Kenneth Corbin

Long negotiated under a veil of secrecy, the draft language of the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement is set for publication this week. Digital-rights groups have greeted the announcement with cautious optimism, though it remains unclear how receptive the negotiating parties will be to public comments. At the same time, those same groups are heartened by […]

As the Senate appears poised to take up floor debate on a major overhaul of the financial regulatory regime, advertising trade groups are stepping up their opposition to any provisions that could entail an expansion of the Federal Trade Commission’s rulemaking authority. Several organizations and companies, including the Direct Marketing Association, the Interactive Advertising Bureau […]

One of the realities of modern warfare is that computers are as important as tanks. The U.S. military has created a new group, called Cyber Command, to supporting the information and communications systems of the military forces, and in extreme situations, get involved in a battle by attacking enemy networks. Of course, this raises all […]

Competitors come and go, but Google remains atop the search engine heap in market share and traffic. The search engine’s popularity also helps its bottom line. As Datamation reports, Google’s also a powerhouse when it comes to online advertising. In reporting first quarter earnings Google detailed how well it did in online advertising and what […]

For about three weeks, the FCC’s national broadband plan commanded the attention of the tech and telecom policy world. Then came the Comcast ruling. Since a federal appeals court last week voided the FCC’s order punishing Comcast for secretly degrading peer-to-peer traffic on its network, an order issued in 2008, the broadband plan seems to […]

With the economy stabilizing, online advertising is showing some of those ‘green shoots’ of new growth and expansion of the market. However, things have shifted in the online advertising market. The customer has changed, the means of reaching customers has changed, and there are all these new devices out there. Small Business Computing takes a […]

When a federal court struck down the FCC’s ruling against Comcast in the now-famous BitTorrent case, it may have undone more than the commission’s position in that one narrow case. Open Internet advocates are warning that the ruling went much farther, and actually crippled the FCC’s authority to enact a host of the recommendations in […]

Despite its meteoric rise and the reams of venture capital it’s managed to rake in, popular microblogging service Twitter has thus far failed to produce that one thing that any business needs: A way of making money. Today, the company says it’s done just that, unveiling a new promotional service for businesses’ tweets — a […]

As it continues to shop for technologies that can soup up its mobile offerings, Google has entered into an agreement to acquire Plink, a U.K. startup specializing in visual search for smartphones. The purchase is the latest in a string of acquisitions for the search giant, and the second in April. Google’s biggest acquisition in […]

After a federal court struck down the FCC’s order against Comcast in the BitTorrent network management case, some pundits began to question the commission’s authority on a host of other issues in its national broadband plan. The chairman of the FCC sees it a little differently. Just days after the court handed down its ruling, […]

The ruling itself wasn’t so much of a surprise, but when the three-judge panel ruled unanimously that the FCC had acted outside of its jurisdiction in the Comcast net neutrality case, it left the commission on shaky ground as far as its Internet authority. And the FCC’s top lawyer has admitted as much. Austin Schlick […]

Google has done its part to keep China’s Internet policies in the news with its standoff with the government over Web censorship and allegations of cyber attacks. A new report has gone a step beyond that, painting an alarming picture of the murky operations of a group dubbed the Shadow network, a syndicate of sophisticated […]