Kenneth Corbin

For server vendors, things are looking up. The latest market snapshot from research firm IDC indicates that the IT equipment refresh, which many firms put on hiatus amid the depths of the recession, is now well underway. IDC reported that global server revenues were up 15.3 percent in the fourth quarter, the biggest jump in […]

A House subcommittee on Wednesday plans to vote on a resolution of disapproval that would aim to overturn the net neutrality rules the Federal Communications Commission adopted in December. The resolution (available here in PDF format) is set to come to a vote before the Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Communications and Technology Wednesday […]

The Senate on Monday began its consideration of legislation that would undertake a comprehensive reform of the nation’s patent system, a long-standing priority of many members of the tech sector that has foundered in the three preceding congresses. The bill’s sponsor, Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), took to the floor to introduce and endorse […]

A growing number of states are saving money and reaching more constituents by tapping the Internet to deliver services and information related to government programs. That’s the good news. The bad news is the creation of large digital repositories of sensitive data about citizens that are a tempting target for hackers. The National Association of […]

House Republicans have taken dead aim at a host of recently enacted regulations they view as hostile to business and economic recovery. Included in that list are the rules the Federal Communications Commission recently passed to bar Internet service providers from discriminating against certain traffic on their networks. But in the Senate, a group of […]

Advocates of reforms to the nation’s spectrum policy often complain that it is difficult to get policymakers to listen. In the panoply of public-policy issues, matters of spectrum generally travel in steerage. But when the president brings it up in his State of the Union address, and later devotes an entire speech to the subject […]

The House of Representatives didn’t waste any time taking action to block the Federal Communications Commission’s efforts to implement net neutrality rules. The same week a House subcommittee held a lengthy oversight hearing that saw majority members grill FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski about the agency’s December order, the full chamber voted late on Thursday to […]

As long as government officials have been talking about how to boost broadband deployment and adoption, outlining proposals to bridge the digital divide and build out a world-class broadband infrastructure, a key ingredient has been missing: data. That’s a shortfall the administration hopes to overcome with today’s release of a long-awaited nationwide map outlining the […]

Even before he assumed the chairmanship of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Fred Upton promised oversight of the FCC, and he promised to lead the charge to overturn the agency’s controversial net neutrality regulations. On Tuesday, he delivered on both. Upton and other committee leaders introduced their resolution of disapproval today, pairing the action […]

As the revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia have inspired groundswells of government opposition in states around the Middle East, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday noted the powerful role that the Internet and Web-based communications technologies have played in those movements. But just as Facebook and Twitter have become integral parts of modern popular […]

Dell, the world’s second-largest PC maker, enjoyed brisk, double-digit growth in its enterprise, SMB and consumer segments in its fiscal fourth quarter, propelling the firm well past analysts’ expectations for the period. Excluding certain items, Dell turned in earnings of 53 cents per share, handily topping a consensus forecast of 37 cents per share, according […]

It’s no secret that businesses are awash in data these days. And while massive databases might brim with critical business insights, too often retrieving the item of immediate relevance is something like the hunt for a particular needle in a stack of needles. It’s a problem HP is setting out to solve through the acquisition […]