Kenneth Corbin

Speaking at the CTIA Wireless conference yesterday in Las Vegas, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin gave the industry a smart salute for healthy competition among the carriers and their increasing move toward network openness. “Importantly, competition in the wireless industry has also led to lower prices, higher usage and adoption rates and technological innovation,” […]

With Congress back from recess, the fight for sweeping legislation to reform the patent system may be entering its final stages — according to members of the Coalition for Patent Fairness, the association representing companies supporting the bill. Groups negotiating the Patent Reform Act reached a compromise on the majority of the provisions before the […]

NEW YORK — If the Internet accounts for 17 percent of U.S. media consumption, then why does the Internet account for just 7 percent of companies’ ad budgets? Offering more questions than answers here at the Advertising Research Foundation (ARF) conference, the panelists generally concurred with ComScore Chairman Gian Fulgoni when he described an “emerging […]

Something about this news cycle seems a little familiar. In a mild aftershock to comScore’s [“bombshell” report](/search/article.php/3730731) last month about flat growth in paid clicks on Google’s search ads, the research firm has issued the same report for February. Again, growth in paid clicks held steady, and again Google’s stock took a hit from jittery […]

No one said the regulatory review of a Microsoft/Yahoo merger would be easy, but a new law in China could make it even tougher. On Aug. 1, China’s first-ever antimonopoly law will take effect, positioning the country to become a regulatory authority on par with the European Union and the United States. The law, first […]

Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) YouTube has announced a new analytics tool that will enable publishers and advertisers to track viewership on the popular video-sharing site. Freely available to anyone with a YouTube account, the Insight feature offers detailed information about who is watching their videos, such as statistics on viewers by geographic region. Insight builds on […]

Targeting concerns about Internet users’ personal data in a Web 2.0 world, the European Union is throwing its weight behind a newly created research project designed to help safeguard users’ personal data as they navigate social networks and virtual communities. European lawmakers are putting 10 million euros ($15.8 million) into that effort, called the PrimeLife […]

eBay’s [new strategy](/ec-news/article.php/3724546/A+Buyers+Market+at+eBay.htm) of doting on the buyers at the expense of, it seems to many, the sellers has made the e-commerce heavyweight a lot of enemies. Dissent among the power sellers has manifested in the form of a highly publicized boycott, and there’s another one planned for May 1. Citing independent tracking firms reporting […]

A law pending in the New York State Assembly that would regulate the data-collection activities of online advertisers has drawn sharp attention from the largest Internet companies and concerned parties on both sides of the privacy debate. Introduced by Richard Brodsky, a Democrat from the New York City suburb of Westchester, the Third-Party Internet Advertising […]

Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) has joined forces with Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and MySpace to announce the OpenSocial Foundation, a nonprofit venture to support the development of portable, interoperable applications under the OpenSocial standard. This comes the same day that Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) announced it is adding to the Windows Live platform the ability to share contact […]

Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) today announced a joint research venture with Computational Research Laboratories (CRL) to explore cloud computing through the use of one of the world’s fastest supercomputers. CRL, a wholly owned subsidiary of India-based Tata Sons Limited, maintains EKA, a 14,400-processor supercomputer that ranked fourth on the most recent Top 500 listing of the […]

When in trouble, find strength in numbers. quadrantONE, the coalition of newspapers formed last month to pool online advertising resources, has partnered with the members of Yahoo’s (NASDAQ: YHOO) Newspaper Consortium. The move doubles the size of quadrantONE, which was created to give newspapers a better chance at competing with the Web portals for ad […]