Communications and Networking

Anonymous and other so-called hacktivists with underground origins have entered mainstream political culture, buoyed by a year of successes and increasing availability of technologies that have made it easier to participate in online activism campaigns.

Carrier is getting into the video streaming business through a new partnership with Coinstar, the company that owns the Redbox video rental kiosk business.

For all the huge numbers in Facebook's IPO papers, a surprisingly small figure stands out: $4.39, the amount the site generated per user last year.

African Arguments (London)-The key role of Twitter in the people's revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia a year ago is well documented. Young people embraced the immediacy and freedom of the new social networking system to escape the constraints of censors

Millard Public Schools officials said a student hacked into a high school's network and shut it down, all from his cellphone, and experts said it's not that hard to do.