Kenneth Corbin

With mobile broadband exploding at a geometric pace, the Federal Communications Commission is trying to find a way to free up some 500MHz of wireless spectrum. Enterprise Networking Planet details the commission’s idea to auction off chunks of prime wireless real estate and what agencies and industries stand to benefit from the plan. WASHINGTON — […]

The age-old dilemma of privacy versus security took center stage during a hearing Tuesday in which advocates of a sweeping cybersecurity bill argued that increasing executive authority to prevent catastrophic cyber attacks was a matter of national security. eSecurity Planet details both sides of an issue that has CIOs and lawmakers lined up on both […]

This is getting out of hand. What began as a series of official denials about Chinese involvement in the cyber attacks that targeted Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and more than two dozen other U.S. companies has snowballed into a mocking report in the state-run Xinhua news agency deriding a New York Times story linking the attacks […]

As international negotiations toward a major cross-border trade agreement to curb intellectual property crimes continue behind closed doors, a top European privacy official today blasted the secrecy of the talks, sounding an alarm about Internet monitoring provisions that could press ISPs to filter traffic on their networks for pirated content. The warning from European Data […]

What will the Internet look like in 2020? What will mankind look like after another decade of always-on information saturation? Big questions, for sure, but Pew’s never one to shy away from a challenge. The research group polled some of the smartest minds in tech, who overwhelmingly expressed faith that the Internet will improve human […]

Leaders of the federal task force developing a national broadband plan today outlined some of the recommendations they will make to Congress next month outlining policy reforms that could capitalize on high-speed Internet technology to advance broad-ranging national goals, such as healthcare, energy and education. The broadband plan, which the Federal Communications Commission was directed […]

Give the feds license to restrict online data collection? Try to collect sales tax from online purchases? Not on your life! The hands-off-the-Internet advocacy group NetChoice has compiled a list of the top 10 federal and state legislative proposals it is working overtime to defeat. Enterprise Networking Planet has the details. NetChoice, a technology trade […]

Looking to extend its reach and expand its sales, Amazon is now serving up a free Kindle application to BlackBerry users just as it did last year for the Apple iPhone.Enterprise Mobile Today explains how the new app will not only be more convenient for smartphone users but more lucrative for Amazon. Amazon today rolled […]

As publishers and entertainment producers grudgingly warm to the idea that advertising alone might not be enough to support quality content on the Internet, they have begun to experiment with a wide variety of schemes to charge consumers for the online versions of their products. But a new global study from Nielsen offers a bounty […]

Cybersecurity has become a popular topic in policy circles these days, as attacks continue and experts continue to question the nation’s readiness. So what happens when the really big attack comes? Expectations of privacy, net neutrality and private-sector sovereignty could go out the window. As a group of former senior government officials gathered to engage […]

Source: MySpace.com Google has begun integrating status updates and other publicly available content from people’s MySpace profiles into its search results, marking the latest effort to remake search with a more social, real-time flavor. MySpace content will be showcased in Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) search results under the “latest” or “update” filtering links that are available […]

In the wake of recent outcry over the handling of default privacy settings in Google Buzz — the social networking enhancement to Gmail that debuted only days ago — Google is taking new steps to curb concerns. eSecurityPlanet looks at the company’s response. Just two days after launching its social e-mail product Buzz, Google has […]