Don’t think you’re paying nearly enough to enjoy the glorious pleasures of airline travel these days? Well, many U.S. airlines are offering you the opportunity to pay even more — if you want to connect to the web in-flight.

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Tags: airline, airplane, GoGo, inflight, Row 44, service, Wi-Fi, WiFi

The United States leapfrogged in the annual digital economy rankings this year, moving up from No. 5 to the No. 3 spot — no small accomplishment given the lousy economy, with its stagnating employment and cautious capital investments.

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Tags: digital economy rankings, Economist

The “Cloud” has started to look a lot more inviting in recent months, but before signing up to use one of these services, there are some key pieces of information you’ll want to gather.

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Tags: cloud computing, gather, information, questions, selection, vendors

You had to believe it was a technology company, right? Well, it was. The much-reviled cable Internet provider Comcast took top honors in this year’s contest at Consumerist.com.

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Tags: Bank of America, Cash4Gold, Comcast, company, Consumer Reports, Consumerist, Consumers Union, Ticketmaster, worst

Move over newspapers, the next dying industry needs some room to expire. And it just so happens to be the industry that shoved print journalism aside almost 50 years ago: TV.

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Tags: Convergence Consulting Group, TV, viewing

Score one for the little guy this week in the battle that’s pitted Cryptome against two technology powerhouses — Microsoft and PayPal.

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Tags: account, Cryptome, Microsoft, PayPal, site, whistle blower

Any idea how fast your broadband connection is? Do you care? The U.S. Federal Communications Commission does and thinks you might. So it’s decided to help.

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Tags: broadband, connection, FCC, measure, speed

We’re not No. 1 anymore, at least where IT’s concerned, according to the annual Connectivity Scorecard, a global study of “useful connectivity” that measures infrastructure, complementary skills, software and informed usage of IT around the world.

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Tags: Connectivity Scorecard, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, United States

Several online sites are publishing the codes airline passengers can use to get free in-flight WiFi, but with the recent terrorist attempt on Delta’s Amsterdam to Detroit flight, it could be tough to actually use them.

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Tags: Air Canada, airlines, Airtran, American Airlines, codes, Delta, free, inflight, United, Virgin America, WiFi

They started out slow, but Cyber Monday shoppers upped their spending by 8% this year, good economic news for retailers and good news for our consumer-based economy.

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Tags: cyber Monday, online, shop.org, shopping, spending