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The Ugandan government, facing social unrest over high food and fuel prices, will order its ISPs to block Twitter and Facebook.

Is Google a search engine, an ad outfit, or a clean energy company? Every day it gets a little harder to answer that question

Rovio's incredibly popular Angry Birds game is about to take the next technological step with the Magic edition for Nokia phones. The secret here?

What do guns, burglar alarms, and condoms have in common?

Starting a small business takes a lot of hard work and talent. Keeping a small business going takes even more of the same. According to labor statistics, more than 80 percent of businesses fail within the first year—but very few reports explain why.

In the second week of November, central Indiana is a patchwork of tawny and black: here a field covered with a stubble of dried corn and soybean plants; a little far

1. Wal-Mart just handed over around $300 million for Kosmix, a topic-curated social media platform that's just six years old. The new firm will join the @WalmartLabs division, trying to build-out the retail giant's online shopping experience--which is now set to get a big injection of social media thinking, and will probably leverage Kosmix's smart semantic interpretation code to come up with purchase suggestions 2

This article is Part 3 of an 8 part series. Read Part 2 to learn about Geoffrey Moore’s new book.

It would be a disaster economically, upsetting family budgets and making the transporting of goods potentially next to impossible. But according to a new survey by Deloitte, it could take something as extreme as $5-per-gallon of gas to persuade most U.S.

In an era when cars drive themselves and algorithms predict traffic , the robot as a guardian figure is rising: 'Bots are being used in Japan to measure radiation levels from the crippled nuclear reactors, and the video games Rating Board is using automated systems to decide what rating a game gets.

In this installment of "The Big Thirst," the author and Fast Company writer explains why one oft-used statistic about the scarcity of water is misleading. Fact: We hear all the time that "only" 2% of the water on Earth is fresh and available for human use--only 1% if you exclude glaciers and polar ice caps.

Google and Bing have come a long way since Mapquest.

New technology could make smartphones the norm in the developing world, and might have a host of other applications yet to be imagined. A Cambridge University Ph.D. student, Jens Christensen, has developed a novel way to make touchscreens cheaper

As the world of video games continues to evolve, so too should our expectations of how games will positively influence how we work, learn, and live, both online and offline. In a recent blog post , Nicholas Carr, author of the critically acclaimed book The Shallows , reviewed some of the latest studies on the cognitive effects of video games.

"We are not armed creeps or terrorists," they tell a roomful of Lehigh University students and professors.