Kenneth Corbin

In the wake of the discovery that a sensitive TSA document has been publicly available online since early this year, lawmakers are calling for answers. eSecurity Planet has the story. The acting head of the Transportation Security Authority (TSA) Wednesday sought to reassure a House subcommittee that the inadvertent posting of sensitive airport security information […]

There’s a lot at stake for future broadband development, including $7 billion in stimulus money from the federal government. The Federal Communications Commission has until mid-February to come up with a proposal on how to build out national broadband infrastructure, and today delivered an early draft of the plan. Enterprise Networking Planet has the details. […]

Intel’s regulatory troubles continued today with word from the Federal Trade Commission that it’s suing the chip giant for an alleged decade-long history of anticompetitive practices. Datamation looks at what the FTC is charging, what Intel says in its defense, and how the new allegations go beyond Intel’s longstanding rivalry with AMD. U.S. regulatory authorities […]

AT&T has been a major holdout on Net Neutrality laws for some time because of their blanket policies, which would adversely affect a company of its size. Today it extended an olive branch, as well as a proposal, to the chairman of the FCC. Enterprise Networking Planet gets the details. As the Federal Communications Commission […]

The CTIA has an interesting take on the whole Net Neutrality argument. It argues that Net Neutrality deals with the issue of pipes, while the wireless spectrum is unlimited, so it needs to be regulated differently. Enterprise Networking Planet checks to see if it has a point and is anyone buying that argument? Federal regulators’ […]

WASHINGTON — There are plenty of exuberant new media types who are keen to argue that blogs, Twitter feeds and other novel ways of sharing information will be able to pick up the journalistic slack left by the erosion of mainstream media outlets, if not replace them altogether. Mark Lloyd is not one of them. […]

Rival camps are again at odds over network neutrality — this time, with the cable industry citing possible threats to the First Amendment if neutrality advocates get their way. Enterprise Networking Planet looks at the debate. One of the most enduring elements of the debate over Net neutrality is the rhetorical fluidity that enables the […]

It’s a wide, weird world out there on the Web, and it can be a scary place for kids. A federal investigation has found that virtual worlds have vastly differing policies to keep kids away from inappropriate content. eSecurityPlanet has the details about what the Federal Trade Commission found. Federal officials have warned that online […]

Google’s already talked up its integration of real-time results — read: Twitter — into its search engine. Now it’s making good on that pledge, and extending the benefits to its enterprise offering, according to a Datamation report. Google passed a pair of mile markers on the road to real-time search this week, debuting the much-hyped […]

Facebook’s subscribers just are not willing to cut the social networking site any slack. The firm introduced a new privacy policy that requires all users to reset and update their profile settings but there are concerns if people don’t set things properly, the whole world can see private data. It wouldn’t be a major announcement […]

Facebook says it’s leading the privacy revolution. Critics say it’s trying to trick people into sharing more information than they realize. eSecurityPlanet looks at the charges, and hears from Facebook’s top man in Washington who says people are “panicking unnecessarily.” It wouldn’t be a major announcement from Facebook if it weren’t met by howls of […]

Tim Armstrong, CEO of the newly independent AOL AOL has formally ended its rocky marriage to Time Warner, reemerging this morning as a standalone, publicly traded company positioning itself as a leader in online content, advertising and communications services. After ringing the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange, CEO Tim Armstrong talked up […]