Google has launched a trial program that will tap into unused frequencies in South Africa's broadcast TV spectrum The Web giant announced today it will use the unused spectrum, so-called "white spaces" to provide Internet access to 10 schools in the Cape Town area. The goal of the trial is to sho...

It had to happen sometime, Google is holding everyone with intellectual property, copyright, you name it, to the terms of a $billion deal involving a class action case,  world-wide advertising in every conceivable form to alert writers and publishers to the fact that if they do not opt-out of the...

THE Information Age was founded upon what one might call a fundamental error – the exchange of terms in an economic model that would lead us to a post-scarcity economy in which the traditional laws of economics no longer applied. It is the kind of error that a postal clerk might conjour up, and y...