A programming language’s versatility and its price (free) makes it a favorite of data analysts.

Steve Knopper’s stark accounting of the mistakes major record labels have made in the digital era suggests they are largely responsible for their own demise.

Apple said it would begin selling song downloads without anticopying measures and change its pricing structure.

New standards for more efficient televisions are coming into place.

Logitech plans to cut 5 percent of its work force and abandoned its fiscal 2009 targets after consumers cut back on Christmas spending.

The Ministry of Public Security and six other agencies would work together “to purify the Internet’s cultural environment,” the government said in a statement.

The financial crisis left last year with the fewest public offerings of venture-backed start-ups since 1977.

Doctors will be able to make face-to-face Web calls on patients in Hawaii starting Jan. 15.

Steven P. Jobs said that he was being treated for a hormone imbalance but would remain in his job.

China launched a major crackdown on Internet pornography Monday targeting popular online portals and major search engines such as Google.

The demise of the HD DVD video disc format appeared to hand the future of home entertainment to Blu-ray, but struggles continue.

A partnership with Netflix will bring access to the 12,000 films and shows in its Watch Instantly library.

Google’s book search may allow writers to make money from titles that have been out of commercial circulation for years.

It seems the whole world is Twittering, and people like Shaquille O’Neal and Natalie Gulbis are no exceptions.

The search for the next big thing in technology gets a reality check.

At Google, a blind engineer is a pioneer in customizing technologies that were not designed with blind users in mind.

Israel has enlisted an arsenal of Internet tools to take its message directly to a global audience — including “the first governmental press conference ever held on Twitter.”

Several companies are developing power-saving technologies for bright color displays on phones and other handhelds.

The general wisdom is that innovation leads to automation, which leads to fewer workers. Not so.

An uncertain economy leaves more families living in different time zones, depending on video chats and technology like Skype for quality time.