Kenneth Corbin

Since Napster burst onto the scene in 1999, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has fought tooth and nail to retain control over the way people obtain and share music. Some new research suggests it’s not a battle the RIAA is likely to win anytime soon. Last month, Digital Music News and the media-tracking […]

With only minor fluctuations in market share atop the leader board, four of the five major search engines saw the total number of searches conducted on their core properties decline in November, according to research from online metrics firm comScore. Americans conducted 5 percent fewer Web searches in November than in October, comScore found, attributing […]

While e-commerce may not be growing at the same clip as in years past, online retailers have nonetheless seen a generally healthy holiday season, according to the latest analysis from online metrics firm comScore. With Christmas over and only a few days as yet unreported before the holiday season officially draws to a close, online […]

In the last couple years, digital advertising has looked a little like an ultramodern version of the great race to the west coast. Are there any corners left in the online world where advertisers can plant a flag? In the great digital race to monetize the Web, what will they think of next? Plenty. Although […]

Just where do the politics of IT workers lie? With the presidential election less than a year away, the Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) took a look at the political concerns of a cross-section of technology professionals. Topping the list, 29 percent of survey respondents identified the war in Iraq as the greatest challenge facing […]

With the credit squeeze poised to slow growth in technology spending across the banking industry for the first time in years, financial institutions will nonetheless continue to explore new models of conducting their business in the online environment, according to research and consulting firm Celent. Celent had earlier predicted that 2010 will be the year […]

Yahoo announced Thursday that it has formed a partnership with America Movil, the leading wireless provider in Latin America, to deliver mobile services to 16 countries throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. The alliance will make its oneSearch product the default mobile search application for America Movil’s 143 million wireless subscribers, its largest partnership with […]

After a slow end to the workweek, online retailers bounced back a little over the weekend, posting robust year-to-year growth numbers, according to online metrics firm comScore. The weekend spending surge helped lift total e-commerce spending growth for the holiday season to 19 percent from last year, inching closer to comScore’s year-to-year growth projection of […]

In Victorian times, a favorite admonishment for the corseted schoolmarm to hiss at her class full of ill-mannered, chattering imps was, “Children are to be seen, not heard.” Well, in the decidedly un-Victorian Internet, teenagers are becoming prolific content creators, posting their opinions, artwork and photos across the rapidly expanding array of social content sites, […]

With a decision from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on the Google/DoubleClick merger imminent, two groups warning of privacy concerns with the combined company are ramping up their efforts to stamp privacy measures on the deal. Speaking in a joint telephone press briefing, the heads of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and the Center […]

Online retailers got a shot in the arm last Monday and Tuesday, but growth in overall sales this season is well off from last year, according to new figures from online metrics firm comScore. Last Monday, total online spending reached $881 million – a 33 percent jump from the same day a year ago. In […]

More than twice as many Internet users today are plugging their own names into a search engine to find out what kind of personal information is available on the Web than just five years ago, according to new research from the Pew Internet Project. The study, titled “Digital Footprints: Online Identity Management and Search in […]