Automobiles will soon be linking up with servers in the cloud to enable everything from crowdsourced pothole detection, personalized radio stations, video selections that include YouTube and even video streams from the front windows of other cars. T...

National Public Radio, which is supported in part by its listeners, has employed a bifurcated strategy in an attempt to remain relevant as it competes with new sources of information and forms of entertainment. Part of this strategy involves reaching...

YouTube may pay less to be online than you do, a new report on internet connectivity suggests, calling into question a recent analysis arguing Google’s popular video service is bleeding money and demonstrating how the internet has continued to ...

Google has pulled its Google Groups development team out of the basement broom closet and begun patching up its long-broken Usenet library, in response to our story Wednesday highlighting the company’s neglect of the 700 million post archive. ...

Imagine a world where Google sucks. It might seem a stretch. The Google logo is practically an icon of functionality. Google’s search engine and other tools are the company’s strongest, if unstated, argument in favor of the Google Books ...

Microblogging service Twitter reached profitability ahead of expectations in 2009 in characteristic style, with just two strokes of the pen, Business Week reported Monday. Citing anonymous sources, Business Week said the company pocketed $25 million...

One good link hijack deserves another. <img class="size-medium wp-image-13264" title="gopamprankprank" src="http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/epicenter/2009/12/gopamprankprank-300x257.jpg" alt=""Prank" URLs blocked by the Republican party's new=media...

Verizon defended its early termination charges for cellphone contracts Friday, telling federal regulators that the high fees help the poor by making it more affordable for them to access the mobile internet. The Federal Communications Commission asked...

Questia, an online library catering to students and researchers, has launched an iPhone app offering access to 76,000 books and 2.7 million periodical articles for a monthly subscription fee. According to the company, research librarians selected each...

Micro-blogging site Twitter said its domain name system records were temporarily “compromised” Thursday night, but that the problem was fixed later. Twitter.com was redirected for a while, but some applications were working, the company said on its...