Kenneth Corbin

Datamation reports on the latest news related to Amazon’s popular Kindle e-reader, which will see much wider distribution of the large screen model. Fresh on the heels of a brisk holiday sales season, Amazon is planning to roll out the large-screen model of its popular Kindle line of e-readers to more than a 100 countries […]

Google is reasserting itself as one of the driving forces behind the move to open the vacant spectrum that sits between TV channels to broadband use. In a filing Monday with the Federal Communications Commission, the search giant threw its hat in the ring to serve as one of the companies that would administer a […]

A key federal agency has signaled its support for an overhaul of the government’s approach to wireless spectrum, calling for a reallocation in favor of wireless broadband networks that could pave the way for a bitter political fight. In a letter to the Federal Communications Commission, the head of the National Telecommunications Information Administration (NTIA) […]

A band of consumer groups has asked federal antitrust regulators to open an investigation into the cable industry’s strategy for bringing content online, arguing that the TV Everywhere initiative involves industry-wide collusion and is anticompetitive. The groups, led by Free Press, worry that by brokering deals with entertainment companies to bring television content to the […]

The issue of Internet privacy has a broad spectrum of views, from ‘you have none, get over it’ to almost militant paranoia. Most folks fall somewhere in between, as is often the case, but even if you are blasé about the situation, with so many cases of identity theft, you’d be a fool to ignore […]

We aren’t going to call 2009 the seminal year in the rise of social media, social networking or any of the novel digital applications and media that fly under the banner Web 2.0. That would be a bit presumptuous. But this year did bring a bumper crop of notable developments across the social Web and […]

President Obama promised voters that network neutrality would be a cornerstone of his governance during his election run. Enterprise Networking Planet takes a closer look at the issues and obstacles facing Net neutrality proponents and its outspoken opponents. Long-frustrated network neutrality advocates headed into 2009 with high hopes. After all, there was a new administration […]

ForeSee Results has ranked the largest online retailers’ customer service and found that Amazon has pulled ahead of Netflix to take the lead — with a score that’s the highest ever recorded by the firm. ECommerce-Guide.com has the story. A new study has found that online retailers reached a high-water mark for customer satisfaction this […]

Is it a practical threat, or just an academic exercise? A German encryption expert is calling on the mobile industry to fortify its defenses against what he says is a serious security flaw. The leading industry association sees it differently. Enterprise Mobile Today has the full story. A German security researcher has claimed to have […]

AT&T had to do a mad scramble on Monday to recover from a public relations fiasco. Over the weekend, a few sites noticed that AT&T’s online store would not sell the iPhone to certain parts of New York. This led to all kinds of conspiracy theories and nasty accusations hurled at AT&T. Since then, the […]

A pair of consumer advocacy groups is calling on the Federal Trade Commission to block Google’s purchase of the mobile ad network AdMob, warning that the $750 million deal would give Google a commanding position in the burgeoning wireless advertising sector. Consumer Watchdog and the Center for Digital Democracy (CDD), both frequent critics of Google […]

Here’s something you can expect to hear more than a few times in the coming year: “We know that closer scrutiny has been one consequence of Google’s success.” The latest utterance of what has become a stock line for Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) when asked about its prospects for winning the desired outcome through a regulatory […]