The Senate is close to passing an internet sales tax bill, supported by your friendly "local" big-box store. But they should be against it. Here's why.

Amazon and Pinterest are at loggerheads over a domain really neither of them should own.

HBO's opinion of the Internet has shifting drastically, now that they know how much money is in it.

Today, the RIAA and MPAA will be assuming direct control of the Intertubes. There's absolutely no way this won't be funny.

Every now and then a video from the past will emerge that in some way predicts what the future -- which for us is now -- will look like with the internet as part of our everyday lives. This one from 1995 basically predicted my entire life at present accurately, right down to using the web for finding cat food cupcake recipes.

Your WiFi will suck less soon once the government starts sharing its toys.

You know, eventually somebody is going to have to explain to Europe that data is not a fixed resource.

In 2006 the European Union decided it had enough of the US being the only country out to destroy privacy completely and passed a resolution requiring all its member countries to pass laws requiring that their ISPs retain every email, phone conversation, and related piece of data -- in other words anything people might use to communicate -- for all eternity.

We don't mean to tease libertarians, but it's just so easy when they automatically default to "the free market solves everything.