Just in time for the start of the summer season, the Vermont State Parks has rolled out a free iPhone app that gives visitors the ability to access and organize all sorts of information.

CISPA allows companies to share information about users with the government, in an attempt to cut down on cyber threats. But some are skeptical of the legislation, including the White House which is threatening to veto the measure.

Vermont's digital future will be the topic of a day-long conference at Champlain College in Burlington Tuesday.

What can machines tell us about being human?

Burlington city councilors who drafted the resolution say that the move isn't political but one that identifies the emerging importance of social media in local government transparency and communication.

A number of technology companies are angry that the state is charging a sales tax on business they conduct via what's come to be known as "cloud computing."  

Newscast: April 3, 2012, 12:04 p.m.

Vermont Edition looks at the trend of Vermonters ages 20 to 34 leaving the state in this week-long series.

The Millennial generation has grown up in culture defined by mass media, digital communications and forming social bonds through technology.

We look at how big a threat the computer hacking movement is and at what can be done to protect against its attacks.

Newscast: Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012, 12:04 p.m.

Vermont Law School is studying the roll-out of smart grid technology by Central Vermont Public Service and six other utilities around the country. The school says the adoption of the technology by the state's largest electric utility is going well.

We stir the pot on the debate between "slow food" and "fast food," plus take a look at the etiquette of Twitter.

How does a restaurant bounce back when a customer finds a mouse in her salad? 

Deb Van Dyke has traveled to some of the most volatile parts of the world providing medical care through Doctors Without Borders. Now, she's working on short films about public health issues that will be accessible educational tools for people in developing countries. 

More and more municipal governments have moved their business online, and now many of them are digitizing town records, such as tax maps.

Karen Marshall, who heads the state government's Connect Vermont office, outlinest where Vermont stands in completing the Shumlin administration's goal of universal broadband by 2013.

Newscast: Monday, Jan. 23, 2012, 5:50 p.m.

VPR Newscast: Jan. 19, 2012, 12:04 p.m.

State regulators have approved a new oversight plan for FairPoint Communications, the region's dominant land-line phone company.

Senator Patrick Leahy says the concerns he's heard from Wikipedia, Google, Facebook and others are unfounded based on what his bill really aims to accomplish.

We get reaction from both sides on the the Protect IP Act (PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).

Senator Patrick Leahy is the sponsor of a controversial bill that aims to prevent Internet piracy - the problem of rogue websites distributing copyrighted data that they don't own.

VPR Newscast for Monday 12/19 at 5:50pm

Opponents of a controversial wind project under construction on Lowell Mountain were arrested yesterday for blocking a road. Six of the arrested were protestors but one was a journalist, Chris Braithwaite, publisher of the Barton Chronicle, who was there covering the story.