Kenneth Corbin

We’re well accustomed to thinking of spectrum as a limited resource. You simply can’t create more airwaves. And if there’s been one [consistent refrain from the wireless industry](/mobility/article.php/3816101/Spectrum+Front+and+Center+for+Wireless+Industry.htm) in recent years, it is that the government agencies overseeing spectrum need to make more of it available to support the expansion of wireless data networks. But, […]

Carol BartzSource: Yahoo A defiant Carol Bartz took the stage at Yahoo’s analyst day this morning, promising the audience that she would reinvigorate the flagging Web pioneer, and making no excuses for the company’s past missteps. “Today is the beginning of a journey back to respect,” said Bartz, who took the company’s top job in […]

It’s no secret that MySpace has been undergoing something of an identity crisis. The company that deserves credit as the first blockbuster social networking site has been overtaken by Facebook in terms of traffic and legitimacy, and Twitter by measure of rate of growth and hype. So what do you do? MySpace has thrown itself […]

Facing a flood of applications for the first pool of stimulus money allocated for broadband projects, officials from the agencies administering the programs told a Senate panel today that the first grants and loans won’t be issued until mid-December, about a month later than they had initially planned. “We’re going to take a few more […]

When the Federal Communications Commission resolved last week to begin drafting Net neutrality rules, Chairman Julius Genachowski promised that the agency would go out of its way to invite comments from all interested parties and make its rule-making process one of transparency. “An open Internet deserves an open process,” he said. In that spirit, the […]

A new survey measuring consumer satisfaction has found that government Web sites earned the highest marks since it began polling in that category six years ago. In the third quarter of 2009, e-government sites notched a 75.2 on the 100-point American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI), a survey matrix maintained by the researchers at the University […]

Google today unveiled a new project to give its flagship search engine a social makeover. Social Search, an experiment underway at Google Labs, aims to add a dash of personalization to the results served up in the popular search engine by layering in the proliferating online content being produced by people’s friends and acquaintances. “Most […]

This is becoming a familiar cycle. After Facebook dropped word late Friday afternoon that it was rolling out another set of changes to the layout of its home page, users flooded the site with thousands of comments, many coarsely negative, objecting to the redesign and threatening to abandon the site. The weekend’s outpouring had tallied […]

Given the extraordinarily noisy run-up to yesterday’s meeting at the Federal Communications Commission, it’s hardly surprising that reactions came fast and furious from lawmakers, businesses and advocacy groups that had staked out a position in the Net neutrality debate. As a matter of procedure, the action the FCC took yesterday was to initiate a rule-making […]

A federal judge has dismissed the case an Illinois sheriff brought against Craigslist to force it to remove its adult services listings. Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart filed the lawsuit in March, calling Craigslist the “largest source of prostitution in America.” District Court Judge John Grady rejected Dart’s claim that Craigslist is a “public nuisance” […]

I don’t have any skin in the [Net neutrality debate](/government/article.php/3844756/The+Net+Neutrality+Debate+in+Their+Own+Words.htm). Of course, my livelihood depends on the Web, but I tend to fall somewhere in between the shrieking extremists of the argument who claim that Net neutrality rules or, variously, the lack thereof, will presage the end of the Internet as a free and open […]

WASHINGTON — The Federal Communications Commission this morning voted to initiate a rule-making process to establish firm Net neutrality rules in a regulatory framework that would bar Internet service providers from discriminating against lawful content on their networks. “The Internet is and has been an open platform and it is that openness — and the […]