Tweeting or checking emails may be harder to resist than cigarettes and alcohol, according to researchers who tried to measure how well people could resist their desires.

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Personal data is the oil that greases the Internet.

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Sheryl K. Sandberg, Facebook’s chief operating officer, sees herself as more than an executive at one of the hottest companies around — more, too, than someone who will soon rank among the few self-made billionaires who are women. She sees herself as a role model for women in business and technology.

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Like most fresh faces that arrive in Hollywood, Netflix wanted to be a movie star. But now it's learning what many in Tinseltown have known for decades: Movies are sexy, but the real money is in television.

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Much of the discussion about Amazon is focused on its digital side, yet the company is relentlessly expanding into the physical.

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GitHire is one of a few tech-job sites that home in on talent by analyzing a programmer’s code available on the Internet and online presence and then assigning a rank relative to his or her peers.

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The Indian government’s recent announcement that it taps nearly 300 new phones every day has sparked a debate about privacy in a country that traditionally views such concerns as an ugly offshoot of Western individualism.

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Facebook is friending the feds. The company has put political veterans in key executive roles and board positions.

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The largest PC maker in the world is — Apple? Hard to believe, maybe, but according to the latest analysis from Canalys, Apple shipped 120 million PCs last year, if you include the iPad.

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In a recent column, former Federal Communications Commission staffer Steve Waldman asks, "Do broadcasters believe that they even have a public interest obligation anymore?" He answers “Yes,” but only if the obligation "remains devoid of meaning." Jessell’s answer: “Yes, but only if broadcasters get to decide what the public interest is just as all other media do. They don't need or want guidance from Washington. The day is long past when content regulation can be justified on one segment of a TV medium that now also includes cable, satellite and the Internet.”

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Billionaire Carlos Slim’s US mobile carrier is giving users instructions for switching their AT&T iPhones to his prepaid calling plans, showing them how to disable software aimed at preventing customers from defecting.

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On January 12, 2012, the Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau released a Public Notice listing the 24 petitions for reconsideration of the Federal Communications Commission’s Universal Service Fund/Intercarrier Compensation Transformation Order. Oppositions will be due February 9, 2012, and replies to oppositions will be due February 21, 2012.

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A new report comparing educational technology use of K-12 students in 21 countries found that, despite global economic uncertainty, many countries are still investing in technology to improve educational systems and boost student achievement.

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As more authors choose to do an end-run around the traditional book business by going the self-publishing route, traditional publishers are finding it harder and harder to justify their existence.

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Google’s Fiber organization is asking the Federal Communications Commission for the ability to test a residential gateway that has Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.

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Sen. Tom Udall (D-NM) anticipates introducing a bill this spring to make it easier for physicians to practice telemedicine in many states instead of applying for a separate license for each state.

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The Federal Emergency Management Agency has increasingly turned to Twitter and other social media to gather information about natural disasters or to relay information about emergency shelters and services to the public.

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Large-scale Army battlefield network tests last summer did not include mobile operation scenarios and did not feature robust attacks against the networks, the Defense Department's test organization said in its annual report to Congress.

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Netflix is hoping a new tech partner will help make its streaming more efficient to satisfy new bandwidth caps from internet service providers that come with potential financial penalties.

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Random House is now the only big six publisher to allow unrestricted access to all of its e-books in libraries—and it said it will continue to do so, though it is raising prices.

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When Apple first released its free iBooks Author software, some were upset about its end-user licensing agreement, which states that works created in the program must be sold exclusively through Apple. The company has now tweaked the EULA to make it a bit more clear.

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The Federal Communications Commission ruled that anti-abortion activist Randall Terry can't force a Chicago TV station to air commercials featuring graphic images of aborted fetuses during the Super Bowl.

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Most Facebook users receive more from their Facebook friends than they give, according to a new study that for the first time combines server logs of Facebook activity with survey data to explore the structure of Facebook friendship networks and measures of social well-being.

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Every week as we consider our round up we weigh delving into the week’s biggest story or shedding light on articles that may have flown below the radar. This week is no different. The biggest story of the week, by far, is Facebook taking its first step toward becoming a publicly traded company as it filed to sell shares on the stock market. In addition, there were big developments in privacy, ensuring low income Americans have affordable access to telecommunications, and spectrum policy.

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A Q&A with David Binetti.

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Technology increasingly blurs the lines between computer, television, phone and tablet. But true Internet TV is facing a big obstacle: It’s the old-school cable and cable-like services, after all, that have got the makers of programming locked up in mega-contracts.

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Google does not plan to delay its new privacy policy despite calls from Europe's data protection watchdog.

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It’s a little stunning to contemplate how wrong things have gone for Google in just the first month of 2012, as the company hopes to put a disastrous January in the rear-view mirror with perhaps another tear-jerking Super Bowl ad this Sunday.

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The National Institute of Standards and Technology is making up to $10 million available for research projects addressing the challenges of implementing a trusted online identity ecosystem.

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Across the country, health care providers are making significant investments to redesign care processes and strengthen their health information technology (health IT) capabilities with the goal of achieving better care, better health, and lower costs.

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