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If the Internet is indeed "a series of tubes," as famously described by former Alaska Senator Ted Stevens, then the mother of all plumbing snakes would be needed to unblock the press releases and emails sent over the last two weeks by those backing and opposing Net neutrality. ...

Jeff Bezos named his company after the longest and largest river in the world. So it's appropriate that the past week has shown just how influential Amazon has become in both the online and offline retail spaces, as competitors and the Seattle-based e-commerce giant threw a series of punches and counter-punches ...

The following column is brought to you by nostalgia -- the unique kind experienced only by unrepentant newsies approaching a half-century of existence. But have no fear; technology plays a key supporting role, as always ...

From bulk mail to email to social media: The next chapter in the checkered history of spamming is now being written via status updates and tweets. However, Twitter is trying to ensure that the chapter is a short one following the company's introduction Tuesday of a new "report as spam" button on user profiles ...

The life of a worker ant in a cubicle farm may offer its unique challenges -- how else to explain the popularity of "Office Space" reruns on cable TV? -- but the world of office productivity software and applications is turning out to be anything but boring. ...

If you view AT&T and Google as squabbling high-tech siblings and the Federal Communications Commission as the harried parent, then AT&T has won the latest round of attention-getting theatrics, thanks to the FCC's Friday decision to investigate Google Voice ...

There's a perfect storm building in the technology world, and as we know, that world keeps spilling over into that other world -- you know, the one where real people live ...

The Internet first acquired its designation as "information superhighway" via the Clinton administration in the 1990s. It added an express lane with the rise of wireless broadband in the early 21st century, and FCC chairman Julius Genachowski completed the automotive metaphor Wednesday with a speech that warned of a looming spectrum traffic jam if wireless growth isn't managed properly...

A society that is becoming more mobile yet more media-centric now has one more possible distraction to look forward to, thanks to a Wednesday announcement from FLO TV, the Qualcomm subsidiary specializing in live video you can take with you ...

When a blogger writes favorably about a company's product or service, how can you tell if he or she is getting paid to write a positive review? Did the blogger get a "freebie" media player or baby stroller or digital camera for that glowing post? ...

Despite a multi-million-dollar ad campaign, interest in Microsoft's new Bing search engine may be leveling off, according to new market share findings this week from two Web tracking services. However, the competition from Bing may still be weighing heavily on Google, if this week's addition of new search features and Web site gadgets is any indication...

I should have known this wouldn't be your usual horror movie when I overheard the guy in line behind me say he'd already seen it ...

The Web has now passed two important demarcation points in its lifespan: September marked the 40th anniversary of the invention of the interlinked computer-based communications networks we now call "the Internet," and on Wednesday the U.S. government watched as its remaining official authority over the non-profit group that governs Web addresses expired...

Facebook now has some new "friends:" the United States Secret Service, thanks to a startling weekend poll appearing on the world's largest social network that asked the question, "Should Obama be killed?" ...

The net neutrality debate has officially taken a left turn into weirdness, following weekend revelations that AT&T has asked the Federal Communications Commission to investigate the Google Voice application as a potential violation of open communications policies ...

The net neutrality debate has officially taken a left turn into weirdness, following weekend revelations that AT&T has asked the Federal Communications Commission to investigate the Google Voice application as a potential violation of open communications policies ...

The net neutrality debate has officially taken a left turn into weirdness, following weekend revelations that AT&T has asked the Federal Communications Commission to investigate the Google Voice application as a potential violation of open communications policies ...

The new ABC television series "Flash Forward," which premiered this week, has the promise of a great premise: For some reason, everybody in the world blacks out for two and a half minutes. Planes fall from the sky, cars crash, people drop where they stand, some cracking their skulls from hitting their heads on the pavement. During the time they are unconscious, they get a vision of their futures six months hence. Then everybody wakes up, and it's chaos. Do they keep on their current path toward destiny, or can/should they change their futures?...

In what may signal the earliest start for the holiday shopping season ever -- at least as it applies to the video game industry -- Nintendo of America on Thursday confirmed that will indeed be dropping the price of its Wii console by US$50 to $199 ...

You didn't even have to open up your notebook computer Wednesday to hear the alarms and klaxons going off in the technology blogosphere: Someone had leaked images and video of a dual-screen, multi-touch tablet PC that's supposedly in the "late prototype" stages at Microsoft ...