.0 Summit, Democratizing Data Is the Watchword The Rundown is covering this week's Gov2.0 Summit in Washington, D.C., where a mix of technologists, activists and industry professionals have gathered to talk about methods to run governments in more open and useful manners. Gov2.0 is a catch-all… Continue reading
Sep 06 Africa Hopes to Close Broadband Gap Men surf the Internet at a cyber cafe in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. File photo by Sia Kambou/AFP/Getty Images. According to recent studies by the International Telecommunications Union, only 10.9 percent of Africa's population uses the Internet. By contrast,… Continue reading