Kenneth Corbin

Google has struck a partnership with DVR pioneer TiVo to glean audience research data from the DVR pioneer to improve its TV advertising business. Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) began experimenting with TV advertising in 2007. Google TV Ads was greeted with considerable fanfare, but the project has languished on the sidelines of the company’s balance sheet, […]

LinkedIn, the social network for professionals, has taken the long-awaited step of releasing a set of APIs so that developers can build applications to customize the experience on the site. The 11 APIs will enable third parties to incorporate features from LinkedIn on their sites, enabling visitors to access their profiles and send messages to […]

Security researchers have identified a new worm spreading across Facebook, luring people out to adult Web sites and automatically replicating itself across people’s profile pages. Like so much malware, the worm advertises itself as a product of the skin trade. An image of a near-naked woman appears on a user’s wall alongside all the other […]

Twitter has made good on its promise to add its name to the growing number of Web sites offering geolocation services, turning on the geotagging API it announced in August. Twitter is rolling out its geotagging feature in something of a soft launch. At first, the feature is only available to developers with third-party Twitter […]

The conversation around online video has traditionally been dominated by YouTube, and rightly so. After all, the Google-owned property claims somewhere between 10 times and 20 times the traffic of its nearest competitor, depending on what metric is applied and who’s doing the measuring. But Nielsen has compiled an analysis that highlights the rise of […]

Members of a pair of House subcommittees inched closer to the long-awaited privacy legislation that would set rules of the road for advertisers in a joint hearing today, though the lawmakers made it plain that they continue to wrestle with the right balance between protecting consumers’ rights without unnecessarily restricting economic activity. Today’s hearing followed […]

The chief executives of Google and Intel have joined the executive committee of TechNet, a lobbying group representing the technology industry. TechNet announced the appointments of Google’s Eric Schmidt and Intel’s Paul Otellini along with word that Rey Ramsey would be taking over as the group’s CEO in January. Ramsey has been serving as chief […]

This holiday season is shaping up to be every bit the product of the sustained economic downturn and shaken consumer confidence that have prevailed throughout 2009, according to a new analysis by Nielsen. The research company canvassed consumers about their shopping plans for the holidays, and 42 percent of the respondents said they planned to […]

The Federal Communications Commission voted unanimously today to approve new rules that aim to speed the deployment of wireless networks by clearing the red tape carriers face when they look to build new infrastructure facilities. The FCC vote established what in the wireless industry is known as a “shot clock” for state and local governments […]

Facebook has formalized an update to its privacy rules in an effort to bring clarity and simplicity to the social networking giant’s policies. Facebook had published the rules as a proposal in late October, giving users one week to submit comments before codifying the new rules. But fewer than 7,000 people commented, a turnout that […]

How do you curb a business practice that, while technically legal, seems on its face patently deceptive and harmful to consumers? One answer is to change the law. Another is to shame the companies involved into mending their ways through a high-profile public display of righteous indignation. Both received a healthy show of support at […]

Senior government officials overseeing the nation’s cyber defenses told a Senate panel this morning that agencies are doing more to coordinate their far-ranging efforts, but that even in the best-case scenario, the hackers are often one step ahead. “The harder we can make the general network environment, the easier it’s going to be to detect […]