Reporters Without Borders issued its annual report on countries least tolerant of Internet freedoms: Enemies of the Internet: Burma, China, Cuba, Egypt, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Vietnam.

Repressive regimes have stepped up efforts to censor the Internet and jail dissidents, Reporters Without Borders said in a study out Thursday.

Federal regulators are pledging a rigorous review of the proposed combination of Comcast Corp. and NBC Universal.

Cathleen Griffin usually feeds her passion for the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race through the Internet, but next week she'll travel to Alaska for the first time to see the winner cross the finish line in the old gold rush town of Nome.

Hi-Tech Pharmacal Co. said Thursday that its profit more than tripled in its fiscal third quarter due to stronger sales of generic drugs and greater royalty revenue.

BOTNET AMPUTATED: An Internet provider thought to be helping spread malicious software was taken down, apparently cutting criminals off from millions of personal computers under their control.

British officials say they're pressuring Facebook to make a "panic button" available on its Web pages following the death of a teenager at the hands of a man she met on the popular social networking site.

Album lovers may rejoice a little at last: a British court says Pink Floyd, purveyor of iTunes-unfriendly concept records, cannot be unbundled.

Groups pushing for robust Hispanic participation in the 2010 census are enlisting a new corps of foot-soldiers in their battle to reach that hard-to-count demographic: tech-savvy, smart-phone-toting young people.

A New York judge has declared a second mistrial in the case against a New Jersey blogger charged with threatening federal judges.

A suburban Philadelphia family's webcam-spying lawsuit against a high school could be heading for a settlement.

Sony has a new message for Nintendo Wii gamers: Come join us. The Japanese maker of the PlayStation 3 unveiled Thursday its highly anticipated motion controlling system, as it takes aim at Nintendo's dominance in the gaming sector. With the "PlayStation Move," Sony hopes to lure gamers who have outgrown Nintendo, which launched the Wii in 2006 and became the ...

Albany Medical Center Prize has awarded its annual prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research, considered “America’s Nobel,” to three U.S. scientists — including Dr. Eric Lander, president and director of the Broad Institute — who have played a key role in the Human Genome Project, a mapping of the human genetic blueprint.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a new Boston Scientific Corp. heart stent system that company officials said is the first of its kind to be approved for improving bloodflow to the legs.

NMT Medical Inc., a Boston maker of medical implant technologies, has completed the appointments to its eight-member scientific advisory board, chosen for their expertise in structural heart repair.

Agios Pharmaceuticals Inc., a Cambridge biopharmaceutical firm focused on drugs associated with cancer metabolism, has named Dr. William Kaelin to its scientific advisory board.

Despite reporting a fourth quarter loss, Lexington-based biotech Synta Pharmaceuticals Corp. ended 2009 with a net profit of $79.1 million thanks in large part to deferred revenue through a broken partnership with GlaxoSmithKline.

Battery technology company A123 Systems Inc. will be making its lithium ion battery systems for electric vehicles for truck company Navistar International Corp. under a new deal that will provide the batteries to a joint venture between Illinois-based Navistar and Japanese company Modec Inc.

After winning West Coast VC cash and a spot in Facebook Inc.’s startup incubator program, RunMyErrand Inc. is moving its top three startup executives to a new office in San Francisco; but founder Leah Busque said the move may not be permanent.