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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...