Kenneth Corbin

Next February, when analog television broadcasts disappear, the government is determined that the American public won’t be left in the dark. The Federal Communications Commission yesterday announced requirements for broadcasters to air informational messages to educate viewers about the digital television (DTV) transition, taking effect Feb. 17, 2009. The Commission is also considering starting the […]

Despite shareholder lawsuits, employee dissent and scrutiny from all corners of the tech world over Microsoft’s (NASDAQ:MSFT) acquisition attempt, Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO) has unveiled its ambitious plans for a portable Web device. Yahoo announced its latest mobile venture, called Yahoo onePlace, at the CeBIT computing expo in Germany today. The company has billed the product as […]

Reversing his earlier ruling, Judge Jeffrey White [lifted the domain-name block on Wikileaks.org](/government/article.php/3731441/Judge+Strikes+Down+Wikileaks+Injunction.htm) on Friday, returning the whistelblower site to normal operating status in a decision celebrated by the free-speech/press advocates that had rallied to its side. And with good reason. Wikileaks exists as a forum for people who have evidence of some kind of […]

All’s not well in auction-land. In an annual report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday, eBay warned of numerous risks that its business faces, including its ability to retain buyers and sellers on its sites, in addition to the normal concern of attracting new users. Attraction and retention were just two of […]

A federal court today struck down an injunction against Wikileaks, reversing his earlier ruling that effectively blocked access to the muckraking site through its U.S. domain name in a lawsuit brought by a Swiss bank. Judge Jeffrey White’s ruling erases all domain-name restrictions on Wikileaks, the site created for anonymous whistle-blowers to post documents detailing […]

After jangling investors’ nerves earlier this week with a report that Google’s paid clicks were declining, comScore today offered a detailed analysis of its figures, which may help calm a jittery Wall Street. In a blog post, comScore CEO Magid Abraham and James Lamberti, senior vice president of media and search, attributed the drop-off to […]

A federal judge is scheduled to hear arguments today on whether to uphold the block on Wikileaks, a site created for anonymous whistleblowers to post documents detailing corporate improprieties or government misconduct. Earlier this month, Judge Jeffrey White of the U.S. District Court in San Francisco ordered the domain name Wikileaks.org locked and disabled during […]

eBay reached a settlement with MercExchange today, putting to rest a long-running legal squabble that dates back to September 2001. eBay said that it would purchase the three patents from MercExchange which had been at the center of a high-profile infringement case that eventually made it to the U.S. Supreme Court. Terms of the settlement […]

Eager to cut a deeper trench with its online ad business, Microsoft has opened its checkbook once again, this time to purchase YaData, an Israeli company specializing in behavioral targeting and customer segmentation technologies. Along with the acquisition came the vague promise that YaData’s technology would help Microsoft “provide more focused and relevant advertising.” Earlier […]

In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday, Yahoo said that seven shareholder groups have filed lawsuits against the company’s board of directors since Microsoft announced its unsolicited bid to take over the company. The class action lawsuits charge that Yahoo’s board has breached its fiduciary duty to the shareholders in its response […]

iTunes is now the second-largest overall music retailer — online or offline — in the United States, behind only Wal-Mart, according to research the NPD Group released yesterday. After Wal-Mart and iTunes, the top music retailers in 2007 were Best Buy, Target and Amazon, in descending order. As popular as iTunes has become, NPD reported […]

Investors were jittery enough over slowing growth in Google’s ad business last quarter, but no growth at all? A recent market analysis from online metrics firm comScore reported that Google saw 532 million domestic paid clicks on ads it placed in January, down 0.3 percent from the same month last year. Worse still, stagnant year-to-year […]