Kenneth Corbin

Despite being under constant assault from hackers around the globe, U.S. military and government cybersecurity efforts will not compromise individual civil liberties or unnecessarily invade citizens’ privacy, according to Gen. Keith Alexander, the National Security Agency’s director told attendees at the O’Reilly Media Gov 2.0 Summit. As eSecurity Planet reports, the refrain echoed what Alexander […]

The latest report from the Federal Communications Commission highlighted an increase in broadband adoption, particularly in fiber connections, but overall, speeds continue to lag behind the goal the agency set in its national broadband plan. In the meantime, the FCC has released the agenda for its September meeting, and opted not to include a controversial […]

Google and AOL have agreed to terms to extend their search partnership, announcing plans for Google to provide search and advertising technology to the Internet pioneer’s network of sites through 2015. But the companies’ alliance isn’t just about traditional Web search. For the first time, Google will power AOL’s mobile search, and AOL’s video content […]

Some Twitter users are complaining about the privacy impact of a new effort undertaken by the popular microblogging service — ironically, an effort at least in part positioned as a way to better protect users from online dangers. Twitter told its members this week that it’s going to begin enforcing OAuth among third-party sites and […]

And all it took was half a billion friends. Vanity Fair has crowned Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg the Caesar of our day, and anointed Palo Alto the new Rome. Really. The 26-year-old mogul has landed at the top of the magazine’s 100 most influential list, beating out Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who checked in at […]

The debate over network neutrality continues to rage in Washington, with industry stakeholders conducting negotiations in an effort to craft a compromise. In the meantime, the Federal Communications Commission has an open proceeding that would set rules to preserve the open Internet, but in a politically charged environment, the agency isn’t looking to press the […]

AT&T has called on the Federal Communications Commission to protect the right of Internet service providers to charge steeper rates for expedited delivery of special types of Web traffic, a major fault line in the debate over net neutrality. In a letter to the commission dated Monday, the telecom giant argued that the Internet Engineering […]

Google has added yet another company specializing in social media to its portfolio, snatching up SocialDeck, a maker of interactive games for mobile platforms. That marks Google’s fifth acquisition this month, a brisk pace that is widely seen as a process of assembling the pieces for the launch of a major new social service that […]

Any pretense MySpace still had about competing toe-to-toe with Facebook was discarded today, as the slumping social network rolled out a tool for its members to port their status updates and other content to their Facebook profiles. It’s hard not to see the new Sync with Facebook tool as a concession to Facebook’s continued dominance […]

Google has reached a licensing agreement with the Associated Press that will allow it to continue hosting news content from the journalism consortium. The AP, a cooperative owned by its roughly 1,500 newspaper members, has bristled at the way its content has flowed across the Web, at times without compensation or credit. The organization has […]

Intel has made its interest in the wireless sector known for some time, but cast away any lingering doubts about its commitment Monday morning with the announcement that it’s acquiring Infineon Technologies’ Wireless Solutions group in a $1.4 billion all-cash transaction. Through the purchase, Intel is looking to diversify its wireless offerings as it looks […]

Researchers at the Pew Internet Project will have you know that social networking technologies are no longer the province of the younger, tech-savvy generation. While sites like Facebook are still more widely used by younger Americans, Pew found that Internet users above the age of 50 are flocking to the social Web at a rapid […]