BERLIN -- European lawmakers on Thursday agreed on new protections for Internet users, striking a compromise between national governments seeking to impose tough anti-piracy laws and consumer organizations that wanted to enshrine Internet access as an unassailable right. (Yesterday)

Even as cutting costs become a top priority nationwide, businesses continue to incur the expense of free Wi-Fi. While a place like Eyetique does have a "tech-savvy" clientele (these are some dangerously hip frames), the expanding use of smart phones and laptops means even more consumers expect a business -- any business, really -- to double as a hotspot. (11/05/2009)

Last week, I reviewed not one, but three new phones. You'd think that would be enough for a while, but fall is peak season for new mobile devices, and another major release -- Motorola's Droid -- is upon us this week. (11/05/2009)

By now we can probably all agree that the iPhone is the Model T, the Sputnik, the Lawrence Taylor of the mobile technology realm. We are still waiting for the offenses to adapt, the competition to catch up. (11/05/2009)

For more than a decade, tech and media companies have wrestled with how to deliver digitized movies directly over the Internet to consumers: how do you get the copy-protected files from the computer to the big screen in the living room? (11/05/2009)