Kenneth Corbin

The departments responsible for doling out the $7.2 billion in stimulus funds for broadband projects are nearing the finish line. The Department of Agriculture this week announced $1.2 billion to fund broadband projects in rural and low-income parts of the country. Agriculture, along with the Department of Commerce, expects to complete the broadband stimulus funding […]

Intel, the world’s largest chipmaker, is poised to wrap up another legal challenge to its market practices — this time, reaching a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission over practices through which the agency has claimed Intel had blocked out rivals like AMD and Nvidia and hurt consumers. As a result of the proposed deal, […]

A top Senate Democrat is calling on the Federal Communications Commission to move quickly to overhaul the Universal Service Fund (USF) telecom subsidy to deliver broadband to rural areas. Sen. John Rockefeller (D-W.V.), the chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, sent a letter (PDF available here) to each of the five FCC commissioners urging swift […]

A key House Democrat who has been [leading a probe of the proposed merger of Comcast and NBC Universal](http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/news/article.php/3863031) is calling on federal regulatory authorities to approve the $30 billion deal, but attach significant conditions to preserve broad access to content such as online video. Rep. Rick Boucher (D-Va.), the chairman of the House Energy […]

Enterprise Networking Planet has a report on the latest efforts at a compromise on Capital Hill by lawmakers to make certain parts of the wireless spectrum available for auction. However, as with any issues, there are privacy issues, lobbyists and business concerns. In what appears to be an attempt at a political compromise, a pair […]

White House officials have talked at length about the importance of retooling federal websites to give citizens an engaging channel to connect with their government. So how is it going? Fair to middling, according to researchers who conducted a survey gauging citizen satisfaction with e-government. Portals and agency home pages continue to flummox users, but […]

The Federal Trade Commission is looking for a way to protect consumers’ privacy from online advertisers that use behavior-based data to target Internet users for particular online advertisements. But as eCommerce Guide reports, the FTC has been largely hamstrung by the extremely effective lobbying efforts of online advertisers that are determined to keep mining this […]

In an effort to wring out costs and improve health care for patients, the Food and Drug Administration and the Federal Communications Commission together are pushing for more hospitals, doctors and insurance companies to implement and use wireless technologies across the industry. As Datamation reports, the two government agencies recognize that reducing duplicate tests or […]

Google, Microsoft and IBM are all fighting to land the next wave of monster government IT contracts to ensure their economic prosperity through the rest of the decade. But to do it, they need to prove their applications are cheaper than existing options and, more important, as secure as possible. As Datamation reports, Google took […]

This week was another busy one in the world of technology and telecom policy. Here are a few of the highlights: Dingell miffed at FCC, broadband debate looms Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) sent a second letter to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski asking for an explanation of his rationale for reclassifying broadband as a […]

In an effort to spur broadband deployment in rural, remote and low-income areas, a bipartisan pair of lawmakers has introduced legislation to overhaul the Universal Service Fund, the telecom subsidy overseen by the Federal Communications Commission. The Universal Service Reform Act, authored by Reps. Rick Boucher and Lee Terry, would require recipients of the subsidy […]

The Federal Communications Commission is in a sticky spot. The agency’s regulatory authority was dealt a major blow at the hands of a federal appeals court just as it set out to embark on an ambitious national broadband plan. So the chairman’s response? Reclassify broadband service under a designation where the FCC’s legal authority is […]