Wiikileaks: The Next Generation

"All across Europe, from Brussels to the Balkans, a new generation of WikiLeaks-style websites is sprouting."

Is Quora the Next Red-Hot Web Start-Up?

"Today, there's Quora. Founded by two former Facebook bigwigs and opened to the public in June 2010, the Q&A site isn't yet a household name. But it has a feeling of hip exclusivity and impending greatness that's reminiscent of early Twitter and Facebook."

Study: Virtual Reality Personas Influence How You Act In The Real World

"Some people create virtual characters to escape reality, but a new study is showing that your virtual persona might have more influence on your real life than you think."

Amazon's e-Book Sales Beat Paperbacks; Profit Up 8%

"Amazon.com (AMZN) is now selling more Kindle e-books than paperbacks, the world's biggest online retailer reported. But Amazon's fourth-quarter financial results were mixed. Amazon says net income for the quarter climbed 8%, which surpasses Wall Street expectations."

In U.S. Courts, Facebook Posts Become Less Private

"It's the latest litigation tactic in the online age: U.S. lawyers are trying to mine the private zones of Facebook and other social-media sites for photos, comments, status updates and other tidbits that might contradict what their opponents are saying in court. And increasingly, judges in civil cases are granting access to online caches that had formerly been considered off-limits."

Study: Kids Master Technology Before All Else

"Kids these days may know their way around the family computer or how to use their parents' cell phones, but a new survey says they're more likely to master those high-tech tasks than basic life skills like riding a bike or tying their shoelaces."

Twitter Now Worth $4 Billion

"Twitter’s market value has reached $4 billion just a month after it raised $200 million in funding."

Google to Hire More Than 6,200 Workers This Year

"Google Inc. plans to hire more than 6,200 workers this year in the biggest expansion yet by the Internet's most profitable company."

Google Widens Access to Israel's Holocaust Archives

Search engine giant Google launched a massive archive retrieval project with Israel's national Holocaust museum on Wednesday with the aim of easing public access to Nazi-era documents and photographs.

Apple App Store Hits 10 Billion Downloads

"The store now boasts more than 300,000 different programs that can be used on the iPhone or the iPad."

How Mobile Technology is Behind Kenya's Banking Revolution

"The use of mobile technology to reach the unbanked has made Africa an innovation hot spot."

Online Paid News Service Launched for Big Papers

"A personalized news service funded by New York Times Co., Washington Post Co., and Gannett Co launched on Tuesday in an attempt to get readers to pay for online news."

$2-Billion Federal Program Could Be 'Windfall' for Open Online Learning

"Any online courses developed using program grants must be free to all, but it is unknown what share of grants will go to such efforts."

Perceptions of Libraries, 2010: Context and Community

"OCLC's newest membership report, Perceptions of Libraries, 2010, a sequel to the 2005 Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources, is now available. The new report provides updated information and new insights into information consumers and their online habits, preferences, and perceptions."

Social-Networking Site Quora Has Answers to Your Questions

"There are often smart responses on Quora, a much buzzed about Silicon Valley social start-up that you'll be hearing a lot more about in the weeks ahead. Quora aims to build a constantly evolving collection of questions and answers that are created, edited and organized by the very people who use the free service."

More Church Websites Invite Posting of Prayers

"More than four in 10 Protestant churches with websites now invite people to post pleas to the Lord right on the main church website."

The Invisible Computer Lab

"In the future, campus computer labs will be invisible, personal computers will be shapeshifters, and colleges will have to spend much less to make sure students have access to the software they need for certain courses."

Study: iPhone Most Satisfying To Use Smartphone, But Android Users Most Loyal

"...now a new study has come out from Zokem, finding that while iPhone owners are most loyal to their existing smartphone, Android owners are the more likely to upgrade to a new Android phone than even iPhone customers."

Study: Internet Users More Likely to Volunteer for Groups

"The stigma that heavy internet usage creates lonely, reclusive people blogging in a dark room may require rethinking. Internet users, and especially social networkers, are more likely to be active in volunteer organizations than those who don't go online, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center."

Facebook New Frontier in Parent-Teen Relationship

"Roughly two thirds of American teenagers are comfortable enough with their parents to have them as Facebook friends, according to a new study."

Firms to Buy 10 Million Tablets in 2011: Deloitte

"Companies will buy more than 10 million tablet computers this year, consultancy Deloitte said on Tuesday supporting recent research from Gartner which sees the global market for Apple's iPad, rising to 55 million devices this year from 19.5 million in 2010."

With Google Translate, Nothing's Lost in Translation

"Simply put, the new Google Translate app will let you have a conversation with someone speaking another language. They say something to you in Spanish and the phone will translate that aloud to you in English. You reply in English and it’ll translate to them in Spanish. It’s like hiring a professional translator -- except it’s built right into your phone."

Oklahoma Church's Popular Bible App Takes Faith to Phones

"The world's most popular Bible program for mobile phones was developed by an Oklahoma church."

Schools Ill Equipped for Cyberbullies

"A U.S. researcher cautions only one in five school social workers surveyed felt their school has an effective policy on cyberbullying."

PCs Sales in 2010: Tale of the Tablet

"The story of the personal computer industry in the second half of 2010 could well be called 'The Tale of the Tablet.'"

Humans vs. Automated Search: Why People Power is Cool Again

"Wadhwa, meanwhile, points to new search engine contender Blekko, which searches within sets of websites defined by human editors."

Upload and View Videos in Google Docs

"Google Docs is becoming a more robust cloud-based productivity suite, and the addition of uploading, storing and viewing videos is a boon for sharing corporate presentations and the like."

"Q&A: Jimmy Wales on 10 years of Wikipedia"

"In a wide-ranging interview with Wired.co.uk, founder Jimmy Wales talks about censorship, staying relevant, and why nothing keeps him awake at night."

Ten Years on, Wikipedia Eyes a Better World

"Ten years after its debut as a geeky online encyclopedia, Wikipedia today wants to use its huge, growing popularity and spirit to spread knowledge across the world."

State of Washington to Offer Online Materials, Instead of Textbooks, for 2-Year Colleges

"The state is building 81 community-college courses from online materials—and learning that adapting content for students takes more than a mouse click."

Cheaters Find an Adversary in Technology

"As tests are increasingly important in education — used to determine graduation, graduate school admission and, the latest, merit pay and tenure for teachers — business has been good for Caveon, a company that uses 'data forensics' to catch cheats, billing itself as the only independent test security outfit in the country."

For Minorities, New 'Digital Divide' Seen

"But now some see a new 'digital divide' emerging — with Latinos and blacks being challenged by more, not less, access to technology. It's tough to fill out a job application on a cellphone, for example. Researchers have noticed signs of segregation online that perpetuate divisions in the physical world. And blacks and Latinos may be using their increased Web access more for entertainment than empowerment."

Twitter is Full of Regional 'Accents,' Study Finds

"Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University examined 380,000 messages from Twitter during one week in March 2010 and found that the social networking site is full of its own kinds of geographical dialects."

U.S. Spam Now Top of Global List

"Malware, phishing scams and malicious spam originating from the United States has put the U.S. top of a global list of countries most responsible for cybercrime activity, IT security and data protection firm Sophos said in a report."

MySpace Laying Off Nearly Half of its Global Staff

"Struggling entertainment site MySpace says it is cutting 47 percent of its staff worldwide, or about 500 people."

ARL Report: Uncertainty About 'Fair Use' Is Hurting Academic and Research Libraries

"A lack of consensus about how to apply the fair use provision of copyright law is consistently impairing the mission of academic and research libraries, according to a new report."

Expert Predicts a Deluge of Tablet Computers on Campuses

"Cloud computing will also be a major trend in higher education, says the influential “Wall Street Journal” technology columnist Walt Mossberg."

Study: Internet Surpasses TV as Main News Source for Young Adults

"In 2010, 65% of people younger than 30 cited the Internet as their go-to source for news, nearly doubling from 34% in 2007. The number who consider television as their main news source dropped from 68% to 52% during that time."

Global Tablet Sales May Triple By End of 2014

"A research group says the global market for tablet computers such as the iPad will almost triple by the end of 2014."

Math That Moves: Schools Embrace the iPad

"A growing number of schools across the nation are embracing the iPad as the latest tool to teach Kafka in multimedia, history through “Jeopardy”-like games and math with step-by-step animation of complex problems."

6 Top Smartphone Apps to Improve Teaching, Research, and Your Life

"Academics describe going mobile to plan lectures, keep up with scholarship, and run classes."

Academic Library Autopsy Report, 2050

"The academic library has died. Despite early diagnosis, audacious denial in the face of its increasingly severe symptoms led to its deterioration and demise..."

Most-Popular Education-Technology Articles of 2010

"We thought we’d begin a new year of Wired Campus with a quick look back at the biggest tech stories of 2010, as voted by you. Items concerning Facebook, iPads, and cheating ranked high in page views. Here are the top 10 headlines from our tech blog."