Will Workman

The radio star lasted more than a half century until, according to the Buggles, video killed it. But the video star is looking mighty old at 25.

EarthLink announced in February that it is putting its city Wi-Fi business up for sale.

The Telecommunications Act of 1996 may now seem like ancient history, but its reverberations are still being felt.

Journalism is dead in several senses that have everything to do with news audiences, not news providers.

Everyone has fuzzy feelings about "Field of Dreams." Kevin Costner in a bucolic Iowa cornfield hears a voice, builds a ballpark, and "he," Shoeless Joe Jackson, comes.

In my epic struggle towards a Ph.D. in mass communications, one of the more intriguing subjects I've had the opportunity to study has been the history of technology.

Why stop at a 10-minute online video when you can produce and distribute your own channel?

"Every corner" of the United States will be high-speed wired. And that's supposed to happen by 2007, just two years away.

It's time to fess up--this tech is nowhere near ready for primetime consumer solutions. Its business applications are limited and its long-term ability to provide mobility is questionable.

They claim it's the largest private infrastructure investment in history: $65 billion. That's the amount the cable industry says it spent on plant upgrades between 1996 and 2002.

Whenever an infant technology takes its first steps, you can't help rooting for it.

The prevailing question of today is: If we want more investment in broadband buildout, how do we achieve that and who pays?

So how important is interactive television?...Well, it depends on how you define it and how much money you have thrown at it.

Yes, sometimes it’s useful to read your junk e-mail. Even a modest spam glutton can occasionally pick up whiffs of tech trends in the air.