Kenneth Corbin

Amazon has long been considered a leading indicator of how well online sales are doing. According to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, the big trend is mobile. Bezos said in the past year his company has received over $1 billion in product orders online from customers using a mobile device. Ecommerce Guide details Amazon’s latest earnings […]

Considering the sweeping changes that cloud computing has already had on enterprise IT — where it’s increasingly seen by CIOs as a way to cut costs and improve data center flexibility and manageability — it should come as no surprise that the federal government is investigating ways to leverage the same model. But nothing in […]

With 18 months at the helm, Carol Bartz is now the unquestioned captain of the good ship Yahoo. The economic performance of the company is a reflection of her policies and ideas. So it’s time to see if her ideas are paying off. As of this quarter, things are still a little mixed. Yahoo reported […]

With more and more mobile and wireless devices on the market, the wireless spectrum in the U.S. is under increasing pressure and becoming more and more crowded. Something will have to give sooner or later, and if the government doesn’t get cracking, Enterprise Networking Planet warns, wireless operators are at risk of their networks buckling […]

Facebook is expected to announce a major milestone in the company’s growth this week, revealing to the world that it has signed up half a billion users. Quite likely, the announcement of the 500 million mark will come on Wednesday, and serve as a centerpiece of CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s interview with ABC’s Diane Sawyer (6:30 […]

Google’s shopping spree doesn’t show any signs of letting up, as the Web behemoth continues to open its wallet to acquire firms with niche technologies that can augment its developing business lines. The latest target is Metaweb, a firm specializing in semantic Web technology that Google has acquired to improve its search engine. Specifically, Google […]

A lively debate is playing out in Washington over the extent to which government regulators can prohibit Internet service providers from degrading content on their networks. It’s generally known as net neutrality. But a new debate is emerging over how — or if — regulators should oversee search engines. Both Google and the New York […]

Will the iPhone 4 turn out to be Apple’s equivalent of Microsoft’s Vista debacle? Does Google really read your e-mail and send out vans to spy on you? Unlikely to the first, and no to the second, but you wouldn’t know it from Kevin Turner’s address at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference. Turner, the software giant’s […]

As it continues to tinker with Web tools to bring more of the government’s activity online, the Obama administration has relaunched its federal IT spending tracker, an online dashboard that provides an agency-by-agency view of how the government is spending nearly $80 billion on IT projects. The souped-up IT dashboard refreshes the [spending tracker the […]

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer admitted this week that his company “missed a generation” in the evolution of wireless technology with its Windows Mobile operating system. Now, Microsoft’s looking to make up for lost ground. At its annual partners conference in Washington, Microsoft previewed a new crop of mobile devices running Windows Phone 7, the next […]

Anyone who listens to Steve Ballmer talk these days would be hard-pressed to deny that he’s found religion about the cloud. In an emphatic keynote address at Microsoft’s annual Worldwide Partner Conference, Ballmer reiterated his commitment that the company is “all in” on cloud computing, and promised that a host of new devices of various […]

For the past six months, Google has been embroiled in a standoff with the Chinese government after it threatened to cease blocking online content deemed objectionable by authorities. In March, Google made good on that threat by redirecting traffic from the mainland to Hong Kong, where it operates outside of the content-filtering requirements. But continuing […]