Struggling to wrap your mind around the intricacies of the 140-character broadcasting system known as Twitter? Good news: You can now take a class on it at an accredited college.DePaul University is Read More

Amazon continues to face criticism and anger over its decision to delete books offered for sale for the Kindle e-reader, placed there by individuals who didn't have the rights to sell the texts in the first place. ... Read More

I've long figured the conventional wisdom was true: Handwriting today is dismal because computers and the typewritten word have made writing with pen and paper obsolete. ... Read More

Confirming one of the worst-kept tech secrets in recent memory, Amazon today formally announced that it would be launching a large-screen Kindle this summer to further enhance its position in the surprisingly popular ebook reader market. ... Read More

When I was in college, I spent many a long hour in the computer lab, working on my COBOL, Pascal or -- yikes -- Assembly language programs for computer science classes. ... Read More

If you've never received Classmates.com's spam messages -- "A former classmate of yours is looking for you!" -- you probably don't have a working email account. Classmates.com's come-ons are some of the most venerable and virulent email advertis Read More

According to The Guardian, rivals Oxford and Cambridge now join Princeton, Stanford, Yale, and MIT on Read More

The suggestion that you could get by with just a cell phone was a novel idea only five or six years ago. Now, at least in the world of teens heading off to college, it's a trend that has finally and fully come to Read More

Text messaging isn't another teen pastime anymore. Schools in the U.S. use text messaging to alert students of any emergency situations. In Australia, Read More

That's according to a recent study, which also found that more than a quarter of all teens feel that it's "absolutely essential" to have the latest, greatest cell phone. Yikes. ... Read More