The recently deceased music-loving Sony boss Norio Ohga cared more about the art than the money

Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy by David Leigh and Luke Harding reveals the Wikileaks founder's facile politics and ignorance of history

Book review of Unnatural: The Heretical Idea of Making People by Philip Ball

‘Julian Assange, you have some serious questions to answer’

‘The trolls of the web have been put on notice. I won’t read your vile comments’

"Online Reputation Services Providers" threaten the future of user-generated media on the internet

David Fincher’s movie about the rise of social networking is skilful, but the human touch is lacking

Cyber-activism spreads quickly and reaches many, but the lack of risk involved means it is largely superficial

The "Golden Shield Project" is blocking access to great swathes of the web, but Chinese netizens are fighting back

Sharing is the key moral concept of our business-friendly, post-socialist world bringing instant global access at zero cost