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E.T. may not be able to phone home anytime soon, but the lovable alien may be able to send e-mail--if a draft proposal released this week for an interplanetary Internet takes flight. Described as a ...

The Internet has played a crucial role in the popular revolts that have inflamed the Middle East and Italian communications experts claim they contributed significantly when they launched an appeal ...

Vinton Cerf, one of the Internet's pioneers, and 82 other Internet inventors and engineers have signed an open letter to Congress protesting both a controversial piracy bill known as SOPA and related ...

Some internet gurus would still have you believe that free access to the Net is a basic right of man. They are wrong. As economists like to say, there is no free lunch, not even in cyberspace. To ...

Early in the dot-com era, gurus of the age hailed the power of the Internet to "change everything," even to topple the old order and build a brand-new "Internet Economy." Since the Web-stock bubble ...

Two decades ago, Nathaniel Borenstein and Ned Freed wrote MIME, the Internet protocol for sending multimedia e-mail messages. Here’s how they did it. Every time you send an e-mail, consider cutting a ...