Kenneth Corbin

LinkedIn, the business-oriented social network, has teamed up with short-messaging phenom Twitter to couple the features of the two services and provide a broader distribution channel for people’s professional activities. “The business use case of Twitter is turning out to be very important,” Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said in a video explaining the tie-up. “More […]

For parties concerned with the outcome of the Google Book Search saga, today was supposed to be a big day. But alas, the high drama that was expected to accompany the release of a revised settlement agreement with authors and publishers will have to wait till the end of the week. In a letter to […]

News Corp. boss Rupert Murdoch is stepping up his war of words against the Internet culture of free content, threatening to remove his company’s newspaper sites from the indexes of Google and other search engines once their content has been placed behind a pay-wall. In an interview with Sky News Australia, Murdoch was asked if […]

To combat the rise of rogue third-party applications carrying bogus offers or other scams, social networking giants Facebook and MySpace both spoke out this week with chiding reminders to developers and advertisers about their policies. MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta noted an increase in apps offering promotions with hidden renewal agreements with default opt-out settings, […]

Lawmakers are set to consider a measure next week to reform the federal subsidy paid to telephone companies to provide service to low-income and rural households to include broadband service. Reps. Rick Boucher (D-Va.) and Lee Terry (R-Neb.) this morning released draft language of a bill that aims to curb waste in the Universal Service […]

A pair of bills that would require businesses to notify consumers in the event of a data breach cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday, moving on to the full Senate for consideration. The Data Breach Notification Act, sponsored by Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), would authorize the attorney general to bring civil actions against firms that failed […]

WASHINGTON — The head of the leading cable industry association today took aim at the government’s efforts to spur broadband deployment, arguing that rather than funneling billions of stimulus dollars into new networks, the money would be better spent on programs to drive adoption of the technology. Kyle McSlarrow, the president and CEO of the […]

As concerns about online privacy persist, a pair of announcements emerged today that aim to give users more control over how their information is collected on the Internet. This morning, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) unveiled a privacy dashboard to provide a snapshot of the data associated with a user’s account across more than 20 Google products, […]

For the contrarians among us, a running counterargument to the rise of cultural beacons like Facebook and Twitter is that the social Web is anything but social. As the argument goes, friends amassed on social networks and time logged in virtual worlds are a pale substitute for social connections of the more traditional kind, and […]

Time Warner this morning reported a 38 percent drop in profit for the third quarter, but executives were buoyed by a stronger-than-expected performance of the media conglomerate’s content group. Part of the drag on Time Warner’s (NYSE: TWX) balance sheet will be shed by the end of the year, as the company reaffirmed its intention […]

As part of a settlement agreement with Canadian regulators, social-networking giant Facebook posted a revamped privacy policy this afternoon, offering what it hopes will be a clearer and more acceptable framework for governing how it treats its users’ personal information. Facebook has been burned by privacy flare-ups several times in its brief history, and is […]

WASHINGTON — Regardless of where one stands in the Net neutrality debate, the idea that Internet service providers should be allowed to manage their networks to ensure a baseline quality of service to every subscriber is a good one. But, as they say, the devil is in the details. Here at George Washington University, representatives […]