Kenneth Corbin

With cost-savings at the forefront of everyone’s IT priorities, it’s no wonder that the U.S. government is among those looking to cloud computing to cut expenses and improve the efficiency of its infrastructure. And for Vivek Kundra, the federal government’s first CIO, it’s an especially frustrating problem. The private sector has made tremendous strides in […]

This was the verdict net neutrality opponents were waiting for. The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the Federal Communications Commission stepped outside its authority when it rebuked Comcast in 2008 for throttling peer-to-peer traffic on its network. But the ruling could span well beyond Comcast’s network practices. Many advocates on both sides […]

A week after Google and McAfee went public with allegations of a far-reaching malware campaign targeting Vietnamese activists, the government has spoken out on the issue, calling the charges “groundless.” The comments come amid Google’s standoff with the Chinese government, which has spoken out in rebuttal to a fresh report describing a widespread Internet criminal […]

Google Buzz, the search giant’s effort to build a social networking experience on top of its Gmail service, didn’t get off to the smoothest of starts. The service quickly became mired in a privacy controversy when bloggers others sounded the alarm that accepting the default settings could share more information with the world than some […]

A federal appeals court has struck down the Federal Communications Commission’s rebuke of Comcast in a 2008 net neutrality proceeding, ruling that the agency acted outside its authority and casting doubt over its ability to act on several components of its broadband agenda. In a 3-0 decision, the judges determined that the FCC was wrong […]

When Eric Schmidt proclaimed Google was set to renew its acquisition activity, he wasn’t kidding. The search giant has reached an agreement to add Episodic, an online video startup, to its growing portfolio of startups and niche players. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but all signs point to a YouTube integration that could […]

Officials at the Federal Communications Commission knew that the ambitious project of developing a national broadband plan would spark some opposition from various corners of the industry. And they did not disappoint. Broadcasters are already planning their campaign to oppose the FCC’s proposal to reclaim some of their spectrum to support mobile broadband. That will […]

In the annals of Google’s April Fool’s jokes, this is a pretty good one. Google has a proud tradition of greeting April with bogus blog postings (announcements of plans to colonize Mars with Virgin’s Richard Branson, the launch of Google Romance, Pigeon Rank, etc.), and, true to form, the company has come out with a […]

Kijiji, eBay’s online classified Web site, is no more, at least in the U.S. While the name and service caught on quite well in Eastern Europe, Canada and Australia, it’s been consistently trounced by Craigslist in the U.S. E-Commerce Guide takes a look at the rebranded eBay Classifieds site and what the company is doing […]

With the iPad days away from hitting the market, Greenpeace took the occasion to issue a report warning of the environmental impact from the new datacenters and server farms that will be built to handle the glut of information being shared and stored in the cloud. Why the iPad? Because it’s one of the “quintessential […]

The Internet has already caused massive shifts in consumer areas; how we buy music, consume news, or buy a book, for instance. But beyond simple consumerism, it also represents the best chance to overcome problems long blocked by institutional inefficiencies and shortcomings. Not enough syllables for you? CIO Update has some more. Continuing their ambitious […]

First it was China. Now Vietnam. Google has revealed details of another wave of cyber attacks emanating from the Asia-Pacific region targeting Vietnamese activists using the Internet to express opposition to a controversial mining project. While the attack is apparently unrelated to the China imbroglio, the mining company at issue is a subsidiary of a […]