A key House committee on Wednesday advanced legislation that would ensure the government is adequately tracking which Americans have access to the internet, a fix with billions of dollars at stake ...

Home Tech Features How an internet mapping glitch turned this Kansas farm into digital hell For a decade, the owners of a Kansas farm have been inundated with accusations that they are online ...

The Broadband DATA Act, meant to improve the accuracy of broadband maps for rural America, is close to becoming law.

The White House unveiled a new interactive broadband mapping tool Thursday showing the majority of rural America is in need of access to high-speed internet above 25 megabits per second download ...

Freedom House’s Global Assessment of Internet and Digital Media comes out once a year, and the 2013 edition, which dropped on Thursday, shows that there’s still a lot of censored, un-free ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I offer street-smart startup advice. Just as Google indexed the internet, Brightseed is in the early stages of indexing the ...

A Reddit user issued a warning after his home was broken into several times — a problem that only ended once he blurred his ...

The White House wants to use the federal government’s buying power to speed the adoption of security controls at the heart of the global internet, a yearslong ambition for computer engineers and ...

Internet adoption in the United States has increased significantly in the last few years, but the map of who gets online still falls along divisions of geography and income. In an attempt to get a ...

And with that step, Microsoft may have lifted internet mapping to a new level. Many of us have used Google Earth to zoom through the atmosphere down onto our street to see what our house looks ...

Mapping the digital world To fully understand what happened, it's important to understand how Internet protocol addresses -- colloquially IP addresses -- work.

Online mapping tools to help councils identify empty homes were launched by the Communities and Local Government department yesterday.