Digital Content

As research libraries and archives are discovering, "born-digital" materials — those initially created in electronic form — are much more complicated and costly to preserve than anticipated.

Researchers, political satirists and partisan mudslingers, take note: C-Span has uploaded virtually every minute of its video archives to the Internet.

The PC has been at the center of the computing universe for 30 years. But that's about to change. Within two or three years, smartphones will outsell PCs.

Google put on a webcast with analysts Monday to tout its grand plans for mobile.

After two months of talks with the Chinese government, Google remains determined to shut down its Google.cn search site rather than accept government censorship — but is worried about sacrificing its other business interests in China. Search is just one element of Google's business there.

Google's Internet service license in China may expire at the end of this month, adding pressure on the company to resolve a censorship row with the government that could result in its pullout from the country.

Google's possible withdrawal from China, the world's biggest Internet market by users, must meet Chinese regulations, according to the nation's Ministry of Commerce.

A package of legislation designed to combat copyright infringement in Britain is stirring more controversy as it moves through Parliament.

Google announced that it has launched new Buzz features that will significantly cut down on all the messages users are receiving in their Gmail inbox.