The internet

Sergey Brin, one of the founders of Google, believes knowledge is always a good thing—and that more of it should be sharedA FORMER vice-president, Al Gore, and one of the co-founders of Google, Lar...

The internet: Predictions that an “exaflood” of traffic will overload the internet have been doing the rounds. But will it really happen?VIDEO killed the radio star. Might its next victim be the in...

The internet: Attacks launched over the internet on Estonia and Georgia highlight the difficulty of defining and dealing with “cyberwar”AS RUSSIAN tanks rolled into Georgia in August, another force...

Websites can now let visitors bring along their friendsA NEW button is appearing on some websites. It says “Facebook Connect” and saves visitors from having to fill out yet another tedious registra...

A cyber-attack alarms the PentagonBATTLEFIELD bandwidth is low at best, making networks sticky and e-mails tricky. American soldiers often rely on memory sticks to cart vital data between computers...

Internet advertising will be relatively unscathed in the downturnAT THE beginning of the year Jeff Zucker, the boss of NBC Universal, a big television and film company, told an audience of TV execu...

New ways of sharing data and rallying support are a boon for eco-warriors THINK of spectacular popular protests, of the kind that make clever use of technology to mobilise support, flummox the auth...

Can Judy McGrath keep MTV Networks up with the beat of the internet era?JUDY MCGRATH believes that “change has to be in everyone’s DNA, personally and professionally.” As the chief executive of MTV...

Yahoo!’s boss, Jerry Yang, a nice person and a pioneer of the web, is quittingJERRY YANG of Yahoo!, one of the world’s largest internet companies, appeared at an industry conference in San Francisc...

The times they are a-changin'WORRIES about the damage the internet may be doing to young people has produced a mountain of books—a suitably old technology in which to express concerns about the new...